When the sun had set Albert and Mélusine face one another. They went all the way back to the forest owned by the Pussycat's, it was also the forest Mélusine would got hunt boars. Mélusine made sure no one was around. Due to the incident it has become left unattended.
"You sure you don't wanna use your gear?" Mélusine asked.
"Naw, I am going to go all hands and whatever I can get my hands on here." Albert said stretching in his true form. "If I can survive you with no gear or weapons I have hope I can kill a servant on my own."
"With how you currently are I am sure you can do that now."
"Well," Albert raises his arms and forms fists, he rises his right leg and takes a wide step. "Shall we see?"
Mélusine could see his body slowly be covered in what looked to be his Magic Circuits—Monster Veins, they became a radiant black. It had a particular hum—or more accurately it hummed to the beat of a human heart. Mélusine lips curled into a smile.
"LET!!" She shouted with battle intent flashing in her eyes. "FUCKING FIGHT!!" Crimson mana exploded from her covering her in her battle attire. "COME AT ME!" She floated up into the air with her arms spread out. "KUAAH!!!"
She used her Mana Burst, Red Comet, an even more dense, violent and arrogant torrent of mana cloaked dress herself. Her eyes sharpen into the fine edge of a blade.
"LET THE FIRE OF BATTLE BURN THIS NIGHT!!" Albert also used his Mana Burst. "HAAH!!"
Albert's mana burst out like a broken dam, several black particles came off him like a tornado picking up dust off the ground. The wine red of his eyes glowed with the light of a campfire. His horns also came alive as it hummed with a blue-pale light.
[Ding! Mana Burst (Beast/Grain) increased!]
Mélusine felt both fear and excitement. Seeing Albert like this stoked her heart, his appearance and even attitude was more to her liking.
The master and servant stare at one another. With an absurd speed Mélusine cuts through the air leaving no sound behind. Albert crushes the land under him as they dash towards one another.
They were so fast they disappeared for a but a moment only to appear in the middle of where area they were battling in. But Mélusine being faster took more space than Albert did.
CLANG-THUD!!!
FWHOOSH-CRASH!!!
They both threw a fist crashing into ones strikes, the force blew the trees back and cracked the earth into a spiderweb patterns.
Mélusine felt a pain run up her arm as if she punched a mountain. Mélusine knew he was tough, but he didn't think he was this tough, a toughness she instinctually remembered Siegfried's skin. As for his strike she remembers another.
'Gah!? It's like a strike from Barghest! But more accurate and compact!'
As for Albert he felt as if he punched a very pointy needle that was shot from a highly powerful sniper. Now after seeing how fast she is as an opponent Albert could only compare her to a living comet.
"Come one!! Show me what you got!! Lancer!!" Albert shouted with a wide grin.
"I'll show you what I got!! Galahad!!" Mélusine also shouted with a grin to match Albert.
The two pulled their arms back and let out a barrage of punches. Each one struck with a force and violence that only Servants could handle with confidence. They both began to study one another fighting style.
'As expected, Albert's fighting skills are polished to near Heroic Spirits levels, his strikes are so refined and precise if not for my speed I would be rolling across the floor. Hmph! I'll take this style for myself!'
Mélusine began to learn and copy how Albert throws a punch.
'She's beginning to copy how I box, hm. I need to change before she fully learns how to throw a punch.' Albert thought that each of her strikes were beginning to get better and thereby have far more penetrative power.
When Mélusine and Albert's fists where about to clash again, Albert opened his hand and caught her punch, a sharp and piercing pain shot through Albert's arm. With how soft Albert's palm is in comparison to the rest of his body Albert fully tasted how Mélusine strikes.
With each blow Mélusine did at the point of impact her blades would shoot out into the target penetrating them like a hidden blade in-between the fingers. Mélusine was actually striking with a needle, so to speak.
A single droplet of blood fell to the earth and soaked in it.
"Oh fu—" Mélusine said as Albert changed the flow of battle.
Albert's grip was air tight, he used his great strength to bend Mélusine's hand and stepped close into her space and headbutted her nose. Her visor materialized to block the hit in time.
CRACK!!
Her visor cracks, some of it chips away. Mélusine with her other open arm grabbed Albert by his shirt and shot into the sky. Even with a far superior body Albert still could not handle the speeds Mélusine could fly, yet.
Within the blink of an eye Albert was then spined around like he was a load of laundry.
"Ugh!?" Albert got very dizzy, he let go of Mélusine's hand just so she would stop, and she did.
THUD!
CRASH!!
Albert was slammed into the earth leaving a Albert shaped hole in the ground.
"So how was it feeling so many G's? Galahad?" Mélusine floated near and around the hole, not daring to float over it for fear of Albert leaping at her.
"Heh… Hehehahahaha!!" Albert laughed heartedly. "It seems I need to take more caution."
