Characters
Hilma Cygnaeus
ヒルマ・シュグネウス
Head of the Eight Fingers' narcotics division / later the de facto manager of the Eight Fingers under Nazarick's controlEight FingersHumanUnknown
Personality
A former high-class courtesan whose creed is "those who don't move when they should get eaten." Shrewd, tough, and unflappable, she has made her way through life on instinct. Nazarick's "baptism" broke her completely and remade her: she became humble and considerate, a comrade through thick and thin to the other division heads, and a sincere devotee of the Sorcerer King.
Abilities
- Can read people's minds from the rise and fall of their voices, their expressions, and their small habits, especially men's; she saw at a glance that Mare is a boy
- Built enormous underground political power by hosting banquets at her mansion to win over noble heirs who had not yet inherited, then controlling them once they came to power
- The "viper tattoo" on her right arm can take physical form as a viper and attack; she also carries a pipe that gives off purple poisonous smoke
- Made huge profits from the narcotic "Black Powder" (Lyra powder), which even made its way into the Empire
History
- Rose from high-class courtesan to head of the Eight Fingers' narcotics division (background)
- Refused Zero's offer of guards at the division heads' meeting (Vol. 5). During the turmoil in the Royal Capital, Mare attacked her mansion and crushed her viper tattoo bare-handed. She was taken to Nazarick for Kyouhukou's "baptism," after which she gave in and revealed where the Eight Fingers leaders met (Vol. 6)
- The baptism left her unable to swallow solid food and morbidly thin (Vol. 10 p. 197). On Albedo's orders, she propped up the foolish noble Philip so that he could form a new faction (Vol. 10)
- Philip's stupidity gave her stomach pains; she broke down crying in front of her colleagues and begged to be replaced (Vol. 13)
- After Philip seized Sorcerer Kingdom food wagons, she was brought before Ainz to answer for it. Ainz pardoned her on the grounds that "a subordinate's error is the superior's responsibility, and she did her best," and merely ordered her to submit measures to prevent a recurrence; from then on she regarded the Sorcerer King as a merciful, wise ruler. Before the Kingdom fell, she led about a thousand associates to safety in a Sorcerer Kingdom village (Vol. 14)
Trivia
She ranked 89th in the popularity poll. Anime season 4 toned down her emaciation and also cut Cocco Doll's line that she was "way too thin."
Relationships
- Kyouhukou: The black hell who administered the "baptism"; the division heads all agree that no one should ever have to taste that despair again
- Mare Bello Fiore: She saw at a glance that he is a boy; he calls her "Auntie"
- Albedo: Terror incarnate, who sees humans only as toys
- Ainz Ooal Gown: In her eyes, His Majesty the Sorcerer King is generous and gentle; she wants to serve directly under him
- Philip Dayton L'Eyre Montserrat: The "scum noble, the ultimate idiot" she was ordered to manipulate
- Ampetif Cocco Doll: Fellow division head (slave division); he escaped the "baptism" because he was in jailunverified
- Zero: Head of the security division, whose offer of help she refusedunverified
- Barbro Andrean Ield Ryle Vaiself: The First Prince, who drew funding from the narcotics division
- Noah Zweden: Fellow division head (gambling division); after the "baptism" they became comrades who look out for each otherunverified
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