Kaguya: Step Down, Chika! (Continued)

Ichinose had just been thinking about what Oreki and Kaguya had discussed, and now it had become reality.

Everyone felt they couldn't risk it.

"Someone... save her—"

Just as Ichinose thought of shouting that, she saw someone jump into the swamp.

"Are you okay?!"

The hero's body swam straight toward the girl who had fallen into the water.

He quickly grabbed the drowning girl, then shouted toward the shore. "Rope! Hurry, pull the rope!"

Ichinose abruptly snapped back to her senses.

She realized there was a rope tied around the hero's waist. The other end of the rope was connected to the shore.

A tall girl with purple hair was holding the rope.

Kaguya Shinomiya seemed to have a stern look on her face, but she was holding the rope too. After that, Chika Fujiwara, who had been somewhat dazed, also came over to help.

They all gripped the rope.

That was right.

Saving someone was dangerous, and even if a person unfortunately drowned, with a rope tied around their waist, the people on shore could pull them back once they noticed.

Even if they couldn't swim, they could still save someone.

Ichinose felt as if she had been taught a lesson.

With no time to think further, she immediately joined the group pulling the rope.

Five minutes later, the hero who had jumped in to save someone and the girl who had fallen into the water were both pulled up.

After the girl was rescued, all she did was cry.

Because in that instant, it had been like experiencing death. It was as if her whole past had flashed before her eyes.

For a flower raised in a greenhouse like her, suddenly experiencing death and not wetting herself already showed impressive restraint.

"Nicely done," Kaguya Shinomiya said expressionlessly.

Yes.