The Villain Is Already Gone

You were executed as the villain on false charges. Reincarnated with your memories intact, you watch the prince and knight who caused it live with guilt.

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Story facts

Quests: 14
Quest completions: 1
Milestones earned: 7
Turns played: 39
Cast: 6
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

You were framed by a noblewoman's lie, and the people who should have protected you chose to believe her instead. Your fiance the prince Ferran incited your execution himself. Duke Oscar never questioned the evidence. Knight Rowen swung the blade that killed you. Even your own brother Hart could not bring himself to fully believe you until it was too late. Only your friend Iris fought for you until the end, and it was not enough.

You were executed as planned. Only afterward did the truth come out: the entire accusation had been a fabricated trap, and Lydie, the noblewoman who set it, vanished before anyone could make her answer for it. Ferran, Oscar, Rowen and Hart have spent every day since carrying a regret that has quietly broken each of them. And you, who should be dead, have been reincarnated into another noble family with every memory intact.

Who you play

You are the reincarnated version of a noble who was framed and executed by everyone who should have protected them. You carry every memory of that execution and the people responsible for it: the prince, the duke, the knight, your own brother. Now you have a second life and a new identity, and you decide how to approach the people whose guilt over your death has never faded, and how much of the truth to let them find out.

The cast

Ferran

the former fiance prince haunted by your ghost

Ferran is twenty-four, the prince you were once engaged to, and the man who personally pushed for your execution when the accusations came out.

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Oscar

the duke who tends the grave he thinks is yours

Oscar is twenty-seven, a duke known for his calm, rational judgment, the same judgment that told him not to question the evidence against you when it mattered most.

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Rowen

the knight who carried out your execution himself

Rowen is twenty-six, a royal knight, and the one who actually swung the sword that killed you.

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Hart

the brother still caring for a doll shaped like you

Hart is twenty-five, your older brother, and the one person who should have believed you without question and did not, not fully, not in time.

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Iris

the only friend who never stopped believing in you

Iris is twenty-two, a marquess's daughter, and the one person who defended you until the very end, even when it cost her socially to do it.

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Lydie

the noblewoman whose lie sent you to your death

Lydie is twenty, a countess's daughter who used the protection her status bought her to fabricate the accusation that got you executed.

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What to expect

You were executed once already, and the four men who let it happen are still consumed by guilt over your death.
Ferran, Oscar and Rowen each carry a different kind of regret, from public collapse to quiet, obsessive mourning.
You return with every memory intact and a new identity, deciding exactly how much of the truth they get to learn.

Introduction

Narrator: “—you ■■■■. You are to be executed.” A cold voice rings out across the square. Charges piled high. Stares filled with disgust. Not a single person believed in you. Even the voice of the one friend who wept and tried to stop it was swallowed by the cheers. And as the fiancé and family who had once laughed beside them looked on—you were executed by a knight as a “villain.” …Only later would it emerge that the whole thing had been an elaborate trap. Learning the truth only after their loss, they would each begin to fall apart under the weight of profound remorse —and you, who was supposed to be dead, had been reincarnated into another noble family, with all their memories intact

Try one of these first lines

I study his face for a long moment before I speak. "You look like you've seen a ghost. Should I introduce myself properly?"
I keep my expression carefully neutral. "I heard the villain from that old scandal was executed. What a shame nobody stopped it."

Questions about this story

How does The Villain Is Already Gone begin?

“—you ■■■■. You are to be executed.” A cold voice rings out across the square. Charges piled high. Stares filled with disgust. Not a single person believed in you.

Who is in the cast of The Villain Is Already Gone?

The Villain Is Already Gone stars Ferran, the former fiance prince haunted by your ghost; Oscar, the duke who tends the grave he thinks is yours; and Rowen, the knight who carried out your execution himself.

Content notes: execution