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Let's play a game!
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Gonna have to call you on this one Gooral: You're wrong. Several others seem to understand well enough, and I'll just add a couple small notes.
Taking away the edge from the sword allows for a range of cripplingly painful injuries that you just wouldn't get with a sharp sword, while at the same time reducing the immediate lethality of the attacks (both an ethical prop to not be chopping people up in front of the little girls, and a way of allowing them to suffer that much longer).
Plus he never said it 'will' be worse than a cut, but rather that it 'may' be worse than a cut. You can argue injury choices all day (arms, legs, ribs, shoulder, collarbone, knees, groin, neck, etc) and say that one is worse than the other based on some arbitrary, unknown level of medical aid, and completely discounting the opinion of the one who actually received the injury, but ultimately it's a threat, and designed to induce doubt and uncertainty in the enemy about the outcome of the fight, despite outnumbering him. It's not a clinical prognostication about the exact injuries they're going to receive with an attached subjective severity rating.
As for the implication that a human couldn't do that much damage (ie: Raki can't be human!), please refer to any gang member with a lead pipe or a baseball bat, then adjust for the surface area along the contact point (going from a few square inches with a baseball bat to less than half a square inch with the blunt sword increases the force applied to the target area by an order of magnitude). Someone with actual sword training can easily target to maximize damage in as few attacks as possible. Someone with hospital emergency room experience can tell you the difference between a knife wound and a limb being crushed.
Speaking of limb being crushed: top end human punch PSI: ~2000. That's spread over a surface area of approximately 3-6 square inches. Give it an arbitrary multiplier of x2 for using the leverage of the sword (being extremely conservative), and condense to a surface area of 1/8" x 3" and you're looking at 16,000 to 32,000 PSI. The pressure a great white shark can apply with its bite is around 40,000 PSI.
And since people continue to make such a bloody fuss over this....
Newhope: record high jump is 8 feet (2.45 m), not 7, though the standing high jump (closer to what Raki performed) has a record of 6.25 feet (1.9 m). One might easily conflate the two for literary license, however, so I'll allow for the higher.
In ch. 114, with Raki kneeling in front of the bars of his cell, the ceiling appears to be a few feet above his head (6-8, maybe?). Being generous with his height and the apparent distance, I'd put it at a 10 foot ceiling, 12 at most. Most people's homes will have 8 foot ceilings, with more expensive homes having 10 foot ceilings (with greater heights for certain designs).
The expanded view from page 5 of chapter 115 could potentially push the ceiling up to 15 feet, though we can't actually see the ceiling there. The long view on page 7 puts the ceiling at about twice Raki's height, give or take. Overall I'd put it in the 12 foot range.
And you say he's pushing himself off the ceiling, so must therefore have been jumping at least that high (high enough that he'd actually have momentum to absorb in the ceiling before launching himself back downwards). That might be a valid argument -- if it had ever actually happened.
Where did he launch himself off the ceiling? Why page 3 of course! Where he's flipping over the first twin before launching himself downwards at the young twintailed girl. Except you have the order of the panels wrong. Remember, read right to left. The top right panel is -before- the jump, which occured in the top left panel. It's not a perspective of looking up at him against the ceiling ready to push down, but rather a view from above as he's about to launch himself upwards and over the twin.
Now as for maximum height, we're going to go back to that record high jump: 8 feet. Do recall that the measure of a successful high jump is that *every part of your body* cleared that height, and is physically demonstrated by not knocking the measuring bar off its stands.
However, what if you don't need to meet that requirement? What if it's ok if some of your body is below that height? That is, in the midst of a rotating flip. In that case, it's possible for part of your body to be -above- that height.
What's the maximum height of a jump that's feasible with a 12 foot ceiling? Given Raki's height as being in the 6 foot range, center of gravity in the waist, and legs slightly tucked in but not touching the ceiling, the maximum center of gravity of the jump would be about 9 feet.
At the same time he's several feet above the twin. While adult Claymores tend to push 6 foot, the twins look like they'd be lucky to hit 5. Allowing for foreshortening in the perspective, one must still expect that he cleared her head by at least 2-3 feet. Given that he was not fully vertical at that point, that puts his center of gravity in the 8-10 foot range. Since we already limited the upper height to 9 feet, that puts his jump in the 8-9 foot range.
Given that it was a standing jump, that still well exceeds human records of a bit over 6 foot. However given the nature of the manga it is fully reasonable to make use of the other number and consider Raki to be slightly above "exceptional" for human capability, which could generously be considered a benefit of his unique training. In other words, within the realm of Batman-level athletics.
Therefore he has not yet demonstrated anything that would require a truly non-human physique to accomplish, and thus I still for the moment consider him fully human (with caveats regarding the rods and Priscilla's arm).
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no he did not jump from a wall. He was in the ground. 
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Guts was badass before the Eclipse. Remember that fight where he fights 100 men, or goes against Zodd.
