Demon King – Chapter 378 – Siblings

Several days earlier, a certain pair of childhood friends were sitting on the rooftop of the boys’ dormitory, gnawing on snacks while reminiscing about the past…

“I remember you used to really dislike Little Ya back then, didn’t you? Looking at how much you dote on her now, it’s something I never would’ve imagined before.”

Jiaqi laughed as he teased a certain girl about her past attitude toward her little sister.

“Yeah, that was a long time ago.”

Her Majesty the Demon Lord chewed on some fries and couldn’t help recalling those old days. Just as Jiaqi said, when she was very young, she really did despise Eiya.

Before being brought to Huanghai to attend elementary school, Eiru barely had any contact with her biological younger sister. She almost always stayed in their hometown, while Eiya didn’t go back there, so the two of them might not even meet a few times in an entire year.

After coming to Huanghai and living together with her parents and sister, Eiya, that little girl, became extremely curious about her biological older brother. Possibly because of their blood connection, and also because they were close in age, she really liked sticking to her brother.

During that period, Eiru was extremely annoyed with her little sister. After all, the reason her parents ignored her and raised her in a laissez-faire ¹ An attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering. way was entirely because of this girl in front of her. Due to personality and habitual reasons, even though she didn’t show it openly, Eiru still tried her best to avoid contact with her.

But young Eiya didn’t understand the rejection shown by her older brother. Lacking playmates her own age, she followed behind the two of them every day. Wherever they went, she went too, like a little tag-along.

When the two of them were playing around, she wouldn’t force herself into it. She would just quietly watch from the side, hoping that one day she could join them…

Seeing the well-behaved little girl who followed behind them every day without making noise or trouble, Jiaqi was the first to soften. After discussing it for a while, Eiru couldn’t wear him down and reluctantly accepted Eiya joining their games.

Using this as a turning point, contact between the two “siblings” gradually became more frequent. Eiru was slowly moved by her little sister’s attitude and also realized that those were clearly problems caused by their parents, and shouldn’t be blamed on a little sister who didn’t understand anything.

She understood the reasoning, but the knot in her heart still existed. No matter what, Eiru couldn’t view Eiya with a normal mindset, until the day of her seventh birthday…

Because she had been ignored for years, with their parents busy handling all sorts of issues related to Eiya, Ei Yuan and Liu Wan had naturally never celebrated even a single birthday for Eiru. Maybe they did before Eiya was born, but that was something she couldn’t remember anymore.

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Even back in their hometown, her grandparents were busy with farm work and basically had no time to celebrate her birthday. At most, when they happened to remember, they would add an egg to her breakfast. But that was usually the next day or several days later.

So since she could remember things, Eiru had never had a birthday at home in the true sense of the word. The only one who ever remembered her birthday was that childhood friend who would secretly bring her all kinds of candies and snacks to celebrate.

Having never celebrated a birthday, Eiru naturally didn’t have any expectations for that day. That night, after her parents went to sleep, she planned to secretly climb out the window and run off, responding to Jiaqi’s invitation to go out and mess around.

But before she could even climb out of bed and change clothes, a small head poked out from beside the bed, giving her a huge scare.

“What are you doing? Eiya? Why aren’t you sleeping in the middle of the night, crawling out to scare people?”

Her tone wasn’t very nice. While feeling irritated, Eiru was also worried that her little sister might go tattletale.

After all, sneaking out by climbing through the window in the middle of the night. If her parents found out, even if she didn’t get beaten, getting chewed out thoroughly was unavoidable. And a kid like Eiya. Put nicely, she was innocent and spoke without thinking. Put bluntly, she had a big mouth and would tattle the moment you asked. No one could guarantee that Eiya wouldn’t sell her out on the spot.

“No, it’s just… today is brother’s birthday, right?”

Thinking her brother was angry, five-year-old Eiya looked a little flustered.

“Dad and Mom might have forgotten, so… so I made a cake… I wanted to give it to brother.”

