Demon King – Chapter 264 – The Demon Lord’s Part-Time Job Benefits

Sitting on the edge of the school building rooftop while staring at the sky, the cute little face of the Demon Lord now carried a look of melancholy.

After crying, Yue Yue had already returned to the classroom. Lowering her head, the Demon Lord pinched at her skirt and socks that had been dampened by Yue Yue’s tears, staring blankly at the large patches of water stains.

Although she hadn’t realized it, Eiru was beginning to faintly feel a sense of self-loathing for herself.

“Clearly Yueyue loves me so much and has helped me so much…” letting out a bitter laugh, Eiru felt that her so-called ‘repayment’ was downright despicable.

A first love is supposed to be something most treasured and yearned for by girls, yet she had ruined Yue Yue’s first love with her own hands. Before it even began, before Yue Yue could taste any sweetness, she had already been left with scars.

“Sigh…” with a sigh, Eiru leaned back and collapsed on the floor without caring about the dust on the ground.

“I really am useless…” raising one hand high, the Demon Lord peeked at the drifting clouds through her fingers.

Usually Eiru was cheerful and optimistic, but moments like these, where she sulked or withdrew into herself, weren’t rare. After all, she had to process everything alone.

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Now, with her recovery ability lost, although the Demon Lord hadn’t given up hope of survival, after what happened today she started wondering if she should go a little crazy before the end, and do some of the things she’d always wanted to do but never had time for.

Go play at the places she wanted to visit, eat lavishly at a fancy restaurant, go listen to a concert… there were still so many things she wanted to try.

But her abilities were limited, so some things she could only dream about. Still, after today, what occupied her mind the most was romance.

Although she longed to experience a sweet romance, she felt that she didn’t have much time left, so she didn’t want to be irresponsible. Otherwise, she could have considered saying yes to Yue Yue earlier.

She couldn’t start a relationship, but… Eiru still felt that she could try to experience what was considered the most important thing for a girl before she left. She’d always been curious after all.

“Too bad Stupid Yuki is with Eiya now, otherwise I’d really have wanted to try with him…” she spread out her arms and sprawled out like a starfish on the floor. She didn’t want to be a third party, and besides, he had already become her future brother-in-law.

Thoughts aside, since her best friend was off-limits, Eiru felt this kind of thing should be left for later. As a pervy but principled girl, she wasn’t going to just throw herself around—unless she was right on death’s door and still hadn’t found anyone. There was still time, so she’d only consider it then. ¹ Grrrr……… EIRU YOU FOHKING IDIOT AHHHH

“But I probably won’t get to see the day Eiya and Stupid Yuki end up together… what a pity.” The Demon Lord sighed. As the older brother who grew up with Eiya, not being able to witness her little sister step into marriage and send her gifts and blessings was truly a regret.

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“Oh right! Gifts!” Eiru suddenly sat up with a jerk, stars sparkling in her eyes as excitement flashed across her face.

Before leaving, she had to prepare some gifts for everyone. Otherwise, if she just vanished, that would really be too cold. Pressing her palms together and tilting her head, the Demon Lord finally found a temporary goal.

“Stupid Yuki, Stupid Qi, Eiya, Stupid Mu, Stupid Yu…” running through the list of farewell gift candidates in her mind, Eiru realized she actually had quite a lot of friends.

“Stupid Seven One and Yue Yue too, Qianmeng and Qianchen… also the senior and the boss… might as well prepare some for them too? And Cousin Miao, Grandma… as for Mom and Dad, emmmmm…” Thinking of her parents, the Demon Lord’s whole mood collapsed again, her wings drooping weakly to the ground.

“Forget it… I’ll still prepare something for them. At least they did pay my rent.” With a sigh, the Demon Lord typed “Mom and Dad” into the memo app on her phone.

But compared to others, whose gifts would come from affection, her motivation for giving a present to her parents was more of a test and revenge…

After all, she was still their child. If she really did die, surely they’d be sad for a while, right? Hopefully they would. Otherwise, it really would be pointless.

“Forget it… whatever.” Flicking her tail, Eiru patted the dust from her clothes and stood up, ready to wander elsewhere.

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If they ended up grieving, at least it would prove she still held some place in their hearts. If not, she wouldn’t be around to see it anyway, so it wouldn’t matter much.

She had barely taken two steps when she suddenly felt weak and her legs gave out. Luckily, she reacted quickly enough to grab the wall beside her, or else she’d have hit the ground face first.

“What now…” irritated, she checked her body with magic, only to discover in horror that her body’s breakdown and decay had suddenly accelerated.

Stunned for a moment, the Demon Lord finally remembered why—she had stayed in her disguise for over a full class period without supplying magic to suppress her organ failure. It was normal for the deterioration to speed up.

“But then what about my part-time job…” leaning against the wall, holding her head, the Demon Lord once again fell into distress.

She had to work disguised, which meant hours without magic. Several hours without suppressing her body’s breakdown would definitely lead to big problems.

But if she didn’t work, she’d have no income. Although since her kidnapping, her parents had started giving her a thousand yuan in living expenses each month… she was still tired of being poor and still wanted to save more.

The milk tea shop she had found offered benefits far better than most. At twenty yuan an hour, it was nearly double the rate at other places.

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And the shop wasn’t large; business was average and it was rarely busy. She only had to work three or four days a week, she had flexible hours, and it was easy to ask for time off. This kind of treatment was rare to find.

That was why even though her family had started giving her an allowance, and even though her parents had warned her not to work, she still didn’t want to give up such a precious job. ² What fucking right do her fucking parents think they have to fucking tell Eiru what to fucking do after the way they fucking treated her. And 1000 yuan a month is fucking 147 USD, how the fuck do they expect Eiru to actually fucking survive on that.

Actually, it hadn’t been that hard to find. Not long after she was kicked out to live alone, she found this newly opened milk tea shop. The store was small and didn’t really need more staff, but the boss had kindly hired her anyway.

Still, in the past two weeks she’d been warned by her speechless parents again. How they even knew she was still working, she had no idea. Maybe they really did have some kind of spy watching her?

Translator Note

I want to fking murder these useless ass parents and I hope they rot in hell and ;oaweif;aksdm; mv;oawmeop awopijap0joaejijw  /endrant