Demon King – Chapter 666 – Pulling Out the Nail Won’t Erase the Scar

“You’re the elders, so it wouldn’t be polite for me to say too much… but no matter what, I’m still Lu Brat’s older brother, so I have to say this. Uncle, what you two did was really wrong.”

Talking with Ei Yuan in the living room, Lin Miao, who had long since become an adult and entered society, was no longer the kid who used to run around after them. He now had his own way of looking at things.

“Do you know? Little Ya told me a lot about her sister… Why do you think she never told you? Have you ever thought about the reason?”

You could say it was because she was sensible and didn’t want to trouble her parents, but in Lin Miao’s view, what the two sisters felt more was fear and distrust toward their parents. After all, he had lived here for a long time himself. He knew very well what kind of attitude his aunt and uncle had toward their children.

They didn’t dare tell Liu Wan because Liu Wan would always make unilateral decisions and use her own way to ‘help’ the sisters deal with things. With her extremely strong need for control, she liked to forcibly twist the development of problems in the direction she wanted.

Ei Yuan was much easier to talk to on the surface, and in theory telling him wouldn’t be an issue. The problem was that he was busy with work and didn’t manage family matters. Once the problem was handed to him, he would turn around and arrange for Liu Wan to handle it. In the end, it was no different from telling Liu Wan directly.

Under the influence of these two bizarre parents, both sisters had developed these strange habits.

The older sister would stuff everything into her own heart and shoulder it alone. Without guidance from others, she would never reveal even a shred of it to anyone. Thankfully, she usually thought things through fairly comprehensively, so she could handle most situations well and didn’t cause any major disasters.

The younger sister, on the other hand, was somewhat like her mother. She would make unilateral decisions and deal with problems herself, sometimes without considering the consequences. Compared to her sister, though, she was a bit better in that she would at least look for people she trusted to discuss countermeasures, instead of bottling everything up like her sister.

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“Do you know? Little Ya told me that, logically speaking, Lu Brat wouldn’t look like a child in terms of body size the way she does now… The reason she became like this actually has a cause.”

Recalling the information he had heard from Eiya and laying it all out for Ei Yuan, Lin Miao had also learned from his cousin about the Demon Lord and the Amber Crystal. Naturally, he knew about how Eiru differed from previous Demon Lords.

“To put it simply, Abyssal Amber adjusts the Demon Lord’s bodily growth direction based on her needs… so every Demon Lord’s appearance is actually what they themselves want.”

Eiya explained part of the principle behind the Demon Lord’s body structure. This information was also brought out by that portion of the soul she had once stored inside Eiru’s body. As things stood now, what she knew was at least more than what a certain Demon Lord who hadn’t recovered her memories yet knew.

“So you’re saying Lu Brat… wanted to turn into a loli herself?”

“No, I don’t think that’s it…”

Eiya denied the idea.

“My sister doesn’t dislike cute things, and she even likes them a lot, but there’s no way she’d want to turn herself into a loli, right?”

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Beyond environmental needs, the Demon Lords’ psychology was also an important metric for Abyssal Amber when constructing their bodies. Its task was to build a growable juvenile form, then determine the direction and extent of that body’s growth based on the Demon Lord’s comprehensive needs.

The reason the little Demon Lord ended up with such a loli-like appearance was because she had always envied other families’ children, who could be gathered into their parents’ arms and enjoy affection.

This regret from her childhood had always influenced her heart. Reading that regret within her, Abyssal Amber ultimately adjusted her body’s growth limit into this state of ‘remaining in childhood’.

“So the reason she can’t grow up ultimately comes down to the two of you… Uncle, shouldn’t you reflect on this properly? You gave birth to her and raised her. Is this the result you wanted to see?”

Lin Miao sighed as he criticized them. And this didn’t just affect Eiru. Even Eiya had been dragged into it and affected into a loli-like appearance as well. Before she broke free from the identity of a Daughter of Amber Crystal, Eiya’s appearance would inevitably move closer to that of the current Demon Lord, which was why she ended up like this.

“Then… is it too late? Is there any way to remedy it?”

After hearing Lin Miao’s words, Ei Yuan looked flustered. He didn’t want his child to really never grow up for the rest of her life. Lolis might be cute, but in daily life there would always be all kinds of inconveniences.

“No way. Her body has already set. Little Ya might still have some hope, but Lu Brat really will only be able to look like this for the rest of her life.”

“And uncle, I’m not trying to say something heartless, but just thinking about compensating her over and over is useless.”

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Lin Miao scratched his head. After hearing from Eiya about all the things these parents had been doing, he felt it was necessary to give them some pointers.

“A wooden board gets a nail driven into it. Even if you pull the nail out as fast as possible, and no matter how much glue you use to fix it, that mark will always be there… you know what I’m trying to say, right?”

A child whose heart had been thoroughly hurt couldn’t be opened up with nothing but compensation. The scars would always be there. Simple, one-sided compensation would only stir up her memories and rub salt into her wounds.

Lin Miao hoped Ei Yuan would seriously think about what Eiru actually needed right now. Figuring that out would be good for everyone.

As for what exactly that thing was, even he, as her older brother, didn’t know. That answer could only be found by Ei Yuan himself. That was his responsibility as a father.

If he couldn’t find it, then their father-daughter relationship would be stuck in this awkward state forever. If he could find it, then even if the scars could never be erased, at least the two of them could interact in a normal way.

How all of this would ultimately turn out could only depend on how far the two parents were willing and able to go.

As the topic came to an end, Ei Yuan discussed another matter with Lin Miao. Eiru’s grandfather really wanted to see what she was like now, so Ei Yuan was thinking of finding a time to bring her grandfather and eldest uncle over for a meal or something.

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“Why not just take her straight back to the hometown? The old man’s still in good health, but making him run around like this isn’t very appropriate, is it?”

Lin Miao didn’t really understand. It was fine to compensate his daughter and dote on her now, but it wasn’t like she couldn’t even make a trip back to her hometown, to the point that the elderly had to come over instead.

“No, no, don’t tell the two girls about this…”

Afraid Lin Miao would misunderstand, Ei Yuan hurriedly explained.

“Lu… during that period of medical checkups, she showed the same condition Little Ya had back then.”

Because he had mistakenly believed that Eiru had replaced her sister and become the new Daughter of Amber Crystal, Ei Yuan absolutely didn’t dare let his daughter go back to the hometown and have any contact with the Amber Crystal.

Back then, distancing Eiya from the Amber Crystal had been how they bought time for her. Even though the Amber Crystal had now disappeared, he still didn’t dare let Eiru get close to the place where the Amber Crystal had once existed.