Kiyomi Azumabito

Kiyomi Azumabito (キヨミ・アズマビト) is Hizuru's ambassador to Marley when Willy Tybur holds the festival in Liberio, following the end of the Marley Mid-East War.

Appearance
Kiyomi is a middle-aged Asian lady. She has small facial features, thin eyebrows, and black hair neatly kept in a bun. Kiyomi is around average height. When fulfilling her ambassador services, she usually wears the traditional Hizuru kimono, though she still dresses formally otherwise.

Personality
Kiyomi is sympathetic to Eldians, as shown when she chose to cover up Udo's mistake of spilling win on her kimono, saving him from the other ambassadors. She is also a calm and secretive individual, playing along with Willy Tybur's festival and even congratulating him despite knowing what is to come.

Like many from the Azumabito family, she is sensitive to money. She is easily bought to ally herself with Paradis Island after hearing about its iceburst stone reserves from Zeke Yeager. The mere thought of wealth causes her to salivate.

Marley arc
Some time between 850 and 852, Kiyomi meets with Zeke Yeager, who explains how he wishes to restore his ancestral homeland of Eldia and how helping him would in turn benefit Hizuru and the Azumabito family. She is skeptical at first, but Zeke offers her vertical maneuvering equipment that he has personally procured. The iceburst stone that fuels it is a uniquely powerful resource that Hizuru would be able to take advantage of and make it a powerful nation once again.

In 852, Kiyomi visits Paradis with a diplomatic delegation from Hizuru where she discovers that Mikasa Ackerman is the last descendant of a son of her nation's shogun clan, from which the Azumabitos are also descended. She calls the passing of the family crest by Mikasa's mother to her daughter, and Mikasa's intentions to pass it on to her own children, a noble act.

Kiyomi explains her arrangement with Zeke to the Paradis military, drooling as she talks about the island's resources, though she promptly cleans up when one of her aides points it out to her. She then outlines the three processes by which the island can be saved. Her part is in the second process. Hizuru will work with Paradis to bring its level of technology up with the rest of the modern world. She estimates that it will take fifty years, which is why Paradis will need their queen to inherit the Beast Titan from Zeke and bear as many royal children as she can in her remaining thirteen years. This will hold the rest of the world at bay until their technology can catch up.

In 854, Kiyomi attends the party the night before the festival in Liberio. She meets Udo, one of the Warrior cadets, when he accidentally spills wine on her kimono. Understanding that he would quickly get in trouble for this, she warns him not to make a scene and passes off the spill as her own mistake.

The following day, she visits Willy in the backstage area where he is preparing for his stage production. She passes off her visit as simply wanting to see his face and calls him a brave man, a fact her family knows well. Kiyomi tells him that she hopes he fulfills his duty without incident, but after she leaves, she tells her escort that it is time for them to go, and she does not stay to watch the production.

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