Chapter 101 – Bald? (1/2)

Hey Anthousai!”

Orphne called out to a fairy with beige wings.

After the talk with the elder finished, I continued to enjoy the feast as the fairies grew progressively more drunk of that mead-like drink they were having, and eventually the party ended with most of the participants knocked out cold. Most, because I couldn't get drunk if I couldn't drink liqueur in the first place.

Standing around in the aftermath felt weird, like being the lone survivor of some great disaster. I was surrounded by still bodies and all sorts of trash scattered about.

The fact that some of the bodies simply floated around despite being unconscious was a little surreal though. It seemed like floating really was a zero effort thing for these creatures, though most of them drifted to whatever surface they ended up landing on.

As there really wasn't much for me to do, I spent the night cleaning things up and playing with the spirits who also were unable to enjoy the act of getting drunk like myself. The ground was covered with sparkling dust, but I left that alone. I had no idea what to do with it in the first place.

I enjoyed a meal of charge boar blood myself, though I was starting to crave drinking the blood of something strong.

When morning came, things moved slowly as I helped nurse everyone as they dealt with their hangovers. As much as I missed getting drunk, not being able to get hangovers was a nice trade off, though that was literally only because I couldn't drink in the first place.

It was around noon when Orphne had recovered enough to be able to do as Aurae had asked her.

And thus, we had arrived at the home of a fairy tailor.

Calling it a home though was probably pretty generous. What I had found was a collection of sticks and branches interwoven and secured at the base of a large tree branch. Large leaves were suspended over the simple platform with more leaves forming simplified walls over what I presumed was some sort of frame made of more sticks.

Compared to everything else aside from the elders' home, the house was quite large, though the reason became quite apparent at a glance. There were an assortment of random things poking out through the gaps of the leaves. From coloured leaves to stalks of various fibres, the place looked more like a temporary warehouse than someone's home.

And a lone fairy came out of that warehouse's entrance after being called by Orphne.

Despite how plain her wings were, she was wearing a dark red and blue flowing dress that resembled diagonally interwoven ribbons in the shape of a one-piece that extended far past her feet. In fact, the skirt alone was as long as Orphne was tall. Her sleeves were also quite wide, as they drooped down past her wrists despite their total length being quite normal.

”Ooh, Orphne! You finally gonna get a new dress? How about one shaped like a lotus flower?”

”Erk, no, I'm fine. The one who needs new cloths is this one!”

”Ooh! You're the one who made those tasty treats, yes?”

”Umm, yea.”

Anthousai rushed up so close I went cross-eyed just to look at her.

As always, these fairies didn't understand the concept of personal space. Or common sense. Then again, I probably didn't have any common sense according to the people of this world, so I wasn't really one to say much on that point.

”Ooh! Then in commemoration, how about a dress in the shape of that wonderful flan!”

”Please no.”

I thought this was supposed to be compensation or a reward or something. Not a punishment.

”I just want a new robe. Preferably something similar, black, and thick enough to block the sun's rays. If you can make it tough enough to resist light magic too, then I'd appreciate it.”

”Ooh! So you want protection as well? That'll be easy! But you sure you want something boring like that? I think a flan would look great. Or how about a lily of the valley?”

”Just something simple. Please.”

Something like that would just be too embarrassing to wear, ruining the whole point of getting new clothes.

”Oh, I do have some material you can use as well if it'll help. Here.”

I pulled out a few bolts of spider silk I had gathered in the dungeon so long ago.

”Ooh! Hunter spider silk? Very strong! Very light! Very stretchy! It'll make good armour!”

That sounded pretty good. Though I hadn't really realized that it was stretchy as well. I tried pulling a bit on my sleeve, but couldn't really tell very well.

Chances were, I was just bad at spinning or weaving or whatever.

”Umm, and if you can, could you make me some underwear as well?”

In my three years of this new life, I couldn't say that I had a single decent set of underwear even once, and if this fairy was actually a really good tailor, I wanted to get all the basics, even if it took a bit of time and resources.

”Ooh, I can do that! With the hunter spider silk too?”

”Umm, yea. It'll be really soft on the skin and stretch out well, right?”

”Ooh, yea! It will!”

”In that case...”

Since the opportunity was there, I went and took full advantage of it by first describing the sort of underwear I wanted, then went and drew some rough sketches on a piece of bark. It took a bit of time and I was a bit vague on the details, as it wasn't like I've ever owned or even touched a proper set of women's underwear before, but it seemed like she got the idea.

I was glad that she seemed to understand. It would be nice to finally get a proper bra rather than letting my chest go free as a bird or pent them up with a chest wrap. Something unrestrictive yet would contain this large bust of mine would be really nice.

”Ooh, that's interesting. But if they're skintight, I need to take some measurements.”

”Umm, sure. What do I need to do?”

”Ooh! Just stay still!”

