As the doors of the PBV opened slowly, perhaps, for whatever reason slower this specific time, a figure outline becomes apparent. The frame of a tall, perhaps 6'2, man that was the embodiment of greed when it came to eating. He had a large vodka bottle in his left hand, and had a long thick beard and a balding head with short hair. The man was wearing at least one ring on each of his fingers, he had a large golden necklace with a $ sign on it, essentially, he looked like a thug, more specificity the leader.
After this quick analysis of his appearance and assumptions of his personality, Albecht started to look at him on a deeper level. He noticed that GM (Grave Maker) had a lot of layers on, this means that normal knives and most piercing attacks would be blocked, perhaps not fully blocked but enough to allow him to survive and counter. Next thing that caught Albech's eye is his belt, it was very thick, at least 15 cm thick. If he were to have a knife if be placed there horizontally. And, finally, he noticed that GM had more than a few scars on both his hands, Albecht came to the conclusion that all of them had come from training with a weapon of sorts.
All these analysis took around 14 seconds, GM had entered and sat on the seats closest to the girls. This seat made him vulnerable to me attacking him from behind, but that seemed very unlikely as he willingly came and sat in that position, maybe he is able to protect himself even in such a position.
A deep, screeching voice that seemed to have a mocking and assertive tone was heard. It was GM who snarled aloud.
'You pretty fine ladies had a fine day? Or shall I say night?' and as he said this, he moved his tongue above his lips in an anticlockwise circular motion as if about to feast on a freshly cooked lamb chop.
One of the ladies, clearly unaware of him or any stories about him said in an assertive tone- 'I don't see why we should tell you. Further more, your speech disgusts me, how can you say something so caring yet make it sound more horrific than fighting on the other world?'
GM looked stopped laughing immediately and looked at her with an utmost serious face. Finally he says in a non-negotiable tone-
'I shall give you one chance to redeem yourselves, if you rightfully answer, I will let you free. If not then… I don't think u want to know what happens.'
'What the hell are you sa…' the second girl, who was quiet up until now, blocked her friends mouth and gave her a 'don't even bother look', she proceeded to say-
'If so is what you say, so shall happen'
GM was undoubtedly intrigued by her behaviour and allowed a deep unsettling 'oh~~' to spill out of his vocal cords. Finally saying – 'Alright, the question asked is – What truly happened to allow the invasion of The Abyss Creatures?'
'Huh????' they both said synchronised. Well that was a given, such knowledge was the most basic of all, even toddlers knew this. The second girl showed a relieved face whilst the former one was utterly confused.
'Why would you ask such a simple question?' said the first girl.
'Why indeed. Now, think very carefully before you answer.' said GM in a calm yet threatening voice.
'If I was taught right,' started to explain the second girl,'They were all allowed into our world through the things known as "Gateways" or in more modern language "Gates", these gates served as a medium to allow the transport of large masses of Abyss abominations to enter, all different to each other. In fact, some philosophers argue that such beast made their way into our world long before we knew of them. The first Gate is predicted to be from the ocean. Philosopher Jake Goldfold hypothesises that these abominations were of the Servants of the Lower tier, yet somehow, none of the weapons developed by humanity, not even nukes worked on such monsters. In fact this is one of the main reasons for the fall of 2 of the strongest countries 50 years ago, USA and Russia, this reflected into the fall of the rest of the world and the development of PA's. Free PA's are called GPA, or protection provided by the government, of course it falls way shorter than a private PA, which are provided by legacy families. The most common type of Abyssal monster found is the Screecher, a monster of a small build like a sphere that has 4 legs, 2 of which it uses for attacking, blocking and to feed with, more like arms. It doesn't have eyes, but has a terrifying sense of hearing. We have estimated it can hear whispers up to 250 metres clearly and its a very aggressive rat. It usually aims to kill its prey as fast as possible so no other can steal their food, of course with so much competition anyone would be worried for their food supply. After all, there has been an estimation of 1.5 million in this world.'
'Well remembered, after all that is what you're taught in school, that is what the government has taught you.'- said GM whilst clapping slowly.
'In fact'- he continued- 'that is the most amount of information anyone has provided to me, so I shall make your punishment a lot softer.'
'What? You said if we got it right you'd let us go.'
'I did, but you didn't get it right.' – said GM snarling and giggling to himself whilst spitting all over the PBV.
'Shall we get started with the punishment?'
The maidens eyes widened in terror, they looked like they meat death whilst alive, dragged from heaven to hell. Of course, like the gentleman Albecht is he stood up and jumped in font of GM and said -
'I couldn't help but listen into your conversation, I also couldn't help but wonder what the right answer is?' – and tried to coolly transition from a spiderman drop into a straight standing position.
'Ew. What are you doing? You're not that guy.' said the first girl. Albecht gave her an annoyed look and said-
'Cant you see im tryna help you? God women these days. "I dON't neED nO MAn" shi is annoying.'
'Don't try to play the hero little boy. Don't mess with the fire unless you want to be burned.' said GM
'I may be little on height, but God blessed me in other compartments.'
As these words left his neck, he was analysing surroundings, there was 5 minutes till the next stop, familiarity with surroundings wise Albecht has the advantage, he uses this exact PBV everyday, so he's pretty much memorised the whole thing. And now he was planning his next move when he heard a loud laugh.
'I was not expecting that.' – said the second girl looking as if she was suffering laughing.
'I know right?' – agreed her friend.
Now both GM and Albecht were shocked, but Albecht collected himself much quicker and used that moment to ready himself faster.
He crouched a little and pulled out a dagger of 13 inched, the blade itself was of a dark grey colour, the handle very worn down and Albech also pulled out its socket to use it to protect himself from any attacks. Usually not good for physical punches but works wonders against slash attacks. Now he held both in a back grip position, still in a southpaw stancr but this time he has a high guard and a crouched back allowing him for maximal attacking and adaptability against unknown.
As soon as GM noticed these movements, he readied himself for an attack, now Albech realised why he wore so many rings. GM used them as knuckle enhancers, perhaps to do more damage to his enemy.
Looking from the side, a small child was facing off one of the most infamous criminals in all unofficial GPA's. All odds were against him. In fact, Albecht couldn't even hope of winning, he was planning to stall him until the next stop, which was next to a train station and therefore there shall be police there. But this isn't reliable, since most police in this day and age are corrupt, they would fall for almost any decent bribe, this was all a gamble by Albecht, yet he still did it.