After defeating the Demon Lord, a chosen hero learns the truth: the Demon Lord was once a hero too, and the church has been creating both heroes and monsters to control the world through hope and fear.

Framed as a traitor and branded the False Hero, he is saved by the man he killed and sent to a forgotten sanctuary. There, surrounded by the people he was taught to destroy, he must uncover why the church wants him to become the next Demon Lord, and whether he can break the cycle before hatred turns him into exactly what they need.