"Puppets and cats."
After speaking, Aozaki Touko gently exhaled a ring of smoke and stepped back. Two black figures instantly appeared before her: one was a strange puppet with arms covered in blades, while the other was an ordinary-looking black cat.
"Miss Reines."
As Gray spoke, she swung her death scythe and charged at the black cat. Her intuition told her that the cat was extremely dangerous. The instant Gray moved, the black cat let out a hiss and pounced at her.
Gray cleaved the black cat in two with a single swing of her scythe. Yet before she could breathe a sigh of relief, the scythe in her hand suddenly shouted for her to be careful.
Gray hurriedly raised her scythe to defend herself. With a clang, dazzling sparks burst across the scythe. The black cat that had been cut in half had somehow returned to normal, and the sparks had come from its claws colliding with the scythe.
"What is this thing? Was it really made by a modern magician?" Add's voice rang out again.
At this point, everyone could finally see what the black cat truly was. Although it still looked like a black cat, it had no real body at all. It was like a shadow; even if a shadow were cut apart, it would quickly recover.
"Not bad, little girl of the El-Melloi family. Your skill in this area has already surpassed that of your predecessor."
While Gray battled the black cat, Reines's Moon Cell Spirit Liquid, Trimmau, was also fighting Aozaki Touko's puppet. The situation here was the complete opposite of Gray's. Even if the Moon Cell Spirit Liquid was struck or sliced apart by the puppet, it quickly recovered, since its true form was liquid mercury.
However, Trimmau's attacks had little effect on