Yuki

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"My name is Yuki. I'll be your tour guide again for this trip. And if you haven't already guessed... I'm an Abstergo special agent and Ms. Sei's personal bodyguard."

―Yuki formally introducing herself to Noa Kim, c. 2023.

Yuki is the personal bodyguard of Shimazu Sei and a former employee of Abstergo Industries.

In 2023, Yuki joined Sei in betraying Abstergo to rescue Animus test subject Noa Kim after the company ordered his termination upon the retrieval of a crescent amulet, a Piece of Eden. With the help of the Assassin Nathan Zhang, the trio fled to a Zhawang Corporation safehouse in Singapore, where Yuki helped Sei explore her ancestor Shimazu Saito's memories to find another Piece of Eden that could cure Noa of the amulet's effects.

Biography

Posing as a tour guide

Yuki: "How was your tour, Mr. Kim?"

Noa: "It was fantastic!"

Yuki: "I'm glad to hear that. The car is still on its way. Why don't you take a little break somewhere nearby while you're waiting?"

—Yuki and Noa, after finishing their tour of Macau, c. 2023.

Yuki showing Noa around Macau

By 2023, Yuki was serving under Sei aboard the Exitus research vessel in Macau, China. That year, Abstergo identified the Korean-American student Noa Kim as a descendant of Edward Kenway through the WhyYou genealogy site, and lured him to Macau on the pretense of a vacation prize trip. Yuki was tasked to play the role of a tour guide and greeted Noa at the airport before taking him to visit various landmarks around the city.

After ending their tour, Yuki brought Noa to a park and told him to go for a walk while they waited for a car to come pick them up. With Noa alone, Yuki contacted Mitsuko Nakamura, who dispatched two Abstergo agents to kidnap Noa and bring him back to the Exitus. There, Noa was forced to relive Edward's memories in the Animus under Sei's supervision, to help the Templars find a Piece of Eden.

Ambushed by Doom Eagle

"You're the only person who can protect Ms. Sei now. Do whatever it takes to keep her safe! I wish we'd had a better choice, but we don't. And don't you forget, if anything happens to Ms. Sei... I'll hunt you down to the end of the Earth!"

―Yuki trusting Noa to protect Sei, c. 2023.

Sometime later, Yuki joined Sei and Noa on an expedition to Cebu in the Philippines, where they sought to retrace Edwards's footsteps. As Noa stood in front of a statue of Lapu-Lapu, Yuki appeared alongside Sei behind him, leading Noa to recognize her as the "tour guide" from Macau. Yuki sarcastically greeted him, revealing her affiliations with Abstergo and stating that she would be Noa's tour guide once again in Cebu.

While travelling around Cebu looking for leads, the Abstergo convoy containing Yuki, Sei and Noa was ambushed by members of the Doom Eagle criminal organization, who sought to rescue Noa. The car transporting the trio was able to escape through an alley, but several Doom Eagle thugs gave chase on motorcycles.

Yuki providing cover fire for Noa and Sei to escape

Yuki pulled out her concealed rifle from her briefcase and managed to gun down one of the pursuing thugs, but was soon overwhelmed. When she contacted the Abstergo headquarters for backup, she was told to head to a nearby shopping mall, where both the local police and Sigma Team would arrive shortly.

At the mall, the Abstergo car was hit by a truck, sending it flying into a fountain. Yuki was severly injured in the crash, but continued to exchange fire with the Doom Eagle thugs that had cornered the group. After Noa helped Sei out of the wrecked car, she was shocked to see Yuki's injuries, but the latter assured her that she would be fine and told Sei and Noa to head into the mall. She also gave Noa her bracer, which contained a retractable electric shock baton, and ordered him to keep Sei safe before resuming her gunfight with the thugs.

Ultimately, Yuki survived her shootout with Doom Eagle, though her injuries required her left arm to be placed in a cast. After the thugs retreated, Yuki was reunited with Sei, who was relieved to see she was alive. When Noa arrived escorted by Sigma Team, Sei reprimanded him for throwing her off a balcony earlier. Upon hearing this, a furious Yuki requested permission to use "lethal force", but Sei told her it was not necessary as they needed Noa alive for the Animus. Afterwards, Yuki accompanied Sei and Noa back to the Exitus.

