Demon King – Chapter 595 – Where’s My Son?

“T-This… what’s going on here?”

Looking at the silver-haired girl sleeping soundly on the bed, with a small tabby kitten in her arms and something that looked suspiciously like a stuffed toy, Ei Yuan fell into deep thought.

‘Where’s my son? Where did my perfectly good son go? How did he vanish first thing in the morning, and when did this girl sneak into the house?’

Getting up early, Ei Yuan had originally planned to call Eiru and take him to the hospital to see Eiya. But after knocking and calling for a long time with no response, he noticed the door was not properly shut. When he pushed it open and looked inside, he was greeted by this baffling scene.

In fact, the little Demon Lord had locked the door properly last night. But Hulu had run out earlier, and when it came back, it had only pulled the door along casually, not closing it fully. The door was left with a narrow gap, looking closed at a glance, but actually only half shut.

Seeing that the child was still fast asleep, and realizing it would be inappropriate, Ei Yuan was just about to leave the room and call his son to ask what was going on. But then his eyes caught a note on the bedside table, pinned down by a phone.

‘I have something to take care of and need to go out for a bit. I’ll be back pretty late. The girl on the bed is just staying over temporarily for the night, so don’t mind it too much. Her sleep quality isn’t very good, so please don’t disturb her. Also, my phone’s out of battery, so I didn’t take it with me.’

Seeing that the phone holding the note down was indeed his son’s, Ei Yuan unlocked the screen and checked. Sure enough, the battery was only at three or four percent, completely matching what the note said.

“This little bastard… I said I wouldn’t oppose it, but you really went and brought someone else’s daughter home to stay the night?”

Frowning, Ei Yuan believed the explanation on the note and decided that once his son came back, he would have a serious talk with him about his lifestyle choices.

Eiru was also wearing girls’ clothing at the moment. If she had really been wearing the pajamas she used to meet her dad last night, someone might actually get suspicious. But this loli’s disguise defied common sense, including the ability to change clothes along with her body, so it was normal that nothing looked out of place.

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The note was something Her Majesty the Demon Lord put there every night just in case. With an extreme mother at home, she could not predict when she might be asleep and someone would just unlock the door with a key and barge in. Today, it finally proved its worth.

If Ei Yuan had tapped her phone a bit more carefully, he would have noticed the flaw in her operation. The battery display was just a screenshot.

As he quietly closed the door for the girl while leaving the room, a wave of disappointment rose in Ei Yuan’s heart. In his eyes, his son’s sudden disappearance was interpreted as running away to avoid taking care of his sister.

‘Forget it, I’ll talk to him when he comes back…’

Sitting down on the sofa, Ei Yuan figured that with the girl here, his son would definitely return. Rather than going out to search aimlessly, he might as well wait here.

Close to noon, the little Demon Lord jolted awake from her sleep. Grabbing the phone beside her, she took a look and immediately panicked.

‘Crap, I overslept. Dad didn’t already go to the hospital, did he? Then how am I supposed to find Little Ya? Why didn’t he wake me up?’

She jumped out of bed and was about to wash up, but the moment her hand touched the doorknob, she suddenly realized her bedroom door was not locked. This discovery made her immediately stop herself from changing into her male state.

A bad feeling surged up in Eiru’s heart. She turned to look at the bedside table. Sure enough, the note was gone. Realizing what this meant, she covered her face with both hands, frozen in a silent scream.

‘Holy shit, holy shit. Someone came in? Then it could only be Dad, right? Did Dad see my true form? Did he misunderstand something, or straight up notice something off? No, no, I can’t turn into a guy yet. I have to observe first.’

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If she really had been seen, changing into a guy and going out now would be a full self-destruct. Even though she could be a bit dense at times, Eiru would not make such a low level mistake.

Carefully pulling the door open a crack, the little Demon Lord cautiously poked her head out. She glanced toward the living room and saw that her father was indeed sitting on the sofa with a serious expression. He also noticed her.

“Awake? Go brush your teeth and wash your face. Did he prepare a toothbrush and cup for you? He went out and hasn’t come back yet. I bought some breakfast. You can also just wait for lunch if you want.”

Hearing this, Her Majesty the Demon Lord let out a breath of relief. Looks like Dad didn’t notice anything. There’s still plenty of room to maneuver. Though being mistaken for bringing a girl home overnight… she was probably going to get nagged later.

“He prepared them. They’re already prepared!”

Throwing out that line, Eiru bolted into the bathroom like she was fleeing. Inside, she patted her chest, repeatedly lamenting her own miscalculation.

‘I thought only Mom would barge in without permission. Dad does it too? Or did I sleep too deeply and Dad couldn’t wake me up? That’s not right either. Unless I’m in hibernation, I shouldn’t be sleeping that deeply…’

While Her Majesty the Demon Lord was puzzling over this, the true culprit in the room sneezed softly, then continued using its tail to cover the tabby beside it, carefully, like a parent, afraid of waking the little kitten.

“Little Lu didn’t do anything to you, right?”

Looking at the little girl in front of him who was just over one point four meters tall, even though he knew she was the same age as his son, Ei Yuan still had an unsettling feeling that someone was committing a crime.

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“No, no, he didn’t do anything to me… probably?”

To be honest, even Eiru herself felt that sounded strange. But she could hardly say that she was the one who occasionally groped herself, right? That would be even weirder.

“That’s good. Then when did you come over last night? Did he ask you to come?”

“Huh? I forgot what time it was. Sometime in the middle of the night!”

Who knew when she actually fell asleep. The little Demon Lord could only muddle through with a vague answer.

“Do you know where he went? He ran off early in the morning and hasn’t come back yet…”

Saying this, disappointment welled up in Ei Yuan’s heart again, and he almost wanted to sigh. But with someone else’s daughter here, he restrained himself.

‘I didn’t run off. I’m right here. Where could I even run to?’

She screamed internally, but those words obviously could not be said out loud.

“Maybe… he went to his part time job? Today is a milk tea shop workday?”

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“I know that boss. I already called them. Eiru didn’t go there today. I don’t know where he ran off to.”

It was an ordinary reply, but in the little Demon Lord’s mind, her father’s words caused an uproar.

‘What the hell? The shop manager knows my dad? Doesn’t that mean the manager can report everything I do straight to my parents?’

Eiru panicked. She suddenly felt like she had no personal space at all in front of her parents. She had worked so hard to find this job herself, and had only told Eiya about it. Yet the world was this small? If the manager knew her dad, didn’t that mean she still could not escape her parents’ control?

“Kid, what’s wrong? Why do you look so pale?”

Ei Yuan had plenty of questions he wanted to ask and was organizing his thoughts, but seeing the girl’s expression change, he hurriedly asked with concern.

“N-No, nothing…” She said that, but in Her Majesty the Demon Lord’s heart, she was already wondering if she should quit her job. But with such good pay and treatment, where would she ever find another one like it?

“As long as you’re fine. Kid… Uncle wants to ask you something. Do you know… the Daughters of Amber Crystal?”