Qiubai/File

*Unofficial English translations provided by Shainel.*
## Profile

Qiubai, a swordsman born near a water fortress in Jiangqi city in Yan. Due to her family situation, she left her hometown and travelled around Yan with no permanent residence or job. After further inquiry, she had contacts with various operators already in different instances and later accepted Rhodes Island's invitation to support its activities in Yan.

## Clinical Analysis

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Imaging tests reveal clear, normal outlines of internal organs, and no abnormal shadows have been detected. Originium granules have not been detected in the circulatory system and there is no sign of infection. At this time, this operator is believed to be uninfected.

**[Cell-Originium Assimilation] 0%**
Operator Qiubai shows no signs of Originium Infection.

**[Blood-Originium Crystal Density] 0.13u/L**
Operator Qiubai rarely comes into contact with Originium.
I heard that operator Qiubai often wanders the wilderness... so maybe for someone with such chivalrous spirit, she will be surrounded with Oripathy risk.
That was just nonsense talk, she wandered lakes and rivers all year round, doesn't lack in experience and does good job protecting herself.
-- A Medical officer

## Archive Files

Archive File 1
We came into contact with Qiubai during an incident in Gouwu area in Yan and then sent her a partnership invitation. We were pleasantly surprised later to find out that she was involved with operators Saga, Wind Chimes and Mulberry in another incident in a village in the northwest mountain region. Using operator Lin's contact in Yumen.... thankfully by chance, she didn't refuse our invitations. As for the incident in the aforementioned village.... all the involved operators could say were it left deep impressions in them.

At that time, our operators were in the middle of the process of purchasing special medicine materials. After contacting an apothecary, a famous merchant in Gouwu city suddenly intervened our agreement. The said merchant holds a contract which was signed earlier, which includes reselling and production.... in short Rhodes Island cannot bypass him in terms of ingredients purchase and the ridiculous price differences he offers were three times the amount of initial purchasing price and the income the of the apothecary. Further inquiries yield us more information that said merchant might've done more illegal things in the area. Regardless whether it's for profit or not we cannot accept such conditions for our partnership. The matter came into a deadlock until suddenly it was resolved....by the swordsman who applied to be his bodyguard.

When the swordsman demonstrated her business ability, she "accidentally" pierced the merchant's bun hair with her sword's scabbard and nailed it to the wall. The swordsman held a minute long conversation with him. We have no way to find out the conversation's content. We only know that the merchant one-sidedly cancelled the agreement and the swordsman was fired but he didn't pursue her further. Nevertheless, it seemed like a harmless accident caused by a person who's not good at learning. Truthfully, we've already collected the necessary evidences at that time which is basically a good thing for us who's in urgent need of medicinal materials that the matter was resolved quicker. We later found the swordsman and expressed our gratitude to her and things just went smoothly after that.

Archive File 2
Operator Qiubai isn't adept in Originium Arts, at least based on what she has shown us during the combat test and her tasks so far. At first, we thought that she's just reserving her Arts. It's understandable for a person who used to work alone to be wary of others. But then, we found out that she only relied on her sword skills during battles. Operators who had been on missions with her commented on her "swordmanship" but it's not easy to deduct what kind of skills are there or if there's any at all.

We have seen Qiubai being surrounded by enemies numerous times. When we asked her whether her swordmanship has cool but strange name like "Blizzard Sword" or "Cutting a Thousand River Sword" she showed a rather vulnerable expression. We understand that it might've come from a stereotype of Yan's martial arts school which are known to be beautiful and deadly, were born from observing nature and passed down from generations to generations.

The root of this is a television, movie and novel genre in Yan called "Xia" that somehow became popular in Rhodes Island for some reason, operator Ch'en's swordmanship and even Mr Nothing's exaggeration prose in which he spares no effort in....

Operator Qiubai's swordmanship can be summarized as "strike at the right moment". This is evident in the most recent combat test where she was in a defensive position against two operators with heavy equipment, saw an opportunity to create a gap and disarmed one of the shield with her sword.
When it comes to Caster opponent with suppression abilities she only uses a single sword. The Caster opponent didn't even have any time to cast any Arts and the sword tip was already at their vital point in an instant.

Using strength, angle, force, posture as evaluations.... these are meaningless for Qiubai who doesn't pay heed to such stuffs in her swordmanship. She doesn't seek beauty in her moves, she's extremely concise, refined, efficient, and she seeks opportunities in verge of death. Based on her experiences, it's not hard to conclude that this swordmanship came from her life experience that always teeter between life and death for years. I think only select few are the ones who want to experience such life.

