Demon King – Chapter 387 – The Demon Lord With a Fixed Appearance

High school schedules were usually earlier than middle school. By the time Eiya had just climbed out of bed, Eiru had already finished washing up and was ready to head out.

As usual, she went up to the rooftop to bask in her sun. But not long after the little Demon Lord sat down, her phone ringtone rang out abruptly.

“Sis… I ran into trouble… I don’t know what to do…”

The voice on the other end of the call sounded especially pitiful and helpless. Hearing her own sister’s voice filled with sobs instantly threw Eiru into a panic.

“So you secretly went and picked up little Eiya from home and brought her here?”

Time returned to the present. After listening to the rough sequence of events, Yuki didn’t know where to even start complaining.

‘Out of all places, you had to bring her here? She’s a little girl. Why did you bring her to a boys’ dorm? And you didn’t even tell her parents beforehand. What if they called the police? That would’ve been a real mess.’

“Relax. I already told Mom and Dad that Little Ya is with me not long ago.”

Eiru propped her head up and sighed, then looked up at her own pitiful-looking sister above her.

“So Stupid Qi, the only reason you found out so late is because your intel is outdated. My parents probably noticed she was missing by noon already.”

With a hint of mockery on her face, the little Demon Lord guessed that her childhood friend probably hadn’t brought his phone to afternoon classes, which was why he’d just turned into a clown.

“Uh… little princess, you two… are you twins? Why do you look exactly the same? Or is your sister not human? Is she a demon like you?”

Ziyu and Jixian had been observing back and forth for a long time. Their faces still wore expressions of shock, mouths unable to close.

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“Come on, can your observational skills be a bit better? Does Little Ya have little stars in her eyes like I do?”

Her Majesty the Demon Lord turned around, using her fingers to pry her own eyes wide open to show the two of them.

“We’re two years apart. What kind of twins would that be? And our voices are obviously different, okay?”

“T-that so…”

They responded half-convinced, their gazes still drifting back and forth between the silver-haired girl sisters. They really did look far too similar. It was hard not to start imagining things.

“So the situation is, Little Ya called you early in the morning, then you rushed over and brought her back?”

Jiaqi stroked his chin as he organized the information.

“But why did you bring her here? Couldn’t you have taken her to your rental apartment?”

“Don’t remind me. That was my original plan…”

Eiru rubbed her temples, a headache forming.

“I accidentally let it slip and told her I live in the boys’ dorm. She immediately insisted on coming along.”

Just mentioning it made Eiru’s head hurt. How did she not manage to control her mouth? Now someone was definitely going to start messing with her.

“How could I possibly feel at ease with my sister living alone with a bunch of boys? And something this important… you all actually kept it from me!”

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Eiya puffed up angrily as she leaned against the bed, her face clearly screaming displeasure.

“Putting that aside, Little Ya, what exactly happened? How serious was it that you had to skip class and run away?”

Bringing the topic back on track, Jiaqi was deeply concerned. Eiya had always presented herself as a well-behaved honor student. How could she do something like skipping school and running away from home?

“Specifically, it’s… Stupid Yuki, go grab the hair dye from my cabinet.”

Eiya’s mood was low and she didn’t want to answer. The little Demon Lord could only give instructions to Yuki while lifting a strand of her sister’s silver hair that had fallen down.

Those who understood the Amber Crystal story, Yuki and Jiaqi included, were well aware of Eiya’s reason for dyeing her hair and the motive behind it. But they were still confused. What did skipping school have to do with hair dye?

Taking the hair dye from Yuki, the little Demon Lord poured a bit onto Eiya’s silver hair. With a light swipe of her hand, that strand of hair was dyed black right before everyone’s eyes.

But soon something strange happened. The black color on Eiya’s hair began fading at a speed visible to the naked eye, quickly returning to that familiar silver-white.

“What the hell?”

Yuki stepped forward and wiped it. The hair dye that should’ve remained on Eiya’s hair hadn’t left behind the slightest trace. It had simply decomposed and vanished into thin air.

“I don’t know the exact reason, but I have a bit of a lead.”

As she spoke, Eiru poured hair dye onto her own hair right in front of Yuki’s horrified gaze.

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“Hey Lu Brat, don’t ruin your hair!”

As a white-hair enthusiast, seeing his little girlfriend’s moonlight-like perfect silver hair being polluted by black made Yuki’s heart skip a beat.

“What are you panicking for? Nothing’s going to happen…”

Before she finished speaking, the same thing that had just happened to Eiya replayed itself in front of everyone. The hair dye on Eiru’s head also disappeared into nothingness.

“My appearance is fixed. It can’t be changed by any external factors. Even if it is changed, it’ll be forcibly corrected back.”

Setting the dye container aside, the little Demon Lord explained while casually tidying her hair.

“Of course, hats, wigs, contact lenses and the like don’t matter. What gets corrected are things like being tanned by the sun, hair dye, or cutting my hair. Any external force that directly affects my appearance will be forcibly corrected.”

“So your sister really is a demon like you then? Does that mean your whole family is?”

Having witnessed a supernatural scene, Jixian and Ziyu were dumbfounded. Sure, that girl pulled plenty of tricks normally, but new weird stuff was always shocking.

“No. This is where things get strange.”

Her Majesty the Demon Lord gave a negative answer.

“Little Ya is a genuine human. She doesn’t even have a single cell that’s related to demons.”

When it came to medical diagnosis and treatment, the little Demon Lord was indeed a layman. But when it came to directly sensing through magic permeating the body, no one in this world was more reliable than her.

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Any tiny anomaly couldn’t escape Eiru once she got serious. That was also why hospitals couldn’t find anything wrong with Eiya despite multiple examinations, yet Eiru had immediately noticed the slow failure of her organs.

“Little Ya does differ from normal people in many ways, but in terms of physical structure, she’s no different from an ordinary human. All the abnormalities on her body are caused by unknown external forces.”

Take magic for example. The human body can’t store magic or serve as a medium for it. At most, it’s like a passageway. Magic can pass through, but it will never leave behind even the slightest residue.

But Eiya, as a human, couldn’t use magic. Yet her body unexpectedly possessed the ability to store magic. That was also what made it convenient for Eiru to leave magic inside her body to suppress the deterioration of her organs.

However, after a detailed examination, Eiru discovered that none of this originated from her sister’s body itself. It was all caused by external influence.

If magic were water, then a demon’s body would be like a glass cup. Pouring water into it was equivalent to storing magic.

Eiya’s body was no different from an ordinary human’s. It was simply a glass base with no walls. Under normal logic, there was no way to pour water into it.

The so-called external force was something else that had formed the cup walls, allowing water to temporarily stay inside. All of Eiya’s abnormalities were related to this unknown external force.

But after investigating even deeper, the results left the little Demon Lord perplexed. After a round of troublesome operations, she did indeed trace the source of this unknown external force.

The origin of that external force…

Was Eiru herself.