The Main Character is the Villain

EP 0 - Foolish Lord

“F*ck.”

Was my first word upon waking up.

I found myself in absurdity. I was somehow in a plush bedroom, snuggled up in a luxurious bed. I don't remember a thing after last night's drinking spree.

I distinctly remember the start of catching up with friends, and making jokes while grilling meat. Deep into the night, I recall walking in the street after rejecting a friend's offer to call me a taxi. Then I stopped by a convenience store and bought some hangover cure.

I couldn't remember anything after that.

And 'that' fact was unsettling me.

What the hell did I do yesterday? Where did I go to end up sleeping in a lavish mansion's bedroom? Did I trespass a local furniture store?

Quickly surveying my surroundings, the modest room starkly contrasted the glamorous bed. A small closet was tucked away in a corner, and a full-length mirror hung on the wall. This place didn't look like a furniture store, and the bleak visuals were convincing enough to make me consider I might have been kidnapped.

Directly in front of the bed, there was an altar with strange patterns drawn on it. And right next to it were a bunch of white robes on the hanger. I felt like I had seen the patterns and robes from somewhere, but I wasn’t in a hurry to think about it. Knowing what this place was more important.

“What the f*ck?”

For some reason, this ghastly pagan altar cult room, felt strangely familiar. It wasn't like the studio I used to live in nor the reserve army barracks, but it had a familiar vibe. I should have come across it through some medium.

I got off the bed to check the room. Only then did I realize that my field of vision was strangely low, and my body felt lighter. It's like I shrunk by 10 cm, and the wheezing phlegm in my lungs was gone.

If I was previously weighed down by alcohol and overwork, screaming with every movement, now my body was filled with vitality, just like when I was in high school. As an experiment, I stretched my back and it flexed effortlessly, nowhere was the creaking.

But that wasn't the only inexplicable fact. My rough hands had turned smooth, and my sagging skin now glowed with elasticity. My arms were thin but firm, and I noticed a heavy feel in my lower half. On top of all that, my whole body was overflowing with strength. I feel like I could run up and down for three days and three nights.

What on earth is going on? I frantically rushed to the mirror hanging in the room. There stood the reflection of a handsome blonde with red eyes. Half curly blonde hair that exudes aristocracy, and a slender appearance that's almost seem too feminine. And with the slightly pointed ears, I instantly recognized this pretty boy's identity.

He was a game character.

In the Japanese fantasy RPG erogame [Heroine Legend], there's a character whose concept was so over-the-top that it turned into a meme: Peta Lucius. The son of Peta Sirius, a priest of the legendary hero party, known for his strong physical damage and outstanding buffing capabilities, which made him popular among minmax players.

But apart from his skills, this guy has a setting that shook the hearts of gamers playing the story and that is—he's an extreme pushover.

Peta Lucius was frugal and simple by nature, and as a half-elf, he doesn't need to eat much to survive. So he only receives half the rent compared to other territories. However, the tenant farmers took advantage of Lucius' kindness, and paid even less for the already low rent under the pretext of poor harvest. As a result, Lucius' territory was in the red every year until the hero party arrived.

What's amusing is that Lucius himself was a priest of the Great Celestial Church, so whenever there is a bad harvest, he prays for the land to be fertile. Thanks to this, Lucius' territory has the lowest rent and the most fertile land in the empire.

So, when you first enter Lucius' territory, you witness a scene of fat tenant farmers exploiting other slaves, embezzling agricultural products, all the while praising Lucius' and the Great Celestial Church's grace. Simply not knowing this fact makes him an incompetent fool. But Lucius' crimes didn't end there. Even when the hero party witnessed this corruption and reported it to Lucius, Lucius...

“I don’t care if the farmers are a little greedy of the crops.”

This just infuriated the hero party and the players.

Furthermore, right next to Lucius' fiefdom was the villainous fat, blonde and tanned, NTR lord. Lucius' childhood friend, Sieri, worked as a nun on this NTR lord’s land during Lucius' trainee days in the Great Celestial Church.

The lord coerces Sieri into becoming his concubine, promising to pay off her family's debt and make a large donation. Sieri, unable to refuse the lord who practically controls the church, euphemistically replies that she needs Lucius' permission.

