Sagiri drove Nokai into Taziraka's shoulder joint instead of his throat, feeling the spear bite deep, numbing the arm without opening anything vital beneath it.
Taziraka's swing lost half its force, and Sagiri used the gap to strike the same knee he had already ruined once, buckling it a second time before the corruption could finish repairing the first injury.
'Every joint I take from him is a joint Sir Black has to spend effort rebuilding,' Sagiri thought, watching black lines gather thick around the damaged leg, 'that math favors me longer than raw strength ever will.'
Taziraka staggered but did not fall, the beast art forcing his weight forward onto a leg that should not have held him at all.
Black threads knit visibly beneath the skin of his knee, repairing the damage faster than Sagiri had seen the corruption move an hour earlier in the fight.
