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“Let’s see… Where’s Catarina’s soul at?” I wondered, opening my shadows, searching, and then taking out Catarina’s soul.
She had recovered a bit more now after a whole week since she died, and her soul had now gained more of her former self, and she was currently conscious.
“W-Where am I? What… what’s going on?” She wondered, looking everywhere but without realizing what was happening.
“Hello there, Catarina, remember me? After dying, I told you that I needed to heal your soul. Have you slept well? Around a week has gone by,” I said.
“Y-You… Ugh, you’re the bastard ghost woman that killed me when I was weakened and then trapped me in her soul for over a week! Ugh, yes, I remember you.” She sighed.
Catarina looked at me rather hatefully, but there was very little she could do against me now other than sigh and get angry. So I took it as if she understood her position now.
“I need some more backup, so we are bringing you back as a strong zombie using your remains, so stay here for now and until I can put you back,” I said.
“Agh… Can’t you just purify me?” She sighed.
“The soul of a sinner? You’ll get punished in Helheim or something, so are you sure?” I asked.
“I am a strong warrior… I fought for my own ideals. I will go to Nirvana and battle forever with other warriors!” She said.
“Has she always been thinking this?” I muttered.
Silvio and Francesco nodded; it appeared that it was the case. Catarina was a hard-headed woman that always thought that as long as she fought bravely and gave her all, she would be compensated with Nirvana.
“Are all warriors like this?” I asked.
“No, but those that are so religious with the church of the Light God are always offered such a stupid thing, and they believe it,” Said Lucifer.
“Catarina wasn’t even of that church, but the vampire that ordered us around told her that since she was a child, she was still vulnerable like us, so she ended up being convinced,” Said Silvio.
“I see… Poor girl, you’re really a dummy girl, aren’t you?” I sighed, looking at the poor little Catarina, who was gritting her teeth in anger while looking at the former Vampires turned into fire ghosts.
“Y-You pair of filthy traitors! Don’t go around telling my childhood to people!” She cried.
“But Catarina, you were so cute….” Said Silvio.
“Indeed, I still remember when you used to call me big brother… What happened to that?” Sighed Francesco.
“People change!” Shouted Catarina before heaving a heavy sigh.
Her mind couldn’t get as temperamental as before because she lacked a brain to even think straight, so she ended up calming herself down faster than expected. I’ve also calmed her insanity with my Soul Therapy, so hopefully, she won’t be as crazy after getting her body back.
I quickly began to work, using Undead Healing in the pile of dismembered body pieces and also using hard thread made out of a type of spider monster’s silk, which is highly expensive and has magic resistance properties, often used in equipment creation. I bought this for around 10000 coins from Julia, the magic crystal of Silvio made the difference, and the girl is literally in debt with me, so I was able to buy a lot of miscellaneous stuff from her.
I quickly took the pieces and rearranged them, and began to stick them together while slowly using the thread. The body parts got stuck incredibly quickly, and after using Undead Healing several times, I was able to heal the wounds of the corpse rather well.
Over and over again, I was able to do this repeatedly, for hours and hours.
It took time because I cared about the appearance this time around, I wanted a thick, muscular vampire zombie girl at my side, so I couldn’t fail her and make her an amorphous monster.
Even though Partner is gaining some abs lately… Anyways, that isn’t really the main reason.
I didn’t use a ritual of undead creation because those don’t let you customize the soul and just make up a random mindless phantasmal soul instead. Still, I can abuse the Soul Grimoire Undead Creation Feature that was added to it to customize it. After all, now that the body has been brought back, I could easily edit how this Undead would turn out to be.
I grabbed Catarina’s soul and told her to get ready.
“Get ready big girl. You’re going to make sure to flex those abs for me from now on,” I said.
“S-Stop talking about my muscular body! Every person always said it was disgusting anyways…!” Said Catarina.
“Eh? But you were pretty!” I said.
“You literally killed me! Why would I care what you think?” She asked frustratedly.
“You’re right. That’s pretty fair,” I said while nodding.
I inserted her soul into the body, and then a Grimoire made out of ethereal energy emerged in front of me. The pages moved around, and I then found her Unit.
There was the chance to recover a lot of her skills and even reform her soul book, but it costs a lot of accumulated Experience Points and Proficiency Points I’ve been saving.
Oh well, better invest in the new Unit.
I selected most of the useful available Skills she could relearn and then spent roughly 500k Experience Points and 100k Proficiency Points for everything. Still, in the end, she would end up not as powerful as she used to be, but hey, it was better than nothing.
FLASH!
A magic circle emerged before our sight as Catarina was infused with my power. Her Unit Card appeared in my Grimoire as her photo showed up on it.
“Now rise, Vampire Zombie Barbarian Warrior, Catarina! Hahahaha!” I laughed like a maniac Necromancer because I felt that was the right thing to do.
Catarina’s body slowly began to stand up, her eyes opened wide open, and she was back!
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