Romein LeTouse

Romein LeTouse

Image Gallery

Sprite Gallery

We need more pieces to finish this puzzle.
	This article is under construction. While it is not short, it still needs expansion as outlined in the manual of style. The article most likely needs expansion near the end of the tagged section or sections.

Romein LeTouse V · T · F
Occupation	Manager, bodyguard and interpreter for Lamiroir (cover) (April - July 7, 2026) Interpol agent ( - July 7, 2026)
Biological information
Reckoned birth year(s) (this is for age comparison purposes, and so may look odd; click on the question mark for details)?	1991
Documented age range (as recorded in court record profiles & case files)	35* (Turnabout Serenade)
Last known status	Deceased (July 7, 2026)
Eye color	Brown
Hair color	Brown
Height (the metric (cm) values are sourced from official guidebooks and may not reflect the relative sizes of characters as depicted in-game or in other official media)	Unknown
Associates
Family	None mentioned
Friends	None mentioned
Affiliates	Interpol (employer) Lamiroir (employer) Machi Tobaye (colleague of Lamirior; arrested) Daryan Crescend (investigation suspect & killer; arrested)
Aliases/nicknames
IPXX314206* (Interpol ID)
One-off nicknames
Old Fart* (by Daryan Cresend)
Names in other languages
Japanese (romanization written with the given name first)	ローメイン・レタス (Rōmein Retasu)
French	Romain LeTouse
German	Romein LeTouse
Spanish	Romein LeTouse
Italian	Romein LeTouse
Miscellaneous
Debut episode	Turnabout Serenade

Romein LeTouse

Lamiroir says...

— Turnabout Serenade

Romein LeTouse was an Interpol agent who investigated a case of illegal smuggling of Borginian cocoons. As part of this investigation, he became the manager, bodyguard and interpreter for singer Lamiroir. Unfortunately, the case resulted in his death.

Smuggling case

Main article: Turnabout Serenade

Three months before his death, LeTouse was investigating a case of Borginian cocoon smuggling, which led him to Lamiroir. Suspecting that either Lamiroir or her piano accompaniment, Machi Tobaye, was involved in the smuggling, he offered to become Lamiroir's manager. Later, they met Klavier Gavin, who was moved by Lamiroir's singing and asked her to come to America as a special feature of one of his concerts with his band, the Gavinners. The two composed a song together, and LeTouse came up with the name "The Guitar's Serenade" for the song.

LeTouse learned that the Gavinners' second guitarist, Daryan Crescend, was the intended recipient of the smuggled Borginian cocoon. During the concert, while Gavin and Lamiroir were singing their duet, the Interpol agent confronted Crescend in Lamiroir's dressing room. Crescend managed to steal LeTouse's .45-caliber revolver and shoot him in the shoulder. Crescend then left to perform in the concert and to set up his alibi. However, due to a magic trick being used during the duet, Lamiroir was in the air ducts near the room and had heard the killer's voice.

Defense attorney Apollo Justice and Detective Ema Skye later found LeTouse, who was now dying due to blood loss. LeTouse told him that the "siren" was the key to solving the case, then died.

Tobaye was accused of the murder, and Justice came to his defense. Indeed, Lamiroir recognized Crescend who, as a detective, had been assigned to the investigation of the death. Justice was able to prove that Lamiroir's testimony against Crescend was valid. He also convinced Tobaye to admit to his involvement in the smuggling, which would seal Crescend's fate; Tobaye would have been sentenced to death for his crime in Borginia while he could avoid such a punishment in America.

Name

LeTouse's mugshot.

• The Japanese name comes from "romaine Lettuce". Shu Takumi happened to see romaine lettuce listed in a recipe when coming up with the bodyguard's name.
• Other language versions use a corrupted spelling of "romaine lettuce" to form their localized names.

Development

• LeTouse's design is rather straightforward; an investigator with a solid build. His slightly swollen and disfigured ears were an added detail to convey that the character had seen his share of fights during his life.
• The circumstances behind LeTouse's death seem to be largely repeated later in the series with Akbey Hicks in Turnabout Airlines. Both are Interpol agents murdered by smugglers whose identities as agents investigators didn't discover for a while after the discoveries of their bodies. Both are also discovered by the main characters of their respective games.
• Of the five victims in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, LeTouse is the only one who did not partake in any known immoral activities: Shadi Smith planned to scam Wright by staging evidence implicating him as a cheat; Pal Meraktis was a doctor to the mob who hid the fact that the bullet in Wocky Kitaki was still there; Drew Misham was a forger (albeit a regretful one); and Magnifi Gramarye was a blackmailer.