Remove shape from Background shape/Cliping Mask impossible!

[Yanni The Best]

I have this attached shape in Ilustrator.

I want to remove the black arrow( including the added stroke )  from the background pink letters( LOVE ). So basically the pink letters will have cutouts where the black arrow passes through them.

How do i do that as i tried path finder and it does not seem to work. Iam using illustrator 2020 version.

[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

Make an opacity mask instead.

The black things need to be grouped.

Then select all and in the transparency panel click on Make Mask.

Uncheck Clip.

[Yanni The Best]

It worked! Thank you so much...

We are using a UV printer that prints separately 

[Monika Gause]

Glad you could solve it!