"This is Amber, my guard."
Gawain's calm voice rang out, giving the cowering Amber behind him a bit of courage. She looked up at the three half-human, half-deer female deities before her, forced out a smile uglier than crying, and raised a hand in greeting. "Hello..."
Earth Goddess Gaia's mouth visibly twitched. The smile she forced onto her face looked even more like crying than Amber's as she returned the greeting, "Hello..."
The moment Amber heard that respectful form of address, she stopped being scared. Her whole body seemed to float, even her eyebrows flying upward. Gawain immediately caught the change in her expression and casually nudged her shoulder. "What are you so smug about? That was obviously a slip of the tongue—she was addressing the one 'behind' you."
After saying that, Gawain turned his attention back to the Earth Goddess before him. He coughed twice to get her attention, then his gaze involuntarily fell on her face. After hesitating for a moment, he finally could not help saying, "How about you ladies wipe the blood off your faces first? And tend to the wounds on your heads..."
He had noticed the blood streaming down the three goddesses' faces from the moment they met and instantly imagined countless things. It looked as though the three of them had come running here to find someone with bumps all over their heads and blood covering half their faces. Honestly, the sight was as bizarre as it could get. Gawain considered himself well-traveled and well-informed, but he had rarely seen anything this fresh and unconventional. If he really had to think of something comparable, only the Dragon God turning into a Tea Egg spirit seemed equally absurd—but Lady Egg had at least changed gradually. She had not shown up at someone's door with