Strongest Minor Villain: The Exiled Prince Is Actually A Genius!? Chapter 1: The Beginning After The End

"Fuck...."

A young man with snow-white hair stared at the mirror.

His expression was one of utter disgust.

"Of all of the people I could have reincarnated as, it had to be you.... huh?"

He asked himself.

"I shouldn’t have played as him."

He could only lant about his fate as he stared at the glass in front of him.

The young man let out a deep sigh, resigning himself to his fate.

This very man wasn’t a normal person—no, in fact he was a transmigrator.

Soone who died as his streams began to get more popularity, when he had gifted the ga after winning an online gaming tournant.

His na was forrly Damien.

Now he was Arthur Kaiser Kurobane.

The first son of the Central Monarch.

Untalented trash. Disowned by his family for attempting to assault the first princess of the Western Monarch.

’If he did that, I wouldn’t even be able to bla him.’

Unlike most novels he read, there was no splitting headache as the mories assimilated with him.

It was like.... Arthur was Damien and Damien was Arthur.

It was because of that he knew the prince wasn’t responsible. No, in fact, he had frad for it.

In the original story, the young prince would be driven to madness and subsequently beca a minor villian at the Academy.

In most playthroughs the young prince didn’t have much ti to live, he would either be killed in one of many of the disastrous events that would befall.

The only different scenarios were the ones where you played as the prince.

Unfortunately, even then his relevance would only equal that of a mid-tier boss as his sche would always fail—a scenario which was uncommon for a ga that your choices often decided how it would end.

So the fact that the exiled prince’s sches always failed was interesting to say the least.

Damien was the first strear to try to change the ending.

At first it was going well, his follows steadily grew as the stream continued.

After ending the first part of the stream, and promising that he would continue it, Damien left his ho to shop for so groceries.

He never did get them.

The old man who owned the shop was muttering so strange poem when a truck ramd through the walls.

The old man wasn’t hit though.

Before Damien could even begin to comprehend what was happening, the old man jumped from the counter and leaped. All with superhuman agility—or at least, speed that he didn’t expect from soone that old.

At that mont he felt pain.

Excruciating pain.

There was no darkness.

No.... there was a blinding light. By the ti he regained himself, he was in a hospital bed, surrounded by machines and multiple drips attached to him.

But it wasn’t his body.

"But, I suppose an upside of this is the new look."

He looked handso.... No, he was handso.

It took him a while to realize he had spent several monts analyzing his new features. It couldn’t be helped, after all, in his past life he had to admit that he was a little plain.

Just slightly better than an everyday forgettable face.

"I need to focus."

He snapped himself out of it.

Later he could admire himself.

"First things, first."

Arthur went back to the bed and searched his surroundings frantically.

It took him a while to find it; a golden card tucked neatly under the sheets.

"I almost forgot where I kept it."

He had the mories of the original Arthur intact. But, he also had the mories of Damien.

It was as if one was his past life, and the other was his current life, and he had only awakened his mories now. Only after whatever the doctor that had operated on him did.

"Open."

Arthur commanded, channeling the energy of this world—essence, into his fingertips.

The card reacted to it.

A screen materialized in the air.

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[Na: Arthur Kaiser Kurobane]

[Soul Rank: Echo (R3)]

[Soul Potential: Symphony (R7)]

[Soul Clarity: 40%]

[Origin Skill: Perception Change]

[Soul Skills: (None)]

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The world’s power system was decided by your Resonance. The higher your resonance with essence, the stronger you would beco.

So, if you had a Soul Potential of 7, you would be stuck at Symphony for the rest of your life, that was assuming that you reached R7 in the first place.

It was also worth noting that the highest your resonance could reach was 10.

But—

"The quack actually did it."

Art quickly pocketed the card.

"He increased my Soul Potential."

He was elated.

The first prince of the Central Monarchy was born with a Soul Potential of only 6!

It wasn’t too hard to figure out how he spent his childhood.

Since Arthur’s mother had died early on, there was no one with him growing up.

His mother died when he was five years old, anyti he t his father he would also et a face of disappointnt, as if that wasn’t enough his younger sister bullied him on a daily basis.

He was known as the disgrace of the Kurobane Monarchy.

While his sister had awakened with a Soul Potential of R9, he had only awakened a Soul Potential of R6.

But despite everything, Arthur still tried.

He tried.... training till he dropped from exhaustion, honing his origin skill. Just doing anything in the hopes that he would be strong, that by so miracle he would break past the shackles of his Soul Potential....

But all his training was for naught.

He was always weaker than his sister.

And then, one day, his family decided they had enough of him.

He was frad with the attempted rape of the daughter of the Western Monarch.

He didn’t even like her.

She was way too flat for him!

Unfortunately, his words held no sway in the eyes of the public and those of his own family.

He was stripped of his title and promptly exiled.

Everything led to his current situation....