holds on with one hand falling person and rope

The synthetic fiber rope supporting the tightrope snapped.
Had the heat weakened it? Or had there been too much frictional heat even with the
pulley?
There was nothing he could do. The S-shaped pulley was useless with his full weight
bearing down on it, so he fell along the path of the snapped wire. He ran into Fukiyose
who was also on the tightrope. Knowing it would burn his palm, he grabbed the wire and
used his other hand to grab the black bikini girl’s hand before she was thrown off.
They swung like a giant pendulum rather than falling straight down.
But that was lucky because their momentum was transferred to the horizontal vector and
they at least avoided dying on impact. Kamijou and Fukiyose fell and rolled along the
scorching ground.

- New Testament Volume 16 Prologue