User blog comment:B214/Chapter 482 review/@comment-5303512-20160418121014/@comment-5303512-20160418121832

Well, think about it, the dead have no purpose so they don't exist anymore so they can't be considered actual participants in this battle (not that their actual corpses). All they are right now are mere tools for Neinhart's own purpose, no different than that of Lucy's Celestial Magic and Rustyrose's Imaginations.