Eiya lowered her little head, her tone filled with fear and grievance.

Hearing Eiya’s words, Eiru finally noticed that she was holding a small and delicate plate in her hands. Though in reality, it was just one of the toys Eiya usually played with.

On the toy plate was a crude little cake. Rather than a cake, it was really just cream, condensed milk, and some pieces of fruit and biscuits put together. As if to substitute for candles, there were even a few toothpicks stuck on top, which really made someone laugh.

“Hahahahaha! What is this supposed to be!”

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Eiru burst into laughter. She swore she had never seen such an unreliable cake in her life. Though it seemed she only had seven years of life experience anyway.

“Y-You don’t like it? I already tried really hard… but no matter what, I couldn’t do it right.”

Eiya lowered her head, and tears started falling uncontrollably.

“Wait, don’t cry!”

Eiru couldn’t stand seeing her little sister cry the most. Setting aside how she felt inside, if their parents saw this, she wouldn’t be able to wash herself clean even if she jumped into the Yellow River.

“I tried really hard to learn, but… but no matter what, I couldn’t do it well.”

Eiya sobbed, but still remembered to hold the plate forward, trying to keep her tears from dripping onto the ‘cake’ she had worked so hard on.

“I wanted to give brother a surprise, but… I clearly wanted to celebrate brother’s birthday, wanted you to stay… but I’m too useless. Brother doesn’t like it and still wants to go out.”

“Alright, alright, don’t cry, don’t cry. I didn’t say I don’t like it…”

Eiru didn’t know how to comfort her for a moment. She just sat up and gently patted her little sister’s back.

“Actually, I’m really happy. Out of the whole family, you’re the only one who remembers my birthday… by the way, who did you ask to find out?”

“Brother Jiaqi… I asked a lot of people and they all said they couldn’t really remember, so I went to ask Brother Jiaqi. And since birthdays usually have cake, I wanted to make one myself for you.”

“Mm, mm, thank you, Little Ya. I’ve received your feelings. I’m really touched.”

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“Then tonight, are you still going out?”

Eiya lifted her head, blinking her sapphire-like eyes, her face full of expectation.

“You need to sleep early…”

Eiru didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

“And I already made plans with Stupid Qi. Standing him up wouldn’t be very nice, right?”

“Okay…”

Eiya lowered her head in disappointment.

“I’ll keep it a secret from Mom and Dad… happy birthday, brother.”

“Alright, alright, be good. Tomorrow I’ll fulfill one wish for you, okay?”

Coaxing her little sister, the prejudice in Eiru’s heart toward her eased quite a bit.

“Really? Then tomorrow I want brother to stay with me and coax me to sleep!”

“You’re already five years old. Can’t you sleep by yourself?”

“But… I get a little scared at night when I’m alone…”

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“Even though it’s not the first time I’ve heard it, I still want to complain. Just because of that, your attitude toward Little Ya did a complete turnaround?”

Jiaqi was a bit speechless. In his eyes, this was really such a trivial matter.

“Well, it’s a small thing in your eyes, but not in mine.”

Her Majesty the Demon Lord propped herself up with both hands and looked up at the sky as she sighed.

“In the whole family, only Little Ya remembers my birthday. Every year she carefully picks a gift for me. To me, she’s my angel, okay?”

“Then what about now? Still an angel?”

Holding back laughter, Jiaqi really couldn’t connect a certain somewhat willful little princess with the word angel.

“She just grew crooked. That kind of day comes eventually. But it doesn’t stop her from being my sister.”

Her Majesty the Demon Lord waved her hand helplessly. Indeed, the current Eiya had nothing to do with the word angel.

Like most younger sisters, as time passed and she grew up, Eiya changed from that clingy, considerate little angel sister into a slightly arrogant and willful little princess…

But… So what?

Maybe she’s a bit headstrong and unreliable, but she will always be the little sister I cherish the most, and the one who cares about me the most.