To the Portal!

'Now… where did those two losers go off to?"

Sam limped his way around the alleyway, and after a few steps, he found the two guys harassing another homeless kid.

Sam whistled, and the two turned their head to see him.

"Well, who would have thought! The dead do rise from the grave!"

"Looks like we are working the graveyard shift boss! Hahaha!"

Sam clicked his tongue after hearing the terrible jokes.

"Alright you two cunts, do your worse…"

Sam stood his ground, although he was injured he was confident in taking two homeless people down with a few simple movements.

"This kid thinks he can take us on, is he on drugs or something?"

"I don't know Hutch, but it sure is fun beating down a helpless kid huh?"

"You sure are right!"

They charged toward Sam with a closed fist in hand, Sam sighed at the sight of the two.

'Let's see if this body can at least do some martial arts!'

Sam closed his eyes and let the two attack first, one of the two threw a punch toward Sam's face, but Sam grabbed it and flipped him over with a single toss. The other seeing this swung his first towards Sam's abdomen, but Sam with an open palm caught it and elbowed the man's face leaving his teeth broken and his nose gushing with blood.

"What… Hutch! Are you okay?!"

The other homeless guy who was tossed stood up quickly, but Sam with a spinning back fist clubbed him in the face.

"Whur… Eff ish thish Kid!"

"Oi, you got any money on you?"

Sam looked down at the two who were on the floor bleeding. They shook their head in denial, but Sam knelt and went through their pockets.

"You know what I hate the most?"

"W… Whur?"

"Liars."

Sam then kicked both the homeless guys in the face and turned around with nearly 2 thousand credits.

They probably were shaking up the other homeless people and gained a whole bunch of credits for themselves.

'Looks like enough cash to get an apartment, but I'll save this for now and head to the portal!'

Sam began walking out of the alleyway, leaving the unconscious homeless dudes behind him.

After he takes a look at the road and surroundings he takes a deep breath.

'The ghetto, my home'

Sam wasn't a proud 'ghetto' member, but it was home for the longest time. When he left for the other world, he still was connected to Earth meaning he could teleport himself from the other world and Earth under a cooldown system, meaning if he returned to Earth, he must stay there for 12 hours.

Sam previously didn't have the funds to live lavishly in the other world, so he still was homeless when he returned to Earth and he lived like that for many years until he began having a reputation as a stable adventurer, meaning he gained more work and more money. Earth began to open a trading hub allowing them to trade other world currency into credits, allowing him to buy his apartment.

He didn't have contact with his father at all in the future, nor did he care. He heard the news that his stepbrother wasn't related to his father and that his father watched his empire crumble before his eyes. He was glad to see such a downfall, but what made him upset was that Joseph, his former stepbrother then went after his mother's family next.

His mother and father divorced relatively recently at this point, and she didn't find out about him being homeless. Sam doesn't know what happened after, did she find out but couldn't find me? Did she not care? He doesn't care anymore, he wants to focus on his goals now, and not people who wronged him.

He did not care for revenge against Nick either, as in that world, money is everything. He was extremely hurt and found himself to be less trustful of anyone now in this lifetime, but he did not hate Nick nor wanted to kill him. Bygones be Bygones, he doesn't know him in this lifetime so let Nick live his life without Sam saving his life constantly.

'I'm probably indirectly killing him knowing how reckless he is…'

Sam shook his head and chuckled, and began heading towards the local park which was a thirty minutes walk away. Many homeless dudes began looking at Sam with the eyes of a predator, but Sam stared back causing them to shirk in their corners.

Sam still had his killing intent, albeit more constrained as Earth is a lawful society.

Soon, he arrived at the park and looked around, trying to remember where exactly the pond was.

He found it and began walking towards it with a smile on his face.

'Becoming a Lord huh, this is something new. I could be something much much bigger, I could accomplish something worthy!'

He sat down on a bench staring at the pond and took out a small notepad and pen and began jolting down every major point that will happen in the future.

From events in the other world to things that would impact him in the real world, he made sure to write down what he could remember.

He didn't forget much, perhaps this was a perk he was given when being reborn back into the past.

'Looks like I have everything written down. What else do I need to do?'

Sam who checked through his pockets took out everything he had on him except the 2,000 credits.

'My ID… that's it.'

Sam looked at his ID which had his identity as part of the Yong Family on it and snapped it in half. He threw it to the ground and with a jump he went into the pond's stream.

A bright white light begins to blind his eyes and his body began disappearing into the cosmos.

[[SYSTEM NOTIFICATION: WELCOME!]]

Shua!

Sam began to materialize and arrived in a white space with nothing around him.

[[SYSTEM NOTIFICATION: Welcome, player! Do you wish to create your character?]]

"Yes… yes, I do!"