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

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Weird, if I died, shouldn't the memories end there?

And yet…

"Fran… No… No, no, no! Nooo! Nooo!"

My mother started crying, holding me in her arms.

And my sister stood there.

Her eyes were wide open.

"S-She's fine?"

"Haaaahhh… My daughter…! Someone!"

"Is she fine?!"

"She's not breathing!"

"What?!"

My mother couldn't lift me, but my sister did. She ran outside as the city was in panic.

This was perhaps the biggest earthquake that had happened in a while.

A building had collapsed nearby, and a huge cloud of dust came rushing in.

My mother had already called the ambulance, but it would take a while to get there with all the chaos.

"Fran…! Fran!" my sister kept trying to revive me, giving me oxygen or attempt to restart my heartbeat again.

But it wasn't working. Nothing was working.

"Come on! Don't leave us! Fran! No! Please don't leave me, Fran!!!" she kept crying, noticing the book my hand was grasping tightly.

Perhaps a post-mortem reflex…

It was the Manga I had chosen for her.

"I'm sorry for being a shitty sister, Fran…! Don't die…! Please..."

She hugged me while crying. My mother was also devastated, and the world around them continued in endless chaos.

What's going on?!

Why am I seeing this?

It shouldn't be possible. I died!

I…

"The ambulance is here!"

"Ah?!"

An ambulance suddenly arrived. People quickly carried me inside and applied oxygen to me while also trying to revive me with those electrical tools. It seems I had a cardiac arrest from all of it too.

Wow, I was more than dead, wasn't I?

But why am I…

Ting…

Ting…

Ting…

"She's back!"

"Oh my god! Fran!"

"S-She suffered severe brain damage. She's also bleeding internally. It looks like one of her ribs must have pierced her left lung! We're going to extract the blood before she drowns!"

"Hurry! Please hurry!"

What?

The pulse machine…

It was showing my pulse.

What…

What's going on?

Is this a stupid dream, like… if I lived or something?

What the hell is going on?!

The ambulance rushed through the city, reaching the hospital.

While my sister and my mother cried, I was undergoing surgery.

No way…

But I died…

They should just be cremating me or something.

What the fuck is going on?!

"W-We managed to stop the bleeding and… yes, it was a success…"

A doctor walked outside to tell my mother and my sister the good news…

"Is she going to be okay?" my mother asked.

"She's not… you know?" my sister wondered.

"She's stabilizing…" the doctor said, letting them enter the room where I was.

"However, unfortunately, her brain is…" the doctor sighed. "It is not responding, and… she's in a coma for now. We don't know when she'll wake up. Maybe tomorrow, perhaps in a month… Or maybe years… She suffered great trauma, and her body was technically dead for a few minutes. We believe the lack of oxygen in her brain could have… shut it down."

"W-What?" my mother muttered, her voice trembling. "M-My little Fran… she will wake up, right? She will wake up one day, right?"

"We… don't know, but we hope so," the doctor sighed. "There are a few things I would like to talk with you about first…"

"A-Ah, yes…" my mother nodded, walking with the doctor away.

My sister remained by my body's side, looking at me with a sad expression.

"If I hadn't fought with you… if I hadn't said all those stupid things… maybe this wouldn't have happened," she started crying. "Fran… I'm sorry…"

She held my hand while crying and sat down by my side.

I…

I didn't know what to think.

Maybe this was one of my dreams, a hope of me being alive?

Or…

FLASH!

Suddenly, all of this crystallized into a small shard that flew toward my hands. It was yet another Memory Fragment.

The last one.

Why was… this a Memory Fragment?!

The two previous ones were moments I lived, but this…

It wasn't a moment I lived, was it?

Did I reincarnate when I died, but my body was revived miraculously a few minutes later?

Is that even possible?

By then, even though my body was alive, I would be in an eternal coma…

All while my soul was somewhere else, already reincarnated into someone else.

Into Maria…

I can't believe this. This is crazy!

And if I can see this, it means I am still somehow connected to my real body back on Earth!

I looked at the shard in my hands, noticing something else as well.

Across the window of the hospital room, there was…

A huge tower, which my sister looked at as the Memory ended.

…

So that's it.

The tremor wasn't natural. There was no way.

It happened because the Tower appeared?!

The Tower of Babylon…

So I just happened to die when the Tower finally arrived, and that's how I was able to reincarnate to begin with, through the Wishes given to me as Unique Skills by the Tower System?

But this doesn't happen with everyone. Only Souls that get pulled to another world forcefully, right?

So what… happened? How did I even reincarnate like that to begin with?

Other Reincarnators had similar experiences, but they're really rare back in Yggdrasil, so you can't really tell if it was all a coincidence or if something deeper is being done behind the scenes.

I… need to find out the truth, why this happened, why I am here right now, and…

If my real body is still down there, alive…

And what should I do once I find it?

A body and… a soul.

I died as Maria and "reincarnated" as a soul, a ghost.

I continued evolving and transforming, even to the point I can take on a complete physical form.

But even then, it was still simply my own soul taking a physical form. I never recovered my living body. I never had it.

I continued being… just a soul.

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