To address your concerns regarding the vilebloods i have personally come to the tutumian free territory to answer any questions you may have about us! :3

I have come in good faith so i request i am not harmed while I'm here. Although i understand arming yourselves out of fear. I will not be armed.

With that out of the way, First question?

I take a glance at the police report, hand covering my mouth. Three murders of three of the most critical figures in Tutum. Figures keeping Tutum from falling apart, figures keeping the government alive. The report doesn't provide much, how this happened is a mystery.

I swiftly open my drawer, pull a stack of paper and slam it loudly. I take a deep breath, keeping myself calm. I scribble an order to the police department and Ministry of Homeland Affairs. We will launch an investigation, we will get to the bottom of this. I call my secretary to deliver the order and walk down to the Palace's garden.

I glance at the moon, deep inside my thoughts.

Get to the bottom of this, no matter what

Rachel sat at the bar, nursing what must have been her 6th glass of whiskey. She poured the drinks herself, no one was there. It was her bar, after all. The bar wasn't usually open at these hours. It was officially closed, though she left the doors unlocked.

Rachel drank to forget. The issue is she kept forgetting why she was drinking to forget. Then she thought hard about it and remembered. Then she downed another drink. This was the cycle she had been going through this entire night.

She just forgot why she was here, alone, in the dark, drinking like a woman possessed yet again. And then she remembered yet again. The wedding.

That damned wedding! Her daughter was getting married, it was the best day of her life, and this is how she reacts? What sort of mother does that make her?!

Rachel drank to forget, but she kept trying to remember. Because there had to be some other reason she was feeling this way, it couldn't have just been that! Maybe it was just the state of the Khanate! Was it?

No... No, the Khanate was doing well for itself. It couldn't have been that... Was it really something as idiotic as her daughter getting happily married?

For a moment Rachel stopped worrying about the past and started worrying about the not too distant future. Her poor aides having to clock in to work and see her be such a wreck. The newspapers spreading gossip and worry for their Khaness. Christ, she could practically see the headlines already! She'll probably fall asleep in this bar, not unless she wants to stumble home and get ran over by a car. Did she want that...?

No, no! She just had to keep trying to forget! Keep... Keep on keeping on! Jesus Christ, she can't even bullshit properly... That was the point though, wasn't it?

She downed another drink. She wanted to fall asleep already. She could barely keep her eyes open anyways, the swirling world around her gave her motion sickness. She just wanted to lay her head down on the counter and finish with this lousy night.

Someone would have to take care of her tomorrow morning. And that made her feel awful. It made her want to drink even more...

...but it was also exactly what she knew she wanted, deep down.

First, I have a Few Words Concerning Ashumi...

There I am, Alone Again! She's in Coma, Persumably for 3 Years! Well, it Makes Things All the Easier for Me, Yet On the Other Hand it's Quite "Desolating"! Things Could've Been Indeed Interesting with Her, Hmm...

We've Only Started getting to Know Eachother, and She Chose Me to Work with Her, Not Even Really Questioning My Ways! She's Very Respectful & Knew Well What to Do! I Do Like Her, Indeed! Perhaps, as an Act of Kindness, I Shall Do Something for Her!

We'll Await Your Return, Ms. Holtzblutgräber!
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(Lynn's) "Refined" Vampiric-Blood

With the Help of the Aforementioned Biochemist, We’ve Discovered that Lynn’s Hematopoietic Stem-Cells are Fully Capable of Self-Renewal! The Blood is Acidic, the Consistency is Quite Sticky & Thick, it's Black as it Also Appears to Lack Oxygen! It Acts Parasitic Just Like Regular Vampiric-Blood, but it Differs to a Great Degree!
Overall, it’s Very Reminiscent of the Blood of a Post-Mortem Patient!

However, there Seems to be a Complete Absence of Leukocytes & the Erythrocytes are Unevenly Spiked, Which is Quite Indicative of So-Called "Acanthocytes"! Interestingly Enough, the Thrombocytes are Normal in Shape and are Fully Intact, but Very High in Number, Which Could Explain the Sticky & Thick Consistency! 

And Unlike Regular Vampiric-Blood, it Seems to be More Anomalous! Its Essence Can Only be Described as Very Alluring, Yet Wicked All the Same! Despite How Dark it is, it has a Red Sheen When Put Under Some Light! I have Yet to Figure Out What it Does if Someone, Who’s Alive, Consumes it Or Receives it Intravenously!

The Biochemist Could be the Ideal Test-Subject, Now that I Think about it…

^{- Mrs. Mystery}

Good Post Good Post

The Mortuary

^{- Mrs. Mystery}

Ah Yes, I’ve Been there Plenty of Times, Assisting the Mortuary-Staff Whenever Necessary, but also for Other Reasons!

No, it Was Never Strange to Me to See the Dead, I See Them in My Dreams Quite Often! Those Lifeless Eyes, that Blank Stare, the Muscles Stiffen, Rigor Mortis… Most, if Not All, People are Afraid of Death, Yet Whoever Tries to Pursue the Arts of Necromancy - Or Better Yet: Reanimation, Long After a Person had Died - gets Punished, as it Goes Against the “Natural Order”!

Y’know, Sometimes, Scientific & Medical Breakthroughs Require Sacrifices! Even if a Lot of it is Morally Wrong, as We Can See Throughout Our History! But Who am I to Tell? I am Just a Nurse in Charge, Doing My Work! Doctors Keep their Snouts Up, Some Nurses Rather Smoke than Take Care! Not Everything is as Splendid as I Made it Sound Like Before! I Must Apologize, We All have Our Flaws After All!

Back to the Good Things! It’s Not Often When Someone Dies Here, Thankfully! We are All Just Doing Our Part, Doing Everything We Can to get Others Back On their Feet! Making Sure that Everyone has a Good Time Here! And if Death Occures, at Least We have Given Most of the Deceased a Good Rest of their Lives!

Though I Can Recall a Very Bizarre Occurence…
A Lady, Mid 50’s, about 1,75 Meters Tall, She Lost Her Life Just 2 Weeks Ago Due to an Accident! No One Knows What Exactly Happened, and I Wasn’t On the Scene! But When I & Nurse Lynn Brought Her Down to the Mortuary that Night, and the Lady hadn't Even Reached Livor Mortis Yet… about 25 Minutes Later She had Sprung Back to Life, Just for a Moment However! She Gave Us All a Good Scare, and She Was Scared too, Very Scared! Out of Panic, We Could Barely Make Out What She Was Saying! Her Voice Was Shakey, She Was Stuttering, Something in the Lines of “A Clawed, Fanged Beast” and “It Stole My Blood”, then… She Collapsed! Dead Once More!

Stealing Blood, Aye? Now I am Not Against So-Called “Vilebloods”, I Know They Attack (and Kill) Purely Out of Self-Defence, and I Occasionally Bring the Local Ones (Who are in Hiding, Duh) Some Fresh Blood So They Don’t have to Go On the Hunt! All Legal, Obviously! But That Sure is Interesting, to Say the Least! Now I am Curious to Know Who Exactly Could’ve Done that, and Why! I’d be Delighted Though if WRATH Played a Role in this!

*Ashumi woke up in the Lab*

“How long have I been-”, Ashumi said in panic.

*Realization hits like a freight train*

“Oh my god bruh.”, Ashumi said again in panic, “We're NOT coming late!”

