[Knives opens his mouth as if to respond, but he has no comeback when Vash mentions his Gate. Of course he can't use it; it feels like his access to the higher plane, something he had always drawn on constantly, has been severed altogether. It's one of the greater humiliations he's endured since arriving here.

Still--]

Even if things are different here, you shouldn't trust whatever's handed to you. Are you really that easily swayed by a few magic tricks?