Asuna looked down.
Only then did she notice numbers ticking down on the mechanical prosthetic limb.
"It's a bomb!"
Only then did Asuna realize what was happening!
Why had those two boys run so far away?!
They were trying to kill her!
Asuna gritted her teeth. "Superbi Squalo, you bastard!"
Asuna instinctively thought of Akasaka. If I lose a leg, will he still love me? Will he despise me?
Asuna had already come up with a solution: cut off the ankle that the mechanical prosthetic limb had tightly seized.
That was the fastest way to escape.
She would only lose one foot.
Asuna drew the rapier at her waist again and struck the mechanical prosthetic limb, testing its strength and hardness. She found that it was made of a special alloy and could not be cut through anytime soon, so Asuna gave up on that idea.
She let out a long breath, braced the rapier with both hands, and pressed it against her ankle, preparing to cut it off at the root.
The timer on the bomb was nearly up. There were only three seconds left, leaving her no time to think.
Akasaka, down below the stage, was frantic!
There was quite a distance between him and Asuna on the stage. He could not reach her in time.
Unless he used the Flying Thunder God!
Akasaka remembered that in the game world of Aincrad, he had placed many protective measures on Asuna, even leaving a Flying Thunder God Mark on her.
Usagisawa Misumi had one of those Flying Thunder God Marks too, as did his daughter, Yui.
But that had been in the game world!
Akasaka gritted his teeth.
He had no idea whether something set up in the game world could be used in reality.
At its core, Aincrad's