Snap! Snap!

Keiji: "Don't fall overboard!"

Yuuki: "Don't let them get on the boat!"

The preceptors hollered urgent instructions from the leading canoe over the uproar of the turbulent Mizusashi river. An off-shore commotion was unfolding around them.

The young sailors were too preoccupied to respond to the directions of their guardians. A pack of lamia surrounded their canoes, trying to take bites out of them.

Snap! Snap!

Lamia were hideous, riverine ...