Pastor's Tantra

March 7, afternoon.

Ms. Honey Badger is quietly reading in her residence in the fifth circle.

Although she was pardoned by the Pope in a sense, it does not mean that she can get complete freedom. Her travel is still restricted, and two Pope's guards are responsible for guarding her. But other than that, her requests will be met as much as possible.

Alice was also informed of the situation faced by Honey Badger. She will be the messenger to bring this news, Honey Badger's handwritten letter, and the balance promised by Cardinal Loki back to Hawkeye Organization. Now she must have arrived at Iris and delivered everything that should be delivered to the right person.

With nothing to do, Honey Badger wants to try to walk the path of the devotee. So he asked the Pope's guards who were guarding him for a few books and studied them quietly here.

For an adaptor, enduring loneliness and adapting to loneliness are basic skills. Whether it is an assassin who must remain silent in the dark, or a hunter who patrols the forest, or a prophet and astrologer who has seen the future but cannot tell anyone... Adapting to the path always makes people associate it with silence.

She doesn't need to worry about the organization's economic and political situation, doesn't need to personally take on difficult tasks with flawed intelligence to make money, and doesn't need to clean up the mess for those stupid young assassins... She feels that her mental state has improved a lot.

Until this afternoon, the two papal guards who were guarding her suddenly asked her to go somewhere.

Her first reaction was that Aiwas had changed his mind and the Church was going to execute her secretly...

It took her a long time to react - this is the Church, not the Iris Kingdom she was familiar with. The elves are far less treacherous than she thought, and the new Pope really has something to find her.

When she went to the 22nd ring, she saw Cardinal Aiwas in a black robe and the former Eternal Pope wearing the Holy Crown at the same time.

"...Your Holiness."

She knelt on one knee and bowed her head respectfully to the two popes: "Please give me your orders."

Although Honey Badger had never been a private assassin, she had lived for so long and had seen it all before. Facing the two popes, she directly took out the attitude of those private assassins who were kept to their masters.

"I do have something to entrust you with."

Aivas said seriously: "I need you to leave the Church for a while."

Hearing the familiar mission instructions, Honey Badger, who was originally hesitant and a little timid, suddenly became energetic, and a strong sense of self-confidence arose spontaneously.

Although she had been a fifth-level assassin master for a long time, she had basically never been involved in high-level affairs. One of the reasons is that she doesn't like to use her brain. Many adaptors are also liars and conspirators, but she is not one of them.

Compared to discussing those headache-inducing personal political positions, party political ideas, the subtext behind special operations, social impact and public opinion, and the chain reactions that may occur after various actions around the long table...she would rather take the time to kill someone, and then run back to hear the final result.

And usually, when she ran back after killing people, those people probably hadn't finalized their plans yet.

"Is it an assassination mission?"

Honey Badger asked skillfully: "Or is it infiltration and sabotage? Or stealing data? Or escorting important people and rescuing hostages?"

"It's considered an escort."

Aiwass nodded and asked: "Do you have a branch of Hawkeye in Star Antimony?"

"No branch... Are you talking about the team that is carrying out the mission? That's right."

"Are there any members you don't like? Or members you think can't integrate into the Church."

Aiwass continued to ask.

When Honey Badger heard this, she immediately reacted - although she didn't like to use her brain, it didn't mean she was not smart.

"In other words, do you need a group of Hawkeye members who can be abandoned?"

"Yes."

"That's right."

Honey Badger didn't even think about it, and answered without hesitation.

- There is no doubt that she had already thought of the candidates.

In order to eradicate the Son of the Moon, she and her companions who were Hawkeyes could also betray - or sacrifice. The reason why these thieves, killers, prostitutes, gamblers, liars, criminals and other people living in the gutter gather together is largely to fight against the Son of the Moon.

In the case that the Son of the Moon will always try to infiltrate upwards and continue to become elite, it is safest to dig people from the bottom of society. This can prevent the top leaders of the organization from being quietly transformed into the Son of the Moon.

Because even if they want to betray the organization, the Son of the Moon will look down on them, and it is impossible to give the "gift of eternal youth and immortality" to these scum among the scum and distribute their noble blood - the transformation of the Son of the Moon requires not only the corpse of the Path of Love, but also the "father" of the transformer to give a part of the life source.

Even if there are Sons of the Moon who are willing to take the risk - in order to find the trace of Hawkeye, they choose to accept these betrayers despite disgust, but this is only a minority after all.

And this inevitably leads to their organization not being pure enough... Although there will be some righteous knights who quietly mix in the dark, there are more confused people who hug each other for warmth and live today without tomorrow. There is a 100% chance that some evil people with ulterior motives, unqualified people, and weak minds will sneak in and even rise to high positions.

And there's no way to avoid it, and there's no way to try to change their thinking, or educate them.

Because a person who changes suddenly can easily reveal flaws in his daily life, attracting people's attention and being discovered by the ubiquitous Sons of the Moon and Blood Slaves - Hawkeye is not a secret organization, they have quite a reputation. Loud. Only a group of people who are rotten to the core and rotten in the mud can forever avoid those Children of the Moon with mysophobia.

But things are different now.

Because even Hawkeye himself knew that it would be difficult for them to completely defeat the Moon Child. If the power of the Theocracy can be used to target the Children of the Moon, then most of the previous principles, practices, behavioral patterns... and even formal members can be abandoned.

Of course she also has feelings for those bad people who stick together for warmth.

But when it’s time to give up, she will never hesitate—

— for the greater good.

Honey Badger thought so, and suddenly there was a touch of red like the sunset in her pupils, which flickered like a cigar that was lit and extinguished in the dark.

"Well, listen up...honey badger."

Aiwass, who was wearing a black robe, ordered: "I ask you to take two people to Star Antimony. Send the target person safely to the designated location, and give her some information about the Eagle Eye stronghold..."

Aiwass didn't finish his words.

The honey badger suddenly sniffed and frowned.

She smelled a somewhat familiar smell...it was the smell of "Child of the Moon" that she had smelled from Aiwass before.

Immediately afterwards, Aiwass waved his hand.

A curtain of shadow beyond the honey badger's induction suddenly withdrew. That was the power of high-level magic. As a fifth-level adaptor, the honey badger didn't notice the curtain at all.

I saw a noble lady with long black hair sitting quietly in the corner of the room, with a crow on her shoulder. She looked to be only thirteen or fourteen years old... and the first thing that honey badger noticed was her pupils that were shining with blood-red light.

The crow's pupils are also the same blood-red color.

——It’s the son of the moon!

"...Let her kill those Hawkeye members in a high-profile manner, and then find a way to sneak into the local Moonchild circle."

At this moment, Aiwass said this.