"Tekeli, come out."
With Fang Mo's words, the shadow behind him suddenly started to churn.
Originally, due to the flame saw attack by Denji, the surroundings were filled with firelight, casting Fang Mo's shadow to flicker and drift. But after he spoke those words, the shadow suddenly became profoundly deep.
It was as if his figure cast a deep abyss on the ground.
Quickly, from this endless darkness, a strange and peculiar little black cat emerged.
This little black cat wore a tiny top hat on its head, emitting a deep, chaotic aura. It looked around, then nimbly jumped onto Fang Mo's left shoulder, elegantly licking its front paw.
"What is this?"
Santa Claus lying on the ground frowned at the sight of the little black cat. However, as she was slightly puzzled, a voice suddenly appeared in her heart. It was the voice of her contracted Devil, the Puppet Devil.
"What? You say it's the Darkness Devil?"
This was a warning from the Puppet Devil, or perhaps fear. Most Devils perceive their surroundings through scent, and at this moment, the Puppet Devil had already recognized the true nature of the thing on Fang Mo's shoulder, hastily alerting Santa Claus.
"How... How is that possible!?"
Santa Claus was clearly a bit incredulous, but the Puppet Devil wouldn't lie to her, so she hesitated for a moment.
But before she could make sense of the situation, Fang Mo had already made a new move.
"Can you feel the dark power emanating from this thing?"
Fang Mo pointed at Santa Claus, "She claims she has consumed a piece of darkness and now understands everything. Teach her a lesson quickly."
"Chirp..."
Tekeli chirped softly, then shifted her gaze onto Santa Claus.
Being stared at by this strange little black cat, Santa Claus finally experienced the fear of the Puppet Devil. It was a gaze from the abyss, like a sheep being targeted by a tiger. She felt like she couldn't even move, and the dark power within her was restlessly stirring.
Soon, Santa Claus let out a scream.
She vomited as if spitting blood, and afterwards, a tangible darkness slowly flowed out from her seven orifices, then gathered into a mass the size of a fingernail, quickly flying towards the little black cat.
Tekeli did not move, and the mass of darkness directly merged into its body and disappeared.
"My... my power of darkness…"
Santa Claus's expression was somewhat dazed at the moment, after being forcibly stripped of the power of darkness, her body reverted back to that of a normal human. However, she had just been severely injured by electricity, so she felt as if she was not far from death.
Before she could think much more, suddenly a giant sword, spinning, was thrust into her chest.
"Uh...ugh..."
Santa Claus was stunned for a moment, then felt an unbearable sharp pain in her chest, immediately letting out a scream similar to that of Shrilling Chicken: "My power of darkness, ahhh!!!"
But before she could finish speaking,
Fang Mo had already walked over, directly stepping on her arm.
With a crack, Santa Claus's left arm was directly stomped into a right angle by Fang Mo, the area stomped on turned into a mush of bone and flesh.
"Ahhh!!!"
Santa Claus screamed again.
Previously, because she had eaten the flesh of a Darkness Devil, her abilities evolved, allowing her to transfer her pain to other dolls. But now, Fang Mo had stripped her of her power of darkness, so she was unable to transfer the pain to other puppets, and at this moment, she was in so much pain that tears burst out.
"Mm, that's the right scream."
Fang Mo was very satisfied, smiling at Santa Claus under his feet: "Some things cannot be understood merely with the power of darkness, like pain, so... from this moment on, let you experience eternal pain."
After saying that, Fang Mo lifted his foot again, crushing her right arm as well.
"It's...useless!"
Santa Claus, despite screaming, still gritted her teeth and yelled: "Even if you take away my power of darkness, it's useless! The contract between me and the Puppet Devil will not disappear, those puppets will continue to attack you night and day, the more you torture me, the more they will..."
"Oh, is that so?"
Fang Mo smiled upon hearing this, then turned his head to look at the little black cat beside him: "Tekeli, can you call out the Puppet Devil? I want to have a chat with it."
"Chirp..."
The little black cat called out, and then a small tentacle suddenly stretched out from behind it, directly reaching into the void, pulling out a strange-looking demon.
"Dark... Lord of Darkness…"
The tentacles that Tekeli extended were very fine, but the Puppet Devil on the other side did not dare to resist at all, and its whole body was trembling in fear: "Please don't kill me... The contract cannot be dissolved... Otherwise, the party that violates the contract will die..."
"Take this."
Fang Mo didn't waste words, and directly threw a life talisman spell to the other party.
The Puppet Devil subconsciously caught the life talisman spell, then looked at Fang Mo with a puzzled gaze.
"This thing can die for you once," Fang Mo said calmly. "Dissolve your contract with this woman now. Of course, you can also choose not to dissolve the contract. I personally don't care, but... you should know the consequences of being eaten by the chainsaw demon, right?"
"I, the Puppet Devil, immediately dissolved the contract with this woman!"
Hearing this, the Puppet Devil immediately shouted, and the next second, there was no movement from it, but the life talisman spell in its hand shattered into a small pile of ashes.
"Phew..."
Seeing this scene, the Puppet Devil also breathed a sigh of relief.
"What...!?"
However, unlike the Puppet Devil's narrow escape, the Santa Claus lying on the ground was completely stunned, as if she had seen the most unbelievable thing. She could no longer feel the puppets she had created, whether they were ordinary dolls or exquisite puppets, so she started screaming almost crazily: "This is impossible!!!"
"That's enough, you can go now."
Seeing this, Fang Mo smiled and then waved his hand at the Puppet Devil. Tekeli, hearing this, also cooperatively released it fine tentacles.
"Thank you... for your mercy..."
The Puppet Devil said as if it had been granted amnesty, and then without staying a moment longer, disappeared instantly, leaving only Santa Claus, whose mind was nearly broken.
The ground shook, and the piece of ground that had pinned Santa Claus suddenly tore apart, then slowly stood upright. Fang Mo stared at the Santa Claus in front of him, pulling out a pink greatsword full of mosaics from nowhere, and then a smile that frightened Santa Claus slowly appeared on his face.
"Let me teach you the correct way to handle exquisite dolls…"