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Overview

Jiuyuan (also known as "Miss Jiuyuan") is an S-Class Anima Esper in Neverness to Everness. She is a skilled driver who stays cool under pressure while transporting Espers and handling urgent anomaly deliveries across Hethereau. Jiuyuan is affiliated with the transportation side of the city's operations and is believed to be a courier or manager at Sterry Express. She wears a distinctive large floppy hat and is closely tied to the game's vehicle and driving mechanics, giving players rides during missions and adding a unique flair to open-world exploration.

Jiuyuan wields twin pistols in combat, delivering rapid-fire shots that deal Anima damage at range. Her dual-wielding style allows her to maintain distance from enemies while keeping up consistent damage pressure. The twin pistols complement her composed personality; she fights with precision and efficiency rather than brute force.

Within Sterry Express, Jiuyuan is an Elite Courier and Acting Manager who operates under the codename Nightingale. She is a former top agent for the Bureau of Anomaly Control's ETD, and left after a defining incident to join the delivery service. As Hathor's mentor, Jiuyuan taught her everything she knows about combat and Esper abilities, making the two of them the most experienced operators in the courier crew.

Character Profile

Appearance

Jiuyuan's most recognizable feature is her large floppy hat, which has become her signature visual element. She has a glamorous, distinctive design that stands out even among the game's colorful roster. Her overall look conveys a blend of elegance and practicality that fits her role as someone who works behind the wheel but carries herself with style.

Personality

Jiuyuan is defined by her composure. She stays cool under pressure, a trait that serves her well both as a transporter navigating Hethereau's chaotic streets and as a combatant facing anomalies. Developer interviews have confirmed her dual role as someone who transports people and cargo under dangerous conditions while also being a capable fighter in her own right.

She carries a philosophical outlook, captured in her belief that greed will sink you "deeper into the mire." This perspective suggests a character who values restraint and clear-headedness over ambition, which aligns with her calm demeanor on the road and in combat.

Role in Hethereau

Jiuyuan operates as a transporter across Hethereau, handling deliveries that are too dangerous or urgent for ordinary couriers. Her work puts her in contact with Espers who need to move quickly between anomaly sites, making her a critical support figure in the city's response to supernatural incidents.

Players can hitch a ride with Miss Jiuyuan during certain missions and experience her driving skills firsthand. These sequences show her exceptional vehicle handling, weaving through Hethereau's traffic, weather conditions, and anomaly-distorted zones with the same unflappable calm that defines her personality. Her involvement with the game's driving mechanics makes her one of the more unique characters in the roster, bridging the gap between combat gameplay and the vehicle systems.

Combat

Jiuyuan functions as a hybrid DPS and healer, making her one of the more versatile S-Class characters. She offers ranged grouping abilities that pull enemies together, combined with self-healing that lets her sustain independently in extended fights. This self-sufficiency makes her effective across a wide range of content without depending heavily on team composition.

Her balanced stat distribution between damage and healing means she can function independently and stay strong in many scenarios. She does not specialize as hard as a dedicated DPS or a pure healer, but her flexibility compensates by fitting into almost any team.

Esper Cycle Reactions

As an Anima element character, Jiuyuan slots into the Esper Cycle through two key elemental pairings:

Pairing Jiuyuan with Cosmos characters like Hotori, Chiz, or the protagonist (Zero) triggers Blossom for additional area damage. Alternatively, pairing her with Incantation characters like Baicang or Adler triggers Hexed for amplified damage scaling.

What makes Jiuyuan truly exceptional is her role compression. She is one of the rare characters in the game who combines DPS and healing in a single kit. While most characters specialize in one role, Jiuyuan's twin pistol attacks deal solid damage while simultaneously generating healing for the team. This means teams with Jiuyuan can skip bringing a dedicated healer, freeing up a roster slot for an additional damage dealer or support character.

The role compression mechanic works through her Anima element abilities. Her attacks apply Anima energy to enemies, and a portion of the damage dealt is converted into healing for the active party. The healing scales with Jiuyuan's damage output, so building her for offense also improves her healing throughput. This creates a virtuous cycle where investing in Jiuyuan's damage stats yields returns in both damage and survivability.

