Drowning Maiden

Plop!

While on the bridge, the two of them were merely soaking the water into their clothes, given how the metal grate was merely half an inch below the surface of the moat.

Now that Theo removed the bridge, however, the two of them fell straight into the deep canal.

There was a difference between the two of them, though, even if they were both dropped into the same circumstance.

A difference of Theo expecting it to happen, as opposed to this fiery-haired woman who was caught completely by surprise.

In a natural self-preservation instinct, she first relaxed her legs from around Theo's hips as she started to kick at the water.

And Theo didn't waste this opportunity to use both his hands and his legs to first push himself deeper into the water before quickly turning and then swimming away.