Demon King – Chapter 953 – Competitiveness and Half-Heartedness

“Is something… wrong with her?”

A group of students gathered together discussing it. Someone’s recent behavior had indeed been rather abnormal, making everyone feel a bit unaccustomed.

“Are you okay? What kind of shock did you get?”

After several days without being harassed, even Eiya felt a little uncomfortable. Out of concern, she quietly slipped over to Yu Qiu, who was still burying her head in research of some unknown sort.

“The greatest humiliation of my life! I must figure out how to deal with her!”

For the first time in her life she had suffered a complete and utter defeat. What had originally been a small act of revenge after being frightened had turned into her failing to cause any trouble at all and instead getting lectured in return. Yu Qiu’s competitive spirit had been completely stirred up.

Hearing such inexplicable words, Eiya tilted her head in confusion. All she knew was that recently this girl had stopped trying to get close to her and had stopped asking about her sister. Everything around her had suddenly become much quieter, to the point she was starting to feel unaccustomed.

As for Yu Qiu, her previous troublemaking had purely been for fun. But this time was a bit different. The little lesson from Her Majesty the Demon Lord had, by accident, helped the girl rediscover the original intention behind her pranks.

As for what that original intention was, let’s keep it a little secret for now. During these past few days, she had been wholeheartedly researching how to regain some dignity from that black haired loli senior. She stopped causing trouble and stopped harassing people. She behaved so well that it almost did not feel like her at all.

As the saying goes, know yourself and know your enemy, and you will win every battle. A large part of her earlier defeat came from the massive difference in how much the two sides knew about each other. So every time class break arrived, Yu Qiu would run out to gather information about that mysterious black haired loli senior.

But the damn strange thing was that despite her fairly wide social circle, no matter how much she asked around, not a single person knew who that mysterious black haired, star eyed loli was. The bizarre development left her completely baffled.

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There were quite a lot of people in Seventh High who fit the description of a black-haired loli senior. But someone with blue pupils and star shaped eyes as a distinctive feature? She could not find a single one.

There were three people with the rare trait of blue eyes. But the entire school had only one person with star shaped pupils. Although she was also a loli, she had silver hair.

An ordinary person might have run into a dead end at this point. But Yu Qiu, a little girl skilled in pranks, whether she was smart or not aside, at least had a very rich imagination.

“The stars in her eyes can turn black and white, and they even change her personality… That’s not something an ordinary person could do. Is it a superpower?”

Thinking that the person she wanted to challenge might be some kind of superpowered individual only made Yu Qiu more excited. After some clever analysis and filtering, she quickly locked onto a target.

If even the color of the stars in her eyes could change, then changing hair color shouldn’t be too much, right?

Following that line of thought, Yu Qiu quickly set her sights on the legendary little Demon Lord of Seventh High.

(Eiru: Look at you! Completely useless. She suspected me right away!)

(Yuki: I’m aggrieved! With her you only changed your eyes and hair color. With me you changed gender and even made clones. You specifically guard against me. The difficulty level is totally different!)

Once her thinking opened up, Yu Qiu suddenly slammed the table and stood up, startling Eiya, who had still been trying to show concern for her. Just as she was about to complain and scold her, Eiya noticed Yu Qiu looking at her with an excited and rather eerie gaze.

“W-What are you trying to do now?”

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“Yaya! Introduce your sister to me, okay?!”

Under Eiya’s horrified gaze, Yu Qiu spread her arms wide and pounced directly at her.

“You again? Wait! Don’t hug me! Let go! Waaah! I never should’ve worried about you!!!”

Right now, Eiya’s heart was filled with nothing but regret.

‘Wasn’t it perfectly fine when she was quietly minding her own business? Why did I have to run over here and walk right into the muzzle of the gun?’

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After several days without seeing that familiar pink-haired girl running over to bother him, Yunxing had finally enjoyed some peaceful days. While feeling comfortable for a while, he also began wondering whether he had spoken too harshly that day.

But after thinking it over again, it was not really harsh. She had simply been asking for it. And based on his understanding of her, that little troublemaker could not possibly be so fragile. She was probably off bothering someone else somewhere.

“As long as she messes with someone else and not me…”

Leaning back in his chair with both hands stretched behind him, he relaxed his body. But soon the noisy chatter of the guys beside him ended his brief moment of comfort.

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Honestly, their boss once said some of them had never touched a woman in their lives. Looking at a few of them, that description was painfully accurate. Yunxing had only been resting here for a moment and they were already starting to tease him nonstop.

The topic was the same old thing about wanting to chase his sister and whatnot. But recently they had added something new, saying he should bring his “girlfriend” over sometime so everyone could get acquainted. Listening to it made Yunxing extremely irritated.

Although their boss had already figured out that Yu Qiu could not possibly be Yunxing’s girlfriend, he never pointed it out to the others. Unless something big happened he usually did not interfere. Most of the time he maintained a steady and calm demeanor.

“Xingzi, how’s that girl? How far have you two gotten? You’ve been hiding it from your bros this whole time. How are we supposed to give you advice, hahaha…”

Hearing their laughter made Yunxing even more annoyed. After spending so long with them, how could he not know what these guys were thinking?

They probably believed that since he disliked girls, suddenly getting a girlfriend must mean he just wanted to play around and take care of certain needs.

So these guys were likely hoping to get familiar with Yu Qiu first. Then after he “got tired” of her, they could follow along and mess with her themselves.

“You must’ve already done everything, right? Look at Xingzi’s reaction. He already seems tired of her, almost annoyed.”

Dyed hair, manicured nails, and bandages on her body that showed she was no obedient girl. With her flashy appearance and flirtatious way of speaking, the impression Yu Qiu had left on these hooligans was that although she was a bit small, she definitely seemed like the kind of girl who messed around outside.

“So how was the taste? I think she’s quite a cute little beauty too… even if she’s a bit short, hahaha.”

Although Yunxing was used to hearing their dirty jokes, at least when talking about Yunyue they restrained themselves a bit. Seeing that he did not react much to their discussion about Yu Qiu, their words began to grow increasingly vulgar.

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“Enough. We didn’t do anything. Haven’t even held hands. And we’ve already broken up.”

After the lesson from last time, and thinking Yu Qiu would not come over to seek trouble again, Yunxing, already irritated, simply ended the lie outright. Otherwise if it dragged on, misunderstandings would deepen and rumors would spread everywhere.

“Didn’t do anything? You dated a girl and didn’t even take a single bite? That’s way too much of a loss.”

“It’s only been a few days. Why did you suddenly break up? What happened?”

Under their relentless questioning, Yunxing grew increasingly impatient.

I wasn’t even dating that annoying girl in the first place. What excuse do you expect me to come up with?

“Nothing happened. We just didn’t get along, so we broke up. Stop bringing her up. It’s really annoying.”

The hooligans were shocked. Seeing Yunxing’s reaction, as if he did not even want to hear her name mentioned, a terrifying possibility immediately appeared in their minds.

‘Could it be… Xingzi actually caught real feelings for that girl?’