The fight between Bal and Hyi continues as he uses his hammer as a spear weapon and strikes her with multiple blows, but Bal seems unfazed and slams Hyi to the ground with her hammer, Hyi grabs the ground and lifts himself with his arms to punch directly at Bal's chest.
Bal grabs Hyi's arm and pulls him towards her, she then punches him straight in the face and knees him in the stomach, following that up with 2 strikes to the neck, three strikes to the face, 1 to the neck again but he manages to block the second neck strike she was going to deliver, "Not bad, an old hag like you really has hands", he says smirking, "Just give up boy, let me correct you and this behavior", Hyi drops his hammer and punches Bal in the face before grabbing her arm and pulling her back to him, to repeatedly punch her so more, as a result, Bal receives a small crack to her face.
Bal seeing this, starts dodging the strikes before slipping her hand out his grasp and transforming it into a large blast, it releases a beam of mana towards Hyi. Hyi, knowing he cannot dodge as the range is too wide, decides to tank the attack. In the aftermath, his sweater appears to be gone, his parents slightly ripped and has burn scars on his body from the blast. "You're quite durable…and muscular too, a real healthy body", she says complimenting Hyi's body and durability. "Heh, thanks", Hyi charges towards Bal in a boxer stance, and she invites the challenge with a gesture.
Hyi and Bal start boxing against one another, Hyi playing on the more offensive side while Bal is more on the defensive, "Is this old knowledge or something, you know boxing too?", he says while continuously delivering strikes, "Being old has its advantages too you know." Bal delivers a counterattack to Hyi but that counterattack is fatal as he is stabbed in the liver, "Holy shit, you stabbed in the liver", he holds his wound, "Yes, and you will die if left untreated, give up the fight and I will treat you" Bal says showing mercy to Hyi, "Nah, I'm on a time limit, that just makes the game better."
The perspective switches to when Metsuma is still on the ground, realizing that he can escape while these two are fighting, gets up, and runs in an attempt to find the supposed second elevator to reach section 8. "I need to find that elevator that reaches section 8, I'm not dying now, not here". Metsuma looks around and continuously runs around aimlessly, just hoping that an elevator appears. "There's still no damn elevator and I don't know how long that girl will last against her, maybe I can somehow divert her away," he thinks about what he can do to divert Mestra away to give him more time to escape, he thinks about how she followed his scent to get here, at least that's what he assumes, "Maybe I can rub my scent on some books or something and leave a trail that goes elsewhere from my direction, yeah I could do that," Metsuma thinks to himself, realizing that he has a potential trick up his sleeve. Putting his plan into action, he starts rubbing himself against multiple shelves that he comes across in hopes to confuse her, after finishing he starts looking at his map, but he realizes that he can look up the elevator, "That was a feature?!, Oh my gosh."
With this new discovery, he manages to see the elevator for sections 5-8 a certain distance away, it is quite far but he believes that he should be able to get there. The perspective switches to Mestra as she starts walking away from the fight having "killed" the girl, she looks for Metsuma's scent and smells it relatively close, she runs to the spot but only sees books, she smells the scent of Metsuma on the shelves, "He must have touched this shelf, so he might have gone this way." The perspective switches to Metsuma as he finally finds the Elevator and presses the button, however, he has to wait for the elevator, he continuously presses the button over and over, he sees the elevator open up finally and rushes in but he crashes into some boobs, bounces off and falls to the ground, "Oh no, you poor baby, are you okay? The woman says with concern and picks him up, cradling him like he is a baby. "Put me down please, ma'am", he says, a bit confused. "Sorry darling, mama's just worried," she says with concern for his well-being. Metsuma looks at her appearance, She wears a white long-sleeved, button-down shirt with the middle of the shirt being unbuttoned, wears a button-down corset above the shirt, has a yellow tie, knee-high black socks, and brown laceless shoes, her hair is purple and long with braided sides, connected with yellow bows, at the end of the hair tips appears to be strange yellow balls of energy in a hexagon cage created by her hair, her eyes are pinkish red and her figure is rather curvy & attracting. "Are you lost, you must be an abandoned child that was left here by his terrible parents, you don't need to worry anymore, I'm here", Metsuma can only be confused by her declaration, wondering why she is creating a random backstory for him. "No, I came here of my own volition", he says while still being held in place. "By the way, you seem to be in a hurry, someone chasing you or something?" Metsuma remembers that he needs to get into the elevator and tries to escape her grasp, but her grip is firm and unmoving, "Let me go, I uh, in a race", he says frantically trying to escape. "You're lying, I can tell, you're trying to escape someone who is trying to kill you right, I can tell by your breathing, your heart rate, and the sweat on your face" she says all this with strange accuracy and seemingly made-up logic. "How the hell did she figure that out, with just some useless information, how does one come to that conclusion from those things alone," Metsuma thinks, believing that she seems fishy for being able to deduce that someone is trying to kill him, however, his thought process is cut off when he sees that Mestra has caught up to him, Metsuma becomes scared but then he feels a great calmness lighten his thoughts and he starts drifting into the girl's breast, hugging her tight and feeling completely safe. "So, you're the one chasing this poor boy huh, I can have that, I will put you down right here," she says asserting her dominance in the situation. She gets into battle stance and prepares to fight, Mestra seeing this declaration, prepares to fight as well, instantly charging at her preparing to stab her with tendrils, however, it fails as the girl, grabs all of them in an instant, Mestra is then punched extremely hard and sent flying across the hall of shelves, Mestra lands on her back, she gets up after the blow but her skinsuit is slightly ripped off the face revealing herself underneath, "Damn it, who is this woman?", she thinks to herself, confused at what just happened, "By the way, the names Alya Kiana, a pleasure to meet you", the woman declares. "I don't know who you are but if you stop chasing this little boy, then I'll have to beat you up," she says declaring to Mestra, Mestra having none of this decides to extend her nails to claws, however, Alya does the same. "What, how are you doing that?" Mestra says confused about how Alya is using the same skill as her, "Well it's my blessing of course, Absolute Authority" Alya says declaring her ability to her opponent, "This blessing allows me to copy any Blessings, Curses, Skills, Races or Techniques and use its power to 200% of its potential." Mestra becomes shocked at this information, "200% at its potential!?, that should be possible" Mestra tries attacking Alya but her efforts fall flat as Alya makes the claws even sharper and hotter, she cuts Mestra's claws off and kicks her in the face.
Mestra flies to a bookshelf which causes some books to fall on top of her, "THIS DAMN BITCH!" she thinks to herself, furious at another person intervening with her attempts to eat Metsuma. "I don't wanna kill you but I will put you down, with LOVE," Alya says to Mestra getting in a battle stance, she rushes to Mestra and uses her Love Series: LOVE PUNCH!, Mestra is hit with a powerful strike that sends her across multiple high bookshelves, Mestra recovers from the below, she doesn't feel any pain nor see an injury but her body is tensing up a little, "The strike itself didn't hurt but my body is tensed up as if it was hurt by the attack, DAMN IT" she thinks to herself wondering the strangeness of the attack but at the same time she feels a form of affection that came from the attack unsure why. Alya attacks again with another love punch directly to her gut, throwing her a bit in the air, but she doesn't stop there as she basically juggles her, punching her while she is midair multiple times, before punching her to a wall.
"W-Why do I feel this way, I feel no pain, but I feel affection, this is weird" She remains confused about the strangeness of her attacks wondering about their nature. "If you give up, then I'll spare you," she says while walking towards Mestra and then getting on one knee, "Screw you" Mestra tries attacking Alya, but it has no effect as her tendrils and claws break on her skin. "How the hell?"