I Enrolled as the Villain

"I’m going back to the academy tomorrow."

I said it plainly, like it was just another morning, just another line in Kael’s routine.

The room went still.

I glanced toward the window where the city of Eldrigrade stretched beyond the glass. Dozens of towering skyscrapers pierced the sky, clustered tightly at its heart. Around them, long European-style buildings sprawled outward elegant, elongated, and laced with modern technology

Behind me, silence stretched.

Evelyne reacts surprised but not correcting him.

I turned slowly to face her. "There’s something else."

In the novel, Kael was everything the Valery House worshipped.

The youngest born, yet he had the Mythrigan the "Eye of God." The prodigy. The boy with limitless potential. His father didn’t hesitate to name him heir, even with Evelyne right there.

Older. Stronger. More disciplined. More compassionate.

I glanced at her hands bandaged. Faint red stains soaked through the wrappings. Training wounds, maybe. Or worse, self-inflicted standards.

She worked for everything I was handed.