Koutaro Hattori

Koutaro Fukube (部) is a character from Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou After Story.

He is a member of the Returnee Response Division and acts as the liaison between the Japanese Government and the students that were summoned to Tortus (primarily with Hajime Nagumo) and tries to handle any incidents involving the returnees so that Hajime won't have to.

Appearance
Koutaro is a middle-aged man with no distinguishable traits.

Personality
Koutaro appears to be good-natured and lax at first glance, but he is very sharp to the point that Hajime and the others know not to underestimate him.

Koutaro's job has caused him to become stressed to the point that he has to frequently take stomach medication to help calm down.

Biography
When Hajime Nagumo's wife Liliana S. B. Heiligh was targeted by various foreign government black ops units due to her aid network's rising popularity, Koutaro attempted to intercept them before Hajime would have to get involved. Unfortunately, they had advanced to the point where Hajime noticed their presence near his mother's work studio and decided to neutralize them with the leader of his newly founded Fleur Knights Heliotrope. Koutaro later met up with Hajime to apologize for his failure to stop this incident before Hajime's intervention and offered to temporarily relocate Hajime's family to a government-owned cabin in the woods until this matter was settled. Hajime accepted Koutaro's offer and decided to use this chance as a family vacation and to ensure to no bystanders would get involved for when he and the foreign agents would confront each other. Koutaro and his subordinates kept surveillance at the Nagumo family's safe house until all of the foreign agents were killed off by members of the Fleur Knights.

Relationships

 * Hajime Nagumo - Koutaro has been in contact with Hajime for over a year as part of his job, which is impressive by most standards since his predecessors could not even handle his job for three months. He is extremely scared of Hajime and always takes stomach medication at even the slightest gesture that is made by the demon king. Hajime feels bad that he has inadvertently caused Koutaro to feel so much stress, but views him as a highly competent public servant.