“Ha! Ha!” Despite taking deep breaths, I couldn’t breathe in any air.

Everything had happened too suddenly.

When I had jumped, I’d been able to prepare ahead of time before I dove. I could take a deep breath first to adjust my lung capacity.

I wasn’t prepared for this and I’d never gone through any suffocation training because the training was too difficult for me and too dangerous. My dad wouldn’t have been so cruel and my mom wouldn’t have allowed it.

I panicked. This was the first time I’d felt the fear of death!

I had never experienced death because the uncles that I had trained with had never really shot at me. It was merely paint bullets that had hit me. They had been using a plastic knife...