Florent L'Belle

"Florent L'Belle"

- Oh! Excuse YOU!

Florent L'Belle was the personal aide of Damian Tenma. L'Belle had his own private line of beauty products called "Je suis L'Belle!", which were for his private use only, despite advertising for them on television. L'Belle's shoulderpads were actually twin golden cellphones he used to answer calls from his business partners.

The murder of Rex Kyubi
L'Belle started his own line of beauty products and borrowed money in order to advertise his products. However, because of his narcissism causing him to deny offers of stocking his products in many stores, L'Belle soon found himself in deep debt. At some point, L'Belle's hair had turned gray and he used his beauty products to dye his hair into seven colors.

L'Belle befriended the Kyubis and found out from them that the feared Tenma Taro of Nine-Tails Vale mythology is nothing more than a story; Tenma Taro was really a gold ingot that was hidden away in the Forbidden Chamber because the early Japanese settlers of Nine-Tails Vale were fighting over it. L'Belle soon schemed to obtain the gold ingot by forcing a merger between Tenma Town and Nine-Tails Vale by secretly blackmailing Mayor Tenma over his daughter's safety. L'Belle then planned to kill Alderman Kyubi, frame Mayor Tenma for the murder and once he was arrested, L'Belle would reveal Mayor Tenma's secret of really being The Amazing Nine Tails.

On the day of a festival held in Nine-Tails Vale, the Alderman Kyubi and Mayor Tenma discussed the merger in the Fox Chamber but fell asleep by the drugged coffee L'Belle bought to them. While they were sleeping, L'Belle took a spear and pierced the alderman through the chest with the spear. After that, he opened the Forbidden Chamber, hid Mayor Tenma in the chamber, disguised himself as Mayor Tenma wearing The Amazing Nine-Tails mask and placed the blackmail letter into the alderman's pocket. He then sat in the chair and screamed in order to have Jinxie Tenma running in. As he planned, she came running inside to find L'Belle disguised as her father. Impersonating Mayor Tenma, he then confessed to the murder of Rex Kyubi to his daughter.

After Jinxie left the scene, he went back into The Forbidden Chamber and dragged the mayor back into his seat. Unexpectedly, Phineas Filch, who was dressed in a Tenma Taro costume, was on the other side and blinded by the sudden light, Filch quickly ran out of the room into the hallway past Jinxie. L'Belle recognized Filch as the Tenma Taro impersonator and exited the room after throwing The Amazing Nine-Tails mask out of the window into the nearby river. L'Belle locked the door and climbed into the nearby air duct, throwing the key into the Fox Chamber. He later confronted Filch about the Tenma Taro costume and to make sure nobody would know what happened, they both agreed to their story that they were in the manor's foyer during the time of the murder as their alibi.

Personality
L'Belle was an incredibly vain, self-centered, and flamboyant character. Most of his personality revolved around an obsession with external beauty; he wore garish designer clothes, heavy makeup, and dyed his naturally gray hair in different vivid colors. He believed that his products should be known to the world, although he wouldn't release them to the general public. He also had a habit of emphasizing random words in his sentences. He was also incredibly lavish and spent far more money than he had actual access to, racking up millions of dollars in debt.

Name

 * "Biyouin" (美葉院), his Japanese surname, means "beauty parlor".
 * His Japanese given name consists of the kanji for "refined/elegant/graceful" (秀) and "one" (一).
 * His English last name "L'Belle" comes from "la belle", which is French for "the beautiful". "Florent" is a name of Old French origin and means "in flower".