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"I wonder which of these would go better. The black? The white? Maybe a button up? A dress up shirt!? Ugh, I've never been that good at shopping."
I say to myself as I browse the store I'm currently in. Shopping for the event I'm going to is quite difficult. I have to really lay out quite the first impression with just my clothing for the dinner. After all, I am going to be meeting the leaders of my nation. It doesn't especially help that it's girls that are my leaders. Women. They're quite scary….
Looking around myself, I can see that I've gathered quite the amount of looks towards me. Guess I've been muttering out louder than I thought. I can only imagine as to what they're all thinking of me right now, course all of them had to be women to boot.
It at least should be clear that I'm not that fashion savvy. Most guys aren't anyway... I think.
With a sigh, I continue to peruse through the store while thinking back to this morning that led to now.
I woke up rather late for once this morning. Most people in Lastation are known for waking up very early including me, but this time I slept in until 10AM. I guess I was more tired than I thought from the events of yesterday.
I began the usual routine of preparing for the day. With plans to go out to purchase new clothing forming in my head, I get up to casually dress. A simple plain black shirt and pants to go with it. Nothing too fancy for shopping. As I leave my room, I note that the armor I normally wear whenever I go questing is missing. I'll have to ask mom about that. Hopefully she'll know what happen to it, it wasn't the cheapest purchase ever after all.
As I make my way downstairs, I can tell my mom is preparing breakfast from the usual noise that she makes. I'm guessing a western breakfast? The smell is so good.
"Morning mom."
"Good morning Adam! Did you sleep well?"
"From how late I just woke up, I slept really well. Guess I was really tired."
"Hmm."
Throughout our small greeting I had moved from the stairs to the table and taken a seat while my mother appears to be done and is bringing breakfast over.
"I thought you'd like a heavy breakfast after all that's happened to you. You haven't eaten much since you've been awake so I thought this was a good chance to fix that." As she was saying this, she had quickly served the plates of food with quite the amazing spread of eggs, bacon, sausage, and pancakes.
"Your the best mom, you know that?"
"Now I do. Eat up as much as you like."
We started our meal at that and began to dig in. My mom is quite the cook, so everything was delicious. Although as I was eating, I was plotting my next move for the day. If all goes according to plan, the day will be extremely easy and I can return home quickly.
As we neared the end of our meal, I began the first part of the plan for today.
"So mom, I plan on going out soon to go buy clothes for the dinner."
"Oh? Good, make sure you come back at a reasonable time young man."
Not looking good so far. Maybe another attack will work? Straight forward might be the best.
"Yea sure, no problem. Although, I was hoping yo- "
"No."
She didn't even let me finish…. wait. Maybe if I…
"You don't even know what I was going to fully say and you just say no mom? Harsh."
"You're going to ask me to go with you on your shopping trip. Right?"
"..." Women are scary.
"I'm sorry Adam, but this sort of event is something you should go shopping for on you own. You're going to be meeting the figures of power in our nation, so you should do this on your own to properly present yourself."
…She is right, but the plan must be kept!
"But that's exactly why I'm asking you to come with me! We both know my fashion sense is horribly plain." I gesture to the plain clothing that I currently have on me.
"So that's why you need to come with! To make sure I get something presentable for such an important event!"
"That's also why you should get it yourself. To show you, not what I'd get you. Especially since you're the one that saved the CPU Candidate. They'll want to meet the young man who saved her and as an extension how you present yourself to them will be a factor into this."
Damn I forget that she's good at this sort of stuff. I guess it pays to be in the business profession. With so many points before me and I'm sure that my mom can provide even more, I give a sigh of defeat in the end. No reason to make it longer than it has to be
"Alright, I'll go on my own." I said, nearly grumbling. Just because I accepted defeat, doesn't mean I'll take it easy!
"Oh don't be so grumpy about it. You'll thank me for this later. You'll see!"
With that final comment, we ended our meal and I prepared myself to go out.
"I'll be heading out now."
"Take care of yourself! Call me if you need anything. Especially if you encounter her!"
"…I will, see ya later mom."
And with that exchange, I made my way to the nearest mall and a gnawing feeling of forgetting something present on my mind. I'll hopefully remember what it was soon...
Putting back, yet again, another plain shirt. I continue to browse the clothing store that I'm currently in as I finish recalling the events that led me to being here alone... and still not remembering what it was that I forgot. I'll remember soon. Hopefully.
I'm not the absolute worst at picking out clothes. I'm just super indecisive about it. So something that really should take about half an hour to do, takes waaaaaaaaaaaay longer to do. Considering I started this venture fairly late in the afternoon, I didn't want to be here long. My mom being here would make this much shorter, I'm guaranteed to have something nice quickly, and would let me get some rest my nerves for tomorrow. It would be best to be as rested as possible for something like this. Just the thought of meeting Lady Black Heart almost brings me a chill.
