Metsuma sees the same girl that he had asked for directions from, standing on a bookshelf holding a long screw in her hand, holding it from the base, "Well, well, well, isn't this something interesting.", Mestra feels for any injuries but feels none, she then looks towards the girl, "Who are you and why are you interrupting time with my lover", she says with a furious face, discontent with this stranger's sudden appearance. "I AM NOT YOUR LOVER!" Metsuma says, angry at the thought that she thought about that. "I am interested to see what you are like strong boy, you seemed to be struggling so I hopped in to help you", the girl jumps from the bookshelf and summons a large sheet metal screw from the ground, landing on its base and then having that same screw detract back into the ground, she jumps of it as she lands in front of Metsuma, and throws the screw in her hand towards Mestra, which hits her directly in the chest.
Mestra, feeling the intense pain, freezes for a little before pulling the screw out but seeing no injuries on her body. "The screws don't injure me, but the pain is intense" she thinks to herself while looking at the girl in anger, "Hello, my name is Witch, nice to meet you", she says while summoning 2 more screws to her hands and smiling innocently. Mestra releases tendrils from her body and stabs Witch in her arms and legs, but she doesn't react and just firmly stares at her, this confuses Mestra, "Why isn't she reacting, is she immune to pain or something", she thinks confused by the situation but as soon as she retracts the tendrils back to her, all the wounds she made disappear with no indication of healing, simply as if she never stabbed her. "You know this situation reminds me of a certain manga, what was it called? Oh right, it was called Re: Zero", she laughs after mentioning Re: Zero, having loved the light novel and anime. "What are you talking about?" Mestra, confused but adamant on killing her, decides to extend her nails, turning them into claws and lungs towards her. Witch lungs towards her as well as the screws and claws clash, and they go back and forth in a clash of trying to find opening to exploit, Mestra attempts to stab Witch again, however perception then changes for her as she sees that she is fighting herself, she stops for a moment confused however that results in her once again getting stabbed by the screws in multiple area of her body, however despite the pain, she shrugs it off, takes off her heels and extends her toenails towards Witch and stabs her in the head. "How sad, too bad I won't eat you, since you're not a child or a boy", "Oh, is that your preference in men, quite interesting" Witch says while standing behind Mestra. "What, How, I stabbed you in the head, you should be dead?!" She says confused at this development, "My preference is any boy that cannot rely on themselves, is weak, pathetic, and scrawny. Those kinds of boys turn me on and make me wanna masturbate just by looking at them", she says while blushing, "Let me guess, young boys, right?", she says while smiling. "Indeed, I prefer boys 18 or younger", she says proudly, "Same, 5-year-olds are my favorite to eat", Mestra says proudly as well.
"Well, we should just move on, no?" Witch summons more screws from the shelves and the ground towards Mestra, Mestra dodges them, puts her heels on both her hands and starts relentlessly punching Witch with her heels on her hands over and over, striking her in the face, stomach, arm, leg and sides. Mestra then kicks her in the stomach straight, sending Witch back, she expected to land on Metsuma but she realizes that he had long left them. Mestra, seeing that Metsuma is gone, becomes enraged but tries to hide it, "So he's gone, guess I just have to follow his scent again", Mestra walks away from the fight after stabbing Witch in the face repeatedly while she's on the ground. Mestra starts following the scent, however, unnoticed by Mestra, Witch gets right back up with no visible damage, "So I lost, as usual" Witch leaves the area. The perspective switches to Accelerant as he is training his Acceledecelrator, now having been able to put the gravity distortions inside his body thus it cannot be negated, he thinks about something new, "I'm usually only making 3 calculations a minute, maybe there is a way to make it so that I accelerant my thinking, using my new skill…by the way Bal, why do you call it skills, why not spells", Accelerant turns to the doll woman, her name Balladeer but Accelerant calls her Bal, "You youngins decided to modernize the word spell and we adults just went with it and changed it to skill", she says while relaxing on a rocking chair in the grass, watching him training, running around, "Young people these days are so energetic" she thinks to herself while watching Accelerant run around. Accelerant, now having stopped running around using his ability, walks towards Balladeer and lays his head on her lap, to think more about what else he can do, Bal not minding this, just rubs his head while he thinks. However, she notices a figure holding some sort of weapon in the distance, she doesn't notify Accelerant of this but instead leaves him on her lap, and blocks his ears with special earbuds, preventing him from hearing their conversation. The figure walks up to the two and asks them which one is a slime. Bal, having no intention of revealing who, remains silent with a dead straight face, she moves fast enough that Accelerant doesn't notice she moved and lays his head on the back pillow she used on the chair. "I ask you to leave…or I'll kill you" she says, fully serious. She eyeballs the man, he wears a black sweater, gray pants and black shoes, his hair is white, styled in a slick back manner, he has red outlines at the bottom of his eyes, his weapon he holds is a giant double-sided hammer that has spikes at the hammer sides, "Very well, then I'll kill you and have that body used to make some money, by the way, the names Hyi, pleasure to meet you" he says as he swings at her.
