Ho boy.

Well, there is nothing much to say before this chapter starts, just don't expect that the next chapter will come soon since my finals are coming up this December. As far as what I can say about this chapter, it's that I felt that I could try and do more actually, but my time for writing is very limited and I don't want to clog this chapter with unnecessary amount of words, so I decide to end it the way it is.

Enough rambling, just enjoy the chapter.

"Hyoudou-san, is there anything that you need to help with the cosplay?"

After they burned the abomination that Rias created, both students walked out to the front gate of the school as the sun was setting. Currently, both of them are discussing the general logistics of the cosplay such as what costume she wants, the cost, and other props that they might need.

To say that Issei is curious about her is an understatement. The fact that the most popular girl in the school, the one that everyone admires the most, is interested in cosplay. For that matter, she seems to also be enthusiastic about the positives in Japan too from what he can pick up. The enthusiasm that she exudes when talking about Manaria Friends surprised him too, but he took it in stride and joined the conversation.

Now he needs to get his mind back on topic, so he starts thinking about what she can do to help. He thought for a bit and then remembered that he hadn't told her one important thing that he needed to know. Then he blushed, realizing what he would be asking.

"Hyoudou-san, are you ok? Your face is all red." She asked when he suddenly blushed.

"Y-yeah, erm… man how do I approach this…" Issei mumbled.

Rias raised her eyebrow, wondering why he suddenly moved his face away from her. "Come on, if you have something to say, just tell me."

Issei knew that he had to ask her, he can't just avoid the question now, staying silent right now is not an option.

Screw dignity, as a costume designer, he had to ask her. All in with a straight face.

"Senpai, I need to know your measurements. As in your height and three sizes."

…

Rias stared at him for a little while, processing what he had just said. The brown-haired boy meanwhile looks straight into her eyes without blinking or moving at all. The redhead then laughed while he looked away from her and groaned.

"Give me a break…" Issei muttered. He can't help it. This is the first time he had to ask a female client their measurement face to face. All the measurements that he had asked for were from emails or LINE messages, at least there is an ambiguity about his gender in the internet world.

"No, no, it's ok. It's embarrassing to you isn't it?" She spoke while giggling between the lines. She then exhales and smiles back at him. "As I said, it's ok. I know that taking measurements is something that needs to be done, so don't worry about me calling you a pervert."

Then her smile became a smirk. "Well… unless… you want to feel my body?"

Those words completely threw Issei off guard. He didn't know she would flirt with him like this. He admits silently, that he wants to take up her offer of touching her body, he really wants to use that as an advantage to feel the flesh of a woman his age.

But he had to control himself. "N-no thanks, senpai. I-it would be unprofessional of me if I take your offer." That and he would not be able to take it and get a nosebleed like in anime.

She giggled again. "Alright, I'll respect your decision. But the offer still stands."

Once again, Issei blushed at her words and nodded dumbly before he sighs in defeat. Victory goes to Rias.

Rias then decided that she had her fun and went back on topic. "So you need my measurement, right? Unfortunately, I did not take my own measurement beforehand, because… you know…"

She shook her head and continued. "Anyway, since tomorrow is a weekend, I think I can help with the measurements. Mind if we exchange our contact info?"

Issei nodded and they exchanged their contact info. Issei mentally jumps in joy, he got a girl's number! Not just any girl, it's the Madonna of Kuoh Academy.

He is going to brag about it in front of his friends (or maybe not).

Once they finished it, she looked back at him and began to head out of the school. She then suddenly stopped and looked back at her junior and bowed slightly.

"Seriously though, thank you Hyoudou-san." She said, "I think I will be in your care for some time."

He shook his head. "There is no need, senpai. I just feel like doing it, so no need to thank me."

"Besides," Issei continued while grinning at her. "There is no way I am going to miss out on the opportunity to make a cosplay costume for the prettiest girl in the school."

The girl in front of him blinked at his statement. Once again, she was surprised by the attitude of the boy that was shown in front of her. He is definitely more than what he showed. "How did the school not see this side of you, I have no idea."

All the boy did was shrug at the comment. "Eh, I like to keep this side close to myself. And, senpai, you can just call me Ise."

"Alright then, Ise-kun. I'll be in your care." Rias replied.

Checking the time, both Issei and Rias realized that it was getting late and the night would be coming soon. So the two of them said their farewell and that they looked forward to their cooperation.

But of course, not before Rias dropped another bombshell.

"I'll see you tomorrow, Ise-kun. Just let me know where you work on your project, I'll come by to take the measurement."

"Eh?"

"H-honey?"

"Yes, dear?"

"Am I dreaming? Am I seeing a girl asking if our son is around?"

Issei sighed behind his parents' back as they stared at his client in front of his house, with Rias giving a nervous chuckle.

