Kijima Hitoshi

**Kijima Hitoshi** is a warrant officer of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Forces. He is selected as the squad leader of the JGSDF Special Topa Kingdom Deployment Advance Platoon.

## Appearance

In the manga version, Kijima Hitoshi is depicted as a young man with long bangs and sharp eyes.

## Chronology

### Operation Momotarou

When the Demon Lord began invading the Topa Kingdom with over a thousand goblins and those two ogres, Topa Kingdom needed to ask Japan for reinforcements.

Squad Leader Kijima Hitoshi listened Momota’s explanation the details of this mission named Operation Momotarou with Squad Leader Saruwatari Manabu and Inugami Tsuyoshi and several soldiers about the Demon Lord and his demon’s army. Everyone was reading the mission handout while listening to the explanation. The summary was as follows:

* *The target known as the “Demon Lord” is intelligent, able to command other demons, and aims to inflict harm on all mankind. In addition, it primarily eats people.*
* *The Demon Lord has no natural lifespan; it does not age.*
* *The Demon Lord was apparently created by the Ancient Sorcerous Empire, an old civilization. It was probably the subject of genetic manipulation.*
* *The targets Red Ogre and Blue Ogre are purportedly quite powerful as well.*
* *Orcs are 2.5m-tall giants with low intelligence.*
* *Goblins are physically weaker than humans but much more savage, and they are numerous.*
* *The Topan knight order is currently holding off the Demon Lord’s army at the castle town of Tormeus.*
* *The objective of the mission is to exterminate the Demon Lord, the Red Ogre, and the Blue Ogre. Any other demons can be ignored.*

Inugami Tsuyoshi actually dared to say it out loud that they were like a party of heroes going to slay the Demon Lord. Everyone laughed. Platoon Leader Momota Tarou raised his hand and the laughter ended. The Japan Ground Self Defense Force Special Topa Kingdom Deployment Advance Platoon went to the Topa Kingdom in three day with 5 high-mobility vehicles, 1 Type 96 Armored Personnel Carrier, 1 Mitsubishi Type 89 IFV and 1 Type 10 battle tank.

When the Demon Lord’s invasion were gathered in the town square in Tormeus, The Blue Ogre gathered forty orcs and started to attack the knights and people before they reached the castle gate. JGSDF were lining up in the back, and they took aim at the Blue Ogre within the group of orcs. There were only about fifteen of them. SDF soldiers had formed a horizontal line and pointed their Type-89 assault rifles at the demons. A rain of light bullets converged on the orcs. All those strong, hardy demons instantly collapsed. The attacks continued. The orcs were mostly all killed, but the soldiers kept shooting their bullets of light at one last demon that continued charging at them. Their attacks had absolutely no effect on the Blue Ogre. JSDF Squad Leader Kijima Hitoshi was carrying a Carl Gustaf on his back. He took it out and aimed the tube at the Blue Ogre. He fired 84-mm round out of the tube and hit Blue Ogre, bursting abruptly into pieces. Momota nodded in satisfaction that they were able to successfully rescue everyone in the northern Minaisa district of Tormeus.

When the shell hit the Demon Lord Nosgorath by the Type 10 battle tank, blowing its body into pieces, the voice from the Demon Lord’s head echoed cursing them. It was loud enough for everyone in the area to hear. Kijima was shocked when Momota yelled in surprise that the Demon Lord’s head was immortal and heard his final dying words before turning to stone and crumbling into dust.

## Trivia

* His name is **Shirotori Nishi** in the light novel and manga.
* In the manga version, Kijima Hitoshi is in an unusual posture because he fired a Carl Gustaf from the roof against the Blue Ogre.