Last man on earth when there is no earth?

Ch 02.3

Sector twenty one, plane Gorgola, Lilia’s space craft.

Although it looks quite small from the outside, the craft's interior is comparatively spacious. It’s clean and well organized, you wouldn’t be wrong to think it was assembled recently. In fact it’s too clean for something that crash landed from space. How is this thing still intact?

“I will make something for you to wear.” Lilia said as she walked to the back. “You can’t sleep like that, right?”

“That’s… something we can agree on.” I’ve been walking around like a pervert for a few hours now. I don’t want to ruin her impression of me any further.

“The night is cold too, you don’t want to get sick.” In one of the corners was a glowing ring about two feet in diameter. She pointed at it and told me to get inside.

“Stand here, then take that off.”

Not like this, a woman telling you to strip shouldn’t feel like this… thinking that to myself I went and stood where she said. Not long after I understood why my blond companion showed little reaction when telling me what to do.

The ring glowed a faint green light then a second later hexagon shaped small panels came down from the ceiling connecting and forming a cylinder around me. I can’t see through the thin wall of hexagons so I assume Lilia is the same.

I ignore the cell like feeling this tight space gives off and slowly remove the cloak which was my only cover.

“Umm… is this a changing room or something?”

Startled by a sudden noise behind me I turned around. The small hexagons had retracted leaving an opening in the wall. From it a small box was pushed halfway inside.

“That’s the shower, actually. Put the cloak in the box behind you.”

I did as she said and the box was pulled back two or three seconds later, after which the opening closed. So this is a shower huh… well, this is a space ship after all. Kinda makes my heart pound. It doesn’t have anything to do with standing naked in a girl’s house. It definitely does not!

“Do I get to wash myself?” I said as I tried to distract myself from the slow awakening of my meat pole.

“Obviously. Didn’t you notice the stench coming from you? You smell like a mummy.”

Gagh!!… that hurts. Do I really smell that bad? I didn’t notice at all. Why didn’t she say anything until now? Her tone was calm when she said it, was she so disgusted that she became unable to express emotions? She wouldn’t have stabbed me with that statement if she was trying to be considerate.

“I will open the water now, alright?”

“Okay…”

It was at this moment that I realized I let my guard down.

“Wai- GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

“Huh!? W-w-w-what’s wrong!? Why are you screaming like that!?” As I screamed at the top of my lungs Lilia seemed to have lost her composure.

“HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!!!!!!!”

It burns!! HOT HOT HOT HOT toooooo HOT!!!! My skin! I feel my skin melting off!!!!

“Wait… b-b-but it’s the temperature I usually use! I-is it really that hot?”

This isn’t the time to ask for my opinion! The water, or whatever liquid this is, it’s inhumanly hot! Scorching! Burning! Is this torture!!? What did I do!!?

Lilia already got an idea of what’s going on from all the struggling and slamming happening inside the hexagon patterned wall. The water -or whatever liquid this is- slowly decreased in temperature until it reached a rather lukewarm state.

“Haaaaaaaa~~~” I wished she would pour something cold on me now that my whole body was burned, but this is fine.

“Um…uh… how should I say this… sorry….” Lilia apologized from beyond the wall. Damn it! I wish I could see the expression she’s making right now. Her voice had concern in it, this is the first time a girl got worried for my sake!

“Nah… I think I overreacted that’s all.” Nice, now she will think you are a wimp. Way to go, me “I’m impressed you can actually handle something like this.”

Now, let’s clarify a few things.

Lilia, the alien girl with white -slightly rosy- skin, long blond hair, blue eyes and amazing body, not to mention the horns growing on both sides of her head, is able to withstand water of that temperature. She is far stronger than her human counterpart.

This isn’t a simple coincidence of meeting a really cute cosplayer. She is as powerful as she is beautiful. Carrying that knife spear thing should already give you an idea of what would happen when, let’s just say she becomes displeased with my behavior.

No no no no, NO!

Forget all those things about her being the first addition to my harem and how I could win her over. I have to make sure we stay on good terms and not to do anything that might anger her.

“Are you done yet?” Her voice interrupted my train of thoughts. “I’m cutting off the water, okay?”

“Yeah, I’m already done”

She kept calling it water but I don’t think it’s only that. There are bubbles at my feet so it probably has something that resembles soap in it, though it doesn’t look like I will have to wash it off.

I hope this alien shower won’t cost me every strand of hair on my body. The used water was drained soon enough, that’s when I noticed a glowing icon on one of the hexagon shaped panels. And you know, icons exist to be clicked.

Have you ever heard of the term a storm inside a flask? Well, that is precisely what’s happening now. A storm of hot air blew from both the floor and the ceiling simultaneously throwing me off balance. No head injuries were caused by this.

“I was about to warn you of the drying system.” Lilia said. “No one really uses those.”

If the air pressure is enough to lift me up something like this belongs in an amusement park instead. Though the safety issue is a big concern.

Man, I suddenly feel like drinking some coke…

Where did that come from? Anyways, some coke would be the best right now.

Coke, huh… does it even exist outside earth?

“Hey… Lilia, do you know anything about how the situation on earth is like right now?”

Following my question was a brief moment of silence.

“… Lilia?”

“Ah! sorry, did you say something?” 

Was she spacing out just now?

“I asked if you know anything about earth…”

“Hmmm…” she took her time thinking about it, but the answer wasn’t worth all the wait.

“If by earth you mean the human home-world, then I don’t have a clear idea. it’s too far from this sector so there isn’t much contact between it and Zesion.”

I think I’m really, really far from home. That’s what I always wanted though, right? I wanted to end up in another world, this is another world, so it should be fine. But is it? There appears to be an earth somewhere out there. Should I try to get there?

Just thinking that alone made me feel like I want my normal life back.

Just kidding.