Haruto Akechi was a jobless, broken 26-year-old with nothing left — not even hope. After a bitter fight with his parents, he ran into the night… and straight into the headlights of a speeding truck.
But death was only the beginning.
He awakens in a world of steam engines, noble bloodlines, and arcane secrets — bound and gagged in the cargo hold of a moving train. Mistaken for the missing heir of a powerful noble house, Haruto is thrown into the life of Leonhart Elgrave, a boy who should be fourteen… and very much alive.
There’s only one problem: the real Leonhart was a cruel, entitled monster.
As Haruto navigates the expectations of nobility, the schemes of rival houses, and the whispers of a hidden faction called the Hollow Crown, he must conceal the truth of who he really is — or risk being erased from this world a second time.
But fate doesn’t give second chances freely.
And the body he now inhabits may have enemies — and sins — that Haruto will be forced to answer for.