The moment Sagiri hit the dark water below, he soon realised why anyone who tried to swim in the wretched pool did not make it out alive. The moment his body touched the water, he knew something was wrong.
There was no splash.
The warm surface simply opened beneath him and swallowed him whole. His body dropped through the darkness far faster than gravity should have allowed. Instinctively, he kicked upward, but the water seized him like a living thing.
The deeper he sank, the stronger the pull became. It wasn't dragging him downward. It was drinking him. The warmth vanished first as the water suddenly became ice-cold. He had always felt calm when underwater, but no. This pool was not peaceful at all.
