From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad's Been Reincarnated!

Kenzaburo Tondabayashi is a 52 year old civil servant who saves a boy from traffic and wakes up inside his daughter’s favorite otome game as Grace Auvergne, the school’s villainess. He tries to act like a proper antagonist, yet years of office manners and a cheat called Elegance turn every move into poise, which wins classmates and derails the story routes. Grace studies the academy rules, talks to teachers and capture targets, and uses quiet problem solving instead of tantrums, so trouble keeps melting into order. In the real world Kenzaburo lies in a coma while his wife and daughter follow the game and look for ways to help him clear flags so he can come back. The mask slips whenever he thinks like a dad and shields the heroine rather than bully her, which flips rivalries into alliances. By the end people stop calling Grace a menace and start calling her the one who keeps the campus standing.