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10. Blow Off Some Steam (Zacharie)

A/N: Hello and welcome to the beginning of the Zacharie route! enjoy the artwork i made for this chapter! :-)

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Your eyes land on Zacharie.

If there's a chance things could go wrong and you two end up ambushed, then there's no doubt the combination between Zacharie and you could handle the hardest of situations. After all, he's more than familiar with the internal workings of video games.

"Zachaire, looks like you're coming with me." you tell the athlete with a cheeky grin. "You're not getting rid of me that easily." you joke around.

"Oh, on the contrary, you are the one stuck with me." Zacharie played along.

You turn to face the athlete. "Okay Batter, me and Zach will pretend to be normal clients while you scoot off and find something of worth. Think you can do for me old friend?"

"Of course. I'll do everything in my power to carry out the task." the batter nods.

"Excellent."

"I'll leave (y/n) in your sneaky hands Zacharie. Take care of the puppeteer for me and don't screw this up." Batter warns the ex-merchant with a firm tone. Grabbing his baseball bat from the wall and heading to the opposite direction of the sauna.

You turn around to face your temporary undercover partner. Standing on your tip toes to ruffle his black hair.

"It's showtime." you say to your add on, heading to your assigned locker while Zacharie went to his.

The masked man flipped the card in his hand, eyeing the piece of plastic before placing the key card in front of the locker, opening it without any trouble. Inside the metal locker is a pair of sandals, a towel and a bathrobe made of an unknown texture.

Most likely the same material as puppeteer's clothes. He assumes.

Zacharie turned around to ask you what was the name of said materials until the question got stuck in his throat, seeing you are already a step ahead of him by removing half of your clothing. You were a little oblivious to the fact Zach kept staring at you, it wasn't until you were in your underwear when you finally noticed him.

"Something wrong?" you ask with a hint of concern in your voice, tilting your head to the side as you fold your clothing.

"Oh! no, nothing is wrong." Zacharie sheepishly responds, scratching the back of his neck.

"You still have your clothes on though." you notice. Nodding towards his own clothing, an amusing smile crossing on your lips. "Don't tell me you've been wearing that shirt for so long it's glued to your skin?." you giggle at the thought.

"Not at all mon ami, in fact I could easily prove you wrong." the masked man tugged the edge of his shirt collar with a sigh, aware that his neck has a darker tone than the rest of his body. At least he could still keep his mask on.

"You sure?" you ask all of a sudden, closer than Zacharie anticipated.

The man jumped to his feet, unaware on how you approached him so quickly. At some point you slipped on the bath robe, it was still parted lightly enough for him to catch a glimpse of your chest, not to mention his taller height made it so he had a distinctive view.

"But what about the mask?" you wonder, your eyes trailing across the item on his face as you raise your hand to touch it. "Can you remove that?"

Zacharie stood still in his spot, his eyes refusing to leave your form. He gently grabbed your hand in his, lowering it away from his frog shaped mask.