Demon King – Chapter 954 – Her Majesty the Demon Lord Was Already Prepared

Inside the third year Honor Class today, a group of students stared at a certain silver-haired loli sitting at her desk, seriously scribbling and drawing something, with expressions as if they had seen a ghost.

‘This mischievous little brat is actually studying seriously? Is that even scientifically possible? What is she trying to do? Is she trying to outcompete everyone to death?’

Not only the others, even Yuki’s expression was not much better. Although he knew in his heart that this unlucky Demon Lord must be messing with something else, the sight still felt strange.

Tilting his head to sneak a glance, sure enough, the things the loli was drawing on the paper looked like incomprehensible scribbles. But every so often Eiru would pause and murmur a few words to herself before throwing herself back into writing with a serious expression, which did not look like she was simply messing around.

“Lu Brat, what are you working on?”

Strange symbols, patterns, and various bizarre little things. Yuki studied it for quite a while but still could not figure out what his little girlfriend was doing. It did not even look like drawing.

“Hm? This? It’s the writing of the demon race.”

Giving an answer that was not particularly strange, the little Demon Lord spoke while lightly writing a character onto Yuki’s arm with her finger.

Immediately afterward, Yuki felt the temperature of the spot where she wrote noticeably increase. Before he could even ask about it, Her Majesty the Demon Lord gave him the answer. As long as it was imbued with magic power, the writing of the demon race could become a carrier for magic.

“I’m researching whether I can combine authority and magic a little through this… oh right, since this counts as transferring magic power onto the characters instead of me directly using magic, it won’t cause the problem of accumulated chaotic magic power.”

“So you’re exploiting a bug here? But suddenly working on this… have you figured things out on Yunxing’s side?”

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Eiru was not the type to leave one matter unfinished and go tinker with something else. If she suddenly set aside Yunxing’s issue to work on something new, then either the two things were connected, or the matter with Yunxing temporarily did not require attention.

“Mm, I’ve pretty much figured everything out.”

Answering casually, the little Demon Lord remained immersed in her enthusiasm for studying demon script.

After asking around about many things and linking together the scattered pieces of information to form a conclusion, Her Majesty the Demon Lord, whose ability to act was extremely strong, immediately began arranging the next step. Before Yuki even realized it, her plan had already been quietly implemented for some time.

As for the breakthrough point, it was easy to find. After all, wasn’t there already a ready made troublemaking brat?

With her restless personality and her strange obsession with delinquent boys, she would sooner or later come into contact with Yunxing’s gang of dubious friends.

And as for the way she “came into contact” with people… anyone who knew her would understand.

So in Her Majesty the Demon Lord’s plan, Yu Qiu was equivalent to a fuse and a catalyst. As long as things developed naturally, that would be enough. She did not need to interfere too much.

If events developed as she predicted, then before long Yunyue’s wish for her younger brother to stop hanging around with those shady friends would probably come true. What Eiru needed to prepare now were matters further down the line. For example…

“You’ve heard of contracts before, right, Stupid Yuki? I’m working on that right now.”

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Having watched plenty of novels and anime, Yuki was not unfamiliar with the word contract. But when he heard it, the first thing that popped into his mind was actually something else.

Could it be that kind of shady otherworld contract?

“It’s not that kind of thing like a legal contract… contracts in that world are more like a kind of magic, but in many ways they’re even stronger.”

Simply put, special writing was used to set trigger conditions and rules. The contracting party would then store a certain amount of magic power within it. Once the contracted party satisfied the conditions, the effect inside would activate automatically.

Compared with magic, contracts were superior in efficiency, effect, and execution. But their preparation was indeed more troublesome, and they required the consent of both parties in order to be successfully established.

“For example, if I gave you acceleration magic when you run, Stupid Yuki… under the same magic power conditions, the acceleration from a contract and the duration of it would both be stronger than ordinary magic.”

Magic required the little Demon Lord to personally cast it on Yuki every time. A contract, however, could automatically provide the acceleration effect when Yuki ran, even when she was not present.

Although automatic activation and high efficiency completely surpassed normal magic, the reason it was called a contract was because its operation was compulsory.

A contract did not care whether the person involved wanted the effect to activate or not. Once it was established, as long as the conditions were met, it would forcibly operate.

Take the example just mentioned. If no extra conditions or restrictions were written, then as long as Yuki started running, whether he wanted it or not, the contract would forcibly activate the acceleration.

“Hearing that, it kind of sounds like the state you were in when you lost your emotions before.”

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For some reason the feeling reminded him of that time. Yuki suddenly recalled the puppet-like state Eiru had been in back then.

“Uh… that state was indeed called contract mode.”

The little Demon Lord scratched her head.

“I had no ability to act independently and only followed the orders of people around me. But in terms of magic and things like that, I was indeed stronger than normal.”

Opposite to that was her black star eyed mode. It was far more sinister and violent, but it also lost almost all magic abilities. Like a berserker, it was left with only two abilities. Pure bursts of magic power and magic enhancement.

“No, no, no! We’re getting off topic!”

Realizing the conversation had drifted too far, Eiru suddenly jumped up and knocked on Yuki’s head twice.

“Didn’t you just ask about that little brother of hers? These past couple of days I’ve noticed that he and that little girl Yu Qiu seem to have a bit of a story.”

She briefly explained what she had seen and heard that day. Yunxing had used the claim of being her boyfriend to protect Yu Qiu from those hooligans whose brains were full of lust. That sort of move had already been expected by Her Majesty the Demon Lord.

“But the fact that he dislikes Yu Qiu is real. I can feel it. With his personality and temper, that clumsy lie will be torn apart by himself before long.”

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There were only two ways such a lie could be exposed.

Either he openly admitted that it had been a lie, or he would simply take advantage of the situation and say they had broken up.

Based on what she observed that day, if it was the former, those guys would inevitably feel the resentment and regret of having a duck that had reached their mouths fly away. Their thoughts about Yu Qiu would become even stronger.

If it was the latter, then it was even easier to predict. Those hooligans walked around the streets all day. Whether true or not, didn’t they love talking about so-called brotherhood?

As the saying goes, couples who break up become like enemies. Using the excuse that their brother had been hurt and heartbroken, those guys would have even more justification and confidence to “teach Yu Qiu a lesson” and get revenge.

In short, no matter what happened, Yu Qiu would definitely encounter some trouble for quite a while.

And that trouble could instead become the best fuse to push events forward.

“Oh, and by the way. For the sake of this plan… I also had a good talk with an ‘old acquaintance’.”

Speaking in riddles, the little Demon Lord suddenly began rubbing her hands together as if recalling something, making it very difficult to believe whether this so-called “conversation” had been normal or not.