Demon King – Chapter 757 – The Charlatan Turns Into a True Bro

Because he already believed in the existence of things like magic, Xixia quickly accepted Hui Jiaqi’s explanation and understood that his current situation was the handiwork of a certain loli Demon Lord.

“I know she doesn’t seem evil… but this is seriously… mischievous, isn’t it?”

Turning a grown guy into a girl, and even into her own appearance at that. Should he say that’s worthy of a demon? That kind of twisted sense of humor was really something.

“But you ran into the right person today. I’m the legendary Hero. My family has always inherited methods for dealing with Demon Lords. Solving this kind of… curse? Anyway, it’s definitely a small problem!”

“Really?!”

Even though believing a chuunibyou was obviously dumb, Jiaqi was desperate to get out of this awkward mess. He had no other choice but to treat a dead horse like it was alive.

“Of course. Heroes have battled evil Demon Lords generation after generation. How could we possibly not have passed down precious knowledge and methods?”

“Didn’t Lu Brat say she’s the only Demon Lord in this world, and the first one too…”

He muttered in confusion, but that wasn’t important right now. Clutching at this life saving straw, Jiaqi hurriedly dragged Xixia into a small alley and began pleading.

“You must have a way to turn me back right now, don’t you? Please help me. I’m begging you. This is torture!”

“According to the knowledge passed down through generations of Heroes, this situation is totally trivial…”

“Then stop talking and actually do something. Fix this already!”

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Xixia fell silent. He held his chin, as if digging through his brain for something. The serious look on his face gave Jiaqi hope. Finally, he could escape the sea of suffering created by that bratty loli.

“I’ve heard of your situation before. Quite a few senior Heroes were turned into other creatures or other people by Demon Lords… but they all successfully broke it and left behind a countermeasure.”

“So?!”

Jiaqi’s heart leapt with joy. But before he could celebrate for long, the next sentence was like a bucket of ice water dumped straight over his head. He nearly exploded on the spot.

“But it doesn’t seem like it was passed down. Since we haven’t encountered a Demon Lord for a long time… some things were lost.”

‘Then what the hell was all that bragging for?! If you don’t know what to do, why act like it was some godlike secret art from the start?!’

If Jiaqi still had his original body, he would’ve locked Xixia in a cross hold and drilled his fist into the guy’s temple. Teach this bastard who wasted his emotional buildup a proper lesson. But now? In this loli body, he couldn’t win a fight at all. Forget it, forget it.

“But it’s not like there’s no way…”

Xixia pulled out the pendant from his chest and said uncertainly after thinking for a moment.

“My grandpa gave me this demon expelling divine artifact. Maybe it has some way to deal with it!”

After all, it was something even that Demon Lord couldn’t fully research. So it definitely… uh? Probably had at least some way to help?

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“It? It has a way?”

Jiaqi shot him a look of disdain.

“What is it, some AI or communicator? You’re asking a pendant if it has a solution?”

“Let’s just try first!”

Xixia said as he directly pressed the pendant against Jiaqi. He didn’t know how to use it anyway. If he fiddled with it randomly, maybe a blind cat would catch a dead mouse and it would just happen to work.

“…”

“…”

“So, what’s this supposed to do?”

After several minutes of silence, Jiaqi didn’t feel any changes at all. In his eyes, Xixia had successfully upgraded from chuunibyou to swindling charlatan.

If this guy started charging a fee, he could honestly go be one of those comic relief fake priests on TV.

Jiaqi was mocking him internally when, just as both of them were about to give up, something unexpected happened.

He suddenly felt like something was draining out of his body and flowing into the pendant in Xixia’s hand. Then after a brief daze, Jiaqi realized his perspective had abruptly risen quite a bit.

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“I… changed back?”

Because Eiru didn’t want him getting any cheap advantage, from his own perspective Jiaqi couldn’t see or touch that loli body at all. So the height of his viewpoint was his only way to judge. Now that it suddenly returned to normal, he was genuinely stunned for a moment.

“I knew you could do it! You helped me big time. Good bro. You’re my savior!”

After confirming he had returned to normal, Jiaqi grabbed Xixia’s shoulders excitedly.

“But you didn’t seem to be saying that just now…”

“Don’t sweat the details! You solved the pit Lu Brat left for me. From now on, you’re my good bro!”

Rejoicing that he no longer had to risk social death, and possibly social death in front of the girl he liked, Jiaqi’s gratitude right now was beyond words.

If he didn’t still need to go find Eiya, he would’ve dragged Xixia out for a proper meal to thank him. Just as he was thinking about how to express his appreciation, his phone suddenly rang in his pocket.

The moment he saw the name on the caller ID, Jiaqi’s anger flared up. He picked up and immediately started blasting the person on the other end.

“Lu Brat! You still dare call me? You dug such a huge pit for me and didn’t even tell me where Eiya was… and now you’re calling again for what?”

She said Eiya might be in trouble and told him to go check, but refused to give him the location. Wasn’t that just trying to drive him insane?

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“Uh… well, Eiya’s with me now. She’s already fine. I was just asking where you went. I was worried you got lost…”

“Wow? You’d worry about me getting lost? I thought after turning me into that you’d just ignore me… You know how easy it is for something to happen with your appearance, right? You were messing with me on purpose, weren’t you?”

“Don’t get worked up. I sensed the magic power on you disappeared, so I was worried something happened.”

On the other end, Her Majesty the Demon Lord scratched her head. From how lively Jiaqi sounded on the phone, it didn’t seem like he ran into any accident. So why did her magic avatar vanish out of thin air? It was like something had absorbed it.

“I’ll explain that later. First tell me, did you meet anyone just now, or anything strange happen?”

“Yeah. I met a good bro who rescued me from the sea of suffering… unlike you, who just keeps screwing me over. Later I’ll have Yuki pull the ring off your tail and spin it on his finger like a hula hoop to torture you!”

“Holy shit, don’t say something that horrifying, okay?”

From Eiya’s perspective at the side, she only saw her sister holding the phone, talking as usual, when suddenly she shuddered violently like she got goosebumps from hearing something.

“Whatever, I won’t argue with you, you loli… Tell me where you two are. I’m coming over. You sisters being out there really makes people worry.”

“Nonsense. I am a macho man. You can say that about Eiya, but what’s there about me that’s not reassuring?”