The outskirts, where a cool breeze blows, are incredibly quiet, as if adding bricks and tiles to this silence. The night sky is covered with thin clouds, making the originally bright moonlight appear faintly visible. The starry sky loses its color, extinguishing the magic lamp in the room - a certain amount of magic needs to be injected to use it, making sure not to make any sound - Camilla carefully gets out of bed.
She must follow orders.
This is the knowledge Camilla has been instilled with since birth. From the moment she was abandoned by her parents, Camilla can only remember being locked in a dark room and completing tasks in the form of commands. These tasks are actually just simple instructions, unlike those who were trained as killers. Camilla's growth process was neither difficult nor painful. Besides mechanically following orders, there was nothing else.
And this is the main reason why Count Persia adopted Camilla. Since the Count's eldest daughter's capricious personality is not suitable for interacting with nobles, they decided to cultivate someone who is suitable for such interactions to complete the tasks on behalf of the Count's eldest daughter.
The abandoned Camilla is a perfect fit for this role. Even if a lowly human has rebellious thoughts, they don't have the ability to harm the Count's eldest daughter, who is a vampire. Furthermore, the nature of a doll allows Camilla to obediently follow the Count's eldest daughter in the future.
Therefore, Count Persia spent effort in cultivating Camilla, transforming her from a lifeless puppet with no life skills and dull eyes into a knowledgeable woman who knows how to adapt and smile at social gatherings.
Count Persia was not hiding any of these things from Camilla, and Camilla did not harbor any resentment. Or rather, Camilla saw this as something natural. It wasn't gratitude towards Count Persia for adopting her, but rather Camilla had never disobeyed an order before.
Dolls don't have feelings and naturally don't have their own opinions. It is only during the periods when there are no orders that Camilla feels uneasy.
The one who used to give orders could have been anyone, but now it only belongs to the Count's eldest daughter. Therefore, regardless of Camilla's superficial personality, the inner Camilla will never do anything that goes against the Count's eldest daughter's wishes unless her orders are ambiguous.
Treading on the soft handmade carpet, Camilla silently walks to the mirror. The autumn night brings a slight chill, so Camilla tightens her nightgown. Although she is aware that she has a face that is not inferior to her sister's - if her sister's appearance can be described as the moon, Camilla is the dazzling sun - there is one regret.
Camilla's figure lacks curves.
During the day, the breasts that Iss saw, which were typical for her age, were just the result of padding. The real Camilla is just as flat as the Count's eldest daughter. Camilla used to pay little attention to this matter, and the only reason she padded her breasts was because Count Persia had said, "This will make your sister and those around her satisfied." But now, Camilla feels an unprecedented hatred towards her underdeveloped body.
"Inadequate charm..."
Without a doubt, her sister has undergone some kind of change. In the past, the Count's eldest daughter would always look at her with an aggressive gaze, but now it has become a gaze of admiration that ordinary people often have. If this change was just due to a change in her sister's taste, then the various phenomena she saw at dinner made Camilla certain that the Count's eldest daughter was no longer the same.
Instead of letting herself, a human, sit at the dining table while the servants wait on her, Camilla would rather stand up and pick up her cup by herself. She forgets the basic knowledge of magic ranks and doesn't kill blood slaves, even commanding the servants to treat the blood slaves' injuries. Of course, the reason can be attributed to her sister studying powerful magic and being in a good mood, but changing the way she feeds on blood is definitely not something to be easily overlooked.
Attitudes towards things can change due to major changes in living conditions, but human habits are not easily changed. Although Camilla had only seen her sister a few times at banquets in the past and had only spent less than a week with her after becoming her captive, she had a deep impression of her sister's way of feeding on blood.
Her sister had never poured blood into a cup for consumption. She always directly bit the blood slave's neck and absorbed the freshest nutrients. Camilla remembers her sister once throwing a half-dead blood slave in front of her with blood overflowing from the corners of her mouth, saying, "Only fresh blood is the most delicious delicacy," and making her taste it.Not only her demeanor, but even her way of speaking and habits have changed, and these changes happened overnight, with such a stark contrast between before and after, it's bewildering.
If Camilla had to find a reason, she could only think of what her sister said, about absorbing the power of the Demon King Uranos.
Could it be that her sister absorbed not only Uranos' power, but also his way of thinking?
This possibility is not nonexistent. When Camilla was studying magic, she came across some experiments, such as extracting the heart of a lower bloodline vampire and transplanting it into the position of a human heart, using the blood magic of the vampire. In the end, the human indeed lived, but their personality was influenced by the lower bloodline vampire, their originally kind nature becoming irritable, and even though they didn't need to consume blood, they still had an insatiable craving for it.
If her sister was the same, then everything her sister did today could be explained. The only question now is whether her sister's way of thinking dominates, or if Uranos' way of thinking has taken over her sister's body.
Perhaps her sister hasn't noticed it, but she is no longer the same Lourielle as before.
Camilla rested her chin on her index finger joint and furrowed her brow, lost in thought.
Maybe it's necessary to verify. Of course, the result doesn't affect anything. Verification is only to satisfy her superficial curiosity. If it was the old Camilla, even if she had found out, she wouldn't have cared. But Count Percival, in order to make Camilla more like a living being, cultivated a superficial personality. This way, even when not given a command, she still had some ability to think, rather than cowering in fear like a human who saw a monster.
Silent deliberation.
After a moment, Camilla let out a sigh.
"There's a need for this... I need to dress up first."
She undid the buttons and took off her unappealing winter pajamas. Camilla reached into the void and took out a neatly folded, revealing two-piece lingerie from her storage magic.
"This will do."
After looking at herself in the mirror from left to right, Camilla nodded. She has long understood what desires her sister harbors towards her. She put on a white cloak and walked towards the first-floor bathroom.
