Auron continued studying his opponent's movements carefully as the figure continued to approach him, blade raised. He had to commend him for keeping to his stance, despite the disadvantageous position it landed him in. He was at least confident enough to stick to his guns...he had to respect him for that at least. He thought that he had just about all of his basics covered with this position...he would be fine. However, this unusual opponent made a, perhaps somewhat unsurprisingly, a rather unusual and unorthodox move. His eyes widened slightly as he saw Meats not swing his sword the way it was...but instead allowed one of his hands to shift closer to its pommel...but also reached his other arm to actually grasp the blade. This was not something a normal swordsman would do...and for a moment, it caught him off-guard.

Auron quickly worked out that he wouldn't be able to parry this like he could any normal stab, so he instead decided to choose the typical sidestep evasion. As the blade drove toward his midsection, he waited until the last minute before pulling his entire body to the left. The blade of Meats' sword scraped up slightly against the scales on his side, but he was unharmed. Now that he was to his opponent's right side, he clenched the hilt of his blade tightly and quickly swung it around in a semi-circle. The large blade of the Dragon's Claw aimed to slip roughly an inch or so underneath Meats' own Iginbo in an attempt to slash the blade of the sword up against Meats' midsection. Due to the indestructible nature of his blade, he had no qualms with using it to test the durability and strength of other objects...in this case, the very armor that Meats wore. He needed to test and see just how well it could hold up against his Dragon's Claw. If it could not penetrate or leave visible progress, he would have to figure out where he could aim his strikes.

Of course, this all depended on whether or not he would even be able to slip his attack through as planned....