The boat rocked more and more, and the speed rose to a terrifying level. "Kyaaak~ Yona!" Pai snapped as she called Yona.

Yona: "It’s not me!"

Pai: "If it’s not you, then who is it!"

Yona: "I don’t know either~"

Pai: "How can you not know! Dabi made you do it!!"

Yona: "No!" Just then, Dabi called out to Yona with a shocked face. "Thank you, Yona!" Yona turned to Dabi with a mix of surprise and unfairness… "Yona~ I’m thankful too." Eli also expressed gratitude. Wronged, Yona’s eyes widened like an owl’s. "What are you even saying! What are you thankful for! You bad punks…" [Clunk clunk] The boat jolted.

From that point, the turtle boat began shaking so hard it was difficult to even stand. No one knew then.

The small stream the boat was heading along was one of many, and in a little while it would merge into a large river with a strong current.

Eat: "Everyone, grab onto something~ tightly!" The children’s screams—"Kyaaak!", "Waaah!"—as the boat shook violently and entered the massive river current.

Everyone strained with all their strength to grab onto anything, and Leo was protecting Eti with his entire body, since she had no strength.

Even as the rocking gradually subsided, the speed only continued to rise faster and faster.

Eli: "Suits! Take out the suits!"

Pai: "…Suits? …Should we?" (her eyes are not unwilling)

Pai: "Eat, take out the suits~" Eat nodded, released the hand he was holding on with, and reached inside his hood to find the suits.

At that moment, the boat lurched hard, and Eat, who had let go, was flung out of the boat. "Kkyaaa!" (splash) "Puh, puh~" The startled children shrank back even more, staring toward the boat’s edge. "Eat~!" Eat, barely lifting his head above the water, was being swept along the current at high speed with the boat.

But the children had no way to pull him back up.

Dabi: "Yona!! Where’s the hidden gear?!" (he shouted)

[Even as they were shocked, the children looked at Yona with desperate eyes.]

Yona: (shouting) "There’s nothing hidden! There’s nothing at all!"

Pai: "Why isn’t there!!!" (she shouted angrily)

Then the children looked at Pai with startled eyes.

Near the bow, Rogi, who was barely holding herself steady, lifted her head once she got used to the shaking and looked in the direction the boat was heading.

Something was strange. From a certain point on, the stream of the river that should have stretched ahead seemed to vanish from sight.

To the child’s eyes, the turtle boat looked as if it were being sucked upward into the sky far ahead, continuing forward.

As if the river itself were a road leading into the sky. "Guys, the stream is gone! It disappeared… it’s cut off!" Rogi shouted whatever came to mind in her panic. "Huh? What got cut off?" Leo asked back. "There’s no stream!" Rogi shouted again.

No one understood what Rogi meant. But strangely, Eti understood Rogi perfectly and cried out. "The boat is going to fall…." At Eti’s words, Leo understood the situation and shouted loudly. "It’s a waterfall!" The children were horrified.

Leo also urgently lifted his head to look at the river, and their current position was very high—soon the turtle boat would plunge down to the ground with the rapids.

Leo shouted toward Eat. "Eat, it’s a waterfall! This is really high—we’re about to fall!" But Eat was in no position to even take care of himself.

The boat raced faster toward the waterfall, and the children were terrified. At that moment, Pai shouted desperately at Yona. "Yona, take out everything you have! Anything! Anything!" At Pai’s desperation, Yona thought. "Anything?" Then he coolly recalled Pai’s story once more. "Wait." And Yona muttered, "Pai’s story! Pai’s ability! What Pai asked for!" In the past, Pai had told Yona she wanted an ability to speak with animals and plants, and a power that could heal anyone.

Just then, Yona came up with a good idea to overcome the crisis. But there was no time to explain it in detail.

Because the boat was about to fall off the cliff.

Yona shouted urgently at Pai. "Pai… scream, scream! Shout for help—scream to be saved!" Pai thought Yona was saying something stupid at a time like this, and she shouted at him angrily. "Is that your plan?! Who’s going to help us, you idiot!" Yona was serious, but there was no time to explain. "Pai, please scream! You have to scream for someone to save you!" At Yona’s words, Pai grew even angrier. "Who’s going to help us, you idiot!" In that moment, the children floated briefly into the air with the boat, then began to plummet to the ground under their weight.

The instant all the children screamed, Pai screamed too. "Kyaaaaaaa~~~" As Pai screamed in fear, countless vines wrapped around the rocks beside the waterfall all began to writhe at once.

Those vines—those plants! They had started moving after hearing Pai’s scream.

And the vines quickly snatched Pai and her friends as they fell toward the ground.

After that, the vines tried to carry Rogi, Eti, Dabi, Eli, Yona, Leo, Eat—and even the turtle boat—down to the ground.

Below the waterfall was a huge pool of water, and around it were some rocks and flat ground, and the vines lowered everyone safely there.

The friends other than Pai sighed in relief, happy that they had reached the ground alive,

but Pai was off in the distance, talking with the vines. "Thank you for saving us~" Then not only the vines, but all the plants around them greeted Pai.

Only Pai could hear those voices, and the children, unaware, watched Pai’s behavior with puzzled looks.

Yona explained in detail to the others, calling it “Pai’s ability.”

After being under extreme tension, once that tension released, the children looked a little tired—hungry and thirsty.

Leo, whose stomach growled from the boat, placed a hand on the boat and said, "I’m so hungry." Then, from here and there, voices saying they were hungry began to rise.

Dabi: "Is there anything we can eat?"

Leo: "I want to go to the study room…."

Eat: "If we leave the story right now, we don’t know what disadvantage we might face when we return next time…"

Yona: "Right. Let’s look for something to eat here."

Rogi: "So if we leave the story at any time, we get disadvantages…"

Eti: "I’m thirsty~" At that moment, Pai absentmindedly said whatever popped into her head. "I want to eat bananas." Then Leo also said, "Wouldn’t there be bananas in a place like this?" and Rogi spoke what came to mind at the same time. "Pineapple, coconut!" The children began listing things they thought they might find in the forest, when suddenly Pai said, "Hm? I think I smell fruit." Then Eti, startled, called out to Pai. "Pai !" Everyone turned to look at Pai in surprise. But Pai looked like she had no idea. "Why?" Yona pointed at Pai with his finger and said, "Behind—behind!" When Pai gently turned around, there was a huge pile of banana bunches, as if someone had gathered them all in one place.

Startled, Pai tore one off immediately and put it in her mouth. A deep fruit aroma filled her senses, sweet and rich. "Whoa, this is so good!" Pai said, and the children ran over and began tearing off bananas and eating them one after another.

With round eyes, Rogi said, "Whoa, this is really tasty." Rogi had never tasted bananas like this before.