To be honest, the moment Gawain saw the sand Amber had conjured, he jolted awake, instantly much more alert. He had genuinely thought this Shadow Assault Goose had quietly achieved a leap in both strength and rank—just think about it: backed by some unidentified higher existence, constantly sheltered by indescribable power, able to enter the Night Lady's divine kingdom, and now even capable of summoning dust from the Night Lady's divine kingdom that did not belong to this world. That whole string of traits was like stacking buff modifiers. If this goose just kept her mouth shut, she practically looked like a protagonist.
But after she described the properties of that sand, Gawain felt that something was wrong... The more he listened, the more these things that looked like Shadow Dust seemed to perform like free giveaways instead, like the guaranteed rewards for new free-to-play players in the online games from his previous life—golden flashes all over the card art, but in reality everyone got a set...
The equipment a boss had in the game (×), the equipment I actually got after killing the boss (√).
Perhaps the string of information Amber had brought today was simply too stimulating. Once Gawain relaxed his mind even slightly, all sorts of strange thoughts began running wild uncontrollably. Even memories of his previous life, which had not surfaced in a long time, emerged on their own. In the end, Amber could not help speaking up. She poked Gawain's arm from beside him and said, "Hey, that assessment isn't right. No matter what, this 'ability' was something I brought back after quite a lot of hardship..."
Gawain glanced at the goose and blurted out, "Honestly, aside from the part where you finally fell onto the floor and woke up, I really didn't see how