Demon King – Chapter 138 – Caught~ You~

In a ramen shop, a pair of black-haired teenage siblings sat at their table waiting for their meal. Both were fiddling with their phones, passing the boring time while waiting for their food.

“By the way, brother, actually I came here this time… to discuss something with you.” After thinking for a long time, Eiya spoke to the person in front of her.

“What? Going to the water park is off the table, I won’t go.” Looking up at her younger sister, Eiru directly blocked the second half of her sentence.

“Why not! Can’t you just accompany me once?” Eiya collapsed on the table, throwing a tantrum. “I really want to go! Dad and Mom are both busy, so only you can accompany me!”

“While you were sleeping, I asked Mom, and she said cousin Miao could accompany you. It doesn’t have to be me.”

Cousin Miao’s full name was Lin Miao, the only son of Eiru and Eiya’s aunt, their cousin. Having graduated from university just two years ago, he actually cared a lot about Eiru and Eiya.

When Lin Miao was young, their aunt and uncle were both busy with work and had no time to look after him. During that period, their mother was relatively free, so Lin Miao lived at Eiru’s house until college.

Basically, Lin Miao had watched Eiru and Eiya grow up. Being both an older brother and a playmate, Eiru and Eiya were particularly close to him.

With cousin Lin Miao accompanying her, Eiru naturally didn’t need to worry about Eiya’s safety, and there was no need to accompany his younger sister to a place he was afraid of.

“But brother, mom said if you go with me, we can play outside for a few more days.”

“But once you’re there, isn’t it up to you how many days you play outside? Does it make a difference whether I’m there or not?” Eiru shrugged, pointing out a key issue.

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You’re already out playing, so as long as mom and dad don’t come and drag you back, couldn’t you stay for as long as you wanted outside? Moreover, Eiya was the family’s precious darling—how could Mom possibly say no to her staying out for longer?

In the end, Mom’s purpose was just to find an excuse to drag him out. Using Eiya as a stepping stone was too cunning!

Feeling that he had seen through everything, Eiru became even more determined not to give in. Wasn’t staying cooped up at home nice? What was fun about water…

“I want to go play with you, brother, and I want to take this opportunity to teach you how to swim.” Eiya said with some pride, placing her hands on her hips.

“I won first place in my age group in the community freestyle swimming competition. Teaching a landlubber like you is more than enough.”

“Yes… yes… more than enough…” Eiru fiddled with her phone while agreeing absentmindedly, looking completely uninterested.

“Eiru! You’re 16! How can you not be able to swim in high school—don’t you think that’s embarrassing!” Seeing her brother like this, Eiya immediately became annoyed.

“Swimming is an important survival skill. To put it harshly, if you accidentally fall into water, or if the boat at a park starts leaking, what would you do?”

“Wow, you’re really talking about unlucky things.” Eiru was sweating, “What park would be so irresponsible as to use shoddy boats… Besides, I wouldn’t go on a boat anyway.”

“Don’t worry, Eiya, I can fly, so I’m not afraid.” Making wing-flapping gestures with both hands, Eiru said half-jokingly.

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“You’re such a grown person, still talking about flying… How childish. If you can fly, then fly for me right now!” Her brother’s uncaring attitude made Eiya angry. She was talking about something serious—so couldn’t he be a bit more serious?

But I really can fly… Eiru thought aggrievedly. She remembered when she had just learned to fly, in her excitement, she put on a protective barrier and flew so fast she flew out of the atmosphere…

The result was that she almost suffocated herself, and spent half the day finding her way home. She even encountered two fighter jets who thought that she was a UFO and came to intercept her.

Just as Eiya was about to lecture him some more, their ramen was served… Eiya had to close her mouth, glared at her brother, and sent him a look that said ‘We’ll eat first, and settle this later’.

“It tastes pretty good…” Slurping some ramen, Eiru silently memorized the name of this restaurant, thinking he could bring Yuki here for a meal when he had time.

“Of course, could my choice be bad?” Eiya tapped her chopsticks twice, looking proud.

You were just a blind cat catching a dead mouse… Eiru complained in his heart. This girl had never eaten here before either—what was she being proud of?

“Will you really not come with me to Qionglong?”

“Nope. I hate places with water the most. Go play by yourself…” Eiru firmly refused, sighing at the fake sibling relationship these two had.

“Oh, you scumbag.” Eiya was too tired to try and convince him again and just focused on eating her noodles.

“How am I a scumbag?” A question mark appeared above Eiru’s head. What kind of sister calls her biological brother that? And in a crowded place like this, words like that could easily cause a misunderstanding.

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“I said that you are, so you are. No rebuttals allowed.” Tapping her bowl with chopsticks again, Eiya’s tone was full of warning.

“Fine, fine, I am, I am… Satisfied?” His younger sister’s willfulness wasn’t new, and Eiru was already used to it.

Although this girl only acted willfully toward him and was polite to everyone else… Thinking about that, Eiru felt that something was wrong. Why me? Are you targeting me?

Eiya was clearly angry and didn’t say another word to Eiru afterward. When they returned to the apartment, Eiya grabbed Gulu and ran into her room, even locking the door, leaving the lone Demon Lord confused in the living room for the entire afternoon…

They had takeout for dinner. After Eiya bathed and ate, she once again shut herself in the room, clearly still angry…

Locked outside, Eiru figured her younger sister wouldn’t come out anytime soon, so she simply stopped disguising herself.

Carrying a basin, she threw both people’s… three people’s worth of clothes into the washing machine. She had planned to apologize when Eiya’s anger subsided a bit, but even until bedtime, she still hadn’t come out.

The little Demon Lord knew the other party was playing on her computer, but she was too lazy to care. Eiya’s self-discipline was quite strong—she would go to sleep on her own when she’d played enough.

Although she was supposed to sleep on the sofa, she still needed to go into the room to get bedding… Looking at the locked room door, Her Majesty the Demon Lord sighed.

Although she had a key, considering the other party might still be angry, Eiru was too lazy to touch this sore spot. Better to wait until she falls asleep and then sneak in to get the bedding.

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Around eleven o’clock, the light from under the door had been gone for a while. Estimating that her younger sister should be asleep, the little Demon Lord quietly used her key to open the door.

Seeing a certain sleeping figure on the bed, Eiru breathed a sigh of relief. Moving a chair over and standing on it, Eiru stood on her tiptoes. Reaching up to open the compartment above the closet, she was about to take out the bedding inside…

Then she felt someone hug her from behind… This horror movie-like development made a certain loli too scared to even breathe.

“Caught~ you~” Eiya whispered into the silver-haired loli’s ear, with a triumphant expression of a successful prank.

Author Note

(Starting tomorrow I’ll pay back the debt, you guys are too scary! This cliffhanger is my revenge!

The saved drafts need polishing and editing, can’t just throw them up directly, so they’ll be released in batches… These 100 chapters definitely won’t be finished by the end of the month. I can only pay them back as quickly as possible OTZ)

Translator Note

Surprise cliffhanger! I also just wanted to note that I will be spending all the money I made so far on a new cover for the novel… just need a bit more so that I don’t go into debt.