C-Crack!!
Mélusine heard the snapping of two things, it had a thick crunch to it. Then from the hole Albert jumped out. In his hands where his horns, his head was covered in his blood from the stumps, but the blood quickly stopped as a new pair of horns began to grow slowly.
SCREEEE~!!
SCREEEE~!!
He began to sharpen his horns with one another, they sounded like metal being forcibly grinded. The bits that were scrapped off fell to the floor and after a few seconds the flowers that bloomed in Type Earth's Reality Marble bloomed from the remains of his horns.
[Ding! Regeneration increased!]
"There." Albert gazed up at Mélusine with his two sharpened horns that were the size of a large, curved blade. "You have your weapons I have my own." His Monster Veins flowed into his new pair of weapons, and they glowed with a black hue as the Monster Veins cover them in a spider-web pattern. "I'll name these Twin-Moon Steps."
Albert looked forward and took a step, he used Mana Burst again.
[Ding! Ultimate Monster Body increased! Monster Vein Quality and Quantity increased! Mana Burst (Beast/Grain) increased!]
His Mana Burst and reinforcement got a noticeable buff as it pulsed with a even stronger, denser and more vibrant color.
"RAAAH!!"
With all of his weight, speed, and power Albert with an image of Seigfried's Noble Phantasm, he swung his blades.
SWHOOSH- SWHOOSH!!!
A pair of air blades cut through the sky, it was comprised dense black dust.
Mélusine moved quickly out of the attack only to see more. Albert was slashing again with even more speed.
SWHOOSH- SWHOOSH!!! SWHOOSH- SWHOOSH!!!
With each swing he was getting better at doing the attack, faster, sharper.
SWHOOSH- SWHOOSH!!! SWHOOSH- SWHOOSH!!! SWHOOSH- SWHOOSH!!! SWHOOSH- SWHOOSH!!!
Again, faster, sharper, thinner.
[Ding! Ultimate Monster Body increased! Monster Vein Quality and Quantity increased! Mana Burst (Beast/Grain) increased! Mana Burst (Beast/Grain) increased!]
SWHOOSH- SWHOOSH!!! SWHOOSH- SWHOOSH!!! SWHOOSH- SWHOOSH!!! SWHOOSH- SWHOOSH!!! SWHOOSH- SWHOOSH!!! SWHOOSH- SWHOOSH!!! SWHOOSH- SWHOOSH!!!
Again, faster, sharper, thinner, more variations.
'Ugh! I can't get near him! His aiming is stopping me!'
Try as much and as fast as she might Mélusine could not get close to Albert out getting a mana slash coming at her.
"Two can play that game!"
Her weapons glowed bright with crimson light, then she threw a series of punches sending out blades at Albert.
Their attacks clash and exploded, they kept attacking getting closer till they resumed to exchange blows with one another before the fighting turned into a cycle of fighting close up before fighting back at long range.
They fought for approximately 12 minutes in total before they stopped.
"Haaah." They let out a deep breath.
They knew one another well enough that they covered their weak points and didn't move as they have the exact same thought process when dealing with an opponent, you hit them fast and lethally, if they survive you study and adapt before killing them as efficiently as possible.
Both of them were covered in sweat and bloodstains, their healing already brought them back to full health.
"Wish it didn't end up with us spamming long range attacks." Albert said going over and sitting on a sliced tree stump. He impaled Twin-Moon Steps by his sides as he sat down.
"You are way to deadly up close." Mélusine said floating over. "Sure I can shake you off, but I am sure with enough time you would adapt and then it's over for me. Also I didn't know you could rip your horns off? Did it hurt a lot?"
"I have my Regeneration skill, since the horns are part of me they should regenerate—oh?" His stomach growled, regenerating his wounds was no big deal but his horns did take a chunk of his nutrients. "I need to eat. Regrowing these horns are not something I can do consecutively without filling my second stomach."
"You hungry for those multivitamin supplements?"
"For a quick recovery sure, but I want something more." His mouth began to water. "… Wanna eat some steak?"
"Depends, legally or illegally?"
"… Eh, let's go illegally, two birds with one stone."
Elsewhere.
"I see…" Herod was eating dinner in Mapo Tofu restaurant. "Thanks for informing me."
"No issue at all sir. Shall we hurry along with the preparations?" said one of Herod's subordinates.
"Yeah. Those heroes…" Star and Stripe, Nezu, All Might, and Eraser Head floated in his head. "They need to know who they are fucking with. I have been too lax on Cain. I may have gotten more chains to lock him down but… Expedite Operation Lucifer and get the Seraphs to help."
"Are you sure we should bring them? They haven't gotten any actual experience?"
