Demon King – Chapter 327 – Yuki Is Angry

Yuki was furious

During evening self-study hours, Yuki, who was supposed to be in class, was instead sitting in his dormitory seat—yes, he had skipped again.

The air around him was thick and heavy with low pressure. Not far from him, a certain silver-haired girl knelt obediently on her chair. Her head was bowed and she didn’t dare look at him. Her cute face was filled with grievance.

“Stupid Yuki, I was wrong… can you please not stay silent like this, you’re making me anxious…” The little demon weakly glanced at him and spoke with utterly cowardly words…

Earlier, in the hallway of that slightly run-down apartment building, after a long stalemate, the supporting SWAT officers had finally arrived on scene.

Seeing the show of force, the traffickers finally realized the seriousness of the situation. The girl in their hands was definitely not a simple target…

So they spectacularly caved and surrendered. That ridiculous turn of events even made the girl inwardly snicker at the traffickers.

Normally, the bigger the show of force, the more important the hostage. You should feel confident, so how did they break under pressure so quickly? With that kind of nerve, who dares to come out and cause trouble? Is that not shameful?

Four traffickers were taken away on the spot. The police planned to use them as a breakthrough to further investigate the human trafficking ring behind them.

To Eiru’s surprise, the officers didn’t follow normal procedure and make her give a statement… and they even assigned two plainclothes officers to accompany her back to school.

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Because people were following her, Eiru couldn’t just use invisibility or fly back to campus like she normally would. She planned to wait for the gate guard to step away, then surreptitiously alter his perception to let herself in.

But when she reached the school gate she didn’t get the chance. The two plainclothes officers had already shown their badges to the guard.

With two policemen vouching for her, the guard naturally didn’t suspect she wasn’t a registered student… so the girl ended up back at school in a daze.

After watching her enter the campus, the two plainclothes officers turned and left. Eiru walked toward the dorm, turning her head every so often to watch their departing figures and her little head was full of questions…

Why were they so eager to prove my identity? It felt like they already knew I couldn’t get into school any other way…

Time returned to the present. The Demon Lord secretly watched her usually even-tempered best friend. His rare display of anger made Eiru nervous and confused at the same time.

I only snuck out to play, how are you this mad? You’ve been sitting here since I returned and you haven’t said a word, you haven’t even looked at me once…

The more she thought about it the more aggrieved she felt. Eiru clenched her lips and gripped her skirt. Just when she was about to burst from the pressure, Yuki’s voice came.

“Where did you go wrong?” A soft voice sounded. Those three simple words instantly drained away all the bottled-up emotion.

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“I shouldn’t have ignored you and sneaked out to play…”

“No, think again.” Her voice was gentle and slightly syrupy, the sort of tone that made her grievance sound like an appeal. If Yuki weren’t still angry, he’d have long since scooped her up and smothered her with affection.

Suppressing the urge to dote on her, Yuki knew he could pamper her anytime, but not now. Today, she needed to be taught a lesson. If he didn’t give her a deep, memorable punishment for this incident, who knows what trouble she’d cause in the future.

“I really don’t know… tell me, I know I was wrong.”

“This afternoon, the silver-haired little girl who got kidnapped by traffickers… that was you, right?” He sighed and spoke slowly, the words making Eiru’s face change color.

“Y-You… how did you know that? That shouldn’t have spread, right? Was it on the news? No, there were no cameras at the scene…” The little demon clutched her head, utterly confused. She couldn’t fathom how her best friend had learned about the afternoon’s events.

“Stop overthinking. I asked every uncle I knew at the police station… one of them told me.” Seeing her like this, Yuki decided not to hide the truth and explained it plainly.

Near the end of classes today, Yuki suddenly received a message from a policeman he knew—asking if he had a sister with silver hair.

At the time Yuki felt something was off. After pressing for details he learned that earlier in the afternoon, a silver-haired little girl in the East District had been taken by human traffickers. After a long stalemate, the girl had been rescued not long before.

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Yuki immediately thought of his little girlfriend. After all, in that area the only silver-haired girl was probably her. He panicked and wanted to leave class to search for her.

But after learning how the girl had been dressed, Yuki hesitated. Most of Eiru’s clothes were bought by him and he didn’t recall gifting her that outfit.

Also, Eiru had promised to stay in the dorm, so she wouldn’t so recklessly sneak out without telling him. After confirming the girl had been rescued, he calmed down and finished the afternoon classes.

When he returned to the dorm with his meal and saw his girlfriend wearing exactly the same clothes mentioned in the report, the last thread keeping him together snapped.

Thinking she might have been the hostage, he investigated the incident’s details. Learning that the girl had no ability to resist and had almost had her neck snapped, Yuki was so furious he couldn’t eat.

He took leave immediately, planning to use this evening’s self-study time to teach the girl a lesson about protecting her own safety.

“I’m asking you, did you act as a hostage and not fight back at all?”

“Ah… yes, because…”

“I don’t care why.” Yuki cut her off. “I’m telling you now, if you can’t protect yourself properly then I’ll have to tie you to me to keep you from any danger.”

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“I can protect myself, they can’t beat me, I’m just… I was just trying to lure out the people behind them!” Eiru objected. She was annoyed; she only hadn’t shown her strength because there were too many people around. She intended to set a trap to catch the bigger fish.

And his implication made her feel like he thought she was the kind of reckless person who would go wild when she had the advantage and end up dead from it.

“So what? Their hands were around your neck and you almost died, do you understand? Can you guarantee they won’t suddenly slip or shake? Can your small body take that?”

“And what if someone had drugs that could knock you out? Would you still foolishly give yourself away? Fishing is one thing, but who uses themselves as bait?” Yuki practically shouted, because he knew better than anyone how fragile she was.

“Anyone could be bait for those people, but not you! Call me selfish if you want, but even if you want to be bait yourself I will never agree. Do you understand?”

Translator Note

GOOD JOB YUKI