"Let me borrow your lines, Stan. I'll let you know my way of showing gratitude."
Eren said with the same graceful smile Stan used to have on his face. The fake smile he wore was also bound to bring certain doom to its recipients.
"Eren…Two breakthroughs into the same rank?"
Stan knew that his survival was at stake at this point. So he decided to make Eren engage in his conversation so he could buy time. So that his friends would recover from their predicament and come to help him.
Stan had come to realize that this Eren wasn't someone he could handle on his own. Even though he was in the second stage of the Meta rank, he could see that Eren was in a completely different league. Especially experience-wise.
"Listen Eren. Fights between rankers are strictly prohibited by Elysian city laws. Perhaps you are not aware. But you'd need to use proper channels to have a duel with another ranker, under a controlled environment. With the proper procedure, even mortal combat is allowed.
