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Chapter 104: Angel

TRIGGER WARNING: This chapter contains explicit languages, acts of violence, physical and verbal abuse, and sexual harassment. A viewer discretion is advised.

"YUKINO-SAN!!!"

Was what she heard last from Mitsuki before feeling herself underwater. She firmly closed her eyes and felt herself submerging further the dark abyss. Her heart started to palpitate rapidly, seeking oxygen which she is deprived of right now.

Is she going to die?

"I'm scared." A young Yukino muttered to a certain boy with shoulder-length black hair.

"Of what?" The boy asks before eating an onigiri that she prepared for her bonding time together with Toman. She looked down before answering his question.

"The water." As she said this, Keisuke literally stopped eating and vaguely remembered when she drowned.

"The water scares me." She added and met the boy's brown orbs. He swallowed his food before thinking of a reply.

"What's wrong? Why aren't you two swimming?" A young boy with short blonde hair asks at the side of the pool.

"Yukino is scared of the water." The young Baji answered his friend.

"Eh? Then maybe she should stay at the cottage." The young Mitsuya answered.

"It's all in your head, Yunaki-chan." The young Toman commander says which solicited a groan from the black-haired.

"This idiot. Who the hell is Yunaki, Mikey? She's Yukino Miyazaki, Yu-ki-no! Last time, you called her 'Yanoka', 'Yonaku', now you're calling her 'Yunaki'? Why do you keep forgetting her name?" An annoyed Baji asks.

"It doesn't matter. I'm referring to her, anyway. Besides, she doesn't mind, right, Yakane-chan?" What the laidback and jolly Manjiro Sano said made the members laugh.

"That's even worse. Who the hell is that?!"

Seeing the Toman founding members laughing together with their vice-captains and siblings, made the quiet Yukino smile as well. It was only weeks after her drowning incident that Keisuke decided to formally introduce her to them. However, her fear of the deep and dark underwater have already started to grow in her. Until now, she is continued to haunt by it.

"Don't look much at the dark sea. Your fear of it is just all in your head. Try to think of it that way." As she heard that kind voice, she batted her eyes open and tried to stroke as calm as she could to go afloat. 

Which worked, because minutes after, her head is above water, allowing her to breathe.

But before she could recover her missed oxygen, she felt someone grab her by the waist and pull her to the nearest speedboat. She started coughing while reaching for her chest. When suddenly, someone grab her by the hair.

"If it wasn't for this bitch, I would have killed Mitsuki Akashi!" she hears the woman yell in Spanish and strongly pushed her head to the ground.