Momota Tarou

**Momota Tarou** is a captain of the Japan Self-Defense Forces and a platoon leader of JGSDF Special Topa Kingdom Deployment Advance Platoon.

## Appearance

In the manga version, Momota Tarou is depicted as a young-looking man with hair split and parted in a center part.

## 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.

Platoon Leader Momota Tarou explained the details of this mission named Operation Momotarou with Squad Leader Kijima Hitoshi, 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. Momota 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.

In Castle Tormeus, Momota and his Japanese soldiers attended with Moah and knights in the meeting room and met Commander Aziz of the Topa Kingdom Demon Lord subjugation squad. Introductions were exchanged. After everyone sat down at the table, they confirmed the state of affairs.

* *The Demon Lord’s army of about 20,000 strong suddenly invaded the Topa Kingdom from Grameus, breaking through the Doors of the World and completely wiping out the standing army there.*
* *After that, the Demon Lord’s army invaded a district on the north side of Castle Town Tormeus called Minaisa.*
* *At this time, reinforcements from the Topan army reached Tormeus, and they engaged the enemy forces to prevent them from invading further.*
* *The Demon Lord took up residence in a local lord’s mansion and never left it.*
* *There were still about 600 residents in Minaisa who were unable to evacuate. Once a day, they’re gathered in the town square, and several are taken away to be eaten by the Demon Lord or other demons. Of the initial 600 who couldn’t run away, there were only 200 left.*
* *The Demon Lord’s army has lost about 3,000 goblins and 10 orcs, while the kingdom has lost about 2,000 knights.*
* *They’ve tried to launch rescue missions for the hostages 3 times, but every time either the Red Ogre or the Blue Ogre were keeping watch in the town square, so they’ve had to retreat each time with heavy losses. Because their only routes to Minaisa were side streets, many knights were dying each time. They were deadlocked.*
* *Because hostages were being eaten each day, they needed to save them as soon as possible.*

After hearing the explanation, Momota understood the urgency for rescuing the hostages. He knew that the civilians needed to be rescued as soon as possible, and that waiting for the main Japanese forces to arrive would subject Topa and its people to needless suffering and damage. As the platoon leader, he decided to exercise his authority and made the call to exterminate the ogres.

The preliminary meeting disbanded. As soon as everyone stood up from their seats, Demon Lord’s aide, Malastras flew in from the window. The four Japanese soldiers’ rifles were emitting fire from one end, and superfast bullets of light were assaulting Malastras, which crumpled to the ground into stone pieces. Topan knights and leaders thanks him for saving them by killing Malastras. After a strategy meeting, he and his JGSDF soldiers departed from the castle gate and made for the Minaisa district of Tormeus in next two days.

In the battle, Momota nodded in satisfaction that they were able to successfully rescue everyone in the northern Minaisa district of Tormeus after JSDF Squad Leader Kijima Hitoshi killed the Blue Ogre bursting into pieces with the Carl Gustaf.

In next morning, Momota woke up and received a report from his subordinates. The Demon Lord Nosgorath had appeared, alone, on the main street between Minaisa’s town square and the castle gate. Apparently, it was completely enraged. Momota immediately ordered his men to prepare for combat. He could hear the sounds of knights shouting rallying cries and horses galloping. Apparently, 200 Topan knights just went on the attack.

While the special task force was engaging the Demon Lord, the JGSDF Special Topa Kingdom Deployment Advance Platoon was also preparing for battle. The heavy door was lifted, and Momota was greeted by a five-story-high rock monster coming straight towards him. They would lead with the Type 10 battle tank to face the Demon Lord and Ancient Kaiser Golem.

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. Momota was shocked by yelling in surprise that the Demon Lord’s head was immortal and heard his final dying words before turning to stone and crumbling into dust.

After all, he said with an indescribable expression that he wanted to keep it by chance on the unit table that made him feel an unintended intention.

### Ne World War Arc

Later in the Battle of the Balloon Plain, he was deployed as part of the JGSDF Mu Regiment who was tasked to destroy the Gra Valkas Empire that is now invading Mu, but got to Magicaraich Community first to took part in 'another pest control mission'. But this time, he's acting as a Supervisor for a new Captain assigned to take his place, Captain Taro Kenji.

## Trivia

* His name came from the Japanese folk tale Momotarou who destroyed the demons in the island Onigashima accompanied by a dog, a pheasant and a monkey.
* In the manga version, with an indescribable expression on his face, Momota Tarou would like to put it away as a coincidence, at a troop table that, as one would expect, gives the impression of an extra-purposeful intention.