A passionate reader of dark fantasy novels awakens inside the storyline as Han Siha, a notorious minor villain destined to be slaughtered early in the narrative by the main protagonists. Possessing zero talent for conventional spellcasting and cursed with a terrible reputation among his peers, Siha realizes that his only hope for surviving the looming catastrophe is to successfully graduate from the prestigious academy and retire peacefully far away from the plot. Desperate for a viable survival strategy, he discovers an unranked potential in beast taming, drawing upon his past-life intuition with animals. When a routine class exercise unexpectedly results in him taming a legendary juvenile Red Dragon with mere words, the entire institution is thrown into shock. As he bonds with increasingly rare mythical beasts and masters unorthodox magical theories, the very protagonists who were destined to execute him begin flocking to his side with offers of partnership and secret alliances. Striving to avoid deadly story flags while managing a menagerie of divine creatures, the unlikely tamer navigates cutthroat academic tournaments and shadowy conspiracies threatening the empire....more