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.

[Purchased: Rosary of the Weeping Saintess] 


A burst of warm light manifested around my neck. The Rosary of the Weeping Saintess materialized—a heavy chain of pure, unblemished silver, carrying a teardrop-shaped crystal that glowed with a brilliant, liquid-gold luminescence.


Inside the teardrop crystal, pure Divine Force was boiling, as if it were ready to explode. Unlike my standard holy bullets, which only contained traces of blessed energy, this relic was emanating the raw, unfiltered radiance of a true saint. It aggressively pushed back the evil filling the space.


Knowledge of the item flooded into my mind instantly.


The demonic despair clouding my thoughts vanished entirely, replaced by a refreshing, absolute clarity. Hundreds of tactical thoughts combined, and a plan formed in a fraction of a second.


Chapter 188 - Rosary of the Weeping Saintess