Kirito cried out with a desperate expression. Drops of fresh
blood scattered from his mouth along with it. Eugeo could easily
imagine how taking that many light rays to his body would leave
Kirito on the verge of exhausting his Life, regardless of how much
he might have. But the black-clothed swordsman stubbornly
refused to fall, even sliding his sword over the origin of the light
rays, the tip of the Heaven Piercing Sword, covering it with the
black sword's flat.

(Alicization Rising, 250)