Demon King – Chapter 609 – Accident

Just as Eiru had expected, during the process of injecting magic, she clearly felt something flowing along with the magic and entering Eiya’s body. That should be the part of the soul that belonged to her, right?

Letting out a sigh of relief and continuing her actions, the little Demon Lord suddenly noticed that something was wrong again. The blood flowing out of her sister’s body suddenly seemed to boil, becoming restless all at once.

What was most absurd was that only part of it was acting up. The rest of the spilled blood stayed completely calm, without the slightest abnormality. This genuinely left Her Majesty the Demon Lord at a loss.

It was like pouring a puddle of water onto a table, and only the very center of that puddle suddenly started boiling and bubbling, while the surrounding water remained stagnant. It completely defied normal logic.

The little Demon Lord was stunned. She had never seen anything like this either. But then something even more outrageous happened. That part of the blood that was boiling like it was alive suddenly began to break down right in front of her eyes, turning into particles and evaporating away.

‘Oh, this scene I’ve seen before. When my blood leaves my body, it looks like this’

The difference was that these particles didn’t disappear after dispersing into the air. Instead, they began to gather together in midair.

The cluster of particles condensing in the air hadn’t fully taken shape yet, but it emitted an aura that was familiar to Eiru, yet also unfamiliar. The moment she sensed it, her expression changed drastically.

“Abyss… Abyssal Amber?”

Even as she exclaimed in shock, Her Majesty the Demon Lord wasn’t completely sure. She was only sensing a suspiciously similar aura from that cluster of particles.

Then again, it made sense. She had previously inferred that there was still residual Abyssal Amber power inside her sister’s body. And Hulu was a perfect example. Scattered power would condense into fragments of Abyssal Amber.

Thinking this way, Her Majesty the Demon Lord decided to take advantage of the fact that she still had enough magic left and remove that troublesome crystal from her sister while she was at it.

Feeling her way through the method, she injected a large amount of magic into her sister’s blood, while simultaneously channeling magic into her sister’s soul from the other side.

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Under this two-sided operation, she quickly discovered something being precipitated out of her sister’s blood. Catalyzed by magic, a small, semi-transparent black crystal block floated into view in midair.

“This thing is the root of all the trouble?”

She had seen Hulu’s fragment before, and her body’s instinctive reaction had already given her the answer. She had every reason to believe that this object was the source behind the legend of the Daughters of Amber Crystal that had persisted for countless years.

She reached out and gently covered the cut on Eiya’s chest with magic. While she couldn’t immediately stop the bleeding, it could greatly slow it down and accelerate natural healing.

With a wave of her hand, she used magic to clean the blood off her fingers, then put her glove back on. Grasping the strange crystal, she glanced at her still sleeping sister and planned to clean up the scene and leave.

She tried merging the Abyssal Amber back into her own body. Although this fragment was different from before and radiated an ominous aura, she had no other choice. Besides, it was part of herself anyway. Merging it in shouldn’t be a problem, right?

But what was eerie was that the thing seemed to reject her. Pressed against her body, there was no reaction at all. She tried several times, even using magic, but it stubbornly refused to merge into her body.

With no other option, Her Majesty the Demon Lord reverted to her male form and once again slowly pressed the Abyssal Amber against her chest to try again. This time, the thing finally behaved. Right before her puzzled eyes, it gradually merged into her body.

“That’s weird. This body is human, right?”

She thought about it for a while without reaching any conclusion, then gave up. Her body didn’t seem to have any abnormalities either, so she decided not to dwell on it and focus on cleaning up the scene first.

She reached out and slowly pulled the magical dagger out of her sister’s chest. Even if she left it there, it would eventually dissipate, but since it was already a formed object, it would still take some time.

Better to remove it quickly to avoid complications. With that thought, Eiru pulled out the dagger and checked Eiya’s wound as she did so. During the process, her hands inevitably got smeared with a lot of blood.

Just as she was about to continue cleaning up the scene, an accident happened. A scream rang out, and the entire floor instantly erupted into chaos.

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“What did you do! What did you do!!!!”

Following the direction of the voice, Eiru realized that her parents had somehow already entered the hospital room and were standing at the doorway. Their faces were filled with disbelief, completely unable to accept the scene before them.

Their son was half sprawled over their daughter’s hospital bed, his hands covered in bright red blood, holding a dagger stained the same color. One glance at the bed was enough to tell where that red came from.

“She’s your sister! Your own sister! What did you do!”

Liu Wan went mad as she rushed over and shoved Eiru aside, immediately spotting the horrifying wound on Eiya’s chest.

“Ahhhhh!”

Her vision darkened on the spot, and Liu Wan collapsed to the floor, screaming at the top of her lungs.

“No, wait, Mom, listen to my expla—”

Eiru panicked. She reached out to help her mother up and try to explain, but her hand was slapped away.

“Don’t call me Mom! I don’t have a beast like you for a son!”

“Wait—”

Eiru tried to say something else, but suddenly felt a solid blow land on her leg. She was then violently thrown into the corner of the hospital room.

Hitting the ground painfully, she tried to get up, only to see a group of nurses and doctors rushing in with a gurney, quickly transferring Eiya onto it.

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“No, you don’t need to—”

Knowing what they were about to do and wanting to tell them it wasn’t necessary, Eiru stretched out her arm, only for it to be struck hard again. This time, she clearly saw who had done it.

“Dad?”

Holding a steel pipe that had been torn off from somewhere, Eiru had never seen such a terrifying expression on Ei Yuan’s face.

In her memory, her father had never hit her. At most, he would just scare her a little. But now, the blows he was landing were done with full force, without holding back at all.

“Dad? I—”

Eiru couldn’t believe it. Just as she tried to say something, another solid strike landed on her body.

One strike, two strikes, three strikes. As if he wasn’t beating his own child at all, every blow was delivered with full strength. Even when the pipe in his hands had already been bent out of shape, Ei Yuan still didn’t stop. He continued to swing it numbly.

“Stop hitting her!”

Amid Liu Wan’s sobbing scream, Ei Yuan finally stopped his mechanical beating.

He tossed aside the already bent steel pipe and left behind words that could completely shatter a child’s heart.

“Get out. From now on, you’re not my son. I don’t have a son like you. The Ei family doesn’t have a child as inhuman as you.”

Those simple but bone-chilling words completely numbed Eiru’s mind. Forcing herself to stand up, she realized that one of her arms and one of her legs had already lost all sensation and couldn’t move.

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Using the limbs she could still move, filled with sharp pain and swelling, she forced her body upright. Maybe bone fragments had pierced into flesh. But Eiru still dragged that numb leg, even though pain spread throughout her body. It was as if she felt nothing at all, step by step making her way out of the hospital room.

“Why, why would he do this to his own sister…”

Liu Wan cried with her hands covering her face, while beside her, Ei Yuan, usually a gentle father who rarely showed emotion, had tears streaming down his face as well.

But in that hospital room, the person who should have been crying the most had already had her heart completely shattered, numbly dragging her broken body away.

In her hollow, confused eyes, there wasn’t a single tear to be found.

Translator Note

I’d say, her parents can’t be blamed for this scene. It is natural to be angry when they saw their own son stabbed his sister. It is natural to be panic and lost control at that moment. Because it is not a simple mischief, but a crime. Nobody could be sane when they saw something like that.

And in Eiru’s perspective, I bet she would be deeply hurt for get beaten up by her own dad.

Argghhh! In the end it is just a lack of communication! And the person who needs to start the communication is not her parents, but Eiru herself. Because Eiru is the one who hides the secrets.