[color=mediumorchid][i]There![/i][/color] Noting Jenso's mysterious chest-firebird coming to attack the creature from behind, Alvios lunged forward, jumping mid-dash to do a leaping horizontal slash right at the neckline. The idea was that if he ducked under the strike, went backwards, or simply blocked, he was nearly guaranteed to be crippled by Pij's attack. If he went back into the air, it would have to be exceedingly quick to get above the entirety of his strike.