Blood Red - ChishiyaXReader

Chapter 59

I move away from the room holding Chishiya and Kuina making the assumption that they'd be able to keep safe amidst all this shit. I pick up my pace hoping that this night won't end losing another person I care about. As I run through corridors I get close to the main entrance where I last saw Niragi. My thoughts become split between what I want to do and what I should do as I just shake my head trying to stay focused on Mei for now. My feet continue to carry me until I reach the pool outside where I saw Mei on the camera system.

People were running around frantically with panicked glances looking around for any of the murdering militants. As I stand outside I quickly scour the crowd until I spot Mei but before I can call over to her to get her attention someone throws a punch at me. I stumble back and grab my cheek as I shoot a glare up towards whoever just hit me. "MILITANT" the boy who just threw the punch shouts while grabbing the attention of beach citizens around him. "Shit" I say under my breath as their fearful glances turn to me.

I can already sense that logical thinking isn't going to happen soon as I debate on reaching down to my pistol that I haven't needed to use yet. I've kept it on me as a precaution especially with the recent mix of Hatter's instability and now Aguni's rise in power. "I don't want to hurt you" I say a defensive hand in front of me trying to create some distance between me and the guy that swung at me. His hands stay curled into fists as he takes shaky breaths but doesn't move closer to me as I'm not acting intimidating or aggressive at the moment.

"She's with Niragi we can't trust her" a woman's voice cuts across the anxiety filled silence as the looks of fear and caution slowly start shifting to anger. I look for the voice as my blood runs cold while locking onto the smirking face of Petra. "She's got a gun quick stop her from shooting" Petra calls out forcing her voice to shake with fake fear as I feel a rough shove a moment later. I manage to stay on my feet but before I can do anything multiple people start aggressively throwing punches towards me and shoving me harshly as all I can do it hold my arms up in defence.

I get a moment of a break as I step back and feel a ledge behind my foot so I instinctively glance back to see the pool right behind me. I take a deep breath while trying to find a way out of this situation but since there was such a large number of people comparatively to just myself it would be difficult to fight my way out. Petra shouts while running through the crowd as I raise my fists ready to fight only to see her holding onto a broken chair leg like a spear.

I react to this by grabbing the end of the chair leg and standing my ground but people start helping Petra and with the numbers they overpower me and push me back so I have to fall back into the pool. I feel the water cover me and I quickly start gathering myself and swimming up to get air. My head breaches the water but only for a moment as I see Petra glaring down with an almost blissful look in her eyes while people jump in and start pushing me harshly back under the water.

I start kicking frantically now just trying to fight my way back up to the surface to breathe but as I try and look around I only see multiple people holding me down. I could use my gun even though it wouldn't be very effective underwater but it might buy me a gap to escape this death trap. As I reach down to grab the gun someone also grabs at the weapon and starts trying to pull it away from me. Since I was being mostly held down already I knew I wouldn't be able to keep holding onto the gun so instead I focus on getting rid of the ammo inside.

It takes a moment of fighting but I manage to release the magazine holding the ammo and thrash the gun around in the water until it slipped out. Now not having to worry about being shot on top of drowning I can refocus on getting to the waters surface. While people keep holding me under the water I feel my throat clenching obviously desperate for air. As I desperately search for an escape I notice a red liquid starting to tint the water around me and moments later a grip on my arm fades as I'm unexpectedly able to fight back again.