Demon King – Chapter 896 – The Hero Girl Doesn’t Want to Be Pitied

“So I still think your relationship with Xixia is getting more and more like best girlfriends… though it’s not a bad thing.”

After they split up, Yuki gently scratched under Eiru’s chin and softly teased his adorable little girlfriend with a smile.

The two unlucky kids had gone through similar experiences. Compared to ordinary people, they naturally had a lot more in common. Seeing Eiru have a good friend who could look out for each other, Yuki was actually quite relieved.

“But some private topics can only be known between you and me, got it?”

Yuki sighed and looked at the little Demon Lord beside him, who was squinting her eyes like a kitten enjoying the chin scratches. With indulgence and helplessness, he tried to patiently instill some proper concepts into her.

“You’re a girl now. Some things boys can say without it being a big deal, you can’t just blurt out anymore, okay? Otherwise people will think you’re some kind of little pervert on the spot. Aren’t you scared?”

“Mmm~”

“I’m more curious what my sister blurted out again…”

Standing to the side holding Jiaqi’s hand, Eiya leaned over and chimed in.

As for Eiya’s question, Yuki only smiled without answering. But the bitterness hidden beneath his smile did nothing to stop a certain loli from continuing her speculation.

“Based on what I know about my sister, for Brother Yuki to panic like that… she wouldn’t have exposed something about her body structure, right? Like private parts?”

Tsk. As expected of her biological sister. Or maybe it was because this girl had seen Lu Brat’s previous life…

Yuki clicked his tongue. His reaction more or less confirmed her guess.

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“Big Sis, you little idiot. If you say things like that, Brother Yuki will get jealous, you know?”

Eiya reached out and pinched her sister’s cheek. Being scratched under the chin on one side and having her cheek pinched on the other, the loli could not help letting out muffled sounds that were both comfortable and uncomfortable at the same time.

“Guu… but I was just explaining why not wearing underwear doesn’t make clothes rub… mmm~ Stupid Yuki, don’t pinch my reverse scale, mmm?!”

“My dear sister, that indentation down there is a private topic! How can you be this dumb?!”

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On Xixia’s side, after politely declining the lunch invitation and saying goodbye to the Demon Lord and the others, she continued bringing along the Heavyweight beside her, letting her experience more of the modern city’s atmosphere.

“Wifey, why didn’t we go to their house? It’s so hot outside.”

Floating around the Hero Girl, the little ghost looked faintly resentful.

“Cut it out. You’re just thinking about the Demon Lord’s game room and computer! If I let you in there, you’d be finished. And stop calling me wifey. Be careful or I’ll smack your butt.”

“Wuu, so fierce… When we were at my place, you were like a little kitten, scared and pitiful, sticking to me and chasing after me, super clingy and delicate.”

“Don’t exaggerate. It’s already impressive I even went into your haunted house with you! And don’t think I forgot that you almost killed me!”

Pouting angrily, Xixia grabbed Shang by the neck. While tickling her at the waist, she scolded her.

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Even though she was very warm hearted, the Hero Girl held grudges.

She knew the reason was not really Shang’s fault, and she did not blame or fear her because of it. But getting a little revenge to vent the resentment of being scared half to death back then was a perfectly normal bit of teenage temper.

“Wifey! It tickles! I was wrong! Hahaha… Wifey, think it through. Other people can’t see me, hahaha… They’ll just think you’re, haha, tickling the air. That’s social death, hahaha.”

“Oh? Learned quite a lot online, huh? You even know what social death is now?”

After a moment of surprise, the Hero Girl revealed a wicked smile and leaned close to Shang’s ear to tell her a somewhat despairing fact.

“But unfortunately, everyone around here already thinks I’m a chuuni. Nothing I do is strange anymore. So social death or whatever, that already happened long ago.”

“Wifey?! Wifey, that’s giving up, that’s not good! You have to manage your image. Right now you, hahaha, tickles! Tickles!”

Bullying the Heavyweight little ghost in her hands to her heart’s content, the Hero Girl sighed helplessly.

‘So this unlucky kid has gotten so slick tongued now. What the hell has she been learning online?’

Even though the Demon Lord said the Daughters of Amber Crystal were all extremely intelligent, this Heavyweight was clearly using her intelligence in the wrong place. No, this won’t do. She needed to ask the Demon Lord to arrange something and make up the nine years of compulsory education this girl had missed.

Imagining this tiny thing barely over one meter tall sitting among a group of elementary school students, older than the entire class combined, being pressed at a desk to study primary school knowledge…

Just picturing that scene made Xixia burst out laughing.

“Pfft. Kids in elementary school develop ridiculously fast nowadays. Heavyweight, with your height, you’d probably only find comparable classmates in kindergarten.”

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“Wifey, wifey, what are you talking about? You’re not tall either. You’re barely over one fifty… pfft hahaha! Don’t tickle! Don’t tickle!”

“Stop calling me wifey! And I’m one sixty! With shoes on I’m one sixty!”

“Those are platform shoes. They don’t count hahahahaha!”

Hearing the little thing’s mockery, the Hero Girl’s face darkened.

Back when she lived as a boy, she had been teased plenty about her height. A high school boy who was only one meter fifty really was a bit short.

Although now that everyone knew she was a girl, they rarely joked about her height anymore, Xixia, who had already developed that subtle competitive spirit of a boy, still hoped she could grow taller.

‘At the very least, as a Hero, I should be a tall big sister at one seventy!’

‘That way I could intimidate others.’

Otherwise, like now, when practically everyone is one or two heads taller than me, where’s the heroic presence in that?

“I really wish I could grow taller…”

After finishing her “lesson” for Shang, Xixia let go and muttered quietly.

Though her voice was soft, the little ghost beside her still heard it.

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“Hm? From my aesthetic point of view, you’re just right like this. Whether it’s the size here or your height, I think you’re already the most well proportioned.”

Pointing at Xixia’s chest, the little thing did not know whether she was trying to comfort her or genuinely stating her own opinion.

“And haven’t you received quite a few love letters lately? You can be a bit more confident about your looks.”

Having stayed by Xixia’s side this whole time, Shang naturally knew many secrets others did not.

And to be honest, the current Xixia was a genuine beautiful girl.

Because of her mother, there was some slight dissonance between her outfits and her temperament. But that did not hide her striking beauty.

The dissonance came from the Hero Girl’s personality. Her temperament was developing more and more toward a cool and dashing direction. Yet her dear mother kept dressing her in sweet style skirts.

However, at school she mostly wore the JK uniform dress, so this problem did not really show. Thus at school, Xixia had successfully captured the hearts of quite a few boys.

If not for her previous chuuni dark history scaring some people away, she would probably have even more admirers.

But the Hero Girl herself did not like this kind of development at all.

“This isn’t what I want! I’m a Hero, not a princess! What they feel toward me is basically just a protective instinct. I don’t want that kind of storyline!”