Demon King – Chapter 161 – The Demon King is in Pain, but Can’t Say Anything

“You promised! If Mom and Dad want to take me back, you have to tell them to let me stay!” Eiya pinched Eiru’s face, and although she was still puffing out her cheeks, she was obviously much happier.

“Alright, alright, I’ll try my best to help you and let you stay a few more days, okay…” Finally managing to appease her sister, the little demon lord now felt particularly exhausted.

“I never saw you being this clingy before…” Supporting her head as she turned invisible again, “Let’s hurry over. I still need to change my bandages when we get back… and I haven’t even showered since yesterday.”

She had collapsed too quickly yesterday, and her sister had even carried her to bed… She also needed to wash her sheets and blanket again. For a certain girl who absolutely refused to touch the bed without showering, she had a lot of work to do today.

“Because you’re cute now!”

“I’m cute but you’re still so sassy with me? Let’s go already…” Rolling her eyes at her sister, she didn’t take those words to heart and just urged her to hurry up.

More than ten minutes later, Eiru in her male form and Eiya arrived at the police station. Before long, their parents also arrived, and the two gave their statements under their parents’ supervision…

The process went just as our demon lord had expected. The two siblings (sisters?) answered the police’s questions according to their prearranged story, and the officers seemed to accept this explanation, quickly letting the family leave.

After the group left, the two officers who remained behind discussed something…

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“This case is really strange…” One of the more senior-looking officers organized his materials while muttering to himself.

“What’s wrong?” The obviously much younger police officer beside him was somewhat puzzled. “If you’re talking about that boy being too heavy-handed, I personally think he went easy on them…”

After all, judging from the evidence found in the two men’s bags, the two perpetrators in the hospital were half beaten to death.

“No, that’s not the problem. It’s that the physical examinations from the hospital on those two were really strange…”

According to the hospital’s assessment, their injuries weren’t from any weapons, but were almost entirely inflicted by someone’s bare hands.

But considering their physical condition, even a robust adult male would find it difficult to do such a thing, let alone that kid who clearly didn’t look like he could accomplish something like this…

“Was that all just from an adrenaline rush? Individual physical differences…”

“Stop playing around with internet memes, you’re not a kid anymore. Look at this report yourself…” The senior officer interrupted his colleague and handed over the documents in his hand.

“One person had all his hand and foot joints completely fractured, the other had a cracked lumbar, both suffered varying degrees of concussions… didn’t we already go over all this?”

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“There’s more below. Several bones were even punched so hard that they had hand imprints… I’m starting to doubt whether this is something a human could do.” Pointing to the supplementary notes below, the officer expressed his confusion.

Most absurdly, judging from the fist prints, they were clearly from a child’s hands… meaning the one who subdued the two criminals and seriously injured them wasn’t that teenager, but someone else, who was probably a child.

But how could a child possibly accomplish such a thing? Most troubling was that there was no surveillance footage of the surrounding area at the time, and only the two parties involved were at the scene.

“And there’s also this document specially approved from above, saying we should just do the interview briefly and report it, and someone else will come handle the rest…”

“But this photo here…”

Looking at a photo attached to the document, a silver-haired girl making a peace sign at the camera. Both men were completely confused, and had no clue what was going on…

Logically speaking, for such a major case, those two children as the parties involved shouldn’t have been let go so simply after just asking a few questions. They should have been questioned more thoroughly… Moreover, it was likely that those two kids gave a false testimony.

But with orders from above, the two could only follow what their bosses asked them, and not investigate further. They simply let the family leave after a brief questioning…

On the other side, the family of four who had just left the police station were discussing where to have lunch today.

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“Well done this time, acting like a real man and protecting your sister.” Their dad patted Eiru’s shoulder in praise.

His son dealt with two scumbags who wanted to harm his daughter, and both of them came out completely uninjured. Right now, he was pretty proud of Eiru.

Being patted like this, Eiru’s face immediately turned pale. It wasn’t because he was happy, but because her father happened to pat exactly where she had been stabbed by a knife in her right shoulder. Being forcefully pat twice like this, he almost felt like the wound had been torn open again.

“What’s wrong? You didn’t get injured, did you?” Hui Yuan immediately noticed something was off with Eiru’s complexion. “Should we go to the hospital to check? This isn’t something to joke about…”

“No, no, no…” Eiru quickly waved her hands. “I’m just a bit sore right now, and you happened to pat a spot that hurt…”

“You just don’t exercise enough. How can you already have back pain at your age?” Their dad’s tone became somewhat serious as he placed both hands on her shoulders and started giving her a massage, even driving in his thumbs to be more efficient.

“Hiss…” Someone now even had the urge to curse. The intense pain from her shoulder and leg almost made her cry out…

“Look at you… Your health is the most important thing… Mom and Dad don’t expect you to earn top marks right now, we just hope that you’ll be safe and healthy.” Liu Wan looked at her son gritting his teeth, but didn’t think much of it due to his earlier explanation.

“You need to exercise more. You’ll have to shoulder the family burden in the future and take care of your sister…” He massaged his son’s shoulders while speaking earnestly…

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“Mm…” Forcing a smile, Eiru was already starting to regret coming out… If she had known it would be like this, she might as well have stayed home and used her authority to get through it somehow. Why must she suffer like this?

Why doesn’t her disguise show any injuries… At least if she had some visible wounds, she could play the part of an injured patient. First it would be easy to explain, and second she wouldn’t have to suffer like this… Either way would be better than her current treatment!

Eiru’s heart was bitter, but she could only hold it in and say nothing… She cast a pleading glance at her sister, hoping her dear sister could rescue her from this suffering.

“Let’s hurry up and find a place! Dad, didn’t you say that you wanted to go somewhere pretty far away? Let’s go…” Noticing her gaze, Eiya, who couldn’t bear to watch anymore, quickly helped her brother (sister?) out of the situation…

“Alright, alright, let’s get in the car and find a place to eat…” Since his precious daughter had spoken up, he quickly urged everyone to get in the car, preparing to take the family to a nice restaurant for lunch…

Translator Note

Yikes… feels bad.