44 Regret

The two wrap up the conversation and finish their drinks, Zach picks up the mountain of bags and follows Zoey out of the store.

They start heading back to her apartment, taking a glance at Zoey he realises that they might be attracting a bit too much attention.

Looking around he notices all the guys taking glances at her while they're girlfriends pull them past.

Until now this hasn't been a problem since they were in heavily populated areas but as they approach the rather desolate area that Zoey's apartment is in.

The glances from the people around them start to feel more aggressive,

.We should probably hurry up, before we get into trouble.

"Why'd you say that?"

.You not notice the stares you're getting?.

She takes a look around and notices the glares.

"It'll be fine, you will protect me right?"

She pats his back while he carries her bags.

.Whatever.

Some how, like a bad Manga or novel they get approached by two guys.

"Hey lady, leave your butler and spent some time with us."

They look Zoey up and down and lick they're lips,

.Zoey, hold the bags ill take care of this.

Zach tries to take control of the situation by is stopped by Zoey,

"No, i think i got this."

The two men start to laugh at they're conversation.

"What are ya gonna do punk?"

Zoey approaches while whispering something, walks up to them with her hands held out.

She pokes one of the men in between his brows and he falls backwards unconscious.

[Spirit magic +1 level]

The second man tries to wake his friend up but to no avail, Zoey waves her hand at him.

The man feels the wind starts to pick up as a sharp sound rings through the air.

A cut reveals itself on his cheek and starts dripping blood, touching it he almost shits his pants.

He leaves his friends and runs as fast as he can away from them.

Zoey looks at Zach with a beaming smile,

"I did it!"

...

.What was that?.

"Spirit magic!"

.I thought it was level 0 though.

"I think it normally wouldn't work on normal people, but for people with low will power it seems to be strong."

.Weak willpower? They looked pretty strong.

"Those sorts of guys give in to they're temptations too easily, causing they're souls to be weak. They look big due to following they're baser urges but lack will power."

.Doesn't that mean i have a weak soul?.

"When my magic gets stronger, want me to check?"

.Yes please.

They pull the unconscious man to an alley and Zoey pull something from her pocket.

"Zach looks at this!"

.What?.

"I just found this in my pocket!"

She shows him the pure white cross, the bottom of it is sharpened like the dreidel.

.System what is that?.

[Familiar system, can be used to draw blood for shared exp but cannot be used to spin for rewards.]

.It's for drawing blood, take some of that guys.

"Oke"

She hops over and stabs the cross into his arm, the part around the cross shrivels and wrinkles as they hear a notification.

[Familiar +2 exp]

[Host +3 exp]

...

.Lets assume it's 3-2 share rate then.

"Why do you get more!"

She huffs and crosses her arms.

.Because i'm the host...

...

They eventually get back and Zach drops off all the bags.

"I'm gonna be busy until Saturday, gimme a call when you need"

.Will do.

Zach leaves and heads back to his house.

On his way back he gets a call from Tom,

"Zach, some fucker killed my dad"

...

Taking a moment to process the information he replies,

.What?.

"My dad managed to get out of the asylum, he may have hurt a few people but he didn't deserve to die. That fucker they called a Demon, stabbed him to death!"

Zach is taken aback at the mention of his other alias. Thinking back he did look familiar but who could've known that it was Tom's dad.

.Look, calm down. Where do you live, i'll come round and we can talk.

"Yeah."

He hangs up the phone.

.What have i done, this is by far the worst thing i have ever done!.

Zach doesn't know how handle the fact that he killed his friends father.

He gets home changes his clothes, checks on the egg and runs back out.

It takes half an hour to get to Tom's house, he knocks on the door of the two story house and waits.

He can hear sobbing through the door on the inside of house.

Someone walks up and opens the door, Tom looks at Zach, bags under his eyes and his clothes dishevelled.

"Hey."

.Hey.

Zach follows Tom inside and sits down in the living room.

.So, what's been up with you recently?.

He looks deeply at Tom.