Demon King – Chapter 823 – Exposed

Filled with doubt, Yuki asked several probing questions in a row. No matter how he asked, even when it came to little secrets that only existed between the two of them as a couple, the girl in front of him could answer every single one.

“Enough! Why do you keep asking? Are you suspecting me?”

Seeing the girl in front of him already showing a hint of anger, someone who was afraid of offending his future wife quickly stopped himself and did not dare continue pressing further.

Looking at Yuki’s cowardly appearance, Belonia was already laughing inside. Thankfully, in order to prepare for possession, she had adjusted the mode of her soul and state. Otherwise, it really would not have been easy to fool the man and beast in front of her.

The body and soul of a Demon Lord were one. So if Belonia wanted to seize control of Eiru’s body, she had to make her soul compatible with this body.

Her usual observation and imitation skills were merely icing on the cake. The true foundation she relied on was that the outer layer of her soul was already indistinguishable from Eiru’s. Precisely because it was a matter of the soul, the closer someone was to Eiru, the harder it would be for them to see through her.

At this moment, Yuki was extremely conflicted. The aura the girl before him gave off, her personality, her behavior, all of it was no different from his little girlfriend.

But for some reason, he just could not summon that sense of intimacy and heart pounding closeness. Clearly he was in a state where he wanted nothing more than to scoop the girl up and dote on her. Yet right now, it felt as though there was a voice in his heart stopping him from going forward to get close to her.

Hulu was in a similar state. Tilting its head, it kept observing the girl in front of it. There was neither closeness nor hostility, just a constant, curious examination.

Yuki naturally could not have failed to notice Hulu’s abnormal behavior. This was also one of the reasons he did not dare rashly step forward and approach her.

“What? Are you not coming to hug me?”

Maintaining distance like this, Belonia could not easily ambush Yuki without Hulu noticing. So she tapped her finger against her lips and began imitating Eiru’s cute behavior, trying to lure Yuki closer before making her move.

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“Uh…”

Yuki hesitated. It had been so long since they had seen each other. If he did not go over and get close, that would indeed feel like wronging his adorable little girlfriend.

Just as he took two steps forward, Yuki suddenly remembered something Eiru had once told him. He remembered asking her why she always used a clone to come find him. She had given a very subtle answer at the time.

Aside from avoiding her parents, using a mana clone had another important reason. Although that silly girl herself did not know exactly why, there was definitely some purpose and effect behind it.

“Lu Brat, the pendant you gave me is really beautiful. I like it a lot. Especially the decorative pattern on it. The carving is unbelievably intricate.”

“Hm? Ah? As long as you like it. It was not a waste of my great effort… Wait, what decorative pattern? There was not anything like that carved on it, right?”

Belonia had been hiding inside the little Demon Lord’s body, so of course she knew about the gift that girl had secretly prepared for Yuki. She had watched the entire process of making the pendant. Naturally she knew there had never been any decorative carving on it, and immediately saw through that Yuki was actually fishing for information.

Just as Belonia was inwardly pleased with her cleverness, she suddenly realized an important issue she had overlooked.

‘That girl. When had she given this brat the gift?’

“Who are you?! You are not her. Why do you look exactly like her? What did you do to her?”

Yuki took several steps back vigilantly. Beside him, Hulu also moved forward to guard him.

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Even though he had already seen through that the other party was a fake, facing a girl whose appearance and aura were identical to Eiru’s, neither the man nor the beast could truly feel hostility.

“Hehehe. Since that is the case… I will tell you the truth.”

Accompanied by a sinister laugh, Yuki finally understood what the sense of incongruity he had been feeling all along was.

It was a kind of malice filled with hostility and wickedness.

It was completely different from the mischievous ill intent that loli had when she was causing trouble or playing pranks. This pure malice, the kind that wanted to torment and toy with the other party in every possible way, was an emotion that could never appear in Eiru.

That was why Yuki had kept feeling something was off. Thinking back now, the lively smile the girl had been pretending to wear earlier had always carried the faint feeling of a knife hidden behind it.

“You know as well, do you not, how much grievance and unfair treatment she has suffered? Always living with her tail tucked between her legs. Do you really think her psyche would not become twisted? What do you think is the reason?”

“You? What are you trying to say? Where is Lu Brat?”

“Because all of her resentment and psychological darkness gathered together and formed me. I am her. It is simply that her dark side has taken dominance for now.”

With a mocking tone, Belonia continued laughing softly as she kept up her fabrication.

Nonsense. Right now she could not beat Hulu. At the very least she needed to make up an excuse that tied her to that girl, so the other side would not directly kill her.

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“She is no saint. She gets angry, she gets sad, she hates, she feels disgust. The reason she does not show it in front of you is because I have taken all of it upon myself.”

“You are lying.”

“Huh?”

After a long string of statements, Yuki dismissed everything with just those words.

Looking at the stunned Belonia, Yuki’s current mood could be described as grinding his teeth in fury.

“Stop smearing her name here. Dark side? Do you think Lu Brat could even have something like that?”

A person who always put the matters of those around her above her own. How could someone like that possibly harbor any messy so-called darkness in her heart?

Yes, she would feel sad, hurt, even disgust. But she would always vent those emotions without causing trouble for others.

Eiru was not some saint. She would throw heavy punches at evil people. The only ones she truly cared about were those by her side. She was a silly girl who would rather hurt herself than let the people around her get hurt.

“If you were her, then you would know best. Even after being neglected and hurt like that by her parents, there was never hatred in her heart. Only grievance and disappointment.”

“I do not know who you are, but I will never allow you to insult her like this. If she had any dark side, then that so-called dark side would only ever hurt herself. It would only be her self blame and resentment toward herself!”

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Yuki roared hysterically.

But after her plan was exposed, Belonia did not get angry. Instead she laughed.

With a wave of her hand, strange walls of light rose up one after another, suddenly enveloping Hulu. In an instant, it vanished from sight.

“Oh my. Well done seeing through me. Unfortunately, I was only stalling for time. Setting up a teleportation spell without alerting the companion beast really does take some time.”

Smiling, Belonia slowly approached Yuki step by step. Hulu had already been sent to the far end of the dream world. The person before her now was nothing more than a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.

“Although I wanted to torment you slowly, that girl watches a lot of movies. Dragging things out only leads to accidents. I understand that much.”

Not intending to hold back, Belonia raised her hand, planning to completely erase Yuki from this world before Hulu could return.

At the critical moment, a chain appeared out of thin air and instantly bound the hand she had raised.

“Oh my, oh my. Senior, if you forget about me, I would be very troubled.”