"It's fine. They were bred to kill Cain should he ever step out of line, and this time he went far from what we can accept. That is my fault and responsibility so I will run lead. There is no need to worry, we tested what could kill Cain, he has the same weakness as a normal person, destroy the heart or brain. We made the Seraphs just in case. Can't be to safe."
"I will get on it. Do you have—"
"Yes I have it on me on all times. When do you think it will all be ready in Japan?"
"Two days, we are working around the clock."
"Then keep up the good work. Click!" he ends the call and takes a deep breath. "… At least he enjoyed some freedom, like a cow grazing before they take them to the slaughterhouse. Tch. Those heroes have to come and ruin a good thing."
He puts his phone away and resumed to eat his Mapo Tofu.
"Ahh!! It's so damn hot!" He said in Japanese.
"Hehe." The owner and chef snickered to himself. "Just as we said out front, more than a hundred years we have been here making the spiciest Mapo Tofu in all of Japan!"
"Yeah, yeah." He waved his hand. "I gotta say I didn't expect a place like this in Fuyuki?"
A while after he finished eating and went to some ruins of an old mansion. Inside the dilapidated old mansion were two people.
"Hey-o!" Himiko Toga entered with the energy of a kogal.
"Hello." Said Jin Bubaigawara, villain name Twice. He was a fine enough built man wearing a gray mask with white eye sockets. "You are the guy Toga told me?" He looked at Herod with a slight squint.
"That's me. I came here to recruit you."
"Me? Why? Toga said you could help me with my… problems." He taps his head.
"Of course." He nods. "We will also hook you up with a life of luxury, get you all the fine things in life, even women or men, even children, though they will have to be from the middle east so eh?"
"I only want my mind to not be… the way it is. I don't care very much for children or men and even if I am a villain I don't want some sex slave."
"Fair enough. What about drugs?"
"Cigarettes. I don't really drink."
"Then do you have any other conditions?"
"Just one, what will happen if Shigaraki succeeds?"
"Then America will intervein and well you read up on some American history?"
"Uh… no." he shook his head.
"Well just know that when or if we intervein to settle the whole villain social movement Heroes will be given the pass to kill any and all villains without repercussions."
Both Toga and Jin swallowed their saliva. They both know the full pressure the villains would be under when the law that was keeping villains from being purged. Under law within every country in the world no hero shall pass judgment onto another and must ensure the satiety of life at all costs preferably. They are some special circumstances but they all boil down to self-defense or for the greater good.
"I-I will love to work for you, sir!" Twice said extending his hand.
"Perfect!" He extended his hand and shook. "Now I suggest in two days you and Toga come back to this spot with a map of the base." He hands him a device. "This will do the job for you. Just press the blue button and just walk around. I'll call again in the morning in two days."
Elsewhere.
"We have your surrounded!!" Shouted the police through a microphone. "There is no escape! We have many heroes here as well including Endeavor, Hawks, and many more to list out!"
Inside the building—a high class, fancy restaurant were Albert and Mélusine, they were enjoying a free meal.
"Hm, this is pretty good." Albert said as he drowns his steak in soy sauce, his helmet was also off.
"Please surrender or say what you want! We can negotiate for the hostages!"
Around Albert and Mélusine have several hostages all tied up together into groups of four and each group is link to one another via rope soaked in oil.
"Hm! Hm!" Mélusine said without her helmet. "Can I get another serving! This time tell them to dry it in soy sauce! I wanna see if it'll taste better that way!"
"R-right away ma'am!" The waiter said with a stiff expression.
The waiter glanced at the scars Albert faked on Mélusine to help her disguise without her helmet. Albert noticed the waiter's glance and he got into character.
"Oy! Oy! Did you look at my girls face you fuck!!" His voice made everyone in the room shudder in fear. "Want me to give you one so you can match her so you can jerk off you tiny dick when I rip your heart out and throw it at your mothers face!! Hah!" He got into the waiters face.
"S-s-s-sorry sir!" They bowed profusely, they even got on their knees and kowtowed. "Please forgive me!"
"Honey let him go~♥" Mélusine rubbed Albert's chest and wrapped her tail with his. "Blood spoils the meat."
"Tch!" He scoffs. "Go."
"Yes sir!" The waiter quickly got up and left.
"Hmph." Albert resumed to eat his meal.
"Don't be that way Blue." She began to caress him further. "Here!" She got a piece of his steak with her fork. "Say ah!"
"Ah! Nom!"
Mélusine fed it to Albert. The scene made everyone know these two were lovebirds.
Clap! Clap! Clap!
Everyone looked to the side to see Shigaraki with Kurogiri right behind him. Albert and Mélusine noticed how more well-built Shigaraki had become from his usual toothpick build he had before. Yet his appearance of a man who never left his dark, dingy room who gets his vitamin D from supplements and light from the computer screen. His hair was also longer and messier.
"Mind if I grab a bite?"