Right after she said that she would come to his house. Rias immediately walked back home, leaving him to process her words while he went back to his house.

On the same night, Rias messaged him about the address of his house, which he later gave her, after he contemplated for a while.

He didn't sleep that night, completely busy trying to make it as clean as possible and also hide as many things that would make any girl disgusted by him (also known as lewd wall cloth) in his work studio.

But there was a problem.

He doesn't have a place to place them, not even his own room. All the cabinets and shelves were occupied and there was no way he wanted to place them on the floor unless he wanted to accidentally step on them when he was working.

Well, might as well face the music. Reputation and dignity be damned now.

"Oh dear, I better not let a beautiful girl like you stay under the sun for so long now. Come in, I'll prepare a refreshment in a minute." Issei's mother said.

Rias thanked the mother and went inside the house with the rest of the family. She then asked Issei where his workplace is, and he then led her to the room.

Though not without the mother teasing her son a little bit.

"Don't do anything that would make her uncomfortable alright, Ise?" the woman said with light giggling.

"Mom, I know that, alright!" He shouted with a blush.

She continued to giggle while walking away from the two teens while Issei groaned from his mother's teasing. Rias looked back at where the mother was before she spoke a word. "Your mother was certainly charming."

"Not you too…" Issei muttered. He then shook his head before he readied himself and opened the door to his studio, letting his client in.

She walked in with curiosity, drinking in all the details of the room (along with the wall cloth he has). She saw the shelf that holds the different clothes, all rolled up with different textures and sizes and all labeled, along with another shelf that displayed his figurines and plastic model kits. She saw the mannequin standing still with nothing on it, and on the side of it was an emptied trash bin with a few small pieces of cloth neatly stacked on the side.

The part of the room that took her attention more was the work table that she assumed was cleaned the day before along with his sewing kit and machine. She walked closer to the table and noted the small details such as small dents, scratches, and bumps on it, letting her know that he had been using this table for his craft for a long time.

"So this is where you make your costumes…" She said. "It definitely looks nice."

"Can you really call this place nice?" He wondered if she was saying it to make him feel better or if she was genuinely complimenting him. "You're not bothered by the wall cloth and the figurines?"

She looked back at him with a curious look, as if wondering why he would ask such a question. "Why should I? I mean I have those too, so this is nothing too shocking for me."

"On that note…" She continued, "you're ready?"

"Huh? Ready?" Issei asked.

"Taking my measurements, silly. That's why we are here right?" The redhead replied with a smile without hesitation.

Issei immediately blushed, knowing what they both had to do in order to make the most accurate measurements for her. "Y-yeah, I'll wait for you outside. Erm, just get ready in the meantime, okay?"

"Well, I'm the one that needs to prepare. My heart mostly." the brown-haired boy silently mused about his situation and quickly looked away from Rias.

"There is no need for you to do that." Rias said. "I don't mind being in this room with you, so go on and get what you need while I prepare. Seriously, just find your measurement tape."

Issei really wanted to retort her, but he really couldn't find it inside him to disagree with her words, so he just reluctantly nodded and turned away from her as they began to focus on their task.

As he was searching for the measurement tape, he could hear Rias' clothes ruffling behind him as she stripped down. He kept his head in the game, focusing on getting his item instead of giving in to his temptation and turning his head and looking at her and her bountiful breast. The worst part is that he might not even need to turn his head since he could imagine just how sexy she looked (or maybe not since he would see it anyway).

Once he found the tape, he heard Rias say she was done. He turned his head, faster than he liked, and saw Rias with less clothing than before.

Lo and behold, the girl was wearing colorful deep red lingerie with flowery patterns on it to make her more beautiful. The size of the lingerie was not helping to stop making her even more beautiful either, as the bra she wore seemed to be one size less than what she should wear and putting more attention to her breast.

He couldn't help but keep gawking at her. Issei tried to speak of moving, but all he could do was drink at the sight in front of him, all the while opening and closing his mouth like a fish gasping for air.

"Ise-kun~" Rias snapped him out of his trance, making him realize that he still had a job to fulfill. "I didn't know you like staring."

He quickly shook his head and replied to her. "How am I supposed not to stare when someone so beautiful is in front of me."

Rias giggled. "Well thank you for the compliment, Ise-kun." She then took a deep breath/ "Alright, let's begin shall we?"

Issei gulped his saliva, preparing himself for the task at hand. He took the measuring tape and began to walk toward Rias nervously.

Rias noticed his nervousness, and understandably so. Thus she decided to close her eyes so that he doesn't get too nervous. "I'll close my eyes, alright, so don't worry about me staring at you the whole time."

