Reborn As A Ghost: Time To Build My Undead Army!-Chapter 1380: Returning To Normal

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The mystery behind Fran was finally cleared, and her true identity was revealed. After everyone saw her appearance change three times, they realized she had lived three whole lives.

The child they saw wasn't the childhood of the girl they knew, but of her first life, of Fran. Maria's first life on Earth.

The very reason she didn't know about Nightmares or Monsters being real was because Earth had no such things.

"I cannot believe… this even happened…" Maria sighed, as she tried to stop crying. "I-I'm sorry for worrying you this much, Nyx… I… I was so vulnerable and stupid. I was really a child, huh? I was so powerless and yet…"

"You did your best!" Nyx smiled. "Thank you mama for being with me! It was nice knowing you when you were a child! Did I become a good friend in your childhood?"

Maria smiled tenderly, kissing her daughter's forehead.

"Yes, the best friend I could've ever ask for."

"Heheh! I'm glad!"

Maria kissed her daughter's forehead again, then her nose and her cheeks, Nyx was very happy as well, barely not crying, she kissed her mother all over her face.

It was a very emotional moment, but once the Nightmare World fully dissipated and everyone was back on the Nightmare Field Island, surrounded by the wilderness, they snapped back to reality.

"A lot happened…" Maria slowly stood back up. "Is everyone alright? Sorry for that, I just… I was happy to see her, but I'm also happy to see everyone. We lived through quite the ordeal… I never imagined I would return to being a child."

"T-That's was… yeah, it was really crazy," Emily nodded. "I can hardly believe it… but I was really a kid too, huh?"

"It was so confusing…" Alma sighed. "We all ended returning to our younger selves… It was so embarrassing… And I didn't know your name was Fran, Maria! Is it your first name?"

"Something like that, yeah…" Maria nodded. "I mean… Uh, yeah."

She was fearing they would grow suspicious of her after they saw her grow not once but three times, however, the girls were still feeling very dizzy after all the memories returned to them, so maybe they probably overlooked that.

However, that Nyx called her mama all the time was still something they found a bit weird, as Nyx, to them, was Lucifer's little sister.

But they didn't have much of a mental capacity to ask her questions, even less interrogate her, they felt exhausted and had strong headaches.

Although…

They also felt embarrassed, their childhoods were exposed to one another, things they usually would've never talked about, and Fran's adorableness unifying them also was something to remember.

"So yeah… A lot happened, huh?" Sofia wondered, she seemed to be the one that had the best state right now, mostly perhaps because she had already lived through something similar. "We barely were part of this little adventure though, right Martina? We were just woken up and then… it was done."

"Y-Yeah, sorry Sofia… You were the last ones we found," Maria said. "You don't remember anything from that time though?"

"I do remember a weird dream…" Sofia sighed. "A dream where Martina and I knew each other when we were younger, and we lived together as sisters, almost."

"I remember it too!" Martina's bright star-shaped pupils shone brightly. "It was so cute! I want to go back to that dream with you, Sofia!"

Martina hugged Sofia tightly, as Sofia only felt embarrassed.

"It was just a dream! And going back wouldn't be good either, Martina! We were getting drained in there." Sofia complained.

"Aaahh… Dammit…" Martina sighed.

"F-For now we should quickly bring the body of the instructor to the city…" Maria said. "I doubt this is the only case where we were attacked by Nightmare Demons, and I'm afraid other teams could've gone through similarly bad things."

Maria didn't have the time to explain to them why she went through three lives as she went back to normal, or why Nyx insisted on calling her mom, that the girls didn't really ask her yet helped, there were more important things to do.

"You're right, we should quickly go check on everyone else…" Alma nodded. "Sofia, Martina, Emily, we have to hurry! Also Nyx too, let's go together."

With their ages gone back to normal and their Dream Weapons as well, the girls all looked ready, summoning their dream weapons and getting ready for battle.

"Nyx, can you turn into a dragon?" Maria wondered.

"Eh? Sure!" Nyx quickly became a giant dragon once more. "Let's go!"

On top of her large back, everyone climbed and quickly flew through the skies.

"Wow it's amazing you can turn into a dragon and everything, Nyx!" Martina said.

"Is this even possible? I had no idea Dream Heart Weapons and their derived magic powers could go this far!" Sofia said.

"If there's a guy with Sun Wukong powers I think there can be anything," Maria said. "I also have ghostly powers myself! And Necromancy. It's just how they can become derived based on people's dreams…"

"Y-Yeah!" Nyx nodded.

"Though didn't Nyx said something about coming from another world?" Alma wondered. "Or maybe I'm just not remembering it well?"

"A-Another world? I never said that…" Nyx looked elsewhere.

"M-Maybe she has the powers of another world's dreams?" Maria wondered.

"Hmm…" Alma nodded. "Ah, my head… Mariaaa… You were cute as Fran too."

Alma, looking exhausted and dizzy, rested over Maria's back while hugging her.

Maria felt a bit surprised, but quickly embraced the girl, letting her sit in front of her and hugging her.

"You were cute too."

She caressed her hair, quickly transferring some of her lifeforce to Alma, healing her pain.

"Ah! I feel better… Uwah?!"

She panicked, however, as Alma realized she was hugging Maria very intimately.

"A-Ah! I'm sorry… I didn't mean to- But remembering Fran and… you, well."

"It's fine Alma, we did share a lot of moments together. I don't really mind hugging you. Do you feel better?"

"Y-Yes… Um, aren't we too close?"

Alma was growing redder as she realized her face was very close to Maria's.

"We can't really be too separated above the skies, unfortunately…"

"O-Oh… Then I suppose it can't be helped…"

Emily, Sofia, and Martina were looking at the scene with a bit of surprise.

"J-Just what happened between those two?!" Sofia wondered.

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