ATSUNOBU HAYASHIMIZU

Hayashimizu is the unnervingly calm president of Jindai High School's student council and one of the few civilians capable of seeing Sosuke's extreme behavior without immediately deciding he should be expelled. He speaks with the gravity of a statesman, treats school disputes like matters of national policy and has a talent for finding situations where Sosuke's strange skill set is somehow useful. That does not mean he is fooled by him. Hayashimizu understands that there is far more to the transfer student than the school has been told, but he generally finds observation more interesting than confrontation. His presence gives the school side of Full Metal Panic! an authority figure who can participate in the joke without becoming incompetent. If anything, Hayashimizu may be enjoying the chaos more than anyone.