User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 488: The Two of Us, Always, Review/@comment-7418318-20160606133552/@comment-27281341-20160606204643

This wasn't a simple longsword. It was closer to Cloud's Buster Sword. No was longswords, or even Zweihander were that big. The blades width make it possible for an organ to be hit. But, even if organs have been hit, Natsu survived a shot in the mouth with noproble, 400 chapter ago. Surely August can survive that much.