My Idle-Game System Keeps Triggering Death Flags
Reincarnated as a low-level butler in the brutal otome game Royal Hearts, Kenji has one simple goal: keep his head attached to his shoulders and avoid the spotlight. His mistress, Lady Violet, is the game's scripted "Villainess"—a haughty noblewoman bound for a tragic execution. To survive, both of them desperately need to keep a low profile.
There’s just one tiny problem. Kenji possesses a rogue, out-of-control "Idle System." When Kenji is awake, he is an anxious, risk-averse, and thoroughly average servant. But the moment he goes "offline"—whether sleeping, knocked unconscious, or slipping into a brief daytime daydream—his System’s Autopilot takes total control of his body.
Hardcoded with a singular, unyielding directive—“Ensure the absolute safety, luxury, and prestige of Lady Violet by the most efficient means possible”—the AI employs extreme, frame-perfect speedrun logic to solve household problems.
This triggers a hilarious, escalating web of double-blind misunderstandings:
Kenji wakes up in a cold sweat every morning, reading horrifying System Logs detailing his sleepwalking crimes (like stealing a neighboring nation's sacred relic just to cure Violet’s mild cold, or hanging elite royal inquisitors from the clocktower like wet laundry).
Lady Violet watches her terrifying death flags systematically dismantled overnight and becomes utterly convinced her quiet, polite butler is an omniscient, yandere dark lord who will destroy anyone who gets in her way.
The Rest of the World looks at the bizarre, untraceable downfalls of Violet’s political rivals and concludes she is a ruthless shadow empress commanding a silent, deity-like executioner.
As Violet enters the prestigious Magic Academy, Kenji is dragged along, forced to stand through hours of exhausting lectures. But staying awake is hard. When Kenji slips into three-second "daydreaming micro-naps," his autopilot triggers physics-defying, incredibly romantic rescues of the game's original heroine—who suddenly abandons her scripted prince-romances to obsess over a "sleepy, mysterious butler."
With suspicious Knight Commandants investigating the estate, legendary Elven Spymasters deploying invisible magic sensors (which Kenji's system treats as "excess dust" to be swept away), and the imperial crown taking notice, the stakes keep climbing.
Can a chronically exhausted butler survive his own autopilot? Or will his overpowered, speedrunning system accidentally conquer the entire empire before he can even wake up?
Anuj_Kumar_6912 · Fantasy
It's really good so far. The only thing that's triggering me is the writing like why write only 1 word or 2 words that often? And the sentences too, you could easily connect 2 or 3 sentences and reading would be much better but I think it's only triggering me.