Tao/History

Background
Not much is known about Tao's past, because he had few appearances during the series.

Drama Club arc
During the events of the school play, Tao was assigned a minor antagonistic role as part of a trio of bandits battling the protagonist.

Meteor Festival arc
Tao attended the planning meeting for the Meteor Festival along with Aoba, Bill and Legoshi. Then Tao spends the day with the group and later they get lost. Tao and the group end up in front of the Black Market, where they are tempted to buy and eat the finger of an herbivore old man with Legoshi being the only one who opposes. Even so, Tao does not eat from the old man's finger.

Murder Incident Solution arc
Tao is one of the suspects carnivores, of whom Legoshi suspects for Tem's murder.

During some of the common activities of the drama club, Tao helps Kibi with his stretches, but when he does not measure his strength, he ends up ripping off his arm. In that terrible situation, Tao is scared and upset and tells the other members of the club that it was an accident, causing a scandal. Tao is stopped by Bill and he and Aoba take Tao outside to calm him down. After Kibi is taken to the infirmary, Tao terrified of the consequences that the incident may bring and to be accused as Tem's possible killer. He is reassured by Bill and Aoba.

After Kibi's arm was reimplanted, Tao, who got a two-week suspension, visits him. But being so sorry for what happened he does not dare to approach Kibi. Kibi tells Tao to come closer. Tao apologizes and asks Kibi how to compensate him. Kibi asks him to touch his hand to which Tao refuses, declaring that he would never touch an herbivore again. Kibi demands it saying that he does not want to spend the rest of his life being afraid of carnivores. Tao touches his hand, and Kibi grabs Tao's hand showing that his arm is able to move, which makes Tao happy. Kibi acknowledges that Tao also suffered from the incident and thanks him for his visit. Tao communicates to the other members of the club that the recovery of Kibi.

Revenge of the Love Failure arc
While Legoshi was taking refuge in Cherryton Academy, he sees that the club members are studying in order to get high scores. Tao and Kibi are shown to have become good friends.