Demon King – Chapter 851 – I… I’m Running!

“Go away! Get the hell away?!”

Several ghosts seemed to have run out of patience. Before the rest made their move, a few of them had already begun drifting slowly into the classroom. The call had not even gone through yet when the three girls noticed their presence.

Just one ghost earlier had nearly scared them stupid. Now that so many had suddenly appeared at once, Xixia and Eiya immediately grabbed the mop and broom nearby that were practically nothing more than bare sticks, trying to use this indirect method to swing and drive away those hideous ghosts without touching them directly.

But a ghost was a ghost. Having no physical body was their most iconic trait. They could treat even walls as if they were nothing and pass straight through. When the sticks struck their bodies, they simply went through them.

Even Xixia, who possessed monstrous strength far beyond that of an ordinary person, could only snap the stick in half for nothing. No matter how hard the two girls swung, it had no effect on the ghosts at all.

With every inch the ghosts drew closer, the terror on their faces deepened by another degree. The speed of their swinging increased as well… but it was nothing more than wasted stamina.

One ghost drifted directly in front of Eiya and reached out its claw at her. Faced with that horrifying scene, Eiya finally could not take it anymore and let out a piercing scream.

As if stimulated by her scream, the ghost paused for a moment, then suddenly charged straight at her. Those sharp bony claws and that terrifying skull head, if nothing was done, the next second it would crash right into her cute little face.

Eiya was already scared stiff. Just as tragedy seemed about to unfold, the ghost that was almost pressing against her suddenly had a small fist appear on its skull face.

“Get… the hell… down!”

With one punch, the ghost was blasted who knew how far away by the little Demon Lord whose desire to protect her sister had exploded. A ghost without a physical body would not crash into a wall. It simply passed straight through it, flying off to who knew where…

“Eh? Sis, you can touch them?”

“Hmm? Looks like it… but just now the stick couldn’t hit them?”

Lowering her head to look at her own hand, Her Majesty the Demon Lord was a little surprised by this development as well.

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Still, they were ghosts after all. Even though she had clearly hit it, there was almost no real sensation in her hand… as if she had punched a clump of air.

“Maybe because as a Demon Lord… the body and soul are one? So you can directly touch spiritual bodies?”

With her intelligence unsealed, she really was different. Though it sounded a bit chuunibyou, Xixia quickly analyzed the current situation, since the little Demon Lord could touch these things, this fight was winnable!

“Maybe? But since I can touch them, there’s nothing to be scared of! Whatever it is, we can deal with it!”

Throwing one punch per ghost, Eiru sent every ghost that had entered the classroom flying. A confident smile spread across her face as she led the two girls charging out of the classroom… only to see a dense mass of ghosts outside.

“Ah… well…”

“Don’t panic. No matter how many come, they’re just delivering themselves!”

Saying that, the little Demon Lord faced the ghost swarm and assumed her usual fighting stance.

Perhaps surprised that someone could actually touch them, the ghost horde did not rush forward for the moment. They simply stood there in a standoff with the three girls.

The two girls swallowed hard, as if they were about to witness a battle of the century. Neither side dared to act rashly. In that tense moment, it felt as though even the surroundings had frozen.

The first to move was Eiru.

Under the tense gazes of the two girls, she pushed off with both legs and sprang into action, spinning around in one swift motion, hooking an arm around each girl, then with her back to the ghost swarm, she launched into a full hundred meter sprint.

See you later!

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“Sis? Sis?!”

“Fight what ghosts? There are dozens of them at least. If we actually start fighting, I can’t protect both of you at all!”

After analyzing the battlefield, Her Majesty the Demon Lord decisively chose to run with the two girls. Seeing their targets escape, the ghost army quickly reacted and chased after them again.

Although they could not leave the teaching building, it seemed there was no restriction on moving to other places within it. Carrying the two girls as she leaped up and down between floors, the little Demon Lord immediately turned it into a drawn out chase with the ghosts.

Then, in the middle of their escape… the phone in Eiru’s pocket suddenly rang.

Seeing her sister busy running for their lives, Eiya took the initiative to pull the phone from her pocket. After answering, she held it to Eiru’s ear.

“Hello hello? Who is this… I’m very busy right now!”

“Busy? Lu Brat… what are you doing? And where did you run off to?”

Accompanied by the sound of panting, Yuki’s voice made him frown on the other end. Didn’t you take those two to deal with some brat? What are you even doing now?

Hearing Yuki’s voice, Eiru froze for a second, then immediately began thinking up an excuse in her head.

“I… I’m running!”

“?”

“No, not that kind of meaning! I’m really running!”

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Realizing what idiotic nonsense she had just said, Eiru hurried to explain to avoid any misunderstanding.

‘No no no, I’m just speechless…’

Yuki fell silent on the other end. Just as he was about to ask something else, two terrified screams from the girls came through the phone again.

“Sis! Sis! They’re catching up!”

“Run! Little Demon Lord, they’re getting closer! We’re so dead?!”

‘It sounded… pretty lively.’

Listening to the commotion, Yuki was even more confused about what the three girls were doing over there. But since they sounded so energetic, maybe they were actually having fun?

“So yeah, Stupid Yuki, I’ve got a bit of trouble here! I’ll call you back later after I’m done, kay~ Bye bye!”

He had wanted to remind her to be careful, but Eiru hung up immediately after speaking. Listening to the beeping tone left in the phone, Yuki could not help feeling a bit helpless.

“So what are they doing? Sounds pretty loud over there?”

Hui Jiaqi, who was with Yuki, asked about the situation. Even without speaker mode on, the noise from the other side had reached his ears… what on earth were those three brats up to to make that much racket?

“Probably caused trouble again and got themselves ‘hunted’ or something? Lu Brat acting up isn’t a one or two day thing…”

While answering, Yuki dialed his own father’s number.

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“Hello, Dad… yeah, I don’t know where she is either. She didn’t say. But it should be fine. She said she’ll call me back after she’s done being busy. Were you urgently looking for her about something?”

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“Mm, alright… got it. Nothing serious.”

After hanging up with Yuki, Officer Li let out a sigh of relief, then immediately made another call to his colleague.

“That girl is fine for now. My son just called her… before she reveals her location later, have them keep searching like this.”

Since Eiru had suddenly flown off with the three girls, temporarily losing track of her whereabouts was normal. But for some reason they had been unable to locate the three of them at all, so the plainclothes teams responsible for this area were having a hard time.

Now that they had received Officer Li’s update, they could relax for the moment. Still, the teams continued splitting up to search this large area. After all, they still had to find the person.

Translator Note

Ngl, I feel like this chapter is more exciting than the main plot with senior demon lord