Chapter 280: Arc 4, Act II, - 125: Cindering March Part IV
She was crashing down, her right leg and right arm could barely move and in that split second she had to stop her momentum- "THUD! CHHFFFF!!!"
"NGH!" Jotou groaned and yelled, her body flung into the air again; the spell was gone, but the speed at which she was flung kept throwing her forward, her adventuring attire breaking a lot of the blow.
With her body about to roll, she attempted to set her left foot down at the very least- "SNAP!" She let out a bloodcurdling cry as her foot snapped forward.
Her face took a dive and she pivoted to the side the best she could, "SPARK!" her body coated itself in electricity- "THUD! THUMP!" The side of her sparking head scraped against the earth as her body slid.
The sparks dissipated immediately and she coughed, spitting out blood; her mana had run dry. Her body tumbled and rolled, nearing the edge of the chasm.
Jotou managed to grab her sword into her intact left hand. She stabbed it into the earth as her body kept going. She desperately held onto the hilt, hoping to slow herself down as much as possible.
"CHF... Ting, TANg, Prngg..." Her sword came loose and she lost grip of it, letting it fly to one side. With her slowed down momentum, "Kickbolt," but not even a crackle of electricity sparked.
She couldn’t even feel her leg on one side, her foot on the other. Her hand dragged the weeds but pulled them out instead, the edge getting too close.
She dug her nails the best she could into the ground. However, her right arm as a whole was completely useless, leaving her tired and weakened left arm to stop her.
Jotou kept sliding and she felt gravity first pull her foot down, then both her legs as she was beginning to slid off, unable to grip herself back up onto the cliff.
Her palms grazed and collected dirt as she went off the edge and her body dangled off; her right arm went limp to the side. Slowly, second by second her left hand came loose. Jotou closed her eyes, not in frustration, but acceptance.
Shadows formed near the edge and Fumeko turned, bleeding out the nose and the sides of her lips. She blinked towards the edge with bubbled eyes and-