Chapter 396: Show Your Evil Side! (Happy New Year, Everyone!)
"So you're saying your group went through a coup, your captain is now dead, and the rest of you are being hunted by your former team."
After listening to the explanation from the woman before him, who called herself Luna and claimed to be the former vice-captain of Fang of the Azure Wolf, Gauss quickly pieced together the situation.
It wasn't complicated, but the details clearly couldn't be explained in a short time.
"Yes. And Fischer will probably come looking for you before long. He seems to have had his eye on you for quite some time."
Gauss listened without changing his expression.
After all, she was a stranger, and he wasn't yet ready to believe everything Luna said.
But he still had to be on his guard.
For adventurers, it was often better to believe a warning and be wrong than to dismiss it and be caught off guard.
It never hurt to be prepared.
Especially since Gauss knew very well that his unusual nature must make him a tempting prize to many ambitious people.
He wasn't even talking about the many people who mistook him for someone with an exceptionally pure Dragonborn bloodline. Even the mere existence of Hefis was enough to make people take desperate risks.
There would always be gamblers whose ambition outweighed their reason, driving them to take reckless action. One thing Gauss had learned over the course of his career was never to assume that everyone in the world was an objective, rational person.
"Thank you for the information, Lady Luna."
Gauss expressed his gratitude, but he remained wary of her.
Even if she hadn't lied about Fischer coveting him, what proved she wasn't secretly working with Fischer?
He couldn't rule out the possibility