Demon King – Chapter 714 – The Childhood Sweetheart Being Followed

“Huh? Okay… got it, I know.”

Just before school was about to let out, Jiaqi suddenly received a phone call. He frowned as he listened to the message on the other end, then hung up and scratched his head.

“Yuki, help me tell the guys in my dorm that I’m going home today, not staying in the dorm… I’ll go ask the dorm supervisor for leave myself.”

“Huh? You’re going home again?”

Yuki hadn’t even had time to react when, hearing those words, a silver-haired little head suddenly popped out from beside him.

“You’ve been going home a lot these past few days. Did something happen at home?”

“That’s the question I should be asking you, thanks!”

Seeing that his childhood friend still had the nerve to ask that, Jiaqi reached out, wanting to flick the loli’s little head. But when he saw Yuki already shielding her head with his hand, he gave up on the idea.

“Little Ya ran off to my place again… so shouldn’t I be the one asking you if something’s going on at your house? Why has she been coming over so often lately?”

It wasn’t like their two families didn’t get along. Dropping by each other’s homes had never been strange. Back when Jiaqi was overseas, if he happened to run into situations where Huiyuan and Liuwan were too busy to look after Eiya, they would occasionally ask Jiaqi’s parents to take care of her for a bit.

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But that wasn’t what gave Jiaqi a headache. Eiya wasn’t a kid anymore. Back then, staying over could at least be explained by the fact that he wasn’t around. Now that he was back, a girl running over to a guy’s place every day… what kind of situation was that?

“My parents are way too careless too. I know they dote on Little Ya and all… but aren’t they really not worried at all?”

“Maybe deep down they think you’re absolutely no threat to Little Ya?”

Tilting her head, the little Demon Lord dropped that line and instantly made Jiaqi clutch his chest.

‘Even if that was the truth, please don’t say it out loud! Do you all really think I’m that harmless?  Just letting that girl jump around in a minefield like that?’

When he thought about how he might actually like Eiya, and yet everyone around him, including his own parents, thought he was a completely noncompetitive sheep… Jiaqi’s fragile self-esteem took a critical hit every single time.

Some people might not understand. If Eiya ran over to Jiaqi’s place, wouldn’t it be enough for Eiru to just go pick her up earlier? Why did Jiaqi have to deliberately rush home himself?

The reason was simple. This loli was the type who would slack off whenever possible and never work harder than she had to. Her sister ran off to Jiaqi’s house? Well, Jiaqi wouldn’t do anything anyway, so she might as well keep clinging to Yuki for a bit longer and let her have fun over there, right?

And from Jiaqi’s side, imagine this. You’re a teenage boy in the middle of puberty, and you hear that your childhood sweetheart has run into your room, a room that might be hiding all sorts of secrets. Who would have the guts to just let her mess around in there?

So during this period, such absurd scenes kept happening. The younger sister was hanging out at someone else’s house, the older sister was still happily fooling around at school, and Jiaqi, who really shouldn’t have had to worry about any of this, could only grit his teeth and rush home to make sure his childhood sweetheart didn’t cause trouble in his house.

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——Jiaqi rushes straight home——

“So, why have you been coming over to my place so often these past few days? Your sister is still messing around with Yuki. Do you want me to send you home first, or wait until after dinner?”

Looking at the silver-haired loli sitting on his bed fiddling with her phone, Jiaqi felt exhausted to the bone. Precisely because he seemed to have fallen for her, being around her now always came with a constant sense of tension.

“I’ll wait for my sister to come get me, okay? It’s not very convenient for me to leave right now…”

Eiya looked up and thought for a moment, then gave an answer that left Jiaqi completely confused.

‘What do you mean not convenient? If you’re worried about safety on the road, I can walk you home. If you want to stay for dinner, you can just say it…’

It felt like she was hiding something. Combined with how frequently she’d been coming over lately, Jiaqi started to form a few guesses.

“Alright, it’s pretty much what you’re thinking… I’m hiding from someone.”

As if she’d seen through his thoughts, Eiya waved her hand and chose to come clean.

“That person might have been following me, so I need to stay here at least until my sister comes… wait, don’t go to the window yet!”

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Seeing Jiaqi immediately rush toward the window, Eiya hurried over and grabbed him. If he stuck his head out and looked around now, and that person outside hadn’t left yet and got seen, something would definitely be exposed.

“Who’s following you? Did you go out today? Who did you go out with? What’s going on?”

Finding out that his childhood sweetheart was being followed completely threw Jiaqi into a panic. Right now, he just wanted to roll up his sleeves and go fight that creep outside. He had to make it clear that not just anyone could mess around with his people.

Then he looked at Eiya’s outfit today. Light blue paired with a black-blue cardigan sweater dress, the skirt hem perfectly covering her thighs, matched with the white tights hugging her legs.

There was also an especially cute little bear crossbody bag at her waist. Petite and adorable Eiya looked so good in this outfit that Jiaqi almost couldn’t tear his eyes away… and someone actually followed such a cute childhood sweetheart today? Jiaqi was burning with anger inside.

“You’ve been coming over to my place these days. Does that mean he’s been following you for several days already?”

“Yeah, but I’ve shaken him off every time. If I wait here until my sister comes, then a random illusion or something will be enough to fool him, and I can go home safely.”

“Tsk… did you tell your sister about this?”

Jiaqi pressed his forehead and plopped down beside Eiya, feeling an inexplicable sense of frustration.

Because even if he walked her home himself, he still couldn’t stop someone from secretly following them and figuring out the sisters’ address anyway. Little Ya’s way of thinking this through was actually pretty solid. In this situation, only her sister could handle it. He really didn’t have any good solution.

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“Nope. Don’t tell her for now. Lately I’ve been using other reasons to trick her with illusions.”

Raising a finger to her lips, Eiya blinked, indicating that this was a little secret just between her and Jiaqi. He didn’t know what she was planning, but reacting so playfully to something like this, she probably picked it up from her unlucky sister.

“Don’t let this get out of hand, I’m telling you… you can mess around with anything, but don’t joke about your own safety.”

“Don’t worry. I know exactly what I’m doing. That person’s purpose, I understand it all very clearly.”

As she spoke, Eiya suddenly stood up and sat directly on Jiaqi’s lap. Even though this kind of interaction was normal for these childhood sweethearts, Jiaqi couldn’t help but blush.

“My sister is really stubborn. Whenever something happens, she carries it all herself and refuses to tell anyone… but I’m different from her. I’ll seek out the necessary outside support, okay? Hehe.”

Grabbing Jiaqi’s hand and spreading his palm open, Eiya leaned against him and gently pressed her cheek to his palm.

“So, if I run into some troublesome problem… Brother Jiaqi, can you help me?”