Demon King – Chapter 551 – Elderly Folks Always See Through Everything

Thanks to the child letting out a timely, ear-piercing cry, Her Majesty the Demon Lord finally escaped this round of crisis. After toughing it out for another hour until Uncle and Aunt woke up, she was finally able to return to her room to sleep.

She thought that would be the end of it, but Eiru soon ran into a new and very serious problem. The little brat outside the door seemed completely incapable of stopping his crying?

“Stop crying already, I’m begging you…”

Begging for mercy as she spoke, the little Demon Lord pressed a pillow over her head. But how could something like that possibly block out crying loud enough to pierce through walls?

“Save me, I need to sleep… what the hell is this even supposed to be!”

If that thing outside just kept crying nonstop, it would almost be fine. At least after a while, you could get used to it. But the problem was that he cried for a bit, stopped for a bit, then cried again. Do kids just not get tired at all?

Tortured to the point of nearly cracking, the adults outside finally did something and managed to calm her little nephew down. Gaining that hard-won silence, Her Majesty the Demon Lord practically fell asleep the instant it arrived…

When she woke up again, it was so dark that it couldn’t possibly be any darker. Peeking through the pitch-black crack of the door, Eiru confirmed that the whole family was asleep by now. Uncle and Aunt had probably already taken the demon child and slipped away too.

Eiru yawned and had just opened the door to go look for food when a hand suddenly pressed down on her head, scaring the soul right out of her.

“Little Lu, you’ve gotten thinner again… eat more, alright.”

“Grandma… you… you… why are you still not asleep at this hour?”

She originally wanted to complain about how the other party always appeared and disappeared like a ghost, but after thinking about how rude that would be, she changed it to a different question.

“You hadn’t woken up, how could Grandma sleep…”

Rubbing Eiru’s unbelievably nice-to-touch cheeks, the elderly woman’s eyes were filled with worry.

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“Back then, your little aunt fell asleep and never woke up again. Grandma’s scared… scared that you might not wake up either.”

‘Don’t say it so scary, I just flipped my sleep schedule…’

While she was thinking that, it seemed that hearing the elderly woman’s voice made the little Demon Lord keenly notice movement from her parents’ bedroom door.

“Grandma, I’m going to brush my teeth, wash up, and eat something!”

Leaving behind that line, Her Majesty the Demon Lord whooshed straight into the bathroom and shut the door. Not long after, voices came from outside.

“Mom, why are you still not asleep this late, what are you doing out here… it’s already very late.”

“Little Lu hasn’t woken up yet, I don’t dare sleep.”

“Why do you care about him? Sleeping during the day and waking up at night, just ignore him.”

“How can I ignore it? Little Lu is a girl, if you don’t look after her and something happens, what then?”

“Mom, Little Lu is a boy…”

Liu Wan didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, but at the same time there was a trace of worry in her heart. Had it gotten so serious that she couldn’t even remember whether Eiru was a boy or a girl?

“A boy? How do I remember a girl… white hair, long hair, that can’t be right…”

“Mom, that’s Little Ya.”

While explaining, Liu Wan was also startled inside. So the other party had known about Eiya’s hair issue all along? It seemed they would have to pay more attention to what the elderly woman said in the future, so that child wouldn’t hide things from the two of them again.

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“Listen to you talk, do you really think I’m senile? How could I mix up Little Lu and Little Ya? I said that’s Little Lu, so she is Little Lu.”

“Alright, alright, it’s Little Lu, it’s Little Lu. It’s late, go sleep first… Little Lu is grown up already, no need for us to worry so much. Go sleep.”

While coaxing her, Liu Wan helped the elderly woman back into her room, and the hallway instantly fell into silence again.

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As everyone knows, staying up late harms the body, but pulling all-nighters is fun as hell. With her time difference completely flipped, the little Demon Lord hugged her handheld console and partied on the bed all night long… until she came out in the morning to find something to eat and ran into her mother, who was up getting ready for work.

“Seeing you these days is really a rare event.”

Carrying a bag and preparing to head out, Liu Wan greeted her son with a round of sarcasm the moment she saw him. But there was actual business to talk about, so she didn’t waste time and quickly got to the point.

“Your sister is on break and wants to go out and have some fun. She said she wants to bring you along. Go ask her for the details yourself. The timing is just these next few days, hurry up and fix your sleep schedule.”

“Huh? I don’t want to go.”

Her Majesty the Demon Lord rejected the proposal on the spot.

‘Wasn’t it great to just stay home? Go out and play my ass. The key point was having to watch your expressions the whole time, exhausting and boring.’

“Don’t tell me that, go tell your sister. She’s the one who suggested it. If you don’t want to go, tell her.”

Liu Wan didn’t care at all about Eiru’s response. She tossed out that line and went out to work.

“Trying to screw me over again? I’m not going… last time at the water park you totally screwed me…”

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Smacking her lips, thinking back to the last time she went out with her sister, Eiru became even more determined not to leave the house.

By the time Eiya climbed out of bed, her dear older sister (older brother?) was already getting ready to sleep. Before the other party fell asleep, she hurried in to discuss this.

“Sis! Sis! Let’s go out and play together! The whole family, everyone together!”

“Not going, fuck off.”

Laying out the blanket, she replied flatly, not even bothering to turn her head.

‘Last time I went with you because there were fewer people, and it really was to keep you company. But if the whole family is going, why would I need to accompany you? Just let Mom and Dad go with you, isn’t that fine? And honestly, them accompanying you is more reliable than me…’

“You don’t come back very often, just go out and play together once… I also haven’t gone out to play in a long time…”

Eiya looked a bit pitiful. She really did sincerely want to go out and have fun together with her sister.

“Last time I went out with you, what happened? I almost got killed by demon kids…”

Her Majesty the Demon Lord turned her head and shot her sister a glare. With that unpleasant lesson from last time, there was no way she was going out to get screwed again.

‘Of course, if you said Yuki was going too, then maybe it would be worth considering… consider my ass, I’d agree on the spot!’

“Alright… if you’re not going, then I don’t really want to go either. Staying home and playing together is fine too.”

Thinking about last time, Eiya couldn’t really force it. Her enthusiasm was quickly extinguished.

“By the way, sis, how are things between you and Yuki these days? How’s the progress?”

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“Hm? Stupid Yuki… it’s alright, I guess? Maybe, possibly, probably?”

Mentioning Yuki made Eiru stop what she was doing and start thinking.

“Oh right, right, do you still remember that time before when I gave you an idea to test your sexual orientation?”

“I… I remember… what are you trying to do?”

Instinctively sensing something bad, the little Demon Lord felt that a terrifying question was about to come out of her sister’s mouth.

“When that happened, the person you were thinking about in your head, was it Yuki?”

The moment that question came out, Her Majesty the Demon Lord’s face flushed bright red all the way down to the base of her neck. Overcome with shame and fury, she grabbed a pillow and threw it straight at her sister…

“What the hell is wrong with you! Why are you asking that!!!”

“Oh my, oh my, you’re shy now. You even said before that you didn’t like him… look at you, you totally like him, don’t you?”

“I don’t know! Don’t ask me that kind of question!”

Her Majesty the Demon Lord’s frantic shouting echoed through the room as she refused to think about this problem that could turn her mind into complete chaos.

But if Yuki heard that sentence, he would probably be so excited he’d start dancing on the spot. The answer had already changed from not liking him to not knowing. Wasn’t that already a huge step forward?