I thought about and based on Curly’s thoughts, it seems like it may not be what it looks like to the MC and us.
My guess is that the guy came at ML with the knife and ML incapacitated him and took the knife away.
And now ML is trying act all evil to push the MC away.
I’m not saying ML is a good guy or anything. I’m just saying maybe his business isn’t torturing or cutting up people.
I could totally be wrong though.