Demon King – Chapter 918 – A Lame Little Crew

Left and right, circling and turning, who knew how long they had been wandering outside. Taking advantage of a moment when Yu Qiu up ahead wasn’t paying attention, Yunxing suddenly flashed sideways and slipped straight into the narrow gap between two old buildings, seizing the chance to make a run for it.

“For a delinquent to end up mixing like this is honestly pretty embarrassing…”

A perfectly good delinquent boy, yet to avoid a girl he had to crawl through such a cramped crack to escape in such a sorry state. From Eiru and Yuki’s perspective, the scene was oddly entertaining.

But the little Demon Lord still couldn’t understand why Yunxing was avoiding the purple-haired girl beside him. In their circles, wasn’t being scared off by a girl something humiliating?

Even though Yunxing had taken a small path and run off, Her Majesty the Demon Lord could still roughly guess where he was headed. After a brief discussion with Yuki, the two decided to split up and gather information separately from Yu Qiu and Yunxing.

Yunxing was definitely going to meet up with his group of brothers. It wasn’t appropriate to send Yuki into a place where these second-rate punks gathered. Dangerous or not was another matter, but with Yuki’s model student image, he would stick out like a crane among chickens. How could he possibly pry anything useful out of their mouths?

So the task had to fall to Eiru. But considering this bunch all suffered from silver-haired loli PTSD, a disguise was necessary.

Her small hand grabbed her side ponytail and gave it a light stroke. That smooth silver hair instantly turned black. Since she was disguising herself, she might as well do it thoroughly, so she also switched her eyes into the black little star mode.

“I’ll ask first. Lu Brat, can you control yourself like this?”

“Should be fine. As long as there’s not too much stimulation, I won’t go crazy.”

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To answer him, Her Majesty the Demon Lord shifted back to her normal mode, because she realized that in that state she couldn’t communicate properly with people at all.

“If there’s danger, protect yourself. A beating is fine, but don’t almost tear someone apart like last time.”

“I won’t. Even in that state, I still keep basic rationality. Anyway, I’m off to gather intel. That purple-haired little brat is all yours, Stupid Yuki!”

As if afraid that lingering any longer would invite more nagging and lecturing from Yuki, the little Demon Lord hurriedly switched modes again and bolted. Watching her run off, Yuki’s face carried a kind of weariness that didn’t belong to someone his age.

‘You really dare to dump me here alone with another girl. Even though I’m happy you trust me this much, I can’t help feeling a bit annoyed.’

Stretching his body, Yuki looked at Yu Qiu in the distance, who had realized she’d been ditched and was stomping her foot in anger on the spot. After a brief internal struggle, he slowly walked toward her.

‘I am not good at dealing with girls. Lu Brat, you really gave me a tough one.’

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“Unbelievable. I’m not even close with her. Why the hell does she keep clinging to me? Sick in the head.” Walking alone in the alley, Yunxing kicked a small stone beside him in extreme irritation.

The stone flew up, struck the wall on one side, then bounced to the other. The echoing collision in the narrow alley only worsened his mood.

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‘One is bad enough, two is worse. Whether it’s my sister or that damn girl, they’re all annoying as hell. Are women always this troublesome? I really want to punch them both so they know fear.’

He fumed internally. At least his sister’s motives were understandable. But Yu Qiu? He truly couldn’t figure her out.

If you said they were close, they had never even been in the same class. Though they attended the same middle school for three years, the total number of words they had exchanged probably didn’t even exceed the amount of teacher nagging he’d half listened to.

But if you said they weren’t close, Yu Qiu acted like she deliberately poked at whatever sore spot existed, insisting on tangling herself up with someone who theoretically had no intersection with her at all. After three years of this entanglement in middle school, his disgust had deepened, yet she could no longer be called a stranger either.

After walking for a while, Yunxing spotted his gang of dubious friends, who had already gathered here for quite some time. He went over, casually dragged a plastic chair, and sat down. The delinquents immediately sensed the low pressure radiating from him.

“What’s up, Xingzi? So pissed again?”

“Your sister again, right? Isn’t she always dragging you around all day? Hahaha.”

“But your sister’s pretty cute, isn’t she?”

“Damn right. She drops by every few days. Those guys even say we’ve got a little beauty hanging around here.”

“Hahaha, coming here every day like that. That little girl really fears nothing. If she weren’t Xingzi’s sister, some brother here would’ve sweet-talked her and hooked up with her long ago.”

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“Not gonna lie, I want to chase her. Xingzi, give me some tips? Put in a good word for me? Or just tell me where she lives.”

Taking the can of cola handed over by one of his brothers, Yunxing drank silently, showing little reaction to their teasing.

“She boards at school. If you’ve got the guts, sneak in yourself. I won’t stop you.”

He replied expressionlessly. Hearing that, the others immediately let out disappointed jeers.

“But your sister isn’t exactly some obedient good girl either, right? What kind of well-behaved girl dares come to our place every day? Maybe she’s—”

“Hey, watch it. That’s still his sister.” Another brother frowned and scolded the one who had spoken crudely, but received only a careless response.

“What’s there to be scared of? Xingzi didn’t say anything. Doesn’t he hate his sister too? Besides, what’s more important, women or brothers? Right, Xingzi?”

The foul-mouthed delinquent draped an arm over Yunxing’s shoulder with a sleazy grin. Precisely because he knew very well that Yunxing disliked girls, he dared to speak so brazenly.

“Anyway, back to business. Xingzi, how’s high school life? You’re the only one of us who got in. Wanna pull something big to celebrate?”

“Something big?” Yunxing’s brow twitched, suddenly intrigued by what they meant by “big.”

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Though they were a delinquent group, they weren’t the mafia. They didn’t have the guts to pull knives. The worst they usually did was pick on soft targets for protection fees and brawl with other groups.

They were bad, but not stupid. Most of the things they did, if caught, would just mean a few days in detention. As for serious crimes, they might brag about it, but they’d never actually dare to do it.

It was honestly kind of embarrassing. As the most lame little crew in the area, even though there were quite a few people gathered in the alley right now, all of Yunxing’s group combined possessed only a single Swiss Army knife as their weapon.

Their activity range was limited to just these few alleys. Most days they relied on unlucky passersby for a bit of amusement. If they saw a pretty girl, they might harass her a little, but they didn’t dare go too far.

“So what big thing are you thinking of? Let’s hear it.”

“Just hit up the KTV next door for some fun. I saw a few pretty girls there just now.”

“Prettier than Xingzi’s sister?”

“Damn it, you keep chanting her name all day. If you’ve got the balls, why don’t you drag her over yourself?”