Before I start this topic, please forgive me if this has already been discussed before.
Anyways, I've been reading the Eclipse event in vols 13, and 14. And apart from all the hell literally breaking loose, in the midst of this Casca gets raped by Femto and Guts gets almost devoured by those monstrosities and they're both saved by the Skull Knight himself. One thing I do wanna know is, could've Guts saved Casca without hacking off his own arm? I know that Guts' left arm was trapped inside one of those demons' mouths, and he had to do whatever he could in order to cut himself loose (no pun intended). But I always speculated, that instead of resorting to cutting off his left arm with his sword, he could've used it as a crowbar and place it between that demon's teeth and then force that thing's jaws open and pull his arm out. Afterwards he would've still kept his actual arm and wouldn't have to get that iron prosthetic one.
So why didn't he do it? In my opinion, it was either because his left arm was already chewed up by that demon and there was nothing that Guts could've done about it, or there simply was not enough time, and if Guts were to try and save his arm, he could've risked Casca getting killed, and when he had a choice between saving his limb or rescuing Casca, he chose the latter option.
Anyways, I've been reading the Eclipse event in vols 13, and 14. And apart from all the hell literally breaking loose, in the midst of this Casca gets raped by Femto and Guts gets almost devoured by those monstrosities and they're both saved by the Skull Knight himself. One thing I do wanna know is, could've Guts saved Casca without hacking off his own arm? I know that Guts' left arm was trapped inside one of those demons' mouths, and he had to do whatever he could in order to cut himself loose (no pun intended). But I always speculated, that instead of resorting to cutting off his left arm with his sword, he could've used it as a crowbar and place it between that demon's teeth and then force that thing's jaws open and pull his arm out. Afterwards he would've still kept his actual arm and wouldn't have to get that iron prosthetic one.
So why didn't he do it? In my opinion, it was either because his left arm was already chewed up by that demon and there was nothing that Guts could've done about it, or there simply was not enough time, and if Guts were to try and save his arm, he could've risked Casca getting killed, and when he had a choice between saving his limb or rescuing Casca, he chose the latter option.