Demon King – Chapter 614 – Crying and a Promise

Because of Eiru’s current condition, having not rested properly and having gone hungry for three days, plus being covered in mud, Yuki did not take her straight home. Instead, he found a nearby serviced apartment and booked a room.

After carefully helping the girl who had been sleeping rough for three days take a bath, then draping her in a simple set of clothes Jiaqi had helped bring over from his place, Yuki fed her bite by bite with the food Jiaqi had brought along, taking meticulous care of her.

“I can eat by myself…”

She reached out, wanting to hold the spoon in Yuki’s hand herself, but the intense pain shooting through her arm forced the Demon Lord to stop midway.

“Don’t force it… this isn’t the time for you to be stubborn.”

Pressing her arm down, Yuki’s face was full of helplessness.

This girl was always especially stubborn at the worst possible times. Thankfully, her body did not allow her to keep being stubborn right now. Otherwise, who knew how badly she would have abused herself.

After feeding her until the stomach she had starved for three days was finally full, Yuki made a phone call to his dad. There was no way this girl would agree to him calling a doctor, so the only option was to ask his own dad to come help.

“Does it hurt here?”

Carefully touching Eiru’s one arm that could still move, Officer Li, who had been called over by his son to assess her injuries, grew more and more serious by the second.

“It’s… okay…”

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Though she was still trying to act tough, as his hands moved, Her Majesty the Demon Lord could not help but shudder from the sharp pain.

“It’s very serious…”

His dad was a professional in this area, so Yuki did not go over to interfere, standing at a distance with Jiaqi as they watched the scene unfold.

“I can tell too, these injuries are insane… so her right arm and left leg are broken?”

“Wait for my dad to finish, that’s not what I’m talking about. Lu Brat hasn’t cried even once up to now. Didn’t you notice?”

With Yuki’s reminder, Jiaqi noticed the problem as well. From the moment they found Eiru, she had been in this state where it felt like her heart was already dead…

And just like Yuki said, not only had she not shed a single tear the entire time, they had not found any tear tracks beside her hollow, unfocused eyes either. Not crying was the biggest problem.

Maybe back when she was a boy, she had some kind of belief like men do not cry easily. But both Yuki and Jiaqi knew that while this girl was not the type to cry at the drop of a hat, in this situation, to be blunt, even they could not confidently say they would not shed a single tear.

Crying was one of the best ways to release emotions. With Eiru like this, rather than being strong and forcing herself not to cry, it felt more like she no longer had any emotions left to vent at all…

More than ten minutes later, using bandages and some cleaned wooden boards bought from a nearby pharmacy, Officer Li did some basic treatment on Eiru’s injuries. All three of them had originally wanted to send her to the hospital, but this girl absolutely refused, so they could only let Officer Li handle some emergency treatment.

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“The bones in her right arm and left leg are basically broken, but they can still be set… Her left arm and right leg can move, but there are fractures, possibly with bone shards lodged in the flesh. I’m not entirely sure.”

Officer Li sighed helplessly as he explained Eiru’s general condition to Yuki and Jiaqi. He could not understand who could be so cruel as to do this to the girl, but based on his understanding of Eiru, he had a rough guess as to the answer.

“I still have work. I need to go report some things now. You two take good care of her, don’t let anything go wrong. You can see her mental state right now… contact me immediately if anything happens.”

After giving the two of them a few instructions, Officer Li hurried off. Jiaqi was also very tactful. Knowing he could not help much right now, and that he should leave time and space for these two, as well as help bring over some things for a certain girl, he decisively slipped away as well.

“So, can you tell me what happened? Who did this to you?”

“…”

After a long silence, as if moved by Yuki’s gentle approach, Her Majesty the Demon Lord bit her lip and finally spoke.

“My dad…”

Even though he had already guessed the answer in his heart, hearing her say it out loud still shook Yuki deeply. These injuries were inflicted by her own father?

“Was your identity exposed or something? He couldn’t accept it, so he did this to you?”

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Yuki could not understand it, and did not want to understand it. No matter what Eiru became, she was still his biological child. What kind of mindset did it take to be able to do something this cruel to such a small girl?

But Eiru shook her head. Under Yuki’s confused gaze, she slowly explained everything to him… from the principle and process of how she saved her sister, all the way to that utterly heartless sentence spoken by Ei Yuan at the end. She told him every detail, not leaving a single thing out.

“I was clearly… clearly saving Little Ya… They wouldn’t even listen to an explanation, they didn’t give me any chance at all… They thought I was killing someone, they actually thought I was a murderer…”

As if some switch had been flipped, her explanation gradually turned into an outpouring. The act of pouring it all out stirred the emotions she had buried deep inside. This girl who had hidden outside in silence for three days finally lost control, crying and screaming as she poured out everything she had been holding back.

“I really feel like I’m not their biological child. Otherwise, why would they treat me like this without listening to anything… My dad never hit me once growing up. I had just started to feel like he was finally paying attention to me, and then he… he…”

If Liu Wan had been the one to strike her, maybe she would not have been this heartbroken. But it was Ei Yuan, the father she had once placed hope in, the one who had slightly opened her heart and made her want to accept him…

The moment she saw that it was Ei Yuan who attacked her, it felt like she had been betrayed. When the steel pipe came down on her body, what filled her heart was no longer sorrow, but a chilling heartbreak drowned in disappointment and despair.

“It’s okay, I’m here. I’ll always be here…”

Wrapping an arm around the girl’s waist, Yuki gently pulled her head into his chest, letting her vent her emotions freely in his arms.

“You’re not some unwanted child. You have me… You are my irreplaceable treasure, my greatest fortune in this lifetime.”

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In Yuki’s warm embrace, the little Demon Lord had long since turned into a sobbing mess. The last bits of luck and hope in her heart had shattered completely. She knew she could never go back to her old life again… No matter how afraid she was, no matter how unwilling or how much it hurt, starting today, she had to face a brand new life.

“I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I shouldn’t have hidden from you. I didn’t mean to hide from you… I just didn’t know what to do. My head was a mess, I didn’t know anything…”

“Mm, I know. I don’t mind… As long as you’re back, that’s all that matters.”

After something like this, being at a loss and afraid of everything around her, too scared to interact with anyone, was something Yuki could fully understand. What he was truly afraid of was Eiru deliberately avoiding him out of distrust…

So after getting his answer, he finally let out a sigh of relief. Even as he felt the weight on his shoulders grow heavier, Yuki also knew that he was now her last support.

“I’ll stay with you forever. I will never abandon you… I promise you, no matter what happens, I will always be by your side.”

Before the nearly broken Eiru could voice the plea in her heart, Yuki took the initiative and made his promise first.

Compared to waiting for her to speak before responding, this kind of tacit understanding, where he could know her thoughts without words, was a far stronger and warmer reassurance.