Seven whole years have passed since then. I have been a busy body. Every day has been honestly great living like a normal person. Well a normal adventurer. I have managed to send a few letters to Jerald in this time. Even managing to meet him in secret and checking in on my pets. Jerald when he first learned I was okay was ecstatic. He also questioned why I didn’t reach out sooner. I explained all that occurred on the day I was disowned and the truth of my family. He stared at me then pulled me in for a hug. It was the second time in this life that I had cried.

After calming down we continued talking and meeting. If I had a quest taking me to the Kingdom of Grender I would hop onto Jerald’s merchant ship. Besides keeping my only friend in contact I have been making guild friends. So far Tyson is actually a nice guy. I really hope he never finds out I am the villain. The rest of his party are reasonable and friendly enough. Tyson sometimes slips things from the real world into conversation. Like cars or anime references. I was so close to accidentally revealing myself to him. While Tyson is a nice guy, I don’t know if he is working for Dr. Sullivan.

If I bring up Dr. Sullivan and he is working for the man, then I just outed myself. It’s too big of a risk. Like what if he was told the villain was another player? Or hell, what if this is an actual beta tester that consented unlike me? What if he chose to be here? There are many different bad things that could come from going down that route. So I just never bring it up. Besides him his other team members are Harvey, Kensly and Willow. Harvey is easy enough to get along with, though he has asked me to steal things for him. Kensly doesn’t trust me much and I don’t trust her. She’s a rogue so I get not trusting me, but I don’t trust her since she always tries to snoop in my bag. Lastly Willow is kind enough and has good aim for her bow.

I am now gold rank and the heroes party is platinum rank. From what Tyson has told me they have slain dragons and have brought peace to nations. He has even joked the villain must be too scared to attack him. He wouldn’t be wrong. Other than that I have been working on learning more magic. Slowly increasing my mana resistance. I can only do it once per day, usually either passing out when I do. So far I have given myself the best chance of living through anything the hero throws at me. Though I hope to never fight him, he is a monster on the field of battle. A true main character type. Overly powerful with unscalable limits. I am sure there is some balancing somewhere but I just don’t see it.

What I do know is that most of the Kingdom of Astria think Andras is dead. That’s right my mother killed me off! A declaration that I was assassinated was sent across the entire lands. Are they kidding me? Furthermore they labeled me as a ‘sailor’s play thing’ and brought in Jerald’s family. How day she!? Not only that they brought up how I was a ‘disturbed child’ that was far too intelligent for my age. How It was clear now that I was a villain and it was good that I was dead.

If they want a villian? I'll give them a villian. They deserve to suffer after what they put me through. First I have to get Jerald in on this plan. I don’t want him to suffer from my mother bringing his family into this. What’s with the whole ‘sailor’s play thing’ part anyhow? Is it possible that… My mother thought I was selling myself to the sailors? I mean that makes the disownment make more sense at least. In any case she has targeted my friend's honor! This won’t stand. If I don’t clear this up then no woman will ever want to marry Jerald. He deserves a good life!

But how will I get back at my mother and father? Looking into the royal laws of Astria I find a very funny clause. If I win against my father in a duel to the death then I can take the throne. An old that that was never removed or changed. If I use this then… I could take everything from them. But this would forever truly make me a villain. I tried to be the good guy and live a peaceful life. But they are abusing their power as royals. I will have to get myself trained on laws and how to run a country properly before I do this. I half paid attention to my tutor in my youth so I had a bit to catch up on. Once I am able to take down my family and control the throne I will make sure Astria prospers. This might be a bit self righteous but hell… I think I could run the kingdom fairly by myself. Maybe even have Jerald as my advisor. Whatever I decide I know what my goal is now.

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First order of business was working to clear away the rumors. I went around in my disguise and paid people to stop them. Soon as spring passed the rumors were quelled enough to not be a problem. Next was learning how to run a whole nation. What tax laws and other kingdom things I would need to know. This was just a lot of studying but I managed to understand a majority at the end of three months.

I then set my sights on the noble households of Astria. I will need good favor with them as the prince to turn them over. Jerald will be by my side so that's one out of four down. The three other marque houses should be easy to sway with money or land. So I seek out house Yulfron first. Their house is big in the military and many of their sons have fought as knights. I spoke with the head of the house, Darvin and he was shocked to see I was alive. Soon with a small amount of coin and a promise to keep his family in the military I have his support.

The second house of Savtors was a bit harder to convince. They had heard the rumors of me being evil and didn’t trust me. But months of schmoozing with them at parties and proving to be a good man they eventually agreed. They just wanted to be assured that they could still run the newspapers in the city. I gave them my word and moved on to the last house hold. The Balfords are a strong house who study in laws. They refused to speak with me for weeks. That is until the other two houses sent word of my intentions. After a long four month discussion we came to a deal. I would change some of the laws to make Astria less restrictive on marriage. Don’t know why sir Morgan wanted that but I agreed.

Now with these houses on my side I worked to discuss with them my plans. From then until the present day I was sending letters back and forth between the four. Learning more about Darvin Yulfron and his love for a good fight. About how Issac Savtor loves to gossip and eavesdrop at parties and how Morgan Balford, while gruff and stoic, is kind. It feels good to have some friends besides Jerald. But I don’t know if I can truly trust them. So far they have been helping during this time but how much of that is for themselves? Looking at my stats I ponder what else I can do.

Name: Andras Kerrim Lorenz

Hp: 36/36

Age: 27 Years Old

Gender: Male

Mp: 49/49 Class: Dark Summoner Title: Villain

Strength: 18

Dexterity: 17

Intelligence: 24

Wisdom: 22

Constitution: 18

Charisma: 19

Observation Level 20

Programming Level 15

Magic Proficiency Level 15

Magic Research Level 15

Water Magic Level 17

Wind Magic Level 18

Dark Magic Level 19

Poison Resistance Level 14

Disease Resistance Level 7

Enchanting Level 9

Pain Resistance Level 16

Acid Resistance Level 12

Burn Resistance Level 14

Potion Making Level 16

Summoning level 21

Magic Resistance Level 7

My stats are good for the moment. Still don’t know why I don’t have a level. Maybe I scale to the hero? Who knows really. In any case I think I am as ready as I'll ever be for the dual with my father. I just hope my new friends will stand by my side.