Lucius agreed and gave his blessing, wishing their love to last forever.

Despairing, Sieri becomes the fat lord’s concubine. When the hero party first visits the neighboring lord, they find Sieri sitting beside him with a dead look in her eyes.

Ultimately, the situation was resolved when the main character brutally kills the evil NTR lord, trying to mess with the hero party. Many players foamed at their mouth seeing the idiot give away such a good girl to the fat lord.

Anyway, after the hero party resolved all these dumbassery, they can either take the hero's relic that the Peta family had or take Lucius with them. However, I remember them just taking the relic and ditching the idiot. No matter how good his performance was, it was strange to have a male character in a harem party.

And thus, I have concluded— I ended up in the body of this pushover lord. I scratched my head in thought.

Having taken over this wimp, what should I do from now on?

After thinking about it for a while, I realized that this was basically an isekai. Since I've crossed over into a fantasy world, what could I not do? I raised my hand in the air and shouted.

“Status window.”

Name: Peta Lucius

Job: Great Celestial Church Southern High Priest

Level: 36

Stats

Strength: 89

Agility: 78

Intelligence: 124

Luck: 88

Traits

Charger

Deal double damage to solid structures and objects.

Mace Adept

No hit penalty when using a mace.

Heretic Inquisitor

Can declare the opponent to be evil or dark.

Deal double damage to evil and dark attribute targets, and take only half damage.

“What, it really worked?”

Surprised that the status window actually appeared, I slowly began to read through its contents.

By [Heroine Legend] standard, Lucius’s current status was sufficient to rank him among the strongest characters. In [Heroine Legend], the strength of the average adult is around 4 to 5. Even surpassing 20 means you’re a superhuman with 4 times the strength of an adult, but this cub Lucius starts off with 18 times the strength.

Of course, this was purely numbers. In reality, he could be stronger or slightly weaker.

Furthermore, let's consider this [Heretic Inquisitor] trait. Despite Lucius' foolish behavior, there was a reason why no one dared to covet his position as lord. Lucius was incredibly strong and merciless when his boundaries is crossed. Lucius' line was very strict, especially concerning the lordship and honor his father had passed down to him, more so than his own or his family's wealth.

His filial piety towards his father, who died defeating the Demon King, was so extreme that anyone who coveted his lordship or insulted his father would be turned into minced meat on the spot.

In Lucius' cutscene, a bandit insulted and provoked Lucius' father, knowing Lucius' reputation as a pushover. Upon hearing this, Lucius lost all his temper and killed all the bandits with his mace.

This scene seems to have been added to emphasize that Lucius wasn’t just a pushover. But since such a strong character lived so passively, it frustrated users to no end.

“My Lord, are you awake?”

I looked up. A woman was calling me from beyond the door. Did Lucius use honorifics with his servants? I couldn't quite remember, but I figured Lucius would have used polite speech, so I decided to go with it for now. If I suddenly started speaking informally and acting high-handed, people would find it suspicious.

“Come in.”

The door opened, and the first thing that caught my eye was a voluptuous chest. Then, a cute face with a few freckles came into view. She was dressed as a typical maid from a noble household, but her figure and face seemed out of place for such work.

Wondering if I could see her status window too, I thought to myself that I wanted to see it.

Name: Aira

Job: Swindler

Favorability: 12

Level: 6

Stats

Strength: 4

Agility: 8

Intelligence: 12

Luck: 3

Traits

Accountant

As a result of working with finances for many years, she has become very proficient in accounting.

Automatically organizes the territory's operating expenses.

Actor

Can act other jobs.

Currently acting as: Maid

Skilled Thief

Can unlock all locked doors below current level. This value is further modified based on the tools used.

I finally understood the identity of this maid. While I didn’t recognize the name Aira, I knew that a swindler under Lucius' command held a significant position. In the beginning, there was a scene where Lucius lamented that the person he entrusted with the accounting ledger ran off with the money. That scene was also a very important foreshadowing of Lucius being a fool.

An accounting trait and the job of a swindler. I could tell. This, this b*tch is the culprit.

Then I looked back at Aira’s chest. Her hands were clasped in front of her, making those melons even more prominent.

“Great luck.”

“Yes?”

“No, it's nothing.”

I was already looking forward to catching this b*tch.

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