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I was reading Hunter x Hunter volume 24, when suddenly this thing appeared:

> 賜｛みつ｝ぎ物｛もの｝

Just a bit of context: they are trying to infiltrate the enemy's base, and
take advantage of one corrupt individual appetite for young women by sending
in an undercover team member dressed up as a regular girl. The team leader
(who thus sent the girl in) then uses the above phrase to say something along
the lines of

> Enjoy your present

I forgot the exact phrase but will add it later if necessary.

My question is why didn't the author use 貢{みつ}ぎ物 / 貢物 but this kanji ? Does it
have to do with the current situation the character is in ?

I guess a related question is how do 貢ぐ and 賜る differ in sense ?
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Why is みつぎもの written 賜ぎ物 instead of 貢ぎ物 in this comic?
This is a guess since I haven't read the series and the context you've given
is rather fuzzy.

Mangaka sometimes use furigana to employ a spoken word / meaning difference.
The usual example is adding the furigana あいつ to someone's name: [太郎]{あいつ}

The spoken word is あいつ but the kanji provide an explanation to the reader that
the character means 太郎

I've also seen this example: [過去]{ゆめ}を見ていた。 (from 吸血姫 美夕)

In the situation you describe, from the speaker's point of view the meaning is
賜物 (fruit of our labour -- presumably the time it took to prepare the plan)
while the audience (enemy) hears 貢ぎ物 (tribute).

Normally this would be written as [賜物]{貢ぎ物} but since Hunter x Hunter's target
audience is rather young (primary school or thereabouts), they might not know
how to read 貢ぎ物 and you typically can't add furigana to a furigana to clarify
the pronunciation. The author or editor probably realised this, and in their
search of a solution they ended up with the hybrid 賜ぎ物

For the dual meaning to work, the audience needs to notice that the word is
not spelt with the usual kanji. You did notice it; I'm not so sure about the
average reader.
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