Tao Yuan

Biodata

Appearance

• Long pink hair: Bai Yang identifies her hair color as a lasting effect of controlling her pink chainsaw anomalous object, which she acknowledges 20 21.
• White gloves and skirt: She pulls on white gloves before investigating Gambling House · Spring and later lifts her skirt to sit while maintaining her weapon 13 15.
• Oversized pink chainsaw: Carried on a holder at her waist, the serrated weapon is nearly as tall as she is 13 15 25.

Personality

Tao Yuan combines an elegant manner with blunt speech and a willingness to fight. She calmly maintains her enormous chainsaw, trades jokes with her teammates, and complains when others forget that she is supposedly a support who needs protection. Qin Rang remarks that she can be more eager to fight than An Ying 13 15 21 24.

She prioritizes practical survival over prolonged suspicion or argument. After witnessing another player's death, she redirects the squad toward discovering the instance's rules. However, she remains wary of human threats and argues against keeping Bai Yang nearby when his spotless clothing, unexplained abilities, and unpredictable behavior undermine his story 15 18 20.

Her caution does not prevent her from helping others. She warns Bai Yang against revealing his supernatural object's capabilities, promises assistance during their search, and later stays behind in Liar's Tavern to secure her own survival while trying to save more players. She fears losing, but trusts her intelligence more strongly than she fears the game 16 17 44.

Abilities & Skills

Investigation and Rule Analysis

Tao Yuan identifies hazards by comparing environmental clues, victims' actions, and anomalous behavior 15 21 23.

• Identifies a die through touch and smell, correctly suggesting a gambling-house or underground setting 12.
• Connects a victim's death to a disturbed gambling table and the red-and-white chips used on that floor 15.
• Identifies the black-haired anomaly's gaze and voice as its killing mechanisms 21.
• Determines that the repeatedly regenerating Toddler Weirds are copied shadows rather than the original creatures 23.
• Connects the flyer's top-floor celebration to the apparently contradictory rules permitting and forbidding gambling 29.

Chainsaw Combat

Despite her support assignment, Tao Yuan fights at close range and handles a weapon that Bai Yang struggles to lift 19 22.

• Carries the heavy chainsaw while moving through the instance and raises it one-handed to intercept a spiked hammer 19 24.
• Coordinates with Qin Rang and An Ying, blocking an attack while Qin Rang engages their opponent 24.
• Recognizes the hammer-wielding Weird's resistance to physical attacks and retreats rather than continuing an ineffective exchange 24.
• Is not immune to damage: the energy released during the hammer clash causes bone-deep pain 24.

Bluffing and Psychological Tactics

Tao Yuan dominates Liar's Tavern through acting, verbal pressure, and deliberate ambiguity, despite never having played the game before 44.

• Mixes truthful statements with deception so opponents cannot reliably judge her cards 44.
• Uses apparently nervous finger-tapping to make an opponent second-guess whether he should challenge her 44.
• Successfully challenges Guest No. 15's false play and hands him the game's pistol after his loss 44.
• Remains unreadable even to a mind-reading anomalous object during the game; the passage does not establish broader immunity to mind reading 44.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Pink chainsaw — Her principal weapon and an anomalous object. Bai Yang borrows it to dismember the gaze-controlling monster, then returns it to her 19 20.
• Human-skin book page — Automatically warns of nearby Weirds, displaying their number, danger level, and advice. Its count changes when a nearby Weird is killed 22.
• Colorful flyer — Retained as evidence; its advertisement for a top-floor celebration helps her locate the likely gambling arena 29.
• Playing cards — Allocates the squad's six cards before they separate: one each for Qin Rang and An Ying, and two each for herself and Sheng Qingqiao 33.

Relationships

• Qin Rang — Squad captain and investigative partner. They exchange teasing remarks, coordinate in combat, and share information after reuniting 13 21 24 50.
• Sheng Qingqiao — Teammate who calls her “Sister Tao” and turns to her for help with unfamiliar gambling-house situations. He also mocks her claim to be a vulnerable support 13 24.
• An Ying — Teammate who helps assess Bai Yang's suspicious behavior and fights alongside her. She reunites with him on the daytime street 20 24 49.
• Bai Yang — Initially a suspicious stranger whom she nevertheless advises and protects. Their relationship develops into cooperation when they plan her role in Liar's Tavern, though she remains uneasy about his organization's unexplained assistance 14 16 17 44 49.
• Moonlit Night — Bai Yang's dangerous colleague. She attempts to defuse their confrontation and later questions how he left the instance before it was cleared 25 49.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Heaven · Addiction: Initial Investigation

• Enters the open hundred-player instance with Qin Rang, Sheng Qingqiao, and An Ying, identifying its likely gambling setting before the scenery fully resolves 12.
• Discovers Bai Yang watching from behind a gambling table and helps question him before he joins the group 13 14 15.
• Survives the dark staircase's shoulder-clinging creatures and reports that the squad's outside signal has been cut off 17 18.
• Is immobilized by a gaze-controlling monster until Bai Yang kills it with her chainsaw; afterward, she joins Qin Rang and An Ying in planning to test him 19 20.

Escalation at Gambling House · Spring

• Uses her warning page and deductions to help the squad navigate the Toddler Weird encounter, then fights the hammer-wielding Weird 22 23 24.
• Retreats from Moonlit Night's blade light and flees the destruction caused by Bai Yang's enlarged rabbit 25 26.
• Finds the gambling house's written rules in the rubble and later helps identify its top floor as the permitted gambling area 27 29.

Liar's Tavern

• Asks Bai Yang to release the players being carried by his giant rabbit, but he refuses, citing the danger of trampling them or attracting a rule Weird 37.
• Remains behind after Bai Yang departs under their agreed plan. When the hosts revive and restart the game, she repeatedly wins while stalling for time and attempting to save other players 44.

Daytime Reunion

• Reunites with An Ying and learns that Moonlit Night can break through boundaries but cannot take others out with him 49.
• Invites Bai Yang to search for the remaining teammates. After finding Qin Rang at a clothing stall, she exchanges accounts and information with him 49 50.

Notable Quotes

“Let's not waste time on him. We don't know when the escape and killing will begin. Figuring out the rules comes first.” 15

“Do you still remember that I'm a support who needs protecting?” 24