Zeroth Directive

Archive III

In her early years, Nine-Colored Deer traveled Yan, treating and saving people as she roamed. Rescuing the dying and wounded, asking for nothing in return, those were her principles. When passing through a village just recently struck by Catastrophe, she stopped in her tracks and stayed to aid the casualties. She treated people with the greatest kindness, but sadly never received their goodwill in turn. Communications in the village had been cut off at the time, and stockpiled medical supplies and drugs were critically insufficient, more and more patients being bedridden due to lack of medicated treatment. She and the one doctor left in the village were forced to search for herbals in the nearby mountains, in order to make up for the deficiency. She firmly believed she could pull this village with nothing left away from the brink. But contrary to her hopes, rumors began spreading among the already feeble populace, and within them, Nine-Colored Deer transformed from a physician to an evil, a herald of calamity. 'This woman only stays here so she can promote her cures, and gain our trust!' 'Look at her Originium Arts! She's the one who brought the Catastrophe!' She had to face not just the bitter cries of the sick, but the unguessable human heart. Though she never took notice of the villagers' slander, these rumors rotted some of the people inside. Finally, a few brute villagers assembled in front of her, forcibly demanding the 'Elafia who brought us disaster' leave the place. In the end, she entrusted her books filled with methods to treat illnesses, her methods for making herbal pills to that doctor, and walked far to the closest town, to inform the outside world this village still needed aid. Following that, she left that place, headed for the mountain forests to find somewhere secluded. However, the mountains were by no means always so peaceful, and the clinic at their foot always had patients in need of help. After hesitating again and again, she delivered her herbals to the doctor after all. Fortunately, this time saw no reprisal of the last. She still maintains her principles, and she firmly believes, treating the heart of the people is more important than treating the body.

Archive IV

'You're finally back~ How was field work this time? Er... are you alright there?' 'I'm dead on my feet here... hold on, how long's it been since we saw each other?' 'About seven days? What's up...?' 'What have you been eating to fill yourself out like that? Look, you've got meat on your chin now!' 'Food's been really good at the canteen lately. Just been having more, that's all.' 'You sure you didn't beg Hung to make a whole week's food for you?' 'Gimme a break... I'm not even like that. It was a Yan operator, codename's Nine-Colored Deer. I've told you, the Yan cuisine she makes is suuuuper good.' 'Any left? Lemme try some!' 'Still plenty. She's kept a whole bunch of food ready in the fridge, especially for operators who get back late. What are you hankering for? Spicy or not? Something sweet? I'll heat it up and bring it over to you.' 'You can choose what you want?? Gimme something spicy, then, uh... no, scratch that, non-spicy. Belly's not been feeling good lately.' 'What's wrong with it? There's stomach pills here too. Here, have one.' 'What, pills? Nah, nah, nah, leave it, they're too bitter for me. I'll have some porridge when I get back.' 'These pills aren't bitter at all. They've got a little tea flavor, even. Try 'em. I had a bad gut when I got back a few days ago, and it was taking the pills for a few days that cured it.' 'You sure? Shoot me one, then... they're *not* bitter!' 'Right? I told you.' 'First time I've had a pill that's not bitter. Who made it? Can I buy a few?' 'Same person from Yan. She made the one you just had. Hold on, I found the congee. Lemme heat it one sec, and then you take your time eating.' 'Don't tell me she made that too?' 'Still her. Everything on the top shelves in here, she made. All the food with stickers on it. If you want more, you can pull some out and warm it. Oh, right, she left all the pills in this box here too. Stomach medicine is the blue sticker. Don't get mixed up.' 'She made all this medicine herself?' 'She collects herbs all the time in Yan, and she makes the pills and brings them in.' 'What can't she do... I feel like I know why you got meat on your bones so quick now.' 'I mean, you know? Meals have just been amazing lately. If my mom could make stuff so delicious, I'd be a ball by now.' 'Nothing wrong with that. Here, hey-hey-hey, you have some too. Too sad eating by myself.' 'Sure. I'll go get another bowl.' 'You've been eating this for days on end and you haven't gotten any present to thank her or anything?' 'I sent her some flowers earlier, but it's just all flowers outside her dorm door. All of them from everyone else.' 'I've got something good here. Bought it on the way back from the field. Let's go together tomorrow and give to her.' ——Cafeteria recording monitor, unknown timestamp

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