As they faced each other the girls ran to the furthest back possible not to be involved in their conflict.
There they stood, absolutely silent and still. Albecht was very glad that this is happening. Soon, a loud siren was heard which broke the tension, this annoyed Albecht but he was expecting it anyway.
The fight started with the disturbing face of GM growing into a sinister greedy smile, he started to lick his lips in the same manner yet again, this was probably his way of distracting others, or he really has a loose screw. This act disturbed Albecht and he went or a stab but GM's longer reach made him transition it into a roll – not rolling on the floor but his spine under the attack whilst having a stable footing – and change his grip on the dagger to allow him to go for a direct stab to GM's neck. GM responded by slightly moving his head back and dogging the dagger. However his mistake was that he forgot to contract his arm, so this allowed Albecht to swivel in such a way that he got a direct hit with the socket of the knife, of course a lot less damaging than the knife.
Of course, unsurprisingly, GM wasn't phased at all, instead looking down on Albecht with a larger smile, this made his senses tingle and he fell back from attack assuming his position.
'You're no…' GM tried to say something but was cut off, literally. Albecht attacked him and cut his dominant arm with a swift slash vertically, shi its too narrow. However his slash seems to have done little damage due to the sheer amount of layers GM was wearing. Albecht instantly changed plans and went for a deep stab below his ribs aiming towards the stomach. GM responded by punching Albecht's other arm, which put him in a lot of pain, but such wasn't anything new at all, perhaps too familiar even, son he continued his charge into GM's stomach and managed to do some damage, nothing very threatening but not insignificant.
This rendered GM's right hand useless as he was attempting to cover the wound and not allow any blood flow.
Albecht decided to abuse this and the started to attack his right side, however he was quickly proven to have had too little insight. He didn't take into account that GM could use his legs, so now he has to come to an agreement with a powerful right kick to his solar plexus, which made his breathing very difficult. Also the power behind that kick was enough to blast him 4 metres back, thankfully he didn't have a wall behind him as a hit to his back as well and all the oxygen in his body would be wafted out of his body, leaving him vulnerable for more than he can afford to be.
Albecht instantly backed up to create distance so that he can recover as fast as possible as much as possible oxygen to allow his body to function better. Now that Albecht is feeling it, he shall stall for time.
'You're not half bad.' Albecht tried to initiate a small talk to that he can recover.
'I was going to say that, before I was rudely stopped' replied GM whilst looking at Albecht with an "it was you" face.
'I do humbly apologise in front of your greatness, may you…' as Albecht tried to start yapping, GM dashed towards him which prompted Albecht to go under the seats and crawl all the way to the other end. Using this distance, he finally revealed his biggest card. The fact this dagger – The Dagger of Loyalty- was a "Remanent" of the Exceptional rank and 1st tier, Essentially saying that it was obtained from killing an abomination of the Lower Servant rank and tier. This, although sounding underwhelming, its an unfathomable achievement. Weapons of the first tier have only one enchantment, and this ones is called 'The Vow Of Allegiance', or so he was told. It allows for the user to throw the dagger and it shall appear in their hands as soon as it hits the target, and yes, it does follow its target until its hit.
So, that is what Albecht was doing, throwing that thing over and over and over again. At first GM was smiling mockingly, but as he continued throwing his dagger, that smile continued to fade and fade and fade until he was straight up frowning and unable to move.
Albecht has somehow, against all odds managed to out manoeuvrer GM and win. Now that he held all the power, and there was 2 minutes left to the station, he might as well ask GM what he meant by those words.
'So? Care to explain yourself?'
'Hahaha. Okay, since you defeated me, I shall tell you.' and with that he took a deep breath and started to speak,
'I believe you are aware of the newtons third law argument, where they say that the opening of gates allowed for the bringing of Athers, right? Well its not entirely wrong *coughs violently* but, its the other way around *coughs harder*'
'Huh? What are you talking about?'
'Think about it *continues coughing* when has the world ever been that unfair before invasion of the Abyssal creatures? *starts to speak whilst coughing* I mean sure, there was unfairness in the world, but not this steep, my theory is that *now starts coughing blood* someone *more bloody coughing to the point its concerning* fo…ed them in..o our w...rld br...ing ' -Slowly takes a deep breath and continues-'Athers….. Do..t fr...et, you di..nt ki….. me, the… did…' and with that hes hand that had been out stretched to explain with it dropped on the PBV floor and made a large thud sound. The glimmer in his eyes was gone and he looked humiliated to be dying to such a boy.
'Dang, I wanted his bounty man.' said Albecht out loud-'You can come out now.'
The girls assessed the situation by popping out their heads from the corner they were in, and slowly stood up and came to thank Albecht. They offered him food, which he gladly accepted, and now he was sitting on a PTV -Train- munching on a delicious piece of byrek made of tomatoes and onions, it was absolutely perfect, especially after a fight like that.
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After a meal like that, he fell asleep, and as it seemed, he missed his stop and now the PTV was heading towards GPA 32.
Albecht lazily sat up and gave himself a well earned stretch of his arms, back and legs. Now, with nothing to do whilst having to wait for 20 minutes to get to GPA 32, he remembered Miss. Crimson's criticism of not being able to part take in her lessons, so, in the room he was assigned, he started to envision the fight he had with GM over and over again.
He saw all the flaws that he had and the flaws GM had, he realised how big the gap in between them was and how weak he is without The Dagger of Loyalty.
He would have died. That hit him deep.