Chapter 25: Useless gifts

"So, do you see chief? Because we have just come out of the dark season, food is still a bit scarce. The runa fruit you saw yesterday was just the first few to bloom. I wanted you to have some yesterday."

"Sorry..."

"No need to apologize." But if you really want to start eating more, you should work on blooming your gift."

"Oh yeah, about that, what is my gift exactly? What does it do?"

Seeing his eager expression, Myuri smiled.

"Why should I tell you? No one in the tribe knows of their gift until they bloom it. Why should you be much different?"

"Well," Alexander was temporariliy stunned. "Becaue I'm the chief?"

"True, because of your circumstance, you could get to know why your gift is, but it's always better to have your gift as a surprise. Discovering it yourself would make the surprise even better. Plus, you are guaranteed to have a gift that is not useless. So you don't really have anything to worry about."

"There are useless gifts?"

"Of course, lots of gifts are useless. My 'heart of tranquility', for instance, doesn't really have much use."

"Your gift is useless?" Alexander asked. But when Alexander thought of it, her gift really didn't have much use. All she could do was calm people down. If he didn't exist, would she be a bouncer or something?

"I was lucky that the old tribal chief found a use for my skill when I developed it. So she called me up to be her attendant."

At that moment, the two heard the sound of feet coming closer. When they turned around, they saw Azuri approaching.

"Are you finally awake, Zuri?"

"Yeah..."

"You know you are an adult now, so you should start waking up earlier, sis."

"I'll try."

"Have you got the water?" Myuri asked Azuri.

"Yes, I did."

"Then put it in the house. On the third room. Bring yourself a bowl to eat as well."

After Myuri said that, Azurin went into the house. But Alexander was confused.

What water?

From the moment she came, Azuri was holding absolutely nothing but the clothes on her back. So what water is Myuri talking about? Seeing his inner thoughts leading him to no answer, he then decided to ask.

"Well, she is using her gift to hold the water."

"Her gift? "How does it work?"

"You should ask her yourself. I'm not the one who has the gift."

So when Azuri returned, Alexander asked. And she told him right away what her gift does.

Apparently, her gift is like a personal dimension or inventory. Similar to how those fantasy stories were back in his past life.

After hearing that, Alexander felt like it was a waste to have such a great gift but use it only to hold water from one place to another. But he didn't really have much say in how Azuri chose to live her life.

After that, Myuri and Azuri started eating. And since Alexander had eaten his own share already, he could only stare as they ate.

Left with nothing to do, Alexander's attention was drawn by a certain butt sitting on the stool next to him. With the force of her weight pushing down on the stool, her cute buttocks were forced to spread out slightly.

The back part of her loincloth was slightly pulled back, revealing the dark and attractive crack separating her ass in two.

As he looked at her, a certain thought came to his mind.

'I wish I could just touch her.' But when he remembered how this world was, that statement turned into a question. 'Can I touch her?'

Alexander has seen it clearly that the women of this world aren't very conscious of their bodies. They do not seem to care if a person sees them naked or not. Heena and Myuri have shown this clearly.

But what about touching? Would they be willing to be touched as they are seen? After all, sight and touch are completely different things.

But then Alexabder remembered something Myuri had said to him when he was eating yesterday.

The tribesmen won't mind if you touch them.

At that time, Alexander didn't focus on this, as he was already drawn in by Myuri's breasts. So he failed to properly take in the bombshell-like news at that time. But now that he thought of it, it really was terrifying.

So he had an idea to try it out.

'If I touched Azuri right now, what would she do?'

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