Traveling Immortal(SAO and Persona 5 Royal Arcs)

Volume 91: POH is Eliminated

PoH: Hey, mister Blackie! Fight back!

PoH mocked Kirito who was bleeding from his right arm.

PoH do as he pleases since Yami in a vegetable stage and that is who he really wanted him dead so it would suffice for now until he killed everyone else. He was unaffected by what he was doing to Kirito. Yami who was one the ground as he watches Kirito getting beat up and he couldn't do anything.

Sachi suddenly snapped her eyes open and whispered loud enough for Asuna to hear.

Sachi: Asuna, can you make an opening?

Asuna: W...What?

Asuna managed to withhold a louder tone when she spoke so they couldn't hear her.

Sachi: We need to get rid of the red knights and I have a plan but if they notice it will fail.

While she knew PoH would be busy tormenting Kirito.

Asuna lowered his gaze unsure if she could make the opening that Sachi was asking for. Her bedraggled hair slid down over her shoulders, blocking her vision of Kirito's figure on the ground under PoH. That's when she realized something and snapped upward...

Asuna: As long as I'm conscious I have to try to do everything in my power to fight for what I truly care about.

Her right hand began sliding across the black gravel of the Dark Territory, and grabbed what lay next to her: the handle of Radiant Light, the rapier belonging to the Goddess of Creation.

The Grim Reaper, PoH, dressed in black had a blade that gleamed bloody Crismon held high above Kirito. Asuna held her breath, gritted her teeth, and put all the strength she still had left in her legs to make that opening that Rain needed.

She pushed off the ground.

Asuna: Raaaaaaah!!

With a bloodcurdling scream, she drew back the rapier. Brilliant white light shone from its tip. The basic fencing sword Skill <<Linear>> was one she'd performed thousands of times, if not hundreds of thousands.

PoH's reflexes were sharp enough that he noticed the surprise attack.

PoH: Oh-

He grunted, leaning backward. She thrust her hand straight for the back of his head, which was now moving away from her.

There was a small bit of feedback in her arm. One lock of curly black hair flew into the air, and a few droplets of fresh blood sprayed from dark skin.

He dodged it!

The Underworld was no different from Aincrad in that there was an unavoidable pause after a sword skill. Asuna was frozen for a brief, fatal instant--- and PoH's knife came rushing straight for her torso.

But at the same time, she focused her mind on the ground under PoH's feet.

A faint rainbow of light glowed there and vanished. She used the power of Stacia to generate a little bump of earth, just inches tall, under his feet.

Despite being the smallest possible manipulation of the terrain, it felt like lightning had struck her brain. And for that heavy price, the dark reaper lost his balance, and his knife did nothing but rip her dress a little.

Asuna: Rrgh...!

Free from her paralysis, Asuna pulled back her rapier again.

PoH: Whoa!

PoH's poncho swung up into the air as he raised his knife to block it.

The divinely quick thrust and the powerful slice met in midair, creating a mixture of white and crimson sparks. Asuna put all her strength behind her weapon, trying to push through PoH's blade.