Demon King – Chapter 747 – Turning into a girl Again

Rewinding to earlier that morning, in front of Her Majesty the Demon Lord’s house, a silver-haired girl who was not her little sister was currently throwing a full-blown tantrum at her.

“Fuck, you called me over at the crack of dawn and I thought something serious happened, so I rushed here without even thinking. How twisted are you? You turn me into this the second I arrive?!”

“Don’t get so worked up. I already told you, Eiya needs your help with something.”

With both hands raised in front of her in a placating gesture, the little Demon Lord looked slightly embarrassed. After all, she was the one asking for a favor, so she felt a bit guilty.

“What kind of help requires me to look like this?! I like girls, that doesn’t mean I want to become a girl! Change me back right now, or this brotherhood is over.”

“Hey, hey, calm down. I said it already. Eiya might run into some trouble this time, so we need Stupid Qi to follow along. If necessary, you can step in and help back her up.”

Hui Jiaqi’s face was covered in black lines. He couldn’t help wondering why what his childhood friend said sounded completely different from what she actually did. If the goal was to intimidate someone and put on a show, wouldn’t it make more sense to let him go as himself? Who the hell was going to be scared of a girl?

“Think about it. As a macho man, I obviously have more intimidation power. So having you turn into my appearance to scare people makes perfect sense, right?”

Hooking one arm around her own skinny little arm, the little Demon Lord flexed in an exaggerated strongman pose to demonstrate her so-called intimidation. Looking at her like that, Hui Jiaqi felt even more black lines crawling down his forehead.

“Are you running a fever? You’re barely one meter forty. What intimidation power do you have? If we’re talking intimidation, I’m way fiercer than you. I could twist that tiny arm of yours off with one hand. Tell me, in what universe are you stronger than me in that department?”

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“But you can’t beat me. Want to spar? I’ll even let you use one hand.”

With the most innocent expression imaginable, she delivered words straight out of a street thug’s mouth. Her Majesty the Demon Lord crooked a finger at him with one hand, the provocation painfully obvious.

“…Tch.”

Even though Eiru’s attitude was begging for a punch, Hui Jiaqi smacked his lips and didn’t argue back. He genuinely couldn’t beat this cheat-enabled girl.

“So yeah. Combat power determines intimidation. If you can’t beat me, then your intimidation isn’t as good as mine. Just listen to my arrangements. And if you don’t behave, I won’t give you the chance to chase Eiya, okay?”

“Hiss…”

Hui Jiaqi sucked in a sharp breath. She had pulled out a weapon of mass destruction level threat. There was no way he could refuse now. He knew this girl was shameless, but he hadn’t expected her to stoop to using something like this to mess with him.

“Fine. Talk. What do you want me to do?”

Under the threat of this scheming, bottomless black-hearted girl, Hui Jiaqi surrendered. For the sake of pursuing his childhood sweetheart, he would endure it. Hopefully this girl would throw him an assist later on, though that was probably wishful thinking.

“It’s simple. Just follow Eiya. Stay with her if you want, or trail her secretly. Either way, make sure she’s safe. If necessary, you can scare the other side a bit.”

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‘That’s it? So basically covert protection.’

The moment he heard Eiya might run into trouble, Hui Jiaqi was more than willing to take on the job. The only thing that annoyed him was why he had to look like this. If he saved the damsel in distress like this, he wouldn’t even be able to leave a good impression. What a massive loss.

“Lu Brat, tell me honestly. Did you fail to find anyone else to help and didn’t want me farming her favorability, so you pulled this dirty stunt on purpose?”

At that question, Her Majesty the Demon Lord smiled faintly and patted Hui Jiaqi on the shoulder, giving him a response between brothers. Since we’re bros, I won’t hide it. That’s right. I just don’t want my sister getting snatched away.

“Thinking about how Eiya used to protect me, I kind of understand how she felt back then now. But don’t worry. She has her own life. I can’t chain her down.”

It wasn’t that Eiru was completely against others using this chance to raise Eiya’s favorability. It just felt like she was personally helping to sell her little sister off. That said, just as she claimed, she intended to leave the final judgment to Eiya herself. All she could do was screen and test him a bit and dump her own displeasure onto the other party by making things difficult, venting a little.

“Honestly, this is kind of ridiculous. Does Eiya even need you to raise her favorability toward me? Sure, I went abroad for a while and we grew a bit distant, but isn’t that actually perfect timing?”

Thinking about his own emotional journey with Yuki, Hui Jiaqi recalled how they had once hit a bottleneck precisely because they were too close and too familiar. During the period he was overseas, the slight distance had actually helped. In the little Demon Lord’s eyes, that childhood sweetheart descending-from-the-sky buff was practically unbeatable.

“Eiya has never really had many friends. After you went abroad, she was still like that. To her, you’re the closest person she has. If you still need to farm her favorability, how low is everyone else’s starting point? How hard would it be for them?”

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Eiru’s words genuinely gave Hui Jiaqi a boost of confidence. Seeing her look both unhappy and yet unable to do anything about him, he felt an inexplicable sense of pleasure and even started teasing her.

“So you’re worried it’ll go too smoothly for me, so you’re cranking up the difficulty? Or did you turn me into this because you’re afraid I’ll take advantage of Eiya?”

“Take advantage? That I’m not worried about at all.”

She nodded seriously in affirmation, even though her own understanding of what counted as “taking advantage” was rather blurry.

“Hah. So in your heart I still have the image of a proper gentleman, huh—”

“Because you don’t have the guts. You’re too cowardly.”

Before Hui Jiaqi could finish basking in it, his childhood friend ruthlessly tore him down, leaving him awkward and stiff. Still holding his pose to show off his so-called image, he now looked utterly ridiculous.

“Damn it! You looking down on me? Believe it or not, I’ll eat Eiya up clean on the spot today and drag her straight into the hall of adulthood with me!”

“Mm-hmm, sure, sure. Go for it. Minimum five years. I’ll confiscate the weapon of the crime later. Permanent solution, okay?”

“No, no, Lu Brat, I was wrong. Just angry words. Angry words!”

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After a long round of bickering, Hui Jiaqi once again yielded to this black-hearted girl. As Eiru headed out to the place for her medical checkup, Hui Jiaqi, having accepted the mission as a glorified tool, also set off toward where Eiya was.

Walking along the way, he thought about how, although Eiru’s reasoning made a lot of sense and had boosted his confidence quite a bit, he still wanted to raise Eiya’s favorability a little.

After all, from back then until now, he had always been the one bullying her. Even though Eiya had an absurdly good temper toward him and never held it against him, how should he put it? There was inevitably some unease in his heart.

What was that saying again? Bully her for a moment of fun, chase your wife at the crematorium.

He absolutely did not want to experience a Shura field like that. As he pondered ways to increase her favorability, Hui Jiaqi walked and thought about whether he should bring the girl a small gift or something.

‘Wait.’

He was supposed to go find her and secretly protect her, right?

‘But Lu Brat never told me where Eiya is…’