BELFANGAN CLOUSEAU

Belfangan Clouseau joins Mithril's Special Response Team as its new commander and immediately becomes one of the few pilots willing to challenge Sosuke directly. In a training match, Clouseau defeats the Arbalest with his M9D Falke even though Sosuke has access to the Lambda Driver. The lesson is not that the Arbalest is weak. It is that Sosuke's distrust of the machine is preventing him from using what it can actually do. Clouseau is strict, confident and much less interested in Sosuke's reputation than in the quality of the soldier standing in front of him. That makes him frustrating and useful in equal measure. The Second Raid uses him as proof that Sosuke's next step cannot come from simply becoming faster or more heavily armed.