Chapter 40
“What way?” I looked up at Lian Qi, pinning all my hopes on her.
She cleared her throat solemnly and said, “First, Qifeng takes off her bra. Let the bra slide down from her left hand, along the chain, to your right hand. Then, you duck through the bra strap, and the bra will be successfully taken off.”
“…Make me duck through Qifeng’s bra?”
I can’t imagine what a shameful scene that would be. How could Lian Qi even think of that?
“You’re so skinny, it won’t be a problem.”
“Then what about my bra?”
“Of course, we’ll use the same method. Have Qifeng duck through.”
“…It’ll get stretched out and ruined.” I tried my best not to imagine the scene of Qifeng ducking through my bra, and just analyzed it from a feasibility perspective.
“It won’t. Qifeng is very skinny, too.”
“Eh? So there really is a way to take it off without tearing the bra?” Qifeng said in a delicate, breathy voice. “Fei’er, why don’t we… give it a try?”
I knew the gaze she was giving me must be both shy and expectant, but I deliberately avoided looking at her. If I agreed immediately, Lian Qi would definitely think we, this pair of childhood friends, are hopeless. Even if we are childhood friends… I’ve never even thought about ducking through her underwear.
Even if we get through that, what follows is bathing with Qifeng. Won’t my identity as a boy be exposed then? I regret asking Lian Qi for advice. I should have just settled for a sponge bath…
“Even if we do ‘duck through,’ I’m sorry, Qifeng, I’m still not ready to bathe with you right now. Because… you know, I’ve been used to bathing alone since I was little. I… I can’t stand people looking at me.”
Seeing how sincere I’m being, just spare me, please!? By the way, how come Qifeng doesn’t have the awareness that “The Saintess’s sacred body cannot be desecrated by a believer”?
“Can’t stand people looking at you? That’s simple. I’ve thought of a way,” Lian Qi said.
I glanced at her. I have a bad feeling about this. She’s… thought of another way?
A few minutes later—
“Lian Qi, are you sure this is… really okay?”
We stood watching Qifeng. I had an awkward expression on my face.
Qifeng was blindfolded and kneeling on the bathroom floor. Because we couldn’t find a black cloth, we just used my black over-knee socks instead. By the way, this is already the second time Qifeng has been blindfolded…
“It’s fine! If you’re worried about her moving around, just do this—” As Lian Qi spoke, she yanked on the chain binding Qifeng and me, wrapping it around Qifeng’s hands a few more times.
This is even more shameful!!
“I… Is the way I am right now… especially shameful…?” Qifeng asked, blushing.
“Do you even need to ask? We had to do this to satisfy Fei’er’s request.”
“What do you mean, ‘to satisfy me’!?”
You’re making me sound like some kind of pervert. Just look at Qifeng’s current state, it’s beyond shameful! I never, ever thought of blindfolding Qifeng and then tying her up!
“If you can’t stand it, just say so,” Lian Qi said to Qifeng.
“It’s fine… I can take it…”
Qifeng wasn’t just shy; she also seemed… excited?
“Next, are you… going to do some kind of lewd punishment to me…?”
”…” I watched her squirm her bound hands slightly, at a loss for words.
She’s hopeless, isn’t she? This personality of hers?
“Fei’er? Lian Qi? Are you staring at me? I feel like there are gazes on me…” she said bashfully.
”…” I couldn’t bear to look at her anymore. Every extra glance I take makes me feel like a pervert…
“Oh? Maybe it’s because she’s blindfolded, so her other senses have become more sensitive?”
“Please stop explaining,” I said to Lian Qi, full of shame.
How could I not be full of shame? Don’t forget, the other end of the chain binding Qifeng’s hands is connected to my wrist… It’s like I’m leading her on a leash. This shameful scene… Uwah…!
“Alright, now you two are going to bathe together,” Lian Qi smiled.
“Please don’t… announce it so loudly,” I said helplessly. By the way, Qifeng is blindfolded. As long as she doesn’t secretly take it off halfway through, I can bathe with her without worry. It’s just that… this current posture is really too shameful…
Qifeng probably won’t secretly take it off, right? After all, she seems to be enjoying the feeling of being blindfolded. Besides, with her hands tied, it won’t be that easy to take off, right?
“I’ve put the nightgowns you’ll wear after your bath right here. You’ll cooperate to put them on just like you took off the underwear, understand?”
”…”
Not only do I have to duck through her underwear, but I also have to duck through the straps of a nightgown? This is all Qifeng’s fault…! If her magic hadn’t suddenly gone out of control, we never would have ended up in this situation.
“Understood… Anyway, you can go out first…” I said helplessly to Lian Qi. I feel like the ideas she comes up with just make the situation more and more evil.
I really should have just settled for a simple wash-down. We could have hung the underwear we took off on the chain like a clothesline, and then put it back on after washing. And then just sleep in our underwear tonight? That way, we wouldn’t have to ‘duck through’ anything.
But, I can’t possibly sleep in just my underwear. Without an extra layer of defense on my lower body, my identity as a boy would be easily exposed. My uniform skirt wasn’t torn, was it? Unless I sleep in that.
“Relax, I won’t peek on you two bathing. Bye-bye, have a nice bath.”
“How could it possibly be ‘nice’…” I watched Lian Qi casually close the bathroom door and said to myself.
The moment the door ‘clicked’ shut, Qifeng shivered and said in a frightened voice, “Fei’er? Are you there? I… I can’t see anything… You’re not going to just leave me here, are you?”
“…Of course I’m here. We’re chained together, where could I go?”