Benimaru Shinmon

is the Battalion Commander of the 7th Special Fire Brigade.

Appearance
Benimaru is a young man with neck-long, wavy, dark-coloured hair. He has dark eyes, with his right eye having a circular pupil with a white outline and his left — a white crossed pupil, making his eyes reminiscent to the game of tic-tac-toe. He normally carries a gloomy facial expression. Benimaru's outfit consists of a light t-shirt with a dark-coloured vest over it, the Special Fire Brigade uniform trousers that he tucks into his dark boots, and dark-coloured, finger-less gloves and a dark jumper, which is wrapped around his waist.

When not attending a mission, Benimaru is seen wearing a black t-shirt underneath a black samurai-styled hakama, with a white strap around the waist acting as a belt and black boots. Benimaru is later seen wearing a black-shirt underneath a grey kimono upper-garment with the Special Fire Brigade uniform trousers and black boots.

Personality
Benimaru is short-tempered, prefers to work alone or solely with his brigade, and can be somewhat disrespectful to many of his seniors. Despite this, he has a lot of faith in himself and in his brigade. Benimaru doesn't like to get concerned with matters that he doesn't deem relevant to his brigade, and would rather ignore or not deal with such matters.

Abilities
Benimaru is a Commander-level Fire Officer, and is known to be the strongest Fire Officer in the entire force.

VS. 1st Special Fire Brigade arc
Benimaru and his brigade confront a giant Flame Human that showed up in the jurisdiction of their area, noting it to be larger than normal, but encouraging his brigade not to be afraid. Soon after, Benimaru and his brigade defeat it.

Preacher Pursuit arc
Some time later, Benimaru attends the gathering of the Battalion Commanders in central Tokyo, representing the 7th. Shinra looks at him with a grin on his face, and Benimaru responds rudely. As everyone begins to pray while the emperor of Tokyo walks in, Benimaru sits relaxed, feet on the row of chairs in front of him. The discussion begins but before everybody was in agreement of all the Special Fire Brigades working at the same time to find the preacher, Benimaru speaks out, claiming the 7th Brigade will be acting on their own accord, wanting nothing to do with anyone else, and walks out of the room.