Even now, Schiller still firmly believed that Death had made the first move.
Schiller had always felt that Death could cooperate with Asgard and the Egyptian pantheon, yet she alone had excluded him from the scope of cooperation. If that was not Death's fault, could it possibly be his?
Of course, cooperation required both sides to be willing. Schiller had been very willing, but Death had not been quite as willing. Schiller felt it was necessary to help raise her willingness a little.
Courtesy before force—the courtesy had already been done. Schiller had called Death so many times, proposed countless terms, and even revised the contract dozens of times. Such treatment was worthy of a Multiverse-level being.
But Death had left as quickly as a tornado. Not only had she vanished in a flash, but before leaving, she had not forgotten to smash the Scale that Schiller had worked so hard to obtain.
Since that method had not worked, Schiller naturally had to change tactics. If reasoning and negotiation could not move Death, then he could only deceive her or launch a sneak attack.
Schiller had come up with this plan immediately after his negotiation with Death ended. But he still had no good ideas about how to begin a completely voluntary second phase of cooperation with Death—until he saw Superior Spider-Man among the Spider-Army.
He had not forgotten that in Superior Spider-Man's backstory, the dying Doctor Octopus Otto had switched bodies with Spider-Man, fooled Death, and successfully survived.
That meant Death's rules were not without loopholes. With Superior Spider-Man's successful example, Schiller naturally settled on the theme of this friendly cooperation: resurrection.
As everyone knew, all Death craved was death. Whether she allowed Asgard to resurrect its fallen warriors, allowed the Egyptian pantheon to resurrect its believers, or constantly