Exams can be life-changing. Failing one just ended Allen’s promising career at the royal court before it began. Now, to make ends meet, the lowborn sorcerer must help one of the kingdom’s highest-born young ladies pass hers.

All Sekiei wants is a quiet life—which is hard to come by when you’re the reincarnation of an ancient hero. War is on the horizon, leaving him with no choice but to prove he’s more than a name from long ago.

After failing the final exam for his dream job at the royal court, promising young sorcerer Allen finds himself roped into tutoring Lady Tina Howard, the magically impaired daughter of one of the kingdom’s most powerful nobles.