Makiya

23. A great dose of embarrassment

Her gorgeous chestnut hair had a few locks falling in front of her face. Her slightly blushing cheeks gave her a really innocent look that was very rare for a woman her age. She was 34 and her beauty had completely flourished. Probably had an arranged marriage or was single because she doesn’t have time for relationships. That’s at least what Andrey thought judging by her position and wealth.

“Okay, what is it?” Andrey asked with a small dose of uncertainty slightly blushing himself.

“One of the things is your payment. I have been going individually into everyone’s rooms to hand it out. Here’s yours.” She explained and out of nowhere suddenly pulled out a small bag of gold.

“Woah! I didn’t know I’m actually even getting paid!” Andrey exclaimed in surprise. He suddenly cleared his line of thoughts completely forgetting about the second thing she was there for. “I don’t really know how much it is, though?”

“It’s a hundred gold.” Anita said confidently with a small smirk on her face.

“No, I mean, I don’t really know…” and suddenly he stopped for he remembered Dea’n’ha warned him not to mention he was from another world. So he decided to take a different approach. I always had someone else do the errands for me, so I never really went out shopping. No, no… that’s absurd. Uh… I have been in a cage all my life? No. Andrey wondered what to lie and suddenly due to the demanding silence, he spitted out “I don’t know the value of gold.” in a really arrogant voice.

Anita suddenly rose an eyebrow and sharply noticed he was lying. She was really smart, actually.

“Okay, don’t worry. You don’t have to tell me.” she calmed him down.

“Ah… I’m sorry.” Andrey apologized. I’m saved. This woman can read right through me, though. I have to be careful. Oh right, what was the second thing she’s here for?

“I wanted to ask something of you.” Anita asked returning to her uncertain voice.

“Ah, right, what is it?” the boy looked her straight in the eyes and instant moment of shame took him over and looked away, but that only brought more shame to him, so he went back to looking her in the eyes in expectation. She was really beautiful now that she was closer and this only disturbed the young man’s straight senses.

“You see, I have a hobby. I have a business for sewing clothes and I generally think of different designs. It’s really not related to casual clothes only. I have a book full of my ideas and sketches for armor as well. I am literally totally interested in all this.” she explained. Andrey looked at her and suddenly had a clear mind and wondered why she was so embarrassed about this that she even blushed.

“That’s awesome! Sounds really creative and positive!” he smiled and felt calm, that she was eyeing him due to his unnatural clothes and not because of something else.

“Yes. You have an extraordinary outfit. I would really like to get a closer look at it… if it’s possible and … that doesn’t bother you!”. Chill, gosh, you look like a tomato. Andrey thought.

“Sure.” he agreed and went to the wardrobe to see if there were any spare clothes there.

She smiled in joy both for getting a chance at this extraordinary outfit and also for the boy figuring out to use the wardrobe by himself. Although the second seemed to be the only natural, many people wouldn’t be daring enough to do something on their own will with the furniture in this great mansion. Anita had known that guests usually are afraid to touch anything because of the price of it and fear of not breaking anything. But there was this young man dressed in black with a white cross on his cape that just stood up and went straight ahead.

Andrey opened the wardrobe and in it were many different clothes. Most of which were fit for a royal. Tight, pompous, with golden ornaments, and quite the fancy clothes. His face was filled with disgust, thankfully Anita couldn’t see it as she was behind him. The young boy didn’t really like those pompous dress styles. It just didn’t fit him. He preferred a shirt and some jeans. 

Unfortunately, such was not found. So he looked through and finally found something even more simple - it was a bathrobe. I believe the perfect excuse for wearing this is that I will be using my private bath. I just can’t find anything good in here.

“Okay, I’ll un….dress now.” He announced with a confused voice, realizing he’s getting naked in front of a beautiful woman. And then he turned around towards her making a strange face. She had joy all over her face, though. That excited for these clothes, eh? Well… they kind of come from another world. At least their idea is the fruit of tons of manga, anime, and video games.

“Oh, I’m really sorry! I was curious to see the mechanism behind dressing up and undressing. Will it bother you too much?” she asked with a sad face.

“Ah…” he wondered for a minute. “Okay, I’ll… Well, I guess I’ll just show you.”

“Don’t worry, I’ll keep my distance. I’m a professional, even though it’s just a hobby of mine.” she calmed him down. Or at least she tried.