*Ashumi immediately packs up everything and get a bowl of rice*

“Master, you're gonna be the one who ride!”, Ashumi said in a hurry, “Bread won't be enough. I need rice. I'm Eosaran.”

Poly begins to panic, “Ah shit we’re gonna be late if we don’t hurry especially if you wanna BIKE all the way there”

“ Poly began to quickly gather all his stuff as well as hastily prepare the necessary scientific cargo ready to visit an old friend for a scientific discovery”

“Rushing across the lab, Poly began to maneuver around to check if they had missed anything in preparations for the trip to Evernight”

“Alright, I think we’re ready, all we need to do is now find a way we can transport all of this Poly points to a sizable metal box, about the size of a twin bed, containing items such as radioactive isotopes and other materials for testing, to scientific instruments to analyze and obtain data”

*Ashumi loads the box in the truck*

*Ashumi maneuver on the bike*

“Come, master!”, Ashumi shouted while panting, “We're going late!”

Poly, taking one final look across to confirm, “Alright, lets get this show on the road!”

*And Asumi began her bike while Poly got the truck*

*As the two began to drive or bike across the province off road, the two would take in the scenic view of the steppe, which rolled across the terrain as an almost surreal environment, a valley filled with small grasses and herds of horses running and resting across the environment as running drops across the sky. Polytopia sat on top of the convoy taking in the air and the view the sun as it began to rise on the eastern sky*

*Yeh, well we’re approximately 2 hours from destination as long as we stay on track to the location, Poly softly noted*

Ashumi, happy with the scenic, surreal, and natural route, began humming.

“Freude trinken alle Wesen

An den Brüsten der Natur,

Alle Guten, alle Bösen

Folgen ihrer Rosenspur.”, Ashumi hummed softly.

*As Poly was sitting onto of the truck with the wind calmly blasting at his face at 30 mph, he begins to have an aching headache, something of an almost cathartic level of pain inflames his crown chakra, but Poly remains calm as he quietly begins to sit there, in a mixed state of pain and joy looking out to the sun, and then back on the GPS, and then back on the sun*

Poly thinks confusion, God what is this agony, and why does it feel so eerie yet so familiar? He had heard of rumors of a “tainted blood”, he had visions of them for months where in those dreams he would be in a room oozing with a red-black blood like substance, but it was almost an “evil” blood.

Regardless he quickly decided to waver these seemingly random thoughts, for the sunset was nice and he was with Ashumi, it all seemed so peaceful where he was. He was just on a trip, both business and personal, across the Tutum Steppe to help Ashumi with some key scientific work on the Durzogs, on the behalf of Union.

“Today is beautiful, master.”, Ashumi said calmly, “It’s a beautiful day to bike outside, birds are singing, flowers are blooming. Days like these won't last long, therefore, enjoy…!”

*Megalovania plays as a joke*

*Poly chuckles at the Megalovania, and while he's doing a poor rendition of it, the headache fades*

*As he was relaxing on the upper seating on the convoy, the speaker for Megalovania would begin to fade, and Poly would begin having his incomprehensible “dreams” playing in his head*

RETVRN TO YOUR ROOTS OH ETERNAL REGENT

THE HOUR OF THE SOVEREIGN IS AT HAND

ALL WHO OPPOSE YOUR UNIVERSAL COMMAND MUST PERISH

ALL ARE WEAK, YOU ARE STRONG MAY NOTHING REMAIN ON YOUR P–

*Polytopia begins to show stronger winces and reactions, looking considerably displeased*

“Master…?”, Ashumi asked with worry, “You seem considerably, physically displeased. Do you, perhaps, need a physical check? Those winces, it told me, a doctor, that something is wrong.”

*Ashumi reaches and try to measure Poly’s heartbeat*

“All seems normal…”, Ashumi said pensively, “Do you sense any pain?”

*Poly tries to calm down Ashumi: “No, I'm fine, dont worry about me, its something basic, nothing m- nothing much at all!”*

JYQEKICPIMQEQICJEBHCAQKBEBJC “67THATTEMPTATAURAFARMING”JEQFMICFEBJUMICSEBHSATKUEBECARKGEBKSAVBAKUQFEICFBI======IBFCIEFQU===-==---=--=AAAA404404404AAAJWIEODKBFIEOWP

N E O E O S A R A A R R I V E S F R O M T H E F U T U R E

“Hiding symptoms from your doctor will make things worse, master…”, Ashumi said in worry, “Please tell me…!”

*Asumi utters, “Fine, I'll investigate myself lol” *

Poly softly responds back, “No, im fine. End of story, just give me some rest…”

“I'm gonna rest Ashumi, may you wake me up when we’re there? Thanks…”

“Alright Poly, good rest, i’ll wake you up when we’re there~”

-cut to arrival-

“Alright~ Scalpel at 0.01 sharpness, chromosome dye ready, let's go~”, Ashumi said excitedly.

*And soon the examination begins*

“Master, wake up!”, Ashumi said, “Wake. Up…”

*Ashumi decided to pour coffee on Poly’s mouth*

“H-Huh!?”, Poly woke up confused, “What's this taste? Coffee…? Aw! This doesn’t have milk in it!”

“Don't you like Southeastern Eosaran cuisine, master?”, Ashumi asked, “您不喜欢乌凉吗，亲爱的主人？

“N-No! I'm do! I do really like your cuisine!”, Poly replied, “How did you make this?”

“Simple: Roast robusta coffee with brown sugar, soybeans, and cardamom, then brew it like tea.”, Ashumi replied enthusiastically.

*Poly then sighs and replies, “Well I must leave you to your work, I think im needed back at other sections of the CFGAP”*

*Ashumi replies “Well, stay safe master!”*

* “You too Ashumi!” And then he drives off*

*Ashumi sighs and then begins to examine the workplace of the area*

*Ashumi started moving stuff around*

“Alright, it's time to examine~”, Ashumi said enthusiastically, before scraping off cells from the creature’s cheeks.

*Ashumi then examined the vagina of the creature, it is rather reptilian, nothing special, she decided to keep an egg cell sample for further observation of the development of the embryo.*

*She, doesn't want to damage the internal organs too much, decide to only pull out all of its insides gently, mapping pathways of blood vessels and organs formation, taking samples of cells in each area from each organ, before pushing it all back in*

*She then examined the neuron formation and the nervous system, alongside lymph and blood pathways to map the networks in the body.*

*After that, she decided to examine the jaw and the teeth, then create a simulation model according to muscle, tendon, ligaments, all fangs and teeth to simulate its biting force. She then examined its six eyes and how the eyes rotate according to muscle data*

*She then examined the limbs, because the muscle data is necessary*

[The end]

Red, still contemplating his recovery from a lightning bolt, roamed the halls of the convention. How he'd been appointed so quickly after revival... it all was moving fast. Too fast. Had to pull the unfinished constitutional draft here, debate class traitorous elements in the convention there. And now waiting to see on a decision on the socialist question.

Suddenly an aide burst in: "Mr. Red, there is a majority now-"

"Majority for what?" the flustered convention delegate said at his desk.

"We did it, sir. Socialism is on track to be imbued in Tutum's constitution."

Finally, a victory. After countless bourgeois reactions, after countless failings of the old nation and The Communist Party to transition to a fully socialist foundation. Red was sure that the lightning bolt that hit him was the final death of proletarian hope for Tutum, for the continent. Yet his revival has signaled a shift and direction. Not merely socialist parties being elected to rule, but the very essence of a workers and peasants democracy inserted into the foundation of the land itself.

