Sam was sleeping on the couch when he smelled food and looked up to see Christine making breakfast and said as he sat upward
"Morning, so what do you want to do today? Practice our attack spells or prepare the spell we'll use to help your brother with?"
Christine froze for a second before she said as she handed Sam some breakfast
"We will have the time to help his condition so let's work on our attack spells for the emergence"
Sam finished his breakfast as said as he hopped onto the counter
"Your still upset with him? You need to let it go and focus. WE can change the past but I can't do it without you"
In the past Christine's brother was very ill at a young age and was put into a coma at the age of 14 until the emergence happened where he woke up and had become a warrior priest for years until he fell ill again with a curse from a demon after he was deployed in Asia for a Level 5 dungeon even when his sister begged him not to go but instead of listening to his sis he chose to leave her and sacrifice his life to kill the demon that had called itself Morlog, the Demon King of Greed
Christine patted Sam's arm and said before he hoped into the washroom to take a shower
"I've never got the chance to even hear him say goodbye before I had heard it was to late….. anyway I'm going to take a shower before we start training"
Sam sighed as he knew this was an open wound that needed to be fixed before the emergence but got up and started training his telekinesis spell by trying to lift a dumbbell with great difficulty before he heard a message appear
[Proficiency for [Spell:Lowest Telekinesis
Sam continued training his spells and when he needed to recover his Mana he would use Mana Syphoning and look at his available spells and incantations for a particular skill until he heard Christine walk down the steps and said
"If I remember correctly your still a school kid right? Are you sure it's wise to skip school?"
Sam nodded and said as he continued looking
"Yea but I'll only be gone a few days so I plan to get the most of my time here but don't worry, I'll be staying here over the weekends while we are training"
Just then a loud banging was heard on the front door before both Christine and Sam smiled at each other as they already could figure out who it was as they heard a man say on the other end of the door
"Hey! Where's my money! You better open this door and give me my money in full or else!"
Sam had some chains appear in his hands made of stone and whispered to Christine
"Shall we take out the trash?"
Christine nodded and opened the door to reveal a buff suited man with sunglasses and tattoos before she said
"What do you want?"
The man pointed at Christine and yelled
"You owe us money! And we want it now!"
Christine however just laughed and said as Sam waited next to the open door holding some [Earth Restrain Chains]
"If I recall correctly I've already paid you back in full"
The man scoffed at took a peek into the gym and saw nobody as Sam used a cloaking incantation called [Hidden from View] before the man said
"No we didn't get paid today and I doubt you'll want me to come back in a foul mood"
Christine snapped her fingers and said as Sam used the [Earth Restrain chains] to bind the man
"Your right so we'll have to do something about that"
Sam dragged the man up and hung him upside down and said as Christine put tape over his mouth so they could talk
"So what should we do? I think we should try some of our spells seeing as we have the perfect punching bag"
Christine smile and took a few steps back before she said while she aimed one of her fists at the man
"It's time to release some stress,[Target Lock] and try not to die my dude.[Flame Slingshot]!"
Just as Christine activated the said spells a slingshot made of fire appeared while a monocle appeared on one of her eyes but both spells faded away soon after causing Christine to be confused profusely
"What just happened? I casted the spells but they didn't activate and it did consume my mana? Sam do you know what happened?"
Sam was to busy as a couple system messages appeared
[The
[The
[Spell:Target Lock
[Spell:Flame Slingshot
Sam smiled like a devil as it would have taken a whole month just to raise his spell proficiency up but yet he did it in less then a day thanks to Christine and the eye of remembrance but realized Christine couldn't use magic so long as Sam was watching and said as he covered his right eye which had the Eye of Nullification
"Try again this time, I covered my eye of Nullification so you should be able to use it now"
Christine looked at Sam for a second and said as he used the same spells
"If the future you better cover that eye more often, [Target lock] and [Flame slingshot]!"