Bal manages to block the attack and kick Hyi far away, she then jumps in front of him and raises her hand in the air, a large device starts flying to her and then she grabs it, revealing it to also be a large double-sided hammer. "Hammer vs Hammer, huh, niiicce", Hyi says, smiling and excited for the fight, "You youngin really have too much energy, you should be in college and getting a good education, not mindlessly running around for giggles unless it's harmful fun."
"What are you, a grandma", Hyi gets into a battle stance as he says this, "In fact, yes, I am, despite looking like I'm in my 20's, I'm actually 78 years old", Bal says, also getting into a combat stance. Hyi launches towards Bal and swings his hammer extremely hard, however, Bal blocks the blow with her Hammer's handle, she then hits him on his chin up, sending him into the air, however he lands on his feet after the attack. "Come on Grandma, I don't wanna hurt you, I gotta use your body a sex doll to make money, so don't make this any harder than it needs to be", Hyi says smiling malevolently. "Young men like you are a bad influence on the next generation, seems you need this grandma to correct your behavior" Accelerant wakes up and sees the battle and decided to join Bal, "Grandma, go into retirement, I'll handle this guy", he says confident in his new developments, " Oh please by all means, please take care of him, I'm way too old to deal with this", she says while walking away back to her rocking chair. "So why is some NPC here, antagonizing my lovely grandma?", he says while smiling and having his hands in his pockets, "Hm, you're very scrawny and your skin is pale and your hair is white and curly, heh, you stressed out or something, you not eating" he says while laughing at him, clearly mocking him for his looks. "I'm doing just fine actually, grandma is taking good care of me, and I love her for that, and I don't appreciate you talking lewd about her, even if her body is breedable" he says while declaring that proudly, in the distance he hears Bal say to not say that again. "Sure whatever, I assume you know where the slime that blew up a piece of the city is right?" Accelerant hearing this, realizing that he is talking about him, "So he must be my real antagonist, finally, it's about damn time" he thinks to himself.
Accelerant prepares himself to fight and so does Hyi. Accelerant initiates the first attack through moving fast and delivering a total of 10 strikes to him, however these attacks do very little damage, Hyi launches himself towards Accelerant and swings at him his hammer at him but Accelerant dodges and deliver 10 more strikes to his side, but he seems not to take damage. The hammer releases a blaze of fire from inside it, which goes on to Accelerant and because of this, his slime nature is revealed to Hyi.
"Well, what do you know, you're a slime, which must mean you're the one I'm after" Hyi starts to smile, realizing that he is the target that he's after. Accelerant backs up and grabs some dirt, and throws it at him, then using his Acceldecelerator, he speeds up how fast the dirt moves, this causes the dirt to move extremely fast towards Hyi, and causes him to be pushed back a bit.
Accelerant runs towards him and starts delivering even more strikes and some of them seem to start being effective as he sees that striking the same spot causes him to flinch a bit in pain. He starts delivering more strikes in repeated spots, but Hyi starts adapting to his movement and blocks most of them. "I'll admit, you have some fighting smarts, but you're fighting is sloppy and uncoordinated", Hyi says while smirking, "Look how about we make a deal?" Accelerant becomes confused at this declaration, "A deal?". "Yes, in exchange for forgetting the ambiguous bounty on you and leaving, you give me the hag since she could make me more than the bounty could, what do you say?", he assets with dominance, "Sorry but she's my precious grandma, can't give you to her", Accelerant charges towards Hyi with random strikes in an attempt to get some damage in, however it all remains fruitless as he blocks all the attacks, however Bal strikes him from behind with her double-sided rocket hammer. "Grandma what's up, I said to retire", he says confused why she hit him from behind, "Honey at this point, you can't beat him, it's like he said, you have no combat experience, let grandma take care of this" she says while patting his head, Accelerant knowing that she isn't wrong decided to sit out.
"Jeez ya old hag, tryna break my back or something", he says while holding his back and rubbing it. "Sorry youngin, but my pet has no chance of beating you at this point, but I do, so hope your young body can keep up with this old one" she says while twirling her large hammer.