Reginald Down

Reginald Down (レジナルド・ダウン) was a character from from the "Arifureta Shokugyō de Sekai Saikyō After Story" series.

He was a university professor in Britain, who would later help orchestrate a plot o poison the world's population with a deadly drug as a way to achieve fame and recognition.

Appearance
Reginald is a middled-aged man in hiss 50s with a slightly overweight build. He has short black hair that had white hair mixed among it.

He wears thick glasses, and he carried a tobacco pipe.

Personality
At first glance, appears as a kind and supportive man towards his students. He does all that he can to help advance their goals and takes pride in their accomplishments.

It truth, he carries a deep-seated resentment at being considered mediocre among the rest of academia and wishes to make a name for himself in the world. Whether that be a hero to the public, or even as an instigator of a great disaster, he will use any underhanded means to achieve his goals.

Biography
Reginald Down was a biochemistry professor at Percival University in Britain. Throughout his career, he would teach many student who eventually had successfully careers.

When a young prodigy named Emily Grant was given early acceptance in to Percival University, Dr. Down offered to let her live at his house as a homestay due to her family living far away from school. During her time at school, the two of them, as well as the other students in her program worked on a drug in the hopes of curing Alzheimer's disease. What they created, however, was a drug that could induce massive cellular regeneration and increase someone's strength, but would later kill them. This drug, nicknamed Berserk, was deemed too dangerous and was locked away for safe keeping. Dr. Down, however, stole a sample of the drug and presented it to Kaysis Wentworks of Gamma Pharmaceuticals. They conspired together on a plan to mass-produce the drug and have the entire world consume it through their drinking water, while also working on a secondary drug that would temporarily mitigate berserk's symptoms, his postponing its deadly side-effects.

When it was discovered on the news that Berserk had been leaked and had killed someone, Dr. Down and his students contacted the authorities for help. Unfortunately, the police attempted to blackmail them by having them hand over the data of their drug, or face criminal charges. They then turned to Britain's National Security Bureau for help, but some of it's agents were also planning to steal the drug, when ended up being leaked throughout the chill and killing many people.

When Kaysis' plan was thwarted, Dr. Down was contorted by Emily at one of Gamma Pharmaceuticals' drug production facilities. She chased after him with the aid of agent Vanessa Paradis and eventually caught up to him. After learning of his desire to make his mark in history and the steps he was willing to achieve it, a distraught Emily attempted to shot him, but was intercepted by Kousuke Endou by slicing the bullet in half. Realizing that he failed, Dr. Down killed himself by igniting a boy in his stomach that contained Berserk drug capsules. His remains landed in a giant vat that lead towards a nearby water supply facility that would soon be contaminated by the drug hi ignited. In the end, his final act was in vain as the entire water facility was instantly destroyed thanks to Hajime Nagumo unleashing his satellite weapon "Hyperion".

Relationships

 * Emily Grant - When Emily was first accepted into university, she greatly respects Dr. Down for all the support he has given his. After learning he stole her drug and attempted to use is to poison the people of the world, her feelings towards him became greatly conflicted. She could never forgive him for all the lives he helped destroy, and even went so far as to attempt to kill him before being stopped by Kousuke, but she still feels a sense of gratitude towards him for acting as her mentor.