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After dying in an accident with his little sister, Kenji wakes up in the body of the young duke, a powerful but widely despised official in the Camelot Empire. Everyone sees him as a cunning traitor who manipulated the young Empress's rise to power. But he just want to survive.

The story follows Kenji as he navigates dangerous court politics while trying to shed his predecessor's villainous reputation. Though the emoress suspect and resent him, she can't eliminate him without risking her own position against rival factions.

The Empror's Trap

Kenji had his reasons for such arrangements. The Imperial Guard referred to those people as rioters, indicating they lacked significant combat capabilities.

The bar for being considered a rioter was quite low. In various nations, such groups were often used as pawns by politicians. Some were even treated as mere cannon fodder.

Thus, the quality of rioters varied greatly. Some had genuine convictions they wanted to fulfill, others were ordinary people hired with money to cause trouble, and some were simply following orders...

Expecting them to break through the palace guards was fantasy. If the palace guards could be breached by rioters wielding shabby weapons, Kenji would be unfit to serve as Grand Marshal.

However, this didn't mean these people were useless. Their purpose was to serve as cannon fodder.

Ch 73 - The Rebel Army of Prince Liam