Explaining coitus to a creature from another world is not one of my bucket list.
My face turned redder the longer it took me to find words to say. Meanwhile, Lion seemed patient whereas I was having predicament.
After several minutes, I told him everything about coitus the way I would explain to a patient. His face looked brightened for a moment when I explained about the different positions humans may do in order to gain "pleasure".
After a long time listening, he asked me how humans would find mates. I told him everything I know about romance, considering the fact that I'm not an expert on that field. He told me that creatures in this world would pick their mate depending on their bond and attraction but other creatures would differ. He had less knowledge about how other creatures gain mates and no knowledge in other classes. He said he is still a beginner in his field though the reason why he has a high position currently is because he has great control of magic and almost perfect memory.
I asked him why he has no mate yet and this time, it's him who is flustered. He embarrassingly told me that he hasn't find a type yet and he was too focused in his quest of gaining more knowledge. He asked me if I want to know how he would produce offspring and I told him no. I don't want to know.
He looked dejected for a moment and for a tiny moment, I was genuinely interested. I mean does he mate like a human or.....
I don't want to know. For now.
And no, you can't see what's underneath my clothes, I told him. I may be weak compared to you but I would definitely fight until my last breath. He looked surprised for a moment and asked me if it was a human trait to not showing the body. Not every creature in this world tend to cover everything and some may almost not wear anything at all depending on the temperature and environment.
I gave him a brief anatomy lecture of a human's body and the difference between a male, female and intersex. He looked thoughtful for a moment then he tried summoning an object that somehow looked like a modeling clay that moves. He briefly said a few words and the modeling clay somehow becomes a naked female statue.
He stared at the statue for several minutes that I became embarrassed looking at him interested in a woman's naked body. I was thinking of walking away when he asked me the names of all the body parts. No tail, no wings, nothing? He asked.
Oh. I thought he was lusting after a woman's body.
....
Soon I became bored and thankfully he noticed. He asked me what I needed and he will try to give it to me.
I need a bath and a change of clothes, I told him.
Good thing baths existed here and soon I was inside a room with a large sort of like a bathtub. Floating lights were everywhere and there were several bottles on what seemed to be soap or shampoo, I do not know. I soon learned what are they.
You are supposed to put just several drops on the water. Not the whole bottle. Pretty soon, bubbles of all sorts of colors started to swell up and I'm beginning to panic when I heard a snap and turned around to look just to see Lion snapping his fingers and lo and behold, the bubbles returned to normal and he just leisurely turned around and disappear.
Good thing I'm starting to get used to the strangeness of this world.
Cuss word. I'm naked. I just realized.
....
I wore a short yellow tunic of some sort and some sort of sandals that kind of reminded me of ancient Rome. Good thing Lion noticed that my hair is long and needs tying that he left several hair ties. I braided my hair and tried to look for a mirror when suddenly, Lion appeared. He looked pleased when he saw me and asked me what I was looking for.
A mirror, I told him. What is a mirror? He asked me as he looked confused.
I explained to him thoroughly and he listened for a while before waving his hands and a mirror magically appeared. Oho so this is what a mirror looks like, he suddenly blurted out. He went towards the mirror and started to admire himself. I will sell several of these and give some of the earnings to you, he said as he tried to decorate the mirror.
Awesome, now my future looks a bit brighter.
You still have to stay here though, Lion murmured as he made another mirror.
....
After what seems to be an eternity, he finally stopped after making more than a dozen decorated mirrors. I shouldn't mention to him about handheld mirrors for now, I thought.
He glanced around and saw that I was bored. He suggested that I would accompany him in selling the mirrors. He promised that we earn a lot. .
That reminded me in asking him what do they use as currency in this world. He opened his palm and several small jewels of all sorts of colors appeared. He tried to explain to me the value of each color and I tried to mentally compare it to Earth's money.
Violet is valued the most. Sort of like a million.
Blue is second most valuable jewel. Valued at around thousand.
Green is third, valued at a hundred
Yellow is valued at 10s.
Orange is valued at 1s.
Red is one of the least valuable jewel, valued at half number. Not cents though.
Their "cents" are colored black, white and brown. I didn't listen much to the explanation.
Lion then took a robe from out of nowhere and gave it to me. Let's sell this mirrors, he said while magically shrinking the mirror's size and place it inside his pouch.
I wore the dark colored robe (same color like his cloak) and hesitantly held his outstretched hand. Oh no you are staying here, Lion told Pinky. Pinky's leaves began to droop and he started squealing. Don't worry Pinky, I'll be back! I told Pinky and it began to cheer up.
Let's go, Lion said as he teleported both of us. I unconsciously squeezed his hand and suddenly his tail held up and his hair began to cover his face. His hand squeezed back and suddenly everything went dark.