9/4/2025 Update

We would like to belatedly inform everyone that due to the IRL matters, there will be no updates next week, as I am unsure whether I will be able to write enough to support the current update schedule. We're sorry it took this long to inform everyone.

We would also like to remind everyone that Rian is not the Last Master of Humanity, and that the Iridescence is not a plot to eradicate the human race, even though they're asking for it and large numbers of them kinda deserve it for writing terrible books vampires don't sparkle, that's just an affectation of the shoujo manga art style.

Also, for some added entertainment, here are more Random Demesne Facts.

• As of the current chapters, Rian is 24. Lori is 25. Shana and Karina are both 12. Shana is the older of the two, and her birthday is in the middle of winter.

• Rian doesn't actually know how to use a sword. He can, but that's a coincidence and not because he was actually trained to use one.

• Lori's pronouns are Lori/Lori. Lori's gender is Lori, and Lori's sexual orientation is Lori, although Lori has some Money and Power tendencies. Lori's three sizes are Lori, Lori and Lori, with type Lori blood. According to a popular but unscientific personality divination system, this would mean that Lori has a personality that is Lori and Lori, but also Lori and Lori, and even aggressively Lori.

• The red moon is habitable for humans, but holds no sapient life (this was originally phrased 'intelligent life', but I didn't want people to start joking it was filled only with [insert political party of your choice]). Due to the thick red foliage on its surface, no one has been able to see what sort of beasts live there.

• Shana and Karina are not 'like that'. They simply have a strong female friendship. If they had an anime, they'd probably go camping, look for undiscovered asteroids, join the light music club, learn how to DIY, or do sensha-do together.

• Shana would really like to have Karina as her Lady. Unfortunately, such a thing would be against the law, and so she must bury this feeling inside her, ignoring her desires because of what polite society would think.

• If the people of Demesne ever ran into aliens, those aliens would also have their own magic.

• Horotracting cannot be used to make an Alcubierre Drive. No, not even if. And that too. Yes, and that too. This is because a Horotract's vista needs to be anchored to a frame of reference, and while moving that frame of reference would move the vista, you cannot move the vista to move the frame of reference.

Thank you, and remember: the real creep was the friends we made along the way!