Sakaguchi, Hajime

Hajime is Alice Sakaguchi's younger brother. He is fiercely protective of his sister and will do anything to keep her safe. He is strongly opposed to Alice's engagement with Rin because of her apparent distress over the idea and his general dislike of Rin. Hajime eventually asks Jinpachi for help in ending the engagement, as Jinpachi seems like a nice guy who genuinely cares about Alice, inadvertently revealing the secret engagement to Jinpachi, who, along with the others, had been ignorant of it up to this point. Hajime is the only one in Alice's family who unflinchingly believes in her supernatural abilities and the ludicrous stories that go along with them.