Gashu Satou

ガシュー, *Gashū*?

* Current
* Past Episode (Kai)
* Past Episode Older (Kai)

### Cause of death

Shot himself in the head as punishment for his transgression against the Main Game.

**Gashu** (ガシュー, *Gashu*?) is one of the "dolls" in the Death Game. He is the "Receptionist Doll" on the third floor and the host of the 2nd Main Game.

## Appearance

Gashu is an older man with short brown hair, thick eyebrows and black round eyes, with a mustache that has 4 points, resembling a crab.

Gashu's outfit, like those of Tia Safalin and Sue Miley, is sweets-themed - specifically tiramisu. Gashu wears a brown blazer jacket and matching pants over a brown and tan striped turtleneck shirt. Two of the tan stripes have a row of yellow circles. In his left breast jacket pocket is a plant stem of some kind and a button pinned on his right. The pin has the hiragana letter 'ぽ, *po*?' on it.

Being a floor master for the Death Game, He wears a Collar as do all participants, Dummies, and Floor Masters.

In Kai's Past Episode, Gashu wore a dark grey suit with a green dress shirt and red tie, Gashu's hair was also much longer and curly, and had no mustache, Later on in the episode Gashu has much shorter hair, much like his current appearance.

## Personality

Prior to Ranger's death, Gashu put up a façade of emotionlessness. His true personality proved to be one of eccentricity and single-minded devotion to the Death Game. Although he acted politely to the participants (on occasion playing along with Gin's nicknames), he did not hesitate to kill himself to ensure the Death Game's smooth progression.

## History

### Death Game

Originally, Gashu is introduced as the manager of the gift shop opened in Chapter 2, Part One, being known as the Receptionist Doll. It's only shown this isn't true after the 11th attraction concludes, and either Reko Yabusame or Alice Yabusame is killed. After either of the two dies, Gashu shoots Rio Ranger and later kicks his head off to kill him.

Gashu reveals the trading system soon afterward, and that all of the cards for the main game have been assigned via the tablets. He'll later appear multiple times throughout the course of the waiting time, whether idly standing around and watching or crushing the participants' hopes after their escape route was revealed to have been compromised long ago.

During the second main game, it was revealed that Gashu had messed with the trading system. Trading Kanna Kizuchi's Sacrifice card, which she tried to trade with Sara to save her, to the last surviving non-candidate: Nao Egokoro. Although the main game was almost given a twenty-four-hour extension via the rules, Gashu takes it into his hands to make it continue by shooting himself and allowing Tia Safalin to take control of the remaining time. As a result of his actions, the final vote takes place allowing the candidates to vote for Kanna, Nao, or Sou Hiyori. Depending on the votes, Kanna is executed with flower seeds injected into her blood, Nao is crushed to death or otherwise escapes with Sara Chidouin if voted for by her, or lastly Sou is killed in the midst of his escape attempt.

## Relationships

### Unnamed Woman

During Kai's Past Episode, Gashu is seen talking with a strange woman talking about the fate of Sei and Kai as assassins. It's revealed here what Gashu was training the two to form a group of powerful people in the underworld. The woman described herself and ASU-NARO as God and manipulated Gashu into forcing him to put Sei and Kai in the assassin trial, in which a group of assassins would be put on an island and are forced to kill each other until one out survives the rest.

This event broke Gashu's spirit and made him how he was during the Death Game.

### Kai Satou

It is revealed at the end of Chapter 2, Part One that Gashu is supposedly Kai's father. The two are not on perfect terms with Gashu being infuriated by Kai not wanting Sara to participate in the Death Game. He is also shown to lack any sympathy as he is void of emotion when Kai is brought up in a topic. However, it can be inferred that Gashu missed having a son and created the Dress-up Doll, Rio Ranger, to be his replacement.

### Rio Ranger

As Gashu and Safalin were creating Ranger, Safalin had her job of putting the good emotions, but Gashu stopped her. He wanted to do this because he claimed that it was negative emotions and imperfections that could make a human. As a result, all of his positive emotions were abandoned.

In Chapter 2, Part Two, Gashu shoots Ranger in the head, saying that the excessive jealousy inserted to him and the hate to the participants made him a "monster" and Ranger was a failure to the plan.

### Tia Safalin

Gashu and Safalin worked together to create Ranger though he seemed to be the one fully in charge of the project. They seem to differ on some opinions about both Ranger and the participants of the game.

## Appellations

* Game participants
* Organization members

 Miley | • Gashu

## Trivia

* Nankidai wanted to design a good-looking middle-aged man, so he decided to model Gashu off of Salvador Dali, the first person that came to his mind.

## References

1. ↑ Nankidai (July 14, 2019). 生放送ご来場ありがとうございました！7/14 (Japanese) (Video). Pixiv Fanbox. (~2:12:36)
2. ↑ @nannkizum (Sep 3, 2019). ちなみにガシューのモデルは画家のダリ！ (Japanese) (Tweet). Twitter. Retrieved on December 29, 2019.
3. ↑ 第５回限定ライブ配信を行いました！ (Japanese) (Livestream video). Pixiv Fanbox (December 28, 2019). Retrieved on December 28, 2019.