[Armor Hero Xingtian] Masked, Yet a Nether Demon

A self-indulgent Ares Team Three Captain harem, told as a collection of 1v1 stories.

■ Qiao Shefei Arc: "The Kobe Heiress Wants Me to Confess"

◎ Heiress and police officer x fugitive yandere suspect

#The man I love is a rabbit-headed knight trying to save a princess. Someday, he'll tread over a field of monster corpses, carry the twin blades of the apocalypse, and come to find me in my castle. Only, there's one small hitch: I'm the demon king.#

#What?! So the knight is a deranged villain too???#

#Wait... I thought I was taking in a poor stray puppy rummaging through garbage cans, but behind my back you've been punching Armor Heroes and kicking Nether Demons?#

#This is great! He's number one on the wanted list! The police station's case clearance rate might actually be saved this month!#

#They say love is a battle, and whoever confesses first loses. What a joke. I only see him as a pet.#

#If he's a dog, of course he should be obediently locked in a little dark room.#

#At first, covered in wounds, he was just greedy for the last bit of kindness and warmth left on Earth. But then she kissed him and said, "I'll take you in." That's when things started getting strange...#

#But darling, why are you running away?#

#Losing something only hurts for a moment. If it didn't hurt like this, how would you know the pain was nothing much?#

#Fine, I'll come clean. No more pretending.#

#It really hurts.#

#The weather's turning cold. Let's bankrupt the Ba Wang Group!#

■ Ku Fensi Arc: "The Villain Once Plucked Moonlight from the Mire"

◎ Amnesiac white moonlight x obsessive second-time-around madman

#She's like the flower of the Panram grasslands on our planet Ares, but that flower withered because of me.#

#A curious child asks, "Teacher Lili, how can you tell if someone's opinion of you is kind or mean?" Here's an example: A passerby says I'm as beautiful and pure as a Gesang flower blooming on the grasslands, but he's a yak.#

#Lili is just Lili. Through all the lands and all the ages, even if I conquered the entire galaxy, there'd still only be one Lili.#

#I want to stay away from her... But will she wear another man's ring on her left hand? Will she buy a suit and leather shoes for someone else?#

#Darling, please don't leave me again.#

#Anyone who tries to hurt her deserves to die, die, die, die!#

#Bro? Do I know you?#

#Hello? Is this 12315? I'd like to file a complaint. Why has the Chow Chow I raised so well suddenly mutated into a red-eyed bull demon?#

#Morals are in decline. Is nobody going to do anything about Nether Demon kidnappings?#

#But what if the kidnapper's cooking is too delicious?#

#His head looks like a croissant.#

#Stockholm syndrome is just what happens when you've eaten too much.#

■ An Mixiu Arc: "Don Quixote of the Office Pantry"

◎ Brooding slacker who skulks around x sunny, cheerful workaholic

#Work is already annoying enough.#

#How could there possibly be romance in the office pantry?#

#What normal office drone would still wish for world peace on their birthday after working overtime until four in the morning, instead of wishing for the Earth to be destroyed, the company to explode, and the boss to die?#

#Oh, never mind. Turns out he's an alien.#

#Huge announcement: The heartless boss kicked the bucket ages ago!#

#So I thought you were another hard-done-by office drone just like me, but you secretly became the young master of the group behind my back?#

#Beneath his gentlemanly manner lies a scoundrel.#

#Can you explain what this photo wall is about?#

#A limping stalker's counter-surveillance skills.#

#Search online: Does white knight syndrome need treatment?#

#With all due respect, General Lufa, your military strategy is outdated. Why not switch careers and join the cause of cosmic communism?#

#Nobody warned me that summoning Emperor Armor to beat up Shura Armor would violate the Galaxy Justice Act!#

◆ Reader's Guide ◆

① A devoted, strictly monogamous 1v1 romance. The leads are equally committed to each other.

② The male leads are all reborn after a second life, and their personalities are warped to varying degrees.

This story focuses on drawing out the Three Captains' villainous greed, anger, and delusion, then making things worse with rumors. Expect yandere, obsessive, and stalkerish dark-moe OOC traits.

③ Except in the Ku Fensi and Lili arc, the heroines are all sweet on the outside and ruthless underneath.

④ The butterfly effect is in motion. The story doesn't follow the original plot, but has a subtle fated connection to the first timeline and the source material.

⑤ The main setting is Armor Hero 2, with elements from Armor Hero 1 through 5, plus crossover Easter eggs from Japanese anime and dramas, American superhero comics, Chinese animation, and actor connections across shows.

Premise: Finally going after the childhood shows where it hurts.