After some time, the police already arrived and took the drunken PhySEC user then left, while the guy was being arrested, he took a glance at Mike with resentful eyes.
"Don't look at me like that, you are better alive than dead, idiot"
The police answer was usually slow but when the call was made by a special bodyguard or certain people like the Slades family, they would arrive quickly.
Everything went fast and Mike was already close to finishing his day, but one of the bodyguards went close to the arrested man, for some reason they teased the man since he got captured, like wanting him to go on rage. Lucky for Mike, the man remained calm, like the drunken state was not the reason behind his rage towards Rose.
And sometimes, the man just took a look around to see the people and did nothing.
The reason behind the teasing was to get an excuse to make the man go on rage and use force on him, lethal force. That was what Rose ordered to them, she thought Mike was like her, and just wanted to act like a gentleman by doing the correct procedures, she wanted to push the situation so Mike would be the "hero" in the scenario anyway.
But sadly, or luckily, the man wasn't in the mood to involve citizens, the others understood it quickly and even Sam made a click with his tongue when ignoring the man like the others, they gave up.
In contrast with their behavior, Rose and Mike did nothing unusual. Rose would never imagine that Mike was not acting like a good guy, but that he was really a good guy.
She trusted her own nonexistent skill to judge people and understand if they were cold-blooded. Mike was cold-blooded in certain scenarios when needed, but he always judges things the way a normal person should do, no killing like a machine.
He sure regret taking the job, he doesn't want to and never wants to be related to people like that. But he could do nothing for now but what he already did.
Getting the image of a good bodyguard that follows procedures was his goal, and being a special bodyguard it was even better for his image, as they already had bad images in the mind of the citizens. Anyway, it was not the best image but enough for him, and people would think that Rose's special bodyguards were good and righteous people (even if they really weren't like that), his goal was completed at least, until his companions tried to tease the man.
"Is not your fault, Mike. Sometimes there are people who lack in guts like that man" Said Rose to him and kept walking without waiting for an answer.
"Damn, I made the common procedures to arrest the man and be a fucking hero without taking blood in my hands, and you expected me to provoke him and made me fight? crazy assholes"
He wanted action and never asked for problems. To subdue a drunken man was not really action, but still counts for him. Anyway, when the drunken mas resulted in being a PhySEC user... it wasn't on the list, much less because his ability is still very weak.
Just like that, his day finished, he got back home and told Claire about what happened after dinner. The day finished but he still took an hour of training, this time he got better and better and could almost evade all, Claire was suppressing its strength and never launched with full force, but it calculated the time it would take Mike to dominate this stage of the training.
"Master, you will probably succeed at dominating this training method in your current phase soon. By tomorrow I will harden the training"
"You mean you will try to kill me with iron balls instead?"
"Sounds like extreme training that might work, but no. I will change it to the next step, from tomorrow on-wards the training will be... monotone, plain and repetitive, but also more tiring, longer and finally, more effective"
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"In common language, bored and painful?"
"And rewarding, but delete the 'bored' part, it depends on your point of view, but probably you won't think of it that way"
"Ok, keep the suspense, I like it"
This time he was tired but not as yesterday. Then he took time to take a bath.
"Master, one more thing" said the android while getting in to clean the bathroom and he was leaving it "From now on, you should use your ability every moment, it will be useful later if you get used to using it constantly"
"And keep my eyes closed all the time? How can I read or look further in the distance if I do so?"
"While in the house you can do so, and when you leave or need to see, just open your eyes. You can use your ability with your eyes open anyway"
"Make sense" he immediately closed his eyes and started sensing with his ability, if Claire suggested it, he would not mind asking too much before trying.
The next day, everything went easy again, this time Mike tried to be careful with his wishes, after all, tomorrow was Sunday, a free day from work, and this time he didn't want to find a PhySEC user as an enemy.
From start to finish he tried to use his ability with his eyes open, it was hard at first and it was still hard to do, his ability worked like a different kind of eye, it was like he needed to do two active tasks at the same time. Got used to this but still kept shutting down his ability sometimes, and it made him wonder if it was the real training.
When his shift finished, he talked with Sam for a few minutes and got the info that the man from yesterday escaped the police station the same night, not a surprise since they used normal handcuffs, not antiPhySEC tools.
"If you are arresting a man with super fucking powers at least use fucking anti powers tools, you lazy bastards" cursed Mike in his mind. The police retrieved the special handcuffs from the man and gave it back to Sam after all.
After returning home he closed his eyes again, it was easier to move with his eyes closed while using the ability, or when not using it with his eyes open.
After dinner, bad news arrived in mid-training, when they got their clothes changed and ready for training, Claire stopped the training.
"There are people outside the house" Then a TV projector got activated and, in the wall, started the projection of the recording scene outside.
"How many TVs and projectors are in this house"
"Want to know really?"
"No, do I need to tell you when I am being sarcastic?"
"No, I was being sarcastic too"
In front of his house, 3 guys were approaching the place, it was strange how the video was so clear despite the night, but the answer was clear anyway: technology, advanced technology can bring high-resolution video in the middle of the night with almost invisible security measures.
What do they want? Only the android could hear them, and it quickly explained Mike.
"Judging by their conversation and the voice records, it is clear 2 of the 4 persons who were in the front garden when you arrived the first time, and want to rob you, the third person is also a PhySEC user, Physical emission variant one, cannot get the exact kind of ability without pushing him to some extent, but the scanner says it is not really strong"
"How much info from just sensors... should I call the police? They won't get inside anyway right? the house is resistant to bullets and strong weapons as long as I know"
"They won't get inside; I can activate the electric fence if you want"
After some silence, Mike could not help but sight -No, don't do. I want to fight him. - He thought that it was time for redemption.
Mike was feeling like he needed some action to train. PhySEC users can improve in combat, most of them, and Claire said that combat is even more effective in training his ability, just that he wasn't ready yet. But he still somehow wished for it.
"Let me assist you, Master. I will take down the other two so you can fight comfortably the PhySEC user, also, only one of the persons has a gun so I will take care of it"
"Your sensors and scanners and whatever are fucking broken! It feels like you can see people naked no matter what they wear" Said Mike while running to the entrance not really wanting to hear the answer. The Android moved behind him.
It was action time, he got military training, kept his body in shape every single day, and now his PhySEC control variant was a little more advanced than before, it had no utility in combat but was enough to assist him in detecting hidden moves from his opponent, like feints for example.