Volume 1 Chapter 38: No Matter How Soft and Wife-Like, It’s Useless

“What’s wrong?”

Seeing Amber’s reaction, Bai Muxue frowned and forced herself to sit up despite the pain all over her body.

“Did you hear some strange sound?”

Amber looked around carefully. Her golden eyes gave off a faint glow.

“Like the sound of something cracking?”

“No...”

Bai Muxue shook her head.

In magical girl form, Amber’s hearing and touch were much sharper than hers as an ordinary person.

“Cracking sound... cracking...”

Bai Muxue frowned and muttered to herself while thinking.

Suddenly, she seemed to realize something and stared blankly at the glass ceiling above them, which was already covered in cracks.

“Wait... Amber, we are inside an... underwater tunnel, right?”

Amber froze for a moment, then quickly understood.

“No way. Isn’t this just one of those fake tunnels made to entertain kids? There isn’t even much water inside...”

This was not a real ocean tunnel built under the sea!

Before she could finish speaking, as if proving Bai Muxue right, the whole tunnel began to shake violently.

Cracks spread across the walls like spider webs, and thin streams of water slowly started leaking through them.

“Run!!”

Bai Muxue and Amber looked at each other and instantly reached the same decision.

This was clearly not the time to argue about whether the tunnel should have this much water.

Amber did not hesitate.

She bent down toward Bai Muxue and shouted, “Get on!”

“O-on where?”

“Tch!”

Amber wasted no more time.

She stood up, grabbed Bai Muxue, who still had not reacted, by the shoulder, pulled her tightly into her arms, supported her slim legs, and ran quickly toward the entrance.

“With those short little legs of yours, you’d be drowned before you even ran a few steps!”

“......”

Bai Muxue wrapped her arms tightly around Amber’s waist and rested her chin on her shoulder.

She watched as the small streams of water had already turned into a rushing flood, pouring into the tunnel at terrifying speed with a loud roaring sound.

She knew the danger was real.

She knew this was a life-or-death moment.

But now the two of them were pressed tightly together again.

Amber’s warmth passed through Bai Muxue’s palms to her thighs.

There was also the soft feeling of Amber’s chest pressing against her because of their close position.

And with every step of Amber’s running came constant up-and-down rubbing.

A strange and hard-to-describe tingling feeling spread through Bai Muxue’s heart, making her breathing suddenly grow faster.

Damn it...

At a time like this, why am I thinking about these things?!

Bai Muxue secretly bit her lip, and a bright blush quietly appeared on her pretty face.

Yet in this dangerous moment, the girl’s embrace also felt so warm.

Without noticing, Bai Muxue no longer disliked being held by Amber as much as before.

But unlike Bai Muxue’s wandering thoughts, Amber had no time to think about such things.

Yes, Bai Muxue in her arms was indeed soft and warm.

But in a situation like this, no matter how gentle and wife-like she seemed, that was useless!

Could she help them escape!?

Amber tried several times to fly, but failed each time.

So she could only keep stumbling forward while enduring the weakness spreading through her body and the burning pain in her lower stomach.

As if noticing someone’s body trembling slightly, Amber lowered her head and glanced down. Seeing Bai Muxue curled up in her arms with a red face, she thought the girl was scared.

So Amber showed a comforting smile and said softly,

“Alright, alright, don’t be afraid. I’ll protect you. We won’t die, we won’t die.”

Haha, so this girl who always likes to act like an adult is still scared at a time like this?

Thinking that, a little smile appeared on Amber’s pale face.

She tightened her arms around Bai Muxue even more.

No, doing this makes me even more scared!!

Feeling the pressure against her chest becoming clearer, even Bai Muxue’s ears turned so red they looked ready to bleed.

She complained silently in her heart.

Maybe you should put me down. I can spend some lifespan and try to fight too!

With a thunder-like crash, the tunnel walls finally broke under the pressure.

The rushing water roared into the tunnel like an unstoppable beast, swallowing everything inside.

As more water poured in, the weak blue lights inside the tunnel went out one by one.

The whole tunnel cried under the force of the flood.

Glass shattered.

Steel bars snapped.

Only the roar of the water and the girl’s weak footsteps echoed through the tunnel.

“Strange... This underwater tunnel is just a children’s ride. It’s not really under the sea. Where did this much water pressure come from?”

Bai Muxue looked at the violent flood ahead, her red face showing deep thought.

“Now is not the time to think about that!” Amber shouted.

Amber tried using snowflake balls to create ice walls to block the water.

But her magic power was almost empty already.

The ice walls she made were thin and weak, and the rushing water destroyed them almost instantly.

At this point, the blonde girl was close to her limit.

Every time she threw a snowflake ball...

Every time she tried to fly...

The glowing mark on the right side of her neck became dimmer.

Golden light quickly faded away.

Even her body began to look less solid.

Luckily, the tunnel was not very long.

Although she could not fly, Amber was still moving fast.

And the ice walls did slow the flood a little.

If I remember right, the entrance should be just ahead...

Eh?

Amber raised her head in shock.

But the entrance was completely blocked by a thick wall of ice.

It was the ice wall she had made earlier to stop the nutcracker soldiers from chasing them inside.

Who could have expected this to happen back then?

“Damn it!”

Amber cursed, quickly stopped, and stepped onto the rising water, splashing it everywhere.

“Tch, I actually trapped myself!”

She quickly put Bai Muxue down.

Then she coughed up a mouthful of blood.

Forcing together the last of her magic power, she gathered weak golden light onto the edge of her silver rapier, trying to break the ice wall in front of them with one strike.

But before she could stab forward, the giant flood behind them crashed over both girls and knocked them down without mercy.

In almost an instant, they were dragged beneath the water.

The freezing water wrapped around their whole bodies.

Even with Amber’s magical girl outfit giving some protection, she still felt a deep cold in her bones.

For Bai Muxue, it was naturally even worse.

“...!”

The small girl could not resist the violent current at all.

She opened her mouth by instinct, but only icy water rushed inside.

Her lungs burned like fire.

The feeling of suffocation grew stronger and stronger.

Her eyelids felt as heavy as stone.

It was as if she was about to fall asleep forever in the freezing water.