Retrieving the crescent amulet

Sei: "What's going on, Yuki?! What happened to Noa?"

Yuki: "I'm sorry, ma'am. The subject sensed the artifact's aura and then disappeared all of a sudden. I'm searching everywhere for him, but I only have about ten minutes' worth of oxygen left... I'll try my best to find him before I run out of air."

—Yuki informing Sei of Noa's disappearance during their mission, c. 2023.

Yuki telling Sei about Noa's rampage

Later, after Noa succumbed to the Bleeding Effect and went on a rampage aboard the Exitus, Yuki went to alert Sei about the situation, only to be surprised when the doctor asked that she be taken to Noa immediately. Yuki tried to dissuade her, warning Sei that confronting Noa was too dangerous, as even Sigma Team had been unable to restrain him. However, Sei remained undeterred and ordered all units to stand down while she handled the situation.

Yuki and the others stood by and watched as Sei tried to reason with Noa, only for him to pin her to the ground and raise a fire axe he had been using to massacre the guards. Fortunately, Sei was able to help Noa return to his senses at the last moment, and the axe narrowly missed her head, leaving everyone in the room speechless.

Following this, Yuki accompanied Sei to a diving bell ship which her superiors had sent her in order to recover a crescent amulet – a Piece of Eden – from the Strait of Malacca. At Sei's request, she also retrieved a suitcase containing a prototype Animus HR-8, left to Sei by her old friend and colleague Layla Hassan, and prepared to accompany Noa, who was to dive down to the SS Ourang Medan's shipwreck and recover the amulet.

While Noa was getting changed into his scuba gear, Yuki interrupted him, much to his awkwardness and annoyance. The bodyguard simply told Noa to quit being "such a prude" and that there was nothing she had not seen before, just as Sei arrived to inform Noa that Yuki would be accompanying him during his mission. Following this, Yuki and Noa entered the diving bell and went to explore the Medan's wreck in search of the amulet.

Yuki and Noa exploring the Ourang Medan's wreck

After Noa narrowly avoided a shark attack, Yuki told him to stop fooling around as they only had a limited oxygen supply, which would run out in 30 minutes. She then prepared to lead the way into the Medan's hull, but as Noa's Eagle Vision was guiding him towards the amulet's location, Yuki decided to follow his lead instead. However, while swimming through a dark corridor, the two lost sight of each other and became separated.

Yuki subsequently contacted Sei to inform her of the situation and claimed that she would try her best to find Noa, but as she only had ten minutes' worth of oxygen left, she needed to return to the ship soon.

After five minutes passed and with no sign of Noa, Yuki contemplated heading back to the diving bell alone, but at that moment a floating skeleton touched her back, catching her off guard. Turning around to face it, Yuki saw more skeletons approaching her, much to her horror, though fortunately this turned out to be just an illusion projected by the amulet, which Noa had found.

As the pair swam back towards the diving bell, they were attacked by the same shark from earlier, but Noa used the amulet to repel it, surprising Yuki, who had assumed the Piece of Eden's powers only worked on humans. Once inside the diving bell, Yuki showed signs of concern for Noa, who was beginning to succumb to the amulet's corrupting influence, but Noa told her to stay away and not touch the artifact as he was the only one capable of withstanding its power.

Betraying Abstergo

"Get behind me and stay close! Commencing escape protocol."

―Yuki to Sei and Noa during their escape from the Abstergo ship, c. 2023.

Yuki, Noa and Sei confronted by Sigma Team

After returning to the Abstergo ship, Yuki brought the weakened Noa to Sei and the trio began heading towards the sickbay when they were interrupted by Sigma Team. Claiming they had received instructions from Abstergo's executive committee ordering Noa's termination, the operatives attempted to carry them out but Sei convinced them to keep Noa alive for the time being by pointing out that, with him gone, any chance of researching the amulet was also lost.

