Shepherd's Secret Covenant
Chapter 1139

The Meaning of Engraving, Something Greater Than Life

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The future Hawkeye Organization might be destroyed, and Iris might be reborn. Everything would become better... except Sirius.

No. Perhaps in the future when Iris had been redeemed and humanity saved, people would remember this extinct family—the Sirius Family—as the sinners of all humanity, the ones who had nearly assassinated Iver, the savior of the world.

—What had they done wrong?

From humanity's standpoint, he had sent Chloe to Avalon to distribute Dracula's novels, warning the people of Avalon about the dangers of the Child of the Moon; from the Royalist Party's standpoint, he had long ago plotted to ensure that the chairwoman with royal blood would survive alone, while those scum acting recklessly under Hawkeye's banner were buried along with her enemies; from the patriot's standpoint, he had taken part in cursing the Avalon royal family to death and in counterespionage operations against Astyne; from a grandfather's standpoint, he had sent his granddaughter to gain experience and connections, so that after his death she could inherit the Sirius Family's political influence...

What had he done wrong?

He alone had killed more than a hundred Children of the Moon, including powerful beings of the Fourth and even Fifth Level. He had killed more Children of the Moon than anyone else in all of Hawkeye, and every target he personally dealt with was a powerful believer of the Blood Angel. He had always ranked among Hawkeye's top three. Even the leader could not force him to accept a mission. He had assassinated traitors, spies, wealthy men and officials attempting to defect... He had indirectly saved countless people.

This was what he had sworn to accomplish when he was young, when he took the Eagle Feather dagger from his grandfather—and he had accomplished it: guarding this country from the shadows in the

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