Death came quietly.
Not with noise.
Not with screams.
Just… an ending.
Pablo remembered the moment his heart stopped.
No one was there.
No one cared.
Just like always.
"…So that's it…"
Even in his final moments, there was no anger left—only a dull, familiar emptiness.
A life where everything went wrong.
People feared him.
Hated him.
Blamed him.
Even when he did nothing.
Even when he tried.
"…Was I really… that cursed…?"
Darkness swallowed him whole.
Then—
Light.
His eyes snapped open.
"—!"
Air rushed into his lungs as his body jolted violently. His chest heaved, his heart pounding as if it had just been forced back to life.
Cold wind brushed against his skin.
The ground beneath him felt real.
Too real.
"…I'm… alive?"
His voice was unfamiliar.
Younger.
He tried to move—
Pain.
A sharp, overwhelming pain exploded inside his head.
"Ghh—!"
Memories flooded in.
Not his.
Yet… they didn't feel foreign.
A small village.
Warm sunlight.
Simple homes.
Laughter.
A boy.
Alex.
The memories didn't just appear—
He lived them.
Years passed in seconds.
A normal life.
Friends.
People who didn't look at him with fear.
Something Pablo had never experienced.
"…This…"
His breathing slowed as the pain faded.
"…isn't my life…"
But it wasn't entirely someone else's either.
He could feel it.
The emotions.
The habits.
The instincts.
"…We… merged…"
Not possession.
Not replacement.
A fusion.
Pablo… and Alex…
Now shared the same existence.
"…Alex…"
The name slipped out naturally.
Too naturally.
He slowly pushed himself up.
His body responded smoothly—like it had always been his.
But something felt off.
Very off.
"…This is too normal…"
The air.
The environment.
The peace.
It didn't match him.
It never had.
For a brief moment—
A thought appeared.
Maybe this time will be different.
[Analysis Complete]
The voice came without warning.
Cold. Mechanical. Absolute.
Alex froze.
"…What… was that…?"
A faint blue light formed before his eyes.
Then—
A screen.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
"VAMPIRE PROGENITOR SYSTEM"
Status: Initializing
Host: Alex
Soul State: Fusion Complete
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━**
His pupils shrank slightly.
"…A system…?"
[Affirmative]
Silence.
Then a quiet exhale.
"…So even I get something like this…"
[Analyzing Host Fate…]
[Analysis Complete]
The panel shifted.
New words appeared.
[Fate Classification: Villain]
The small hope that had formed inside him—
Collapsed instantly.
"…Again…?"
[Past Life: Pablo]
[Role: Stepping Stone]
His expression darkened.
"…So it wasn't bad luck…"
[It was design]
A long silence followed.
The wind moved gently through the trees.
But around Alex—
Everything felt heavier.
"…Then what's the point of this life?"
The system responded immediately.
[Correction]
[Your existence has changed]
A new panel appeared.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
"RACE AWAKENING"
Race: Vampire
Lineage: Progenitor
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━**
Alex frowned.
"…Vampire?"
[You are the origin of a new bloodline]
[The only Progenitor]
Something stirred inside him.
A deep, instinctive sensation.
Hunger.
Sharp.
Unfamiliar.
But undeniable.
[Bloodline Properties Initialized]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Absolute Blood Authority
Ability to Create Vampires
Dark Arts Affinity (Maximum)
Emotional Amplification (Extreme)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━**
"…Emotional… amplification…?"
[Your emotions are significantly intensified]
[Failure to regulate may result in loss of control]
"…So I either feel too much… or lose myself."
[Correct]
He clicked his tongue softly.
"…Annoying."
Another panel appeared.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
"SIN CORE"
Primary: Greed
Secondary: Lust
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━**
Alex stared at it.
"…You're serious."
[These are intrinsic to your existence]
"…So I'm a villain… and unstable."
No response.
He exhaled slowly, forcing his thoughts to settle.
"…Fine."
His eyes lowered slightly.
"…If that's what I am…"
A faint shift in his expression.
Colder.
Sharper.
"…Then I'll stop pretending otherwise."
But one question remained.
"…Why did everything go wrong before?"
For the first time—
The system paused.
[Core Information Locked]
[Condition: Demigod Rank]
"…Of course."
[However]
His eyes lifted slightly.
[Your misfortune was not random]
[It was necessary for your role]
Silence.
Heavy.
Uncomfortable.
"…A role…"
No further explanation came.
The panels slowly faded.
The world returned.
Quiet.
Peaceful.
Normal.
But Alex knew—
He didn't belong in a normal world.
He looked toward the distant village.
Something deep inside him shifted.
Not fear.
Not anger.
Something darker.
"…Still a villain…"
A faint smile appeared.
Not warm.
Not kind.
"…Then this time…"
His eyes sharpened.
"…I won't die for someone else's story."
And with that—
Alex took his first step forward.
Unaware…
That somewhere in that same village—
The one destined to stand against him…
Was already living his own story.