A cursed CD game falls from the sky. I boot it up, build a ridiculously handsome villain with broken talents, and just as I hit “Start”—boom, I get electrocuted.

Now I’ve reincarnated as Lucien Caelum Valebrandt, a six-year-old noble and the infamous villain who helped the Abyssians win the last war.

Every 500 years, the Abyssian King is reborn. But when the 16 chosen heroes of this generation lost against the battle of the Abyssian King because of my character, the Goddess panicked—and rewound time.

Now those same heroes remember everything… and they want me dead.
Even though I just got here.

All I wanted was to play a game. Now I’m the villain blamed for destroying the world.

The obsidian carriage rolled to a majestic stop, its wheels slowing with a final, sonorous creak that resonated through the crisp air, the sound lingering like a whispered promise. As the carriage came to rest, its dark, polished surface seemed to absorb the surrounding light, giving it an air of mystery and foreboding. The grand entrance of the imperial residence loomed before it, Aurum Vale's imposing facade gleaming with a subtle sheen that hinted at the wealth and power that lay within. The very name "Aurum Vale" seemed to shimmer in the air, a fitting moniker for the heart of the Empire, where the pulse of power beat strongest and the whispers of intrigue hung like a perpetual mist.


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