Demon King – Chapter 856 – The Demon Lord Is Uncovering the Truth

“Is it a person… or a ghost?”

At the door of what appeared to be the infirmary on the first floor, two silver-haired lolis crouched to the side, observing and staying on guard against whatever was inside.

Still carrying a certain embarrassing Hero who had fainted from fright, the little Demon Lord figured that a place like the infirmary should at least have a bed or something where the dummy on her back could lie down for a while. Even if not, there should at least be a bed frame or a wooden board. So she brought her little sister over to check.

Logically speaking, a place like this should not have any other people around. Yet inside sat a white-haired old man. That illogical sight immediately put the two sisters on alert.

Ghosts, female specters, all sorts of things had already popped out. At the very least, this place could not possibly be somewhere for elderly grandpas and grandmas to casually stroll through. In a place this abnormal, the appearance of a normal human was the most abnormal thing of all.

“Hiding here won’t solve anything. Little Ya, stay close to me. If I say run, we bolt immediately.”

Considering the possibility that he might be some key NPC, Her Majesty the Demon Lord ultimately decided to approach and make contact with the suddenly appearing old man. Carrying Xixia on her back, she folded away her wings for safety, her tail lightly coiling around Eiya’s waist.

“Wait! Don’t run! We’re not ghosts or spirits!”

The moment they entered the room, the old man inside reacted instantly and tried to scramble away. That reaction alone allowed Eiru to confirm his identity. At the very least, he was not in the same category as the highly aggressive ghosts and spirits outside.

It seemed as though he had not heard human speech in a long time. A flicker of joy passed through the old man’s eyes. But that fleeting joy was immediately replaced by cold indifference.

“Get out. Leave now. Go far away! Don’t compete with me for a hiding place. Don’t expose that I’m here!”

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He looked like someone trapped here as well. The two sisters exchanged a glance. They could understand his rejection and vigilance toward outsiders in a situation like this. But since they still had questions to ask, they could not just leave like that.

However, when Eiru asked about the condition of the school and similar matters, the old man’s reaction remained intense. He kept urging them to leave.

With no other choice, Eiru could only prepare to take her sister elsewhere to look for clues. At that moment, the old man seemed to realize his behavior had been inappropriate and called out to remind them as they were about to leave.

“Don’t let those skeletons touch you. They can’t directly harm people, but if they pass through someone, they’ll drain their vitality…”

Although the reminder was not particularly useful, the two sisters still politely thanked him before carrying Xixia away.

“Sis, why did we leave without getting any information?”

Finally encountering a normal person, yet walking away without any clues left Eiya feeling unwilling.

That man had clearly been here longer than the three of them and obviously knew something about this place. Yet her sister had not even tried to press him for answers and was ready to retreat just like that?

“That old man wasn’t right. I felt something off about him.”

Only then did the little Demon Lord reveal her reason for leaving in a hurry. Although he had merely been rejecting them and had not shown any danger or aggression, she had sensed dissonance and malice from him.

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“In short, it’s just a feeling. He didn’t seem like an old man at all…”

Watching the two sisters leave, the “old man” in the infirmary let out a breath of relief, then sighed. Regret and disappointment filled the room.

“Such fresh little girls… If it weren’t for those damned skeletons…”

Muttering to himself, a trace of desire surfaced again in the “old man’s” eyes. If the current situation had allowed it, how could he have let those three little girls walk away so easily?

“Damn it, being called grandpa at just over thirty…”

He reached to grab a broken brick nearby to throw it out of frustration. But he soon realized that his withered, skeletal arm could not even lift the brick. He could not even manage something as simple as venting his anger.

“Still, since they got trapped here, those three brats can’t be anything good either… Forget it. It’s a pity, but even if they die, it’s none of my damn business.”

As he spoke, another gust of cold wind blew outside. Hearing the movement, the “old man” hurriedly crawled behind a cabinet to hide.

“Damn it. I used to be so imposing out there. Now I’m hiding here like a rat…”

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“By the way, Sis… how long have we been here?”

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“Don’t panic. I’ve already contacted Hulu. Time flows differently here compared to outside.”

Reassuring the uneasy Eiya, the little Demon Lord declared confidently that they would definitely get out safely and would not even miss dinner tonight.

“Then why does a place like this even exist? Different time flow and all that. Is that even scientific?”

Your big brother right here is the least scientific existence of all. The Demon Lord grumbled internally. And aside from herself, she had experienced quite a few supernatural incidents by now.

“At least from everything I’ve encountered so far, none of it has been unrelated to Abyssal Amber… or to me.”

In the end, all supernatural events were connected to Abyssal Amber. Eiru believed this time would be no exception. The faint traces of magical fluctuations she could sense were also confirming her suspicion.

“So I said from the start, as long as we figure out the pattern, we’ll definitely get out. Didn’t I take you to catch ghosts just now? I already secretly studied one of them!”

It was neither malice nor evil intent. The little Demon Lord discovered that these ghosts possessed extreme aggression toward those they judged as “evil.” As for that giant ghost, it had run off too quickly for her to examine, so she could not say for sure.

“I once heard a legend. A courtyard that judges the wicked has two forms. To ordinary people, it’s just a normal courtyard. But to the wicked, it becomes their personal hell.”

Though the legend sounded bizarre, it unexpectedly fit their current situation. After briefly communicating with Hulu, she had already asked it to come over and check things out.

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Yet when Hulu arrived at the abandoned school, it encountered none of these events. It wandered around the campus for quite a while without seeing the three girls, though it could vaguely sense that they were there.

“In simple terms, it’s like two sides of the same space. Hulu is actually here right now, but it can’t get in, and we can’t get out.”

While explaining conclusions her little sister could not quite understand, the little Demon Lord even waved her hand at the air, indicating that a certain small creature was always right beside them.

“But here’s the problem. We… shouldn’t be evil, right? So why did we end up inside this place?”

Translator Note

Ooh~

It’s actually has some relation to the main plot~