My Gift Is “Beauty”. I Think It’s Useless, but It Seems to Be an S-Rank Gift With the Strongest Buff Effect for Beautiful Girls - Chapter 43.5.1: Saori Fuyutsuki

Chapter 43.5.1: Saori Fuyutsuki

I realized I had received the “Appraisal” gift when I was in elementary school.

The “Appraisal” gift naturally revealed what kind of gift it was the moment it was granted, and as a child, I understood that such cases existed.

At the moment I received this “Appraisal” gift, my future income was practically guaranteed.

While the “Appraisal” gift appeared occasionally in Japan, it wasn’t common.

If I took a job related to the Adventurers’ Guild Association, I could stably earn a high income, as it was almost promised, so most people with the “Appraisal” gift joined the Adventurers’ Guild.

I, too, became one of them.

I had always been serious about studying and work since I was young.

Or perhaps it was better to say I was overly serious.

Despite this, girls loved talking about romance.

Since I was young, my breasts were larger than others, which made me stand out.

My appearance, apart from my breasts, also drew attention, but my breast size especially caught people’s eyes.

Perhaps because of this, as I grew older, more boys confessed their feelings to me.

I dated some of them, but none of those relationships lasted until the end. The reason was that few people truly saw my personality; they were mostly interested in my body.

Because of this, I started living like a jaded woman.

I had a fair number of female friends and, as a woman, began to take an interest in beauty.

The desire to stay beautiful wasn’t for anyone else.

It definitely wasn’t for men.

It was more like one of my hobbies.

Staying beautiful gave me topics to talk about with my female friends, and being called beautiful made me happy.

After graduating from university, I joined the Adventurers’ Guild, and the job was fairly fulfilling.

My work mainly involved appraising ordinary people or adventurers who came to the “Appraisal” reception desk and explaining the gifts they possessed.

I gave advice tailored to each person, answered their questions, and compiled necessary information on the computer.

Due to my serious personality, I was seen as diligent, but especially men often came to see me specifically, and though I wanted to sigh, I dealt with them.

Among those moments, something I now think was strange was that I privately compiled adventurers’ gift information on my tablet.

I thought it might be useful for my work someday, but looking back, I realize my risk management was poor, even though the Adventurers’ Guild didn’t explicitly prohibit it.

While doing this, I met someone who would become a turning point in my life.

“Takanashi Hiroyo-san, your gift is ‘Beauty.’”

His face was full of excitement when he came to the reception desk.

I immediately knew he wanted to become an adventurer. But the moment I told him his gift’s name, his expression changed, as he likely realized it wasn’t a gift suited for adventuring.

However, I had hope for his gift.

In all my time working, I had never heard of a gift called “Beauty.”

While beauty treatments could be accessed with money, they cost a fortune for ordinary people and weren’t guaranteed to make someone beautiful.

But the effects of a gift were absolute.

The skills he initially possessed were “Skin Quality Improvement” and “Fat Burning.” These alone were incredible abilities.

I wanted him to use them. I wanted him to use his abilities.

With that thought, I spoke to him, hoping to encourage him and dreaming of the day he might use his gift on me.

“Girls love ‘Beauty.’ It’s probably an S-rank gift with the ultimate buff effect for us women.”

I had appraised many people.

I felt that if he wasn’t deceived by bad people, he could use this gift well.

I met him again six months later.

It was when I rushed to appraise Asumi Shishido, one of the three beautiful A-rank adventurers from the Tenchi Guild, who had been injured by a monster.

Perhaps because I got flustered and lost sight of my surroundings, I forgot about confidentiality and ended up talking about him, leading to him being called through Mizuki Hosaka.

When he appeared, three beautiful girls were with him.

Each one was cute and beautiful, and I assumed he had used his gift on them.

I never would have guessed one of them was Kirino Hyoudou.

With him at the center, Asumi-san, who had been afflicted by the “Burn Curse,” recovered afterward.

He became a hero who saved her from a life-threatening crisis.

He was truly amazing.

Seeing him directly again made me realize the incredible power of his gift.

However, I was put on suspension for a while after that and spent my days alone at home.

“No good guys lately?”

“Nope. I’m not really looking, though.”

This was a conversation with four close friends from university.

They always said they wanted boyfriends, and despite their decent looks, they were too picky and hadn’t found proper ones.

Maybe they were similar to me. They say like attracts like.

“Saori, you need to be more proactive. A woman’s youth is the most important time.”

“Maybe, but…”

“There must’ve been at least one guy you were interested in among the clients at the Adventurers’ Guild.”

“Work and personal life are separate.”

That said, I had given personal advice to someone before.

That was him… but he was only sixteen.

He was kind, gentle, and seemed to look at people sincerely.

“You just thought of someone, didn’t you!”

“Tell us!”

“Saori being interested in someone is super rare!”

There was no way I could say he was a high schooler.

Almost half a year later, I got a message from him.