Mr President

Mr President is the President of the Black Lily Advanced Materials Laboratory. He is a mysterious businessman who seems to be an old acquaintance of both Rachnera and Ms Smith. Although he insists on standing firmly on the ground of legality, several of his deeds, such as smuggling dangerous Liminal species into Japan, cast this in a sceptical light. This gives him an ambiguous anti-role within the series.

Appearance
Compared to his older brother Kasegi, Mr President is a rather slim and very tall human man, slightly taller than Ms Smith. He has light skin and black short hair. He also wears black glasses and his attire consists of light-colored pants and a white suit that seems to be a lab coat.

A distinguishing feature of Mr President is the fact that he almost always has a smug smile on his face, even in stressful situations. His eyes are almost never seen during the series, as they are either closed or covered by his glasses.

In Chapter 81, during his stay at the Blacklily waterpark, Mr President wears a short-sleeved Hawaiian shirt with an orchid pattern and long white pants.

Personality
Mr President is described as a selfish, charismatic, and cool-headed businessman who regularly involves himself in interspecies politics, usually being immigration or customs. He is viewed as a brash investor in products manufactured by Monster Girls and sells them through legal tactics. Immensely passionate about interspecies well-being and rights, he will immigrate them through other bureaucratic tactics.

It is generally difficult to interpret the character of Mr President. On the one hand, he present himself as a well-meaning patron by bringing the Liminals, who work for it, to Japan for money and paying them high wages. However, as Rachnera notes, Mr. President's actions are sheer selfishness aimed at increasing his own profit. In fact, it can be surmised that the main reason Mr. President pays his Liminal workers such high wages is because he makes more than double what he pays them for selling their products. An example of his greed for profit is the fact that there are only female Liminals on the Black Lily Ranch, as the likely reason for this is that the male Liminals do not produce milk that could be sold for profit, which makes male Liminals more economically worthless to Mr President.

A sceptical aspect of Mr President is the fact that he is often willing to go beyond the limit of legality in his business, for example by smuggling into Japan what are considered dangerous Liminal species such as Killer bees or Vampires. Although he claims not to force anyone to work for him, he did so when he forced Kimihito and his houseguests to capture Nega-Suu. He even went so far as to use Suu as bait, even though he knew that the evil Black Slime would try to kill Suu. Mr President explained this to Miia that he thought everything would be fine as Kimihito's houseguests would intervene to protect Suu, but this only underlines his irresponsibility, as he was ready to put Suu's life at risk. He later forced Kimihito to work at the Black Lily Ranch and openly threatened the young man with billing his house guests for their wellness program if Kmihito refused.

Mr President is also known to readily take risks to save costs, when he connected Nega-Suu as a living water purifier to the water tank of the Sno Ball Hot Spring Resort, even though he knew about the danger of the Black Slime. This eventually led to the creation of the Hot Spring Slimes.

As Mr President explains in Chapter 71, he sells the Liminal's products as long as they are not stolen. He often uses the argument that the Liminals work for him voluntarily, ignoring the fact that his methods of "persuading" the Liminals include subliminal manipulation, or that the Liminals have few alternatives, as many human jobs are not well suited to the needs of Liminals. This doesn't legally accuse Mr President of forcing the Liminals to work for him, but the result is almost the same.

Skills & Traits

 * Charisma: Mr President has a very great charisma with which he can easily convince others that it would be for their own benefit to work for him. Even the steadfast Centorea is almost tempted to work for him when he explains the benefits of being a staff member at the Black Lily Laboratory in Chapter 53. Only few people like Kimihito, Ms Smith and Rachnera are unimpressed by his words.
 * Intelligence: As the head of a large corporation, Mr President knows a great deal about the legal aspects of the Cultural Exchange between species bill and can exploit even the smallest loophole to his advantage. He can even react quickly to spontaneous situations, for example, despite the sudden appearance of Nega-Suu on one of his cargo ships, he was able to quickly come up with a plan on how to use the Black Slime for his scientific research and smuggle them to Japan unnoticed.
 * High knowledge of Liminals: As the head of a company that specializes in selling Liminal products, Mr President knows a lot about their skills and attributes. However, his knowledge of Liminals is actually quite high, since as seen in Chapter 54 he knows a lot about Slimes, such as that they reproduce by splitting and merging, or that a strong Slime mixes its body with an intelligent Slime to pass on both their characteristics to their offspring. This seems particularly impressed given the fact that Slimes are one of the most mysterious and least understood Liminals and questions how Mr President knows so much about them.

Trivia

 * As seen in Chapter 53, Mr President has a deep seated rivalry with Kuroko Smith, although the exact background to this has yet to be revealed.
 * Has past connections with Rachnera.
 * Although Mr President has had a larger role in the series since his debut, his real name has not yet be released.
 * Mr President was responsible for many major events within the manga series:
 * He is the actual cause of the events in Volume 11 by illegally smuggling Killa and Kino into Japan. He was also indirectly responsible for Kimihito and his household girls suffering hallucinations from Kino's spores by sending the Matango girl to the Kurusu house.
 * He is further indirectly responsible for the events of Volume 12, by smuggling Curie into Japan, although the events were largely due to Wladislaus.
 * He is responsible for the events of Volume 13 by smuggling Nega-Suu into Japan. Due to this, he was indirectly the reason that Suu nearly died.
 * He is responsible for the events in Volume 14 by coercing Kimihito to work at the Black Lily Ranch.