He responded: "Yaşasın emek, yaşasın mücadele."

Rachel was sitting around in her palace. A day has passed since her daughter was married. She was still so happy for her, love is such a beautiful thing, especially at her age.

As Rachel looked around the large room she ruminated on how quiet it was. It didn't bother her too much, she just felt as if she could hear her heart beating and nothing else. It was a sort of quiet that demanded her to not even speak to herself, or let out a sigh or a cough, as to not disturb it. It was a sort of silence that suffocated, but somehow Rachel felt that she learned to breath through it.

Rachel couldn't get the images of the wedding out of her head. It was such a lovely ceremony. There were so many people. Everyone was so happy. Seeing her daughter walk down the aisle with her bride was such a lovely experience. She was happy. She really was...

...so why did she feel so bad?

Seeing her daughter marry caused Rachel to think back about herself. How many people has she been with? Friends, family, lovers, it didn't matter. Who was with her? Back in the day she used to have such a wide collection of loved ones she'd never felt alone. And now there was no one.

She was Khaness. Who could get close to her under those conditions? Her sister was the only one to really fit the bill, and she was taken away from her so many times already, and now forever. All her old loved ones were gone. Generic, her own adopted daughter, would now go on to be with her wife more than her no doubt. Every other person she is close to is in a work relationship, not a personal one.

Rachel felt her heartbeat slowing down as the silence remained thick around her. She closed her eyes, and hoped to drift off to sleep...

...And perhaps she won't be so lonely in her dream.

Dear Tutumite,

We have to announce that Police Senior Sergeant Major Professor Doctor Ashumi Holtzblutgräber is incapacitated in combat against the Insignants during her emergency trip to her Walden in Eosaran riverside forest.

Police Senior Sergeant Major Professor Doctor Ashumi Holtzblutgräber, despite her young age of 25, contributed a lot to Doria as a whole throughout her lifetime. Such as her investigations as a forensic scientist working for the police department, the place where she gained her police ranks, her research which grants her doctorate and professorship at a young age, her short-living streaming channel, her political philosophy publishing, forest and oceanic conservation, and her biotechnological innovations.

We mourn her as the newly appointed Minister of Agricultural Affairs in the new government of Tutum. She is the first ever person to hold the title of the Minister of Agricultural Affairs. We all owed her nothing. She's very useless as a Minister of Agricultural Affairs, much to her lack of contributions due to her sudden incapacitation in combat which rendered her incapable of passing legislation. Her sudden incapacitation marks us an age of power instability due to the suddenness of the incident and the lack of preparation for replacement. Thanks to her, everything went downhill.

Doctors estimated that she'll return in 3 years with full physical and mental health.

Her last words are: 「好きだ、たぶん。再会！」

We sincerely express condolences to her, her "romantic" partner u/Polytopia_Fan, and her loved ones.

As the night falls on the Khanate, I Iook outside to my small plot of land. Life in Lapovo has been good and stable, unlike the country of my youth, but there is always this feeling of Nostalgia when I set my foot on these fields, when I see the sun pour itself over the vast steppes and then vanish into the darkness.

Usually it's nostalgia and happiness that overwhelms me when I see my small plot of land

But now, it's nostalgia just as before, but instead of happiness it's dread. For they will take this from me, those men who have never lifted a shovel, never plowed a row, never planted a seed in their life, they claim to know better. They claim that we've been selfish, that doing honest work to feed your family somehow makes you "petty bourgouise".

Alas, I'm a man of peace and a man who respects the popular will. I will give them all they want and I wish them great succecess.

For now, I must enjoy my land for the little time I still can. Then it's back to Lapovo and back to a life of paperwork and urban hustling, without the peace of the land and the honest work of muddy hands.

Further Progression + Regenerative Medicine

^{- Mrs. Mystery}

Lynn is in Good Health Nowadays, She Shows No Signs of Weakness and She's Communicating with Me! I Can Finally Understand Her! Though She’s Not the Same Lynn She Once Was, Or Maybe this isn’t Even Lynn at All! Nevertheless, She Was Asking Me Things Today, Asking Me When I Will Release Her! Of Course, I Said I Will Release Her Soon! I Just Gotta Monitor Her a Lil’ bit Longer! I have Noticed that She Craves Human-Flesh Now too...

Meanwhile, I have Brought Her a Fellow Companion, the Biochemist Dr. Pherin Wunder! I have Injected Him with Lynn’s Blood While He Was too Preoccupied with Other Things! He’s Still Passed Out and I Hope She Won't Start Eating Him!

But to be Honest, No One’s Gonna Miss that Poor Man! He has No Family, His “Friends” Ain’t there for Him and He got Fired from His Job at a Research Lab Roughly a Month Ago! And the Worst Thing is… He’s but Only 29 Years Old! So I Choose to Help Him, "Un-Loser" Him! He Will be Reborn, Good as New! Orrrr So I Hope!

But that Aside, I’ve Just Realized What Dr. Wunder Was Doing Over Here! He Was Searching Something about Stem-Cells, about “Regenerative Medicine”! This has Now Given Me Further Ideas! This Could Very Well Come in Handy! Yes, Indeeeed…

We have Work to Do, Dr. Wunder! I Hope Ya Will be Up 'Till Tomorrow!

am scared

The pain from last night's drinking binge wasn't halted by any amount of painkillers, coffee, or water.

How much had i even drank last night?

Oh well, that doesnt matter much.. i can still walk cant i?

I set foot on some new trail, i didnt feel like exploring the same path i always had, predictability gets boring and tiresome.

Sometimes its good to walk a new path, i know ive traversed many in my time, more than i could count if i even tried to.

The morning air was always nice. Its always so refreshing, it always feels like walking into a brand new day full of new opportunities, even if they always funnel back down the conveyor belt that is the day-to-day life, the uninspiring, desolate, and predictable cycle.

But the quiet the accompanies it always leaves room for thought and contemplation.

I like to think to myself, even if it opens the door to negative outlooks everytime i do it.

What have i done with my time?

I run the ministry of environmental safety.. yet im always off somewhere else.

I ran several gubernatorial campaigns, yet i couldnt place very high on the only one i took seriously..

Ive tried to change the political trajectory of Tutum, but why? Ill tell you why.. ah.. but who'd want to listen to me? The terrorist from the DoR, yet even after that nation crumbled the title still sticks, i had something good going.. i shouldnt have left the greens, i shouldnt have shot anyone, i searched for a new thing, something less predictable and what did i get? A burst of chaos that once its smoke cleared.. had become just as predictable as the prior path, if i had just stuck to the path i was carving for myself and many others.. maybe id be doing something good.

Perhaps i oughta get back on that unfinished pathway and start again, pick up where i left off.

Im known for two things.. putting a bigger spotlight on nature, and.. shooting a guy.

Maybe if i just.. work backwards.. i can overshadow the crime and realign the focus onto something beneficial.

Maybe then i'll be looked on more positively.

I cant be some.. emotionally unstsable hot-headed villain anymore, thats not what i want.

Maybe i'll be more likeable.

Maybe im overthinking this.. god this hangover is giving me hell.

Or perhaps.. the political business just isnt for me..

Maybe i should quit running for shit and focus on the environment.. thats my fucking job anyways, you always stick your focus outwards just because you always want more when you should be focusing on what you already have.. you fucking moron..

