After spending ten years as an adventurer, never once imagining he would become a Grand Duke, his life took an unexpected turn.

What he still doesn't know—both then and now—is that the companions who journeyed alongside him were all destined to become villains.

One by one, the future antagonists who should have threatened the world ended up gathering around him instead.

And before he realized it, the Northern Grand Duke had stolen every villain the story was supposed to have.