Demon King – Chapter 617 – Popular Rumors on Campus

“Probably sleeping? At this hour… she said that if her body is injured, she gets kind of drowsy during recovery.”

In the classroom, during the break between classes, Yuki was discussing Eiru with Jiaqi, who was sitting in front of him.

“You’re really not helping her find a doctor or something? That injury of hers can really heal with just simple fixing?”

“You think I don’t want to? My dad was planning to help find a doctor for her too…”

Yuki propped his head up, feeling utterly helpless. Even injured to that extent, that girl was still extremely resistant to doctors.

“She kept emphasizing that her recovery ability is much stronger than a normal person’s. Said that as long as it’s fixed in place, it’ll grow back and reconnect on its own or something, and that she’s had similar injuries before…”

To be honest, Yuki didn’t really believe that explanation. But Eiru’s attitude was way too firm, so he could only compromise for now and observe how things went.

“She’s afraid her identity will be exposed and that someone will catch her and slice her up for research or something? Isn’t your dad a police officer? With him protecting her, what’s there to be afraid of?”

My dad might be considered a big shot, but one person’s capabilities are still limited. And sure, we can trust him, but other people are hard to say… thinking like that, Yuki could understand his little girlfriend’s worries. These things really are better known by as few people as possible.

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As for Officer Li, compared to Yuki and the others, he was actually the most anxious one. Because of the confidentiality requirements and the orders from above not to interfere with Eiru’s life, he couldn’t tell these kids the real situation. So seeing Eiru walking around every day with crutches, limping badly, really gave him a massive headache.

“How’s Lu Brat’s arm and leg that can still move now?”

“Nothing special. It’s a lot better after being treated, but it still hurts when she moves… though according to her, this level doesn’t affect her normal activities.”

These past few days, the two of them basically talked about Eiru nonstop. Officer Li helped smooth over the leave issue, and the school didn’t pursue it much, so everyday campus life wasn’t affected.

“But honestly, Lu Brat hasn’t really come to class much… aside from a few of us, a whole bunch of people don’t even know what she looks like, or even whether she’s a guy or a girl.”

Jiaqi suddenly changed his tone, and the topic took a sharp turn somewhere unexpected. Compared to Yuki, who had been completely focused on Eiru these days and hadn’t paid attention to school matters, Jiaqi had noticed some of the gossip and dropped a bombshell of a revelation.

“But recently, the school suddenly got this weird rumor going around… saying that the Seventh High Demon Lord Eiru is actually a cute, explosive little girl.”

But to Seventh High’s students, this kind of rumor just sounded like pure fantasy. Who doesn’t know Eiru’s reputation? With all the stuff she’s done, you’re saying she’s a little girl? Who would believe that…

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Yet amid the laughter and disdain, people started recalling the details of what they actually knew about Eiru, and noticed something was off. What does Eiru look like? Is she male or female? It actually seemed like nobody knew.

Even people who had met Eiru a few times or interacted with her before found that after thinking it over, they had almost no concrete impression of her at all. It was downright creepy.

When the rumor reached the class, Eiru naturally became one of the most talked about topics recently. A large group of people once again felt curious about this famous yet mysterious figure.

Some action oriented students simply went to ask teachers or checked student rosters to verify it. But the teachers also realized that aside from rumors and stereotypes, they had no concrete impression of this student either, so they frowned and sent those students away.

Most teachers didn’t want to discuss Eiru at all, and didn’t even want to hear her name. Except for her former homeroom teacher Qi Rong, and her current homeroom teacher.

Some students went to Qi Rong. She didn’t chase them away, but gave a rather thought provoking answer. Maybe sometimes she’s a mischievous girl? And sometimes she’s a cute boy too~

As for Eiru and Yuki’s current homeroom teacher, he was sitting in the office doubting his own life, wondering if his recent work stress had gotten so bad that his memory was failing…

‘Didn’t I talk to Eiru recently? Why can’t I even remember what he looks like or sounds like? Or even whether he’s male or female… I have to rely on this to determine it?’

Looking at the student roster in his hands, the homeroom teacher was extremely puzzled. Of course, he had no idea what kind of meddling a certain girl had done to her surroundings in order not to expose her identity.

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“This is already one of the hottest private topics in school. Some reckless ones even saw that the records in the teachers’ files say male…”

Listening to Jiaqi, Yuki found it a bit funny. Who would have thought that this joke-like rumor was actually the truth?

But after laughing, they also started worrying, wondering where the rumor came from. Because if it was someone who knew Eiru’s identity letting something slip, that would mean a real risk of exposure.

“How many people even know? There’s no way our group of brothers would leak it, Teacher Qi would hide it even better than us… it can’t possibly be Yunyue, right?”

“It can’t be Yunyue. If it were before, I might’ve suspected her, but now there’s absolutely no way.”

Yuki rejected Jiaqi’s guess. Because when it came to keeping secrets, Yunyue was even more careful than they were.

During the time Eiru was injured, Yunyue had learned the general situation, yet she didn’t go visit her even once. Not because she wasn’t worried or didn’t care, but because she wasn’t very confident in her own ability to keep secrets, so she proactively gave up the chance to know the specific details and Eiru’s whereabouts.

Because Eiru’s family had been frequently coming to school recently, either personally or through others to ask people close to her about the situation. As a former deskmate, Yunyue naturally became a frequent target of such inquiries, so to be safe, she made that choice.

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‘As long as I know nothing, I won’t be afraid of letting something slip, and no one can dig anything out of me…’

Someone who can forcibly suppress their own worry and make a decision like that, and you’re saying she’d leak it? No way.

“Lu Brat places interfering suggestions on the people around her… aside from people like us who’ve already formed a deep enough impression of her, combined with her ordinary face when she’s in male form, others can’t even remember her.”

So anyone who could break through this suggestive barrier and leak this information had to be someone who had seen Eiru’s true form and formed a fairly strong impression of it. Following that line of reasoning, it was easy to arrive at the correct answer.

“Looks like it really can only be her then?”

Tapping his fingers on the desk, almost at the same time, Jiaqi and Yuki reached the same conclusion.

“Yeah, there’s no one else but her… one slip in a hundred precautions.”