Those arrogant assassins, those seemingly ineradicable shadows beneath the Iris flag, melted away like snow with the coming of the sun.
And these Assassin Masters became the first members of the "Watcher Organization."
The name meant "those who secretly watched over and protected the country." That was why they used the owl, the "nighttime catcher of mice," as their totem and insignia.
The newly formed Watchers were responsible for gathering evidence of crimes committed by the powerful, and for secretly eliminating hidden dangers in extreme situations, such as when someone intended to cause destruction in public. They were also responsible for counterintelligence, hiding in the shadows and monitoring their colleagues in the other dark organizations.
And precisely because they were Watchers, they merely watched from afar—which meant they did not interact with people in their daily lives. Their status was roughly equivalent to Avalon's former Inspectorate, except that they were more covert and more deeply hidden in the shadows. They had no identity or location that could be directly contacted in the light of day. The only person who could contact and command them was the Speaker.
They were not only responsible for bringing all those assassins to justice, but were also working hard to destroy every trace that the Hawkeye Organization had ever existed. Now that Hawkeye's reputation had been thoroughly ruined, they had to completely sever any evidence linking the "Watchers" with "Hawkeye."
...To be fair, this process was actually quite troublesome.
Whether it was destroying evidence or hunting down fugitive assassins.
If Iver handled this personally, he would probably be unbearably busy.
After all, if those assassins were determined not to show themselves, they could hide in residential buildings, underground, and places like that. Trying to catch them all would probably take until August, and they still