Shepherd's Secret Covenant
Chapter 1001

Shadow Hunter Beast (Please vote!)

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Shadow Hunter Beast (Please vote!)

Although Iver had been Pope of Humanity for four months, Arsene still didn't know what the Pope looked like.

Although the news of Iver becoming Pope had failed to reach Iris in time with a photograph because Alice de Harcourt had been arrested and investigated... the scene of Iver resisting the Fallen Angel had been briefly livestreamed to Iris. Although only the cities near Antinium had witnessed it, that had still been enough for people to take photographs and distribute them everywhere.

He had only heard people mention that Pope Your Majesty looked almost exactly like the Fallen Angel—that was actually what people cared about most. After all, it was far too easy to let one's imagination run wild.

Arsene had never deliberately sought out a chance to see him, entirely for personal reasons—he wasn't interested in those high-and-mighty big shots. He neither worshiped nor hated them. They were people completely unrelated to his life, career, and ideals. He didn't like joining in that sort of excitement.

At least before he truly met Iver, Arsene had never dared imagine that such a genuine big shot could be so gentle, rational, and down-to-earth... That was utterly inconceivable in Iris.

—It was precisely because he was now, in a sense, a duke's son-in-law that he knew how big shots treated commoners without status.

But when Arsene saw Iver's face clearly, his eyes immediately widened.

Even his pupils were trembling!

Although there were slight differences in appearance, and he had strange, enormous antlers on his head, there was no doubt about it—the platinum-colored hair was the most distinctive feature of the Vendome Family!

They were extremely proud of their platinum hair, which was "brilliant as gold" and "splendid as the blazing sun."

It was said to be proof

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