The Loathsome Scapegoat

Justice lost.

Evil prevailed.

Standing at the pinnacle of darkness, Terren Meyer raised his eyes to the heavens and prayed.

If there truly is a God… please kill me.

Return the happiness that should have belonged to them—to every sacrifice I stole it from.

Then, a voice seemed to descend from the sky.

Atone for your sins, Terren Meyer.

You are not even worthy of death.

Terren was a filthy commoner.

A vermin that had dared infiltrate the nobles’ Royal Academy.

Crushed beneath endless violence and discrimination, he wished to overturn the world.

So…

• At sixteen, he embraced dark magic.
• At nineteen, he ignited a rebellion.
• At twenty, everyone died.

And at twenty-six…

Terren regretted everything.

Every single day, he prayed for death.

Perhaps heaven finally heard him.

In an instant, he awakens once again as his sixteen-year-old self—the beginning of the nightmare.

Determined to correct every mistake, Terren struggles to rewrite the future.

But then…

“…Do you hate me that much, Terren?”

“Terren… Please, just don’t get hurt. Don’t wound yourself. Stop treating your body so carelessly.”

“Don’t leave me. Don’t betray me.”

Standing in his way at every turn is the face of his lifelong nemesis—

Leopold Delua.

The same man who once stood opposite him…

Now blushes shyly whenever their eyes meet.

…Why?

Somehow, everything has begun to go terribly wrong.

The story of a former villain—now a self-sacrificing scapegoat—who faints in disbelief as the people who once despised him suddenly begin treating him with kindness.