Demon King – Chapter 778 – Are You Even a Man?

The moment Jiaqi asked that question, the two people outside instantly got excited. He’s going in! He’s going in! This coward is finally charging in!

“By the way Lu Brat, since this is a dream, if Jiaqi confesses here, will the two of them still remember it in real life?”

“Hm?”

Yuki’s question made the little Demon Lord sitting on his lap freeze for a moment. Hugging her tail, she thought for a bit before giving a rather vague answer.

“Normally speaking, dreams are the kind of thing most people forget once they wake up… probably? They shouldn’t remember it, right?”

This perfectly reasonable yet totally unexpected answer made Yuki’s jaw drop. So they won’t remember any of this, then what’s the point of you staging all this?!

“Don’t get so worked up~ Forgetting something doesn’t mean it never existed, you know?”

Drawing circles beside her head with a finger, Her Majesty the Demon Lord stuck out her tongue with a playful look.

When it came to memory, she had her own set of beliefs. She firmly believed that even if something was forgotten, it never meant it hadn’t existed or that it was meaningless.

“Our memories are like files stored in a computer~ Forgetting isn’t deleting the file, it just means we don’t remember which disk or which folder we put it in.”

There had been cases where people with amnesia couldn’t recall anything yet still relied on bodily instinct and memory to reconstruct their original habits. So the little Demon Lord believed that even if the two really didn’t remember everything in the dream, the increase in affection and the advancement of their relationship absolutely wouldn’t be fake.

Turning her attention back to the dream, Eiya was clearly stunned by Jiaqi’s question. Her face was full of disbelief, and Jiaqi could see the question she wanted to ask right in her eyes.

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I treat you like a brother and you’re actually trying to hit on me?

“Ahem… Brother Jiaqi, let me confirm first. You’re joking, right? The two of us… don’t really fit, do we?”

“You can treat it as a joke if you want, ahahaha?” Jiaqi laughed awkwardly. “So it’s just a hypothetical. We’re too familiar with each other, it really does feel kinda weird.”

Generally speaking, true childhood sweethearts who grew up together rarely end up together. Because their distance and relationship are too close, that sense of naturalness and familiarity becomes the biggest obstacle between them.

Not just childhood sweethearts. Most people probably noticed a strange phenomenon during school. Among campus couples, those in the same class were usually far fewer than those dating across different classes.

Even couples in the same class were mostly already dating before they became classmates. Those who got together afterward were usually from neighboring classes or even different grades.

Understanding this, Jiaqi sometimes truly envied other guys. They didn’t have to be blocked by this zero-distance familiarity like he was and could freely pursue the girl they liked.

But as the one involved, he overlooked the most important thing. The two of them weren’t traditional childhood sweethearts. They were the unbeatable combo attribute of destiny encounter plus childhood sweetheart.

If he had stayed in Huanghai City all along with Eiru and Eiya, he very likely wouldn’t have fallen for them at all. Especially Eiya, whom he had always treated like a younger sister. There was no way he would’ve developed feelings.

But because he went abroad for years and suddenly lost his childhood companions, that abruptly stretched distance made Jiaqi develop different feelings toward Eiya.

Eiya was the same. If Eiru and Jiaqi had always stayed by her side, she might have taken everything for granted and not cherished their relationship so much, nor would she now feel so reluctant to part from Jiaqi.

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The program on TV kept playing, yet the two people sitting on the sofa fell into a strange silence.

They were both awkward and didn’t know what to say. Feeling this couldn’t go on, Jiaqi thought that as the guy he should step up and break the silence, so he prepared to speak.

“Brother Jiaqi, didn’t you say you have a girl you like? Saying these things to me… isn’t that inappropriate?”

But Eiya beat him to it. The moment she opened her mouth she struck straight at Jiaqi’s weak spot.

“Ahahaha? So it’s just a hypothetical. I just think if we really dated it might actually be kinda—”

“Tell me the truth. The person you like is me, isn’t it?”

Eiya cut him off. Her tone no longer had its usual softness and sweetness, only a trace of unfamiliar seriousness and anger.

‘Wait. Is she mad? Because I might like her? Should I admit it? But what if she thinks I’ve been some pervert plotting against my little sister all along?’

Her hands resting in his palms were tightening. Jiaqi really panicked. If he took this step wrong, there’d be no turning back.

“I’m not stupid. You’ve hinted this much… even if I’m influenced by my sister and think a bit more like a boy, I still have the sensitivity a girl should have…”

Her tone softened a little, but seeing Jiaqi still not respond, his hesitant look made Eiya a bit angry again.

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“Stop dragging it out. You’re a man, aren’t you? Can you just give me a straight answer? Yes or no?!”

“Yes!!!”

Startled by her shout, Jiaqi’s brain didn’t even think. By the time he realized it, he had already blurted out what was in his heart.

“Oh? Finally telling the truth, huh?”

Eiya flipped over and straddled his lap, both hands pressing against the sofa back on either side of him. Those sapphire-like big eyes stared at the boy beneath her who felt awkward all over, carrying a bit of a kabedon vibe.

“You should understand, right? Since I now know you have thoughts like that about me, a lot of things between us can’t be like before anymore… ulterior motives, is that how you say it?”

‘It’s over! Why did I say it out loud?! There’s no going back! Everything’s over! From now on I won’t even be able to cuddle or hug her…’

Inside, Jiaqi was crying rivers. The thing he feared most had finally happened. Now that Eiya knew he liked her, there was no way she’d still casually let him get close or hold her like before.

“Since you told the truth, I’ll respond to you too…”

Eiya turned her head aside and said words that filled Jiaqi with terror.

“I really do only see you as a big brother figure, Brother Jiaqi… so I don’t have any intention of liking you. In the end we’re just childhood sweethearts. That mutual love you probably imagine all the time really is just poof~”

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‘Wuwuwu, damn it! Why is everything going wrong on my side! The girl I like isn’t giving me even a single chance.’

With a strained smile on his face, listening to the silver-haired loli on top of him speak, Jiaqi felt like his heart was bleeding.

“Are you stupid? I’m literally sitting on top of you like this…”

As if seeing through his thoughts, Eiya suddenly gave him a sharp chop on the head.

“When my sister first started dating Brother Yuki, she didn’t like him yet either, right?”

“Huh?”

Only after hearing that did Jiaqi snap back to his senses. Then he noticed his little childhood sweetheart’s face had actually been carrying an unnatural blush the whole time.

“You really want me to spell it out? What kind of guy are you! Can’t you be smarter and take the initiative?”

Embarrassed and furious, she hammered his head repeatedly. After she got tired of hitting him, she placed both hands between her knees and turned her head aside like she was sulking.

“I agree… since it’s you, trying dating and seeing how it goes… isn’t impossible.”