Dave was a shadow among men—never aiming, never dreaming, simply existing. He drifted through life with no desire for greatness, no hunger for change. But when a cruel twist of fate rips away the quiet world he clung to—his home, his mind, and finally, his life—Dave dies as he lived: unnoticed, unremarkable… forgotten.

Yet fate, ever fickle, isn’t finished with him. Reborn in a new life, a new time, a new body—Dave is given what many would call a second chance. But he doesn't want it. What is a second life to someone who never asked for the first? Haunted by memories of loss, Dave questions the very meaning of existence.

Is he cursed to repeat the same cycle—love, hope, and inevitable ruin? Or will he finally defy the strings of fate and decide, for once, how his story ends?Will this threadbare spring to life or not

Chapter 7 - Chapter 7: The First Pact