Demon King – Chapter 624 – Her Majesty the Demon Lord Isn’t Hard to Treat～

They had been searching for almost a full week now, and there was still no news of Eiru. Ei Yuan and Liu Wan sat silently on the living room sofa at home, a sense of helplessness hanging over them. It had been a very long time since they had felt like this.

Their younger daughter’s condition had already recovered to a normal level. Even though the doctors still could not figure out exactly what had happened, the sudden improvement alone was enough to make them start wondering whether they had wronged their eldest son.

They wanted to ask Eiya about it, but that girl had remained asleep the whole time and never woken up once. A daughter unconscious and unresponsive, a son who had vanished without a trace. For any family, this was an unbearably heavy blow.

Thankfully, there were no major urgent issues on the company’s side during this period, so the two of them were able to free up their time. Nearly all day long, they split up with a group of relatives and friends, going everywhere they could to look for him. But no matter how they searched, there was not the slightest bit of news.

“How about… calling the police? If the police help out…”

Liu Wan had just voiced the thought when Ei Yuan interrupted her and shot it down.

“Don’t joke around. When they ask for the reason, what are you planning to say? That he stabbed his own sister and then ran away? Or that he was beaten and driven off after that?”

Leaving aside whether it was embarrassing or not, Ei Yuan had no intention of actually sending his son into a police station. Even when he had been blinded by anger at the time, he still had not chosen to call the police and have someone come take his son away.

No matter what, that was his own flesh and blood. Even if he understood the principle that crimes had to be punished by law, how many parents could really bring themselves to personally send their child in?

And now there was a turn for the better. Things did not seem to be the way they had thought. Since Eiru clearly had no intention of harming his sister, then calling the police would only bring even bigger trouble down on their family.

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“Then how are we supposed to find him? There’s no news at all… I’m worried he’s starving out there, that he has nowhere to stay and is freezing… And why did you hit him so hard back then? We don’t even know if you broke his arms or legs!”

“Stop yelling. I’m already pissed off enough.”

Being in a foul mood and having someone next to him constantly ripping open old wounds, if Ei Yuan did not already lack the habits of smoking and drinking, he probably would have been drowning his sorrows in alcohol and cigarettes by now.

“Think about it in a more positive way. That kid is pretty sharp… He’s probably been taken in somewhere and is lying low. You know his reputation from before. All those so-called brothers and buddies out there, he might know a lot more people than we do.”

“But what if there aren’t any? Haven’t we already searched all the hospitals in Huanghai? It’s been so many days. What if something happened to him out there… I only have this one son!”

Liu Wan’s emotions exploded all over again. She grabbed at Ei Yuan’s sleeve, her voice breaking as she cried and shouted.

“You know you only have this one son! Then why did you kick him out to live on his own in the first place!”

Pushed past his breaking point, Ei Yuan finally erupted too, roaring back at her.

“I said it several times that we should bring him back home to live, but you just wouldn’t agree! If he’d been at home with us watching over him, his relationship with his sister wouldn’t have gotten that bad! Would things have turned out like this at all?!”

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“All day long it’s grades, grades, grades! Those scores are just a string of numbers. Are they more important than your son? If he doesn’t have them, is he going to die? Will he be unable to live? Will he be unable to be a proper human being?!”

Liu Wan had no answer. She covered her face and broke down crying on the spot. Arguments like this had played out who knew how many times during the period since Eiru went missing.

“Of course, I’m at fault too… I should have taken more responsibility for things at home instead of dumping it all on you. And I never should have hit him…”

As he spoke, Ei Yuan slapped himself hard across the face, the sudden action startling Liu Wan beside him.

“I should have taken the time to understand the situation properly, like I usually do… How did I get that worked up? How did I end up laying hands on him? I’m not even human. I don’t deserve to be a father. I don’t even trust my own child.”

While berating himself, Ei Yuan slapped himself several more times, hard enough that Liu Wan stopped crying in shock and rushed over to grab his arm.

“Stop hitting yourself! Stop! Back then no one could stay calm, could they… Who could stay calm in a situation like that? You can’t take all the blame. If Little Lu really wanted to do something, couldn’t he have just told us ahead of time?”

“But think about it carefully. Could those two siblings’ relationship really be so bad that it came to knives? How is that even possible?”

Ei Yuan still could not forgive himself. He had always opposed the idea that beating children would make them filial, and had consistently upheld the principle of never hitting kids.

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That single blow shattered his principles and beliefs completely, leaving him questioning whether he was even fit to be a father.

But after venting, after the regret, life still had to go on. This family still needed him to shoulder it. Same old saying. Anyone in this family could collapse except him. Even if the family itself, or his own body, ended up completely broken, he still had to hold this household up.

……

While one pair of parents wallowed in regret and emotional release, over on the other side, in an apartment hotel, the ‘son’ they were thinking about was playing checkers while letting someone else tend to her injuries.

Officer Li frowned. The obvious darkening around the girl’s joints indicated that her condition was worsening. He tried pressing on them while watching her reaction, but aside from some soreness and swelling, she said she did not feel any obvious pain.

‘Had the nerves been damaged and left her numb? Or had it already healed in a deformed state? No matter which it was, the aftereffects would torment this child for the rest of her life… and she was still so young.’

The more he thought about the possibilities, the more anxious Officer Li became. The girl’s situation had clearly exceeded what he could handle. Finding a doctor to help was already something that could not be delayed.

“Lu Brat, by the way, which parts of your body structure are noticeably different from a human’s?”

Seeing his father’s expression grow heavier and heavier, and while playing checkers with Eiru, Yuki also sensed that something was off. He used conversation to divert her attention while keeping an eye on Officer Li’s side.

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“Huh? I’ve said this before, right… Other than the wings, tail, and horns, most of my body structure isn’t that different from a human’s.”

Her Majesty the Demon Lord looked a little puzzled. She was pretty sure she had mentioned this sort of thing before.

But when she noticed Yuki’s gaze repeatedly drifting toward Officer Li’s hands, she understood what he was really trying to ask. Since she had already done a comprehensive study of her own body, there were still plenty of things she could explain.

“If you’re talking about bones, nerves, that kind of stuff… I’m not much different from a normal person. You can just handle it the same way you would for a human, yeah? Other than the wings and tail and those parts. Those are a bit more troublesome.”

Aside from having a few extra components that ordinary people did not, Eiru knew that the essence of her body structure was not all that different from a normal person’s. It was just that the elements and substances the human body needed were many and varied… while she only needed magic power.

So if someone really wanted to study how to treat her, doing it according to normal human methods would actually be more or less fine. To be honest, if she had been able to muster the courage earlier and casually find a bone-setting master to help out, all those hidden ailments of hers would have been dealt with long ago…

At the end of the day, she was just a coward. Way too afraid of being dragged off and sliced up for research, so she could only handle everything herself.