Christine them fired a fireball the size of a golf ball at the man and hit a direct bullseye at his manhood causing even Sam to slightly feel the pain as well before Sam noticed the man was turning red and released him before tying him to one of the support beams and said as he placed his hand on the man
"If you do your job as a punching bag well enough then we'll let you go with your mind intact so do your best.[Pain Recovery]
The man felt the pain disappear as if it never happened to him until he looked down and saw the wound was still there before he looked up and saw another fire ball about to hit him in the face while Sam sat in a chair and watched as his spell proficiency was rising with every spell Christine used but all things end sooner or later as they both heard another loud and repetitive banging on the door before they heard a man say
"Open up! We know your in there!"
Christine was out of mana and was worried as she knew about Sam's low talent for magic before Sam said as he tapped Christine's forehead
"I'll handle them so just go to [Sleep]"
Christine fell asleep in seconds like sleeping beauty before Sam opened the door and was greeted by nearly a dozen men who all wore the same attire as the dude they used as a punching bag
Sam was pushed to the side and pinned against a wall by one of the men while the others searched around till Sam laughed and said as he grabbed to man's hand and bent it backwards
"You guys really pissed me off now, first you interrupt my training and now you think you have the [Strength] to do what you want?"
Just then one of the men swung a wooden bat at Sam's head but was shocked as soon the bat made contact it shattered to splinters before Sam grabbed a weight and used it to beat them all to a pulp until there was only one remaining who yelled at Sam while he was visibly shaking
"W-W-Who are you?!"
Sam looked at the man and said as he used his own [Flame slingshot] and aimed it at the man's head point blank
"Me? I'm just a normal guy who can use magic"
Christine woke up to the smell of coffee before she jumped up and looked for Sam before she noticed the dozen men hanging upside down before Sam held a cup of coffee in front of her and said
"Did you have a nice nap? By the way you snore pretty loudly"
Christine turned around and smacked Sam but was stunned as her hand passed through Sam before the coffee mug fell to the ground before she heard Sam say as he was doing some chin ups
"Now you ruined your favourite mug, anyway what do you want to do with them?"
Christine looked at Sam then at where Sam was and said
"What was that? A clone?"
Sam stopped his chin ups and said as he grabbed a towel
"Yes and no, it's a Mana clone. But once a living creature touches it it disappears so it can be useful once it's proficiency has improved in tricking enemies"
Christine jumped a little as Sam walked past her as the other one disappeared as it passed Sam before she said
"You really know a lot of magic huh. Well I guess we have more punching bags"
Sam smiled and dropped one of them before tiring him against a pole with [Earth Restraint chains] and said as he used his [Flame slingshot] that was three times the size of Christine's
"We only got 8 months so let's make the most of them while their here"
Christine smiled and dropped one herself and tied him up like Sam did and continued using [Target lock] and [Flame slingshot] until finally system messages appeared for them both
[Proficiency for [Spell:Target Lock
Sam and Christine laughed at each other before they heard one of the loan sharks say weakly
"P-Please…. let us….go we…. Won't come back"
Sam and Christine untied them and Sam said as they threw them out of the gym
"If you guys come back I'll make sure to take my time with you all!"
Christine and sam watched the sunset in between the builds before Christine got up and said as she took off her hoodie
"You know the nights just started and I have yet to thank you"
Sam smiled and said as he followed Christine inside
"You do remember that we tried this once before right?"
Christine locked the door and said before she pulled down the blinds
"That's the past so let's live in the present and make the most of it"
The next day Sam was getting changed when Christine said while she made a cup of coffee
"When will you stop by? I might get a little lonely here all by myself"
Sam gave her a kiss on her forehead and said
"I'll drop by on the weekend but just focus on your training regiment while I go find Him"
Christine was a little shocked and said
"You really think you'll be able to convince him to join us? He wasn't exactly our friend and if he regains his memories like me then he might go wild"
Sam smiled and said just as he left the gym
"Things will be different from before so just trust me and make sure to call me using my mobile number in the office if those dudes come back"
Once Sam had left he went home and yet even though he was outside the front door he could not find the strength to go in until Gramps opened his window and yelled as he threw Sam's backpack at him
"Young man you are in a lot of trouble but firstly you need to get going! We'll talk once your home from school!"
Sam smiled a little and waved goodbye as he pulled out his scooter from his bag and went to school thinking about his friends and family who he will protect this time with his own hands
'This time I'll protect everyone'