Reborn As A Ghost: Time To Build My Undead Army!-Chapter 1379: Returning Back To Normal

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Nyx had a kind heart, but the Nightmare Demon of Childhood was a chaotic being. Although she tried to feel bad about it, there was some innate malice that was very hard to deal with.

But even then, she didn't know if her friends would go back to normal if the Nightmare Demon died, she knew of many curses and powers that remain even when the caster dies.

"Please turn them back into their adult forms!" She kept asking.

"Hehehe…" The Nightmare Demon ended up laughing at the end. "I will never do that, girl! You'll have to kill me for this!"

"But why?!" Nyx angrily said.

"Because that's what this is all about, you stupid idiot!" The Nightmare Demon said. "I AM NOT SOMEONE YOU CAN NEGOTIATE WITH!"

His face and body grew distorted as he tried to free himself from the Snow Dragon's grasp!

"You're missing your chance! And I will take it to eat all of you!!!"

As he roared furiously, his head began spinning around monstrously.

The girls glanced at Nyx, she seemed a bit angered, and also sad.

"So be it… I tried, okay? I really did…"

Nyx stepped forward, her left hand suddenly transforming into the giant arm of her dragon form and then.

CRAAASH!

"Gyyyaaack!"

The Nightmare Demone screamed in agony, as it was crushed to death.

His body slowly melted away into Nightmare Miasma, as she saw something he left behind.

His Demonic Nightmare Heart, resembling a heart-shaped dark purple colored jewel overflowing with nightmare essence.

"Nightmare Demon of Childhood…" Sighed Nyx. "Maybe because you were the childhood that humanity misses, I pitied you a bit…"

She held the crystal, trying to channel its powers, as she saw the Nightmare Realm around it beginning to fade away.

The forest in the distance, the white area, the abandoned city, and this desert all slowly began to turn into particles of white light.

"Nyx! W-What are you doing?" Wondered Alma, looking at the girl grasping the jewel and infusing it with her own powers, and then trying to channel the jewel's powers themselves too.

FLUOSH!

"In my stay here, I've managed to learn how to control internal Dream Energy, all thanks to Fran! She has taught me how to do it." Nyx said. "So I'll channel the power of this jewel and turn you back before… it's too late!"

"Eh? I taught you that? When?!" Fran wondered, tilting her head.

"You're very talented, hehe…" Nyx smiled cutely. "And well, I never thought it was you from all people…. But it makes sense now. After all, you did tell me once that you came from another world."

"Huh?" Fran was confused. "W-What are you talking about?"

Nyx smiled at the girl, as she shattered the jewel into pieces.

Crack, crack…!

CRASH!

The essence of the jewel was absorbed by her hand, as Nyx's hand gained a Nightmare Demon Mark, absorbing the monster's soul.

FLUOSH!

"It worked…"

The mark in her right hand resembled the little and cute head of an imp-like devil smiling, surrounded by the silhouettes of children holding hands.

It was glowing with a pale purple color, and sometimes released pink light from within…

"Wow, you absorbed its powers?!" Sofia asked. "That's… how?!"

"Mama can sometimes gain power from devouring souls or trying to assimilate energies," explained Nyx. "As her daughter I tried doing something similar and it worked!"

With that power, Nyx pointed at the girls, unleashing it all at once.

FLAAASH!

"{Nightmare Demon Curse Arts}: {Childhood Reversal}"

She reversed the curse, as the girls were encompassed by black and purple light, slowly, they began to age back to their original ages and also appearances.

"Huh? Oh wow! I'm growing bigger and… Uwaaah?! My head!"

Alma complained as she grabbed her head, feeling like it was spinning with all the memories she regained one after another.

"T-This is freakyyyyyy!"

Emily was also the same, growing taller and taller, her head spinning around, she felt confused and weirded out.

"Aagh! What the…?!"

Sofia was kind of the same as well, she grew much taller, and her memories returned to her one after another.

"Oh wow!"

At the same time, Martina did so as well, her appearance change was much more drastic due to her differences in fashion.

And about Fran…

Nyx walked to her side, as she looked Fran slowly age up.

"Ohh! I'm aging?! Eeeeh? Ah!"

She slowly became a tall lady, maturing instantly into a twenty and then thirty- or so-year old lady, with a slender body, long black hair, and wearing glasses.

"I'm back! I am finally back to-"

Nyx hugged her at that moment.

"Eh?"

Fran looked at the girl hugging her tightly.

"I'm sorry Fran… That you had such a sad life… I really didn't know that… I wish I could've been there when you were a kid… so we could've been friends."

"N-Nyx…"

Fran shed a tear, as her body continued changing more and more, as Nyx looked at Fran with her eyes full of awe.

"Thank you…"

Slowly, Fran changed again, turning paler, her bust grew larger, she became younger out of nowhere. freёnovelkiss.com

Her black hair became beautiful and long, made into two drill-shaped pigtails.

She went from a child once more into a young adult.

This time, she looked much more radiant and prideful, wearing royal lady clothes from some medieval fantasy novel.

She waved her fan, giving herself some fresh air.

"Well! It seems that wasn't the end, hm? I wonder what this means!"

"Oooh, so this is how you looked like…"

"Yes, and- Ah!"

Then, Fran fell to her knees again, feeling her youth disappear she became paler until she looked almost dead.

Her black hair turned white, her blue eyes red, her clothes ragged, and then fading away, turning into shadows that became yet another set of clothes.

The girls were looking at the scene, most of them already back to their ages, with all their memories.

They saw everything.

Until eventually, this beautiful ghostly lady became the student they knew.

"M-Maria?!" Alma gasped.

"Fran was… it was her?!" Emily asked.

"How…" Sofia muttered.

"Huh? What?" Martina looked around confusedly.

"Mama!" Nyx ran towards Maria, hugging her.

"Nyx… I… What…?" Maria was left flabbergasted.

Without realizing why, she shed many tears, both of happiness and also of sorrowful reminiscence.

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