He hadn't expected the blade to connect, let alone sink into the man's leg, especially when the rest of his attack failed so utterly. He didn't even realise it had until he felt warm blood on his fingers, and he ripped the blade towards him, tearing through flesh.

He collapsed to one knee as Wesker's elbow came down - a deep crack somewhere inside him gently letting him know that a rib was broken. (He could still move, so it wasn't his back.)

He lashed out again, a little higher, determined at least to cripple Wesker, or find the artery in his thigh --

But even now the blood from the first wound was slowing.