Demon King – Chapter 693 – The Little Demon Lord Is Like a Blank Sheet of Paper

The chuunibyou boy is being dumb again today

“Xixia! What are you doing again?! Can you be more mature?! How are you going to find a partner in the future like this? What girl would ever like you?!”

In the home of the self-proclaimed Hero, his dear mother saw her child dressed like this and her blood pressure instantly shot through the roof, curing the low blood pressure that had plagued her for years.

“This is equipment. Equipment needed to deal with the Demon Lord!”

Wearing a helmet he had no idea where he scavenged from, Xixia was dressed in a thick set of… homemade cardboard armor? Looking this ridiculous, it was no wonder someone’s blood pressure would spike.

“In the long years of battling the Demon Lord, I’ve realized one thing. From last time’s failure, I discovered that having only weapons and a shield isn’t enough. A hero also needs armor!”

“If she really were a Demon Lord, she’d burn your trash to ashes with one fireball. Take it off right now! Can you grow up already? You’re seventeen. How are you going to get a girlfriend in the future acting like this?”

Stepping forward and grabbing Xixia by the ear, the mother who had long suffered under her child’s chuunibyou felt utterly exhausted right now. Can’t you put this kind of energy into studying instead? Even learning some talent would be better.

“Ow ow ow, but Mom, I don’t want to date… I think girls are really troublesome, and I don’t really like interacting with girls.”

“What kind of nonsense is that?! You’re a man. Aren’t you supposed to bring a girlfriend home someday? What do you mean you don’t like interacting with girls? Your father and I won’t allow you to be some lifelong single!”

Hearing her child say this, Xixia’s mother reacted in a very strange way. Just now, when he was messing around with his chuunibyou nonsense, she didn’t look nearly this tense. In an environment where parents generally oppose early dating, this kind of reaction was pretty abnormal.

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“Mom, other families’ parents all oppose early dating. Why are you urging me to find a girlfriend? Even if you want grandchildren, it can’t be that fast.”

Xixia was also confused. When he went to his good buddy Awei’s house, he had personally witnessed Awei being sprayed into oblivion just because his parents suspected him of having close contact with a girl. Why was the reaction so different in his own home?

“What grandchildren? I don’t agree with early dating either. But you can’t say you’re not interested in girls. You’re a man. Sooner or later you’re going to find a girlfriend, understand?”

“Mom, you’re not suspecting my orientation, are you?”

Xixia’s mother froze at those words. The answer was pretty obvious. Xixia scratched his head, not quite understanding why his mother would have such a misunderstanding.

Sure, his height of just over one meter sixty made him on the shorter side among boys, and his temperament was on the gentler, more delicate side. But overall he was still a clean-cut, pretty boy. It shouldn’t have been bad enough to be misunderstood like this, right?

Honestly, if not for his chuunibyou, with people constantly getting scared off by his frequent idiotic behavior and mysterious rambling, Xixia should logically be a pretty popular type.

“In any case, listen less to those stories your grandpa tells you. There’s no such thing as a Demon Lord in this world. And even if there were, it wouldn’t be something a little brat like you could deal with. Go study properly.”

“If I’m a little brat, then Mom, are you a rabbit?”

“Get the hell back to studying!”

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With a furious shout, Xixia, stripped of his cardboard armor, was driven back to his desk. His mother slammed the door and stormed off, returning to the bedroom where the child’s father was still resting on the bed.

“Had another fight with Little Xia? He’s just a kid. He’ll grow up sooner or later.”

Seeing her come in, Xixia’s father sat up, an expression of helpless amusement on his face.

“And you still dare say that? It’s you and Dad telling her those Demon Lord and Hero stories every day. Now look at this. The kid really believes it all. Even his social life is a problem now.”

“Doesn’t he have a good friend? Friends are about quality, not quantity. As long as there’s someone out there watching over and accompanying Little Xia, we can relax, can’t we?”

Scratching his head, Xixia’s father showed no sign of admitting fault at all. His carefree grin made his wife even angrier.

“Can you act like a proper father? That’s enough to relax? Don’t forget, Little Xia is…”

Somewhat flustered, Xixia’s mother stopped mid-sentence, interrupted by the sudden seriousness of the man in front of her.

“Hey hey hey, stop. The soundproofing in this room isn’t great. Those things can’t be heard by the kid.”

His finger lightly tapped the bed board. The playful expression from before vanished, and Xixia’s father’s sudden seriousness made her pause.

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“We both know Little Xia’s situation in our hearts. You don’t need to worry too much. That kid may act dumb from time to time, but he actually has his own little thoughts and is pretty sharp. As long as it doesn’t affect others, just let him mess around.”

While his parents were discussing him, Xixia himself was sitting at his desk, pen and paper in hand, seriously scribbling and drawing. But was he obediently studying? Of course not.

“That Demon Lord isn’t simple. I’ll need a thorough plan to probe her nature. And the subjugation also needs preparation.”

The paper was filled with strange symbols and diagrams only he could understand. With a bold final stroke, Xixia let out a long breath. His meticulous Demon Lord probing plan was finally complete.

“As long as I can pull her into the same domain as me, I can rely on my rich experience there to deal with her.”

Holding up the completed plan and grinning, Xixia could already picture the scene of taking down that loli Demon Lord. The first step of the plan was to go to her class tomorrow and formally declare war.

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Completely unaware that she had been targeted by a chuunibyou, Her Majesty the Demon Lord was currently happily assembling model kits with Yuki. If she knew that the other party’s so-called meticulous plan was just to drag her into the realm of chuunibyou and then defeat her with abundant idiotic experience, she’d probably laugh herself rolling all over the bed.

“So basically, some Demon Lord from a previous generation got tricked by a hero and left all future Demon Lords with some bizarre fate-type magic? And then, because they couldn’t stand that thing, the last Demon Lord threw the Am… Abyssal Amber out?”

“That’s right.”

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The little demon lord made an OK gesture.

“That thing is basically a curse that clings to all later Demon Lords and can never be shaken off. Honestly, I also think that senior Demon Lord was just… an idiot.”

Already knowing quite a bit about demonkind, when Eiru first learned this idiotic piece of information, she had also wondered just how stupid that Demon Lord senior must have been. But thinking about how Abyssal Amber didn’t choose based on intelligence, and how a naive blank-sheet nature made it easy to be fooled, it was easy enough to explain.

“So specifically, what kind of ‘curse’ is it?”

After all this, Yuki’s curiosity was completely hooked. Something that could make his little girlfriend react this strongly had to be pretty twisted.

“And since it involved being tricked by a hero, it must be related to heroes, right? Something surrounding all later Demon Lords and heroes?”

“Yes, but I still suggest you don’t ask about it. It affects your mood.”

Even after saying so much, the little demon lord still seemed unwilling to let Yuki know about this thing she found repulsive. She even grabbed his hand and started acting cute.

“Besides, this world theoretically doesn’t have any heroes, so not knowing doesn’t really matter. Don’t ask so much, okay? Stupid Yuki.”