Demon King – Chapter 784 – The First Time the Demon Lord Makes Her Own Decision

Today was just another ordinary day. In the room, two lolis lay sprawled on the bed, petting one big cat and one small cat. However, one of the lolis did not look to be in a particularly good mood.

“Sis, what’s wrong with you? Why are you sighing like that?”

In just ten short minutes, her sister had already sighed five or six times beside her. Even the mood for petting the cats had been affected. Eiya finally could not hold it in anymore and asked.

“We’re not going back to our hometown this year… troublesome…”

After blurting out the source of her frustration, Eiru, who had just received this news from her father, felt that her plans had once again been disrupted.

You never seemed to like going back that much before… Eiya grumbled inwardly. She had known about this matter for quite some time already. She simply did not care much about it, so she naturally had no particular reaction.

“I was planning to look for clues about that big crystal while we were back home… you know, I’m still missing one fragment.”

“That’s not the only reason, is it?”

Eiya glanced sideways at Eiru. Based on her understanding of her sister, there was no way she would worry about her own affairs to this extent.

“Uncle and his family, and Grandpa, they’re coming here instead… but there’s still farmland back home that needs tending. Someone has to stay there and watch over it, right?”

“So you’re worrying about that?”

“What do you mean ‘worrying about that’? Even if I don’t know who’s going to be that unlucky person… being left alone in the hometown would feel awful.”

Eiya shook her head helplessly. She had long since gotten used to her sister’s personality. The matter hardly had much to do with her, yet she always liked to think for others. Well… that was just who she was.

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“There’s nothing we can do. The main reason we’re not going back this year is actually because of you, Sis.”

“Me?”

Her Majesty the Demon Lord was baffled. How had this suddenly become related to her again?

So Eiya explained the measures their family had taken toward her back then, and then went on to explain how everyone later discovered that Eiru had the same problem.

“What? ‘Keep away’ my ass! Even if the symptoms are the same, the cause isn’t, right?”

If she had not been lying prone, Her Majesty would have stomped her feet in anger by now.

“Why do they love making decisions for other people without asking? Are they insane?!”

Back then, making Eiya keep her distance from Abyssal Amber at least made logical sense. There was nothing fundamentally wrong with that. But applying the same move to Eiru was simply outrageous.

“That big crystal has already become part of my body! So that means it’s me, okay?! What the hell does it mean to make me keep away from myself?”

“But telling me this won’t change anything…” Eiya hugged the big cat in front of her and shrank back slightly. “Why don’t you talk to Brother Jiaqi about it? He’s still in the living room eating.”

The reason she told Eiru to find Jiaqi was because she knew her sister did not really like talking to their parents anymore. The emotional hurt from before had left a shadow behind. She even felt a faint fear when speaking to those two.

And so Hui Jiaqi once again had the misfortune of serving as the message-transmitting tool. Watching his childhood friend spout a bunch of inexplicable technical terms at him, he was completely dumbfounded.

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“Wait, wait… let me sort this out. So right now you are that big crystal, and you’re missing a piece that you need to go back and find, right?”

“More or less. You can just tell them that.”

Thus Jiaqi once again approached Ei Yuan, who was sitting on the sofa reading a magazine. After organizing his thoughts in his head for quite a while, he blurted out the following.

“Uncle, Lu Brat says she’s missing a piece… so she wants to go back to the hometown to look for it.”

“?”

Hearing that from the wall, Eiru stumbled. Thankfully she caught herself in time by bracing against it, nearly crashing onto the floor.

Leaning against the wall, Her Majesty began reconsidering whether she should continue matchmaking him with her little sister. Hui Jiaqi, you are unreliable!

In the end, Eiru could only step forward herself. With a flying kick, she sent the unreliable loudspeaker flying out of the room. After kicking Jiaqi out of the conversation entirely, the little Demon Lord scratched at her hair and began explaining the situation to her father in broad strokes.

“And Uncle and the others have come such a long way, it’s inconvenient for them too… if we’re going to gather, wouldn’t it be better for us to go back instead?”

“Alright… we’ll listen to you.”

Ei Yuan smiled. He had just raised his hand, intending to pat his daughter on the head, but recalling her intense reaction in the past, he stiffened and withdrew his hand.

“But you have to promise that what you said will really help your body get better… I don’t have any other wishes as a father. I just hope you two sisters can be healthy and safe.”

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“The most serious injury I’ve suffered in my short life was thanks to you, though…”

“Uh… sorry. That was indeed Dad’s fault.”

He had not expected his daughter to suddenly gain a venomous tongue attribute. Ei Yuan’s expression turned extremely awkward.

‘However you want me to make it up to you is fine, just don’t remember it for the rest of your life…’

At this moment, the father’s heart was filled with nothing but cowardice and regret. He wished he could slap his past self twice. Why did you have to be so impulsive?

After obtaining Ei Yuan’s agreement and promise, the little Demon Lord did not return to Eiya’s room. Instead, she went back to her own room. After closing the door and leaning her back against it, she let out a long breath. Her mood right now was incomparably smooth.

In her memory, this was the first time she had been able to make a decision regarding family matters. She had originally thought the other side would argue with her. She had even prepared herself for a big fight.

“Hulu, do you want to go out?”

After calming her emotions, Her Majesty softly called out to the little one sunbathing by the window.

At the mention of going out, Hulu immediately perked up from its previously lazy posture. Although it knew there was definitely some task waiting for it, this was an offer it simply could not refuse.

“Smart~ You can’t just go out for free, okay? Of course I need you to do something for me…”

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Inside a household somewhere in Huanghai City, a rather effeminate-looking teenage boy was rummaging through his family’s storage room, seemingly searching for something.

“Mom, where did you put that pop-up book Grandpa left behind?”

“It’s in there somewhere, find it yourself. I’m busy! And when you’re done, put everything back in order. Otherwise don’t even think about eating dinner.”

“Tch, you only know how to threaten me with dinner every day…”

Smacking his lips, Xixia continued digging through the pile of miscellaneous items in front of him.

“Even if she doesn’t need to prove it, since that little Demon Lord said Grandpa’s pendant wasn’t something ordinary, could it be that the other things are the same?”

After getting an appraisal of the pendant from the authoritative source that was Eiru, Xixia recalled that his grandfather had actually left behind quite a few items.

And that unexpected encounter with Jiaqi the other day had also informed him that the culprit was that Demon Lord.

Looking at it this way, either the pendant had the effect of breaking magic, or it had some sort of connection with the Demon Lord.

‘But Grandpa said this was the Hero’s divine artifact, didn’t he? Why would it have anything to do with the Demon Lord?’