Demon King – Chapter 379 – Eiya Who Is Afraid of the Dark

“Guu…”

Hearing movement coming from the room, Yuki put down what he was doing. What entered his eyes was his little girlfriend sitting on the bed, rubbing her eyes.

“You’re awake? Lu Brat… go brush your teeth and wash your face, then get ready to eat.”

After saying that, Yuki walked out of the room.

Glancing at the time, it was already afternoon. If this girl slept a bit longer, she could get up and eat dinner directly.

“Mm, okay…”

After yawning, Her Majesty the Demon Lord was just about to get up when she realized her body was being tightly hugged by her little sister.

“Uh…”

When Yuki entered the room again, he found Eiru wearing an affectionate expression as she held her beloved little sister in her arms, gently patting her back, looking exactly like someone coaxing a child to sleep.

The sleeping Eiya leaned happily against her sister’s chest, occasionally letting out murmurs that sounded like enjoyment…

“You’re really good at coaxing your sister to sleep…”

Yuki laughed as he teased her. To be honest, this side of Eiru was pretty rare to see normally.

“I moved too much when I just woke up and almost woke her… and I’ve been coaxing her to sleep since she was five. How could I not know how?”

Her Majesty the Demon Lord rolled her eyes at Yuki. For her, this was already effortless daily work.

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“Little Ya has been afraid of the dark since she was little. She’s scared of being alone at night, so if no one coaxes her, she basically can’t sleep at all.”

Turning her head, still looking dotingly at her cute little sister, Her Majesty the Demon Lord’s tone was filled with nostalgia.

“She’s fourteen, right? She doesn’t still need someone to stay with her and coax her to sleep, does she?”

Yuki found it a bit unbelievable. After all, with his parents busy with work, he started sleeping alone from elementary school.

“Not to that extent…”

Eiru laughed softly.

“She’s already grown up, and Mom and Dad definitely wouldn’t agree to me sleeping with her or anything.”

With Eiru’s explanation, Yuki learned quite a bit about the past when the two sisters were still brother and sister.

From the age of five, Eiya started making a fuss about wanting her brother to coax her and sleep with her. Afraid of the dark and afraid of being alone since childhood, she always felt that there was something terrifying under her bed and in the darkness…

On top of that, the way people around her kept their distance while looking at her with pity. Even though she was doted on and cherished by everyone, her sensitive heart was filled with unease almost every moment.

And when night fell, that unease would intensify even more. Only with someone accompanying her could it be eased to some extent.

But Eiru and Jiaqi were different. For some reason, maybe because of their attitude, Eiya felt that as long as she was by their side, even if she was just quietly staying there, the unease in her heart would completely disappear. That was also why she especially liked sticking to the two of them when she was little.

As she grew older, even though they were siblings, because of the difference between boys and girls, their parents no longer allowed her to continue sleeping together with Eiru at night. Because of this, Eiya, who had always been a well-behaved girl, had her first big argument with her parents.

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“What happened in the end? What’s the situation now?”

Yuki asked with some curiosity. Anything related to Eiru always concerned him deeply.

“Dad and Mom didn’t really dare say much to her, so they could only keep coaxing her… then they turned around and started lecturing me instead?”

Her Majesty the Demon Lord shrugged, speaking in a disdainful tone.

“Lecturing you?”

“Yeah. If they couldn’t solve it on Little Ya’s side, then they could only take it out on me. But in the end, for some reason, Little Ya agreed on her own…”

What Eiru didn’t know was that Eiya had accidentally seen their mother scolding her brother back then. In order to stop her brother from being scolded anymore, Eiya chose to give in. Enduring the fear in her heart, she took the initiative to refuse her brother’s companionship and chose to sleep alone at night.

“Because Little Ya always felt there was something under the bed, so in order to let her sleep alone at night, Mom and Dad specifically changed her bed to one without any space underneath. That finally made her settle down a bit.”

Yuki listened with great interest.

‘So the always somewhat arrogant and willful Eiya also had such a cute and timid side?’

“I’m telling you, when Little Ya sleeps at night, she curls her whole body up. If there’s something nearby, she hugs it tightly. It’s especially funny…”

Ruthlessly selling out her sister’s dark history, Eiru spoke on, while Yuki wore a smile full of affection for a mischievous girl.

‘Lu Brat, Lu Brat, you sleep like that at night too… and you’re still laughing at Little Eiya here. I’ll take pictures when the time comes and let you see for yourself.’

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“When Little Ya sleeps, she doesn’t dare let even a bit of her body hang off the bed… she always feels that if her hands or feet stretch out, those things on the ground will notice and discover her existence.”

“Then either eat her hands and feet, or jump straight onto the bed and attack her, right?”

Yuki rubbed his forehead helplessly.

“Lots of people are like that when they’re kids, okay?”

“I’m not afraid of saying it, I was like that too when I was little… and even now, even though I know it’s fake, if you tell me to let my hands or feet hang off the bed while sleeping, I still feel all kinds of uncomfortable.”

As he spoke, Yuki reached out and patted Eiru’s head.

“Emmmmm…”

Her Majesty the Demon Lord restrained her smile, biting her lip, not knowing what she was thinking.

“What else? Tell me about you and Jiaqi.”

Yuki smoothly shifted the topic.

“I remember you three grew up playing together…”

“Little Ya only started playing with us after she was five. I’m telling you, back then Stupid Qi doted on her even more than I did. Sometimes I didn’t even know whether I was her real brother or Stupid Qi was her real brother.”

Thinking back to when she didn’t like Eiya before, Her Majesty the Demon Lord stuck out her tongue a bit embarrassedly.

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“Even though he bullied her harder than I did, Stupid Qi really doted on Little Ya when he was little… a lot of the time, he was the one who softened first and helped Little Ya persuade me.”

“Now I think you’re the one who dotes on her the most… Jiaqi’s attitude toward her feels more like a bad friend?”

When going out to look for Eiru yesterday, Yuki had also seen the interaction between the two on the way.

The usually strong Eiya was bullied by Jiaqi until she looked unwilling and kept roaring, with a strong sense of powerless rage. And Jiaqi controlled the intensity perfectly, making it so Eiya couldn’t find a point to truly explode. It really felt like dancing on the edge of a minefield but never stepping on a mine.

“That’s because he was abroad for a long time, and Stupid Qi already liked teasing girls in the first place… I’ve complained to him before that acting like that means he’ll never find a girlfriend.”

Her Majesty the Demon Lord sighed. She felt that her childhood friend would probably be single for life. After all, not many girls could endure his antics.

“Hm? I have some impression from when we played together as kids… but he doesn’t really bully you now, does he?”

Yuki thought carefully. In his impression, he really hadn’t seen Jiaqi interact with any girls other than Eiru and Eiya. And even with Eiru, whom he interacted with the most, he hadn’t seen him tease or bully her.

“Nonsense! I’m a macho man, okay! Can you stop lumping me in with those little girls!”

Her Majesty the Demon Lord said unhappily, raising both hands to her face like claws and putting on an ‘ultra fierce’ expression.

“If he dared bully me, I’d make him crawl out!”