Eh...Lumine...?

Lumine gave Yomite one of the ropes she materialized a few seconds later and he nodded with approval before carefully examining Zhongli.

Hu Tao fixed herself on Yomite's shoulders and soon, a look of confusion graced her beautiful features.

"Eh, Assistant? Lumi-Lumi? Why do you guys have a rope in your hands...!? What is going on!?"

"Rude Tattoo? Traveler? What is happening?" Paimon interjected from behind, completely oblivious to the situation unfolding around her, just like everyone else...

Fischl was also curious and appeared to be concerned, whilst Barbara eagerly peeped from behind, watching the "conflict" unfold in front of her.

"Yum-Yum? What is happening?"

"Starlord Yomite, ist there a problem...?"

Yomite sighed heavily, "There is something we need to check with...Mr. Zhongli..."

He looked towards Zhongli, the man standing at a distance with an air of authority—most noticeably—immediately fixing his eyes on him.

(...I want to know.)

He needed to confirm his suspicion right away...

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Name: Zhongli (Morax/Rex Lapis Vessel)

Age: 28 (6400+)

Title: Geo Archon's Vessel, Prime of the Adepti, The God of Commerce, Lord of Geo, The God of History & Wealth, The Groundbreaker, The Warrior God, The God of Contracts, The God of Slaughter, The God of Diligence, Oldest of The Seven Archons, The Emperor of Domination, The Undisputed, The Silent Whisper, Vaga Bond, ██████████████, ██████████████, ██████████████, ██████████████, ██████████████, ██████████████, ██████████████

Occupation: Wangsheng Funeral Parlor Consultant, Adeptus, ██████████████████, ██████████████████

Hobby: taking walks through Liyue

Likes: ███████████████

Dislikes: Sea Food

Dream: ██████████████████

Current mood: Unhappy

Relationship Level: None

State of Relationship: Hostile

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"Kindly cast your prying gaze away."

The man, no, the God, politely told him before closing his amber orbs.

A small hint of hostility within the whisper...But, otherwise, very pleasant to listen to.

His voice was deep, spoken well and calm, giving him authority like a king that rulers desire, and demonstrating immense poise at the moment.

Yet Yomite, was immediately alarmed...

(He knows I'm checking his stats? This is the first time this happened since the Paimon incident which was quite scary... and also like...how many titles does he even have?)

He counted more than ten, some of the info was even blank, possibly some top secret stuff Yomite didn't have permission to see...

The God, Morax had the stance of grace and vigor from what his movement implied; as though no one was his equal in strength, nor in elegance or class. As though no one could even harm him.

When observing his image, Yomite couldn't deny being disturbed; feeling inferior as though expecting a fate like annihilation once daring to attack him.

Compared to a failure of an Archon like Venti, Zhongli felt on a whole different level, unapproachable, unquenchable, unfathomable...

"..."

Zhongli stood in silence.

Slightly curious to how a potential enemy would act once his identity was discovered, slightly intrigued to find out if they would dare attack him or not.

And, to his surprise, two people came up to him with ropes in hands.

...

..

.

After checking his stats, Yomite was more than reluctant to tie him up, but Lumine seemingly had a different plan and casually approached him.

Yomite was afraid Zhongli would attack her, but he let her approach and tie him up without any resistance whatsoever, not even when she put a gag over his mouth.

Yomite only wanted to tie his hands up, but Lumine said that as a precaution, they should just blindfold him, gag him and envelop him entirely with the rope, so that he couldn't even move a muscle...

According to her, these precautions were necessary so there was no possibility of misdirection, allowing him to possibly escape or doing harm to them.

Thus, the Morax also known as Rex Lapis, the God of Liyue, got tied and gagged up within half a minute after they arrived at Hu Tao's office..

But to Yomite...

This particular type of rope technique...seemed very familiar...

"Say...Lumine..."

"Hmm?"

"Where did you learn this... 'technique' from...?"

Lumine turned and regarded him curiously, puzzled by his question.

"Why do you want to know? Want to learn it with me? I'll teach you."

"Nah, I was just curious."

She shook her head before fixing his eyes back on Zhongli.

"I saw it in a book Lisa recommend to me. Apparently, it's a great way to improve blood flow and since the occasion has presented itself, I wanted to try it out on someone, as I've never done it before. It seemed like a great way to restrain someone."

"I see...Lisa...no wonder..."

There were no more doubts in his mind, that the technique Lumine unconsciously copied or learned from the book was how to make a bondage...

Bondage; a sexual technique where a dominant figure would dominate another by restraining them into uncomfortable positions and limiting their movements, hence gaining obedience from the oppressed subject and also a form of satisfaction to have conquered the subject's body thus physically enslaving them.

It was usually done on women during sex that involved erotic scenarios such as BDSM, spanking...non consensual sex roleplay and so on...

So seeing a God, restrained so weirdly on a chair in front of him made him completely baffled and he was starting to wonder whether he lived in a simulation or not...

(I really wonder just how did Lisa manage to fool Lumine into learning how to do this...I'm pretty positive Lumine wouldn't read stuff like that by herself...curse the milf witch, now I have to bleach my eyes...why couldn't it be a cute girl that got restrained... why did it have to be a guy...?)