They had been swimming around the same places for more than 6 or 7 hours underwater, without taking even a 5- or 10-minutes break.
It was complete madness, the big sister type lady was feeling herself like she was some kind of slave, that would be certainly killed from overworking.
What made her even angrier was the fact that Eric had cut no slack for himself either, he had been always leading the path they had taken and didn't seem to even have the intention of stopping.
She couldn't help but feel extremely inferior to his commitment towards whatever he was trying to find.
It was something completely beyond her understanding. After all, most people would train, and learn martial arts, or special skills just because they wanted to have more strength and lead an easier life.
Certainly, the life of special agents and powerful people was riddled with all kinds of danger and suffering, but at the same time, the life that they made was only the dream of normal people.
Cars, houses, hotels, beauties, ego, flex, they had everything that normal people could only dream about.
Most of the people who wanted to grow stronger did so just because of these reasons, and a better life.
So up to some point, when their greed and ambitions were fulfilled by a margin, they would start enjoying life, and stop growing.
The people who had a wish for limitless strength, and development beyond development were rare liked diamonds.
For that reason, with the increase in level, the number of experts would lower. Humans had a natural wish and greed of having more power by using less strength and effort.
Once the path became thorny enough, most of the people would give up, and stop advancing forward.
So, seeing Eric swim around for more than 6 hours underwater looking for something, without stopping even for a small recess, made the woman think that he must be one of those brawn idiots.
One of those guys who is focused only on his strength, and development without caring much about what happens around him.
It wasn't like Eric was the first one she ever came to know like that, it was just that Eric was much more handsome and intelligent to be like them.
She felt that it was a waste for Eric to be one of those guys, as she would love to guide him as a big sister and teach him some pleasure in life.
But the reason why she dared to throw a tantrum at that moment, was because all this time she hadn't felt any malicious intent from Eric, and thought that he was vegetarian.
If the lion stopped hunting for a day, then the other animals who hadn't seen him hunting would think that he had foregone meat.
As soon as that happened, then they would start dancing and partying for his weakness, and only when the lion started hunting again would those animals fall in line again.
Since Eric had been fully concentrated on his search and hadn't had the time to think about the lady with him, she had started to think that perhaps he was 'vegetarian' or 'virgin'.
After all, a young man, with another sexy woman underwater, with him having control over her, it was impossible for him to be so disinterested in her, wasn't it?
Even though she wasn't a city toppling beauty, the lady still thought that she had quite the attractive appearance of a mature big sister type.
With all these thoughts running through her mind, she finally took the courage to stop, and start spouting words underwater.
But since they were underwater, everything she was able to make was gurgling sounds and bubbles that went above water.
She didn't think much of her actions, in fact to her it felt like she was being coquettish, and testing the water with Eric, but the answer she got was definitely beyond her expectations.
Sensing her act, not only didn't Eric thought that she was being coquettish and testing the waters, but in fact, he treated her as an enemy.
He swiftly turned around, with a dagger appearing in his hand all of a sudden, which he then placed in her throat, and continued to cut a bit into the skin, making blood bubble out.
For a moment she was faced with Eric's naked killing intent, and she felt a chill course through her whole body, like a piece of paper trembling in a rough wind.
She had never thought that the quiet and calm kid that she had been following for more than 6 hours had a side like this to him.
As the cold blade of the dagger was placed on her throat, and even poked a small cut into it, she felt that probably for the first time in her life she had been this close to death.
A foot and a half on the grave! All it would take was that remaining half of her second leg, and she would truly die right then and there.
She had no idea why Eric had acted like that unexpectedly and had even shown killing intent towards her, when she only wanted to act coquettishly, and test him.
His reaction was extremely violent, and unnecessary in her thoughts. All of a sudden, her good opinion on him had disappeared, and he had turned into a damned muscle beast.
She wanted to scream at that moment, voice her feelings of being wronged, but she didn't dare. The dagger on her throat made it just extremely difficult for her to have the guts to do so.
And if that wasn't enough, there underwater she had no way of speaking in a normal way, as all she would be able to speak, were bubble sounds.
As she was feeling extremely wronged and wanted to ask for justice, Eric didn't have the time to care about her, as his senses were spread to their fullest trying to understand what was going on.
The moment that this woman had tried to act coquettishly, and released those bubbles underwater, he could feel naked killing intent looking towards them.
Their current location was under a rocky shore around the main island, around 15 meters in horizontal distance, and around 16 meters underwater.
For there to be a person who was able to notice them, and even direct killing intent towards them, at that position, it meant that he was an expert.
Right now, Eric had a much more important mission to take care of, so he didn't have time to deal with the people in the Senkaku Islands.
So, with his actions, he was trying to make the woman following him shut, and not move, in order to not attract that Master's attention once again.
He wanted to play it as it had never happened, but unfortunately, he made a grave mistake himself, which was almost impossible to revert.
In order to make his acting more believable, and realistic to the lady, he had intentionally cut her throat a bit with his dagger, it was a minuscule cut, but it still managed to bubble blood out of it.
As soon as he understood the problem, Eric immediately put his lips on her neck and started keeping the blood in there, but the damage was done already.
He was still contemplating what to do when he felt a direct killing intent on himself and grabbing the lady by her hand moved as soon as he could.
It was a sniper, or to be more exact it was a Master sniper, who had not only been able to pinpoint their location but even make an accurate shot when they were both underwater.
If Eric had been even 1 second later with his reaction, then most probably either he or the lady he was holding to would have a limb less.
The sniper's bullet was not only high caliber, and especially manufactured, but also his aim was impeccable, and his target was the weak spots in their bodies, like joints, or primary bones.
As they had just escaped the first bullet, their movement created too much disturbance, and if at first, the sniper Master might have only doubted their location, now he was sure of it.
They had no other choice but to swim as fast as they could and leave that place as soon as possible if they wanted to escape with their lives that are.
It was only at that moment, that even the lady he was pulling by the arm finally understood the situation they were in, cursing at herself for how stupid she actually was.
Considering the situation, and everything that happened she was smart enough to understand that she had been the one to invite the disaster to their gates.
If it weren't for Eric and his timely intervention then she would most probably have died at that moment without understanding who killed her, and how she died.
She had no qualms with anyone in this place, as she was just one of the many coming here for the rumor of treasure, and valuables.
But now not only had she been captured by someone, but she had also almost been killed by another.
Just what the hell was going on!?
Why would someone want to kill her!? But there was also another opportunity in her mind, one that she didn't dare to voice after feeling Eric's killing intent.
Whoever was shooting at them wasn't trying to kill her, but Eric. That seemed like more probably, but she couldn't voice that thought, as she was extremely afraid.
As she was thinking like that, and not paying much attention to the path in front of her, she was unable to notice when she was coming in front of a big underwater rock and was crashing into it…
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