The Hero's New Challenge The Demon Lord decides love will kickstart Max as a hero and offers him Zenia as a bride. However, Max rejects Zenia and all the other candidates. Exasperated, the Demon Lord transforms into his schoolgirl disguise as a joke, but finds while transformed into a woman he and Max are sexually attracted to each other; disaster is only averted by Zenia interrupting. The Demon Lord offers to transform Max into a demon, employ him as a soldier on wages of 2.5 million yen a month and grant him a demon soul so he will always reincarnate after dying. Max refuses as he fears he would not be himself anymore...