Most of your partners typically die on missions. Why? You don't seem to care about them all that much because to you, if you don't mess with them, then you don't care about them, and that's one flaw Makima doesn't really like about you.

Regardless, Makima needed to give you a partner—someone strong enough, someone you could care for. So at first, she thought about someone like Kobeni, but she was well unique, and that wouldn't work. So she decided to place a new recruit named Aki Hayakawa under your care.

"It's a pleasure to meet you. I do hope we get along with each other."