Demon King – Chapter 788 – The Slacking Demon Lord Wasn’t Actually Slacking

“No! This is a man’s dignity! I absolutely refuse!”

Jiaqi’s roar rang out. If Eiya didn’t want to learn and he had to take the fall for her, fine, whatever.

‘But turn into a loli? Get lost! You evil little loli, crawl away!’

Seeing how agitated he was, the little Demon Lord knew to stop while she was ahead and quickly dropped the idea of stirring up trouble. She liked pranks, sure, but she wasn’t some brat without limits. She always kept things within bounds. She didn’t want to do something that would genuinely make someone angry.

“Sigh, I raised my voice a bit… but there’s no room to negotiate on this. If Eiya doesn’t want to learn, I can talk to Uncle and Auntie for her. I can joke around with you normally, but I have my dignity too.”

Looking at the silver-haired loli who was a whole head shorter than him, Jiaqi scratched his head and his tone suddenly softened.

“No, aren’t you always yelling like that? It’s not like I don’t know you. You don’t seriously think you scared me, right?”

“That was before. You’re not the same as before now… tch, whatever. Just take me to Eiya. I’ll go talk to her.”

While interacting with the current Eiru, Jiaqi would unconsciously use his old attitude and way of speaking. But halfway through, he would realize this kid was now a loli, which always left him feeling suffocated, like he had to swallow half his words back down.

If this were before, he would’ve probably smacked her on the butt without a second thought. But doing that now would just be straight-up harassment. He was so chicken that he didn’t even dare raise his voice too much anymore.

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“How about you go by yourself? I didn’t manage to screw you over. It’s kind of embarrassing to show my face in front of her…”

“What’s embarrassing about that? Your brain really works in weird ways. Me turning into a loli isn’t embarrassing, huh?”

“But that’s you being embarrassed?”

‘I fucking… forget it. Stay calm, stay calm. She’s just a loli. Don’t argue, don’t argue.’

Jiaqi steadied his emotions, though in his heart he was already thinking that he had to find a chance to get Yuki to properly deal with this troublemaking little brat.

“So what, you chickened out again? You don’t even dare go into Eiya’s room alone now?”

While Jiaqi was still calming himself down, Her Majesty the Demon Lord grinned teasingly and launched another provocation.

“Aww, Big Brother Jiaqi~ why are you such a coward? If you keep this up, you won’t find a girlfriend. You’ll end up a single dog for life~”

Imitating Eiya’s tone to continue stimulating his nerves, Eiru successfully raised Jiaqi’s blood pressure in the end.

“Fuck me! Lu brat! I’m definitely going to make Yuki beat your ass hard!”

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“He doesn’t have the guts! And he can’t beat me anyway!”

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After consulting his little childhood sweetheart’s opinion, even without considering raising her affection, Jiaqi, who had always doted on her, still braced himself and went to explain the situation to Ei Yuan and Liu Wan.

If Eiya had gone herself, she would most likely have only received a lecture about being immature. But when Jiaqi conveyed her wishes instead, a certain mother was at least able to listen somewhat.

As everyone knows, there’s always a certain type of parent. Compared to their own child, they’re far more tolerant and approving of someone else’s child. They’re also better at listening to and absorbing suggestions from other people’s kids.

On top of the special relationship between the two families, Jiaqi’s discussion went quite smoothly.

Meanwhile, the little Demon Lord had at some point slipped down to the underground secret arcade. But this time, she wasn’t playing games as usual. Instead, she sat on the sofa in the middle of the hall, clutching her head with a troubled expression.

“Why is my head hurting again…”

She scanned her body with magic but found nothing abnormal. The pain in her head wasn’t severe, yet it was at just the right level that it couldn’t be ignored.

At this point, the little Demon Lord had already noticed that something about her current state was abnormal. Being smart, she carefully recalled what had happened over the past two days. After confirming there were no other issues, she directly locked onto the dreams as the source of the problem.

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Only something abnormal happening in her dreams could explain that blank feeling of not being able to remember anything. Even though she couldn’t recall it, Eiru vaguely felt that there was something she was supposed to do next…

That’s right. No matter what happened in the dream, the version of herself before waking up definitely remembered everything. So knowing she would lose that memory upon waking, clever as she was, she must have already prepared a plan in reality, just waiting for herself to uncover it.

After all, dreams were merely extensions of her spirit and soul. In this area, where she already had some research, Her Majesty the Demon Lord might seem like she was slacking around at home these past few days, but in reality, her magic clone had already taken Hulu out to search for the problem and possible solutions.

Putting aside something as mysterious as the soul, when it came to things that could influence mental consciousness, the little Demon Lord knew of exactly such an object.

And so, after several twists and turns with Hulu, she had finally located the address of a certain chuunibyou’s house.

“Huh? Demon Lord, you’re here again? I’ve already read that pop-up book Grandpa left behind. Other than telling a story, there’s nothing special about it.”

Opening the door and seeing the silver-haired loli with an unidentified creature perched on her head, Xixia wasn’t surprised. These past few days, Eiru had been visiting him frequently. Though it was only a clone.

You ask how Xixia knew this Eiru was a clone? Not only had Eiru stated it outright, but a clone composed purely of magic would be completely absorbed the moment it touched that pendant.

That kind of accident had happened once during research. Fortunately, the little Demon Lord had the foresight to bring Hulu along. With a certain amount of magical backup stored inside it, Hulu promptly repaired the clone’s integrity. After that, it also directly took over the task of contacting Xixia’s pendant.

“This thing runs on magic but can’t generate magic… so it’s usually in standby mode. It needs to absorb magic from the outside.”

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While explaining the pendant’s operating principle to Xixia, the little Demon Lord directed Hulu to fiddle with it and came to the conclusion that this thing was basically an anti-magic divine artifact.

“Anything made of magic or requiring magic to operate will fail the moment its magic gets directly absorbed by it… I can tell you for sure, this thing absolutely does not belong to this world.”

From its material to its function, Eiru directly deduced that Xixia’s pendant came from another world. But the problem was, this was something his grandfather had left him… they couldn’t exactly say his grandfather was someone who had crossed over from another world, right?

“You’ve already figured out the function yourself. It influences the subconscious to make others ignore you… hmm, considering the absurd combat levels in that world, it probably wouldn’t be that useful in a fight. If you call it a divine artifact against the Demon Lord, it’s most likely meant for escaping, right?”

As long as the green hills remain, there’ll be firewood to burn. Only by staying alive can you defeat the Demon Lord later. So it’s a divine artifact used to defeat the Demon Lord… yeah, perfectly reasonable!

“I estimate I might run into some trouble soon…”

The little Demon Lord scratched her head, feeling like she had found a way to solve her problem.

“So, you self-proclaimed Hero, classmate Xixia~ would you be willing to help your mortal enemy, the Demon Lord, with a rather troublesome favor?”