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

Chapter 1216: A New Pet



"So cuteeee!"

"Maria! I had no idea you had such a cute familiar."

"She's so fluffy! What breed is she?"

"Uhh, black cat breed?"

The classrooms of Class 1B were noisy this morning, it was already the second day since we started this damned trial, and today many of the students I saved yesterday were flocking around me.

Intiailly to thank me for saving their lives, but after seeing the little creature I brought with myself, thye quickly started caressing her and calling her cute.

And indeed, she was a cute black cat.

"Mereow!"

She angrily hissed at the girls though, swinging her claws at them but never actually hurting them, mostly just to scare them a bit.

She couldn't hurt them after all, she was below a special contract!

"Hey you terrible contractor! What is this?! Why am I being subjected to such torture?! What's wrong with your head?!"

Although she was an adorable black cat, she talked like an annoying brat only through telepathy, and only to me.

Yes this was Beatriz new form, a black cat!

My genius idea was to easily let her inside by telling her to turn into a cute black cat.

Her Shapeshifting abilities are so good she was able to easily camouflage even her aura as a Nightmare Demon by suppressing it.

"It's fine, they just think you're cute."

I smiled at her, as she continued being subjected to the "torture" of being petted continuously, making her freak out.

"Um, Maria, I had never seen that cat before, is it new?"

Alma wondered, as she was looking at the cat by my side.

"I-It's kind of too aggressive... Wouldn't it hurt someone?"

Emily was also asking a similar, concerned question.

"Nah, there's nothing to worry, her contract says she can't actually hurt humans, she only freaks out, but she can't actually hit others."

Alma and Emily looked at one another, unable to completely believe that.

"Ah well, anyways... Do you know if something happened to Sofia?" Emily asked me.

"She's been silent this whole time and when we went to say hi she told us she didn't want to... talk right now," Alma muttered, nervous.

"Uh..." I looked at Sofia, nervous.

She was silent, sitting on her own seat, reading a book, her eyes seemed devoid of light, and her face expressionless.

"Heh, is that the girl whose heart you broke?"

Suddenly, I heard the voice of Beatriz.

"It's not my fault! Jonathan is my lover, even if he's replacing a person she loves, it doesn't mean I can let her love him!"

Beatriz laughed.

"Hahaha! I guess you'er not a cuck then... Well! I guess you'll have to deal with one less friend now! Gahahaha! Pity, that girl's rather strong... I can sniff something within her though."

"Sniff?"

"Yeah, she's... furious, and also very sad. You know how Nightmares are born from Humanity's negative emotions? Well, she's exuding a lot of that."

"Will something bad happen?"

"No idea! But she's exuding a lot of bad vibes. You better take care of her before it might be too late." "Too late for what?!"

"Too late before she loses her mind and comes to kill you or something... Dunno!"

"You definitely know something, tell me!"

"I swear I don't know anything else! But my dad once told me that when humans gather a lot of negative energies, they can lose it if it reaches a breaking point. T-That's all! Seriously!"

"Hmm..."

"Maria?" Alma wondered, tilting her head. "Um... Do you know something?"

"Do you?" Emily wondered, crossing her arms.

"Ah..."

Should I tell them what happened? Wouldn't this make them hate me too?

It's better to keep it for my own until I can solve this issue with Sofia.

She's an important Character in this Story, so it would be better she's not my enemy.

"Just leave her be, she's always been a cunty selfish girl, right?" wondered Partner, stepping in. "She'll come to terms that she can't be all that without friends. She suddenly just becomes a lonely loser."

"Just like you?!" Emily sighed, looking at Partner angrily. "Don't say that of Sofia as if you knew her, Partner!"

"Y-Yeah..." Alma nodded. "Um, Maria? Can you try talking with her at least?"

"Eeehhh..."

I really didn't want to get into more drama, dammit.

But this damned world seems to thrive on school romance drama.

So here I go, I guess.

"Sure, leave it to me..."

Let's give it a try.

I walked towards her, as she was reading a book about Dream Weapons.

"Sofia? Eh, are you alright?"

She was ignoring me.

"Um..."

"Sofia? Hey."

She continued flipping the book pages faster, and faster, she wasn't even reading the text.

She was just pretending to be busy.

"Come on now, don't ignore me... We're friends, right?"

ВААМ!

However, she angrily closed the book and then glared at me furiously.

"We're not friends anymore..."

"Eh? That's... come on..."

"Leave and don't talk to me ever again."

"But Sofia! Everything for just a man?"

"Just... a man? You never ever told me that you... why are you like this, Maria?! Do you enjoy it?

Do you like toying with people so much?"

"Huh? I haven't done any of such... things."

"You're so selfish..."

"Selfish? You're the selfish one, thinking you can simply make someone love you just because.

I couldn't help it, you know? And... well... it's complicated."

This was getting weird, and I didn't like this at all, I needed to swiftly calm her down before.

"Complicated?!" she cried angrily, a few of the classroom students suddenly glanced at her. "Sure was complicated to tell your friend you were fucking their crush, huh?!"

"Sofia! How can you say something like that?"n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

"Agh! Just don't talk to me anymore! I don't have any friends anymore!"

"E-Even Alma and Emily? They don't have anything to do with this!"

"I bet they know about this, and they played dumb, right?! Nobody here is my friend...

everyone... everyone is always a selfish fuck!"

Suddenly, Sofia stood up and ran away from the classroom.

"S-Sofia!" Alma cried.

"Wait!" Emily quickly started chasing her.

Damn, it feels so weird to be blamed for things I never did.

Taking the role of another person is...

Indeed, complicated and annoying, if not a torture on its own.

I see why this is such a difficult Trial, and why everyone has failed before too.