No, I have not resumed my assault upon him, nor do I intend to. I will fight him with all of my might should we ever encounter each other again. I will destroy him if I must. At the very least I will attempt to clamp a muzzle on that mouth of his...

Perhaps you are not aware of what that unassuming, jolly, saccharine disguise he has hides? Perhaps you are not aware of what 'Pepper' really is?

Devorator mundorum. Also known as a Mundivore. A World Eater.

'Pepper' as you know him is a type of gluttony demon theoretically capable of devouring entire realms. They consume everything from plant, to animal, to mineral. They devour everything, leaving nothing but a cold void in their wake. They are like black holes, and embody entropy and decay. Most had to be contained, locked away in special prisons, or they would have devoured Hell itself.

Pepper has remarkable control over his appetite for a Mundivore, and he is surprisingly picky for a demon capable of eating space and time itself. Most of his kind barely have cohesive thought, let alone an obnoxious obsession with 'art'. As long as he stays far, FAR away from the 7th circle, I will not attempt to target him again.

I was lucky that first time. He simply used magic on me that I was too young at the time to understand or counter. He could have done far worse.