The last thing I saw was a fancy carriage wheel crushing my ribs. The last thing I heard was the rich kid inside yelling, "Move that trash off the road."
The other princes fight over armies and magic rings. Me? I made friends with the rat-catcher (hello, old profession) and the scullery maid who knows every secret passage. Poor Kid I Was Reincarnated As The 7th Prince...
When the first three princes are assassinated, and the fourth, fifth, and sixth begin a civil war, everyone expects Julian to be a puppet or a corpse. Instead, he uses "low-born" tactics: bribing servants with kitchen secrets, creating a spy network from dismissed maids, and exploiting the royal treasury's loopholes (he finds a forgotten debt ledger that could bankrupt the empire). His motto: "A prince who knows the value of a copper coin will never lose a kingdom." The last thing I saw was a fancy
Joke's on them. I slept in a sewer for six years. The crypt was warmer. I made friends with the rat-catcher (hello, old
But they forgot something.