His suggestion had been unanimously rejected by his teammates.
Dylan could not help feeling annoyed.
"—Makes me look like the bad guy!" he muttered, frowning as he looked at Xiao Xiao. "Anyway, you're only planning to 'deceive' Death once, right?"
Xiao Xiao hesitated, then nodded slightly. "Once we find the branch that belongs to Death—or possibly, once we confirm Death's aura and locate that branch—we'll figure out a way to save the person..."
"Then instead of letting Fatty die, I should be the one who dies."
Dylan casually offered a new suggestion. Ignoring Fatty Xin's shocked and touched expression, he raised a hand and pointed at each of his other teammates in turn.
"You're all living people, without question. Especially Fatty—the Blue Giant's vitality is not much different from that of an actual giant. If an ordinary person's soul-fire looks like a candle to 'Death,' then yours looks like a little sun. So the Doctor's suggestion is nothing but wishful thinking. There's no way you can fool Death... But I'm different. I'm a magical lifeform of the undead type."
He bared his teeth, exposing those two pale little fangs.
At this moment, the others came to their senses as well.
Indeed, according to magical creature taxonomy, Vampires, Zombies, Bone Dragons, and similar beings all belonged to undead lifeforms. They were "dead people" to begin with, so their odds of deceiving "Death" were inevitably higher than those of a living person.
"—The problem is, you're only half a Vampire, aren't you?"
Xiao Xiao was somewhat hesitant. Although he was a Doctor, Dylan's Vampire-Werewolf hybrid bloodline was one of a kind in the world. Even after being roommates for two years, he had not had time to conduct any experiments on him.
Back then, he had even planned to use *Observations of