Demon King – Chapter 548 – The Demon Lord Ignored at Home

“Sis, what did Dad want with you?”

After waiting for a while and seeing Eiru come back, Eiya immediately leaned over and asked curiously.

“At home call me bro, don’t blow my cover… nothing much. Just telling me to come home more often, and asking me to move back home and live here.”

Her Majesty the Demon Lord was not interested in it at all.

‘Now you remember to call me back? What were you doing before?’

She even sarcastically threw this line back at her father.

‘Does Mom know about this decision of yours? Do you really think she would let me move back home?’

“That is a good thing. I would love for you to come back and live here…”

The overly young loli got pretty excited hearing that, but all she got in response was a white eye roll.

“What good thing? Being outside at least means I don’t have to watch the two of them for their moods. Life is way easier.”

“But Dad is actually better to you than Mom, right… even though he usually does not handle anything.”

Yeah right, just picking the taller one among short people. No matter how you put it, he also had a hand in kicking me out back then. The little Demon Lord snorted inwardly. Ei Yuan was indeed gentler and easier to communicate with compared to Liu Wan, but that did not mean he was completely free of responsibility.

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“Your mom went to your aunt’s place. Today it is just the three of us going out to eat. Get ready, I will take you two to grab a meal.”

While the sisters were chatting, Ei Yuan suddenly walked over and gestured that he was taking them out to eat.

“I will pass. I ate not long ago, so I am pretty full.”

Eiru immediately rejected the idea of going downstairs to eat.

“Just take Little Ya.”

“Alright, I will take your sister out to eat… Little Ya, hurry up and put your shoes on. If we go late there will be a lot of people and we will have to wait.”

Hearing his son say that, Ei Yuan did not think much of it. He turned around, patted his daughter on the head, and urged her on.

After the two of them left, the Demon Lord’s stomach let out a perfectly timed “gurgle” sound. Everything about having eaten was an excuse. She just did not want to sit there pretending to be a happy family with Ei Yuan.

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Over the next few days at home, maybe to make it easier to hide her identity, or maybe simply because she did not want to interact with her family, the Demon Lord completely flipped her schedule. During the day she sealed her door shut and slept. At night she only got up when most people were already asleep. Naturally, the time she spent interacting with her family was extremely limited.

Ei Yuan and Liu Wan nagged her a bit at first, but after a while they could not be bothered anymore. Maybe because they had not seen their son for a long time, the two of them did not manage her much this time. Especially her mother, whose attitude was noticeably gentler compared to before.

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Basically, they only saw her right before going to sleep. After three or four days, Eiru had only eaten one meal together with her family. Ei Yuan and Liu Wan were uncomfortable about it, but they still could not let their son starve, so they always left food for her.

That night, the Demon Lord woke up relatively early for once and caught dinner time. And there were guests at home that day. Her uncle and aunt came over as a family, bringing along that little nephew of Eiru and Eiya.

“So, is it only chicken? Do we have beef, pork, or lamb? Hotpot without those feels like it has no soul~”

In a pretty good mood today, and with so many people around, the little Demon Lord tried to liven up the atmosphere with her own topic.

But the voices at the table perfectly drowned out Eiru’s voice, and no one responded to her at all. Eiya next to her was also busy being harassed by the little nephew, so she did not hear her either.

‘Forget it. Everyone is chatting, interrupting is not appropriate. I will wait until it quiets down.’

With that in mind, when the table conversation paused briefly, taking advantage of the silence, the Demon Lord repeated her half-joking question again.

And then… she was splendidly ignored again. After a moment of quiet, the table quickly resumed with everyone’s own topics, as if no one had heard her voice at all.

Eiru suddenly felt extremely unnecessary in this house. Disappointed, she gave up on talking to everyone, lowered her head, and became a merciless rice-shoveling machine.

‘I never had much presence to begin with anyway. What was I even expecting? Outside or at home. Though things are much better outside now that I turned into a loli, but at home…’

“Little Lu, want me to blanch some mushrooms for you?”

It seemed she finally remembered that she still had a son. Seeing the small amount of raw mushrooms left on the plate, Liu Wan asked Eiru, who was eating with her head down.

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“Do whatever. I don’t care.”

“I am asking if you want to eat them. If you don’t, I will not blanch them. If you do, I will blanch them for you. This stuff cannot be kept until tomorrow, better to blanch it now.”

As she spoke, Liu Wan pushed the mushrooms into the pot anyway.

“You already decided, so why ask me for my opinion… I really don’t care.”

Eiru replied flatly, already numb to these kinds of things.

“You child, I am blanching them for you to eat. Don’t be ungrateful. I already blanched them. Remember to eat them later, got it?”

“Oh…”

Everyone ate very happily during this meal, except for a certain loli who was ignored the entire time. After dinner, with no mood at all, Eiru naturally ran back to her room and holed up there. But she could clearly hear the discussion coming from the living room.

“When do you think Eiru will finally learn to be sensible? I keep telling him to talk more with the relatives and communicate, but he never listens… look now, everyone’s evaluation of him is bad, saying he does not talk to anyone at all.”

“Yeah, everyone is family. Why be so reserved? He is too introverted. This cannot go on… he used to greet people before, now he just hides in his room.”

‘I did speak up. Did any of you respond to me? Why does it end up being my fault again? Every time I listen to you and try to talk to the relatives, forget them, even the two of you cannot hear me, okay?’

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Having returned to her true form and lying face-down on the bed, listening to the talk about herself outside, the Demon Lord was left with nothing but bitterness and grievance.

‘From childhood to now, you treated me like I was invisible, and now you want to slap labels on me?’

Being invisible is fine, this Eiru does not really care. What she could not understand was why they still forced her to warm her face against a cold ass. She sticks it over, gets ignored, and in the end still gets labeled as unsociable.

“I was already being very polite. I specifically waited until your topics stopped before speaking…”

With her face buried in the pillow, how could the little Demon Lord not want to fit into her family? But all she got in return was being ignored. What else could she do?

She could not figure it out. Her voice was not even that quiet. Why did no one hear her? The only explanation she could come up with was that this group of so-called family never really cared about her at all.

“Even Little Ya…”

Even though she could understand that Eiya was being harassed the whole time by the bratty kid and could not pay attention to her, the only person at home who actually cared about her also did not respond to her today. The Demon Lord’s mood completely exploded.

Comparing that to someone at school who always treated her as the center of attention, even holding her in his palm and doting on her, the little Demon Lord felt even worse. She started missing her little boyfriend.

After hesitating for a while, the Demon Lord fished her phone out from under the pillow. Seeing the photo of herself with Yuki on the wallpaper, she bit her lip and dialed his number.