Our take
The setup
A princess whose legs are being consumed by a curse had given up on living until a demon king found her and gave her hope. Turning down the knight who came to save her, she chooses to travel with the demon king instead, searching for the curse's source.
Why read it
For fans of
This second volume continues a romance built around a princess who had resigned herself to a slow, cursed decline, only to find unexpected hope in the presence of a demon king. Where she once had nothing to hold onto, his arrival gives her a reason to keep moving forward, and that shift in her outlook anchors the story's emotional core.
What makes her situation compelling is the choice she makes early on: when a childhood friend, a knight, arrives intending to rescue her, she turns him down. Instead, she decides to travel alongside the demon king herself, taking an active role in breaking the curse rather than waiting to be saved. It is a quiet but firm assertion of agency from a character who had believed she had none left to exercise.
The journey itself centers on tracking down the witch responsible for the curse, and the search quickly turns dangerous as the witch's traps begin closing in on the pair. This gives the story real forward momentum beyond its romantic core, with a sense of mounting pressure as the princess and the demon king draw closer to their target.
Readers who enjoy a devoted, protective pairing will find plenty to like in how the demon king's attention steadies a woman who has spent so long isolated by her condition. His presence does not erase her struggle, but it changes how she carries it, and that change is portrayed with warmth rather than melodrama.
Altogether, this volume offers a blend of curse-driven stakes and a slow unfolding of trust between two people drawn together by circumstance. It suits readers who want a romance with a clear emotional throughline, a heroine who gradually reclaims her own choices, and a looming threat that keeps the plot from settling into sentimentality alone.
2 volumes in print / Volume 1 to the latest
Spoilers through Vol.2
Official synopsis
Princess Lunafilia, who had given up on everything as her legs were consumed by a curse, meets the Demon King Cain, is guided by him, and finds hope in living. Choosing not to take the hand of her childhood friend, the knight Werner who came to save her, she instead chooses to set out on a journey to break the curse together with Cain. 'I, too, will do what I can—' Having begun to change, Lunafilia and Cain, who supports her, begin a search for the trail of the 'witch' who is the source of the curse. However, a trap set by the witch soon creeps up on the two of them.... The second act of a doting romance where the Demon King's obsession sweetly melts the princess's loneliness.
Official synopsis
Princess Lunaphilia has suffered from a leg ailment ever since contracting a mysterious illness as a child. Though she faced harsh coldness from her family every day, upon turning sixteen, she was married off to a tyrant of an enemy nation because her restricted body was deemed convenient. However, on the way to be transported to the enemy nation in despair, her fate takes a turn. Unexpectedly, she is kidnapped by Cain, the Demon King known as the "King of the Night"... "You are insufficient for me to grant death to." Having given up on everything and possessing neither dreams nor hope, the girl begins to face the concept of "living" through this encounter. The doting romance spun by a Demon King with an overwhelming weight of love and a lonely princess begins.