Demon King – Chapter 496 – Yuki, Who Holds a Grudge

“Speaking of which… what the hell is this place?”

After shifting his attention to the surroundings and taking in the scene, Jiaqi could not help but feel a chill run down his spine.

“Experiments. This old man’s been experimenting on people to save his granddaughter.”

Yuki answered briefly, the look he gave the old man filled with coldness.

“No, wait, how do you know all this? We’ve been together the whole time, haven’t we? How do you suddenly know so much?”

“Hard to explain right now. Anyway… his granddaughter told me.”

Yuki tilted his chin toward the girl inside the glass container, signaling Jiaqi to look over there.

While searching for Eiru with Jiaqi, a voice had suddenly sounded in Yuki’s head. Because it sounded extremely anxious, and because what it said seemed to involve his own little girlfriend, Yuki had spared the attention to listen.

When she sensed that things were heading in a bad direction, Yaoyao, in her panic, suddenly realized that there was someone nearby who could hear her voice. With the idea of calling in reinforcements, she immediately reached out to Yuki, who had just happened to locate this orphanage, and explained everything to him in detail.

As for why Yuki could hear her voice, Yaoyao herself could not explain it clearly. Logically speaking, only people connected to the Daughters of Amber Crystal should have been able to hear her. But the girl on her side was in urgent danger, so she did not have the luxury of thinking about that.

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“I’ve already called the police. Someone will be here soon to deal with everything you’ve done.”

Yuki calmly delivered what was, for the old man, nothing short of a nightmare.

“No! You can’t do this! You don’t understand what’s going on at all! If you report me, no one will save her! Yaoyao will die! Those doctors are completely useless!”

As if he had fallen straight into an abyss, the director flew into a frenzy upon hearing this, struggling violently without regard for all the equipment on the table.

It did not matter if the equipment broke. But what happened here absolutely could not be known to the police, and he absolutely could not be arrested. If he was taken away, his granddaughter would truly be sentenced to death. After working for so many years, how could he possibly accept such an outcome?

“And the one you’re holding is the real culprit behind everything! Without her, none of this would ever have hap—”

“Shut up!”

Yuki cut him off. He did not care about anything else, but attacking the person he loved most crossed a completely different line.

“I sympathize with what you went through, but you hurt the person most important to me. I’m not some saint, and I don’t have Lu’s habit of tying my own hands and being unable to be ruthless. Since you hurt her, I’m going to retaliate.”

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Yuki stated his stance coldly. He was not petty, but toward someone who had harmed Eiru, he would never be magnanimous either.

And the best and most reasonable form of retaliation was naturally to tell the police everything that had happened here. Years of effort going up in smoke was, for the already deranged old man, a bolt from the blue.

‘You harmed my Lu psychologically, so I’ll retaliate psychologically as well.’

Even setting that aside, just based on what had happened here, Yuki could not possibly allow it to continue. His father was a police officer, after all. In his bones, he naturally loathed things like this.

“If you were someone else, my fist would already be in your face.”

If not for the man’s advanced age and fear that he might not be able to take it, Yuki would have already swung.

“You have no idea what kind of demon you’re holding!”

“Save it. No one understands her better than I do. And you, an outsider, sitting here passing judgment and dumping all the blame on her? I’ve never seen an old man as shameless as you.”

Yuki snorted coldly. He did not believe a single word the old man said.

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“Stupid Yuki…”

Lifting her head to look at the person in front of her, the little Demon Lord was crying so hard she looked like a little tear-soaked mess, her shoulders hitching over and over, showing just how fiercely she had been sobbing.

“Don’t listen to him. It’s not your fault. Even if what he says were true, it still has nothing to do with you.”

Yuki patted the girl’s back in his arms, comforting her in a gentle voice.

Yuki felt that the old man’s words made absolutely no sense. Even if Eiru really was the individual successfully selected by the Amber Crystal, the deaths of those Daughters of Amber Crystal had nothing to do with her at all.

It was like an exam where the person setting the questions made a paper that went completely beyond the syllabus, resulting in only one person barely passing. Instead of blaming the obviously problematic examiner, this old man threw all the responsibility for everyone else failing onto the one person who passed. It was simply absurd.

But toward someone who no longer believed he was at fault and had already descended into madness, Yuki felt there was no need to waste time arguing. Rather than squandering words on this old man, it was better to comfort his little girlfriend more and make things clear to her.

“You really… called the police?”

Hearing this, Her Majesty the Demon Lord was also surprised. Her mouth opened slightly, but she did not know what to say for a moment, finally only managing to ask this question.

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“I know what you’re thinking. Don’t worry. That Yaoyao already agreed. She also thinks everything should have a proper ending.”

With a single glance, Yuki saw through Eiru’s thoughts. This silly girl was still worrying about others even now, not knowing that Yaoyao was actually even more worried about her.

“You’re insane. There’s no way to talk to you, hahahaha… Yaoyao’s been asleep for ten, twenty years and never once woken up, and you say she agreed? You and that little beast in your arms are all a bunch of unreasonable bastards, hahaha.”

Letting out a crazed laugh, the director violently yanked at his shackled hands, making the entire table shake wildly. Knowing that the situation was beyond saving, his mentality had completely collapsed, and he hurled the most vicious insults at them in a stream of incoherent rambling.

Yuki frowned and suddenly had the urge to strike back even harder. There was a way to do it, too. Tell him that his granddaughter had been conscious the whole time.

He loved his granddaughter so deeply that he had not hesitated to commit such inhuman acts. If he were told that everything he had done had been witnessed by his beloved granddaughter all along… the old man’s heart might very well fail on the spot.

And if he learned that his granddaughter had always possessed awareness, that all this time he had been tormenting the person he loved most under conditions no different from no anesthesia at all… Yuki could imagine it clearly. If it were him, he would probably collapse instantly.

Considering that the granddaughter was still present and watching, and that she would also have to bear the burden of everything he had done, letting the old man drop dead from heart failure would be far too easy on him. After thinking for a moment, Yuki ultimately abandoned the idea of telling him the truth.