Reborn As A Ghost: Time To Build My Undead Army!

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My Emeraldine was truly menacing, if not a bit scary! It seemed she was fine with just keeping things like they were, yet despite her niceness, she was very mean to the boy.

Well, that's fine, I'm fine with that.

This monkey might be super strong, and if he develops more of the abilities of the real monkey king, then he's bound to become the strongest Dream Warrior, period.

"I hope we can get along, Ching Xie," I said. "You'll be a good sparring partner for all of us! Maybe like that we can also help you get stronger; you've got a lot of potential."

"Hm? Oh, you must be Maria," he said. "Yes, of course, gladly. Emeraldine has a lot of interesting friends it seems! I didn't expect that."

"Well you should have expected better you dumbass," said Partner, crossing her arms.

"E-Even Partner is your friend?!" Ching Xie gasped. "S-So many cute girls, this is crazy…"

"Hahaha… Y-Yeah," Emeraldine laughed. "I doubt you'll ever have a chance with them though, Ching Xie, so don't be too eager."

"E-Eh?! I-I never implied anything!" Ching Xie looked embarrassed.

Ah, I see, he's a virgin.

Anyways, time to ignore him for now, there's another person that arrived, someone that was also quite pretty.

I mean, Cheng Xie is really handsome himself, yeah, he looks like your typical handsome cultivation novel main character with the long black hair and girl-like face.

But anyways, this Japanese girl was cuter.

"Ah, pleased to meet you all…" Katokawa said, bowing down her head to greet everyone, something Japanese did a lot I guess.

"Mama, I brought her here! She'll be a new friend," said Nyx.

"Mama?" Katokawa wondered. "Huh?"

"She's joking," I laughed. "Don't worry about what she said. Welcome to the group, Katokawa. Your fight as impressive, your powers were really quite something."

"Oh my, thank you," she smiled, looking a bit better now. "Nyx was truly impressive. Is she your friend?"

"She's my sis… sister," said Lucifer, patting Nyx's head. "Yeah. Well done, that was a wonderful battle. I don't think I've seen something so intense in a while… you gave my daughter a good battle, thank you- I mean, my sister, yeah."

"Hahah, well… I, uh, yeah, I lost terribly…" Katokawa sighed, looking completely destroyed. "I've completely made my family lose their honor and pride. What should I do now?"

"Don't worry about such frivolities to begin with," Sofia suddenly spoke, she was glancing from the back. "Honoring family, making your parents prideful of yours… They're all chains that will never let you truly blossom and grow as a person and as a Dream Warrior. Once you finally stop caring about such things, you'll be able to truly become yourself. I truly mean it."

"You must be Sofia… I see… I had never truly thought about it too deeply though," said Katokawa. "But I understand what you mean, that's… Maybe I should really begin thinking about that more deeply. Since I was born that it has been this way, so I never questioned it."

"Yeah girl, you should just stop caring," said Emily with a nod. "Unless your parents entire future depends on your success though, do they?"

"I don't think so…" said Katokawa. "I come from a wealthy family I believe, so they'll be fine even if I don't do anything. This is mostly… my growth, and everything, for myself rather than anything else."

"So your family didn't tell you to do this?" Alma wondered. "Was it all your idea?"

"Oh no, they did tell me to do this, from the moment I was born, ah, I think I'm saying too much," said Katokawa. "But yeah, thank you… Uh, I didn't expect I would get to have this many friends out of nowhere… Thank you little Nyx."

"No problem!" Nyx nodded, feeling prideful.

As we saw everyone talking with one another, Jonathan, who was sitting by my side, seemed a bit bored as he had yet to be called for a fight.

"So when is my turn anyways?" he wondered. "I'm getting a bit tired of waiting…"

"Calm down, you're going to be called soon enough, big guy," I patted his big shoulders. "Aaaand, there!"

"Eh?"

I pointed at Hendrick, as Jonathan smiled after hearing his name.

"And Jonathan versus Artorias!"

He quickly stood up, looking excited, while wearing his heavy armor.

"Nice, finally my turn!" he celebrated. "Artorias, huh? Let's see how strong they are!"

"Artorias, that's an interesting name," I said. "Any of you know him?"

"I do…" said Ching Xie. "He's a powerful swordsman of Class 1C. I have yet to have the privilege of battling him though."

"Interesting… Okay, maybe you've got a nice challenge ahead, get to it!" I said, slapping Jonathan's butt as he nodded, rushing downstairs.

As I cheered for him, Sofia glanced at me.

"Was slapping him in the butt necessary?!" she was blushing while covering her face.

"Wow, so perverted…" Emily said.

"I-I can't believe you would be so shameless, Maria…" Alam was also blushing.

Seriously, these virgin girls don't understand a thing about relationship dynamics!

We saw Jonathan walking downstairs, and then facing his opponent.

His opponent was a tall, brown-haired young man with golden eyes.

He was wearing golden armor, and holding a huge two-handed sword, his Dream Weapon.

The sword was finely decorated, and imbued with powerful divine and magic tunes, it seemed it was very powerful and strong.

"Nice to meet you, Jonathan," he said with a kind greeting. "I've been honestly looking forward to battling someone like you! I've heard great things about your swordsmanship."

"Oh, thank you," nodded Jonathan. "Nice to meet you as well, Artorias. I haven't heard about you at all though, but I hope I can learn more about you in this sparring match!"

"Sparring match?" laughed Artorias. "Heavens, no, this is a battle, a serious one where we could even lose our lives, so please don't underestimate me."

"Underestimating you, why would I ever do such a thing?" Jonathan asked, wondering that. "Well, if anything, there would be-"

"THE BATTLES SHALL BEGIN NOW!"

FLASH!

The moment the professor gave the signal, Artorias interrumpted Jonathan's words midway through and reached him within a few seconds, moving incredibly quickly.

His sword slashed the empty air, pointing at Jonathan's neck, aiming to ignore his armor?!

"This guy…?!"

CLAAASH!

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