Lethal Rose Pact and Pact Settlement

Jiuyuan's twin-pistol kit revolves around a build-and-detonate loop instead of raw sustain. Her standard combo deals Anima damage and generates Rose Pact Bullets, and the final hit of When Secrets Take Shape binds the target with a Lethal Rose Pact. Bound targets accumulate damage attribution from every subsequent hit Jiuyuan lands on them, including her hold-fire Info-Guided Arts shots which prioritize already-bound enemies for continuous fire.

Final Reckoning is the payoff. The Ultimate executes a Pact Settlement on every Lethal Rose Pact target inside its area, all of them resolving on the same final hit so the damage is delivered as one large simultaneous burst. Skill: Intel Hunter is the supporting tool that pulls scattered enemies into the binding range and grants 4 extra Rose Pact Bullets, letting Jiuyuan refresh pacts mid-fight without dropping pressure on the active target.

The loop is what makes her a viable hybrid role. Pact Settlement damage scales off accumulated bullet hits, and at A2 every Settlement returns 5% of the total Rose Pact damage as team healing. Stacking Settlement triggers therefore directly fuels both her offensive contribution and the team's sustain in the same rotation.

Team Building

Jiuyuan's hybrid nature makes her a flexible pick in team building. Teams that lack a dedicated healer can rely on Jiuyuan's self-sustain, while teams that need ranged grouping benefit from her ability to cluster enemies for area damage. She pairs especially well with:

Jiuyuan's role compression as a DPS/healer hybrid is her greatest team building strength. Teams that include Jiuyuan effectively gain an extra slot's worth of value, since she covers two roles that would normally require separate characters. This makes her particularly valuable in content with strict team size limits, where every slot counts.

She pairs naturally with her fellow Sterry Express members. Hathor's energy battery role helps Jiuyuan cycle through her abilities faster, while Haniel's team buffs amplify both Jiuyuan's damage and her healing output. A full Sterry Express team (Jiuyuan, Hathor, Haniel) provides excellent element coverage across Anima, Lakshana, and Psyche.

Gacha Availability

Jiuyuan is available in the permanent pool on the Scarborough Fair standard banner, alongside other standard S-Class characters like Daffodil, Lacrimosa, Baicang, and Hathor. She can be obtained through Fabricated Dice pulls on the standard banner. An S-Rank Selector is available after 50 standard banner pulls, allowing players to choose Jiuyuan directly.

Trivia

• Jiuyuan's large floppy hat has become one of her most recognizable features in the community, often referenced in fan art and character discussions.

• Her name is sometimes romanized as "Jiayuan" in early English-language coverage, though "Jiuyuan" is the official spelling.

• She was difficult to obtain during beta testing, which limited the amount of detailed gameplay information available before launch.

• Her philosophical quote about greed sinking people "deeper into the mire" hints at a backstory involving temptation or moral choices.

Patch History

The May 1, 2026 hotfix included a targeted Jiuyuan bug fix. Players had reported that Basic Attack: Info-Guided Arts (the hold-fire auto-target Rose Pact Bullet consumer) could not be triggered in certain scenes, breaking part of her sustained ranged rotation. The hotfix corrected the trigger condition so Info-Guided Arts fires reliably across all combat environments. The maintenance window ran 10:00 to 14:00 UTC+8 on May 1.

Launch-Window Selector Note

With the Mainland China open beta live as of April 23, 2026, Jiuyuan has settled as the most universally recommended pick from the free S-Rank Selector that unlocks after 50 standard-banner rolls without an S-Class drop. The selector covers the six permanent S-Class starters on the standard board (Jiuyuan, Baicang, Daffodil, Fadia, Hathor, and Sakiri), and Jiuyuan's role compression across damage and healing is why she tops the priority list for new accounts. Players who plan to pull Nanally on the launch banner can still take Jiuyuan from the selector without duplicating Nanally's role, because Jiuyuan's sustain and ranged grouping complement Nanally's on-field melee output rather than overlapping with it.

