Demon King – Chapter 806 – Demon Lord

“I’m not trying to be mean, senior… but lying in front of a junior and impersonating them or something is really low.”

Although if the other party refused to admit it, Eiru’s judgment about her identity could only remain a guess. But this sudden reverse lecture really did catch the person holding her chin off guard for a moment.

“You… How did you figure it out?”

The smile on her face vanished, replaced by a cold and stern expression. It was not hard to tell that the earlier frivolous demeanor had been nothing but an act.

“Maybe it’s because the story you made up has logical contradictions, senior?” The little Demon Lord tilted her head. “After all that thing about a Hero and a Demon Lord getting together still sounds kind of ridiculous.”

“Is that so? I thought the story was pretty well made? Half true half false, there shouldn’t have been any problem.” Letting go of her hand, the red-eyed girl once again examined Eiru who was bound to the throne.

“Honestly, with such a cute junior like you, I’m really a bit reluctant to just let you disappear like this… How about this? As long as you obediently give up resisting, I’ll split off some power to maintain your existence and let you become a split soul, staying here to properly receive my affection. How about it?”

“We’re both Demon Lords. Even if you’re my senior… do you really think one Demon Lord would submit to another?”

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Shaking her head, Eiru rejected the proposal. No matter what, she would never agree to something like that. How could her body possibly be handed over for someone else to control? Not to mention this senior definitely would not have any good intentions once she got out.

“So in the end you really are the culprit behind everything, right? The former Demon Lord senior who got exiled together with the Abyssal Amber?”

“Such a clever girl. Wouldn’t it be nice if you just behaved? Cleaning you up is something I really can’t bear to do…”

She reached out and patted her junior’s little head, but the smile on this former Demon Lord’s face looked utterly fake.

“But you got one thing wrong. I’m not the previous Demon Lord. I’m the one before that. The one who exiled me together with the Abyssal Amber into another world was the previous Demon Lord. My daughter.”

Thinking about how she had been stabbed in the back by her own daughter, the “Demon Lord” gritted her teeth, wishing she could go back to that moment and purge her own bloodline.

“You really are smart. Right after turning you into the new Demon Lord, you managed to notice the parts I tampered with in the information provided by the Abyssal Amber… and then discovered my existence.”

Sealing Eiya’s inhuman parts to suppress her transformation had never required a price as heavy as memories. Back then seven-year-old Eiru had actually sensed that there was a restless malice lurking inside her, which was why she chose that last resort.

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At that time she did not know the exact situation, but her instincts told her the other party was not anything good. Unfamiliar with her abilities and with her body and soul unstable during the fusion phase, Her Majesty the Demon Lord could only use memories as chains and temporarily seal everything away.

“That move of yours delayed my plan for nearly ten years. Back then was when you were weakest. I could have easily possessed you… Guess you really are worthy of being my junior.”

“Then thanks for the compliment, senior.” The little Demon Lord smiled. “But because I lost my memories, I didn’t guard against you afterward. So you still managed to sneak in when I was vulnerable.”

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The root of everything was still the Hero. This power that allowed ordinary humans to contend with the demon race and even Demon Lords naturally attracted a Demon Lord’s interest.

In truth, the Demon Lord in that story who “fell in love” with a Hero was precisely the one currently lurking inside Eiru. What she desired and pursued was to apply the Hero’s power onto a Demon Lord and create an absolute existence that no one could possibly defy.

For that goal she secretly infiltrated the side of a certain Hero, acting as his companion and setting out with him on the journey to defeat the Demon Lord.

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With deliberate guidance and temptation, along with her outstanding looks and the attentive care she showed on the surface, that pure young boy quickly developed feelings for her. After traveling together the whole way, he ultimately fell at her feet.

Although the two finally married, in reality the Demon Lord did not have the slightest bit of affection for him. Her goal from beginning to end was only to obtain the Hero’s power. She never cared about him at all.

Combining the Hero’s power, the two eventually gave birth to the most powerful Demon Lord in history. After confirming the child’s talent, the Demon Lord who had achieved her objective did not hesitate to reveal everything to her husband, and under his disbelieving gaze, she killed him.

Taking her daughter, she returned to her Demon Lord Castle. Naturally, this child who possessed the Hero’s power was designated as the next Demon Lord. With such terrifying strength, the demon race’s absolute hegemony could practically be seen on the horizon.

But the essence of the Hero’s power was a kind of overdraft of the future. Even placed on a Demon Lord, this side effect could not be avoided. Possessing extraordinary strength and intelligence, the Demon Lord’s daughter quickly discovered the problem within herself and soon uncovered the whole truth.

Understanding her mother’s ambition, the girl resolved that such tragedies must never happen to anyone else again. And in order to sever the entanglement between Demon Lords and Heroes, she made a decision.

In the end the newly ascended Demon Lord used all her power to directly banish the source of Demon Lords, the Abyssal Amber, out of that world. And her mother who tried to stop her was also sent out of that world along with it.

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Time returned to the present. As the chains on her memories loosened, the inherited knowledge in the little Demon Lord’s mind gradually broke through her senior’s blockade and revealed the truth within.

“Then after coming to this world, creatures from that world can’t survive here… so you tampered with the Abyssal Amber and made it screen for a new vessel for the Demon Lord at all costs. Right?”

So the tragedy of the Daughters of Amber Crystal was actually caused by the Demon Lord in front of her. The Abyssal Amber never had any mechanism to push vessels into desperate situations. In truth it was all this Demon Lord forcing things with extreme measures just to find a new vessel.

“Yes. And that’s how a perfect existence like you came to be… a body fused with the Abyssal Amber.” The “Demon Lord” stroked Eiru’s cheek, not hiding the greed in her eyes at all.

“As a creature from another world, I can’t survive in this world. That’s why I needed to cultivate a native Demon Lord here… and now that you’ve been born, my objective is naturally fulfilled.”

“Just obediently hand over your body. A cute little girl like you, and even a descendant of my own race. If I really had to clean you up… I truly couldn’t bear it.”