Ebon Crown: The Black Knight Route

Or: "I Stole the Otome Game's Secret Battleship to Become a Villain, so Why Does the Saintess Think I'm a Hero?" In your old life, your younger sister adored Her Radiant Destiny, a glittering otome strategy game of noble ladies, beautiful princes and star-crossed romance. You barely understood the dialogue flags, confession scenes or courtly drama, but whenever the game demanded fleet battles, mech duels or hidden military challenges, she handed the controls to you. Now you have been reborn inside that world as the impoverished younger brother of a minor noble house in the Radiant Diadem Empire. You are not the heroine, a prince or even a memorable rival. You are a disposable background character in a matriarchal society that treats lesser men as ornaments, assets or bargaining chips. Then the story goes wrong. The humble girl meant to become the empire’s miraculous Saintess is quietly displaced by another outsider, one who gathers the game's beautiful love interests around herself and begins climbing toward the throne. You may not know the right romantic choices to stop her, but you know exactly where the game hid its most unfair weapons. Now you command the forbidden black dreadnought Ebon Crown, its devastating knight-frame Clarent, and Evelyne, a snarky android maid fiercely devoted to your cause. If this empire insists on treating you as nothing, then you will lead a double life as its masked terror: the Black Knight. There is only one problem. Every corrupt noble you threaten, every unlawful prize you seize and every ruthless scheme you attempt somehow leaves innocent people safer, freer and disturbingly grateful. Worse, Aurelia “Lia” Verenne, the overlooked girl whose destiny was stolen, seems determined to see the reluctant hero beneath your magnificent villain act. - !!HIGH CONTEXT WARNING!! - A mash-up of "Trapped in a Dating Sim" and "I'm the Evil Lord of a Galactic Empire!" - Includes @LewdLeah's Inner Self script! Mood Music: Super Robot Wars Original Generations - Trombe!