Demon King – Chapter 805 – Lying

It was already afternoon. Outside the room door a silver-haired girl was pacing back and forth uneasily, her face full of worry.

“It’s already past five. Why isn’t she awake yet?”

“It’s fine. Maybe she… uh? Let’s wait a bit longer. If not we can call Yuki and ask.”

Hui Jiaqi tried to comfort his childhood sweetheart, but he soon realized he could not really say anything reassuring, because his own state of mind was not much better.

Although Eiru had indeed been waking up later and later these days, before he was not worried because Jiaqi assumed a certain mischievous girl simply stayed up late fooling around. But last night he had personally seen how early she went back to her room to sleep.

Even someone as easygoing as him could tell something was wrong now. Rather than oversleeping or being lazy, his childhood friend’s condition was better described as unconscious sleep.

“Hmm? Could it be forced hibernation?”

In the end Eiya could not hold back and dragged Jiaqi into her sister’s room, and at the same time called Yuki. After hearing the situation, Yuki’s first reaction was whether his little girlfriend’s mana bar had run empty again.

There was nothing messy or strange in the room. The silver-haired girl on the bed was just hugging a giant teddy bear and sleeping soundly. There was no expression of pain or discomfort on her face. She was simply curled up quietly.

“Little Ya and I already tried. We can’t wake her at all. She’s completely out… Could it be like you said, Yuki, her mana bar’s empty?”

“I don’t think so. If it were forced hibernation, you wouldn’t even be able to call me right now.”

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Yuki quickly denied that guess. When Eiru entered forced hibernation she would violently plunder surrounding energy and convert it into her own magic power. The fact the two of them could still have battery on their phones and call him beside her was enough to prove that was not the case.

“Where are Lu Brat’s parents? Don’t tell me they think she just needs more sleep and aren’t planning to care?”

Yuki was a little annoyed too. Why did it feel like every time something happened to that girl, her parents were not by her side? Do you two seriously not care about your daughter?

“Mom’s at work. As for Dad, it seems something urgent came up. Right before we came in he drove off somewhere.”

Because something similar had once happened to Eiya, the moment Ei Yuan saw his eldest daughter could not be woken no matter what, his reaction was swift, even faster than Eiya and Jiaqi noticing something was wrong. He had already driven off to consult Doctor Su Yuze.

“Forget it. I’ll tell my mom. I’ll head over to your place in a bit and check.”

After hanging up, Yuki pulled his mother along and rushed over. When he arrived he discovered quite a few people had already gathered in the house… it seemed that whenever Her Majesty the Demon Lord had a problem, it always caused quite a commotion.

Aside from Ei Yuan and the examination team Doctor Su Yuze brought, Officer Li who heard the news had also shown up. Together with the two already in the room plus Yuki and Ning Xin, the little Demon Lord’s bedroom suddenly became very lively.

“We can’t detect anything wrong here. At the moment everything looks completely normal. But not waking up is too strange. I suggest taking her to my place for a detailed examination.”

Desperate to save his daughter, Ei Yuan agreed without hesitation. Since Ning Xin was also present, the task of changing the girl’s clothes was handed to her and Eiya.

The group placed the sleeping Eiru into a car and rushed nonstop to the research facility specially prepared for her. After placing her small body on a ready hospital bed and attaching a pile of strange instruments, the staff inside immediately became busy.

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“Do you think maybe we’re overthinking it? Maybe Lu Brat is just sleeping too deeply and hasn’t woken up… If she wakes and sees all this, won’t she get scared?”

Sitting on a chair in the corridor, Jiaqi still held a bit of hopeful luck. Although he knew things were not simple, as her childhood friend he still hoped this was just a false alarm.

“I want to think that too, but Lu Brat… she really hasn’t moved at all.”

Yuki, who knew his little girlfriend well, had already noticed something off during the escort. Unless someone was holding her, Eiru’s sleeping posture could never be called well behaved.

Even in forced hibernation the little Demon Lord would occasionally murmur sleep talk or instinctively seek hugs. Staying in one position like now without moving at all was nothing like her usual self.

The group waited outside anxiously for a long time, but even with the instruments connected, Doctor Su Yuze’s side still could not find any problem. Unlike Eiya’s previous deep sleep that came with weakness, this time aside from not waking up, all of Eiru’s other conditions were completely normal.

“Don’t tell your mom about this yet. And don’t tell the rest of the family either. Only we two know. Got it?”

Ei Yuan crouched beside the corridor and instructed his younger daughter.

“If your mom finds out she’ll definitely panic… When she panics she tends to make things more chaotic. Until results come out, just say she went to a classmate’s house and won’t be back for a while.”

“But seriously, your sister too. She could at least leave us some kind of message. Now we’re like headless flies. What are we supposed to do?”

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He remembered that last time Eiya’s problem had been solved by Eiru. But now the only person who might be able to resolve this situation was the very girl lying on the bed.

As a parent, watching his child be in trouble yet being helpless was a pain Ei Yuan was experiencing for the second time. While anxious, a trace of resentment also rose in his heart. If Eiru had left some clue about how to solve this, maybe he would not be stuck here worrying helplessly.

“Clue?”

Hearing the conversation of the father and daughter not far away, Yuki immediately stood up from his chair. As if he thought of something, he suddenly turned and headed toward the exit.

“Yuki? You’re not waiting for the results here?”

“Waiting won’t get them any faster…”

Yuki paused after being called, then turned back and grabbed Jiaqi.

“Call your wife. We’re going to Lu Brat’s house. She promised me she’d protect herself, so she definitely left us some kind of information. Let’s hurry back and look.”

The three kids left the facility, and none of the adults paid it much mind. For them the girl lying on the hospital bed right now was far more important. Wherever the kids wanted to run off to play, they could let them.

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In the dark space, the red-eyed “Eiru” was still lightly lifting the little Demon Lord’s chin. Although the reaction had caught her off guard, she quickly regained her composure.

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“Whether you want to know or not, you don’t have the right to refuse… A so-called Demon Lord does whatever she wants without anyone’s interference.”

Her Majesty the Demon Lord wore an expression that said ‘go on, I’m listening.’

Even though the girl in front of her looked almost identical to herself, she could not feel even the slightest sense of familiarity toward her.

“No point talking so much. You just want to seize my body, right? Then what does it matter who you are? I’m not giving you this body anyway.”

“You really are naïve…” The red-eyed “Demon Lord” smiled. “Your body is my body. It’s just a matter of who has control, isn’t it?”

“I am the collection of your inner resentment. I’m the dark side inside your heart.”

The red-eyed “Demon Lord” smiled wickedly, but Eiru sitting on the throne still wore that same expressionless face. As if this explosive revelation had not shaken her in the slightest.

“What? You’re not surprised?”

“Come on…” The little Demon Lord sighed. “If you’re gonna lie, at least draft it first, alright? Do you seriously think we could be the same person… senior?”