Demon King – Chapter 65 – Power-Absorbing Loli

After bringing the girl home, the first thing Yuki did was open his room door and place the girl on the bed.

The journey went quite smoothly… In the taxi, the driver saw their matching hair color and unconsciously assumed they were siblings, not thinking much of it. This also relieved Yuki, who had been prepared to answer all sorts of questions.

Placing the back of his hand on the girl’s forehead to check if she had a fever, he was startled by her unusually low body temperature.

“She shouldn’t have a fever, right?” Remembering that the girl might not be human in terms of species, Yuki had no way to determine her condition for the moment.

Let’s see if she can wake up tomorrow… if she can’t wake up, then he’ll think of another solution. As for other questions, it’s better to wait until she wakes up to ask.

After untying her ponytail and removing her shoes, Yuki gently covered her with a blanket. The girl lay on her side, curled up in a ball, occasionally making whimpering sounds, looking unusually cute.

Looking at her sleeping face, Yuki blushed a bit and quickly turned his gaze away. Taking a towel blanket from the closet, Yuki planned to sleep in the guest room tonight.

But before sleeping, since Gulu had been wandering outside for so long, Yuki still helped wash its paws to prevent it from dirtying things in the house…

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Eiru, who had entered hibernation mode, was forcefully absorbing all the energy around her. And in the city, the most widespread and easily absorbed energy was, of course, electricity.

In hibernation mode, within a certain range, the little demon lord’s body could absorb electricity from things like electrical appliances, sockets, and wires without even making direct contact, converting it into mana.

If Yuki went to check his home’s electricity meter now and saw the speed at which it was spinning, he might actually start yelling about how someone was siphoning his electricity.

Apart from automatic recovery during eating and sleeping, absorbing energy and converting it directly was the best way to gain mana.

But Her Majesty the Demon Lord didn’t have an indestructible body—on the contrary, her body was weaker than the average person. So absorbing energy and converting it to mana required her to do something extra.

Theoretically, high-voltage electricity, lightning strikes, or even jumping directly into a nuclear reactor or lava—all of these could technically replenish her mana. But if she really did that, she would evaporate on the spot.

Therefore, aside from situations like sunbathing where the energy itself was relatively gentle, absorbing energy that exceeded her physical tolerance in one go required the little demon lord to first use mana to protect her body before she could actually start siphoning energy from it.

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At the same time, whether it was electrical energy, solar energy, or thermal energy, all energy in this world contained impurities. If not filtered, the excessive impurities of the energy would damage her body.

Converting and filtering the mana was generally something that she did subconsciously. But she could only filter the impurities that way if the source was relatively tame. If it wasn’t, then she would have to manually filter it.

Theoretically, based on humanity’s current technology, there basically didn’t exist anything in this world that could truly harm Eiru. Even if she took the Tsar Bomba to the face, our Demon Lord could use the energy produced by the explosion to protect herself.

Some might think the little demon lord was living too modestly for the abilities she had… After all, if it were someone else with this level of power and these strange abilities, they would probably have tried taking over the world by now.

But the face-tanking a Tsar Bomba mentioned above was based on having enough mana to do so. Eiru, whose mana reserves had never exceeded three percent of her capacity, couldn’t use most of her abilities at all. With her meager mana reserves, she could at most only bully some ordinary armed personnel.

Without mana, like her right now, she was just a powerless girl. The little demon lord had once estimated that just a single squad of well-trained soldiers could probably easily subdue and take her away.

Moreover, she had also estimated that to fill her mana reserves completely, it would require at least two medium-scale nuclear power plants to supply her with energy before she could fully fill it. That was almost impossible, okay?

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In summary, firstly, her personality was such that she didn’t want to cause trouble for others unnecessarily—living her own life was enough. Second, with insufficient mana, she wasn’t stupid—how could she possibly be like some purple pufferfish ¹ Porcupuffer from Mario? , expanding everywhere only to get popped.

“Don’t hit me…” The little demon lord, with nothing to hold, whimpered and once again had that nightmare she had experienced countless times.

Unlike ordinary people, whether it was because she inherently had the ability to connect all five senses to her dreams, or due to the special nature of her body, Eiru could feel everything in her dreams, including pain.

Therefore, every dream would feel like it was real. Everything she experienced in dreams would have a tremendous impact on her. And unless she woke up, she had no way to distinguish between a dream and reality.

“Please, don’t hit me, I’ll be obedient, I’ll be good from now on. Please, don’t drive me away… I don’t want to be dissected…”

Curled up, Eiru cried softly. Normally, in this situation, she would have woken up from the nightmare. But because she was in a state of mana-deprivation, she was forced to continue sleeping.

So no matter what method was used, she currently had no way to escape from the nightmare and could only continue being tormented…

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Hearing the girl’s whimpering, Yuki hurriedly came over. He saw the girl’s face covered with tears, and her body curled up like she was hiding from something.

“Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid…” Crouching by the bed and gently stroking the girl’s back, he comforted her and the girl gradually stopped sobbing before quieting down.

“Phew…” Seeing the girl’s emotions stabilize, Yuki breathed a sigh of relief. Just as he was about to get up and leave, the girl suddenly embraced him.

“Don’t throw me away, please…” Yuki was startled, then realized she was still dreaming and hadn’t woken up.

“What kind of dream is this…” She looked like a poor little kitten afraid of being abandoned, making Yuki’s heart ache.

She was also holding onto him quite tightly. Afraid of waking the girl, Yuki couldn’t break free from her carelessly. He had no choice but to stay temporarily and accompany the girl on the bed for a while…