"Master? Are you asking for my adversaries? They're all dead...... except one"

Archive File 3
Operator Qiubai's main responsibility is to assist Rhodes Island in Yan country and there are only few opportunities to encounter her in the landship. So when she returned to report on her missions, the logistics department found some people sneaking on her dormitory's room door.

"We just want to see if Miss Qiubai is really there sleeping on hammock." "Obviously not that duh, she probably tied two ropes on the ends of the pillars and lied there", "We really have no bad intentions!" -- also from some weird stereotypes, which is somehow difficult to explain but we have seriously reprimanded the relevant operators.

Qiubai doesn't have such strange way of sleeping except her longsword must not be out of her reach... it should be said her living requirements are rather simple and she barely decorated her dorm room. When she's in the ship she rarely socialize and even undertook the mission to stay vigil. Her living conditions are just as simple as her sword skills.

According to the what an operator who went out to a mission with her has described, she sat down on a bridge, took out a whetstone and started polishing her sword and the sound of her polishing echoed along the bridge. The said operator sat down, trembled and finally fell asleep amidst the sound of her polishing. The operator tried their best to explain that she's not that average like what she has shown. In the middle of their mission, they both talked a lot. Although they had already forgotten how it went, she even showed them the differences between several dialects in Yan: Shangshu is gentle, Yumen is rough, Lungmen has rich syllables, Jiangqi and Dusk City has their own characteristics.... this is consistent with what Qiubai has said during her background check. She has travelled almost all over the Great Yan. Although she didn't stay in one place for too long and probably won't in the future, she's still willing to integrate herself into the lives of others and provides them with her help.

There's no particular reason "It's over there, let's go to the next place, I only have this sword, but there are always places that needs its presence. I'm used to it".

"In Great Yan we call this travelling the lakes and rivers, fighting for justice."

-- "I understand!, so Miss Qiubai is a chivalrous person like what Mr Nothing often describes!"

"Miss Qiubai how many chivalrous person like you are present in Yan?"

"Only me."

Archive File 4
We invited Miss Qiubai to participate in a movie watching session. Our original objective was to ask her to confirm some details in it. Indeed, the movie is based on the warden of Yan and the movie's theme is "living in solitude after a great sorrow". After the premiere, Miss Qiubai didn't comment anything about the architecture, costumes, details of locals customs and etc but instead expressed plain disdain towards the story. She can't accept that at the end of the movies the characters just fight, had a drink, said something to resolve everything and every single resentment and kindness that were portrayed heavily before were all "in the wine".

"If it's that simple then those grievances, good and evil are all worthless... oh don't mind my words, it's a very good movie but I don't like it."

-- **Recording of Rhodes Island Movie Watcher Group**

HR Department did more detailed background check for Operator Qiubai especially the less known or recognized stuffs to ensure the accuracy of information. More than a decade ago, river bandits occupied areas of Dingzhou near Jiangqi City in Yan and they built water villages. They actually cooperated together and controlled nearly half of the waterways and plundered merchants. The Yan government recruited people all over the country including Sir Chongyue who happened to pass by the area on his way to report his mission and carried out a sweeping operations against the water bandits in a hundred miles area. The resisting bandits were cornered and arrested.

They were then brought to the court and each were given different level of sentences. Those who were coerced and forced to assist them will be allowed to return and go back to farming and their old job once they were properly reviewed. For the families of bandit leaders, the local government will provide living and educational assistance for the younger ones. But when they're checking the list, a daughter of a bandit leader went missing during the chaos.... We all know the continuation, she travelled to Yumen.

A teenage girl travelled thousand of miles from Jiangqi to Yumen and she walked for a full five years. By the time she arrived at Yumen, her peculiar yet impressive swordmanship had begun to form. Operator Qiubai didn't tell us what happened in the process, but it's very likely it's not just sightseeing-and-go trip. She also stayed in Yumen for another five years. Instead of "seeking revenge" she helped in defending Yumen during several emergency situations.

Before his resignation, Sir Chongyue had delivered information towards the related parties about Qiubai's situation. They didn't tell us more anything about this, but it's probably not like the said movie scene where they can easily forget their enmity and friendship.

Obviously, we understand that this is their private matter and HR Department won't pursue it any further after confirming that there won't be any conflict sparked by their past matters. We do however remember Miss Qiubai's last words.

"Hatred is not worthy of my sword anymore."

Promotion Record
By luck, we obtained an old report about Banditries in Jiangqi.

-- Around 30 years ago, a merchant reported the crime to the local government when he and his daughter who had grown up travelled with a cargo ship to visit their relatives. He went missing while travelling through a waterway near Jiangqi and his whereabouts are unknown since then.

"The conflict between good and evil always causes grievances. Where does it end and start?"

"It's hard to deduct which is which for both of them and it's just a meaningless whine. That's the reason why i'm holding this sword."