Frieren and Sozin: Beyond Journey's end

Phantom of the dead Pt 1

Frieren, Sozin and Fern were walking down a trail as they were walking Eisen watched them walk away.

Fern: In comparison for me, our journey's been one half.

Frieren/Sozin: Hm?

Fern: I've spent one half of my life with you and Mr. Sozin.

Frieren and Sozin smile.

Frieren: It's going to be much more than that from here on.

On a wagon Fern was resting her head on Frieren's shoulder taking a nap. As she was napping Frieren spoke to Sozin.

Frieren: We should be arriving at the village soon.

Sozin: Well that was fast.

Frieren: Fast for you because you were messing with those hands of yours.

Sozin looks in front of him to see his hands were moving weirdly.

Sozin:.....They've been doing that on their own when I'm not fighting.

Frieren looks at the hands then at him. She then grabs one of the hands that floated over to her and kissed it. Sozin blushes and looks at her.

Sozin:(Blush) What the heck love? I can feel that.

Frieren: (Smile) Good

They look at each other Frieren smile made him blush a bit harder after a few seconds he spoke.

Sozin:(Blush) I hate when you do little things to get a blush out of me.

Frieren hugged his arm but not too much to where Fern would drop her head.

Frieren: It's cute when you blush and make little noises, and when you call me love when I'm affectionate to you.

Sozin smiles a bit moving closer to her.

Sozin: I feel like the woman in the relationship.

Fern: (Chuckle) Maybe we can reverse Genders and see how that works.

Sozin: (Sweat drops) I rather not.

Time skip

The trio walks into a village. As they were walking a shopkeeper spoke to them.

Shopkeeper: Greeting, Adventurers. Heading to the mountain pass? I wouldn't if I were you. Several people have gone missing there recently.

Frieren: Killed by monsters?

Shopkeeper: They were taking by Ghost according to all the rumors. Folks have seen them with their own eyes.

Frieren: Could be the undead. Do you know what these ghost look like?

Shopkeeper: I've been too scared to ask. But if you're that curious, there are plenty who can tell you.

The three begin to ask around  about the mountain pass.

Fern: Here's what we learned. The ghost take the form of the beholder's dead family member or friend. They look just as they did in life. A couple of witnesses even claim that the ghost spoke to them.

Frieren: We can conclude this isn't the work of the undead.

They make it to an inn and walk in.

Fern: How are you so sure?

Frieren: The undead are merely corpses being controlled by magic. Thing's like zombies and skeletons but our specter are reported to appear as they did in life. A reanimated corpse couldn't do that. All that to say we're dealing with another type of monster eternity.