After dying in the empire’s collapse, Leon Eisenberg, heir to the Northern Grand Duke, wakes up years in the past, back at the academy where everything first went wrong.

Last time, he wasted his talent chasing a single woman, the captivating villainess who would one day bring the empire to ruin.

This time, he wants nothing to do with her.

While the empire’s brightest nobles gather around her, entangled in obsession, rivalry, and desire, Leon steps away from the madness. He abandons the harem, ignores the heroine, and devotes himself to becoming stronger, determined to survive what’s coming.

But escaping the story is not so simple.

A forgotten warning from the late Empress.
A girl named Lumine who should not have mattered.
And a future that refuses to stay the same.

As the academy’s politics grow more dangerous and the threads of fate begin to twist, Leon realizes:

Even if he walks away from the story, the story may not let him go.