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Did Adam actually pierce Blake, or did she just cry out in pain and continue holding her side afterwards because aura doesn't stop the pain, and she felt like she was just stabbed in the gut?

It certianly looks like it...but it also only looks like the tip. Which could be explained by a very really thing that happened when you poke yourself in the gut, even when laying down - your skin moves and depresses with whatever is poking you.

The sword does not look like it penetrated deep enough to rule out her gut just depressing alongside the tip, as the length of the sword comparitive to Adam's body that has entered her body is not really much at all when you compare it to the overall length of the sword compared to Adam.

Plus, if Adam stabbed her as hard as he did then, more than just the tip would have entered. It would be at least half way through her, possibly even 3/4 to touching to the floor, which means the amount of blade visible would be less than what we can see. We also don't see the aura shimmer that means Blake's aura was broken, and we have been specifically told that Adam and his sword cannot cut aura, it's not a sword thing, it's just Adam being a very strong man.

This applies to the scene with Blake as well, becase she actualy knows how to control her aura. The only time someone hasn't been protected by their aura properly is Jaune, and he was literally a newb.

So we can extrapolate that the most likely scenario here is that Adam did not pierce her, she merely felt the pain of being stabbed.

Another likely scenario is that he did break her aura and just the tip pierced her skin due to the resistance of her aura stopping it from puncturing her properly. Then resting on the ground and jumping in front of Yang but not actively fighting let her recover enough aura to pull of one clone and carry Yang out of there.