Lilim

About
Lilim was a member of the group of Apostles of Dark Lord Kesselring that chose to serve him as his personal maids.

She was originally born around the 5th century of the Gi Era in the territory close to Transylvania Forest in what would become Helman land. At some point when she was quite young both of her parents passed away through unknown means and she was placed under her uncle's custody. Unfortunately, the man was mad and obsessed with a strange religion. According to his dogma, if a ritual was performed with the decapitated heads of 50 men, the last one would resurrect as a God. In his insanity to ascend to godhood he started a series of murders and forced Lilim to cooperate with him. He prepared a hut in Transylvania Forest to function as a small brothel with Lilim as its only worker. Her role was to tempt unaware adventurers that would traverse the forest to visit her hut and provide them sexual services until they would lower their guard enough to take their lives. With time, a rumor spread around the area about a mysterious girl that seduces men before they completely disappear into the woods. Eventually, Lilim, having gone somewhat insane, rebelled against her uncle and ultimately murdered him. She chopped off his head and displayed his head on the altar. At some point after this, the rumor had spread enough to cause wide concern on the local population, prompting the military to intervene and investigate the situation. They managed to find the house of Lilim's uncle and, through some books and journals, discover everything about his identity and his mad religious practices. Upon finding the altar that Lilim's uncle utilised for his ritual they found the severed heads of 49 men, including the perpetrator's. However, no matter how much they searched, they never found any trace left of Lilim. Because of it, they could never determine whether Lilim even existed or not and the accuracy of the rumors involving her. The case became quite famous and became a popular ghost story in the area to the point that it continued being told in Helman even centuries later.

In reality, Lilim was at some point discovered by Dark Lord Kesselring, who decided to take her in under his protection due to the broken mental state that she was in until she could recover. With some time, Lilim was able to return to a normal state of mind and she developed intense feelings for Kesselring and a strong desire to stay with him, resulting in her becoming one of his Apostles and maids.

In the year LP0002, Kesselring was ordered by Kayblis to send his Apostles in pursuit of Miki in order for him to kill her and absorb her powers as Demon King. While Lilim and her allies succeeded in capturing Miki and Kentarou, the two were eventually able to escape from the maids’ clutches and live another day.

In the year LP0007, the Kayblis Faction was finally able to land a decisive victory over the Hornet Faction, causing Kayblis to be recognized as ruler of all of monsterkind. Immediately after becoming the ruler of the Monster Realm, Kayblis ordered an invasion into the Human Realm using the entirety of the Monster Army’s forces, sparking the beginning of the 2nd Dark Lord War. During the war, Kesselring was tasked with invading the nation of Helman through its border with the Monster Realm to the west. Early on into the invasion, Kesselring came across an abandoned estate known as Bram Castle deep within the Transylvania Forest located along Helman’s border with the Monster Realm, which he immediately assumed temporary residence in alongside his maids. Disinterested in fighting humanity, Kesselring left the vast majority of the war effort in the hands of LeMay, the Great Monster General assigned to assist him in leading the Helman invasion, and only periodically entered the battlefield himself.

During the war effort Lilim, along with the other maids, spent most of their time attending to Kesselring's needs and keeping Bram Castle in top condition, while occassionally joining the battle against humans by taking out important commanders. For the first couple of months, their efforts were focused in large part in the Fort Banra so that the forces of the Monster Realm could more swiftly invade the country without opposition. If Kesselring was not defeated 5 months after the start of the war, the spreading of the Chupacabra curse used by Kesselring combined with the Monster threat succeeded in completely taking over the Fort. Lilim, along with the other maids, investigated the fort to search for survivors and confirm the death of the commanders. Upon finding the corpse of the General of the 2nd Army, Tolstoy Bato, who commited suicide to prevent the curse from spreading, the maids returned to their lords side.

If Kesselring was defeated before Fort Banra fell, Lilim makes first appearance while Rance's party is entering the Transylvania Forest in order to slay Kesselring. As she and Kesselring's other maids are working on their respective duties, an alarm placed on the forest to detect intruders rings, making Barbara and Paleloa ultimately decide to leave to check. Some time later, the staff of maids get some free time after having finished all their chores and they decide to take a break. Lilim and Alcarria, being the youngest of the maids, begin asking questions to their seniors about their lifestyle. As the conversation moves on, Sharon begins explaining them about everyone's prior circumstances, explaining about their pasts and how Kesselring saved them.

Eventually Rance and his party managed to cross the Forest and get to Bram Castle during daytime while Kesselring was still asleep. Elsill, not wanting to expose her and Alcarria to danger, ordered them to hide in a safe room of the castle and forbid them from participating in the conflict, much to Lilim's irritation. After all the illusionary traps from the castle and their senior maids had been defeated by the Human party, Lilim and Alcarria left their hiding spots in an attempt to fight off Rance, hoping that they can make some time until Kesselring wakes up. While the younger maids were swiftly defeated, Rance, who had grown agitated over not being able to have sex with any of their seniors, wasted several minutes restraining and raping them before going back to his mission to slay Kesselring. This, combined with Varen's later sacrifice, managed to make enough time for Kesselring's awakening, who quickly drove Rance away from his castle.

Following Varen's death, Lilim was visibly saddened and ambivalent about Kesselring bringing Sill and Sheila to the castle, as she felt that he was replacing her. Kanayo managed to soothe her mixed feelings a little by reminding her of Kesselring's ideology, saying that his desire is only in helping unfortunate women in need of help.

