Demon King – Chapter 692 – An Innocent Demon Lord Is Like a Blank Sheet of Paper

Unlike a certain blessed individual who had been personally named by his wife and told to stay over, Jixian and Ziyu still had to head back to school to deal with dorm inspections. After dinner and a long stretch of hype, the two of them took their leave first and left Eiru’s place.

With Yuki here, the Demon Lord’s interest in games dropped to almost nothing. Just like she had said before, compared to games, she’d much rather play with Yuki(not literally)… so she dragged him straight into her room instead.

“Hey, is it really fine leaving your sister alone with Jiaqi? No matter how you look at it, they’re not kids anymore, right?”

“It’s fine. Stupid Qi is scared out of his mind, he wouldn’t dare do anything to Little Ya… their relationship is super good!”

So in the vast game room, only that pair of childhood sweethearts remained. The two of them stayed silent in this subtle atmosphere for quite a while, until Eiya finally couldn’t hold back anymore. She turned around and directly straddled his lap.

“Brother Jiaqi!”

“Hm? Eh? What’s wrong?”

Seeing the girl’s cute face suddenly right in front of him, and realizing that she was no longer a little kid, Jiaqi couldn’t help but blush a little from such intimate contact.

“Are you… in a bad mood?”

Tilting her head and leaning closer to his face to carefully observe his expression, Eiya felt that something was definitely very off about him today.

“N-No… no? How could I be in a bad mood? I’m pretty happy today.”

As Eiya kept watching him, her body also shifted around on top of Jiaqi… and combined with the pleasant fragrance coming from her, it made his heart feel itchy.

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And Jiaqi didn’t dare do anything improper to the girl in his arms. Even though, in theory, this should have been a bit of a happy perk for a guy, right now it just made him feel stiff and uncomfortable all over.

‘Damn it, of all things you could learn from your sister, why did you have to learn her habit of not keeping distance from guys…’

While complaining in his heart, Jiaqi still had to force himself into a straight-laced, proper posture, so his little childhood friend wouldn’t notice anything strange.

But being serious was already abnormal for him in the first place, so Eiya immediately noticed something was wrong. Feeling puzzled, she pulled her legs in and sat duck-style on his thighs, reaching out with both hands to mess with his face.

“This is weird… why are you so nervous today? Did you do something bad you don’t dare tell me?”

‘My little ancestor, please get down already. Not every guy can withstand this kind of temptation from you. Did you also learn your sister’s succubus traits? Don’t innocently and naturally tempt me like this!’

Jiaqi roared internally. Looking into those innocent, pure eyes, he even felt ashamed of the thoughts in his own head. Was he about to experience the same kind of torment Yuki once went through?

If Yuki were here, he’d probably pat him on the shoulder and say, Brother, small scene. You get used to it and eventually become immune.

But Jiaqi’s situation was even worse than Yuki’s back then, because he didn’t dare do things like openly express his feelings. Right now, he wasn’t even sure whether his feelings toward the girl in front of him were romantic or not. And even if they were, the idea of a rabbit eating grass near its own burrow felt kind of weird.

“So you’re not bullying me anymore? Usually by now you’d already be bullying me… pulling my hair, pinching my face and stuff?”

“Huh? You want me to bully you?”

Jiaqi froze for a moment. He really hadn’t expected to hear something like that from Eiya’s mouth… though maybe it wasn’t a request?

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“Who wants to be bullied! I’ll beat you up! I just saw you acting weird today and was worried about you, okay!”

Puffing out her cheeks just like her sister, Eiya clenched her hands into fists and viciously drilled them into Jiaqi’s temples.

“Ow ow ow, my little ancestor… if you want me to bully you, you can just say it. I can definitely satisfy that weird fetish of yours.”

After all that chaos, the tension on Jiaqi’s side eased up quite a bit, and what followed was his usual slightly obnoxious demeanor.

“Who wants to be bullied by you! I’m not a masochist! Don’t push your luck!”

“Then… chin?”

Jiaqi suddenly tossed out a completely random line, extending his palm flat in front of him.

“Your chin my— whoa, you’re doing it again?!”

Before Eiya could react, she realized she had already very obediently rested her head on his palm. All the fierceness from just now vanished, and she instantly turned into a pitiful, aggrieved little look.

“So you’re saying if you don’t bully me, you feel uncomfortable… sob…”

“Because Little Ya is easy to bully～”

With his state fully back to normal, Jiaqi grinned. Under her aggrieved and timid gaze, he stretched out both hands, ready to begin today’s bullying-the-loli routine…

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While the younger sister was being bullied, what was her dear older sister doing?

Right, she was happily assembling model kits in her room with her little boyfriend.

“But seriously, Stupid Yuki… lately I keep feeling like someone’s secretly watching me. At school, to be honest, it feels pretty strange.”

“Hm? You’re this cute. I think it’d be stranger if no one at school were sneaking looks at you.”

Yuki didn’t really take it seriously. As long as those people didn’t come over to flirt or stir up trouble and were just looking, he could even treat it as showing off that he had such a cute little girlfriend.

“It’s not that kind of simple peeking. It’s more like… it feels like I’m being monitored?”

Eiru herself couldn’t really explain this weird feeling. With how carefree she usually was, she shouldn’t have had any reaction to this kind of thing. And as long as Yuki was with her, feeling safe, she didn’t care if others looked at her.

But this time was different. Rather than someone watching her, it felt more like something unseen was constantly hanging around near her… giving off this strange, spine-chilling sensation.

“Something invisible?”

Yuki thought of those rural legends about unclean things, and the fact that the two of them had once gone to some village and personally witnessed similar stuff.

But you’re a Demon Lord. You completely overpower that kind of thing in terms of status, right? If something like that really existed, shouldn’t it be avoiding you instead? A Demon Lord afraid of ghosts. If your Demon Lord seniors heard that, they’d probably laugh their teeth off.

“But I’ve always been curious. If Demon Lords are all as kind and pure as you, then in that world, what’s the deal with heroes having to go and subjugate you?”

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Thinking about it, not just Demon Lords, but even the Daughters of Amber Crystal chosen by Amber Crystal were all unbelievably kind and naive girls. For beings like that to still be hunted down, Yuki genuinely couldn’t understand it.

“How should I put it…”

Her Majesty the Demon Lord scratched her head.

“Whether a Demon Lord is good or evil depends on many factors.”

Because of their innocence, a newly born Demon Lord is bound to be like a blank sheet of paper. Although they all start out as innocent children, precisely because they’re a blank sheet, they can easily be stained with all kinds of colors. What path they eventually walk is completely unpredictable.

“So in that world, the hero’s first responsibility is to determine the Demon Lord’s nature. Only Demon Lords classified as evil will be subjugated.”

“Then what about good Demon Lords?”

“Stupid Yuki, I suggest you don’t ask that question…”

The Demon Lord held her head, her expression suddenly turning a little ugly.

“Because it was exactly this shitty issue that finally drove that Demon Lord senior to snap, and directly throw Abyssal Amber out of that world.”