Chapter 25 Kano Tribe I - The Meeting
After training was over Alva went back since she had some work to do so I had some alone time in a long time to enjoy myself, it's not like I hated being with Alva but, sometimes you need some private space.
I got some sudden urge to talk with other girls and get to know them, I've only known a few people in this tribe and most of them were close friends of Alva.
I slowly approached the girls who were resting in the small building after their rigorous training, just like me.
It was a little hard to look at them because they had next to no clothes and their sweaty bodies were giving them a different type of charm.
One thing I noticed in this place was girls were super cute and sexy no matter who they are, most of the girls had ripped or normal slim bodies because they did normal weight lifting or hunting every day.
I rarely saw someone without an athletic type of body, Nym was one of the girls who had different types of body types. She was a little bit chubby which just add a different type of charm to her.
"Hello! Girls," I just greeted them with a normal smile.
"Oh! You're the one chief brought into the tribe," Girls were excited to see me because most of them were curious about my origins.
"We saw you practising, wasn't it hard to do that? Even we don't try that type of thing,"
"Come here, sit with us,"
All of them were curious about him so they invited him to sit with them, I gladly accepted it because who dislikes being with these super sexy girls who are older than me overflowing with sexiness and adult charms.
I had to be worried about them if they knew my truth but only Alva and Usha knows my secret so far except the one who was peeking at him the other day. None of them had clue that something like that happened.
"Darling, where did you come from?" It was a little mature-looking lady who questioned him. She was overflowing with a mature charm that Nikol felt like a child looking at her.
"I can't remember about those details, Luckily, Alva found me and the girls here treated me with care," Nikol told them half of the truth.
"Poor girl, if you need any help ask us ok," They were looking at him like he was some kind of a lost child.
Nikol wanted to ask their ages because he was interested but, he refrained from doing that because even in a place like this asking the age of women is a dangerous activity which can endanger your life.
He talked with them happily for a few hours, it didn't take a lot of time for them to become completely friendly with him. Some of them even wanted to recruit him to their squads but, he knew Alva would be pissed off if he suggested something like that.
"But, you can't be weak right, darling? You rescued that medicine girl from goblins, I'm grateful to you for rescuing her,"
Nikol didn't know what to tell them because even he didn't know how he did that.
"It's nothing, why do you guys call her medicine girl? Is it because she is like a healer to you or something?" Nikol felt interested in Nym because she healed him completely from the burn mark. According to Alva, healing someone completely is something impossible even with light magic so he wanted to thank her for saving him.
"Yeah, something like that, Chief really protects her from everything," One of the girls answered him.
He didn't remember much about her appearance except for her being different and chubby from others because he lost his consciousness so the memories of that day were blurred in his mind.
They talked for a few minutes more before Alva returned to see Nikol surrounded by girls, She felt relieved, but at the same time, some kind of unknown emotions enveloped her mind.
"Nikol, let's go back," She shouted gaining the attention of everyone.
Nikol noticed her and got ready to leave since it was time for some rest. Others were confused about why Alva was caring for Nikol so much but at the same time, they understood a little about the reason.
"Oh~ Alva, you are late, did something happen?" Nikol asked her.
"Nothing! Let's go come here," She said while grabbing Nikol's hand tightly.
"Girls, you can go early today, make sure to come back tomorrow,"
Even though they were somewhat older than her, Alva still had the authority because she was more powerful than everyone present there. All the girls respected Usha as well as Alva because she is going to be the next chief.
"See you again, Nikol,"
"Bye, Darling,"
Everyone waved at him and said goodbye to him receiving a glare from Alva.
They walked back to the mansion back after saying farewell to the girls, on the way Alva was silent while avoiding eye contact with Nikol,
"Alva, Why are you avoiding my eye contact?" Nikol had a guess why she was like this but, he didn't want to get ahead of himself so he asked her straightforwardly.
"I don't, it's just something inside me is not feeling good for some reason," Alva didn't know why she was feeling like this.
Every time she sees Nikol with another girl, she starts to feel this pain inside her. First, it started with her own mother during her first night. Now seeing him with her colleagues made her like this. She didn't like this burning feeling, and at the same time, she didn't understand why she felt like this.
"Hmm~ it must be jealousy," Nikol said gaining the full attention of Alva.
"What do you mean?" Alva didn't understand his words.
"It's a simple but agonizing feeling, basically you feel jealousy when I'm with someone else and it hurts you," Nikol understood that she did not know about these feelings so, he didn't want to go around and make it more complex for her so he straightforwardly told about it to her.
"I-i'm not like that," Alva didn't want to accept what he said.
"You will understand someday," Nikol muttered to himself, he had seen many of his friends in his high school in the same situation.
Even though Nikol had no interest in dating at that time, most of his friends had dates. Among them one of the most common problems was jealousy.
Nikol had little experience advising and helping them with their relationship so it wasn't that hard for him to understand what was happening with Alva.
Alva didn't want to accept it so Nikol didn't talk about it any further.
They went back to the mansion quickly, by the time they went it was already past the lunch time but surprisingly there were many people in the mansion.
It almost looks like something is happening. Alva was worried so, she decided to ask someone else in the mansion about what was happening.
"Erika, What's happening? Why are the elders also here?" Alva asked from the girl who was running with some papers in her hands, Elders in the tribe usually won't participate in the meeting because they have retired from their work, but if it's something urgent or threatening appeared to the whole tribe, the chief has the authority to bring them back and ask their support.
Most of these elders were supporters of her mother, so Usha knew most of them closely. Unlike other times when the chief is chosen by a tournament when Usha asked for the authority of the chief nobody was there to challenge her so she became the chief of the tribe automatically.
People didn't participate because they knew Usha is going to win even if they do. After all, she was that powerful and tactical when it comes to battles as well as the management of the tribe.
"Alva, It's lucky you're here, go and quickly meet the chief, I don't know what's happening but apparently it's an emergency," Erika said before going back to her work of carrying the papers.
Nikol didn't know what was happening neither did Alva. They quickly ran to find the chief who was busy with the elders.
*Knock *Knock
Alva knocked on the main office door of Usha expecting an answer. The door opened and a group of people were sitting in the room with serious faces.
Nikol observed the people but, he couldn't find the elders whom Erika was talking about. All the people in the room were either looking young or middle-aged.
"Oh, Al, you're here come, It's an important meeting," One of the middle-aged women said looking at the duo of Alva and Nikol.
At first, none of them identified Nikol since they didn't see him before in the tribe. They got to know the news about the person who they found in the forest but, this was the first time they met him.
"Grandmother, What happened? Why are you all looking like this?" Alva questioned the one who was near her. Even though she wasn't her real grandmother, she called most of them like that because they told her to do so.
"Al, you won't believe this but the Kano tribe is in action again, this time it's more dangerous than the last time,"
She said making Nikol confused but, Alva's face suddenly became serious hearing it.