Demon King – Chapter 87 – Her Majesty the Demon Lord’s Scheme in Preparation

She had two ways of using authorities, which she named [False Authority] and [True Authority] respectively. The two differed in their manifestations—the former was more like a watered-down version of the latter, and it was far less powerful. But in return, its mana consumption was far lower…

Take the authority she used earlier—[Hypnos] as an example. The false authority was similar to hypnosis, interfering with the target’s five senses to create hallucinations.

Making big things appear small, red things appear black, a slight touch amplified into pain, the pain of being cut by a sword reduced to just a mosquito bite. Freely manipulating the target’s five senses, creating one’s own dream world based on the real world…

Although a false authority could fool a person’s senses, it couldn’t actually create something from nothing. It could make a mosquito appear as a whale in someone’s eyes, but the whale wouldn’t actually be there.

However, a true authority was different. It actually took control of all five senses, by intercepting the target’s brain signals, it brought them into what could essentially be considered her own pocket dimension.

Time, space, and existence itself—in the illusory world created by her authority, everything was controlled by Eiru.

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Simply put, false authority was like AR—all the interference was based on reality. For someone controlled by the false authority, turning a pebble in their eyes into a cup of water, when they reached out to pick up the cup, others would see a person picking up a pebble using the gesture of trying to pick up a cup.

True authority was like a perfected VR from science fiction, completely intercepting the target’s brain signals. For someone controlled by a true authority, she didn’t need a pebble—she could make a cup of water appear out of thin air.

But no matter what actions they performed, to observers, they would just be standing there in a daze. Because the brain’s commands couldn’t reach the body at all, completely trapped in an imaginary world.

Besides this, the little demon lord also possessed thirteen different authorities, such as Time—[Chronos]; Decomposition and Reconstruction—[Hephaestus]; Soul—[Thanatos].

Any authority was a terrifyingly powerful, conceptually rule-based ability, but the mana consumption wasn’t something a demon lord who was chronically low on mana could afford.

Thinking about the events between herself and Yuki over these past days, Her Majesty the Demon Lord increasingly suspected whether he had guessed the relationship between her two selves.

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Similar personalities weren’t worth mentioning and didn’t constitute a point worthy of suspicion. There were countless people with similar personalities in the world—you couldn’t just grab any two similar people and ask if they were the same person, right?

The main triggers were still three incidents… First, her non-human identity being exposed in front of him. This point was actually okay, since it was just a species issue—not enough to warrant overly imaginative associations.

But the second incident was extremely fatal… That day, when she had a severe and continuous lapse in her judgement and let him touch her ears. Something like that successfully clued him into her being supernatural, and Eiru now just wanted to slap her past self hard.

The third incident was the direct trigger—the phone and food incidents. Honestly, even Eiru thought the excuse she used to fool him was too stupid… And the incident with the food went without saying.

Thanks to those three incredibly dumb moves, plus giving him some hints on impulse like a prank, he was most likely suspicious of her identity.

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But the situation wasn’t as bad as she imagined. As long as she wasn’t caught red-handed, there were plenty of ways to smooth things over.

“As long as two people appear simultaneously, no matter how suspicious you are, you’ll have to admit defeat…” Driving the mana stored in the rings, Her Majesty the Demon Lord began preparing for authority operations.

“For a false authority, I need something to substitute…” Since true authority wasn’t very useful in this situation, the little demon lord had to find something that could serve as a substitute for her other self.

“Hmm?” Just reaching the 15th floor, Eiru’s gaze met a pair of emerald green eyes at the stairway…

“It’s you! Come here!” Rushing forward to pounce on a certain big cat, ignoring its resistance, the little demon lord directly picked it up.

“My future life depends entirely on you, so please cooperate.” Eiru smiled at the big cat in her arms. Being stared at like this, even Gulu felt somewhat unnerved.

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Knock, knock, knock. In dormitory 1503, the three people playing on their phones in bed were startled. Hiding their phones, the three quickly played rock-paper-scissors, and Yuki finally reluctantly crawled down from his bed…

“Who is it?” Opening the door somewhat helplessly, Yuki found no one at the entrance.

“Who’s so bored that they’re pulling pranks… Ah!” Thinking it was some troublemaker playing ding-dong-ditch again, just as Yuki was about to close the door and return to bed, he suddenly felt someone stomp on his foot.

Crying out in pain, Yuki looked down and finally saw a silver-haired little loli half-crouching in front of him. Feeling offended by their difference in height, she was now glaring at him fiercely with quite an unpleasant expression…