Getting To Land

In an instant, almost all of those mermaids had their heads lopped off, although I noted that Sariena was left untouched.

The other mermaids seemed to have realised they were outmatched and quickly swam away from them, leaving Sariena floating there by herself.

It took her a moment more to recover before trying to escape but Emilia kicked the water behind her and shot herself forward to grab onto the mermaid's neck.

The Nekomata captain then held her blade to her neck and they seemed to have reached some kind of understanding as Sariena started swimming upwards towards the surface with Emilia on her back.

I then went to grab Odeta who seemed to be struggling from being underwater for so long and dragged her up with me as well.

I gasped as I broke through the surface of the water, hearing Odeta cough out the water in her lungs as she sucked in lungfuls of air.