Some days later Rance puts into motion his plan to collect a large number of women that had suffered in one way or another in order to inflitrate spies into Bram Castle. As more and more women gather, Lilim begins questioning their course of action, but still does everything in her power to fulfill Kesselring's ideals, spending much of her time cooking and harvesting food. Unfortunately, during the day Rance's Dark Lord Extermination Squad attacked, she along with the other maids were put to sleep by members of the Dark Wings that had disguised themselves and infiltrated among the hundreds of women that were residing in the castle. The Helmanian assassins unlocked all the traps and opened the gates for Rance, who was this time fully resolved to take down Kesselring taking advantage of the light of day that weakens him. After a fierce battle where Kesselring was mortally wounded, he managed to transform his body into fog to escape. Lilim wakes up again after Kesselring collected all his sleeping apostles and brought them all together to the terrace of Bram Castle in order to spend his final moments with them. Alcarria offers to return the Demon King blood he gave them in order to heal him. Kesselring rejects the idea, saying that he's beyond saving but they all agree to do it anyway if only to relieve his pain a little and to be able to die alongside him. As Lilim extracts her blood she thanks him for everything he did for her up until now before finally dying.

If Kesselring is instead defeated at night by Rance or by sending Peruelé Kalette as a spy, Lilim along with the remaining members of the staff of maids will be unable to die along with Kesselring and Rance will take his Demonic Blood Soul instead. Elsill proposes that they will all work for Rance under the promise that he will return their master's blood soul. Not wanting to waste an opportunity to have 8 beautiful maids joining him, he agrees and they all move to Rance Castle and join the Human Army. After recovering their master's blood soul, the 8 maids will perform a ritual of blood unique to him that allows him to resurrect immediately (albeit with his gender swapped to his original female self). Kesselring, seeing that he owes a debt to Rance for sparing his apostles and giving him the chance to resurrect, will agree to assist the human side in the war.

Personality and Appearance
Lilim is a young looking girl with a short aqua green hair and matching eyes. Her clothing consists of an off-shoulder dark blue maid attire. She's noted for her short stature and generally small build, to the point of sometimes going unnoticed to her fellow apostles when she's working.

Among the most childish members of Kesselring's staff of maids, Lilim is considered one of the juniors of the group due to her lack of experience as one of Kesselring's most recent maids and her generally immature personality, with her petite body only reinforcing a childlike perception of her. She usually dislikes to be treated like a child by those around her but her complaints only highlight her immaturity as she pouts about it. Because of her low combat ability, she's often protected or put out of harms way by her seniors, something that greatly frustrates her as she wishes to be able to stand as an equal to them. She's also seemingly insecure about her physique, displaying jealousy of Varen's body when taking a bath (although she attempts to pretend otherwise). She's slightly rebellious, usually disagreeing with orders given to her but she would always comply in one way or another due to her strong desire to serve Kesselring and all-around respect for her seniors. Despite her attitude, she's noted for having a great degree of affection for all her fellow co-workers, being her boss Elsill and the similarly childish Alcarria the ones she interact with the most. The two are often looked after by the others, not only due to being the youngest, but also because they're the only ones among Kesselring's apostles that still retain emotional trauma from their prior lives. While Lilim does not struggle as much as Alcarria does, engaging in sexual activity with a man other than Kesselring can rapidly reduce her to a state of intense panic and anxiety.

She's also probably the most ill-mannered of Kesselring's apostles. While the others would talk politely and behave in a very humble yet dignified manner even with enemies, Lilim is more brash and impudent, especially with those she dislikes. She has a negative opinion of Rance, who she elects to ignore almost completely, only interacting with him when he's deliberately getting in her way. She has a negative opinion of humans in general, partly influenced by her past experiences and also due to her position as a never-aging Apostle. However, even more so than the others, Lilim displays pride and arrogance that leads her to avoid any interaction with humans whenever possible, claiming that they have no reason to get along with any human. She's somewhat hypocritical about this however, as Lilim was quick to befriend and rely on Sill Plain if the group of maids move to Rance Castle, and she's quickly called out for it by her fellow apostles, much to her embarrassment.

Like all of Kesselring's apostles, she holds an unconditional and infinite amount of gratitude and respect for her master, coupled with feelings of love that motivate her to do anything for him. She serves him 24 hours a day without question, happily attending to all his needs and ensuring his protection at daytime. She would gladly throw away her life for him without second thought, even if only to relieve his pain a little, showcasing her devotion for him.

Abilities
As an Apostle, Lilim possesses a natural fighting ability superior to that of an average human, allowing her to engage in battle even against experienced warriors. However, with a Level of only 26 combined with a small and rather weak body, she's not quite as powerful as most apostles or even the other members of Kesselring's group of maids. Her strength was low enough that Elsill opted for keeping her and Alcarria hidden as soon as Rance entered their Castle, aware they would be unable to provide a meaningful assistance even before fully gauging the warrior's strength. She is capable of fending herself in an encounter however, as she and Alcarria were able to at least provide a fight to Rance even if they were dispatched quite easily. Her fighting style revolves around the use of long raged projectiles, throwing them with a fair amount of force thanks to the enhanced powers she received from her transformation. Outside of the battlefield she's a competent maid that is able to carry out her duties efficiently, and she's particularly confident in her cooking.

She possesses a Lv1 Kunoichi, but it seems to have only served to further her uncle's plans for her, as she was able to instinctively learn how to pleasure men as a prostitute to the point that she still subconciously retains this skill.

She also holds a Stuffed Toy Making Lv1 skill, a very rare talent that could potentially make her an expert at producing plushies but it is unknown if she's even aware of this talent of hers.