Gifts
贈り物
People generally dislike clichéd things.
Are they tired of seeing things
be repeated each time?
"... It's ready!"
Still using my tail to stir the spring water I'd brought to a steady steam by breathing fire onto it, I raised my voice.
"You took long enough!"
"Excuse, me."
Then, from behind my back, I heard the sound of water being splashed into. Following that was the sound of someone gingerly dipping into the spring. The sounds had come from Nina and Ai respectively entering the spring. Only at times like these did I find having the sharp hearing of a dragon disagreeable.
"Aah, this feels great... the temperature is just right."
"So good..."
Contrasting the girls' relaxation, I couldn't settle down at all. The reason being that the two girls behind me had entered the spring as naked as can be.
"Hey. Why do you always look away? Turn around."
"No, that'd be a bit..."
"Don't want, to see my face...?"
"No, it's not like that. Just..."
Ai usually takes my side on things, but it turns into a trial for me whenever we do something like this.
"Tell me why you don't want to look over here!"
Nina suddenly caught a hold of my lengthy neck with her arms and yanked on it.
But I don't think that I could explain it that well at all.
I mean, these girls don't even have the notion of being ashamed by nudity.
Perhaps that notion isn't something that humans have inherently, but is rather enculturated? Like something that is learned by paying attention to parents being embarrassed by nudity.
"Well, it's because... you two aren't wearing any clothes right now?"
"Aren't you the one that told us to take them off?"
"I did, but..."
"Is it... because I don't, have scales...?"
"No no no, that's not the problem at all."
Hearing her sound like she was about to fall into despair, I shook my head.
"I'm a man, and you two are women. A man seeing a naked woman is, well... not too good of a thing."
"What? Isn't a woman seeing a naked man fine though?"
"That's also not too good of a thing, I think..."
"But aren't you always naked?"
" !! "
A sudden shock.
Now that I think about it, it is true. I hadn't minded it much since I'm a dragon, but I definitely haven't been wearing any clothing.
Which means that I've been nude this whole time.
"No, no, no, it's different! Wait, please. Look, I... I'm a dragon. So I don't need clothes."
"So then doesn't being a man or a woman have nothing to do with anything?"
