Demon King – Chapter 688 – The Weirdo of Seventh High

Seventh High, First Year Class Five. Compared to those honor classes packed with top students, or the few problem classes that gave the school headaches, this was an utterly ordinary, unremarkable class.

And in this class, there was one person acknowledged by the entire grade as a weirdo. He had transferred in only this semester, and that alone made quite a few people keep their distance from him.

It wasn’t that he was a bad person. On the contrary, in everyday interactions he was actually pretty warm and helpful to the people around him. But because of certain odd habits, even classmates willing to interact with him still kept a very clear distance.

Calling them odd habits was putting it lightly. The guy was always acting all mysterious and muttering to himself. Whenever he was alone, he would talk under his breath, fully immersed in his own world, fiddling with who knew what.

Even the way he spoke normally carried a strong chuunibyou vibe. So although everyone knew he wasn’t a bad guy, getting too close inevitably came with a strong sense of potential social death.

Apparently due to some family reasons, he had repeated a year and stayed back, even though he should have been in second year by now. Being a bit older than everyone around him while still occasionally going full chuunibyou, it was no wonder people didn’t dare open up to him.

Of course, none of this had anything to do with our little Demon Lord. She hadn’t even gotten familiar with all the people in her own class yet, so why would she have the energy to care about other grades?

“Damn it, I clearly got out of bed yesterday. Why do I still have to get up today?”

Woken up early in the morning, Her Majesty the Demon Lord wore a face full of displeasure, wrapping herself tightly in the blanket and stubbornly refusing to leave.

‘So cold. I don’t want to leave the blanket. Why do I still have to go to school? I wanna skip class. School is boring and cold, and the only warm thing there is stupid Yuki’s arms… forget it, I’ll go.’

Thinking of Yuki, Eiru smacked her lips. She couldn’t exactly leave her little boyfriend all alone at school, could she?

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Slowly crawling out of bed, her reluctant movements disturbed the three small animals on the bed. All three lifted their heads in unison to look at the silver-haired loli putting on her coat. Still tucked under the blanket, they huddled closer together, very much giving off a banding-together-for-warmth vibe.

Going out to school in weather this cold, that’s tough. Take care, no need to see you off. Turning her head, the little Demon Lord read exactly that kind of message from their gazes.

Especially seeing the three of them bundled up tight, with only three heads sticking out from the blanket. Just looking at them screamed warmth, carrying a pretty strong sense of mockery.

So after getting dressed, Her Majesty the Demon Lord reached out toward the three of them, grabbed the winged one inside, and plopped it onto her own head.

“I can’t do anything about those two, but you and I are one body. If I’m freezing, don’t even think about hiding in the blanket.”

“Goo yi! Goo yi!”

Hulu loudly protested Eiru’s dragging-it-down-with-her behavior, but it was completely useless. Amid the two cats’ yawns, it could only struggle while letting out despairing, agonized whimpers.

“If I’m awake, you won’t be able to sleep anyway. Come out like a macho and have some fun. Today you’re coming to school with me. Otherwise I’ll hang you outside on the eaves to blow in the cold wind. Pick one.”

Hearing this, Hulu stopped struggling and obediently lay on its little master’s head. It might be a bit chilly, but at least Eiru’s head had some warmth. Way better than being hung outside to freeze, right?

—— The Demon Lord Goes to School ——

“Why does it feel like someone’s always staring at me…”

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Holding Yuki’s hand while basking in the sun in the corridor, Eiru muttered under her breath, glancing around to look for the source of that strange feeling.

“Lu Brat, what’s wrong? You’ve seemed a bit off these past few days.”

“It’s nothing. I just keep feeling like someone’s secretly watching me lately. Is it psychological? But why would I have that kind of psychological thing?”

“Because you’re becoming more and more like a girl?”

Yuki squatted down halfway and pinched the girl’s cheeks.

“Starting to care about other people’s gazes and your own image?”

“What the hell are you talking about? How did you come to such a weird conclusion? Let me tell you, once a macho man, always a macho man. I, Eiru, am a genuine macho Demon Lord!”

“Alright alright, my little macho man…”

The two joked around like this, but over at the stairway corner of the corridor, a figure was secretly observing their interaction.

“That’s right, she must be the Demon Lord… it can’t be fake. What should I do?”

Muttering to himself, the observer also scribbled something into the notebook in his hand. Looking closely, it was filled with bizarre information that only he himself could understand.

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“The Demon Lord is the embodiment of evil and must be eradicated… this is my mission. My mission…”

He viciously crossed out a small doodle. Just as this peeping Tom was about to leave, someone patted his shoulder a few times from behind.

“Xia, you’re being chuunibyou again?”

Glancing at the notebook in his hand, the one who interrupted him was one of the few friends he could actually get along with in class.

“No, Wei, you’re misunderstanding…”

“I’m not saying this to be mean, but that habit of yours really needs fixing. Everyone thinks you’re not a bad guy, but you act like some kind of cultist all day. Honestly…”

Following the direction of his friend’s earlier spying, the boy called Wei also spotted the silver-haired couple joking around. When his eyes landed on that silver-haired loli, they widened instantly.

‘Oh, I get it now. So he likes an upperclassman. No wonder he’s like this all the time.’

Wei was the unlucky guy that this loli had once helped out of a mess. He immediately felt like he understood everything.

‘But that upperclassman has a boyfriend, right? Even if no one knew whether it was real. Recently there were also rumors that they were cousins, or some kind of half-siblings with the same father?’

For a moment, Wei felt troubled. He wanted to support his good buddy’s romance, but if the girl really was already taken, unless it was some kind of saving-a-fallen-girl-from-the-abyss scenario, stealing someone else’s partner wasn’t appropriate.

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“Wei, don’t tell me… you know her?”

Seeing his reaction, the peeping boy called Xia also sensed something.

“Yeah, I do know her. Didn’t I used to like skipping class? One time when I went out, I happened to see her fighting with some street punks…”

Because this loli had left such a deep impression on him, after learning her name, Wei had deliberately gone to ask around about Eiru’s reputation and rumors afterward.

Leaving everything else aside, after finding out just how terrifying this loli was, any thought of pursuing her was definitely gone. Staying alive was more important. And someone as cowardly as him probably wasn’t suited to being with such a strong, forceful girl anyway. Probably.

“Fighting… street punks?”

“Yeah. She hits really fucking hard. The scene was brutal. One person hanging a whole group and beating them senseless, almost to the point they couldn’t even walk.”

Possibly worried that his good buddy might get himself into trouble too, Wei deliberately made the scene sound even more horrifying, trying to extinguish any thoughts of pursuing this loli.

But the other party didn’t seem surprised at all. Instead, he wore a look of ‘just as expected’. While listening, he flipped open that notebook again and started scribbling, almost like he was taking notes.