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.

Startled, I looked to the side. A heavy weight had suddenly attached itself to my left arm. Pink twin-tails bounced into my peripheral vision as Clara von Marigold clung to me, looking up with a beaming smile.


I sighed, rubbing my temples. My newly acquired [Sixth Sense (Lv. 3)] was designed to detect danger and bloodlust. It had completely failed to warn me about Clara's approach because, well, she harbored absolutely zero killing intent toward me.


My ever so helpful system displayed her stats just to show what I was dealing with.


[Name: Clara von Marigold][Age: 17][Gender: Female][Personality: Lively, Innocent, Meticulous, Calculating][Perception of You: Love, Obsession, Savior Complex]


Chapter 151 - Results