Demon King – Chapter 709 – Fell Before Even Leaving the Camp

Another ordinary school day. The little Demon Lord was once again sprawled face down on her desk like a salted fish, bored out of her mind. The only difference was that there was now someone beside her, helplessly scolding her.

“So you really just let your sister drag you along, huh? She says something and you believe it. How come I never saw you this dumb before?”

Yuki covered his face. After hearing about what happened yesterday, driven by a certain ominous intuition, he had asked in a bit more detail about what went on. The result was that he was completely stunned by how adorably stupid these two sisters were in this regard.

“When you talked to me about love and relationships before, you sounded so knowledgeable… no wait, that is not the point. Have you ever thought about it? Little Eiya’s reaction was very problematic.”

Yuki believed that the girl was not lying. She really did not have any thoughts about that boy and just treated him as an ordinary friend. But the way she handled it looked wrong no matter how you looked at it.

“Accepting his gift and then giving one back… you really think there is nothing wrong with that?”

“There is nothing wrong though. I would do the same. Someone comes over all excited to give you a gift, you cannot just crush their enthusiasm, right?”

Her Majesty the Demon Lord genuinely did not understand what Yuki was worried about at all. Having the same line of thinking as her sister in this regard, she felt that the social obligation had already been settled on the spot when she returned a gift. There was no such thing as owing someone anything.

“I am like this with you too. You give me a gift, I will definitely find a way to give something back. That is how our family has always taught us. It is just basic courtesy.”

“Yes, gifts are returned, no debts owed…”

Yuki was already too tired to complain.

“Then Lu Brat, what is our relationship now?”

“You are my wife… eh?”

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With that brought up, the little Demon Lord also belatedly realized something.

‘Right, we don’t owe each other anything. Then why did I end up getting fed by you?’

“Accepting gifts is unrelated to obligation. This back and forth of gifting itself is a way to raise favorability, bring people closer, and deepen the relationship…”

Patiently explaining it to this dumb loli, Yuki laid out his concern. This kind of process was very natural and gradual. Anyone with even a bit of ulterior motive could use it to slowly draw the other person into their trap.

“You play plenty of games too. In some games, when you give gifts to NPCs, they give you items back. But the favorability still goes up, right?”

“The logic makes sense, but honestly, Stupid Yuki, I still think you are overthinking it.”

Even after understanding Yuki’s reasoning, Her Majesty the Demon Lord stuck to her own view.

“I don’t know what Little Eiya is thinking, but I am sure she cannot possibly be tricked by him. You can absolutely rest easy on that. He cannot abduct her.”

‘Where does this confidence of yours even come from? You should be the one most nervous about this kind of thing.’

Watching Eiru make a face, looking completely unconcerned, Yuki felt a massive headache coming on.

Kids in middle school nowadays were all sly little devils. You could not underestimate them just because they were young. Innocent, easily fooled kids like you two sisters were actually pretty rare these days.

“Mm… oh right, I think I have not told you yet. Do you know what that guy gave Little Eiya as a gift?”

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The little Demon Lord tapped her finger against her lips. She seemed to have remembered something very amusing and suddenly got excited, deliberately keeping him in suspense.

“What? Going by your description, it would just be a keychain, a small figurine… or snacks, right?”

Combining Eiru’s description of the small box with the average purchasing power of a middle schooler, Yuki figured there were not that many options if you wanted to please a girl, so he threw out a few very ordinary guesses.

“Nope. Actually, it was…”

Eiru suddenly raised both hands to gesture out a size, then gave an answer that nearly made Yuki spit out the water he was drinking.

“A spider.”

“Pff! What the hell?!”

Yuki was completely stunned. This kid’s gift choice was way too unique. Giving a girl something like that, was he not afraid of getting slapped into the wall?

“It was a spider about the size of a wristwatch. Honestly, it looked fucking terrifying.”

Gesturing out the size of the spider, Her Majesty the Demon Lord recalled last night when Eiya had opened the gift. Sitting at her desk, her face full of anticipation and excitement, she opened the little box.

Then in the very next moment, the silver-haired loli was already standing on the bed, her face full of terror, her entire body pressed tightly against the wall, not daring to move at all.

“In the end, they did not even catch the spider. It ran off somewhere in her room. Little Eiya is pretty afraid of that kind of thing, so she ended up running to sleep in my room last night.”

Good grief, how many normal girls are not afraid of that thing? This kid is single purely on merit. Taking another sip of water, Yuki finally understood where his girlfriend’s inexplicable confidence came from.

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“So today Little Eiya brought a self-defense electric shocker to school to settle accounts with him. When she left this morning, she was muttering about how he wasted her expectations and that she was going to cripple him or something…”

Just as she was saying this, Jiaqi happened to walk past after buying drinks from the school store. Yuki reached out and patted him, wearing a teasing smile as he tossed out a line.

“It is fine, Jiaqi. That kid failed before he even set out.”

“What the hell are you talking about?”

Jiaqi had only been passing by and had not heard what they were talking about at all. His face was full of confusion.

“Please speak like a normal human and stop talking in riddles, thanks.”

“I mean, do not panic. Everything is under control.”

“That makes even less sense. Can you just talk properly?”

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“Brother Xia, I am begging you, just behave…”

Watching someone still scribbling all kinds of incomprehensible stuff on paper, Wei was on the verge of losing his mind.

“You know you have not finished your homework, right? I even copied two subjects for you. Are you trying to die? Can you please do your homework first? It is the end of term!”

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“What? There was homework yesterday?!”

Hearing that, Xixia raised his head, his face full of shock. Then he suddenly clutched his chest and struck a sorrowful pose.

“Damn it. The great undertaking of the hero has been delayed by mere homework… as expected, homework is the true source of all evil!”

“You were saying the Demon Lord was the source of all evil just a while ago…”

“The Demon Lord is no longer evil. Now the hero’s true enemies are the exploitation that causes students to self-alienate, and the ones above…”

Xixia was speaking passionately when his voice suddenly wilted.

“What? You chickened out… emmm?”

Following the direction his good brother was pointing, Wei saw that the homeroom teacher had somehow already appeared on the podium, glaring furiously at the two of them.

The classroom had long since gone quiet. Only this pair of clowns was still performing their cross talk, completely ignoring the teacher’s presence.

Faced with the coming storm, as Xixia’s good brother, someone naturally stepped up without hesitation and made the sacrifice. Under his good brother’s incredulous gaze, he slid his chair to the side and lowered his head to start studying.

‘Mm, survival comes first. Better sacrifice the brother.’