Demon King – Chapter 597 – Memory Lock

Back in the school dorm, Eiru kept replaying the information Yaoyao had given her in her head, trying to dig out some clue that could solve the problem.

According to Yaoyao, although she did not know who did it or how, it might be because of Eiru’s appearance that something was retrieved before Eiya fully transformed into a Daughter of Amber Crystal, so the transformation never continued.

As for why Eiya was in her current state, Yaoyao did not know either. None of the Daughters of Amber Crystal had ever encountered a situation like this. Blind guesses would not help. This kind of thing still had to be solved by Eiru herself.

You are the Demon Lord. If you cannot solve it, then no one else can. That was Yaoyao’s exact wording. She also believed that Eiya’s problem was not a dead end like those faced by the Daughters of Amber Crystal. As long as the method was found, it could definitely be resolved.

“Lu Brat, what’s wrong with you? You’ve been so quiet since you got back. Did something happen at home?”

Yuki patted his little girlfriend on the shoulder, pulling her out of her thoughts.

“If there’s a problem, you can say it and we’ll think of a solution together. Aren’t we a good couple?”

“Mm…”

Being pulled into Yuki’s arms, the little Demon Lord rubbed her head against his chest. Sure enough, wrapped in his warmth, she felt a lot more at ease.

“Something happened to my little sister, so I’ve been thinking about how to fix it.”

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“The Daughter of Amber Crystal thing? And your parents still let you come back?”

Yuki was a bit surprised. Based on his limited understanding of Eiru’s parents, at a time like this when manpower was lacking, they actually did not drag their own son back to be a spare pair of hands?

“Maybe because my grades are good? Anyway, they said family matters are their responsibility and told me to focus on studying and all that.”

The Demon Lord had originally wanted to stay behind and take care of Eiya, but Liu Wan flatly refused. While complaining about Ei Yuan for telling Eiru about it, she also made her stance clear to her son.

‘Your job is to study hard and build your future. Your sister’s matters are for your father and mother to handle. These are not things you children can solve. Leave it to the adults and do not distract yourself with this.’

Although Eiru really wanted to snap back with “Study? Study my ass!”, what they said did make sense. They did not know that she alone could solve these things, nor did they know that she did not even need to learn the stuff she already understood long ago. Even though she obediently returned to school, her mind was still full of Eiya.

“Speaking of which, I finally figured out what this little guy actually is…”

The little Demon Lord stretched out a hand, and Hulu immediately understood, sticking its head over and resting its chin on her palm.

“What? Isn’t it just some unknown species that turned out of a rock?”

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“How should I put it… our original line of investigation wasn’t wrong. Do you remember what Hulu looked like back when it was still a stone?”

Eiru scratched the little guy’s chin, and it happily let out a rumbling purr.

Back when Hulu was still a stone, it already had the ability to read other people’s inner thoughts and realize their wishes. That ability was extremely similar to that of the Daughters of Amber Crystal, so anyone paying attention could easily notice that the two were related.

“So… is it Amber Crystal? Or a fragment?”

Yuki more or less guessed what his little girlfriend was getting at, but he remembered that stone Hulu used to be looked nothing like the pictures of Amber Crystal at all.

“One fragment of it.”

Her Majesty the Demon Lord twisted a bit as she explained.

“Abyssal Amber… no, the fragments of Amber Crystal are not pieces that broke off the surface. They are small chunks of Amber Crystal condensed from scattered power.”

So Hulu really was one of the fragments of Amber Crystal. Born from it, it was essentially the so-called companion beast of the Demon Lord. In that sense, it could be considered a part of Eiru herself, a truly symbiotic existence.

“Even if it’s a wish machine, you know how unreliable Hulu is, right?”

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“Yeah…”

Watching the little thing acting cute in the loli’s hand, Yuki recalled its glorious track record and felt a wave of speechless frustration. It completely twisted other people’s wishes based on its own understanding. A total disaster machine.

“But who told you all this? Don’t tell me you suddenly had another epiphany, like some demon race memory or something.”

“It’s not demon race memory. It’s just information that suddenly popped into my head.”

Patting her own little head, the Demon Lord was also quite helpless about these randomly surfacing fragments of knowledge.

And she had finally confirmed something. There was indeed a problem with her memories. Certain periods of time, or rather memories related to specific things, had all been cleverly concealed and erased. This nearly perfect method of concealment meant that without gradual unlocking, she would never have noticed anything wrong at all.

“Your memory was messed with?! Who did it? Weren’t you supposed to be the only demon race member in the world? Or is there something else that can influence you, the Demon Lord?”

This news made Yuki panic. Tampering with memory was no small matter. And if even someone as absurdly supernatural as Eiru could be affected, then the seriousness of the situation was on another level. Who had that kind of ability? Amber Crystal?

“Maybe Amber Crystal? Well, anyway, I can slowly figure out how to unlock it.”

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She answered lightly, but deep down, the little Demon Lord was perfectly aware of one thing. There was only one existence capable of tampering with her memories, and that was herself.

Although Eiru knew she did not have the ability to manipulate memories, she herself was an exception. Through certain specific methods, it was not impossible to achieve something similar. The real question was why she had locked away her own memories in the first place. What kind of trouble had she encountered back then?

Of course, no one would be stupid enough to leave themselves without any clues in such a situation. From what had happened recently, Her Majesty the Demon Lord had already noticed signs that her memory and information lock would be triggered by certain specific events, gradually unlocking bit by bit.

The first to be affected was Eiya’s problem. From the moment she began suspecting that something was wrong with Eiya, information had started surfacing in her head. After she fully confirmed what had happened to her little sister, she had even been hit with such an explosive amount of information that her brain crashed on the spot.

So what happened back then was definitely related to Little Ya. It was even possible that the one who caused all of this was myself… but when exactly did I set all this up? After I turned into this form, I should not have interacted with Little Ya that much. Could it have been before that?

Eiru had started to doubt when she had actually turned into this loli form. Thinking back carefully now, she could not even recall the exact time or details of the day she transformed. It was as if one day she had simply become like this.

But now that she knew it was her own doing, the little Demon Lord was not that panicked anymore. Otherwise, she would not have returned to school so obediently.

After all, she was a girl who was very good at leaving herself a backup plan.