Demon King – Chapter 599 – The Mysterious Homeroom Teacher

Just arriving at the door of the teachers’ office, the little Demon Lord instinctively felt pressure. A powerful sense of suppression from higher up the food chain slowly seeped out from the other side of the door…

No matter how you looked at it, Eiru was a bona fide problem student. Faced with a natural enemy like a teacher, even a Demon Lord had to chicken out a bit.

If Her Majesty the Demon Lord were really the type of fearless delinquent who feared neither heaven nor earth, that would be one thing. But unfortunately, she was not. Beneath that slightly punkish aura and all those problematic behaviors, she was actually more sensible and considerate than most.

“It’s just skipping class. The school clearly never cared before.”

Muttering under her breath, the Demon Lord, who had long since switched into her male form, still did not dare to push open the door in front of her.

According to what Yuki said, their homeroom teacher was a rather rigid person who cared a lot about all kinds of rules and regulations. So the way this loli had been operating was basically dancing straight on his minefield.

“Do you think the little princess can walk out of the office alive?”

Back in the classroom, a group of friends who had heard the news were already enthusiastically discussing it.

“If she goes in with her usual look, I think the homeroom teacher wouldn’t be too harsh on her… but with the disguise…”

Jiaqi was very pessimistic about it. He felt that his childhood friend was absolutely doomed this time.

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“I don’t think anything will happen. The school never cared about her anyway, right?”

“Loser buys drinks during PE class?”

“I’m in. Who’s scared?”

Guys always started weird bets in weird places. And something like Eiru being summoned to the office was something these so-called friends were definitely not going to let slide.

“To be fair, the homeroom teacher isn’t actually that hard to talk to. If Lu Brat shows off her freakish score-control ability, maybe he’ll even be happy to slack off?”

“I think it’s risky. Look at Brother Yuki asking for leave. Afterward he has to come up with a different excuse every single time to smooth things over… Brother Yuki is the kind the school wants to put on a pedestal, and he still gets shut down by the homeroom teacher, right?”

While the discussion raged on, over on the other side in the office, a Demon Lord who was scared out of her wits was already sitting in front of her mysterious homeroom teacher.

Suddenly missing that homebody lady. This teacher looks so hard to talk to… Feeling the powerful aura radiating from the man in front of her, Her Majesty the Demon Lord already had the urge to bolt.

“Eiru, right? Speaking of which, this is actually the first time I’ve met you… as your homeroom teacher, I find that pretty ironic.”

Pushing up his glasses, the teacher sitting at his desk opened with words that were already barbed.

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“Uh… hahaha? Because, I don’t come to class?”

“I’ve heard all about your glorious deeds. To be honest, my impression of you is extremely poor. If you hadn’t legitimately tested into my class, I would have had no intention of accepting a student like you at all.”

‘Yeah right. What normal teacher would dare accept me anyway.’

The Demon Lord did not really care. This was not the first time she had heard words like these. In fact, this standard opening routine actually made her less nervous.

She had heard that this so-called ace teacher of Seventh High was supposedly godlike in reputation. But in the end, it was just this. Not much different from the teachers in her impression. Just deal with it the same way as before and it’ll be fine. With that thought, Eiru even had her next lines planned out.

“Then I’ll just ask you directly. Why do you deliberately suppress your scores instead of properly displaying your true level?”

Slapping a test paper onto the desk, the man in front of her suddenly went completely off script.

“Huh? Huh?!”

Her Majesty the Demon Lord was dumbfounded.

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“Teacher, what are you talking about? I just barely got in on luck. I’m at the bottom of the class. What true level?”

“I’ve been teaching for so many years. I still have some confidence in my own judgment of students. I may not have dealt with a child like you before, but I can tell that you’re hiding something.”

Taking off his glasses in front of Eiru, the teacher straightened his posture and looked directly at this ‘problem student’. Yes, calling her in over-skipping class was just a pretext. He had simply noticed something and wanted to understand his student a bit better.

From the first moment he saw Eiru, he had realized it. Judging from her aura alone, this child could not possibly be the delinquent described in rumors. Having dealt with many students, this teacher had long stopped limiting his judgment of people to superficial appearances.

Because of that, he had specifically gathered Eiru’s past report cards and all her test papers, planning to confirm his thoughts from them.

And as expected, he was not wrong. Although Eiru hid it very well and nothing seemed off at first glance, once everything was collected together, he discovered the clues within.

The score control was far too precise. It could even be said that every scoring point had been thoroughly understood and tightly controlled. Once or twice could be coincidence, but when coincidences piled up, they were no longer coincidences.

“I would very much like to call your parents in for a talk. But since you came today, that means you don’t want to involve your parents over your own matters… am I right?”

Although it was not entirely accurate, after freezing for a moment, Eiru still nodded slightly under his gaze.

“Then I won’t call your parents. I respect that.”

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Turning to straighten the folders on his desk, the man placed an answer sheet in front of Eiru.

“You may not know this, but this final question, you were the only one in the entire grade who answered it correctly. Because of this, the teachers of our grade level even held a meeting specifically to discuss the possibility that you cheated.”

Originally, there were two Honor Classes. Based purely on ranking, Eiru’s score was more than enough to enter Yuki’s class. But the grade director, based on Eiru’s various issues, had planned to toss her into the other class instead.

However, the homeroom teacher sitting in front of her had pushed back against all objections and insisted on accepting Eiru into his own class after learning about these things. Seeing the potential in Eiru, he had even made a bold pledge on the spot that before the third year, he would definitely train Eiru into a flagship student no less than Yuki.

He had indeed been unusually lax about Eiru skipping class during this period, because he needed time to understand this special student of his. He sought out her previous homeroom teacher and got no results, then went to Qi Rong, who had taken over the position. From this newly arrived teacher, he finally obtained the answers he wanted.

“Eiru? You might not believe it, but she’s a child who’s smart to an absurd degree… If she really gets serious, I might end up being the one taught by her.”

Although it was said half-jokingly, the amount of information was already more than sufficient. And from Qi Rong, he also learned that Eiru had her own difficulties and had always been hiding something.

As a teacher, out of responsibility and duty, even if it meant staking his reputation, he was determined to guide this special student back onto the right path.