"Urgh."
With a muffled groan, the black shadow's body instantly went limp, and it dropped to its knees before Ye Chen.
"Hah... hah, hah..."
The black shadow gasped in disbelief, then cried out in shock and fury:
"You...!"
"When you were at your most isolated and helpless, I put aside our past grievances, came to you of my own accord, and offered you a helping hand!"
"And yet... you repay kindness with hatred?"
Ye Chen looked down coldly at the black shadow by his feet.
"You came here of your own accord?"
"Stop gilding your own face."
"It was... you... who was... forcibly dragged... here... by me... wasn't it?"
"You're still very weak right now. You can't force your hand against me."
"That's why you're reasoning with me and trying to persuade me to cooperate with you, instead of directly eroding my mind."
"Taking advantage of weakness, looting a burning house."
"That is your true intention."
The black shadow froze slightly at those words, then let out a hysterical roar:
"So what!?"
"What influence can any of that possibly have on the situation now!?"
"Was anything I said just now wrong!?"
"If you don't rely on me, if you don't rely on the Abyss, how are you supposed to defeat the Butcher!?"
"At this point, what other choice do you have!?"
Ye Chen answered in an icy tone:
"Yes, you're right. I really don't have a choice."
"But that doesn't mean..."
"That I have to cooperate with you."
As soon as the words fell, Ye Chen twisted off the black shadow's arm, grabbed its head, and drove his knee viciously into its abdomen. Then he kicked it to the ground, pinned it beneath him, and rained a furious barrage of punches down on its head!
**Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!