Explaining intercourse to a creature from another world was not on my bucket list.
My face turned redder the longer it took me to find the words to say. Meanwhile, Lion seemed patient, whereas I was having a predicament.
After several minutes, I told him everything about intercourse, the way I would explain it to a patient. His face brightened for a moment when I explained the different positions humans use to gain "pleasure".
After a long time listening, he asked me how humans find mates.
I told him everything I know about romance, considering the fact that I'm not an expert in that field.
He told me that creatures in this world would pick their mates depending on their bond and attraction, but other creatures would differ.
He has less knowledge about how other creatures find mates and no knowledge of other classes.
He said he is still a beginner in his field. The only reason he holds such a high position is because of his great magical control and almost perfect memory.
I asked him why he didn't have a mate yet. This time, it was he who was flustered.
He embarrassingly told me that he hadn't found his 'type' yet, as he had been too focused on his quest to gain more knowledge.
He asked if I wanted 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 split second, I was genuinely interested.
Does he mate like a human or.....
I don't want to know...
For now.
I told him that he couldn't see what was underneath my clothes. I might be weak compared to him, but I would definitely fight until my last breath.
He looked surprised for a moment and asked if it was a human trait to avoid showing the body. Not every creature in this world tends to cover everything. Some wear almost nothing at all, depending on the temperature and environment.
I gave him a brief lecture on human anatomy, explaining the differences between males, females and intersex individuals.
He looked thoughtful for a moment before summoning a moving, clay-like object. After muttering a few words, the clay transformed into a naked, female human statue.
He stared at the statue for several minutes, so long that I became embarrassed watching him look at a naked human body with such interest. I was thinking of walking away when he asked me the names of all the body parts.
He was curious why there was no tail, no wings, nothing.
Oh.
I thought he was lusting after the body.
....
Soon I became bored and thankfully, he noticed.
He asked me what I needed, saying he would try to provide it.
I told him that I needed a bath and a change of clothes.
Fortunately, baths existed here and soon I was in a room with a large pool. Floating lights were everywhere, along with several bottles of what seemed to be soap or shampoo. I soon learned what they were.
As it turned out, you were only supposed to put a few drops in the water, not the whole bottle.
I'm sure you can guess what happened next.
Pretty soon, bubbles of all sorts of colors started to swell up.
I was beginning to panic when I heard a snap.
I turned around just in time to see Lion snapping his fingers. Lo and behold, the bubbles returned to normal and he leisurely turned around and disappeared.
It was a good thing I was starting to get used to the strangeness of this world.
Um..
I just realized that I was naked.
....
I put on a short yellow tunic and a pair of sandals that reminded me of ancient Rome.
Good thing Lion noticed how long my hair was. He had left several hair ties behind for me.
I braided my hair and was looking for a mirror when Lion suddenly appeared. He looked pleased when he saw me and asked what I was searching for.
I told him that I was looking for a mirror.
He looked confused and asked me what that was.
I explained it to him thoroughly. He listened for a moment before waving his hands and a mirror magically appeared.
He suddenly blurted out in fascination when he saw it. He went toward the mirror and started to admire himself.
As he tried to decorate the frame, he told me that he planned to sell several of them and would give some of the earnings to me.
Awesome! Now my future looks a bit brighter.
Lion murmured, as he created another mirror, that I still had to stay with him.
....
After what seemed like an eternity, he finally stopped after making more than a dozen decorated mirrors.
I shouldn't mention handheld mirrors to him for now.
He glanced around and saw that I was bored, so he suggested that I accompany him to sell the mirrors. He promised that we would earn a lot.
That reminded me to ask him what they used as currency in this world. He opened his palm and several small jewels of all colors appeared. He tried to explain the value of each color and I tried to mentally compare them to Earth's money.
Violet: The highest value, roughly equivalent to a million.
Blue: Second most valuable, worth about a thousand.
Green: Third in rank, valued at one hundred.
Yellow: Worth tens.
Orange: Worth single units.
Red: The lowest value, worth exactly half of an orange jewel. But definitely not 'cents'.
Their 'cents' were black, white and brown jewels. I didn't listen much to that part of the explanation.
Lion then took a cloak from out of nowhere and gave it to me.
He told me that we were going to sell the mirrors as he magically shrunk them and placed them inside his pouch.
I wore a dark-colored cloak, the same color as his and hesitantly took his outstretched hand.
Lion told Pinky to stay. Pinky's leaves began to droop and he started squealing.
I reassured Pinky that I would be back and it began to cheer up.
Lion told me that we were leaving as he teleported us both.
I unconsciously squeezed his hand when suddenly, his tail stood up and his hair began to cover his face.
I wonder what's wrong?
After a moment, he squeezed my hand back, and everything went dark.