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 54: Appreciation Party, Encounter

Chapter 54: Appreciation Party, Encounter

“Wow! It’s so spacious!”

“So luxurious~”

“Aren’t we out of place here?”

“Hehe, it’s fine. Everyone, your outfits look great today.”

“Aba… abababa…!”

In late March.

At a banquet hall in a certain luxury hotel.

On this day, Hiroyo and the four others visited the banquet hall in formal attire, which they usually didn’t wear.

They were invited by Midori Hourai to an entertainment agency specializing in adventurers, ‘Treasure Next.’

Today, an end-of-year appreciation party was being held, attended by affiliated adventurers and related people.

“Hiroyo, you look kinda cool today.”

“Really? Maybe it’s because of the hairstyle and clothes I’m not used to…”

Hiroyo wore a sharp, brand-new black suit. His bangs were all swept up, fixed with wax and spray.

“More importantly! How do we look?”

If Hiroyo was dressed up in a suit, Hibiki and the others were no different.

Each wore a dress, adorned dazzlingly.

“Yeah. You all look cute. It suits you so well, I’m surprised. But… it feels a bit revealing.”

Hibiki wore a mature sleeveless dress. Her ample breast spilled out from the sides. Sideboob, that is.

“Thanks! Well, I also think it’s a bit revealing… but this dress is so cute!”

It was a dress she wouldn’t normally wear. Since she rarely came to such events, Hibiki was excited.

Koharu, Kirino, and Asumi felt the same. Especially Asumi, perhaps due to her foreign blood, looked like a princess in the dress she was made to wear.

By the way, all these dresses were arranged by Kirino through her family. Hiroyo’s suit was the same.

“Oh, everyone. Thank you for participating today!”

Then, Midori Hourai, who invited Hiroyo and the others to the appreciation party, approached.

She was also dressed up in a dress, looking very beautiful.

“Thank you for inviting us!”

“No, no. We prepared delicious food, so I think you’ll enjoy that too.”

“Wow, really. It’s like a buffet.”

At the end of Midori’s gaze were various dishes lined up against the wall.

They were arranged in a buffet style for guests to take.

“Also, later, I’ll introduce my father, so if you could give a brief greeting, that’d be great.”

“Thank you for everything!”

“Yes. See you later.”

There was still some time before the appreciation party started.

After greeting them, Midori went to talk to other participants.

“By the way—”

Hiroyo looked around and swallowed hard.

The reason was obvious.

“It’s really all adventurers…”

Realizing that only adventurers he had seen on TV were attending, Hiroyo couldn’t hide his excitement.

Among them were familiar faces—

“Hey! Long time no see~!”

“Oh, Mizuki-nee!”

Approaching while waving were three A-rank adventurers from the Tenchi Guild—Mizuki Hosaka, Haruka Akise, and Asumi Shishido.

These three were also adventurer models affiliated with ‘Treasure Next.’

“Hello. It’s been a while.”

“Yo, you guys doing well~?”

After exchanging greetings with Haruka and Asumi, the three turned their eyes to one girl.

“Whoa, this girl is super cute! Like a doll!”

“A, aba!?”

The girl Mizuki stared at was Asumi.

Unaware that Asumi had helped them during the Dungeon Tour, Mizuki and the others surrounded her, making a fuss.

“She’s really cute~”

“Not an elementary schooler… right?”

“I’m a first-year high school student, technically.”

“Oh, sorry. But you’re so small and cute…”

“Abababababa!?”

Asumi, pointed out by Haruka, had a baby face and was short. It wasn’t surprising she looked younger than her age.

Surrounded by the three, Asumi’s shyness kicked in, her face turning bright red.

At that moment.

The atmosphere in the venue changed suddenly. It started to buzz.

“Mwaaaaaaa…”

Despite not being an adventurer, a large man who didn’t look old at all entered the venue, exuding a strong aura.

A muscular man in a tight suit approached loudly, accompanied by a man who seemed to be his secretary.

“Hm…?”

“Oh…”

Kirino reacted.

