avenger

as in vigilante
one who inflicts punishment in return for an injury or offense a novel about a man who becomes the obsessed avenger of his sister's death

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“Avenger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/avenger. Accessed 23 Mar. 2023.

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