No need to be so acidic about it.
Trying to help you there, Mike, you should try to think outside the box, think of a way to appease Faust, to at the very least talk things out.
He is the devil, you cannot defeat the devil without beating him at his own game, and once you do, there is nothing he can do.
Challenge him to play fiddle or something for pete's sake.
Just dont fight.