Title: Lessons in Demeanor - Lesson Three: Empathize
Fandom: The Legend of Sun Knight
Words: 1,269
Summary: If someone were to want to become better at flirting, who better to learn it from than...the next Earth Knight, who's honest and pure? What? Something doesn't add up here?
Notes: More meaningless writing from me... Two parts left after this! Eep, so not making it in time for
no_true_pair. New round is starting tomorrow. :)
Previous Part - Lesson Three: Empathize -
Ceo didn't make any sense to Georgo.
That didn't mean Georgo was going to give up. Georgo did not believe in giving up. He made a decision to help Ceo. That meant he was going to see it through!
The next day, Georgo invited Ceo back again. This time, Georgo hid all the porn. That had been too much for Ceo to handle.
Yet...even though there was no porn around, Ceo almost fainted straight away again when he stepped into Georgo's room. Why? It was because Georgo had redecorated his room with posters of females. The females in the posters were all decently covered and the posters themselves were the least risqué Georgo possessed (Georgo had a feeling Ceo would faint once more if he took it any further than that), but Ceo was still on the verge of fainting even with the posters Georgo had chosen.
"Look, do you want me to help you or not? You said you've been following me, but as awesome as I am with the ladies, I have to hide that behind a lot of stuttering when I'm out in the open, so I doubt you learned anything useful. You'll never get anywhere if you don't stop fainting or cowering at the mere sight of women!" Georgo exclaimed.
After his frantic glance around the room, Ceo buried his face in his knees. His voice was muffled when he spoke. "But girls smile and giggle so much, and they always look at me so expectantly...I never know where to look..." As he spoke, he tugged on his long tresses. His hand stilled near his scalp after his fifth time of running his hand through his hair.
Georgo rolled his eyes. Ceo didn't know how lucky he was to get so much attention from the girls without any effort on his part. They naturally flocked to Ceo because they knew his supposed reputation and expected him to be a flirt, which meant it would be easy for them to gain his attention, though it would not be easy for them to keep his attention. For many, even a tiny little bit of attention from one of the upcoming Twelve Holy Knights would be enough make their day. Georgo knew this. He'd taken advantage of the fact more than once.
Georgo needed to put in a lot of effort to make it so that females would fawn over him. But that was okay. Acceptable. Made things more challenging. At least he had a big advantage with his honest reputation. The Storm Knight was supposed to be a flirt, so while females would easily fall for his supposed charm, they wouldn't truly consider him good boyfriend material. Just good material for a fling. More females would much rather have the reliable Earth Knight as a boyfriend. Or even as their husband!
He wasn't planning on settling down any time soon though. No way. That would be so limiting.
"The posters aren't going to look at you expectantly!" Georgo exclaimed. Ceo would first need to conquer these paper versions of the fairer sex before he could take on the real world versions. Otherwise, he'd stand no chance! Georgo grabbed a poster and shoved it in Ceo's face. "See? She's not even looking to the front!"
Ceo pried one of his eyes open. The female in the poster Georgo had chosen was facing the side with a faraway look in her eye. "I suppose so..." he conceded.
"Okay, now wink at her!"
"..."
Georgo sighed. "You know, you need to open both of your eyes first. Winking when you already have one eye closed just looks like you're falling asleep. No girl's going to be impressed by that!"
Reluctantly, Ceo opened his eyes. He then squinted at the poster before he turned his head away, but there was no reprieve for him, for there were posters of females plastered everywhere over Georgo's walls.
He was trapped.
Ceo quickly covered his eyes with his hands.
Georgo threw his hands up, the poster he had in his hand flapping in the air like a white flag declaring his surrender. "You're hopeless!"
This wasn't going to be the last time those words passed his lips.
He frowned and turned around to survey his room. "Ceo, watch me," he said. Once he was sure that Ceo had opened his eyes, Georgo approached the poster on the far right of his room. The female in that poster was dressed in white robes that pooled around her feet. From her dignified pose with her head held high, Georgo could tell she was a headstrong one.
"This is how you flirt," Georgo exclaimed. He cleared his throat. Compliments poured out of his mouth, his voice low and sultry. He finished his example with a wink. He even knelt down on one knee and pretended to kiss the back of the hand of an imaginary lady, for this lady would be one who wanted to be treated like nobility. If Georgo had been the next Storm Knight, this would be how he’d act with the ladies.
When he turned to see how Ceo had taken that, he was relieved to find out that Ceo had been watching carefully and was even...dutifully taking notes.
"That was...wow," Ceo said, clearly very touched by Georgo’s performance.
Georgo preened.
"Your turn." He nodded towards one of the posters.
Ceo gulped and shook his head slowly, his hands falling to his side, notes forgotten in the face of his ongoing challenge.
"Look at her," Georgo said. "Your problem is that you think of women as otherworldly beings, an entirely different species. Now, while the dirt they walk on should be worshipped, and they are truly a different species from stinky men, that kind of thinking is doing you more harm than good."
"What should I do then?" asked Ceo worriedly.
Georgo held two fingers up.
"There are two paths before you. Look beyond their appearances and get to know them as humans just like you, or don't try to get too close. Think of them as fruits and vegetables!"
Georgo wanted to pat himself on the back for his profound words.
"Fruits...and vegetables...?" Ceo wondered.
"Oh, so that's what you're choosing?" Georgo commented absentmindedly. "I was going to enlighten you about the inner workings of a woman's mind, which can be even more confusing than a maze, but I guess it can't be helped. The path you chose is the easier choice."
"I haven't chosen yet..." came Ceo's weak voice, but either Georgo hadn’t heard his protests, or he just plain didn’t care.
"See this girl here? She’s a pear," Georgo said, pointing at one of the posters. He then made some motion with his hands. Ceo’s eyes almost bulged out as he followed what looked to be extremely suggestive hand motions to Ceo.
"A p-pear?" stuttered Ceo, his voice almost stuck in his throat.
"Yes, a pear. Surely you can talk to a pear? This one here, this one's broccoli. See those curls? Mm, and this one's cabbage. You see what I mean? Ah, and here's our apple. Look at those cheeks! My favorite is of course, the apricot. Miss Melon here isn't bad either..."
That night at dinner, no one knew why the future Storm Knight could not bring himself to eat his vegetables. He was said to have pushed all of his vegetables off to the side of his plate, but that was not a big deal, for most growing boys did not like their greens.
However, when fruit started being served, the future Storm Knight immediately declared he was full and ran out of the dining hall at his top speed...and that was saying something.
Ceo, if nothing else, was fast.
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to be continued
...I so wish I could write crack like the writers of Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou. Hm, I didn't even reach 3k words in January! So little writing done this month. My goal of 150k this year is very out of reach at the moment.
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