Demon King – Chapter 596 – A Ghost Popping Up Again?

“No, don’t know, never heard of it!”

She opened with a triple denial. The little Demon Lord did not want to invite a pile of inexplicable trouble onto herself. But with emotions flaring that hard, anyone could tell there was something fishy going on.

Ei Yuan did not press further. If she did not want to talk, he could not force it. Besides, asking her was not as good as asking her parents. Maybe she really did not know anything actually useful.

Then, just like last time, after exchanging only a few simple words, the increasingly uncomfortable Eiru hurriedly found a random excuse to slip away, then changed back into a boy and bounced back.

“Where did you go? Your girlfriend was just here. Did you see her?”

As soon as his son walked in, Ei Yuan told him this, his tone clearly displeased.

‘You left your girlfriend at home and ran off yourself. Are you even a man? Do you have any awareness as a boyfriend at all?’

Ei Yuan almost wanted to start talking about how he had pursued Liu Wan back then and all that relationship responsibility stuff. But thinking that it might not be appropriate for a father to lecture like that, he shut his mouth again.

“I saw her, I saw her. We said goodbye already. Aren’t we going to see Little Ya?”

The girlfriend was fake, so naturally Her Majesty the Demon Lord did not care at all. But this reaction only made Ei Yuan frown even more. He did not want his son turning into some kind of scumbag.

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“I saw the note. I hope you didn’t take advantage of the situation when no one at home was paying attention and do anything to her. I don’t oppose it, but don’t do something irresponsible to someone else’s daughter. If you like her, you have to take responsibility. If she likes you, you have to respond. Don’t toy with other people’s feelings.”

He handed the note to his son as he lectured him. When the latter took it and saw the contents, he was genuinely shocked inside. Because a certain girl had made a small mistake. Fortunately, it had not been noticed by her father who did not understand his child at all.

It had been mentioned before that besides being able to imitate other people’s handwriting, Eiru’s handwriting in her male form and her female form were completely different. Because it had been written casually while in her true form, she had habitually used the handwriting from her girl state.

If Liu Wan had seen this note, she would definitely have spotted the problem. As extreme as this mother was in all kinds of ways, she could at least recognize her child’s handwriting. This also showed just how little a certain father understood his own child.

“And eat first. Don’t starve yourself. Go to the hospital after you finish eating. I already ordered lunch for you. That girl ran off without eating, so I ended up buying an extra portion for nothing.”

Pointing at the packed meals on the table, Ei Yuan motioned for his son to finish both portions.

“Don’t waste it. You’re growing. Boys should eat more.”

“Dad… I, I can’t eat that much.”

Holding her stomach, the Demon Lord, well aware of her own appetite, chickened out.

“Eat as much as you can.”

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Arriving at the hospital and seeing her sister on the hospital bed, the little Demon Lord felt lost. For the first time, her always confident magic and all her strange abilities had failed her, leaving her completely at a loss.

When Ei Yuan and Liu Wan went out to talk with the doctors and nurses, Eiru took the chance to return to her true form, pressed her forehead to the other girl’s, and probed with magic. The conclusion she reached was no different from that of the doctors.

There was no reason for it. Her magic and medical instruments were fundamentally different methods of examination. Unless there was truly nothing wrong with the body at all, she should have been able to detect something.

With so many bizarre abilities, she could not even save her own sister.

‘What kind of Demon Lord was I supposed to be? And this situation was clearly caused by Amber Crystal. The one who tied the bell should be the one to untie it. Shouldn’t I myself be able to solve all of this?’

“Am I really that useless…”

Eiru slumped onto the floor in frustration, biting down hard on her thin lips.

She had never thought of herself as some special chosen protagonist meant to change the world. But even with these special abilities, she could not protect her own life, could not protect the people close to her. How could that not hurt?

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‘No. I’m not someone who gives up that easily.’

She patted her cheeks and stood back up. Giving up lightly was not her style.

Shifting her line of thought, Eiru realized she might have been trapped by habitual thinking. Since she was so confident in her magical scanning, then she could keep trusting it.

“If Little Ya’s body really has no problems, then is it possible that some other factor unrelated to the body is affecting her?”

The moment this thought appeared, Her Majesty the Demon Lord felt a sudden clarity. It felt like she had grabbed onto the right direction. Even if it was the right direction, it was still far too vague. Things outside the body could be anything.

Calming down to think further, she also noticed something else. The closer she stayed to Eiya, the slower the rate at which the girl weakened. Could it be that what she lacked was Eiru herself? Or what she lacked was the Amber Crystal within Eiru’s body?

“I remember that old man extracted something from the Daughters of Amber Crystal and injected it into Yaoyao, right? Then does that mean Little Ya is also lacking…”

“Nope. I suggest you give up on that idea. All of Grandpa’s research is useless on your sister, Demon Lord.”

A familiar and playful voice suddenly rang out in her mind, almost making the girl jump and fall to the floor.

“Wow, you’re really embarrassing. You’re supposed to be the Demon Lord chosen by Abyssal Amber. How can you act like such a dumb girl? Well, I guess you are incomplete, though.”

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“You you you… how did you show up here? And there’s no one around. Talking all of a sudden like that would scare anyone!”

Eiru was familiar with this feeling. Even though it had been a while and she was a bit unaccustomed to it, she quickly replied using the same telepathic communication.

“I’m staying at this hospital too. I sensed you coming, so I dropped by to take a look. Back to the point. Your sister is not a Daughter of Amber Crystal right now, so what you’re thinking of won’t work.”

Despite her girl appearance, Yaoyao was actually… well, age is a girl’s secret. But no matter what, Yaoyao knew quite a bit of useful information. With a bit of simple deduction, she could tell what Eiru was planning.

“You want to extract some things related to Abyssal Amber from your own body and give them to your sister. But if you do that, your sister will improve for a short time, then worsen in the end and become like me.”

Even though she did not know who did it or how, Yaoyao could tell that the girl lying on the bed had once also been a Daughter of Amber Crystal. And her strength and aptitude as one far exceeded theirs.

But the Eiya on the bed, while still retaining some traces of Amber Crystal, had no related abilities at all anymore. She was just an ordinary girl.

So if Yaoyao had not come out in time to deny the Demon Lord’s idea, there was a real chance she would once again turn her sister back into a Daughter of Amber Crystal, pushing her back into that abyss.