[ Knoll isn't expecting the table to be kicked over at him, and so he stumbles back. However, he tries his best to move out of the way of a fatal stab--and he's managed to maneuver himself from taking the hit fatally, but there was a line of blood on his right cheek.

Still, just behind he had broken the bottle on Tsurugi didn't mean that he was defenseless. ]

If I hit you too hard, I would be complicit for your murder, and of all the ways to die I would rather it would not be by execution.

[ The dark mage steps forward, and takes out a scalpel, and takes a harsh thrust forward in an attempt to stab at the center of Tsurugi's chest. ]