Demon King – Chapter 781 – What’s the Price?

“Yo? You’re back? How’d it feel…?”

The next evening, when she saw two exhausted figures walk in, Eiru, still sitting on the sofa playing on the console, teased them half seriously.

“Don’t even mention it. Her teacher’s got something wrong with them. Why assign her such troublesome little brats?”

Hui Jiaqi waved his hand and collapsed onto the sofa, looking completely drained.

Watching his little childhood sweetheart bustling around all day, Hui Jiaqi really could not bear it, so he joined in to help. Who would have thought that single decision would drag him in completely…

“Because my grades are pretty good, so the teacher assigned the most troublesome ones in the class to my side…”

“This kind of thing should’ve been left to your sister. She’s the only one good at tutoring!”

Covering his face with one hand, Hui Jiaqi looked like someone recalling a traumatic past.

“A famous literature character matching question. Lin Chong from Dream of the Red Chamber? Is that an answer a normal human can come up with? And Jia Baoyu being forced up Liangshan, what the hell is that supposed to be? Little Ya, what kind of demons and monsters are your classmates!”

“Uh… maybe they just haven’t read it?”

Eiya also looked awkward. Honestly, she had not expected her classmates to be that outrageous.

Originally, Hui Jiaqi thought that as a high school student and a member of the Honor Class, tutoring a middle schooler would be nothing.

Reality promptly slapped him across the face.

He knew all the material, sure. But the way those little brats answered, their wild logic and sky-horse galloping reasoning, really sent his blood pressure soaring.

“Do you know what that kid did during a multiple choice question? Right in front of me! He pulled out a dice and started rolling it! What era are we living in? Why is anyone still believing in that?”

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And fine, if you want to roll a dice when you don’t know the answer, try your luck with some metaphysics, that is normal… But it was a four option question, and he took out a twenty four sided dice to roll, only counting one to four.

What kind of little genius are you?

“Nope, nope, I need a breather. My blood pressure’s through the roof today…”

Hui Jiaqi sighed, then glanced at Eiru sitting beside him in an unexpectedly proper posture, and showed a surprised expression.

“But Lu Brat, why are you sitting properly today? Not flipping over and hanging upside down on the sofa? That’s not like you.”

“Because she’s not playing on a handheld. It’s a console connected to the TV…”

Eiya immediately noticed the controller in her sister’s hands. You had to look at the TV for this. How could she not sit properly?

“No way. Don’t tell me your sister spent the entire day soaking in this game room?”

“Basic operations for her. These past few days, other than eating and sleeping, she’s basically been here… Sometimes she even crashes in the little cubicle to sleep.”

Eiya mercilessly sold her sister out, criticizing her addiction to games. But no one at home stopped her. If they let her play, what could they do?

“Hold on, Classmate Eiya, don’t talk like this has nothing to do with you. After Mom and Dad came back, the ones soaking here were clearly both of us, not just me.”

“Cough! Cough cough! I-I-I… I’m going to shower. I’m off!”

Eiya turned and ran immediately, but before she could hop more than a few steps, the quick eyed Eiru grabbed her and pulled her back.

“Run where? Big sis still has important questions to ask you two.”

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Seeing the wicked smile on her sister’s face, Eiya, whose hands were pinned to the sofa, felt a trace of unease. Sure enough, after letting go, this trashy Demon Lord asked something that did not sound right.

“You two ran off together to your classmate’s house today. They didn’t say anything about you? Like… asking whether you’re boyfriend and girlfriend or something?”

“Hey, Lu Brat! Do you think everyone’s like you? Making a fuss whenever you see a close pair! At least Little Ya’s better than you. She never… uh? Okay fine, she’s the same. You two both have this problem.”

“Oh? Getting this worked up. So there was something, huh?”

“Hey!”

Even though he refuted it verbally, when they went to Eiya’s classmate’s house today, not only her three male classmates, but even the one girl among them suspected whether they were a couple.

Eiya, who had recently become much livelier but had always been rather introverted, actually had a boyfriend? That was completely unimaginable to them.

One quick handed boy had even almost pulled out his phone to post the big news in the class group chat.

Fortunately, the two hurried to explain their relationship. To avoid trouble, Eiya directly said that Hui Jiaqi was an older brother who had always taken care of her.

“So sis, what are you thinking? Why do you keep teasing that Brother Jiaqi and I are boyfriend and girlfriend or whatever? It’s weird…”

“Hmm? Weird?” Her Majesty the Demon Lord continued playing her game. “I think it’s fine. You two are close anyway. Internal digestion is perfectly normal.”

““Stop joking. Us? Forget it, impossible…””

The pair of childhood sweethearts said in unison. It slipped out instinctively, but after they looked at each other, for some reason, both their faces flushed red at the same time.

Eiya was genuinely baffled by her own reaction.

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As for Hui Jiaqi, it was just something he habitually blurted out in front of his little childhood sweetheart. But the moment the words left his mouth, he was already regretting it inside.

“Ah yes yes yes… impossible.”

Eiru responded perfunctorily, but when she glanced at the two of them averting their gazes with red faces, she was almost unable to hold back her smile.

‘If I had not read the script, I might have actually believed you two.’

‘Thinking about how these two developed in the dream, even if you do not remember it, your instincts are still pretty honest.’

“Oh right. There’s also a bathroom here. Little Ya, you don’t need to go upstairs. I’ve already run hot water in the tub for you. Do you want your Brother Jiaqi to go in and help you wash like when you were little?”

“Hey! Lu Brat, stop making things up! When did I ever help her bathe?”

Hui Jiaqi’s face instantly turned red. Stirring shit was one thing. Now you’re straight up spouting nonsense?

“Oh really? I forgot… But you can help her now. Small problem.”

“Small my ass! Brother Jiaqi is a boy!

Eiya, who had been red faced and holding it in, finally exploded.

“Would you bathe together with Brother Yuki!”

“Yeah.”

“Sorry, pretend I didn’t say that…”

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Snatching the bath towel Eiru had prepared for her, Eiya slipped into the bathroom like she was fleeing. If this went on, she would get dragged into whatever nonsense this trash was spinning. Better to retreat first.

“So you’re really not going in to bathe with her?”

Now that only the two of them were left outside, Her Majesty the Demon Lord whistled and started teasing Hui Jiaqi again.

“Are you serious… or joking?”

“Serious. If you want to go in, I’ll agree. Ask your heart. Don’t you really yearn for the scene inside?”

‘Hiss…’

He had to admit, hearing this from the trashy loli in front of him, Hui Jiaqi really did feel a bit tempted.

But with years of understanding between them, he knew things would never be that simple.

“So Lu Brat, what’s the price?”

“From now until school starts…”

A gentle smile suddenly appeared on the little Demon Lord’s face.

“You’ll get to enjoy living as a girl.”

‘I knew it…’