Launch-Window Role Profile

In the first-clear content of version 1.0 (boss fights, anomaly commissions, and Pink Paws Heist co-op) Jiuyuan's main selling point is role compression rather than peak single-target damage. Her ranged twin-pistol rotation applies consistent Anima pressure while pulling enemy clusters into a grouping, and her Blossom reaction with Cosmos teammates like Hotori, Chiz, or the protagonist Esper Zero spawns area-of-effect peashooters that keep background damage on every pulled target. Combined with her self-healing, the net effect is that a team with Jiuyuan does not need a dedicated healer slot and often does not need a dedicated crowd-control slot either, which is why CN and community coverage have settled on her as the most universally useful permanent-pool pick for new accounts at launch.

Base Stats Reference

Quick numerical reference compiled from the in-game character profile. Stats listed at character Level 1 represent the base values before Awakening, Console Modules, Cartridges, or Arc weapons modify them.

Level 1 Base Stats

Jiuyuan's starting numerical baseline before progression systems begin layering bonuses on top.

Slot and Progression Counts

Each character is built from a fixed grid of skills, console-side passives, and progression tiers. The counts below describe the maximum slots ever exposed for this Esper, regardless of which ones are unlocked at any given Awakening rank.

Voice Actors

Jiuyuan is voiced across the three primary localizations supported on launch.

Skills Overview

These are the in-game skill names for this character. Skill effects are described elsewhere in the article.

Skill Details

Each skill block lists the in-game slot it occupies, the official skill name, and the short description shown on the character menu, followed by the named sub-actions of that skill. Sub-action descriptions are quoted from the in-game tooltip text.

Normal Attack: When Secrets Take Shape

Deals Anima DMG.

Skill: Intel Hunter

Gathers targets, deals damage, grants 4 Rose Pact Bullets, and establishes a Lethal Rose Pact.

Ultimate: Final Reckoning

Deals large-scale Anima DMG and causes all targets within range bound by Lethal Rose Pact to undergo Pact Settlement.

Chain Skill: Intel Lock-On

Deals 1 instance of Anima DMG and grants 2 Rose Pact Bullets.

Passive: Seize the Moment

Blossom Enhancement: Spawns 1 additional Vita Bud and increases Vita Bud limit on field to 6.

Passive: Whispers at My Command

Binds targets not affected by Lethal Rose Pact when Vita Pistils hit them. Triggers an additional settlement on targets already bound, causing them to take an extra 15% × Anima DMG.

Compatible Arcs

Jiuyuan has 11 Arcs flagged as a thematic match by the in-game character recommendation panel. Refinement effects below are quoted from each Arc's tooltip and do not represent a tier ranking.

Ascension Materials

Ascension lifts Jiuyuan's level cap one step at a time. Each phase requires the listed Coins (the world currency) plus a fixed list of materials. World Level shown is the minimum required to access the breakthrough.

Stat Curve

Jiuyuan's base HP, ATK, and DEF at key level milestones. These numbers are the raw character base values before Awakening, Console Modules, Cartridges, or Arc bonuses modify them.

Awakenings

Awakenings unlock through duplicate copies of the character. Each tier from A1 to A6 grants a named upgrade.

Resonance Effects

Resonance bonuses unlock at specific Awakening milestones, not from additional duplicates. R1 activates when the character reaches A3, and R2 activates at A6. Both stack on top of the named Awakening node effects.

Console Passive

Each character has a Console passive that activates when the matching Module type is equipped on their Console grid. This is a flat passive that scales linearly with the count of matching Modules and is the strongest reason to commit to a single Module type when building this Esper.

Type II Specialization: Increases CRIT Rate by 6% for each Type II Module equipped.

Life Skills

Life Skills are out-of-combat benefits that activate while the character is assigned to the relevant non-combat activity (Eibon Antique Shop owner duty, Sea Angler trips, City Tycoon shifts, and similar passive systems). Each level unlocks an additional or stronger benefit and stacks with the previous levels.

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