Demon King – Chapter 878 – Are the Gods Fighting?

“I can’t turn it off! It feels awful! Why did it suddenly go out of control?!”

Time returns to the present.

A situation she had never encountered before made Her Majesty the Demon Lord’s fur stand on end. The fact that she could not switch off the “lights” on her wings was a minor issue. The real problem was the discomfort surging through her body.

It felt as if something was crawling inside the spines of her wings. Those spines were clearly not hollow, and she could not scratch whatever was inside. That kind of discomfort coming from within was driving Eiru insane.

“Ahhh! What the hell is this?! What the hell is messing with me?!”

“Lu Brat, Lu Brat, stop rolling around first. You’re going to bend your wings again at this rate.”

Watching his girlfriend clutch her wing spines and roll around on the bed in agony, Yuki’s eyes were filled with distress. He reached out to smooth her hair and coax her gently while racking his brain over what exactly had gone wrong.

Under the same roof, the older sister was suffering terribly over here, while the younger sister was sleeping exceptionally soundly over there. The reason she was sleeping so well was all thanks to her considerate big sister.

Since Yuki was staying over tonight, it did not take a genius to guess that Eiya had lost her chance to hug her loli to sleep. Considering that the girl was used to sleeping with her and might not be used to sleeping alone without something to hold, the little Demon Lord had specially sent both cats and even Hulu over to accompany her little sister for the night.

When Eiya finished gaming and was about to sleep, staring at the cat bigger than herself sprawled across her body, her eyes were filled with existential doubt.

But Gulu’s soft, squishy feel quickly made her fall for it. Combined with the big cat’s warm body temperature in the air-conditioned room, she soon drifted into dreamland.

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Meanwhile, on the other side, the Hero Girl who had once again followed the ghost toddler to the abandoned school district stood in silence after entering a certain underground area with her.

In front of her appeared something nearly the size of a car, resembling a massive amethyst crystal. That sort of thing that screamed otherworldly encounter inevitably sent a certain chuunibyou’s imagination running wild.

“By the way, Heavyweight, where did you just run off to? I almost lost you…”

“Handled something urgent. It’s already resolved.”

Not long after Shang proposed bringing her underground to take a look, while the two were on their way there, the little one’s expression suddenly changed. She hurriedly phased through a wall and ran off somewhere, leaving the Hero Girl alone and completely disoriented.

Xixia was afraid of ghosts. Not to mention a place that clearly had a whole bunch of them. Earlier she at least had a Demon Lord by her side. This time Shang suddenly ran off, scaring her so badly that she smashed through a wall and chased after her.

Relying on intuition and the direction Shang had disappeared in, it took the Hero Girl quite a while to find this suddenly vanishing Heavyweight. As if nothing had happened, the other party simply resumed smiling and continued leading her deeper underground.

“This is what the little Demon Lord mentioned before… that Amber Crystal? Abyssal Amber?”

Since nothing seemed wrong, Xixia shifted the topic back to the massive crystal before her. If she remembered correctly, that Demon Lord had once said she was still missing a fragment inside her body.

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But could this thing really be called a fragment…

Silently complaining in her heart, looking at its smooth curves and shape, Xixia felt that the giant crystal before her was clearly a complete object. No matter how she looked at it, it did not resemble something that had fallen off another object at all.

“Hm? Didn’t expect little Xixia to know quite a lot. But this isn’t the Amber Crystal. Although it is indeed something created by the Amber Crystal… The fragment of the Amber Crystal that I signed a contract with was lost long, long ago.”

Shang also explained that the crystal before them was actually her true body, which was why she weighed twenty tons when materialized. The crystal itself was semi-transparent. If you looked carefully, you could indeed see a white-haired little girl sleeping inside.

“I’ve actually been here much longer than this building. In order to maintain stability, the environment of this space adjusts in sync with the outside world…”

“At the very beginning, this place was just a small shrine. And now it’s turned into a big building!”

Spreading her arms with excitement, judging from that demeanor, aside from carrying responsibilities she should not have had, Shang’s mentality was not that different from her outward appearance.

“So you still haven’t clearly explained what this thing actually is… But you’re saying this isn’t the fragment the little Demon Lord is missing?”

“Mm. Because the Amber Crystal is something from another world. It’s naturally rejected by this world.”

Just like a certain Chaotic Evil Demon Lord, when the Abyssal Amber first arrived in this world, it too was rejected by the world itself. However, the Abyssal Amber was not a living being, so the rejection it faced was much weaker. Naturally, it had enough time to respond.

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“So the Amber Crystal set up several of these large crystals to collect certain concepts from this world and transform itself, allowing the world to accept it as part of this world.”

Each large crystal had a “Grim Reaper” responsible for its maintenance and management. However, the Amber Crystal had not revealed much. Even as an administrator, Shang was not particularly clear about many of the other secrets within the large crystal.

“The concept I’m responsible for collecting is evil~ As for the others, I don’t know. But I quite like this job. I even get to educate and reform all the bad people! Though bad people are getting harder and harder to catch recently. It’s a bit troublesome…”

“Then I suggest you go to prisons to take people…” The Hero Girl suddenly began offering terrible advice. “Can’t say they’ll all meet your criteria, but at least they should be easier to find?”

“No. My work can’t cause disturbances.” Shang shook her head, rejecting Xixia’s proposal. “If too many people find out, my situation will become very troublesome.”

Shrugging, Xixia indicated she had no better suggestions then. Thinking about it, extracting the concept of evil? No wonder this girl drained one evil soul after another until they became those skeletal ghost forms…

But speaking of which, once the evil was extracted, were they reduced to nothing but skeletons? If that were the case, after losing their evil, why would those ghosts still attack people who entered this place?

While she was lost in those random thoughts, a sudden violent tremor interrupted the Hero Girl’s imagination.

“An earthquake? Doesn’t seem like it?”

Turning her head, Xixia noticed that the objects on the ground nearby had not shifted in the slightest despite the intense shaking. It felt more like the space itself was trembling.

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Following her chuunibyou logic to a chuunibyou conclusion, the Hero Girl suddenly heard a familiar voice.

“Dummy! Get away from her!”

“Huh?”

Before Xixia could react, just as she turned her head back forward, she saw a tiny hand as sharp as a spine thrust viciously toward her eyes.

The sudden attack left the Hero Girl no time to respond at such close range. In that dangerous moment, she suddenly felt someone grab her by the collar, and her entire body was hurled backward.

At the same time, a familiar figure appeared before her. One small hand caught the incoming strike from the other side. Their hands met. It did not look like a forceful collision at all, yet the shockwave that erupted sent Xixia flying away in one blast.

‘What the hell is going on? What the hell is going on? Are the gods fighting?!’

After rolling several times across the ground, covered in dust, the Hero Girl was even more clueless about what was happening now.