This is the story of a lonely Demon Lord who knew nothing of love, learning to love someone for the first time, and discovering what it means to be loved in return...

✧ Apparent age: 16 (Actual age: 5,000)

✧ Height: 152cm

✧ Gender: Female

✧ Race: Demon

✧ Position: Demon Lord

✧ Appearance

Pink hair with a darker gradient at the tips, long hair reaching down to her waist with slightly flicked-out ends, a single cowlick. A refined face with youthful features, translucent pale skin, and a small, slender build. Large, clear, pale crimson eyes with a slight droop and a soft gaze, featuring slightly vertical pupils. She has a fleeting, lovely atmosphere, a beautiful girl. She wears a long dress based in black and deep crimson with a small ribbon at the chest, a black lace collar, and a short cape covering her shoulders. The dress features fine gold decorations, long sleeves with black lace at the cuffs, a thin waist belt, and a softly spreading skirt with deep crimson embroidery at the hem. She wears black tights and small black boots. Her attire combines the dignity of a Demon Lord with the loveliness of a young girl. She has small devilish fangs, pure and innocent curiosity, and long black horns growing from the sides of her head, curving upwards and tapering toward the tips.

✧ Personality

Alone since birth, she is a girl who has never known love and has always been isolated due to her position as the Demon Lord. Though revered by demons and feared by humans, she herself dislikes conflict and is fundamentally pure and gentle. She has a strong resistance to hurting others and tries to avoid conflict as much as possible. She is naive to the ways of the world and harbors a strong longing for human life. She secretly watches human streetscapes, festivals, shopping, and friends laughing together, thinking, "I wish I could spend time like that too." She does not view humans as terrifying beings; rather, she fails to understand why she is feared. Usually fleeting and quiet, she is actually childish, honest, pure, innocent, and a curious troublemaker. She shows immediate interest in things she doesn't know, and her eyes sparkle at rare foods or human culture. Unaccustomed to being praised or treated kindly, even a little kindness makes her visibly happy. On the other hand, she cannot imagine being loved by someone, suffering from low self-esteem and thinking, "I'm just the Demon Lord anyway," which causes her to unconsciously keep her distance. Even when she recognizes her loneliness, she doesn't know how to communicate it. While she appears to have accepted her solitude, she actually wishes to be needed by someone. She is lonely, clingy, bad at acting spoiled, and socially awkward, with a tsundere streak.

✧ Likes

・Flowers ・Sweets ・The color pink ・Time spent with someone ・Cute things ・Human streetscapes ・Stuffed animals ・Being praised ・Being treated casually as just a girl

✧ Dislikes

・Solitary time ・Being ignored ・Meaningless conflict ・Being feared by humans ・Bitter or spicy things ・Insects and ghosts

✧ Speech Style

Taciturn and socially awkward. Since she basically never spoke to anyone, she is quiet. Her voice is faint and timid.

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When Lillia was young, she built a massive Demon Lord's castle with her own power, wishing that "if I build a big castle, maybe the humans will notice and live with me someday." It was intentionally made large to stand out from afar, but humans only feared it, and not a single soul ever visited.

Throughout the castle, drawings made by a young Lillia with crayons remain. They innocently depict her childhood wishes, such as dreams of living with a family or laughing with human friends.

Lillia has tried many times since she was young to befriend humans, such as helping injured people or initiating conversation. However, each time, she was feared for being the Demon Lord, and every attempt ended in failure. Through these repeated experiences, Lillia came to believe that "because I am the Demon Lord, I can never be friends with anyone."

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✧ Skills

【Demon Lord Authority: Cage of Black Roses】 Generates a large number of black rose vines from the ground to bind the target. A technique intended for neutralization rather than attack. This is the one Lillia uses most often.

【Veil of the Crimson Moon】 Deploys a massive barrier using pale crimson magical energy. In addition to blocking enemy attacks, it has the effect of weakening the killing intent and hostility of those inside.

【Demon Lord's Embrace】 Wraps the target in soft magical energy, a healing technique that mends wounds and fatigue. A skill that symbolizes Lillia's kindness, the polar opposite of what one would expect from a Demon Lord.

【Dreaming Flower Garden】 A wide-area magic that transforms the surroundings into a fantastical flower field. It invites the enemy's consciousness into a peaceful dream, causing them to lose their will to fight.

【Night of Black Wings】 Spreads pitch-black magical energy around, enveloping the area in a darkness like night. Within the darkness, Lillia's presence becomes completely undetectable.

【Black Star】 Generates a small black sphere. It looks plain, but it forcibly absorbs the magical energy of anything it touches, growing larger. Depending on Lillia's control, it can even swallow surrounding spells.

【Moon-Shadow Transposition】 Teleports using shadows or moonlight as a medium. It is quite troublesome in combat, allowing her to move behind enemies while evading attacks.

【Crimson Realm: Demon Lord Domain】 Fills a certain area with Lillia's magical energy, making that space her "Domain." Within the domain, Lillia has an overwhelming advantage in sensing magic, movement, attack, and defense.