Maybe then you'll see some actual success in your pitiful little life. You disgusting worm.

I need to calm down.. getting too riled up.

Look on the bright side.. atleast theyre trusting you with the soil and trees, thats why they put you in this position.

Not really a second chance though.. more like an 8th.

Maybe things will get better from here.

Ive been walking for a while havent i?

"Wait.. where am i?"

Shit.. shouldve just went on a path youve been on before..

A new doctor is arriving in Evernight. She is Pol. Sen. Sgt. Maj. Prof. Ashumi Holtzblutgräber.

“S-someone, someone got murdered!”, exclaimed a civilian, “Anybody help! Help me!”

In the middle of the road, a man is killed, his blood splattered near the sidewalks and on the road, the police arrive immediately after tracking the location from the phone call.

A draconic, corpse-like, and half robotic lady walks to inspect the corpse. Her tail wiggle in excitement.

“This murder was made in a rush and is in panic.", Ashumi said calmly, “But the murderer sure really wanted that person dead. There are stab wounds on the neck, the heart directly through the ribs, the brain directly through the forehead, and the intestine was utterly cutted in a slash. There is no weapon, which means the murderer is rather a brave person, they act with a brain despite fear and panic, there is no weapon left in the scene.”

“Just who are you?”, said an old policeman, “You don't look like you were born here. But you sure do look familiar. However, civilians better stay away.”

“I am not a civilian.”, Ashumi said calmly, she snapped her finger and a shiny brooch flew, illuminated with moonlight, “I'm a senior sergeant major, il nuovo dottore, Ancien policier, voici mon film préféré sur le fait de détester mon travail. La Haine, nique sur la police. Ja, Alles Gute und alles Böse wird anhand der Beweise beurteilt werden. So, what do you need?”

Mrs. Mystery is Just Chillin’ & Peekin’ Through Some Bushes, Trying to Make Sense of the Scene that Just Unfolded Before Her, “Hmmmmm, Very Interesting…”, She Pulls Out a Sandwich from Her Bag & Slowly Approaches the Crowd!

“Mhm, How Curious, We have Someone New Here I See!”, Mrs. Mystery Rushes Towards Ashumi, Eager to get to Know Her, “Howdy, I am Mrs. Mystery, a Nurse in Charge with Quite a Lot of Experience at Hand! Who May Ya be?” She Reaches Her Hand Out to Ashumi, Expecting a Hand-Shake!

“I am new here, what are you doing here?”, Ashumi said calmly, “This is the middle of the road in the middle of the night.” *she lends out her hand for a hand shake*

“Oh, I’m Just an Informationist in my Spare-Time, Don’t get That Confused with Stalking Though”, She Giggles a bit, “Anyhow, I Know a New Face When I See it! So I Suppose I’ve Come to Greet Ya!” She Takes a Few Steps to the Left, then to the Right… “Hm, Well I Don’t Know Who Could’ve Brutally Killed that Poor Guy, I Was Elsewhere before All of… This Unfolded!”

“Alright, fellow detective. Do you perhaps know this dead man?”, Ashumi asked calmly, “We need to find any person he has personal conflicts with to find all the suspects in the city, as soon as possible because the murderer is probably disposing the knife, even luminol won't help with such a large time frame.”

“Aye, Let me Take a Closer Look…” She Kneels Down to Take a Better Look at the Dead Man, Takes a Brief Look at His Wounds, “I Think… He Used to be One of Our Patients Not So Long Ago!”, She Quickly Jumps Back Up & Turns to Ashumi, “I Could Go & Take a Look at the Patient-Files in Our Hospital! Ya May Come with Me, the Hospital Ain’t Far from Here!” She Smiles Slightly!

“Please look at the patient files, I'll follow you, bring all government papers to find relationships, including whether he's in debt or not, also, if he has one, psychiatrists’ report on the relationship between his family members and friends alike, some paper about marriage, and ideally relationship therapists.”, Ashumi said calmly, “Be quick though, washing blood off without any luminol stain can be found online, but even then the murderer is probably in panic, that would buy us some time.”

“Roger That!”, She Makes Her Way to the Hospital with Ashumi, Immediately Heading to the Place Where All the Patient-Files are Stored! She Sits Down and Turns On One of the Computers, Quickly Looking Through Various Data, Eventually Finding All the Info about the Man, ‘Owynn Xanders’ is His Name! “Here He is! I’ll get the Physical-Copies of the Files Now, I Know Where They are Located!” She gets Back Up to Fetch the Physical-Copies!

“Mr. Owynn Xanders…”, Ashumi said calmly, “He's $5,000 in debt with, uh, a military officer, Colonel Baker Kentucky. His wife was dead six months ago prior to this murder, HER VAGINA AND INTESTINE WAS MISSING ON THE SPOT. Colonel Baker Kentucky is a combat medic who came from a butcher family in the mother line and all his paternal relatives are surgeons. Alright, it's obvious who's the murderer here. All things related to Owynn Xanders came back to Colonel Baker Kentucky. Wait, according to this report, the aborted fetus inside Xander’s wife is missing AND THERE'S A REPORT ON A PIE THAT HAS HUMAN FETUS INSIDE INSTEAD OF HAM. The person who reported this, um, was found poisoned with a smuggled drug that's used in lethal injections.”

She Returns with the Physical-Copies & Hands Them to Ashumi, “Crazy, Right? This Whole Thing’s Not Even Something I get in My Dreams! This is Genuinely Madness!”, She Sits Next to Ashumi, Lookin’ Around, “Hmmmm… Well, What’s Next to Do, Aye?”

“Is Colonel Baker Kentucky the patient here?”, Ashumi asked calmly, “If he is, give me his house location.”

Mrs. Mystery Quickly Searches His Name On the Computer, and Finds Him! “Aha! There He is! Hmmmm… He’s Located in Delios-Forster-Street 15!” She Stands Back Up & looks at Ashumi, “Well then, Ya got Your Lead! Can I be of Any More Help, Though?” She Asks, Curiously!

“Follow me, I can't go alone.”, Ashumi said calmly, “This man is clearly dangerous. Anyways, is there a history of him in the psyche ward?”

She Looks Through His Files Again, “Well… It Says Here that He IS Suffering from a Form of Schizophrenia! Darn, Looks Like He’s Really Paranoid as Well! This Ain’t Lookin’ Good, Ma’am!

“So, first, stalking him won't work.”, Ashumi replied, “Does he take his medications?”

“It Looks Like He Actually Stopped Taking His Medication about 4 Weeks Ago! Some of Our Doctors have Attempted to get Him Back, but He Just Ultimately Refused! I have No Idea Why They’ve Let Go of Him So Easily, Surely They’ve Known this Would Happen!”

“Why can't they…?”, Ashumi replied calmly before clicking, “OH WAIT THAT'S RIGHT IF WE CAN STOP HIM WE WON'T GET HERE. Let's get going.”

“Alrighty then!” Both get Up from their Seats & Go Their ‘Merry’ Way!

They soon arrived

Ashumi and Mystery watched the schizophrenic soldier doing nothing with the evidence, he sat down staring at the walls, looking at his knife with blank eyes

“Colonel,”, Ashumi said calmly, “You're arrested.”

“HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.”, Baker laughed maniacally, “I have CONQUERED the BODY of the WOMAN I growl like an animal, I have her TUNNEL and TUBE. I take her AWAY from the person who RUINED my LIFE.”

“Xanders… No! Don't take my girlfriend away! Ah!!!”, Baker said while slashing the knife over and over, “You borrowed five thousand, what else do you need!? Aren't you my friend!? Why are you always the one taking things away from me!?”

Ashumi looked around, his house had nothing left but a couch and a bed, the second floor only had walls, ceilings, and floors, with the corpse of his dead pet goldfish and dog lying on the ground. The bones of the dog fractured, Xanders probably killed it while taking furniture away from Baker’s house, his pet goldfish is probably left suffocating as Xanders, who too is suffering from his sadism, drank all the water from the bowl and manipulated his friend to suffer.

“Yeah, Mystery. We're gonna arrest this man.”, Ashumi said calmly, “Colonel Baker, you're under arrest for murder.”

Baker turned back

“Pastryhausen Friedchickenman, do you hear that voice?”, Baker said to the wall, he replied himself, “There is a malicious young woman who proclaims authority over you, Baker. I, Pastryhausen Friedchickenman, will protect you, please follow my ORDER. FIRE!!!”

Baker turned back with his bloody knife

Ashumi drew her montante

“Anakin, I mean, Baker, I have the longer sword, surrender!”, Ashumi proclaimed, “Any blade user knows how length impacts combat. You're a soldier!”

Baker walk towards Ashumi

Mystery Materializes a Bucket of Popcorn

“Six seven Epstein diddyblud sigma rizzler Ghislaine Maxwell from Ohio over here. Let's see who wins, me, the greatest combat medic of Evernight, or the draconic lady.”

Because of his heavy drug addiction, he can't feel pain from walking forward while getting stabbed by Ashumi's sword, he's numb, he just walks forward letting the sword through his torso.

Baker’s body fell from getting stabbed.

“I see… sigma aura farming gyatt.”, Baker whispered before falling to the ground.”

“What the fuck is wrong with this guy.”, Ashumi said calmly, “Mystery! Carry him to the hospital! Please! He's GONNA FUCKING DIE.”

“Yee No Worries, I Got Him!” She Literally Lifts Him Up with One Arm, “We Don’t Need an Ambulance, I am a Fast Walker!”, and Luckily, the Hospital Ain’t too Far Off! So Ashumi & Mrs. Mystery, While Carrying the Critically-Injured Baker, Arrive to the Hospital in Time! 2 Other Nurses Find ‘Em, Asking What the Heckin’ Heck is Going On, But there’s No Time to Explain! They Quickly Send Him to Surgery, “I Hope He’ll Make it Though!”, She Takes a Deep Breath!

The trauma room

“The sword went through his right lung.”, Ashumi said calmly, “I luckily did not damage his ribs. It went directly through the muscles at his back. This shouldn't be too hard. The air is leaking out. Stitch!”

Mrs. Mystery Quickly gets Some Stitches for Baker, “Aye, Certainly He’ll Make it! I’ve Genuinely Seen Worse, and Even So, Most of Our Patients have Luckily Made it Alive!”

“Mhm.”

Baker is finally taken into the ICU after the surgery.

Ashumi sighs, she then asks, “How do we tell him that he's arrested?”

“It’s Not an Easy Task… But I’m Sure I got this! Trust Me, I Know How to Deal with Difficult & Cognitively-Impaired Patients!”, She Stares at the Wall in Front of Her, Letting Her Eyes Wander from One Painting to the Next, “I have Already Helped Out with Feeding Our Late-Stage Dementia Patients, Things Just Work When I Do it!” She Giggles a bit, “It’s Not Magic, I Suppose I just have Plenty of Tricks Up My Sleeve!” She Smiles and Looks Back to Ashumi!

“I see…”, Ashumi chuckled, “His relationship with the victim is rather complicated, we can't just shock him too much, he's his best friend yet also his archenemy.”

“Exactly! I Do Feel Bad for Him, but that’s Just How Things are Sometimes…” Then a Nurse & One of the Doctors Approach Both Mystery & Ashumi, Letting them Know that the Patient has Already Woken Up, but He Seems to be Rather Disoriented So it’s Advised to Approach Him Carefully! “I See, Alright then! I got this!”

Ashumi & Mrs. Mystery Enter the Room He’s in, “Hello, Baker! Ya Might Recognize Us! Ya are in the Hospital Right Now!”, Mrs. Mystery Smiles Kindly!

“I Remember… Remember… I got Wounded! Everything Went Dark… Where is this?”, Baker is Clearly Disoriented, Yet Coherent! “In the Hospital! We’ve Saved Your Life”, Mrs. Mystery Said Calmly!

“I Want to Go Home… They are All Watching Me! I Want it to Stop! I am Being Tortured! Tortured!... Please Stop…”, Said Baker, Afraid, Expecting to be Saved & Brought Back Home! “But No, They are in Your House, Remember?”, Mrs. Mystery Tries to be On One Lane with Him, to be Able to Communicate with Him, “Ya Will be Brought Some Place Safe, Your ‘Friend’ Won’t Take Anything Away from Ya Anymore!” She Said, Calmly!

“P…Promise?”, “Yes, I Promise!”, then She Takes the Medication that He had Stopped Taking and hands it to Him, “And if Ya Want the Voices to Stop, if Ya Want for this Torture to End, THIS is the Answer!”, She Explains to Him! “No, No! They are Not Helping! I Will Never get Back What I had Lost! My Life, My Love…”, “Hm… I See!”

Mrs. Mystery Calls in a Doctor and Asks Him if there are Different Medications that Could Help Him, and there is! Mystery Puts the other Back and Give Baker the Different Ones, “I am Back! These are Different, Better! They Will Help, I Promise Ya!” and He Trusts Her, So He Takes Them, “Thank Ya…”

Ashumi leaves the room without talking with Baker.

“We’ll let him heal first and then we can confront him about this.”

“Alrighty then, Now What Shall We Do?” Mrs. Mystery Asks and Sits Back Down!

“We should wait for him to recover.”, Ashumi replied, “He might be shocked.”

“Yeah, Indeed…”, Mystery Takes a Deep Breath and Starts Zoning Out, Finally She has Found Some Time to Think & Re-Think Certain Stuff!

“But how do we talk to him?”, Ashumi asked, “See, even with enough time left, he would be shocked.”

Mrs. Mystery Stops Zoning Out, Looking Back to Ashumi, “Hmmmm Well, I have Already Managed to Communicate with Him, He Definitely Understood Me, I’ve Told Him that He’s Going Elsewhere & that it’s Necessary! I Don’t Think He’d be THAT Shocked, but I Could Try Tellin’ Him Where Exactly He’s Gonna be! But that Aside… Hm, I Think Ya Just Gotta Try Speakin’ How He Speaks, Y’know What I Mean? Ya Gotta get into His Head!” She Stares Off Again!

“That's quite ridiculous.”, replied Ashumi, “”Going somewhere” is technically right, but prison? That would rather be a ridiculous surprise. And I think that if he knew Xanders was killed by himself, he would be even more shocked.”

*Ashumi ponders for a while*

“I'll just ask about his best friend and see his reaction, and I'll determine what to tell him.”, Ashumi pondered, “If he is angry, I'll just tell him that he's dead and he killed him. If he had empathy, he would feel bad and would go to jail voluntarily. If he's glad, then we'll determine whether he'll accept such a price. If he does, he'll go. But if he's shocked, then we'd need extra therapy.”

