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 lunch, 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.

Later after Alexandroff done his investigation to Hina's group, Shumerman went to see him for a "small" request, that they will have exchange their classes for teaching. Alexandroff agreed with his request and he was changed to teach the other class. When Alexandroff arrived on Class A, he introduced himself and reveals he were originally the one who will teach the class, but due to a request the job was changed to Shumerman instead. He then told Shumerman that he will watch over him and don't causes some messes. As the class started, Shumerman stated he originally wanted to read some storybooks to the students, but he must explains the rules of the school and explains that anyone without a star will result be expelled from the school. For unknown reason, he did not gives Rihito any star and told him to steal it from other students.

At 18:00 PM, along with other instructors standing beside the school gate, to checking which students will expelled from school. Soon, when Douan Taketora almost pucnhes Jail Murdoch, Shumerman went to stop them and asking Taketora about his stars. Which Taketora shown his stars, it's revealed that the stars was fake and was steal by Rihito. Because of Taketora only owns two stars, Shumerman told him to stay on school. Then, he gives Jail some stars and explains it was originally Rihito's, as he wonders how will Rihito handling the situation so he didn't gives the stars to him. He also stated that he will gives Rihito the stars once the time reach 18:00 PM but it was unnecessary now since Rihito already steals Taketora's stars, so he give it to Jail instead and said that he deserved to become a soldier.

After a few weeks, as the other classes started their training, Shumerman only keep reading the storybooks without trains the students even once.

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. He later made a his debut in near the end of Chapter 11, reading a storybook about a tortoise kills a haze to the children. Soon, Nikola went to see him and informs him about the situation of the Flash Baron.

Abilities and Power
Shumerman's count is yet to be reveal, but he has 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 drugs and Ballot Replicas to gains the ability as 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.