Demon King – Chapter 428 – Room 1503 Welcomes One More……

“Transform already!”

In the boys’ dorm, the only single dog in Room 1503 was putting on his own humiliating performance.

Jixian was lying on his bed, intimately boiling a long phone call with his soon-to-be girlfriend. Down below, Ziyu was holding up his phone with a picture of a catgirl on it, shouting at a certain big cat sitting crookedly on a chair.

The silver-haired couple who had just returned from the airport froze on the spot the moment they opened the door and saw this ridiculous scene.

Looks like Ziyu had finally eaten too much dog food and snapped, starting to target an innocent big kitty instead. This fool had finally gone crazy.

“Huh? You’re back already?”

Ziyu hurriedly put away his phone and stopped his embarrassing act.

“That fast? Did you find the stone—wait… what the hell is that?”

Just as he was about to ask the couple about the results of their trip, Ziyu noticed something strange lying on Eiru’s head. From the movement, it seemed to be alive?

“Yiwu?”

Sensing that the person beneath it had stopped walking, the little cutie on Eiru’s head lifted its small head. While letting out an adorable sound, it also stretched its body.

Once it fully stretched out, Ziyu finally got a clear look at the little thing. Even so, he still could not tell what it was. Compared to real-world animals, it looked way too fantastical.

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Its overall appearance was part cat, part fox. Like a griffin, it had a pair of wings that were enormous relative to its body. And behind it was a fluffy, bushy tail like a squirrel’s.

“What is this thing? Where did you find it… a magical beast?”

Though he did not know its origin, judging from the fur color alone, it was definitely related to that girl somehow.

After all, whether it was horns, wings, or tail, that ice-blue to blue-violet multi-layered gradient was practically that girl’s signature color.

And this strange little thing had almost the exact same gradient. If you told him it was not something that girl had cooked up from who-knows-where, Ziyu absolutely would not believe it.

So after careful consideration, and taking into account Eiru’s identity as a demon race member, Ziyu ultimately chose to call it a magical beast.

“Little thing, you look pretty unique…”

After resting for a bit and finishing his phone call, Jixian also climbed down to tease the little cutie that had appeared out of nowhere.

The strange little creature welcomed all comers, affectionately licking Jixian’s fingers. From time to time it would look around curiously, like a baby full of wonder, brimming with interest toward everything around it.

“Don’t be fooled by how it looks. Even though it was just born, that’s true… its actual age is older than the four of us combined.”

The little Demon Lord lay sprawled on the bed, looking completely limp, gazing at the small creature standing on the chair below with a face full of helplessness.

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For some reason, looking at Eiru like this, both Jixian and Ziyu felt as if something had been drained out of her.

While playing around with Jixian and Ziyu, the little one would occasionally glance toward Eiru and Yuki respectively, as if wary that the two of them might suddenly leave it behind and run off.

Meanwhile, Gulu stood on the desk nearby with its fur fully puffed up, bristling as it glared at the newcomer on the chair with obvious hostility.

‘My position as Room 1503’s number one cutest pet cannot be stolen by you.’ ¹ Cute…

Her Majesty the Demon Lord could read that sentiment clearly from Gulu’s eyes. But she could not be bothered to intervene. Competing for affection was their problem, not hers, as long as they did not start fighting.

“Gui?”

The little one also noticed the big cat’s gaze. After turning around in confusion, it lightly hopped onto the desk where Gulu was.

Gulu instantly raised its alert level to the maximum, staring at the unknown creature curiously inspecting it, looking like it was facing a formidable enemy.

But as a clueless baby not even a full day old, the little one had no sense of how dangerous the world could be, nor could it perceive Gulu’s hostility. Finding the other’s fluffy fur very comfortable, it affectionately leaned in and rubbed against it.

“Good thing Gulu has a good temper. If this were another cat, this idiot would probably get scratched stupid, right?”

Watching the interaction between the two small animals below, the little Demon Lord could not help but complain.

Everyone knew that felines generally had very strong aggression. If this little thing really ran into another cat and dared to rub up against it like this, it would probably lose a layer of skin.

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Fortunately, Maine Coons generally had very good tempers, and Gulu’s was the best among them. Sometimes the group could not help but wonder whether this was actually a dog that had reincarnated into the wrong species. Because compared to a cat, Gulu’s usual temperament was more like that of an honest, well-behaved big dog.

Faced with such friendliness, Gulu looked like it had nowhere to vent its temper, as if punching cotton. So it simply lay down, glaring resentfully as the unidentified creature rubbed all over it.

“Compared to when it was a stone, after turning into this, did it actually lose the ability to read inner emotions and thoughts? Or is it because it has normal senses now, so that aspect of its perception became weaker?”

As she analyzed and complained, Eiru felt that compared to how it was now, it actually seemed smarter when it was still a stone.

“Isn’t that better? Saves it from causing trouble everywhere, right?”

Yuki did not think that was a bad thing at all. And compared to that stone which could not be communicated with, the little one in its current form was much more likable.

“So what exactly is it? Where did you get this… dog? Cat? Cat-dog beast?”

“You might as well call it a magical beast like Stupid Ziyu does. I haven’t even thought of a name for it anyway…”

Looking at Jixian’s conflicted expression, the listless girl sighed and began telling the two of them about what had happened over the past couple of days.

“You’re saying what now? It’s that stone?”

Ziyu was so shocked his jaw nearly fell off. After all, he had always thought that stone was just a legend.

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He did know a bit about the old village. When he was younger, he and his friends had gone there to play. Back then they were too ignorant to notice anything wrong. Only after growing up did he realize how eerie that place had been. Every time he thought back on it, he felt a lingering sense of fear.

If not for Yuki’s firm attitude at the time, and the reassurance that there was a certain Demon Lord backing them up, so that even a Kayako or Sadako would not be able to stir up much trouble, he would not have agreed to let his two roommates take the risk, even with his own experience of returning safely.

(Yuki and Jiaqi: You think too highly of her. It’s not about whether she can win. If those two really showed up, she’d be the first one scared into running.)

What Ziyu did not know was that, back then, although he had privately given that dumb girl a whole list of precautions, she had only remembered a handful of them.

But that could not really be blamed on Eiru either. With heavy psychological shadows, Ziyu had subconsciously treated it all as indescribable phenomena and explained things in a very roundabout way.

So the little Demon Lord, who did not understand most of it, naturally only remembered the parts she could understand. To sum it up, both of these idiots were unreliable.

Translator Note

New pet!