Dark quickly grasped how to use the "Suppression Lock" and, at Professor Sylph's signal, headed toward the "reading room."
The moment he opened the door to the "reading room," he found four girls and one bear hiding inside.
Katerina, Brittany, Diana, Rose, and Teddiursa had all been hiding there to eavesdrop.
"Hehe." Diana took a step back, hid her hands behind her back, and bent over to inspect the jade ring in Dark's hand with curiosity. "What's that?"
"The 'Suppression Lock.' Didn't you hear it just now?"
As he spoke, Dark grabbed Teddiursa by the scruff of its neck with one hand and sat down on the sofa.
Though Teddiursa struggled, Dark still pinned it across his lap.
He then grabbed Teddiursa's left arm and slipped the jade ring engraved with "Lock" onto it.
It was visibly loose.
"Too big?"
Dark had no choice but to remove the jade ring and stare menacingly at Teddiursa's neck.
"Wuu!" Teddiursa immediately sensed something was wrong and hurriedly flailed its limbs in an attempt to escape.
But when Dark lifted it forcefully, all four of its limbs dangled in the air, leaving it able only to paddle helplessly like a dog swimming.
No matter how strong it was, it could not run with its feet off the ground.
Dark narrowed his eyes and smiled, grabbing its head and vigorously squishing it flat!
As expected of the parasitic shell of a "Parasitic Spirit."
It was practically like a teddy bear doll, free to be squashed flat or kneaded round however he wished.
Dark soon successfully slipped the jade ring around its neck.
Though the jade ring seemed somewhat awkward without a "wearing mechanism," its "suppression" effect was very real.
Dark put the other jade ring around his own left wrist, then infused both of