"She said that, but I'm still nervous!" Issei was mentally panicked as he continued being nervous about the prospect of even getting extremely close contact with a girl of his age (he never got to do that for the last decade of his life, so sue him).

"Alright, calm down Issei, you've seen tons of really sexy females before, this shouldn't be too hard…" He rationalized his thought as he began to measure her head first. "A-alright, I'll measure your head first."

She gave him a nod before he began to take the measurement, completely putting his focus on the measuring tape only and definitely not her crimson red hair that attracts so much attention in school.

Once he got the accurate measurement he quickly moved away and wrote down the measurement in a notepad before he began to move to the next area he needed to measure.

"Hey, uhh… Gremory-senpai," he spoke in the uncomfortable silence that they were in. "Don't you feel nervous at all? Y-you know, about me, a guy, measuring your body?"

"Well, not really." Rias immediately replied. "I mean sure, this is the first time a man took measurements for new clothes for me, but honestly, I don't see a problem to be completely honest."

It was this statement that made Issei realize he really is a fool. He really shouldn't be this embarrassed. After all, he would be making measurements for other females too (if he has more female clients that is okay with him taking measurements from him that is). Moreover, to him, it would be disrespectful to her too because he kept thinking about the fact that he is with a really beautiful girl and not about his work first.

With his mind resolved, he exhaled his breath that he did not know he had been holding and continued his work from her neck down.

The two of them remained in a comfortable silence the whole time as Issei continued his work. Once in a while, Issei would ask her if she was okay when he needed to measure places that might tickle her or make her uncomfortable, but other than that, they did not speak a single word.

"Alright," Issei finally said something after a long comfortable silence, "that should be most of the measurements done. The last place is-"

He suddenly stopped. He looked at the list and realized where he needed to measure next: her bust.

Issei's mind was running a hundred miles a second. Is this how he is going to end up feeling a person's breast -a real breast- for the first time? Measuring her feet? Fine (he does not have a foot fetish). Measuring her leg length? As long as he was careful then he wouldn't die but unfortunately, he did accidentally touch her private part, thus making their silence a little awkward.

But now he needs to measure a part of her that he actively avoided. There is no escape.

"What's wrong, Ise-kun?" Rias snapped him out of his mind. "You suddenly stopped talking, is there a problem?"

"Erm… yeah… erm… I have to… to…" He stutters his words, not able to form a single word about why he became nervous. Rias's looking at him with an eyebrow raised does not help either, since now she has become more curious about what stops him now.

"Alright, clearly something is bothering you in the notebook. Let me see what it is." Rias said as she walked towards him and snatched the book out of his hand since he wouldn't give her the book anyway. As she skimmed through the page she noticed the only two lists that had no measurement, which made her realize why he had hesitated as she made a silent 'oh'.

Issei felt his heart beating faster because of it. He wondered how she would react, and how ugly the outcome could become. The best-case scenario in his cynical mind was that she would just tell him that she would measure it herself and tell him the numbers and he would jot it down, worse case scenario he would be called a pervert like in a manga and anime.

Once again, his beautiful senior surprised him again with her answer.

The girl in front of him giggled. "You know I won't suddenly get angry at you for that right. I don't mind it."

Issei had to stand still and process what she just said, completely thrown off guard by her just not caring that her breast would be measured by a guy.

She lifted her hair up with both her hands and smiled at him. "C'mon, don't be shy. I don't bite."

…

"Alright," Issei thought as he slowly forced himself to walk forward. "Here goes nothing."

Issei held the measurement tape and moved his arms behind her as he pulled the tape from her back. Once he moved his arms to the front, he asked her to lower her arms to get a more accurate measurement before he finally -and nervously- wrapped the tape on her bust and confirmed the measurement.

Once Issei had done that, he stiffly lowered the tape and his arm before he slowly wrote down the number.

"Well, it's all finished, Gremory-senpai." Issei finally declared as he took a deep breath, happy that he had finished his work.

The Gremory girl nodded with a hum and began to wear her clothes back. "You did a good job, Ise-kun."

Issei could only nod, as he waited for Rias to put back her clothes. "Well, I'll have to check the details of the design and think about the fabrics that I will be using. In the meantime, wait for the final product alright, senpai?"

Rias nodded again and flashed him a smile. "Alright, I look forward to seeing what you will make for me soon. Also, just tell me the cost for all the materials you will be needing, I'll cover the expenses."

With their work done, Issei began to escort her out of his house. However, that did not stop his mother from continuing to tease him for bringing a girl to the house in the first place.

Once that was done, Issei immediately retreated back to his studio and opened his pc, ready to work on the next step of his work.

"Alright." He muttered to himself. "Only two weeks, time to get the detailed design and then finally get started on making it."

From there, the young cosplay designer began dedicating his days to creating the best costume for the red-haired girl who wants to cosplay.