Demon King – Chapter 682 – A Serious Conversation About Something Not Serious

Seeing that there was no need to keep chasing, Jiaqi didn’t want to waste any more energy and turned around to head back to the classroom.

“Did you catch him?” As soon as Jiaqi walked in, a few classmates started teasing him.

“Nope. Doesn’t matter.”

Jiaqi spread his hands, looking indifferent. He walked straight back to his seat, and the moment he sat down, he felt a strong gaze on him.

Lifting his head slightly, he found a certain loli turned around, lying on her desk and staring at him with a dangerous expression. Even without a single word, Jiaqi could read the meaning in her eyes. Behave yourself and confess what you did.

“Hey now, Lu Brat, I’ve been wronged. It was all Ziyu spreading rumors about me.”

Stare…

“Really, I swear I didn’t say anything. It was all Ziyu talking nonsense.”

“Then… where is he?”

The Demon Lord was a bit doubtful. She didn’t know what Jiaqi had supposedly done, but since he said that, wouldn’t it be enough to just drag Ziyu over and confront him?

“Didn’t catch him. He ran too fast.”

“What? Isn’t his PE pretty bad? Don’t you completely crush him in PE class?”

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Yuki was genuinely surprised. Jiaqi’s running score was solid. Catching a barely-passing Ziyu should have been effortless.

“Well, when humans are driven by the desire to survive, they can unleash tremendous power.”

Jiaqi couldn’t help but complain. If that guy could run like this in PE class, he wouldn’t be stuck with those grades.

No, really, next time he should suggest something to the teacher. During running drills, have someone chase him with a whip from behind. That would definitely boost his performance.

“Since you didn’t catch him, where did he run off to?”

The Demon Lord looked eager to try. She loved games like catching people.

Hearing that, Jiaqi lightly coughed twice to clear his throat, then began to spout nonsense with a straight face.

“Humans, when driven by the desire to survive, can unleash tremendous power. But at the same time, that very desire can also lead them into a brand new abyss.”

“Speak human.”

“He panicked and ran straight into the dean’s office. Even locked the door. Hopefully there’s no one inside. No, wait, hopefully the grade director is inside, happily alone, and passes away peacefully.”

At the same time, Ziyu had his ear pressed against the door, listening to the sounds outside. After confirming that Jiaqi had no intention of continuing the chase, he finally relaxed.

Wiping the sweat from his head, Ziyu glanced toward the sofa not far away. Wait a second. A sofa? Where did a sofa come from?

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Realizing something was wrong, he slowly turned his head in fear. Sure enough, at the desk nearby, a middle-aged man was holding a phone in mid-call, frowning as he looked at him with confusion.

“Hello teacher. Goodbye teacher!”

Faced with this existence radiating food-chain suppression, no matter how scatterbrained he was, Ziyu knew he had run straight into a tiger’s den. He laughed awkwardly and tried to slip away, only to be immediately stopped by a shout.

“Hold it. You’ve got some nerve, kid. Chasing and messing around in the hallway, and you even barged into my place? You know what the consequences are?”

Like stealing something and ending up at the police station, Ziyu had delivered himself straight into the wolf’s mouth. And it seemed he had caught the other party in a bad mood, too. Amid his wails, the entire next class period passed without anyone in the class seeing Ziyu again.

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At noon, during lunch break, Jiaqi unusually called Yuki aside alone to a corner of the school cafeteria, as if he had something important to discuss.

As for that loli? With how mischievous she was every day, no one could really keep her under control. Who knew where she had wandered off to stir trouble. Maybe she was outside petting stray cats and dogs, or maybe she was in the sky playing her exclusive flying game.

“Yuki, you’re my best brother. Some things I can only talk to you about and get your opinion.”

“Stop beating around the bush. Just say it.”

Scratching his head, Jiaqi thought about how to describe what he was about to say. Lately, this was exactly what he had been thinking about.

“Honestly, what happened today made me think about a lot of things. To put it simply, maybe that rumor Ziyu spread wasn’t just a simple rumor?”

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“Pfft!!! What the hell are you saying, you really want to chase Little Eiya? Didn’t you say rabbits don’t eat grass close to the nest, and that you see her as a little sister?”

Yuki nearly sprayed the water out of his mouth. Was everyone doomed to experience a ‘turned out to be true’ moment these days? You were so righteous about it before.

“No no no, that’s not what I mean. But it’s good that Lu Brat didn’t believe it. Right now I kind of feel like that Ziyu idiot myself, I guess?”

After catching Ziyu, the Demon Lord had forced him to spill the whole cause and process. When she heard that Jiaqi wanted to pursue her younger sister, she laughed so hard she nearly rolled on the floor.

“What the hell, hahahaha. If you’re going to make trouble, at least draft it properly and think it through, okay? With that cowardly Qi, how could he possibly want to chase Little Ya? He doesn’t have the guts, hahahaha.”

Eiru laughed very loudly at the time, and quite a few classmates heard what she said. With her, a half-involved party, vouching for it, the rumor around Jiaqi was quickly cleared up. But poor Jiaqi still inexplicably ended up branded with the title of a coward.

“Remember that day we stayed over at their place? Not afraid to admit it, I spent the night in Eiya’s room.”

Covering his face, thinking back to that night gave Jiaqi a feeling that the past was too painful to revisit.

“That time, yeah, I remember. Pretty much the same as what Lu Brat guessed. She also said Little Eiya would bring you into her room, and that you definitely wouldn’t do anything to her.”

For some reason, Jiaqi suddenly felt a bit unhappy inside. Even though Eiru’s guess was right and he really didn’t do anything, why did it feel like he was being looked down on?

“Anyway, that day I suddenly felt like Eiya wasn’t the little girl she used to be.”

Shaking his head to throw off the strange thoughts, Jiaqi continued speaking to his good brother in a meaningful tone, voicing the worries in his heart.

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“That night, I felt like she’d grown up.”

He sighed, then looked up and suddenly saw Yuki pulling out his phone, as if he were dialing a number.

“What are you doing? What do you mean by that?”

“She’s only fourteen. No, fifteen years old. Even though it pains me deeply, as your brother, I can’t let you keep going down the wrong path.”

With a look of reluctance on his face, Yuki continued dialing.

“You bastard! I didn’t do anything! And I don’t want to hear this from you of all people! You lolicon should look in the mirror. Lu Brat is only sixteen herself!”

“She’s no longer a child…”

“You say one more word and I’ll…”

Unable to hold back, Jiaqi cursed. He was starting to regret telling him all this.

‘I thought you were a serious person. No, wait. You’re someone who could fall for Lu Brat. How serious could you possibly be? This is my mistake!!!’