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Admiral and I 5

Added 2022-05-05 13:01:02 +0000 UTC

Continued from https://www.patreon.com/posts/admiral-and-i-4-64076277

Reaching Akashi's body, Oyodo felt the frail but busty build of her comrade and best friend. There was no time to check her pulse - no use for that at this depth anyway - and Oyodo grabbed and pressed firmly with her hand on Akashi's throat. Once. Twice. Then Akashi's body suddenly shivered and jolted, like force starting a car, and Oyodo saw she had been rejuvenated. Akashi's eyelids opened and her head swayed from side to side, trying to gauge her whereabouts, but her pupils were missing - fair enough, she had been forcibly rebooted back to life with no new supply of air.

(Yes!) Oyodo thought, showing her pearl white teeth underwater, but that was when she was beyond her limit. The excruciating deep dive, and the following extensive horizontal swim. all done while holding breath, had won Oyodo dual world free diving records (although not recognized - it was wartime), but had punished the girl's body with inhuman suffering and duress. Oyodo let go of all her lung's air, and felt cold saltwater gushing in - and then she was gone.

Now it was again Akashi's turn. She noted that she had been blinded, her eyeballs would not roll back to front - but whatever. She clutched her teeth, and hurled the rope across her shoulder. Making sure that the light weight of her friend was on her, Akashi kicked, and started her ascent toward the surface.

Kick. Kick. If she stopped, they would both die.

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