You (with UW gear) and Eri Hayasui (with no UW gear) decide on a handicap breath hold match - you get to breathe ten times from your tank, while your opponent gets no such chance at all. Eri even held herself underwater for three extra minutes prior to the dive, by which you were more or less offended.
"Hsssst..." (Three)
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"Hsssst..." (Four)
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"Hssssssssk...." (Five)
You try to time yourself carefully, staying as still as possible and controlling your breath. There is no way you could lose, you calculate - if you keep your cool and breathe only every half minute, that would give you five minutes. And that means, this extraordinary woman would need to stay down eight minutes to match that. No way that would happen.
But the squeeze of being thirty meters down exerts you to light panic, and your breath becomes heavier and deeper each time. Wait, you already used up half of your breathing chances! Shocked, you clutch your teeth against the mouthpiece and barely avoids starting to pant.
"......"
Eri gives a teasing glance at the stream of large bubbles that you just exhaled. And rightfully so; all this time she let out just a few small pebbles from her mouth. Her throat and chest cavity shows no strain, like she is a marine mammal at home in her watery habitat. She looks at you, faintly hinting a smile. Suddenly you feel a strong urge to breathe crawling up your throat. Will you need to breathe, again? A sense of defeat starts to build. What-what if you lose? You did what you did, of which there is no undoing, but you will surely be full of remorse to lose Eri forever.
CS Everett
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