Demon King – Chapter 254 – What? My Best Bro Got a Girlfriend?

“Since when do people get to pick their own pet names…” Yue Yue looked speechless. “You really are dumb, aren’t you…”

“Uh…” Eiru didn’t know what to say, because she really wasn’t good at this sort of thing.

Besides Eiya, who among the people close to her didn’t get called with a ‘Stupid’ in front of their name? You couldn’t expect a naming genius to come up with normal nicknames, right?

Besides, pet names usually come naturally after people have known each other for a while. Before her birthday last semester, she didn’t even know this girl existed. How were they supposed to be close?

“Then… Yueyue?” After thinking for a moment, Eiru gave her a name.

“Mhm!” Hugging Eiru’s arm, Yue Yue leaned her head against Eiru’s shoulder, looking very happy.

“I don’t care either way, just don’t call me Lulu ¹ Yuki’s nickname for her true form is “Little Lulu”, where the second lu is the same chinese character as the lo in “loli”. Here, Eiru is referring to the second part. I usually just translate the first part, Little Lu, because I wasn’t sure about if I should do Little Lulo cause it sounded weird lol , that one makes me uncomfortable…” Remembering a certain someone who called her that, Her Majesty the Demon Lord shivered with goosebumps.

“Huh?” Yue Yue’s head was still on Eiru’s shoulder, but her expression turned strange.

Calling a meter-seventy guy… Lulu? What kind of genius would do that? Wait, could that guy actually have feelings for Eiru? No way, he’s mine!

“Was it a guy or a girl?”

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“What?”

“I said…” The girl’s intuition made Yue Yue feel a hint of danger. “The one who called you Lulu, was it a guy or a girl?”

“A guy. Just a regular friend, not that close…”

“Then you should stay away from him. If he’s calling you that, he definitely has something on his mind… you need to be careful.” Yue Yue bit her lip in displeasure, tightening her grip on Eiru’s arm.

“Your hair fell down…” Noticing some of Yue Yue’s bangs slipping over her face because of her movement, Eiru reached out and brushed them back…

At that moment, Yuki, Jixian, and Ziyu had just arrived near the convenience stall to buy drinks, and they noticed two familiar figures…

“Who’s that? Wife Lu?”

“Wow, who’s that girl next to him?”

Ignoring the questions from Jixian and Ziyu, Yuki stared dumbfounded at the pair’s ‘lovey-dovey’ interaction, utterly shocked.

Lu Brat? Since when did he get a girlfriend? And why didn’t I hear a word about it? That doesn’t make sense… how could this guy not tell me anything?

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“Hold on, that’s Yue Yue?” Ziyu’s voice pulled Yuki back to reality, making him realize that the girl with his best bro wasn’t a stranger either.

Recognizing who both of them were, the three of them had the same question: how did these two end up together?

Compared to Jixian and Ziyu, who had no clue, Yuki, who had some idea, was even more confused.

As someone who often went to Eiru’s classroom to find his best bro, Yuki naturally knew they were deskmates. But he also knew another important point—before her birthday, Eiru didn’t even know Yue Yue existed.

And even afterwards, they never really interacted. There were multiple times when Yuki went looking for Eiru and Yue Yue had complained to him about it—saying even though they were deskmates, she barely saw him all year.

There’s no way they only hooked up during summer break or military training, right? That would be way too fast. I’ve known Little Lu for two or three years now, and we’re still just friends. I’m still stuck in place! Yuki roared in his heart.

Thinking back, on the day of finals Yue Yue did ask him for Lu Brat’s phone number… so she already had her eyes on him back then? Girls really do move fast, it’s terrifying.

As for Eiru chasing Yue Yue… Yuki understood his best bro’s mindset too well. This guy taking the initiative to chase a girl? If that happened, the sun wouldn’t just rise in the west…it would shoot up from all directions.

Yuki made a hand signal, and Jixian and Ziyu caught on. The three quietly lined up at the back of the queue, watching from afar as the pair kept up their ‘couple-like affection’.

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Seeing Yue Yue acting all clingy on his best bro with the two of them sometimes bursting into quiet giggles like they were amused by each other, Yuki’s eyes grew complicated.

If he had to say he was happy, then yeah, he was… his best brother finally wasn’t single anymore, and that was something to feel good about.

But there was also a sense of loss. After all, up until now, he’d been almost the only friend his bro had. Losing that ‘only’ status was hard to take, kind of like an old father marrying off his daughter.

But that much he could accept. What he couldn’t make sense of was this—watching the pair interact, Yuki found it harder and harder to see through Eiru. Was Lu Brat really a boy or a girl? And was Little Lu really the same person as Lu Brat?

When he first noticed something off about Eiru, after some quiet investigation and reasoning, Yuki had concluded that Eiru might actually be a girl…

Back then, he thought Little Lu was just Lu Brat, or perhaps Lu Brat was born as Little Lu, but disguised as Lu Brat to blend in with everyone else… But the more he learned, the more inconsistencies popped up.

So until now he still hadn’t figured out whether Little Lu and Lu Brat were the same person. He only had a hunch. He hadn’t dug deeper—partly because he wasn’t ready to face the answer, and partly because he hoped Eiru really did see him as someone to rely on, giving her the chance to confess herself.

But seeing his best bro all ‘lovey-dovey’ with Yue Yue now, Yuki felt uncomfortable, but he couldn’t interfere with their ‘relationship’.

Looks like Lu Brat and Little Lu aren’t the same person after all—he hypnotized himself. Because if he didn’t think this way, he really would lose his chance with the one he liked. ² YUKI DON’T GIVE UP YET

Lu Brat was already with a girl. With his character, he’d never accept a relationship built on lies that had no future. He’d said so himself—that kind of irresponsible behavior wasn’t for him.

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If Lu Brat and Little Lu were the same person, then didn’t this situation mean Little Lu liked girls… didn’t that mean he had no chance?

He remembered back during that game of Truth or Dare, after Yuki ate one of the Demon Lord’s pieces, he asked a crucial question:

“Do you like boys or girls? I mean romantically…”

“I like both! As long as they look good!” Raising her paw to tease the three of them first, under their doting looks toward the mischievous loli, Her Majesty the Demon Lord cleared her throat and answered seriously.

“Actually, I don’t really know, but… I think I like boys more～ so I’d probably find myself a boyfriend…”

Eiru tilted her head with a gentle but troubled smile, a smile that captured the heart of a certain silver-haired boy present—one he would never forget for the rest of his life…

Translator Note

Normally I don’t like these sort of misunderstanding plotlines that divert away from the main love interest, but man, Yuki really really really really really really really really needs to grow a pair of balls and just confront Eiru smh. Eiru is too much of an idiot to ever confess to Yuki, because she’s still freaking too scared that Yuki would abandon her because of her trauma with her parents and low self esteem :< Also, I blame pickle for all naming inconsistencies 😀 I think Yue Yue was originally Yu Yue, but it ended up being Yue Yue ig, so it makes Eiru’s nickname of Yueyue a bit more weird.