Schmelman Bach

Shumerman Bach (シュメルマン=バッハ Shumeruman Bahha) is a character and one of the main antagonists introduced in Plunderer. He is the Führer of the Althea Marshal Force, the Special Service.

Past Event
In Shumerman's childhood, due to his father's divorced, his mother hates him so much. His mother always got herself drunk and beat him for having the same eyes as his father. Shumerman, for not got himself on trouble, he try to closes his eyes so that his mother won't beat him. Then, eventually she grabs a knife to gouge them out, managing to get one. At that time, Shumerman's gene awaken which caused him killed his mother by accidentally. After that incident, Shumerman was sent to the orphanage.

As Shumerman grew older, he become a soldier and married a women. His dream was to have a lovely family and reading a storybook to his child. One day, when Shumerman returns home, he discovers that his wife commited suicide and saw a brunch of papers that written sorry to him, as she can't be pregnant and raise a child for him. Although it's revealed that Shumerman's body have some problems that can't produce children.

Sometime later, Shumerman moved to Japan and become one of the instructors of 13th Special Military Forces School.

During the enrollment ceremony, Shumerman shown up and reads a storybook for the newbie soldiers. He soon stops reading the storybook after Alexandroff Grigorovich "killed" Ichinose Saki. After some riots was happened, Shumerman was "captured" by Sakai Rihito. He asks Rihito that if he will kill him with the tree branch or not. Rihito then shows his magic to him and scared because he have no weapon to uses. Shumerman teach him how to snap his neck and tell Rihito to kill him. Rihito stated he won't kill him because it's not good for violence. Shumerman then stated he have no choice but kill everyone in the ceremony. Before he could do so, it's stopped by Firenda and reveals that it's all acting. Shumerman told Firenda and Alexandroff that he still haven't finish reading the storybook yet, but Alexandroff tell him that they don't have much time to do it so the ceremony can be ended. After everyone went to eating launch, Shumerman tell Alexandroff that there's "rare" warrior exists here, Alexandroff thought he was talking about Sakai Tokikaze but he was actually referring Rihito. He then asks Shumerman what should he do now and he said that he wants to gives the newbies a fun school life.

Story Event
Shumerman's name was first mentioned at Chapter 9, when Nana Bassler explains the truth about Licht (Rihito's second name) and how the Red Barons was created.

Abilities and Power
Shumerman's count is yet to be reveal, but it's seem like he have a ability to control ice. The freeze ability is strong enough to even freezes the flames. Unlike the Red Barons and Ballot Holders, Shumerman didn't uses any pills and Ballot Replicas to gains the ability and he already obtained it since he was born.

Trivia

 * In the Japan releases of Volume 8 and Volume 9's back cover, Shumerman's English name was translated as "Schmelman".
 * Gespenst claims Shumerman have two minds which causes him unable to read Shumerman's mind. This is most likely related to the reason why Shumerman's personality changed after the Abandonment War.