And before I could say anything, the eager fairy dove below me and entered the bottom of my robes.

”Wah?!”

She quickly made her way up to my hips and started to touch around.

”Ooh. This is in the way!”

Suddenly there was a quick jerk and the sound of a soft ruffle reached my ears from below.

Looking down, I saw my pants just laying there on the ground far below us.

”Wait! Wha...? Hya?! No, wait! Stop!”

Suddenly something warm and soft started touching all around my hips and thighs. I so desperately wanted to swat at the tickling sensations, but the though that I could seriously injure or kill this fairy prevented me from taking any real actions.

”Ooh! So soft! So smooth! So bouncy!”

I couldn't help but wonder if this weird creature had forgotten what she intruded into my clothes for in the first place.

Finally she finished all her weird touching and moved further up, climbing up my belly like some sort of worm. This time, she didn't bother removing anything and simply wiggled her way around my upper body.

”Ooh! This is so soft too! So bouncy! Really bouncy!”

(Why do you need to go in between my tits in the first place?!)

I really wanted to retort, but at the same time I wasn't sure if this was really necessary or not. It wasn't like I had ever been fitted for a bra before, and this time it was being made from scratch for what was possibly the first in this world.

(No, a lot of this is probably far from necessary.)

It was obvious she was at least half playing around. Even still, all this touching didn't fail to make my face feel like a boiled octopus.

Eventually, though not nearly quickly enough, the beige winged fairy squeezed her way out from the neck of my robes and exploded out with a small puff of shimmering dust. When I pulled my neck out and looked down, I could see that same dust covering my chest.

I hoped that it would wash off.

”Is that everything then? Can I go?”

”Ooh yea. Come back later!”

Anthousai enthusiastically waved me off before carrying the bolts of spider silk back to her home.

”Wow! You're smooth like us! Not hairy like those humans!”

”Wah?!”

I jammed both hands in between my legs before closing them tight, yet I had a strong suspicion that this pose wasn't actually that helpful. I didn't think it was possible, but my face grew even hotter than before.

Unwilling to risk any more, I slowly drifted back down to the ground before I put my pants back on the best I could without further exposing myself.

”Lemme see the top too!”

Orphne dove down towards my neck, but I grabbed her leg before she could get inside.

”That's enough! You don't need to grope me too!”

”That's unfair! You let Anthousai look and touch!”

”That's because she needed to measure me. You don't need to!”

”Fine!”

The fairy pouted with her cheeks puffed out, but I was glad she at least stopped trying anything further.

[What does she mean by hairy like a human?]

[Erk!]

[My daddy had a beard and his arms were hairy, but my mommy wasn't like that. You're a woman like mommy so of course you wouldn't be hairy.]

[Umm, yea.]

[But did that fairy think all humans are hairy?]

[I dunno. Maybe she didn't know many humans?]

[Maybe. Wait, but wouldn't she have known just by looking at your face? Women don't have beards so she should know that not all humans are hairy.]

[That's...]

[And she only said that when she looked at your legs. Do you know why?]

[Umm...]

It was embarrassing. Really embarrassing. I didn't know if it was normal for vampires or unique to me, but the fact that I was bald there was something I had deliberately tried to avoid thinking about. Or rather, I had a surprisingly little amount of bodily hair in general, like as if I was some sort of preteen.

Of course Alicia wouldn't understand, since she died before she could even start growing any.

It was probably stupid, but it didn't make the fact any less embarrassing for me.

[Maybe she was talking about leg hair? Human women normally have a bit of hair on their legs when they get older so maybe that was what she was talking about?]

[Really? But I don't think you have hair on your legs, right?]

[I don't, but that's because I'm not human.]

[I see.]

It seemed like I managed to convince Alicia.

Frankly speaking, it might not really be a subject that I needed to avoid for her. Or rather, there wasn't really any need for that, but it was still embarrassing to talk about. And if Alicia really did get reborn as a vampire, chances were that she'd have the same condition as I did.

Regardless, it was something that she didn't need to know yet, perhaps even ever.

”Aaah! It's good to be home!”

I reached for the ceiling as I stretched my body.

It wasn't like my body was feeling sore or anything, but it felt appropriate.

After talking with Orphne a bit more, I parted ways after promising to meet up again the next day and finally made my way home.

The little fluffballs refused to even get close to the dungeon entrance like usual, so I had to part with them unfortunately. It would be nice if most of them stayed in the area at least.

With Claret riding my shoulders like usual, I touched the fountain and teleported us to the 85th floor fountain room. The sight of my old furniture still standing there where I had left them already felt nostalgic and I quickly went and flung myself onto my bed, burying my face in the soft pillow.

Cough cough!

But rather than enjoying the warm softness, dust poofed up all around.

It hadn't been that long, but to have thought that so much dust would have accumulated in an unused room.

My mood was quickly fouled.

I needed to take a bath.