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.

"Yes! I became the fear itself! I became the power that can fix everything!"


Merle smirked weakly into the dirt. If she thought becoming a monster was transcendence, there was no saving her.


"Right… Clara?" Elena turned her head.


Merle followed her gaze and doubted his eyes.


Standing behind the monstrous Elena was Clara.


Unlike Elena, whose body was a melted nightmare, Clara stood pristine. Her pink twin-tails were bouncy and soft. Her uniform was clean. Not a speck of soot or a single burn marred her skin.


In the split second before the explosion, Elena had wrapped her own body around Clara, taking the full force of the Big Bang to protect her puppet.


"What… are you? Why go so far?" Merle whispered.


"Oh, I'm not like that maid," Elena hissed, touching Clara's cheek with a clawed hand. "I don't abandon friends to flee alone."


Chapter 134 - Extra Privilege Item