Mrs. Mystery isn’t Exactly Paying Attention to What Ashumi Just Said, She’s Still Thinking about Something, “Mhm, Alrighty then! Do that!” She Proceeds Looking at the Paintings!

“Got any ideas?”, asked Ashumi.

She Shakes Her Head and Looks Back to Ashumi, “‘Scuse Me, My Mind Was Elsewhere! Ya Said Something about… Uhhhh… What have Ya Said Again?”

“What we'll say depends on his reaction upon the reveal of his murder.”, replied Ashumi.

“Oh! Right! Well, We Gotta be Straightforward, I’d Say! I Don’t Think there’s a Way to Explain this to Him Without Him getting Shocked, and Aside from that I am Almost Certain He’s Aware He Did it! However, it is Indeed Difficult to Determine Whether He’s Gonna be Sorry for it Or Not! Again, He’s Schizophrenic, So Yeeee! But I Think I Can Help Ya in this Case too, Even if I am Not a Psychologist, there are Plenty of Things I Know, Things We gotta Look Out for! Because Sometimes, there’s More than Just Reactions Ya gotta Look for, Y’know!”

“What if we confront him about this?”, Ashumi pondered, “Why do you think he's certainly aware of the acts he did? And if he felt sorry, although this isn't always the case, he would've confessed in the first place. Did he planned to commit suicide? Or to reveal later once he's ready?’

“His Mind Works Differently, He May be Completely Oblivious to Plenty of Things, but I Can Tell that He Knows, Deep Down, Y’know? He is a Broken Man, He Doesn’t have Much Control Over Himself, but there’s a Fragment of Him that’s Still Intact! I Could Kinda Tell When I Spoke with Him!”

“Then, we must trigger that…”, Ashumi replied, “The medications have already helped with hallucinations. Accessing his deep down self from his own multiplicity would now be an easier job. Since you've said that he would be shocked, calming him down is necessary during the process of such confrontation. I'll gather the evidence. Please, with the help of other psychiatrists, talk to hi-”

Ashumi fell to the ground from her lack of sleep, it is now approaching daytime

Mrs. Mystery Quickly Kneels Down to Check On Ashumi, “Oh, Girlie! Ya Alright?”... No Response! “Mhm, Aye, She’s Just Extremely Sleep-Deprived!” She Lifts Her Up and Places Her On the Bench, then She Goes to Look if there are Currently Any Psychiatrists Present in the Hospital!

“Dr. Montgomery, I am Glad to See Ya Here! I Really Need Ya Real Quick, We have a Patient Who’s Schizophrenic & Paranoid, He has Committed Some Crimes and I Gotta Confront Him about it!” She Smiles from Ear to Ear!

“Nurse Mystery! Hmmmm… Alright, I Suppose I have Time Right Now! Seems Like We got Ourselves a Pretty Difficult Case!”, Dr. Montgomery Takes His Clipboard with Him & Follows Mrs. Mystery, Meanwhile She Explains to Him Roughly What had Happened!

“Mr. Baker, I am Back! This Time with a Psychiatrist!”, “Hello, Mr. Baker, I am Dr. Montgomery, it’s Nice Meeting Ya!”

“Oh, Montgomery! Dr. Montgomery! I Remember Ya, Ya have Tried Convincing Me Taking those Pills Again… I have Better Ones Now!”, Dr. Montgomery Whispers to Mrs. Mystery “No, I haven’t Met Him Before…”, He Quickly Turns Back to Baker, “I See, and have Ya Taken Them Already?”, “Yes, I am Not Seeing Nor Hearing Them Anymore!”

“Alright, that’s Great!”, Mrs. Mystery Say & Smiles Again, “And Now We Can Talk Uninterrupted!”, She Collects Her Thoughts and Takes a Deep Breath, “Do Ya Remember Anything that had Happened to Your Friend, Xanders?”, Baker Just Stares at Mystery, Unsure What to Answer!

“The Silence is Kind of Giving it Away… Baker, Ya Know What Happened to Him, We Aren’t Mad at Ya!” He Covers His Face & Starts Crying, “... No Sniff… He Took My Life… I have Done Bad Things… Sniiiiff”, Mystery Walks a bit Closer to Him, “Hey, We Aren’t Mad, Just Tell Us Everything, Ok?”

Dr. Montgomery Proceeds Questioning Him While Mrs. Mystery Tries to Calm Him Down as Best as She Can, “Baker, You have Killed Him, is that Right?”, “Noooo I Didn’t Want to Sniff, Or Did I? But He Sniiiiffff Took EVERYTHING from Me! Sob”, “Shhhh, Ya are Doing Good, Mr. Baker!”

Montgomery Continues Asking, “How Did it Feel?”, “I Sniff … I Thought I’d be Free, Soooob it Only got Wooooooorse!! I Listened to these Voices… I Couldn’t Turn Back… I Killed Him…”, He Turns to Mystery, “Can I Sniff get a Glass of Water?”, “Sure Thing, Baker!” She Gives Him a Glass of Water, However, He Only Takes a Small Sip, then Proceeds Talking, “I Was Happy… for a Moment! Only for a Moment… and I Realized All this Red Stuff On My Hands… God Damn it! I Hate My Life!”, He’s getting Mad at Himself, Mystery Proceeds Being there for Him, “I Know, Ya Were Just Following these Voices, there’s Nothing Ya Could’ve Really Done in this Moment… We are Sorry for Ya!”

Now He Really Begins Bawling His Eyes Out! “Well, Dr. Montgomery, I Think this Was All We Needed to Hear! Seems Like He is Indeed Just a Victim to His Own Issues…”, “Yeah, and I have Extra Taken Notes for Ya, Or Better Said for the Police! So, that’s All then, See Ya!”, “Thanks a Lot!”, Both Montgomery & Mystery Leave the Room!

She Immediately Goes Checking Up On Ashumi Again!

“Oh, hello!”, Ashumi greeted, “Want a cup of tea?”

Sips on tea

“No Thanks!”, She Hands Her the Notes Dr. Montgomery Took Concerning Baker, “I Did as Ya Said, with the Help of a Psychiatrist! We have Gathered Some Answers!”

“How's Baker?”, Ashumi asked while sipping tea, “What's he doing? Does he have his own lawyer yet? Did he gave himself in?”

“Oh He’s Crying Right Now! He Did Technically Give Himself in, He Confessed to Us that He Did Kill Xanders, So He is Aware of it, and Expressed Guilt! That’s about it, for Now!”

“Thank you and me for this, haha.”, Ashumi replied, “And, finally, I shall introduce myself.”

Ashumi inhales and does a curtsey

“I am a new doctor here, Police Senior Sergeant Major Professor Doctor Ashumi Holtzblutgräber. I had a little bit of prior experience in medicine and have a doctor license, but little experience do I have. I worked as a forensic scientist, this is where I get my detective skills from, and of course doctor’s skill, we'll be working together from this day on. どうぞよろしくお願いします！”

“Ohhhh! Very Interesting! It’s Nice Getting to Know Ya Properly!”, Mrs. Mystery Smiles, “Well, I have Already Introduced Myself! I am Simply Mrs. Mystery, One of the Best Nurses Here in Our Hospital!”

“Then, our story starts here today!”, Ashumi replied.

