Demon King – Chapter 943 – The Little Loli Who Loves to Overthink

Yu Qiu was mischievous and loved stirring up fun. Most of the time she did not bother reading the atmosphere. Yunxing knew all of that.

He was aware that this troublesome girl was clever, but what was with this level of sharp observation? With how careless and bold she usually acted, there was no reason for her to be this meticulous, right?

“What’s wrong? Did I hit the mark? Let me guess~ What is Little Gorilla longing for about Senior? Is it her unrestrained, carefree attitude, or…”

Using a slightly provocative tone, Yu Qiu moved closer to Yunxing. As she spoke, she kept circling around him.

“Or could it be that what Little Gorilla envies and longs for… is Senior Eiru’s ‘strength’?”

“What do you mean?” Yunxing’s expression abruptly changed. He had never been able to see through the girl in front of him, but her current demeanor felt even more unfamiliar.

The unknown could bring fear. The way she looked as though she had seen straight through him, while he knew almost nothing about her, inevitably made Yunxing feel a trace of wariness toward Yu Qiu.

“Hehehe, just saying it casually. Did I guess right?” Yu Qiu turned her head again, switching back to that grinning, playful expression, which only made Yunxing even more irritated.

“The smart thing to do is to see through something without exposing it. If you want to show off how clever you are, I suggest you shut your mouth.”

“Wah wah wah, so tsundere! As expected of Little Gorilla!” Faced with Yunxing’s warning, Yu Qiu not only did not take it seriously, she even clapped excitedly.

Yunxing clicked his tongue and turned to leave. After hanging around with his fox-and-dog friends for so many years, he had met all kinds of people. He knew how to deal with someone like Yu Qiu.

Rеαԁ οn ΚatReаdіnɡCаfe

A bratty girl like her stirred up trouble purely for entertainment. The more emotionally agitated you became, the more she would think you had cracked, the more excited she would get, and the harder she would push.

So the best method was to ignore her completely and act like a block of wood. As long as she could not get the reaction she wanted and felt that teasing you was boring, she would naturally restrain herself.

He knew the method, but carrying it out was another matter entirely. Being messed with by Yu Qiu every single day made it extremely difficult for Yunxing, whose temper was already somewhat irritable, to endure.

So when he had lost his temper in front of her for the first time, Yunxing already knew he had lost.

He also knew that no matter how calm and indifferent he acted now, she would only think he was putting on a front. He sighed inwardly. Most likely, until she graduated and left for university, he would not be able to escape this brat’s torment.

“Little Gorilla, don’t go! If you need psychological counseling, big sis can provide it too~”

“Don’t need it. Get lost.”

—————

“Th… thighs, tally marks…”

Because Seventh High investigated early romance quite strictly, Eiya usually did not meet Jiaqi during breaks. Today they had finally caught a rare chance to be alone together, yet the little girl just sat to the side, mumbling to herself.

“Eiya? What’s wrong?”

Reαԁ οո КatRеаⅾiոɡСαfе

Seeing that his childhood sweetheart was acting oddly, Jiaqi asked with concern. What he got in return, however, was an even more intense reaction, as if she had been startled.

“N-No! Nothing! There’s nothing at all!”

Eiya waved her hands in panic. But as a loli who was both lewd and innocent, the things Yu Qiu had said to her that day had indeed left a massive impact.

Now, whenever her mind quieted down, she uncontrollably imagined the shocking scene beneath Yu Qiu’s skirt. From there, her thoughts spiraled into imagined playful scenarios between Yu Qiu and Yunxing.

“Eiya, your face is so red…”

Touching Eiya’s slightly burning cheek, although Jiaqi was usually a bit slow, he roughly guessed something. The direction of his guess, however, was slightly off…

“We’re at school right now, so I can’t play with you, okay? How about we talk about it tonight after we go back?”

“That’s not it! It’s not that at all!” Realizing what he had misunderstood, Eiya immediately cried out in flustered protest.

‘I might be a bit lewd, but it’s not that exaggerated! Brother Jiaqi, don’t construct some weird image of me in your head!’

But the moment Jiaqi said that, the object of her imagination uncontrollably shifted from Yu Qiu and Yunxing to herself and him… and as a result, her cute little face grew even hotter.

Yu Qiu’s prank had long since been seen through by Her Majesty the Demon Lord. In truth, as long as she casually mentioned it to her younger sister, it would not have led this silver-haired loli to overthink so much.

Reαd οո КαtRеαԁіոɡСafе

And the reason the Demon Lord did not do that required no explanation.

‘Because it was fun. My little sister would definitely let her imagination run wild, okay?’

And with this overthinking, overly lewd loli getting flustered, who knew? Maybe there would be some progress in her relationship with Jiaqi. Wouldn’t that be nice?

So Eiru had magnificently sold out her own little sister. While maintaining a spectator’s attitude toward the upcoming developments, she was also using this strange method to secretly assist the two of them.

“Eiya, your face is really red. Are you sure you’re okay?” Seeing her condition, Jiaqi’s worry deepened.

“I’m f-fine. But Brother Jiaqi, I want to ask… ask a question!”

“Go ahead?”

Eiya’s face was flushed red. The question was right at her lips, yet she could not force it out. Unlike her problem-child of a sister, a girl’s reserve and her habit of minding her image made it extremely difficult for her to say something that only ‘bad kids’ would talk about.

“I… I…”

“Alright, alright, calm down… take it slow, don’t be nervous. You know this, Brother Jiaqi would never dislike you.”

With one hand, Jiaqi pulled Eiya into his arms. Using the soothing technique he had secretly learned from Yuki, he gently stroked her back like calming down a fluffed-up cat.

Rеаԁ оn KаtRеаⅾіnɡСafе

“Uu… it’s just, um, Brother Jiaqi, waaahhh, I can’t ask it!!!”

In the end, the little girl could not hold it in. She buried her face into Jiaqi’s chest with incoherent sounds, her small pink fists lightly pounding against him. At this moment, the words embarrassed and indignant were displayed to the fullest.

Seeing her like this, the worry in Jiaqi’s eyes only deepened. Because of the previous little incident, not only had their relationship grown much closer, he had also learned some secrets about Eiya that previously only her dear older sister had known.

Although Eiya was now an ordinary human aside from having one extra tail, as someone who had once been the most qualified Demon Lord candidate, she would inevitably retain some Demon Lord traits.

It was like habits that had already formed, or something similar to phantom limb pain. Even if it no longer existed, it could still produce certain lingering effects.

So knowing quite a bit of the inside story, Jiaqi could not help but worry that his childhood sweetheart was forcing herself. After all, she was Eiru’s biological younger sister. Who knew, maybe she had inherited that mischievous Demon Lord’s bad habits too.

At the very least, that Lu Brat was quite frank in this regard. But on Eiya’s side… maybe she just could not let go.

“How about this, if you really can’t endure it, I’ll check at noon after school…”

“I already told you! That’s not what it is at all!!!”