Juste is the very grandson of the famed Simon Belmont, and his plight was similar in that he, too, had to collect Dracula's remains in order to break a curse--in this case his friend Maxim's--and save their good friend Lydie Erlanger and, in effect, the world. Juste learned well Simon's brandishing technique (if you take Super Castlevania IV's story as canon) and he also originated many of the special moves that Richter and others of his ilk would one emulate and build upon; these include such recurring maneuvers as the slide, the double jump and the super jump. Juste would come to enhance the Vampire Killer by attaining whip attachments, a character-defining trait. It was these abilities that he used to conquer Castlevania and its transient brother, therein saving Maxim's soul from Dracula's possession, rescuing Lydie, and destroying Dracula's weakened spirit.

Juste's more important role in the storyline is that he also located and utilized magic books that allowed him to power up his mystic sub-weapons via the "Spell Fusion" system. Harnessing the propensity of Sypha's ever-present genes, he was able to use the books, as Sypha once could, to afford superpower to his already potent arsenal. This may very well have been the catalyst in building toward the family's item-crashing ability and the DSS Card System. So none too subtly, he was written in as a prototype, a character who originated many of the future generations' then-typical arsenals.

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