The Demon Lord's Daily Struggle to Survive

Ruby Merlin, the most good-for-nothing Natural Heart female marquess in the history of the Merlin family. No exceptions.

Not only was she still not a mage the day before inheriting one of the two great powers of Creation, the power of Nature, but immediately after inheriting it successfully, she found herself in a from-the-start scenario where death was all but certain. She had to seal a powerful and cruel Archdemon at the cost of her own life.

Legend had it that the Archdemon, an incarnation of the power of Sloth, was cruel and powerful, and took pleasure in killing. War and slaughter followed wherever it went, leaving the land strewn with corpses and creating one death zone after another, beyond the gods' reach.

With her inevitable death impossible to avert, the most good-for-nothing Natural Heart female marquess in history had no choice but to clutch the magic staff she still didn't know how to use and enter the sealed place, steeped in darkness and death.

Then she saw... an enormous, lazy orange cat sprawled on the ground, one that would never sit up if it could lie down instead.

Ansesia, the Sloth Archdemon in the form of an orange cat: Meow? Cats are so cute. How can you hit a cat?

She spent the first half of her life muddling through, and the second half in utter chaos.

She spent the first half of her life following the rules, and the second half becoming a professional cat caretaker.

One marquess involved: "You get used to keeping a cat, little by little!"

A note from the author:

This novel and the neighboring title, The Dawn of Hohenheim, share the same world but take place at different times. Some familiar characters mentioned in the other novel may appear here.

A good-for-nothing heroine trying to earn a living (?) as a cat caretaker versus a cute Archdemon whose true form is an orange cat. In this battle of adorable kings, who will come out on top?

The heroine is rather weak at first, but she will slowly grow stronger and learn to take responsibility like a true powerhouse. The male lead's job is to be cute and laze around (...). The romance is a melodramatic, sugary-sweet treat.

Before inheriting her power, the heroine had a disposable fiance who specializes in delivering melodrama.

Some characters' values in this story do not represent the author's own.

I hope to officially start posting around May Day. Time permitting, I'll try to update every other day at around 10 p.m. I won't give detailed content warnings, so readers with a lot of triggers should proceed with caution.

I've been busy with real-life matters lately, so updates will slow down a little. Thank you for understanding.

Theme: Break away from old ways of thinking and find a new direction in life