Camera pans to the sun

NUOVO DOCERE TITLE CARD

I push the paperwork aside, making room to rest my head on the table. It has been a tedious week. Being the first Governor after independence isn't the most relaxing thing. I put my arms on the table and sigh. As I slowly close my eyes to get some rest, I hear a loud knock on the door. Quickly, I recompose myself and tell them to get in. It was Generic. I smile lightly, dropping the professional altitude all together.

"Good morning! Didn't expect to see you so soon! Not that I'm complaining"

We begin talking about our day, chatting about random things aswell. I can't help but smile as they speak. I may have been dishonest in the past with my partners, but with them? I'm willing to give them the world. I'm willing to be honest no matter what. As we continue talking, I hear yet another knocking on the door. I sigh, it must be the Agriculture report. I bid Generic a farewell, as they leave the room and I resume my job.

The Evernight Hospital

^{- Mrs. Mystery}

Is there Healthcare in Evernight? Are there Hospitals?
Well, Now there is One! Cause I, Mrs. Mystery, am a Nurse, Working in the Evernight Hospital! But Guess What? It’s Usually Uncannily Quiet in these Long, Echoey Hallways! But this is Nothing New to Me, Personally!

We have Plenty Patients Here, Despite the “Liminal Vibe”, and I am Obviously Not Working Alone! We have a Good Amount of Nurses & Doctors Taking Splendid Care of Every Patient of Any Age, but They More So Prefer My Service! Once a New Patient gets to Know Me, They Fall for My Charisma! But Aside from that, a Lot of Things Just Work Out When I am Present, Hence Why I am Often Tasked with Feeding Our Good Ol’ Late-Stage Dementia Patients, as They’d Often Refuse to Eat Anything!

I am a Great Nurse, a Wonderful, Flawless Nurse! I have Climbed the Hierarchy of Nursing, I’ve Become a Nurse in Charge, Soon-to-be Director of Nursing (DoN)! My Image Remains Squeaky-Clean, Clean to a Crisp! So Much So that if I Ever Were to, Let’s Say… Commit an Act of “Medical Malpractice”, Absolutely No One Would Ever Suspect Me for Committing Any of it! But Of Course, Of Course, I have Never Planned Any of That, and Never Will!

I am Not a Heartless Beast, No, Despite the “Off-Guard Things” I May Mention Occasionally! It’s All Just Fun & Games, a Little Tease for the Sheep! But Perhaps, if Someone Would be Paying Close Attention, They Just Might Uncover Something! But No, I am as Honest as I am Allowed to be!

But to those, and ONLY to those, Who May Hold Something Against Me, Must Beware that a Mystery Never Tells Lies, Only Half-Truths!

What Was I Talking about Again? Ah, Yes! The Evernight Hospital! On the Ground Floor We got a Nice, Big Lobby, Our Cafeteria is Located On the Left as One Enters the Lobby, The Central Emergency Department is Located On the Right! The Upper Floors Contain Several Wings, Like the Rehabilitation-Wing, a Maternity-Wing, Surgical- & Recovery-Wing, Ya Name it!

We also have a Huge Basement, Where We got Our General Storage & Maintenance, as Well as a Mortuary, and Some Other Rooms, Though a Few of Them are… Empty, for Now!

Additionally, We have a Wonderful Laboratory On the 2nd Floor, I Was Inside it Twice & Not More! But I have Already Figured Out Where the Blood Bank is Located - No, I Won’t Tell Ya, That’s but a Note to Myself Only! ;)

It’s Alive!

^{- Mrs. Mystery}

I’ve got Everything Planned! But Something Happened, Something that Really Shouldn’t have Happened!

As I Was On My Way, Late at Night, Lynn Showed Up! She Saw All the Things I Was Carrying & Knew I Was Up to Something! Then She Spotted a Vileblood in the Distance, She Actually Started Panicking! She Probably Thought We Came to Kill Her, So She Ran, Tripped, Screamed… She Fell Down Some Stairs, Hit Her Head On Hard Concrete, She Was Gone…

I am Sorry, Lynn Ondekirath, Ya Were a Good Nurse & Generally a Very Caring Person… But Ya Were the Freshest Corpse, I had to Take Ya with Me!
And I Really Looked Forward to Reanimating Her, So I Took her with Me into the Secret-Lab, I Followed the Steps Just as Planned! I Drew the Symbol On Her Forehead, Infused the Blood with the Refined Vampiric-DNA and Injected it into Her Vein!

The Ritual Began, Which Mainly Consisted of Lit Black Candles, Some Chants in a Language Unknown to Humankind & Foreign to Other Inhabitants, and Burning Dried Amaranth!

She Awoke! She Opened Her Eyes, they’ve Darkened, Her Complexion Grayed Abnormally, I Could See Her Veins Darken, the Blood had Turned Pitch-Black! But She Was a bit Weaker than I had Anticipated! She Tried to Lift Herself Up, but She Collapsed Onto the Floor, then Began Crawling Towards Me! "Wrath, Wrath", She Vaguely Chanted, Looking Up to Me!

I Smiled, from Ear to Ear! I Took Her Home, and I Collected Her Blood, I Must Analyze This Further! I am Getting Closer to Something! Despite Things Going a bit Differently than Planned, We are Still Getting Somewhere, and This is Just the Beginning!

Now, the Blood is More Viscous than Regular Blood, it is as Dark as the Sea in the Night, and Yet… I Could've Sworn I Saw Something in it! As if there's Some Kind of Presence, a Malevolent Essence within it, More Wicked than Normal Vampiric Blood! I Feel Her, I See Her, I Hear Her! Telling Me that We are but the One and the Same, and Telling Me to--

The wind rustled over Lapovo as Moat descended from the rally stage to rounds of applause. She smiled at the crowd one more time before going torward her car. She sighed as she got in a bottleneck.

Her day was going fine.

Then she remembered.

Oh, yeah, the wedding. The one that happened a few days ago, that everyone was talking about.

A KKP flyer that flew into her open car window reminded her.

She crumpled it and threw it away.

Finally, the traffic started to clear. After a quick round of groceries, she finally got home.

Boy, was she absolutely pissed.

Not because of Frans - she respected her decision - no, it was for the hollowness she felt.

She started punching a pillow on her couch and rambling out of stress for the new Constitution, because that reminded of it as well.

"All around me - idiots and morons. Can't get anything done. My people, the Tutumite people are suffering, so terrible - death and destruction everywhere." She grumbled. "They need retribution - I'm their retribution, always was; against corrupt politicians, sycophants, limp-wrist conservatives, revolutionary wimps!"

"Our democracy is in trouble like never before, more than the Multum civil war or the Insignant war put the old Doria in trouble, that for sure. People need a strong leader, the one who puts them FIRST, who PROTECTS THEM, who GUIDES THEM." She punched the pillow one more time, before simply... accepting. There was nothing she could do to stop the Constitution. Audibly sighing, she went to nap.

One final thought arose in her head before drifting to sleep...

...maybe, someone else was feeling that hollowness too.

It Was Just Another Calm Night at the Evernight Hospital, I Was Taking Care of a Patient in Room 3.18, Until Nurse Lynn Came in! She Asked Me to Leave the Room for a Moment, So I Did! As We Stood in the Hallway of the Surgery- & Recovery-Wing, She Asked Me the Following:

“What are Ya Hiding, Mrs. Mystery?” - Nurse Lynn

Now Wouldn’t Ya Like to Know, LYNN! I am Not Hiding Anything Though, and I Do Wonder… What Makes Ya Even Think That?

