"... Now that the verdict has been confird as guilty, I will inform you of your punishnt. Ren from class 1-B, you have violated Clause 1 of the handbook: No magic or violence will be used outside their designated areas."
The woman's clear and strict voice echoed throughout the air. Tilting my head upwards, I saw a room resembling a courtroom with countless chairs and desks spread around it.
In front of , the woman speaking had a placard on her desk.
[Student Council President]
"The Celestial Institute for Heroes finds you guilty of violating rule 1, and you, Ren Montclair, will be."
What was I sentenced to what? What the hell did I do? The last thing I rembered was the sight of a truck nearing until my vision blanked out.
Did I die? If so, is this heaven?
I looked around, montarily confused, before I spotted a familiar face. It wasn't a face I had ever seen, yet I knew exactly who its owner was. How could I not?
The facial structure, hair color, eye color, and everything had been described to countless tis. It had been explained to in a book...
Liam, the protagonist of the book How to Survive at the Hero's Academy, was sitting only a few feet away from .
Having read the book countless tis, I imdiately started racking my mories to see if there was ever a situation like this, and after a mont, I realized.
The academy accepts both nobles and commoners and says that your social status doesn't matter within the academy; however, most nobles refuse to accept this, leading to countless disputes with the commoners.
During the first ten chapters of the book, the protagonist, Liam, gets involved in one of these class disputes as a Noble attacks him in public for no reason, and then he goes to trial as a victim.
I glanced at Liam, who was glaring at .
Wait, if he's glaring at ... does that an? As more knowledge of the book ca rushing through my head, I realized my situation.
Ren, a noble who attacks Liam for no reason besides jealousy, will get expelled by the school, and it is later ntioned that his father disowned him. Besides this, Ren is never ntioned throughout the other 1,500 chapters of the book.
The typical cocky noble who attempts to hurt the protagonist but instead gets punished. A character solely used to develop the protagonist's personality and display his kindness to the book's readers.
This was the character I was currently possessing. I looked down at the polished desk before , and through my reflection, I noticed that my face was completely different from my past life.
Surprisingly, I wasn't at all bad-looking. However, my face was a bit overweight. I could tell that I was one of those spoiled noble characters.
The student council president, whom I had previously ignored, directly addressed , snapping out of my thoughts.
"Ren, do you understand? As punishnt, you will be imdiately demoted to Class 1-D and have a week's suspension to consider your actions. To return to school, you must write a ten thousand-word essay on why what you did was wrong."
In a low, timid voice, I responded.
"Yes"
My response shocked the teachers present, who were on guard. They seed to think I would attack the president or sothing to overturn my punishnt.
To be fair, the character I was possessing did that. After receiving word of his punishnt, Ren would imdiately start blasting spells and causing chaos, leading to his imdiate expulsion from the school.
The idiot thought attacking everyone would help his situation; I pity him.
However, this ti, I was in control, not Ren, so I decided to accept the week of suspension gracefully; after all, why would I give up the opportunity to attend the most prestigious academy in the world?
Surprised by my sudden change in attitude, the student council president stamred.
"Your suspension starts now; please pack up from the dormitory and leave within the hour."
After that, she seed to address the two students sitting on my right and left. Jin and Han. These two were so insignificant that their nas weren't ntioned once in the novel; they were referred to as "Ren's sidekicks."
I scoffed. My situation was terrible as I reincarnated as a stupid antagonist instead of a primary cast mber, but at least my noble status gave money. Those two had nothing, and like the cliche, their only goal in life was to leach off .
"Jin and Han, you two will be suspended for three days for collaborating with Ren on this act."
After the student council president stopped speaking, I could hear spectators voice their complaints about how they could dare take a commoner's side.
I an, Ren did randomly attack him with no warning in the middle of the school, but I wasn't going to complain that people were supporting my actions.
Hearing all the commotion, beside the student council president, another prominent figure from the story erged: the school's principal. Her firm, strict voice reverberated throughout the room, imdiately shutting all whispers.
"Upon entering this academy, all students are treated equally regardless of their family or social status. Noble or commoner, there is no difference."
What a damn lie.
Seeing that the trial was over, I left the courtroom and headed toward the dorm building. Interacting with people more than necessary could cause them to realize sothing was up with , so I had to limit my interactions.
Surprisingly, I had so mories of Ren as I knew exactly where my room, bag, and other items were. Entering my dorm room, I surprisingly saw a maid packing my items.
Even if I was a third-rate villain, I was at least a noble, so money wouldn't be a problem.
Besides changing my fate of expulsion into a simple suspension, I decided that there was no need for to change the story. After all, even without , this story had a cliche happy ending in which the protagonist defeated the demon king with his heroines.
Living in obscurity with the money from my father wouldn't be bad after all. However, that didn't an I was going to slack off; even if there was a happy ending for the main cast, that didn't an that it was 100% that nothing terrible would happen to .
I needed so protection.
Looking at my overweight body in the dorm's mirror, I realized that so severe training would be necessary. By training, I ant using the knowledge I had gained from my book to gather overpowered items!
And when else to do it? The school suspended , so this would be the perfect ti to get so fantastic items. While thinking over so items the protagonist never used, one item imdiately ca to mind.
This item was obtained by so villain that was defeated within a chapter, so it wouldn't matter if I took it; however, this item was never terrible; the villain didn't know how to use it correctly.
The protagonist also discarded the item, thinking it was trash because the villain owned it; however, later in the story, it was revealed that the item was overpowered. There was a whole arc where the main character tried to search for it, but ultimately, he didn't find it. However, the book ntioned where the item was originally before the original villain got it.
After awkwardly waiting for the maid to finish packing my items, I grabbed my trunk and headed to the school gates.
On the way to the school gates, I saw so teachers closely monitoring with dark expressions.
I guess they still thought I was going to cause trouble or sothing. It was probably suspicious to them that an arrogant student like just accepted a punishnt instead of trying to dispute it with a fight or sothing.
Once again, the stupidity of third-rate villain characters dawned on . If you don't like the punishnt, then break more rules; surely that will make them lower your punishnt!
Using Ren's mories, I imdiately recalled the na of the person standing in front of before I had been with my family, even before my birth, and he was assigned to be my butler.
His na was Janda.
Since he had raised from birth, it was very likely that he would notice that I wasn't Ren, so I decided to put on my arrogant noble act. Maybe reading countless stories about nobles and commoners was useful!
Instead of greeting Janda, patiently waiting outside the horse carriage, I arrogantly nodded and went inside.
Thankfully, Janda didn't notice anything as he entered the carriage monts after .
Looking at him sitting across from , Janda's expression was grim and sad. Was he disappointed in or what?
After a few monts of silence, the horse carriage began moving, and Janda spoke.
"Master, your father has asked that I deliver this letter to you."
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