Hashimoto

**Hashimoto** is an officer of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force 1st Airborne Brigade.

## Appearance

In the manga version, Hashimoto is depicted as a young man, wearing a camouflage combat bulletproof vest, Type 88 helmet, and safety glasses.

## Chronology

### Rodenius War Arc

When the 1st Airborne Brigade (JGSDF) and the Special Assault Team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police arrived to arrest the king in the air assault operations on the night, they was rushed to the royal castle after destroying the Royal Guards.

After clearing their hindrances, Hashimoto of the 1st Airborne Brigade headed the force that will take the king and ran for the 4th floor where their target should be in the emergency antechamber in the royal hall. According to their intel, upon opening the doors at the heart of the audience hall, lying in wait was a massive hallway at the end of which was the king’s antechamber. The Lourian soldiers which had appeared up to that point didn’t pose much of a threat and they were able to readily clear them. They considered the possibility of fighting a soldier who used magic but they never saw one. Maybe they didn’t have the space needed or that magic was banned on castle grounds.

Hashimoto returned his senses to the doors in front of him. With his rifle at the ready, he gave the signal to his comrades and the doors were opened. Right in front of their muzzles were first maid and second maid shaking in fear. Their faces were painted in sorrowful expression as they wet the floor in shock at their forceful opening of the doors. He saw Royal Guards Commander Rand appearing front the two maids standing within the dim torch light faintly shined on the darkness of the royal hall. Showing no indication of yielding to Hashimoto’s order, Rand sheathed his sword back into his scabbard. The maids stood trembling.

Nakano, mission commander from the 1st Airborne Brigade, stepped forward in front of Hashimoto. Rand tried to earn time for reinforcements to arrive by faking a surrender, but Nakano didn’t allow him to buy some time. Nakano put him down on the floor and yelled twelve men of the 1st Royal Guards who hid behind the pillars to surrender. They swiftly followed Hashimoto’s orders, threw away their weapons, and lay flat on the ground. Nakano asked Rand that King Hark Louria XXXIV was behind the door, however the 0th Royal Guards commenced to attack them by opening the hidden wall door with filled smoke.

When Rand helplessly witnessed his ambush troops were killed so easily by the JSDF, he tried to engage Nakano to close combat. Rand used smoke magic and tried to cut him with a hidden arm-mounted sword but managed to counter using a combat knife. In one swift strike, Nakano struck Rand on the neck. The knife hit his armor, scraping its surface. Rand stepped back in astonishment at Nakano’s handling. However, his wound was fatal. By the time he tried to swing his sword once more, the magic steel staff wielded by Hashimoto breathed out fire, and he fell where he stood.

After that, the rest of the Guards were also defeated by strafing, Nakano and other soldiers rushing into the king's throne room. They poured into the king’s antechamber to face King Hark Louria who was stunned in fear and terrifyingly asked whether the Japanese were the Ancient Sorcerous Empire in disguise only for the JSDF to rectify him behind as they captured him, but Aoki didn’t know about the existence of this Ancient Sorcerous Empire. Aoki defined him under arrest for ordering the massacre of Gim in the Qua-Toyne Principality.

King Hark Louria XXXIV was led away in handcuffs by them who succeeded in the operation to capture him.

## Trivia

* Hashimoto only appears as a character in the light novel and manga, not the web novel.