At the Northern Fort Chapter 9

-BASHA BASHA-

I swam about while spraying water everywhere, aiming for the opposite side.

However, there was also another knight there — a brutal looking knight with a buzz cut.

"Here! Climb up here!"

I think I saw a criminal like this on the tv news in my previous life…

In my arbitrary image, I imagined a knight to be 'a dazzling young man', but most knights here were muscular, and had scary faces. If they didn't have their uniforms on, I don't think anyone would have noticed that they are knights.

These people, they're good people — chasing away the wild dog — but their appearances had too much impact.

"C'mon, quickly!"

Please don't say that with those eyes. It's scary! I hate low and loud voices.

I tried to turn around again, but the five or six knights surrounded the pond, that I didn't climb up anywhere. Left with no escape route, I circled about the centre of the pond.

"Why isn't it coming out?"

"It's scared of your face."

"Scared of your face, too!"

Stop fighting! You're all scary! It's more or less the sa!

"Hey, I got a usable stick!"

Then another knight ca. He had a long wooden stick in his hand.

Then he prodded with that.

"Okay, push!"

"Doing well!"

Pushing by the stick, I was being moved to the opposite side of the pond.

――Where a brutal criminal awaited…

KYAH!!

I frantically paddled about. In panic, I tried to escape the stick.

"Ah, no! Stay still! I'll push you to the shore!"

I think I was panicking. I was chased into a cold pond by a wild dog, and beca agitated. Then, scary surrounded and pushed with a stick.

Rationally thinking, I know that these knights are trying to help .

However, right now, I'm confused and I even have this animalistic cautiousness. Even if my life was in danger, my body refused to go into so unknown person's arms.

I was desperate trying to avoid the stick and the knights.

I couldn't even dog-paddle anymore. I rely floundered my legs about and focused on staying afloat.

However, I swallowed water many tis and choked already. My throat hurt. I couldn't breathe properly.

My legs are tired, my body is heavy, I think I'll drown at any mont.

MOTHER! MOTHER!

I wanted to cry, that I just let out pathetic voices.

It's impossible now. The wet fur is too heavy. My legs were still moving, but it did not float back up.

I slowly sank, my mouth and my nose subrging.

I can't breathe. It's painful.

My eyes, my head, my ears too sunk into the pond, that my small body was fully subrged in water.

Ah, I'm drowni――!

*imouto*

The mont I felt death, soone grabbed my back and pulled up with great force.

Owch! My consciousness started coming back. Then, soone's hand grabbed my belly and lifted out from the water.

I breathed in oxygen and coughed out water. My legs had beco amazingly thin. It's because the wet fur was sticking on the legs.

Because they don't have the usual fluffy fur, they don't feel like my legs.

The person who saves walked out of the pond towards the shore.

The rather deep pond soaked up to his chest.

Ah, to go into a snow-filled pond at night in the dead middle of winter.

I'm a snow spirit, but a human might get a heart attack.

It's a really dangerous act, just who is it that dived in to save ?

To see the person who saved , I raised my head.

Is it the bearded knight? Or is it the brutal criminal?

However, what the moonlight revealed was a horrible scar on the left eye.

――The one-eyed knight.

He dived into the cold pond and saved .

Even as I felt relieved to see him, I thought sothing rude.

'This person is scary, too.'