He is the Demon King, ruling from a palace carved out of ice, and killing has become a chore he no longer feels anything about. Then a very minor demon hunter walks in unarmed and asks to be executed, so a doomed settlement will be spared. He agrees, sets a date, and keeps postponing it. Forty-five chapters of gallows flirting, a binding ritual, a curse he intends to die from, and a golden flower he crosses a frozen border to pick.