Then, the elderly man, meeting Kirino’s eyes, approached with a terrifying expression.

“Eh, eh…!?”

“Some scary guy is coming toward us!?”

Hiroyo and Hibiki, overwhelmed by the man’s intimidating presence, stepped back.

And then—

“Kirinooooooo~~!!”

“Grandpa!? Kyaaa!?”

He easily lifted Kirino with both hands as he approached.

“Kirino~~! You’ve become so beautiful…! Grandpa is so happy!”

“Stop it, everyone’s watching!?”

“What are you saying! Grandpa has been wanting to see you for so long!”

“I said… stop it!!”

“Buhea!?”

The man kept lifting Kirino despite her protests. But Kirino, genuinely upset, created an ice glove and punched him in the face, knocking him down.

“Kirino… this person, could it be…?”

“Yes. I’m sorry for showing you something unsightly. This is my grandfather—Genroku Hyoudou.”

“Ehhhhhh!?”

The man who lifted Kirino was a figure so famous in Japan that no one didn’t know him, having founded the Adventurers’ Guild Association. Over seventy years old, he was Kirino’s grandfather.

“But, doing that to your grandpa, is it okay?”

“It’s his fault for lifting me in front of so many people… Besides, this won’t even scratch him.”

“Huh…?”

As Kirino said, it happened.

Genroku, who had fallen to the ground, slowly got up.

“Ugh… Kirino’s attack hurts. But it was a wonderful love punch.”

“There wasn’t a shred of love in that punch.”

“Kirinoooo!?”

“Genroku-sama, please stop there. Look, everyone is watching.”

Told by the male secretary beside him, Genroku snapped to attention.

Looking around, all the participants were focused on them.

“Nuuu… fine. I didn’t expect Kirino to be here, so I got carried away…”

“I didn’t know either.”

“Kirino-sama, everyone, we’re very sorry. I’ll take responsibility and watch Genroku-sama from now on, so for now—”

Genroku was then led by the secretary toward someone who seemed to be an industry figure.

Kirino watched Genroku leave, then let out a sigh.

“Geez, Grandpa…”

“He was quite a guy. He looked young enough to be your dad.”

“Hiroyo-kun… I think it’s partly because of his gift, but Grandpa has a gift called ‘Kangaroo.’”

“What’s that? An animal name?”

Hibiki interjected at Kirino’s explanation.

“There are gifts like that. Kangaroos have muscular upper bodies, right? He looks more like a gorilla, but it’s actually ‘Kangaroo.’ That’s why his muscles grow easily, and he became a power-type person.”

“Whoa…”

“‘Kangaroo’ means he has jumping power too?”

Hiroyo asked Kirino about something he was curious about.

Generally, kangaroos are known for their strong legs.

“Yes. Not many adventurers know this, but when dungeons first appeared, Grandpa went into them himself to defeat monsters. His power and jumping ability were useful then.”

“So he did adventurer-like things.”

“Seems so. It was before I was born, so I don’t know much, but that’s how it was.”

Hiroyo nodded at the new information.

Genroku, who founded the Adventurers’ Guild Association, used the benefits of his gift to its fullest.

Thanks to that power, he could see dungeons with his own eyes and develop the Adventurers’ Guild Association, which wasn’t an exaggeration to say.

“Anyway, a lot of people are here today.”

“Yeah. I didn’t expect the head of the Adventurers’ Guild to show up…”

Hiroyo agreed with Koharu’s comment.

However, the person Hiroyo was waiting for hadn’t arrived yet.

That was the main reason he attended today.

At that moment.

The double doors opened, and a person quietly stepped into the venue.

A beautiful woman with long, dark blonde hair flowing down her back.

Her confident walk was like a model’s, rivaling celebrities.

Gradually, the participants turned their gazes toward her—

“Oh…”

Hiroyo’s eyes were captivated by her.

She was the person Hiroyo had been waiting for, someone he had admired for a long time.

“Nagisa Kurebayashi…!”

She was one of the few S-rank adventurers in Japan, said to number less than ten.