An Extra’s POV

"I only wanted to live…"

Justin wanted to live for his family—for the ones he cared about most—so he could return home one day. That desire turned into obsession after witnessing death for the first time.

First it was with Adam, and then during the Dungeon Rescue of Brutus, he witnessed even more people perish. Despite performing his role well, he found himself at the edge of death so may times.

To many, he was always the optimist—the jovial guy with no care in the world.

But inside… he was being torn apart.

He had countless nightmares of death that it eventually caused him so many sleepless nights. All of this compounded, becoming worse by day.

Until…

'I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!'

Justin grew desperate.

So desperate in fact that he made a deal with Adrien at the time, after being offered a way to preserve his life and escape death.

He would need to become an Undead—a high-class one, of course, but still an Undead.

With this new change of race, he would be immune to fatal damage and a lot of Status Conditions that would adversely affect humans. He would no longer need to sleep, hence preventing the nightmares from plaguing him.

Best of all… he would become stronger.

on the platter, there was already very little chance that he could refuse. However, Adrien also threw one

something that'll get all of us home. Join my side,

sold it for

could refuse at that point… even if the cost of the deal was his life

was to relinquish the one

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you have your Soul intact, you can't really die. Since it belongs to Adrien and it is in his possession, one can even say it benefits you the most since any attacks on your Soul wouldn't kill you anyway… is what you

he did so, his demise

you since he has your Soul hostage. I'm sure you've made some pre-existing arrangement that prevents you from doing some things… such as telling me the details of such an arrangement. Doing so would alert

thought that someone could figure it all out without him opening his lips to say a word was

made the helpless boy wonder just

seemed to be making

three instances where he would have already died without the perks of being an Undead. He didn't regret his

only he hadn't gotten caught, then… then maybe he would have

could break these shackles holding you back…

his brows were raised as he heard

and seeing some of the things he could do, there was no doubt in Justin's mind

it was clear that this man could back up his

however, was

would you choose to go this far

secretly for a deserter. He hid his strength in critical moments, and even though it was likely that he could have prevented Eric's death, he did no such

hated himself for all of these,