(A/N: Their relationship dynamic progresses and doesn't stay exactly like it is at the start (The one-sided love doesn't last long). Pacing is also relatively fast at the start, but slows down in the future in romance arcs.)

In his old life, he was an assassin, invisible, efficient, and utterly alone.
His only escape came from the pages of a fantasy novel, Crown of Thorns, and the character no one else seemed to understand: Lady Evelina D’Arclight, the proud and brilliant villainess fated to lose everything.

After his death, he wakes up inside that very story, not as a hero, but as Cael Arden, a student at Eryndor Royal Academy. The world is just as he remembers it, right down to the woman destined to fall.

But this time, he’s not a bystander.
With a lifetime of deadly skills and the knowledge of what’s to come, Cael sets out to rewrite the story itself, to protect Evelina, rise through the academy’s ruthless hierarchy, and change a fate written in stone.

As alliances form and secrets surface, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur.
And in a world built on power and prophecy, he’ll prove that even a villainess deserves her happy ending.

Now that my weapon was upgraded, I had another problem; I really can't have enough of that now, can I?


While the new saber definitely kept the ability to absorb dark magic as it did with the darkyte, it had one downgrade.


Which meant the launcher I just spent a fortune on was now effectively useless.


And going back to Bree's Mechanicum to make it larger to fit a saber would beat its entire purpose of being maneuverable and inconspicuous.


I experimentally tapped on the object; even though it wasn't an actual artifact in the novel, it was still a weapon.


And it did, it even came with a unique classification to boot.


But now the question was what should I even fuse it with? I'd rather not fuse it into the saber, too risky, and the new saber already does its job quite well.


Chapter 87 - She Heard...?