Shimada

**Shimada** is a Japanese diplomat and a member of Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is well known for negotiating with the Fenn Kingdom.

## Appearance

In the manga version, Shimada is a middle-aged man with slightly skinny all-back hair, and as usual, he wears a high percentage of glasses. He wears a suit with a necktie as a typical Japanese office attire.

## Chronology

### Japanese-Parpaldian War Arc

Shimada and his representatives from Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs visited to the Fenn Kingdom to establish diplomatic relations with the Sword King. He was impressed to see the Fenn country was harsh and had a strict atmosphere where they ruled by samurai. He almost mistook this place as Japan’s historic period drama setting which it was a living example of true bushido, a philosophy that had been long forgotten in Japan.

He met Sword King Shihan and gave him these gifts along with their greetings which they are goods made in Japan including katanas, kimonos, pearl necklaces, a folding fan, and athletic shoes. The Sword King grabbed a katana and pulled it from its sheath. He was impressed with a good sword that Japan made.

The Sword King had already asked Shimada in advance about the terms presented by Japan that the details in the document were all correct what he explained. However, Japan being transported here, their iron ships that float in the ocean which their naval forces called the "Maritime Self-Defense Force". Their stories are very hard to believe. He wanted to see their navy’s power with his own eyes.

Although he was dispatched to the Fenn Kingdom, he was disappointed when he was asked to participate in and demonstrate the Japan Self-Defense Force for the Military Festival in order to show the Japan power.

After twenty Parpaldian wyvern lord knights, who invaded the airspace over the capital Amanoki, were defeated by JMSDF destroyer and Coast Guard patrol ship, Shimada was somewhat at a loss after observing the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and Japan Coast Guard suppress the squadron of unknown origin that showed up to attack the Fenn Kingdom. They had somehow got involved in an international dispute which it seemed that Japan was horribly unlucky. There were also many enemy units; if the JSDF hadn’t intervened, it would have been difficult to drive them all off, and Shimada himself, who had been near the palace, would have been in serious danger. Shimada cursed his own luck and made full reports to the Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

That evening, although there had already been an existing conference scheduled with Fenn, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs contacted Fenn’s department of diplomacy with some urgency to set up an emergency meeting. Shimada and his official group waited in a guest room. After a short time, Knight-Captain Maglev came to greet them and lauded them solemnly with his head bowed low. Before they open diplomatic talks, Shimada would like to discuss with Maglev more pressing matters that Fenn Kingdom country was currently in a state of war with the Parpaldia Empire. This unfortunately changed the situation; Japan government did not have the authority to pursue diplomatic relations with countries at war. Shimada thought it would be best for them to return to Japan in light of Maglev's situation. The officials all wanted to leave Fenn as soon as possible; each second they stayed brought the enemy fleet from the west closer.

Maglev understood clearly for waiting their reply with eagerness; however, he told Shimada a story. The invading forces that the troops cleaned up weren’t simply from the Third Civilization; they belonged to a superpower, the Parpaldia Empire. They demanded to be gifted a piece of land from Fenn Kingdom, and Fenn government refused. He explained him that the Parpaldia Empire punished to other countries with their military in the past. They ambushed their dragon riders and massacred them. They then invaded and conquered that country. Anyone who defied Parpaldia Empire was executed; everyone else was enslaved and sold off to other countries. The entire royal family, including anyone who had royal blood, was skewered and left to rot in front of the royal castle. He warned him that the Parpaldia Empire was not only strong, but also arrogant and proud. Maglev hoped Shimada to keep this in his mind. After being sent off with that horror story, Shimada made their way out of the royal castle and headed for the harbor.

He walked heading to the Coast Guard patrol ship *Inasa* anchoring at the harbor and met the captain. He told them the engine didn’t work after hitting by a fire blast from wyvern lords.  He asked the captain to call JSDF towing the patrol ship away, but the captain couldn’t do it because the harbor was too shallow and it couldn’t lift the anchor. He asked him another question what if the JSDF sent a boat to pick us up and we just left the patrol ship here. The captain replied him it depends on the New World Technology Outflow Prevention Law. Then, his thought made another way to sink it, but the captain wouldn’t allow it where they docked at a port in the capital of another country. They continued bickering over ideas, but, in the end, the *Inasa* still couldn’t move. Shimada lacked the authority to come to a decision.