Peach-Orange! – Chapter 572 – Restraint and Imprisonment

The effects of this sleeping powder do not take effect immediately. Instead, over the course of half an hour, it gradually makes one feel drowsy, causing one to fall into a deep sleep unknowingly.

Once one truly lies down, it’s no ordinary sleep. It’s the kind where even two slaps might not wake one up directly; one would need to be splashed with water.

Oh, and intense, continuous actions like xxx ¹ You know what this means 😉 would also wake a person up.

Sorry about this, Tao-Tao.

After adding this silently in her heart, Chi Xiaocheng pretended not to know anything and continued eating and chatting.

However, what puzzled her a bit was that the sleeping powder, which should take 30 minutes to take effect, had only been administered 3 minutes ago, yet Su Tao was already starting to yawn frequently.

Was the system’s medicine faulty?

Chi Xiaocheng cautiously asked, “Tao-Tao, are you sleepy?”

Su Tao nodded gently, “I don’t know if it’s because I’m too tired. I haven’t rested much today. After eating some food, my blood might be… circulating faster? Anyway, I feel a bit like sleeping.”

“Then let’s eat a bit faster. If you’re tired, you should get a good sleep. I’ll take care of washing the dishes and cleaning up later. You’ve been working hard lately, Tao-Tao.”

Chi Xiaocheng stood up, reached out, and patted Su Tao’s head, acting completely normal.

She guessed it might be because she had used a relatively large dose of the powder. After all, considering Tao-Tao’s War God bloodline, the dosage was almost at a lethal level.

“But…” the drowsy Su Tao suddenly changed the subject, “Xiaocheng has been so well-behaved these past two days, as if coaxing me. You wouldn’t sneak out while I’m asleep later, would you?”

Chi Xiaocheng’s hand, which was patting Su Tao’s head, stiffened for a moment. “Of course not, Tao-Tao. You said yourself I’ve been so well-behaved. Am I that kind of person?”

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She lowered her head and met Su Tao’s seemingly inexplicably confident, yet somewhat strange, azure blue eyes.

Then, the young girl suddenly smiled, “That’s true. Xiaocheng should understand herself. If I really lost you again, I would break down.”

She yawned, but her face didn’t seem to show much sleepiness. “Every time I think about Xiaocheng dying, getting hurt, or lying motionless in bed like before, my heart aches terribly.

“I often think, how great it would be if I were the one who got hurt instead…”

Su Tao’s murmuring voice gradually softened. She didn’t even finish her meal before falling forward onto the table with a “thud,” sinking into a deep sleep.

Chi Xiaocheng looked at the young girl’s high ponytail and remained silent for a long time.

The medicine had taken effect.

She did indeed plan to leave now, but…

“Sigh.”

Chi Xiaocheng withdrew the hand that was originally resting on Su Tao’s head. “Tao-Tao, of course I know all this. Just like I don’t want to lose you either. But… I can’t give up on Brother. Even if there is danger, I want to try.

“But I promise you, I absolutely will not come to harm. I will also return quickly. I won’t abandon you. I still have Xiao Hei by my side.”

Chi Xiaocheng knew that Su Tao couldn’t hear these words.

She was already asleep.

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But if she didn’t say them, the guilt in her heart would be even stronger.

Speaking of which, they had been together all this time, and Su Tao’s behavior had been relatively normal, without much stimulation. Chi Xiaocheng had almost forgotten that the other’s possessiveness had actually exceeded 90. If she hadn’t controlled it properly, Su Tao would have become a yandere.

These past two days, after Su Tao found out she wanted to go out and was afraid she might get into danger, there had been some minor conflicts. The more obsessive side that Su Tao had always kept hidden gradually began to show.

If it weren’t for this somewhat abrupt shift, Chi Xiaocheng would have truly overlooked the fact that Su Tao’s possessiveness had already reached 90.

“Speaking of which, I wonder where Tao-Tao threw the Status Glasses now. Even if I found them, would they still be usable?”

Chi Xiaocheng walked to Su Tao’s side, put her arm around Su Tao’s waist to support the young girl, and simultaneously asked the system in her heart.

The system replied.

【The Status Glasses merely had their usage rights taken over by the World Will. It can arbitrarily change the data within them. If the host can find them, I can also restore the glasses to normal.】

【Because they were a vessel previously needed by the World Will, only the Status Glasses were not directly destroyed.】

“If that’s the case, after I return later, I’ll have to ask Tao-Tao about them. After all, they’re worth several thousand points of emotional value.”

While chatting idly with the system, she helped Su Tao to the bedside.

Then, Chi Xiaocheng encountered a problem.

Her room, or rather, the entire apartment, seemed to lack anything for imprisonment or restraint.

Furthermore, there was a hard requirement: the items used for imprisonment had to be able to withstand Tao-Tao’s War God bloodline.

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She could even bend that small dumbbell by the front door. Would ordinary restraints really prevent the young girl from escaping after she woke up?

Or perhaps, like in those eroge, perform a full 360-degree rope binding with no blind spots?

Hmm, one much more advanced than a tortoise shell bind, so restrictive that not only would the hands and feet be bound, but even each individual toe would be wrapped with thin rope.

“Never mind, that would be too lewd.”

No lewdness!

Just imagining that scene made Chi Xiaocheng feel her face flush and something felt off.

In the end, she chose the most reliable method.

Spend emotional value!

30 emotional points for a portion of cartilage-weakening powder with effects lasting three full days.

100 emotional points for one set of restraining handcuffs and shackles.

These chains were made of the same material as the fruit knife. If sharpened, they could even pierce through steel plates. Even if she were ten times more powerful in her Darkening state, she wouldn’t be able to break them directly.

Coupled with the cartilage-weakening powder, which could disperse all of a person’s physical strength,

Tao-Tao would absolutely be unable to escape from here within these three days.

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And three days was enough time for her to rescue her brother and return here.

As for what to do if Su Tao got angry afterwards…

Chi Xiaocheng stood by Su Tao’s side and smiled faintly, “I’m really sorry, Tao-Tao. I can’t listen to you this time either. If you get angry later, after I come back, no matter what you want to do to me, I won’t resist.”

Because, likewise, I also like you.

She first brought a glass of water from outside, dissolved the cartilage-weakening powder in it, and then fed the water to Su Tao little by little.

Immediately after, she carried Su Tao to the bed, spread her arms and legs out in a large “X” shape, and used the chains to restrain her hands and feet to the four corners of the bed.

“This should do it.”

She placed the key on the table nearby to prevent the person coming to release Tao-Tao from being unable to find it.

However, she couldn’t let Envoy Qiu’s people perform the release either. It wasn’t certain if those people could be fully trusted.

If someone came, saw Tao-Tao restrained, and then got any ideas upon seeing her beauty, everything would be ruined.

Chi Xiaocheng had already made a plan: send a message to Fang Ning, have the little one crawl back into the residential area through the sewer, and then take care of Su Tao after one day to prevent her from going hungry.

This way… everything should be settled, right?

After finishing all this, Chi Xiaocheng yawned. “This has even made me a bit sleepy. Well then, Tao-Tao… good night~”