Chapter 39
“By the way, did I go a bit too far?” Lian Qi said.
Qifeng’s half-naked body was only covered by her underwear, and the white over-knee socks on her legs were full of holes. But Lian Qi wouldn’t feel there was any problem staring at her; after all, they are both girls, unlike me, who would feel bashful.
“I’m… I’m fine…” Qifeng said, her face red with shame.
While they weren’t paying attention, I crouched and quietly snuck away, grabbing a bath towel from the coat rack.
I just heard Lian Qi say, “It’s one thing to bully Fei’er, but I’ve only met you twice. I feel a bit bad.”
Listen to what she’s saying! So she feels just fine bullying me? If Qifeng wasn’t here, the one left in their underwear today… would have been me?
“You can’t bully Fei’er! If you’re going to bully someone, bully me. I’ll take it for her…!”
”…” Hearing Qifeng say this, I should be very touched, but as soon as I remember she has masochistic tendencies, the meaning of this sentence changes.
What a silly girl…
I originally grabbed the bath towel to wrap around myself for modesty, but seeing Qifeng’s exposed body with only a little underwear left… Forget it. I walked over and draped the bath towel over her.
My upper body doesn’t have much to hide anyway. If you want to laugh at me for being flat-chested, go right ahead. I’m a boy, after all. I’m more worried about Qifeng than I am about myself.
“Eh…?” Qifeng, wrapped in the towel I put on her, was stunned.
“Silly girl, don’t catch a cold,” I said to her softly.
“Fei’er, you’re so good to me—!” Qifeng, without another word, puffed out her proud chest and lunged at me, trying to hug me. How could I possibly handle this? It’s too shameful! I quickly blocked her, not letting her get close—
“Get away! Being an M isn’t contagious, is it!?”
I’m really worried it might be contagious…
“Fei’er, you’ve finally dared to face it ‘flat’ out?” Lian Qi said quietly from the side.
“Are you trying to say ‘flat’ as in ‘flat-chested’!?” I glanced at her while fending off Qifeng.
Lian Qi is really…! She just has to provoke me until I snap, doesn’t she?
“By the way, I haven’t learned ‘Explosion Magic’ yet, but I’ve already learned ‘Clothes-Breaking Magic.’ This kind of magic would be an instant-kill against girls in the graduation festival ranking tournament, right?”
“No…! You can’t use it on other people…!” I said resolutely! As the Saintess, I will absolutely not allow Lian Qi to do such an immoral thing!
Lian Qi smiled mischievously— “Oh? Can’t use it on other people. Does that mean it’s okay to use it on you?”
“Of course not…!” I said, blushing.
Huh—?
After I pushed Qifeng away, I discovered that a glittering golden chain had been fastened to my right wrist. Isn’t this Qifeng’s inherent magic, ‘Chains of Bondage’? I looked at Qifeng and found the other end of the chain was fastened to her left wrist.
“Qifeng, what are you doing? Make the chain disappear, quickly.”
That silly girl actually put on a confused face? Hmph~ Are you saying you didn’t do it on purpose?
“I… I really don’t know why the chain suddenly appeared…? Maybe the magic went out of control? Because of the shame… so…” she said softly, her face bashful. “It went out of control…”
I’ve heard that emotions can cause magic to go out of control, but going out of control because of ‘shame’ is truly unheard of.
“C-Can you… undo it for me?”
Qifeng shook her head. “I’m afraid I can’t, since I wasn’t the one who summoned it.”
I was stunned. Y-You’ve got to be kidding…
“Maybe we have to wait ten-plus hours for the magic to disappear on its own…” she said, looking at me with a crimson face. “During this time, we can only be tied together.”
“T-Tied together!?”
The chain connecting us is only a little over a meter long. What about bathing!? What about using the toilet!?
It felt like my heart had been struck by lightning. I was so devastated, I almost collapsed…!
“Uwah…!”
I slumped to the floor. I’m really not throwing a tantrum…
“Lian Qi, please, destroy the chain just like you destroyed the clothes…!”
“It won’t work… The characteristic of my inherent magic ‘Chains of Bondage’ is that it cannot be broken, no matter what,” she said demurely, a blush on her face, as if being tied to me was a very happy thing.
“Th-Then let’s find Sister Aijieliya! Have her use her ‘Magic-Severing Slash’ that can cut through anything to undo it for me!”
“Are you telling me you want your sister to see the two of you dressed like this?” Lian Qi said, clutching her head in frustration.
I looked down at my own shameful appearance— my uniform top was torn to shreds, with only a few rags dangling. Anyone who didn’t know the truth would definitely let their imagination run wild. And Qifeng, the over-knee socks on her legs, full of holes, are actually even more shameful than her half-naked body…!
I suddenly felt that Lian Qi had a point. I really shouldn’t let Sister Aijieliya see us in this state.
“This state we’re in is all your fault…!” I said, wanting to cry but having no tears.
It’s all Lian Qi’s fault…! Uu… She actually used Qifeng’s and my clothes for her magic experiments. So evil…!
“What do we do now…? We’re chained together, we can’t possibly bathe…!”
“Fei’er… you don’t want to bathe with me? It’s been like this since we were little…” Qifeng looked at me pitifully, as if she was very hurt, making me unable to meet her gaze.
“Well, actually…”
I don’t even know how to explain it to her. How could I possibly bathe with you? The moment I’m completely naked, won’t I expose that I’m a boy?
“The problem now is that our hands are chained together! How are you supposed to take off your bra? Are we supposed to bathe in our underwear?” I said.
Just as I said, because our hands are chained, we can’t take off the bra strap on the chained side…
Qifeng had a ‘lightbulb’ moment— “Oh, right. What do we do?”
She then nibbled on her towel and said bashfully in a small voice, “It seems we can only… tear my bra as well…”
…What the hell! It’s like she has no objection to her bra being torn at all.
I quickly said, “If it’s torn, what will you wear tomorrow? You can’t wear my bra.”
“That’s right, if you wear Fei’er’s bra, you’ll be in danger of suffocating,” Lian Qi chimed in.
“Don’t talk about me like that…!”
Lian Qi is really… describing me in such an embarrassing way…
“What about your bra?” I asked Lian Qi.
Lian Qi glanced at Qifeng’s chest and quickly said, “A-Are you kidding! She can’t wear my bra either!”
What are we going to do? Just as everyone was worrying, Lian Qi thought for a moment and said, “I’ve thought of a way.”
Eh—? What way?