"Crap!"

Adam sighed as he slowly turned around.

Up to this point, Herman was the biggest gold mine of information on the adapter child trafficking case that Adam had encountered. Just this airport alone contained extremely important leads, and Adam was certain that there were countless more useful leads to be discovered in Herman's memories.

However, his investigation was being obstructed due to how powerful Herman was, and that was naturally very frustrating to him.

Upon turning around, Adam discovered that Herman had already transformed into a half-human, half-tree hybrid creature.

His skin resembled the bark of an old tree, and countless vines were growing all over his body. His face had been relatively handsome prior to this, but it had been warped to resemble the face of...