Omniscient First-Person’s Viewpoint

It had been a while since I last saw her, and now she was wearing an unfamiliar nurse’s uniform. Wasn’t she supposed to be an actor? Had she picked up a new hobby of wearing costumes? I looked Hilde up and down and spoke.

“What are you doing here in a nurse’s uniform? Did you get a job?”
“I’m quitting soon. No pay, endless work. The only thing I like is the uniform. If it weren’t for how nice it looks, I would’ve run away last night.”

Hilde grumbled in frustration but then smirked playfully as if she had just thought of something. She patted the fabric of her uniform.

“How do I look, Father? Me, in a nurse’s outfit?”
“The clothes make the person.”
“You mean I look good? Hehe! What’s this? A compliment from you?”
“I was complimenting the outfit.”

It seemed like too fine a uniform to be wasted on just taking care of patients. No, I should think of it the other way around. It was made precisely for those who cared for others—so I should be grateful for their beautiful hearts.

Of course, that didn’t apply to the person in front of me. I asked Hilde, “What kind of intel are you trying to gather here?”
“Shh. Let’s go somewhere without people first. Here, put this on.”

Hilde roughly wrapped bandages around my head and body. In an instant, I looked like a patient. Then she dragged me into an empty hospital room, shut the door, and wedged a piece of paper into the doorframe. After setting up her makeshift trap, she moved deeper into the room and spoke.

“So, Father, you ended up here too.”
“‘Ended up’? Sounds like you’ve already figured something out.”
“Don’t play dumb. You knew from the beginning, didn’t you?”

Hilde gave me a pointed look and crossed her arms.

“Tyrkanzyaka’s dominance has weakened.”
“Oh. Maybe because she was absent for 300 years?”
“That’s part of it. But it’s not just her authority—her raw ‘dominance’ itself has weakened. Tyrkanzyaka is both the heart and the head of the duchy. The vampires she created were nothing more than her limbs. A rebellion was impossible by design….”

Didn’t she used to be in the Sacred Sword Order? No wonder she knew so much about vampires. At the very least, she hadn’t been fumbling around cluelessly in her investigation.