Ren thought his reward for being the first to clear the sequel to The Legend of the Seven Heroes would be personal satisfaction. So when he's rewarded with “special content,” he quickly accepts...only to wake up as a baby in the game's world. At first, hoping he's been reborn as the hero, Ren instead discovers his new life is that of the story's shadowy antagonist, the figure suspected to be the mastermind behind the entire trilogy.
 
Good thing Ren is fully intent on living a peaceful life in the countryside—without getting involved with any characters or world-ending plots. But when he crosses paths with the very saint he is meant to kill in canon, Ren realizes fate may be the ultimate final boss.
 
(Source: J-Novel Club)

There was a globally popular game called "The Legend of the Seven Heroes." Ren cleared the sequel of that game at the fastest record in the world, and thus he obtained bonus special data. However, no matter where he looked inside the game, he could not find the data. The moment Ren was about to give up on the search, he decided to start playing the second round of the game. Suddenly, a notification message "Do you want to start a special story?" appears on the screen. When Ren chooses "Yes" without hesitation, he loses consciousness, and when he woke up, he was a baby.
 
Could it be that he was reincarnated as one of the heroes in "The Legend of the Seven Heroes"? Ren, who thought such a thing was impossible, could not believe his ears when he heard his name from his mother's mouth. It was the name of a classmate who betrays the heroes in the middle of the story. Of course, he wishes to live in peace. But in the game, he meets a saint whose life he's supposed to take, and doesn't. Furthermore, he ends up saving a character (the boss of a great noble family) who was supposed to die.
 
All of these things create a development that he doesn't know about...

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