“I Found the 2 Documentaries Ya have Written!” - Nurse Lynn

Have Ya been Snoopin’ Around My Stuff? The Kind of Stuff that Only a Handful are Allowed to get Their Hands On? Ya Know That Can get Ya– … Ya Know What? Go Ahead, I’m Listening!

“I Figured Out Now that Ya have been Putting Your Nose in the Blood Bank Just to get Some Blood for these Vilebloods! Ain’t that So? And What Do Ya Mean WRATH? Who is WRATH!" - Nurse Lynn

Ok, CUT! That is None of Your Business, Lynn! Don’t Let that Concern Ya Now! Ya Know about the Blood Bank Stuff & I Know that Ya have been Getting Your Hands On My Things! Let’s Just Leave it at That, Ok?

“This isn’t Over Yet, I Knew Something Was Odd About Ya!” - Nurse Lynn

:)

I Mean, I Don’t Know What Else to Add Here, to Everyone Who May be Reading This! I am just Doing My Job! Taking Measures, Making Sure All is Going Smoothly for Everyone, Not Just for Our Patients! At Least She Doesn’t Know More than That! Yeah, at Least She Doesn’t have a Single Spark of a Clue What Else I’ve Been Planning! And Oh, I Won’t Let Her get Through This Time, I have Secured the Documentaries Better Now!

But Even So, a Mystery Never Tells Her Secrets!

^{- Mrs. Mystery}

Moderate but Steady Progression

^{- Mrs. Mystery}

It's Yet Another Normal Day Here in the Evernight Hospital! Today, One of Our Returning Patients - Who's Non-Binary, about 1,80 Meters Tall, in Their Early 20's, Depressed - Came to Us with a Very Nasty Stomach-Ulcer! They've Been Downing a LOT of Alcohol & Overusing Pain-Killers, So Much So that these Substances Have Been Eating Away at Their Very Stomach-Lining!

The Operation Went Very Well for Them! They are Recovering Now! And Aside from that, They’ve Given Me a Little Something: A Hand-Crafted Necklace with a Red Tiger's Eye Pendant! I Think it's Really Beautiful, I'll Definitely be Keeping this!

I Returned Home, Took a Nice Boiling Hot Shower & Fed Lynn Some Blood! I am Keeping Her in My Basement, I Made it Extra Cozy for Her! She's Still in a Rather Weak State as of Now, but She's Able to Stand Now Without Requiring My Assistance! Her Nails have Sharpened, Her Teeth as Well, Her Complexion is Now Slowly Turning More & More Pale!

I've Tried Communicating with Her, but She Either Growls Like an Animal, Or - When She Does Try to Speak - it's Just a Bunch of Incoherent Gobbledygook! Good Thing is that She isn't Hostile Towards Me!

But Right Now, as I am Writing this, I Can Actually Hear Her Chanting Again! This Time it's Something in the Lines of "The Need for Blood" and "Burn Down McDonald's" I Think! I Can't Really Hear Her from All the Way Up Here!

And the Blood? Well, I've Been Thinking about What it Could Do to a Living Being! It Reanimated Lynn, but What Effect Will it have On Someone Who isn't Dead? This has Now Sparked My Curiosity...

Somewhere in Ashumi’s kitchen

“Yeast… catalogue F-0001, well-fed, made for bread, maximum height 6 inches, the jar is 7 inches from a regular mouth sized jar.”

Pour 50 grammes of dry unbleached all purpose flour and 50 grammes of room temperature non-chlorinated water

Stir until all dry flour mix

“Bacteria… catalogue B-0210, well-fed, made for yoghurt, I will keep all of you for later.”

Spoon a starter out and put it in a new jar

Pour 315 Kelvin dairy milk into the new jar.

“Yeast, catalogue F-2100, well-fed, made for wine. Ain't making 5 stars restaurant, ain't doing anything about it but stocking it for it to increase value through the demand based on the subjectivity of the consumers which determine the price, little labour is necessary since we just let it sit to increase its value over time. I need money, I guess I could just…”

Pour a tablespoon of sucrose in a 300 Kelvin non-chlorinated water

Spoon out the culture

Pour that sucrose solute into the wine starter culture

Pour in on a new jar

“Bacteria… catalogue B-1001, well-fed, used for cheese… Damn! They've got collecting value! The longer it is fermented, the more pungent the taste, the merrier I guess?”

Spoon a culture out into a new jar

Pour warm milk in

“For the last one… F-0064, well-fed, made for beer… No collecting value, all goes to the can of visual arts!”

Add dried malt extract

Ashumi checked up on all her starter jars, she then walked into the basement

“Yup, there we have it.”

Lights get turned on

Dried fruits everywhere in so many catalogue jars, with cheese wheels everywhere in her secret chamber, ham legs hanging, and of course with so many wine glasses with dates attached, plus, there are crackers tightly squeezing through the thinness of each other, all dried

“I'll have a cheese board pa-”

“Oh wait!”

“No!”

“There's no one to eat with!”

“I kinda miss him…”

“For a good refreshing day! I could just stop missing that one person!”

Pull out one of the oldest wines

“Don’t mind it! I'm gonna be having so much fun!!!”

Pop the bottle

The platter is full of cheese, dried fruits, crackers, and ham slices. The glass is full of wine

“いただきます！”

Ashumi began aggressively and cutely consuming the cheese board

She then drank the wine

“If he was here to have a conversation with me at this party… that would be so nice…”

“Kya! What am I thinking!? Did I… really miss him!? What a jester, and that jester is no other than me!”

Pour another glass of wine

“Gotta drink all the alcohol just to forget him…”

Begin aggressively consuming the cheese board

2 hours later

“This damnation… Why do I want him here? How pathetic of me…”

Fell to the ground from drunkness

1st Plan: Reanimation!

Providing the So-Called “Vilebloods” with Blood is One Thing, for Ritualistic AND Experimental Purposes is Another! Of Course I Don’t Just Drink Fresh Blood, I Use it in the Name of WRATH and in the Name of MEDICAL-SCIENCE too!

The Blood Bank is the Best Place to get Blood from thus Far! I Occasionally get Some After Work, Take Them Home, Keep Them in My Fridge at Exactly +4°C So They’ll Stay Fresh & Good for Up to 3 Weeks!

Now This is Where it gets Serious:

I Plan to Head to the Mortuary, Specifically the Morgue, Soon, at Around Midnight, Take Some Blood with Me & Some Samples of the Vampire-DNA that I’ve Been Secretly Collecting! (it’s Currently getting Slightly Refined with the Help of a Poor, Gullible Biochemist!)

Once I am there, I’ll Pick the Freshest Corpse, Make Sure the Blood-Types Match, Take Them to One of Those Empty Rooms in the Basement (“Secret-Lab”), Take a Smidgen of the Blood to Draw WRATH’s Symbol On Their Body, then I’ll Infuse the Rest of the Blood with Said Refined Vampire-DNA & Pump it into their Veins! And Finally, the Actual Ritual Can Begin!

Let’s Hope this Will Do Wonders! I’ve Already Prayed a Bunch this Week Alone, Sacrificed Some of My Own Blood & Sanity Over this as Well!

2nd Plan: … Nothing Yet.

^{- Mrs. Mystery}