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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

The Western Empire's territory wasn't particularly large.

Looking at the entire human world, it qualified as a large country, but compared to Camelot's scale, there was still a considerable gap. Its land area was roughly less than half of Camelot's.

However, almost all of its territory was suitable for habitation, unlike Camelot with its vast mountain ranges and deserts. This led to exceptionally developed internal transportation in the Western Empire. Five hundred years of development had made the empire's infrastructure remarkably complete, even using stone to build the Central Avenue that ran through the Western Empire from east to west.

Now, the convoy was speeding along this Central Avenue.

"It's so smooth," Pluvia remarked while sitting in the carriage.

Ch 94 - Give and Take