As flesh tore from bone, Taggerung knew what decision she had made. The hooks retracted back into the hilt, and the considerable amount of flesh on the hooks fell to the ground. Taggerung snapped his jaw shut, with a thunderous crack. Taggerung's eyes remained on his mark, as she charged forward with a renewed speed. Taggerung gripped the sword lodged in his gut, the hooks now attaching to his hand. With a mighty pull, he started to yank the sword out, but not before Celeste was able to get her strike off. The sword clipped Taggerung's eye, hacking off a piece of it. Without hesitation, Taggerung finished yanking the sword out of his gut, performing a horizontal strike across the charging Celeste's chest, the moment her sword had cut his eye through. The other eye remained affixed on it's target.