Oh crap, a beautiful woman is watching me undress… chill, chill, chill… fruits of younghood why do you rise in me now!? I really would like to treat this like a professional. I’m supposed to play an act of a high and mighty persona, after all, I’m a warrior-mage sent from the king himself. Oh, Christ! Even if you didn’t exist in the previous world, I call to you from this one, please assist me in this hardship of mine!

Suddenly Andrey quickly slapped his cheek to calm himself down.

“What happened, dear!?” Anita slightly panicked.

“It’s okay, I thought I have a fly. It was just my sweat, I’m really sorry. It seems it’s quite hot in here.” the boy lied as he slapped himself to cool his head and think straight. It really is hot. Is it because of my excitement? Is her face sweaty, too? If I see I will know if it’s just me. Oh wait, that’s an embarrassing thing to do. 

After deciding he has to face his destiny he simply started to undress. Firstly he reached behind his back and took out the Makiya blades.

“Wow! What extraordinary weaponry!” Anita shockingly complimented.

After a few moments of blank staring at them, he continued undressing “Thank you!”

Next, he untied the belts which held on to the blades. The belts got dismantled in front at his belly and then taken off from the shoulders.

Anita took close look at the advanced design this boy’s outfit had.

What followed was the cape. He simply untied it from the shirt as it had a special tying mechanism for it to be stable and not get in the way. Under the cape flew out a bird and landed on the bed’s wooden frame. Anita in complete surprise got scared and released a silent “Ah!”. It was Dea, the bird - the legba. It stood there and just watched silently. “Don’t worry, she’s always with me, though sometimes even I forget she’s there.” Andrey calmed her down.

“Yes, I know of these birds, I was simply shocked it appeared out of your cape.” she silently chuckled but quickly focused back on Andrey’s outfit. 

Then he began removing his shirt. It had hidden buttons on the inside. After undressing, revealing the few months of training results and spiritual energy buff, he had to remove his tank-top, which as if was made from a black net. He undressed it and then removed the two belts he had on his waist. They were mainly to be used for attachable pockets, which he didn’t really have. He practically had nothing, after all. Besides the newly earned 100 gold.

His jeans-like pants, though he didn’t remove in front of her. She stood in complete awe on that chair filled with excitement as her eyes were eyeballing the whole outfit. 

“Um… For the pants. They are like normal pants, so… please…” he asked embarrassed with innocence Anita almost found seductive.

“If that’s the case, okay!” she said as she turned around.

Andrey looked at her for a few seconds moving around to make noise pretending he’s undressing just to make sure she won’t peek. Well, she didn’t for a few seconds so he removed the pants too. Quickly put on the bathrobe and put the clothes on the bed behind her.

“You can turn around now.”

“Thank you! I will return them to you by morning! I believe a sleepless study-night is laying in expectation!” she happily stood up and grabbed the clothes.

Andrey nodded and fastened to grab the blades in his hand. She got a little scared and made a quick step back.

“Ah, sorry, I didn’t mean to scare you! I just… have this habit of mine. I even bath with them.” he joked with an innocent beautiful smile.

She gazed at it for a few seconds. Anita really found Andrey to be really sweet, polite, and handsome. His intelligence attracted her more, though. But what attracted her the most was the outfit he was wearing.

She quickly bowed to him three times and rushed out of the room, finally leaving him alone at his own peace.

He waited a few seconds with the blades in his hand. After he could no longer hear her footsteps in the corridor he slightly opened the door and peeked to see if she was still there. She was. But not because she stopped or turned around. It was because the isolation of the walls was so great that the footsteps faded too quickly.

He waited until she was no longer visible, closed the door, and quickly jumped on the bed. Finally a bit of peace. He looked at the bath which was behind a glass-door. Maybe I should take my chances and get a bath. I believe it looks luxurious enough to be really relaxing. I’ve never really even once been in a hotel room to even dream of luxury like this.

Andrey jumped from the bed and filled the bathtub with steamy hot water. In great excitement, he took the blades with him and placed them on the shelf right next to the tub. He jumped in and just closed his eyes enjoying the sensation.

A knock on the door was heard and the door opened. The glass door was steamy and it wasn’t possible to see, but the sound of footsteps revealed that somebody entered the room.