Demon King – Chapter 764 – Pillow Talk Between Childhood Sweethearts

“So in summary, that’s why I came to stay at your place for a while~”

She said with a cheeky grin. Even though she had been full of hesitation and reluctance toward her own sister, Eiya still ended up hopping over to Hui Jiaqi’s house in the end.

“…Wait what? Aren’t your parents only coming back tomorrow? Why did you come bouncing over to my place today?”

‘Good grief, why is it that the moment I escape suffering, this kid delivers herself to my door to torment me again? Even if we’re childhood sweethearts, how can a girl casually use such a flimsy excuse to stay overnight at a guy’s house?’

‘No, I really should properly lecture this clueless little childhood sweetheart of mine…’

He thought that at first. But sitting on the sofa holding the soft and pleasantly tactile loli in his arms, Jiaqi suddenly felt that lecturing could wait a bit.

Unlike Jiaqi’s inner conflict, his dear parents were extremely welcoming toward this little girl next door. It was a bit of a pity that Eiru hadn’t come to play, but that child had quite the personality, so she probably had her own things to do.

They brought out drinks and snacks and warmly entertained the “rare visitor” Eiya. Seeing her sitting on their son’s lap looking so close with him, they felt relieved that the years he spent abroad hadn’t caused the two kids’ relationship to grow distant.

Since Eiya said she would be staying a few days, the two adults had no objections. Just as they were about to go prepare a room for her, the silver-haired loli suddenly turned her head and flashed Jiaqi a mischievous smile.

‘Crap, she’s about to start something.’

The moment he saw that expression, Jiaqi’s heart skipped and he instantly knew trouble was coming. Sure enough, the loli in his arms suddenly bounced up, plopped down beside him, and wrapped both hands around his arm.

“Uncle, Auntie, I wanna sleep with Brother Jiaqi~”

‘Damn it, you little devil!!!’

Jiaqi roared inside. His little childhood sweetheart’s sweet voice instead made him feel a trace of fear.

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‘Please no. If you sleep with me, will I even be able to sleep tonight? You just want to stir trouble and torment me, right?’

“Alright alright, you two are still so close…”

Eiya’s innocent expression and tone didn’t make his parents think much of it. They just treated it as the normal behavior of a little girl next door who liked to act spoiled toward her big brother next door.

‘Seriously? You two won’t even try to refuse? You’re actually planning to let her sleep with me?’

Jiaqi screamed internally. On the surface he looked unmoved, but inside he already felt like ants were crawling all over him.

‘Oh I get it. In Mom and Dad’s eyes I’m such a proper gentleman that I absolutely can’t betray their trust.’

Though Jiaqi really wanted to comfort himself like that, he knew perfectly well that his parents simply looked down on him and didn’t think he’d dare do anything to Eiya at all. Truly worthy of being his biological parents.

So that night, Jiaqi lay on the bed wearing an expression of life doubt. He turned his head and glanced at Eiya curled up beside him. When he realized she was also staring at him, he got so startled he hurriedly turned his head back.

“You’re so low…”

“Low your head, I’m respecting you!”

Honestly, with this whole situation, Jiaqi was starting to suspect his parents were trying to hurry him into getting a girlfriend and were giving him aggressive assists. Still, fortunately they hadn’t gone all the way. At least there were two blankets instead of making them share one.

With two blankets between them, Jiaqi relaxed a little, though the situation still wasn’t much better.

There’s a beautiful girl lying right next to me. And not just any girl, but the girl I like. Any man would react, right? But he didn’t dare get too close and risk making her uncomfortable. Jiaqi was genuinely suffering.

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“Well, men, I get it~ Thanks for your hard work!”

She giggled. Of course Eiya knew what Jiaqi was struggling with. Although she didn’t know that he liked her, whether he liked her or not didn’t stop her from understanding a boy’s situation when facing something like this.

If you know it’s hard then get out of here! I know you get it, because you loli came here on purpose to play with fire and torture me, didn’t you?

“Seriously, Little Ya… if this were someone else, you would’ve already been taken on the spot. Girls really shouldn’t…”

Suppressing the resentment in his heart, Jiaqi put on a big brother posture and tried to lecture her seriously. What he got in return only made his blood pressure spike higher.

“It’s because it’s you that I dare do this, okay? Because I know you’re suuuuper timid. Teasing you is way too fun, got it?”

She said with a mischievous giggle. Then she tapped a finger against her lips, switched to an innocent tone, and said something even more outrageous.

“Or… when you said someone else, did you actually mean replacing me with someone else? If it were another girl, you’d go straight for it, huh?”

“You little…”

Jiaqi couldn’t hold it in and swore.

‘What’s wrong with this loli? As long as she won’t die from it, she’ll push it to the limit, huh? She’s really trying to provoke me into doing something to her?’

Of course, that was just him mouthing off in his head. In front of his childhood sweetheart, he didn’t dare say anything like that out loud. He absolutely couldn’t let her hear those words. He still wanted to pursue her later. If her impression score dropped it’d be over.

“So, Brother Jiaqi, you actually have a girl you like, right?”

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“Uh… I used to have one.”

The topic suddenly turned serious. Jiaqi calmed down, thought for a moment, and answered honestly.

“Who?”

“Your sister.”

“Holy crap!”

“Girls aren’t allowed to swear!”

“But my sister swears!”

‘Seriously, how much weird stuff did you learn from your sister? Give me back my innocent and adorable little neighbor girl! You’re a lo… oh right, your sister’s a loli too, never mind then.’

Nowadays, bits of Eiru’s tomboyish personality could be seen in Eiya’s reactions from time to time. Jiaqi had even started wondering how exactly his childhood friend had raised her little sister.

“So Brother Jiaqi, you actually liked my sister. Doesn’t that make you Brother Yuki’s love rival? This is the first time I’ve heard about this. Hurry and tell me more!”

“There’s nothing much to tell. I said I used to like her.”

His little childhood sweetheart tugged his hand through the blanket like she was acting spoiled, leaving Jiaqi very helpless.

Honestly, he really wanted to keep the fact that he once liked Eiru as a secret buried in his heart. But now that things had reached this point, he had no intention of competing anyway. Since Eiya asked, saying it out loud didn’t matter.

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“But compared to romantic feelings, what I feel toward your sister is more like being best friends and bros… so when I saw her and Yuki get together, I was genuinely happy for them.”

That was why Jiaqi could withdraw so freely from that competition. He truly felt Yuki suited Eiru better. They both got a happy result. As their close friend, what reason would he have to be unhappy?

This wasn’t some melodramatic love triangle drama. Their friendship was strong enough to withstand something that didn’t even count as a test. Though since he got eliminated before the competition even started, he still felt a tiny bit annoyed.

“T-Then… what about now? You said before. So now, Brother Jiaqi, do you have someone you like?”

“Do you want the truth or a lie?”

Facing Eiya’s question, Jiaqi smiled slightly and suddenly played mysterious.

‘Hmmmm, if it’s me…’

Tapping her finger against her lips while thinking, Eiya revealed another sly grin.

“A lie~”

The unexpected answer made Jiaqi freeze.

‘Wait, why won’t this loli follow the script?’