The devil-stag's antler thudded to the ground, dissolving into a pile of fine, black ash. An inky black liquid oozed from where the stag's antler had been, and the liquid started bulging out and growing a new antler to replace the one Alphonse had blown off. It continued its charge, missing Alphonse and Datura as they flew aside but picking up Archie in its fearsome jaws. In the moments that he was in the beast's jaws, Archie could see the snake eyes inside the jaws staring at him just inches from him.

The beast cast Archie aside, leaving him with sickly puncture wounds all around his torso, and pawed the ground again. It may have been the party's imagination, but Archie's blood seemed to have some kind of strange effect on the beast, because its dark aura looked weaker... Lowering its head and brandishing its newly grown antler, the devil-stag opened its mouth wider than anything could possibly open its mouth and revealed that the two snake eyes inside its mouth had fused into one giant, glowing eye, bloodshot and unblinking. But the beast did not move. It stood there panting and letting the leftover blood drain from its mouth. Apparently the herbivorous animal was fighting the corruption to recover from the unexpected taste of the animal summoner's blood...