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Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple Episode 80 is the eightieth episode of Redice Studio's webtoon Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple, a sequel to Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag. The webtoon, written by ARC and NOHT and with art by Tabii, was released on 29 October 2024.
Plot synopsis[]
While Shimazu Sei relives Saito's genetic memories in the Animus with Yuki monitoring her, Nathan Zhang calls Claire to update her about the recent events. When Claire expresses her frustration with the sudden change of plans, Nathan reminds her of their duty to keep the Pieces of Eden out of unworthy hands and states that Sei's memories are currently their best lead to track down another artifact. Claire then claims that the only reason they need the Pieces is to fight against Abstergo, to which Nathan responds that the artifacts' power tends to be unpredictable, as Sei herself discovered, prompting her to turn to them for help, and now all they have to do is wait and watch.
In the Animus, the Fenghuang's crew comes across some native villagers who hold them at gunpoint. A crew member acts as the translator between the two parties and informs Saito that, while the villagers were eager to trade with seafarers once, they have recently turned hostile against outsiders, after a group of Japanese mercenaries began raiding neighboring settlements. John Young deduces these to be the same mercenaries they heard about on Monkey Island, while Saito concludes that they were hired by the Shimazu clan to hunt them down. She then decides to make the villagers an offer they cannot refuse.
When the mercenaries commence their next attack on the settlement, they quickly fall into a trap and are incapacitated by the villagers and the Fenghuang crew. The mercenaries' leader, Nagamasa, comes to investigate the commotion and is confronted by Saito, who gives him her name, prompting Nagamasa to reveal that Fuma Sukuna warned him about her. The two proceed to engage in a duel while John and Yun Pyeong-Gyu watch from the bushes, deciding not to interfere.
During their fight, Saito recognizes Nagamasa's techniques as belonging to the Shimazu clan and is able to disarm him. She then interrogates him to learn whom he serves and Nagamasa admits to having been hired by the Shimazu clan, though he expresses contempt for it. When Nagamasa asks Saito to execute him, so that he may rejoin his fallen men in Hell, the samurai reveals that the other mercenaries still live, having been captured by her fellow crew members in order to secure passage to the village.
Nagamasa and his men are subsequently imprisoned inside a cabin, where Saito visits them and demands to know what the Shimazu clan promised them in exchange for their services. Nagamasa feigns ignorance at first, claiming they had simply been offered gold, but Saito has deduced from their desperation during the fight that something more personal is at stake. Nagamasa then admits that he and his men are all outcasts of the Shimazu clan, forced to live outside of Japan, and accepting this job was their best chance to be welcomed into the clan and be allowed to return to their homeland.
After Saito reveals that she, too, was an outsider once, she decides to make the mercenaries an offer, sympathizing with their plight. She invites them to join her in her mission to overthrow the Shimazu clan and exact retribution on those who mistreated them. Despite finding the idea absurd, Nagamasa expresses interest in the offer and, after cutting his bindings with a knife, asks the samurai how much she will pay them for the job while addressing her as "Master Saito."
Characters in order of appearance[]
- Shimazu Sei
- Yuki
- Nathan Zhang
- Claire Zhang
- Shimazu Saito
- John Young
- Yun Pyeong-Gyu
- Nagamasa
- Fuma Sukuna (mentioned only)