As these thoughts go through my head, I had absentmindedly picked up another outfit that I quickly realized wasn't what I was looking for. I'm not entirely sure what I'm looking for either way. This going to take awhile.
With yet another eye drawing sigh and accompanying grumble, I begin to fully grasp how long this is going to take.
"Not to mention being stared at isn't any fun."
Literally all these people are just staring at me. Yea I'm horrible at this, but they don't need to judge me so hard. Especially this one stare that I'm getting. I'm not sure why, but the stare seems to be even 10x times more in its intensity than the others. In fact, now that I actually acknowledge it, it's coming from the same person who started to stare at me in the first place. This person I know has been giving me her look since the beginning, considering they stand out so much.
She's wearing by far THE most complicated dress I've ever seen. It totally beats out Lady Uni's actually. The girl has fairly paled skin tone with long black hair that is worn in blue bows to form two long pigtails with hair that frames her face. The dress/skirt has various colors of dark blue, white, red, and some gold. The dress part consists of red being covered with black and spiked lining on both layers. She has a giant blue bow tied somehow on her back with another smaller blue bow covering her rather exposed breasts. Her sleeves? I'm not sure if they're dis-attached sleeves or just a really fancy pair of gloves that black that have white frills towards the shoulders. To finish it off, she wears a pair of black boots that are attached to her dress. One word to truly describe her apparel is: fancy. She's either really rich or some sort of fashionista, it'd explain why she's looking at me with obvious disgust. I'd probably get peeved watching someone with clearly no fashion sense shopping while they are as well. Probably.
The entire time that I toke to describe this godly complicated dress, I'd been staring right back at her. Why? To get her to stop staring at me hopefully. I could be more mature about this, but it escapes me right now as I only want to shop miserably in peace.
She's quite tenacious as she's only made her stare even stronger as I toke to staring back at her. Doesn't help that her eyes are red. Makes it all the more intimidating. At least they are covered by glasses, or I'd be set aflame already. Didn't think it was possible to make a look be so intense for something so small. Gotta stop this soon or I'm gonna be here forever since she doesn't look she'll let up anytime soon.
"Can I help with you anything misses?"
"…"
I'm met with only a stare. She isn't going to make this easy for me is she?
"Well, I'm just going to get back to sho- "
"Don't. Your horrible at it." Way to be blunt. As if I didn't already know that…
"That's why I'd feel better if you at least didn't judge me so openly. Especially since I'm going to be here for quite some time."
She doesn't respond to me but instead moves closer to me.
"I can't just standby and idly allow one of my citizens be in such a sad predicament as you! So just this once I'll help you and you better be grateful about it!" She finishes with a flick of one of her pigtails and a point towards me.
I don't respond as what she just said confused me greatly. Citizen? Help? She just confused me so much in the span of a few seconds. I have no idea what to say right now. Could she maybe be a cosplay of Lady Black Heart and just really be in character? Albeit minus the tsundere bit. Maybe? Let's ask about that before I lose my sanity.
"Uh, quick question. Are you by chance cosplaying as Lady Black Heart? You do look like her a lot." My questions gain me a blush and gasp.
"Y-yes I am! I really a-admire her you know? So, I just l-like to dress up as her s-sometimes! I'm not weird or anything I swear!" I do hope your not, but I'll greatly accept your help.
"Well, you do an amazing job at it. If it weren't for the glasses, I'd probably think you were her. Although it'd be hard to believe she'd be out and about." Just going to ignore this for as long as I can really. Just like with Lady Uni.
"Y-yea, I guess so…"
I'm not sure what just happen but she got really quiet towards the end of that and started to look down. The atmosphere is getting really uncomfortable too. We need to move this on before I suffocate from this.
"So you said you'd help me find an outfit? I could really use the help since as you can tell, I'm horribly lost. Since you have quite the outfit on yourself, I imagine you're an expert?" She looks back at me a face radiating confidence.
"You bet I can! Just you wait, I'll make you look amazing!"
She had suddenly gone from gloomy to energetic so fast that I didn't have the time to adjust to it before she grabbed my arm and stormed us out of the store.
"Hey! Can I at least get a name!? I'm Adam!" I shout over the speed that we're going at. What's with people not giving their name at the start of a conversations?
We slow down at my question and she half turns to me while still walking.
"Just call me Noire and you better not forget it Adam!" She says as she fully turns around and points at me menacingly.
And so begins my day with Noire.
A/N: Not much to say besides thank you all for reading!
Excuse the slight tardiness by the way. I was going to update yesterday but I fell asleep .! Life can be busy :3.
Anyway, I hope you all have a fantastic morning/evening/night!