Demon King – Chapter 293 – The Gluttonous Demon Lord

What the hell? Jiaqi’s inviting Lu Brat out to dinner? And just the two of them? In his shaken state, Yuki’s heart jolted, instantly imagining a bunch of weird scenarios.

Impossible! When did Jiaqi make a move? He’d been with Lu Brat almost all the time lately. Even if there was an opening, how could he not have noticed?

“More people makes it lively, why don’t you guys come too?” The little Demon Lord poked her head out, glancing down, and extended the invitation to Jixian and Ziyu.

Might as well call Yue Yue too… Without waiting for a reply, Eiru thought to herself, picked up her phone from the bedside and sent Yue Yue a message.

“Anyway, the message is passed along… and Yuki, can you not crouch there like that? You really give me the feeling you’re up to something shady.” With another disgusted look, Her Majesty the Demon Lord pulled the curtain closed again and lay back down in the small black room…

Wait a second, didn’t Jiaqi only invite me alone? Suddenly dragging along a whole crowd, isn’t that kind of rude? Only after lying back did the little Demon Lord realize this issue…

Forget it, whatever. Eating with friends is all about numbers, the livelier the better. That guy definitely won’t mind. Worst case, it just switches from him treating everyone to everyone paying for themselves…

Watching Yuki climb down the ladder looking defeated and miserable, Jixian couldn’t hold back his laughter. Big bro, you’re seriously such a coward, why haven’t you made a move yet?

“Yuki bro, come on, the three of us are hitting the store for snacks…” With one hand on Yuki’s shoulder, Jixian didn’t wait for an answer. After patting Ziyu twice, the two of them practically dragged Yuki out of the dorm…

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Inside the small black room, the little Demon Lord had of course noticed the commotion. Curling up and clutching her chest, she finally stopped suppressing herself and let out a painful groan…

It was fine before, she just had weakness all over and some indescribable discomfort. At most, she’d cough up blood, then recover enough to carry on…

But now, her heart, stomach, lungs, and several internal organs all felt as if something was squeezing them from within… the discomfort she could handle, but the main problem was pain, and she was terrified of pain.

When it gets painful enough, there’s no energy left to complain. With her face pale, Eiru couldn’t even think straight anymore.

Because she had forced herself to hold it together in front of her roommates, the backlash after relaxing doubled and hit her hard. She completely collapsed…

Now, all she could do was instinctively curl tighter, trying to lessen the pain but clearly, it did nothing…

——Perspective Shift——

At the store, while Ziyu happily shopped, Jixian leaned in toward Yuki, speaking earnestly.

“Yuki bro, don’t be such a coward. Even if I can tell the little princess doesn’t see you that way… if you don’t try, how would you ever get a chance?”

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“The problem is, I’m scared she’ll resent me. Right now I can still be a good brother. But if I break that thin line and she turns away, then we might not even be friends anymore…” Yuki sighed, finally voicing his worry.

Other than Yuki, Eiya, and Jiaqi, no one knew Eiru used to be a boy. Jixian and Ziyu, even Yue Yue, only thought she was a girl disguised as a boy.

So Jixian, not knowing, misunderstood the real reason for Yuki’s worry—Eiru still somewhat saw herself as a boy, so could she even accept being with a guy?

That was exactly Jiaqi’s problem. Though he liked the girl, her former identity as a boy left a deep knot in his heart. But Yuki didn’t know that. ¹ Skill issue.

Even for Yuki, it had taken two or three years of constant closeness with her to get past that issue…

“Don’t wimp out. You could always test her jokingly?” Jixian, the schemer, proposed—but Yuki immediately rejected it. ² This is the worst possible idea if you are ever interested in anyone btw :^)

“No way. This is serious. That kind of thing only works if she already likes me. Otherwise, if she takes it as a joke once, she’ll never take me seriously again…”

“True… but if you keep dragging your feet, that’s no good either. What if she just runs off with someone else?” Jixian frowned. All this hesitation, not good at all.

“One step at a time. Keeping things like this isn’t bad either, at least I still get to hug her all the time?” Yuki half-joked, though the awkward smile on his face betrayed his unease.

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“Whatever you want, it’s your problem anyway…”

After shopping, the three didn’t linger and soon returned to the dorm. As soon as they opened the door, they saw the girl sprawled by the bedside, staring intently at them—at the snack bags in their hands.

Yuki lifted the bag, moving it left, then right. The silver head above swiveled left and right too, eyes locked on the bag without ever shifting away…

“Glutton…” Amused by her reaction, Yuki laughed and tossed up a piece of loose chocolate.

“Ahm!” The little Demon Lord lunged, like a small animal, catching the chocolate in her mouth midair… only to find her body falling.

Seeing this, Yuki panicked. Tossing the bag aside, he rushed to catch the falling gluttonous girl.

“You really dared to dive for it? How can you be this greedy?” Catching his best friend, Yuki, both angry and amused, pinched her nose with two fingers.

“Guuu?” Chewing on the chocolate, Her Majesty the Demon Lord tilted her head blankly in his arms…

Regression into child mode is serious… Yuki muttered inwardly. With that deceptively cute face, it was easy to forget this girl was already sixteen.

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“Ah…” While Yuki was still grumbling internally, Eiru had already opened her mouth at Ziyu. And something unknown landed inside…

“Hey, don’t just feed her random stuff…” Not seeing what Ziyu had tossed, Yuki frowned.

“What the hell? Random? This is just the snacks we bought!” Ziyu looked confused, but his hands kept moving. Under Yuki’s glare, he dropped another hawthorn slice into the girl’s mouth…

Enough already! Stop treating my wife like a pet!

Translator Note

But Eiru is a pet…