Demon King – Chapter 226 – Eiya Rushing Over by Taxi

“So… it’s almost mealtime, so why did you call me out here?” In the garden under Jiaqi’s apartment, Jiaqi looked helplessly at the black-haired loli in front of him who had dashed over in a rush, and voiced his question.

“So… something big happened.” Eiya was bent over, panting as she supported herself on her knees. She had run all the way from home, which was quite exhausting for someone not particularly athletic.

“No rush, no rush, take your time… this isn’t about Lu Brat, is it?” Jiaqi patted Eiya on the back, signaling her to calm down and catch her breath first.

“My sister… she might have been tricked away by some bad guy!” Eiya looked panicked, gripping Jiaqi’s hand and shaking it hard.

“Huh? That Lu Brat? Tricked away?” Jiaqi wondered if he had misheard. Although his childhood friend acted silly and cutesy around familiar people, she still was usually quite sharp otherwise.

Besides, wasn’t she a boy before? How could she be tricked away by some bad guy? Maybe she just ran off to an internet café with someone again without telling her sister, making Eiya anxious for nothing.

“It’s true. Today my sister suddenly asked to borrow a dress, the prettier the better… and then when I came back from Cousin Miao’s place, she was gone!”

“She specifically stressed it had to be a pretty dress! I didn’t think much of it then, but now I realize she was dressing up to go out!” Remembering the excited look on her sister’s face when asking to borrow clothes, Eiya regretted not asking more questions at the time.

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Hearing this Jiaqi let out a frown, realizing that the situation wasn’t simple… his childhood friend was a shut-in who never went out, so if she suddenly went out and even went through the effort of borrowing clothes to dress up, it definitely meant something.

“Then I found these on the shoe cabinet…” Eiya handed him two hot spring tickets she had discovered. “She must have been going here, but she forgot to bring them!”

Realizing the seriousness of the matter from her analysis, Jiaqi immediately hailed a taxi with her and rushed toward the hot spring inn…

“By the way, has there been any guy around Lu Brat worth paying attention to recently?” In the car, Jiaqi asked, hoping her answer would point to the suspect who lured the loli away.

“Besides you, Jiaqi bro, and her best friend Yuki, there’s no one else… or at least I haven’t noticed anyone.” After thinking for a while, Eiya gave a cautious reply.

“Yuki, huh?” Jiaqi stroked his chin, sinking into thought…

“But we just stayed at Yuki’s place yesterday… and I heard Yuki has a girl he likes, so it probably wasn’t him who lured my embarrassing sister out.” Eiya reasoned. Still, regardless of whether it was Yuki or not, anyone daring to invite her sister to a hot spring clearly had no good intentions… With that thought, Eiya had come to Jiaqi, determined they had to intercept the silly loli before things went too far.

“But isn’t she afraid of water? Why would she go to a hot spring of all places?” This was the part Jiaqi found hardest to understand — if Lu Brat agreed herself, then she must have been really captivated by the guy.

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“You know she’s afraid of water? Weren’t you abroad all this time?” Eiya was surprised. Even she, as her sister, had only learned that recently.

“Come on, we used to play by the river all the time… Ever since she fell into the river when she was seven, she’s stayed far away from water. Who couldn’t see that?” Jiaqi said it was obvious if you paid attention; not to mention she had admitted it to him before…

“Oh right, she only complained to me about that… Your family really didn’t treat her well, so no wonder no one noticed.” Jiaqi’s tone turned cold.

“It’s not like that… letting her live outside was because she hid everything from the family. Our parents thought she’d gone astray, so they wanted her to toughen up outside… I actually opposed it at first too.” Eiya deflated like a punctured balloon. After all, when it came to their attitude toward Eiru, they were indeed in the wrong.

“To be blunt, I think your parents were really careless… Not even giving her living expenses, weren’t they afraid she’d just collapse outside?” Jiaqi knew a bit about Eiru’s situation these past years, and he couldn’t help but be speechless at their bizarre parenting.

“I have to correct that. They actually did give her living expenses… she just didn’t know. ¹ … if she doesn’t know she was given living expenses, then how tf can they say they gave it to her??? ” Eiya was a little upset. She wanted to complain about her parents too, but not to the extent of making them sound heartless.

Even if they thought their son had gone bad or was hopeless, Eiru was still their child. There was no way they would really leave her outside without any safety net.

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“That’s not what she told me… she said that her family only covered rent, and every other expense she earned herself.” On that point, Jiaqi still admired his childhood friend.

Living alone from the age of twelve, covering all her own expenses for three years straight… honestly, Jiaqi admitted he could never have managed. He would’ve starved within weeks.

“Our parents had prepared backup funds, she just didn’t realize… ² BECAUSE NO ONE FKING TOLD HER, FKING DUMBASS PIECE OF SHIT PARENTS ” Eiya leaned back against the car seat, her face filled with worry. “More than that, I’m worried she might get tricked into love or get taken advantage of for her body.”

That probably wouldn’t happen… Jiaqi wanted to say, but when he thought about how clueless the loli usually was about being a girl, he wasn’t so sure anymore.

She likely wouldn’t fall for anyone, but being taken advantage of or coaxed wasn’t impossible… His mind started wandering into indecent possibilities, and Jiaqi quickly shook his head to chase away the thoughts.

Her little sister was right beside him… calm down, Hui Jiaqi! Stop reading so many dirty books!

He reminded himself over and over before looking at the anxious face of the girl beside him. To comfort her, he reached out and patted her back, signaling her not to think too much.

“Don’t worry. If some shameless guy really does try anything with her, I’ll beat him up right in front of you two…”

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“Mm… I’ll have to trouble you. Since Cousin Miao isn’t here, you’re the only one I can trust when it comes to my sister…” Lowering her head, Eiya was truly afraid her sister would be deceived by some bad man.

She hadn’t even begun to make up for her past mistakes… It was because no one noticed or cared about Eiru’s changes that she developed such a distorted mindset. Until she learned how to live properly as a girl, Eiya would never let her date.

And with her sister’s looks attracting wolves so easily, finding a trustworthy boy who genuinely cared for her was almost impossible…

Sighing, Eiya could only hope the taxi could drive faster… If anything went wrong for anyone, it definitely couldn’t be her sister.

Translator Note

Anyone else really mad at their parents? No one? Just me? Fine, let me string my bow and I’ll let them know why I’m feared as the tiger of KatReadingCafe.