Demon King – Chapter 493 – The Demon Lord’s Accusation

Although Eiru’s temper was actually very good, the old man’s shameless move of accusing others first and then turning the blame around still managed to make her angry.

‘What kind of nonsense was this supposed to be? You were the one who truly caused the deaths of several girls, and in the end you were saying it was all my fault? And now you were even claiming I wanted to harm your granddaughter?’

But she also could not explain that she had come here at the request of his granddaughter. It was obvious that the old man regarded his granddaughter as his entire world. Telling him that his granddaughter had actually been awake all along would be far too cruel.

“I’m not going to argue with you. Whoever did those things knows it in their own heart.”

Coldly throwing out this line, the little Demon Lord turned her head and focused on handling the work in front of her.

“You are the source of everything. The Amber Crystal carried out selection on those girls precisely to cultivate something like you. Over hundreds or even thousands of years, do you know how many girls were eliminated because of you?”

‘Huh? What the hell?’

His words left Her Majesty the Demon Lord momentarily stunned. Even though she treated it as incoherent ranting born of anger, the amount of information in it was still overwhelming.

However, it did remind Eiru of Yaoyao’s explanation not long ago. The source of her powers was most likely also the Amber Crystal. The mysterious power of the Daughters of Amber Crystal was actually a form of heterogenous magic.

Simply put, it was magic with insufficient purity. Because it contained too many impurities, it remained in a long-term berserk and uncontrollable state, constantly affecting everything around it to varying degrees.

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And the Daughters of Amber Crystal had always been waiting for the appearance of one girl. The birth of the final Daughter of Amber Crystal would bring all of this to an end. And the sign of everything ending was the disappearance of the Amber Crystal.

The final Daughter of Amber Crystal. The first person Eiru thought of was naturally her own younger sister. In the year Eiya turned five, the Amber Crystal disappeared. Unless a new Daughter of Amber Crystal had been born on that same day, then Eiya should be the one destined to end everything.

Moreover, Eiya had never been kept inside any cultivation tank. She had lived healthily up until now. This miracle that should have been impossible among the Daughters of Amber Crystal meant that any insider would not doubt Eiya’s identity as the chosen one.

“I’ve already said it. I’m not a Daughter of Amber Crystal. You’ve researched this for so long, you know it too. My age doesn’t match the pattern at all. From the very beginning I was outside the game. An outsider, you could say.”

“The truth of the Daughters of Amber Crystal is that the Amber Crystal is selecting human girls who can be transformed into a new species.”

Years of research had already given the director insight into part of the truth behind the Amber Crystal. He knew very well why those girls had such short lives. They were sacrifices eliminated midway due to failed transformations.

“So what are you trying to say? I’m that thing that got transformed?”

The little Demon Lord found it laughable. Right now, she genuinely felt that the old man was talking nonsense.

Honestly speaking, she had not even been a girl before. Even if there really was some kind of selection, she would have been eliminated from the very start. It was called Daughters of Amber Crystal. How could a boy suddenly be shoved into it?

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“I don’t know what method you used to pass the selection, but you should know this. Daughters of Amber Crystal who live a bit longer will grow several abnormal, tumor-like lumps of flesh on their backs. Seeing you now, I finally understand. Those were immature wings and a tail.”

“Oh? Then what about horns? Did anything grow on the head?”

Her Majesty the Demon Lord rolled her eyes. After all, her sister had never shown anything like that. The old man’s words did not hold up at all.

“You beast, you demon. How can your heart be this black? Those girls all died in pain and torment, and you, the true culprit, can still joke and mock here?”

Having fallen into madness, the old man began hysterically roaring, cursing Eiru.

“Shut up. You, of all people, have no right to stand up for them.”

The little Demon Lord completely lost her temper.

“Who was it that searched them out everywhere to conduct research and put them through torture?”

“I didn’t…”

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“You didn’t? You have no idea how kind those girls were inside. From the very beginning they knew exactly what you were doing to them, but just to repay the kindness of being adopted and to save others, they chose to accept it.”

Eiru stepped forward, condemning him as she spoke, repeatedly jabbing her finger hard into his chest.

To be honest, it was rare for her to be this furious. If the other party were not an elderly man whose experiences were indeed pitiful and worthy of sympathy, and if his granddaughter were not actually present watching, Her Majesty the Demon Lord would have beaten him half to death already and sent him straight to the police station.

“You completely betrayed their trust and reliance on you. They respected you as their own grandfather. And what about you? You treated them as lab rats. Someone like you actually has the nerve to shout their names as a banner?”

“In your eyes there’s only your own granddaughter. The other Daughters of Amber Crystal aren’t people, right? They can just be treated as tools to be researched and consumed at will, right? Do you think your granddaughter would be happy if she saw all this?”

“What you’ve done is nothing more than piling several blood debts onto your granddaughter out of thin air. Even if you succeed, even if she truly survives, how would she feel, carrying the weight of several lives? Have you thought about that? No, you haven’t.”

Eiru’s accusations left the director speechless for a moment. But he would not abandon the plan to save his granddaughter just because of these words.

Moreover, his goal had already been achieved. That was to deliberately provoke Eiru and draw her attention away from his granddaughter. At the very least, it bought him some time to think of a way out of the current situation.

“Under the pretty banner of research being for their sake, all you really wanted was for your own granddaughter to live. For that, you didn’t even care about the form in which she would survive. The most selfish and hypocritical person here is actually you.”

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After lightly coughing a few times and shouting such a long string of words in one breath, the little Demon Lord’s throat felt dry. She looked around the room for something to moisten her throat. This small action naturally did not escape the other man’s eyes.

There was a bottle of prepared special solution on the table. The director began calculating how to get this possibly thirsty girl to drink it.

He had conducted experiments. This thing that looked like a sports drink was, in reality, nothing short of deadly poison to humans. As long as she drank it, his research materials would increase by one more.

But what he did not expect was that just as he was plotting all this, the girl’s attention actually landed on that bottle of solution on its own.

Watching the girl walk up and pick up the bottle, the director was overjoyed. But before he could celebrate for long, he realized that she did not immediately drink the strange, unknown liquid. Instead, she showed a look of shock and delight.

“Where did you get this stuff? This is amazing. I won’t hold back then.”

Tossing out this question, Her Majesty the Demon Lord happily twisted open the cap and gulped it down in big mouthfuls.