Who Says I'm Not a Herrscher?

The girl wore a black-and-blue Gothic Lolita dress, her eyes pure and innocent. When she saw Yao writhing in pain below, a worried expression appeared on her face.

"Yao!"

But then—

"Summon, 'Icebound Domain.'"

A magnetic, seductive male voice rang out.

On the other side outside the arena, as the voice sounded, another figure emerged from atop the Hellfire Storm that had frozen into ice pillars. He wore a coat decorated in contrasting red and blue, his face bearing an infatuated, lingering expression as he slowly stepped forward.

"Ahhh~, Vera, my beloved bride. Our passionate conversation clearly wasn't over yet, so why did you turn around and leave?"

Hearing his voice, the girl called Vera showed a disgusted expression.

"Shut up, stalker."

Vera—or rather, the "Azure Flame Demon," Vera Za Ignisfatus.

The leader of "Will o' Wisp," a great demon born and manifested at the boundary between life and death. She could traverse the boundary of life and death and interfere with gates leading beyond the world!

The azure flames from before were her deadly flame Gift capable of bringing down the walls of all phenomena—Calamity of the Fool.

Yet these azure flames, summoned from the boundary between life and death and capable of burning away everything existing in the material world, should have been no exception even for manifested demons. But they had no effect whatsoever on the man before her.

Because the man before them was the Demon Lord Maxwell! In other words, "Maxwell's Demon," whose existence had been denied by science!

Since he was an existence whose very existence had been denied, Vera's Calamity of the Fool was naturally ineffective against him as well.

However, Maxwell's Demon, which should have been comparable to a low-ranking undead creature, had somehow been granted a Spiritual Divinity and become abnormally