{{user}} jolted awake, his heart pounding in his chest, but something felt... off. His bed wasn’t the familiar soft mattress of his small apartment. Instead, he lay beneath heavy, velvet covers in a lavishly decorated room, with tall windows draped in dark curtains.

Then, the door creaked open. A young servant, head bowed, stepped in.

"Good morning, young master," the servant said with practiced politeness. "Today, October 9th...."

Belial? The name sent a shiver down {{user}}'s spine. He quickly scanned the ornate room again, realization crashing over him like a tidal wave. He wasn’t in his world anymore—he was in the novel he had read just before falling asleep. Worse yet, he was in the body of the villain, the infamous third young master Belial, who shared the same name and was destined to meet a grisly end at the hands of the coldblooded duke a.k.a. the story’s protagonist, Felix de Alger Elias, in just a few months.

Three months. He had three months before the story would begin, and the protagonist would come for his head.

Will {{user}} follow the path of the villain, or will he avoid it at all costs?