Nina

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Nina (妮娜) 146
Alias(es)	Nurse Nina; Miss Nina 146 147
Gender	Female 146
Affiliation	St. Mary's Sanatorium 146
Occupation/Role	Nurse NPC; patient intake coordinator, treatment administrator, and enforcer of sanatorium rules 146 147 150 175 178
First Appearance	Chapter 146, “St. Mary's Sanatorium (1)” 146

Appearance

• Build and face: Slender, with slender calves and a lovely face that is initially expressionless 146.
• Hair: Glossy golden hair pinned beneath a white nurse’s cap, with loose strands at her forehead and temples 146.
• Usual clothing: An impeccably neat white nurse’s uniform and red high heels. The clicking of her heels frequently alerts players to her approach 146 147 149.
• Voice and gaze: Introduced with a hoarse voice and a cold, inspecting gaze 146.
• Ceremonial clothing: For the Saintess’s birthday, she wears a floor-length white dress beneath a white robe embroidered with gold patterns, with her golden hair flowing down her back 197.

Personality

Nina treats obedience as a condition of recovery, repeatedly presenting the sanatorium’s brutality as necessary medical care. She insists that its treatments cannot harm patients even after examinations leave them severely injured, then uses Holy Medicine’s healing effects to restore their trust 150 156 157.

Her cold professionalism gives way to anger when patients make noise, ignore instructions, or miss scheduled activities. During the dining-hall disturbance, her fury eventually settles into an expressionless calm before she orders the orderlies to intervene 149 160 178.

Her hostility toward Bo Yi does not always translate into punishment. She cannot penalize him merely for returning close to a deadline, and his argument that he followed the doctor’s instructions leaves her unable to justify punishing him for injuring that doctor 154 185.

Toward the director, she is deferential and eager for approval. After he praises her preparations at the blood pool, a slight smile reveals her pleasure 195.

Abilities & Skills

Physical Strength and Syringe Attacks

• Opens the heavy iron entrance gate with one hand 146.
• Throws syringes into two players’ eyes, then twists the embedded syringes until their eyes are destroyed 149.
• Drags two incapacitated adult men by their ankles with effortless ease despite her slender build 149 150.

Rule Enforcement

• Punishes loud noises and disobedience under the stated requirement that patients preserve a suitable environment for recuperation 147 149 150.
• Kills two players for arriving late to the 12:30 Room Inspection, rejecting their explanation that they were trying to obey the prohibition against wasting food 178.
• Announces and carries out a public execution by inserting a large needle into a patient’s neck and draining his blood through a machine 160 161.
• Limits: Bo Yi escapes punishment when his actions do not violate the stated rules. Nina also fails to appear when his roommates make loud noises while attacking him at night 154 163 185.

Patient Assessment and Medication

• Conducts blood tests with a sampling machine and records patients in descending order of their readings 175.
• Selects high-scoring patients for follow-up examinations, describing them as close to recovery 179.
• Administers Holy Medicine, which stops Shi Xinyi’s bleeding and restores her consciousness after a severe examination 157.
• Distributes varying numbers of unmarked tablets, claiming that they treat whatever illness the recipient has 178.

Staff and Ritual Coordination

• Summons orderlies to remove an incapacitated doctor and directs them to subdue frenzied patients with stun batons 154 160.
• Assigns wards, beds, dining seats, and patient movement between scheduled activities 147 151 157 176.
• Leads Saint Mary worship and distributes Holy Medicine awards after prayer 161 162 175.
• Prepares the blood pool and recruits players for the Saintess’s birthday offerings 195 196.

