The sudden appearance of the newcomer startled both people present.
However, unlike the instinctive reaction of the Tiefling child, the woman carrying the flower basket instantly went pale. It was the guilty look of someone caught red-handed. She turned her head and tried to run.
But the hand gripping her was simply too strong.
"Who are you? Let go of me!"
She turned around, revealing a male figure taller than her standing behind her.
He had handsome features, but at that moment, his face was expressionless.
A powerful sense of oppression radiated from him.
In the woman's eyes, countless dark tentacles seemed to surge from his body, baring their claws as they reached for her.
"Y-you!"
Gauss used his other hand to throw the bread in the woman's grasp to Theron.
Theron caught it and held it beneath his nose, sniffing lightly.
"Captain, it contains a sedative."
Gauss glanced at the equally trembling Tiefling child, then looked back at the incoherent woman.
"What is your purpose?"
He asked the question in an even tone.
Naturally, the woman had no intention of willingly revealing her purpose.
However, when Gauss's words reached her ears, they produced an overwhelmingly powerful magic.
It was as if a silver-tongued trickster were leaning beside her ear and patiently persuading her. The terrifying man gradually became kind and amiable in her eyes, almost like a friend.
In her dazed state, she swiftly revealed the entire plan.
"This is my job."
"Someone gave me money and told me to look for these homeless Tiefling orphans in the alleys, drug them with food laced with sedatives, and then take them to a designated location."
The Tiefling youth's pupils shrank rapidly when he heard the woman calmly describe the plan.
"Who gave you the money?"
"I don't know. He was