Once Sigma Team departed, Yuki, Noa and Sei were left alone in the sickbay, where Yuki proceeded to hand Noa a briefcase and told him to place the amulet inside. When Noa asked what Sei and Yuki were up to, the former responded that she was trying to ensure his safety, but now that Abstergo's higher-ups had decided to kill him, time was running short. Sei then declared her intentions to help Noa escape from Abstergo, even if it meant betraying the company.

At that moment, the ship's alarm rang, as the vessel had come under attack by Nathan Zhang and his men, whom Sei had made a secret deal with. Yuki, Sei and Noa consequently began making their way towards the ship's deck, with Yuki taking the lead and using her electric shock baton bracer to incapacitate a Sigma Team agent, take his gun, and kill another operative with it.

On the deck, Nathan angrily confronted Sei upon seeing that Noa was slowly succumbing to the amulet's effects. Sei promised that she had thought of a solution to cure Noa, just as more Sigma Team operatives arrived and ordered the group to surrender. With no other options left, Nathan told Sei, Noa, and Yuki to jump onto his speedboat, whereupon they escaped from the Abstergo ship and traveled to Singapore to lay low.

Hiding out in Singapore

"If we're going to do this, I have to be the one to track her memories. We'll be using an experimental version of the Animus."

―Sei informing Nathan of her and Yuki's plan to explore Saito's memories, c. 2023.

At a Zhawang Corporation safehouse in Singapore's Chinatown district, Noa was taken to receive immediate medical attention due to his worsening condition. Meanwhile, Sei decided to relive the memories of her ancestor Shimazu Saito in the Animus HR-8 brought by Yuki, in order to find another Piece of Eden that could be used to cure Noa.

During Sei's time in the Animus, Yuki served as her engineer, monitoring her condition. She also looked after the briefcase containing the crescent amulet, and stood guard alongside Nathan in the event Abstergo managed to track them down.

Personality and traits

Sei: "Yuki! Your arm...!"

Yuki: "Don't worry about me, ma'am. I'm perfectly fine."

—Yuki telling Sei not to worry about her injuries, c. 2023.

While at first glance Yuki was an extremely cheerful and friendly woman, this was just a ruse. In reality, she was a ruthless, no-nonsense special forces agent who would stop at nothing to accomplish her objectives. She was very observant of her surroundings, as seen when she anticipated Doom Eagle's ambush after noticing a suspiciously large number of traffic accidents in Cebu. She also possessed somewhat of a sarcastic and dark sense of humor, which she displayed in her interactions with Noa Kim.

Yuki and Sei smiling at each other

Yuki was extremely loyal and devoted to her boss, Shimazu Sei, being willing to give her own life for hers. After being injured during Doom Eagle's ambush, she trusted Noa to protect Sei in her stead and threatened to "hunt [him] down to the end of the Earth" if anything happened to her boss. Upon learning that Noa had thrown Sei off a balcony, Yuki became furious and threatened to use "lethal force" against him until Sei told her it was not necessary.

Yuki's loyalty to Sei went so far that, when the latter decided to abandon Abstergo and help Noa escape, Yuki followed her without question, despite being fully aware of the risks that such a betrayal would bring.

Skills and equipment

"There's nothing to worry about. Yuki will be going with you. She knows a lot more than your average freediving instructor."

―Sei to Noa, on Yuki's swimming skills, c. 2023.

As a bodyguard, Yuki was trained in both marksmanship and hand-to-hand combat and always carried a weapon with her. During her time in Cebu, she carried a briefcase that contained a concealed assault rifle. She also wielded a non-lethal melee weapon in the form of an electric shock baton that extended from a bracer, similar to a Hidden Blade.

Yuki was implied to be extremely physically strong, as just her pinching Noa's cheek was enough to cause him considerable pain. She also proved to be a strong swimmer while exploring the underwater shipwreck of the SS Ourang Medan, and appeared to have some skills as an engineer, monitoring Sei while she relived Shimazu Saito's memories in the Animus.

Gallery

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  Yuki pinching Noa's cheek
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  Yuki with Noa and Sei in Cebu
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  Yuki readying her rifle
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  Yuki giving Noa her bracer
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  Yuki and Noa approaching the Ourang Medan's wreck

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple