You are a transmigrator, but you've lost your memory.
In early spring, you fell into a turbulent and chaotic world. After a cataclysmic war, the emperor lost his head, but the old military aristocracy of the republic and the rising powers were still locked in a struggle. The slums lay just two kilometers from the capital's castle. Their inhabitants despised one another, yet looked down on one another too, battering themselves bloody as they struggled to survive.
The System says this world is a power fantasy novel.
You're a disposable extra in this world. If you want to survive, you have to help the male lead, who will transmigrate here a year from now, carry out the face-slapping plot, and ultimately end up on the scaffold, cursed by the masses.
You don't understand, but you want to live.
Your name is Nicolas von Wolfram. You call yourself Nico. Now you're a detective with a fallen noble's title.
[Side quest unlocked: Play your part until the male lead arrives.]
So you're forced to feel your way through solving cases, witnessing one shattered life after another, one vivid person after another. You feel anger, you grieve, and you keep moving forward as if you fear nothing.
Then a stranger the System won't name appears. At first, you think you're enemies and rivals. Later, you decide he's another transmigrator, so you test him, offend him, fight alongside him, and even start to like him a little.
But can someone explain to you what "this person is outside the System's jurisdiction" means? And what does "he may or may not be the male lead" mean?
Well, isn't that even better?
Nico walks up to this "brother and comrade," presses his head down, and kisses him on the lips. Then he asks, "Are you going to send me to the scaffold?"
The man smiles. "Not while I'm alive. And if that day really comes, we'll be side by side. So, does that mean I have a claim on you now?"
"...Not until we've burned this world down."
· Melancholy, unhinged idealist gong × cool-headed, sharp-tongued rebel detective shou
· Shou-focused, both characters are each other's only partners, 1v1. There is an unrequited crush from another character, but it isn't a major part of the story.
· Alternate European setting with suspense, criminal investigation, and political intrigue, plus unconventional elements.
· Ensemble cast
· The first book in the four-part European-style series Ivory Tower Rose
Theme: Idealism never dies.
