I Only Summon Villainesses

All of us were now deep in the river. I held Kassie’s shoulder tightly and gripped one of her helmet horns, clinging to her like a kid on their mother’s back. Nisha was perfectly fine swimming beside us.

I stared around at the endless water.

”Are we really getting cooked by the river too?”

Nisha also looked around.

”There seems to be no way forward,” she shouted back at me.

We tried swimming backward, but it was incredibly difficult to fight the current. I thought of asking Kassie to jump out, but there was no closer land she could reach. At least none in sight.

We continued to beat against the current, trying to delay our drift as much as possible.

Then we heard a distant, terrifying screech.

’Oh no... not that guy again.’

Just as I looked up, in the clear skies above, pretty boy and his wyvern were making their way toward us. The summon was beating its wings against the wind, but one of its four wings — the left rear one — was hanging loose.

Despite having been dealt that damage, Templar Light was still stubborn, drawing closer toward us by the second.

Nisha was also aware of this. She stared up darkly.

In the middle of an open river, we were targets painted in bright neon. Kassie was limited by the water. Pretty boy was certainly going to get one on us.

”Hey, C.”

’C?’

Never heard anyone call me by the first letter of my name before. Even though it was in another language — which I automatically understood. I tried not to think about it and just focus on reality.

”Yes?”

Hopefully she has a plan.

’Wait — she did have a plan before all of this happened!’

Her tone was grim.

”We might have to ride the wave, not resist it.”

I looked at her with a disappointed frown.

”Hell no... we don’t know where it leads. Or what the height’s like... we are not—”

Words died in my mouth as Kassie dove me low into the water, and the wyvern’s talons met the surface right where my head had been, exploding the river upward. For a moment we sank deep into the dark, peaceful depths — sound vanishing, chaos fading to nothing but muffled pressure.

However, Kassie was quick to pull me back up. My senses went numb for a moment, water flooding every opening in my body — nose, mouth, ears.

I coughed profusely, hacking up river water.

”Cade!” Nisha shouted as she surfaced too.

The bastard wyvern was already circling for another attack.

’Ah shit.’