Lucien Ashborne was supposed to be a nobody — an early-game villain who existed only to be crushed by the protagonist. After provoking the wrong person, he vanished from the story without even a dramatic death scene.

When a player named James dies and wakes up in Lucien’s body, he inherits every bit of the villain’s broken reputation and zero of his privileges. Bullied, scorned, and abandoned by his own noble family, Lucien now stands at the bottom of the academy hierarchy.

To make matters worse, the world he knew as a game has no guaranteed happy ending… and the protagonist’s party treats him like a criminal.

But James isn’t the Lucien they think he is.

With fragments of meta-knowledge, a half-broken system that barely works, and a determination to avoid becoming cannon fodder, he chooses a different path.

He doesn’t seek glory.
He just refuses to disappear.

This is the story of a former villain trying to rewrite his role — not as a hero, but as someone who survives on his own terms.

Samantha saw the air practically sparking between us. 


I didn't wait. I pulled the trigger instantly.


A solid tungsten slug screamed across the arena, aiming for Kael's chest. It was a shot that had shattered Celestia's ice wall.


Kael hadn't dodged. He had swung his sword upward.


With terrifying precision, his blade bisected the slug in mid-air. The two halves flew past him, embedding harmlessly into the dirt.


The crowd gasped. Cutting a bullet? That was Master-level swordsmanship.


The stone floor beneath him shattered. He launched himself at me, covering the twenty-meter gap in a heartbeat. He was faster than Elisha. Faster than the wind.


My world turned grey. Time slowed down by 30%.


Chapter 99 - Practical Assessment [4]