《M A N I A》|| Various! Slight Yandere! Anime-Manhwa-Manga X OC

《IX》

Eztia peeked from the tree before her eyes were squinting in consequence of wanting to get a better look at the two persons that were standing beside a pond she observed in the current. She felt like she had seen this scenario, but where?

Anyways, one of them was a woman and she had long purple hair with distinct side bangs, whereas the other one was a little boy -- perhaps he was about eight…? Or ten? Eztia was not sure since his body was so small -- and he had unruly, reddish-coloured hair spiked at the ends. Nonetheless, what had caught Eztia's attention the most was their eyes… she thought that they were unique. Their eyes had the same green eyes with narrow pupils, which meant they must be relatives.

"You do remember what a worthless child would get, right?" The woman said.

The boy bowed his head. "They would be thrown into a pond…" He muttered.

A smirk made its way to the woman's lips, and Eztia had a feeling that whatever event happened next wouldn't turn out to be good -- and she was right the moment she saw the woman grab a hold of the boy's shirt and push him into the pond.

Is she crazy?! Eztia screamed furiously in her head.

The little boy was drowning and he tried to reach his hand out for -- what Eztia had assumed -- his mother to pull him up from the pond, yet the woman only looked down at him, scrutinized him for a moment, and walked away as if she just didn't do anything wrong or see something bad.

What the…! She is totally crazy.

Once Eztia was certain that the purple haired woman had truly left, not wasting any time, she rushed towards the pond, jumped into the pond, and quickly dived as fast as she could towards the child.

It seemed the reddish haired boy still had his consciousness for the reason that he outstretched his hand and Eztia somehow could hear him saying -- more like shouting -- for her to help him, to which the girl decided to respond to him although she kind of had a hunch that he might not be able to hear her.

"Don't worry! I'll save you!"

Unknown to Eztia though, the boy actually did hear her and he would always remember those pair of light blue honey gradient eyes.

The jet black haired girl felt as if every time she dived forward near the child, the boy was furthering away, slowly leading him to the unconscious state.

Yet that didn't stop her. The determination that filled in her to save the boy was too big.

Eztia dived, dived, and dived until she reached her hand out and brought the child close to her. With an arm wrapped around him securely, Eztia began to swim upward to get out of the pond. Although the summer dress she wore was making her hard and her arm started to feel numb, she still tried to swim up and to her success, she finally emerged from the surface of the water as she gasped for a breath.

Whilst inhaling and exhaling, she swam towards the shoreside and when she arrived, she shakily yet gently placed the unconscious boy on the grasses before she, too, plopped down.

For a child like him, he was really heavy.

That woman… that woman was quite troublesome to her, and Eztia wished she could beat her up.