His opponent having to spin to dodge the bullet was good for Raln due to taking some time to pull off and reorientate himself once again in order to aim his next attack, buying the time for Raln to finish stumbling forward onto his feet, which took about as much time as the spinning did, around a second or so in either's case, although it was hard to accurately judge time in such an intense situation.

He wasn't planning on getting away due to having no cover going backwards and he was already close to his opponent by the time this all went down. No, his best course of action was to continue forward at maximum speed. One way or another, this battle would quite possibly be ending very soon. Due to getting just onto his feet from a low position he was still crouched down and leaning forward. As such he didn't have a normal running gesture but instead lunged forward with every step as if a sprinter fresh from the starting block. This wouldn't be effective to cover long distances but he didn't have to, being only ten feet away. He only took two lunges and jousted his sword the rest of the way up towards his opponent's heart just as the shots were ringing out, his right foot the one going forward as he drove the sword forward.

The aim of his opponent's weapon went down through his left shoulder, causing shearing pain to flood his body, but this wouldn't interrupt his sword strike already in progress. He hoped that this would be a lethal blow anyways. Otherwise he'd have to fight through the pain, which would be difficult but not impossible, as he'd heard many stories of people fighting with multiple gunshot wounds. Of course his left arm was probably a goner, but his sword arm would have to make up for it and do everything he could to end his opponent swiftly with his sword. His opponent had a gun out, not a melee weapon, so it wouldn't be as hard to score a killing blow up close should Raln not die first.