Equipment / Items

• Key ring and entrance keys: Initially carried at her waist and used to open both the outer iron gate and the main building. The keys look identical despite serving different locks 146 147.
  • The ring disappears from her waist shortly after admission; she later retrieves two dead players’ silver ward keys from the blood on the corridor floor 149 150.
  • Shen Jiayue eventually finds the empty ring among Nina’s belongings. Attaching all twenty player ward keys transforms them into Nina’s original entrance keys 210 211 212.
  • The restored set enables the escape attempt; its eighth key opens the outer iron gate 215.
• Syringes: Used as thrown weapons and instruments of punishment 149.
• Bloodstained stun baton: Carried during the dining-hall disturbance; the orderlies wield similar batons at her command 160.
• Blood-testing machine and records: Used during Room Inspection to assess and rank patients 175.
• Medicine cart: Holds identical, unlabeled white bottles containing the tablets distributed during afternoon rounds 178.

Background / History

Admission and First-Day Treatment

Nina first appears after all twenty players reach St. Mary’s Sanatorium. She identifies them as newly admitted patients, unlocks the entrance, and locks the gate behind them. Inside, she establishes the prohibition against loud noises and assigns each player a ward and bed 146 147.

After attacking two players for making noise, she escorts the remaining patients to the fourth floor for admission examinations. Bo Yi reverses the procedure on the doctor, leaving him mangled. Nina confronts Bo Yi but accepts that he followed the doctor’s instructions, ends his treatment, and arranges a replacement doctor for the others 149 150 151 154 155.

When the examinations leave players unable to walk to dinner, Bo Yi challenges the sanatorium’s responsibility for their injuries. Nina defends its care and distributes Holy Medicine, forcibly administering a bottle to the badly injured Shi Xinyi before leading everyone to the dining hall 156 157.

Daily Routine and Patient Selection

Following a patient mob’s consumption of a dead player, Nina orders the orderlies to suppress the crowd. She sentences the patient from Room 311, bed 4—the first to call the players “medicine”—to public execution, then moves on to scheduled worship when the clock approaches 19:00 159 160 161.

Her later rounds combine blood testing, medication, and strict attendance checks. She awards Holy Medicine to Bo Yi and two low-scoring patients, while selecting high-scoring patients such as Shi Xinyi for follow-up examinations. Shi Xinyi and several other selected patients subsequently fail to return 175 178 179 185.

Saintess’s Birthday Preparations

After the doctor takes an interest in Bo Yi’s changed blood-test result, Nina announces that he requires individual special treatment. At the blood pool, she questions the choice of a male vessel for the Saintess but accepts the doctor’s explanation that holy light will reshape him 191 194 195.

Nina reports that the pool’s previous solution and waste have been removed, then helps lower Bo Yi into the fresh solution. That evening, she recruits Lu Wei and two other players who promise complete cooperation to “help” make Holy Wine and Holy Candles. At the celebration, the two players are revealed as human-shaped candles, while the mutilated but still-living Lu Wei is presented as Holy Wine 195 196 198.

On the birthday itself, Nina announces that examinations and the normal activity schedule are suspended and that the Saintess pardons all transgressions. She leads the patients and remaining players into the Prayer Room, where Bo Yi lies motionless before the statue 197.

Relationships

• Bo Yi — A troublesome patient whose use of the rules frustrates her. She later sends him for special treatment and assists in preparing him as the Saintess’s vessel 154 185 191 194 195.
• Sanatorium director / replacement doctor — Her superior and collaborator in the vessel preparations. She follows his orders deferentially and is visibly pleased by his praise 194 195.
• Orderlies — Staff who respond to her commands, remove bodies, suppress patients, and assist with executions 154 160 161.
• Shi Xinyi — A patient Nina forcibly heals with Holy Medicine and later selects for a follow-up examination 157 179.
• Lu Wei — Volunteers after Nina confirms that helping counts toward assessment; his promised willingness to “do anything” leads to his selection for the Holy Wine preparations 196 198.
• Saint Mary / the Saintess — The object of Nina’s worship and the focus of the birthday ritual she helps organize 161 194 195 197.

Notable Quotes

“Once inside the sanatorium, you must not make loud noises.” 147

“Only obedient patients can recover quickly and be discharged as soon as possible...” 150

“Whatever illness you have, that's what it treats.” 178