Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-24907803-20140901115642/@comment-11550121-20141002104235

there are too many subtle hints throughout the story to suggest esdeath will not harm tatsumi. wheter they will pay off remains to be seen but i got my money on her changing sides for 2 reasons

1: love for Tatsumi has had severeral effects on her, while the actual confrontations speak for themselves, its also important to notice the small things in between the story that usually gets overlooked. i feel like they are signs that her emotios starts overpowering her and she saves Tatsumi at the last minute, trains him, and continues with bols advice to wait for an opputunity to strike. this could also lead to develop her character further to the realsms that have been stated to be out of character to her by herself and others.

2: the hints that she and budo are equals in terms of strength and army power, as well as esdeaths teigu being ice and budos teigu name translating as 'mirror of the sun' (even though it looks like electricity or plasma type teigu), these sorts of mentions, even if breif, make it feel like their armies will eventually clash. but who is on whose side... well, budo is dead loyal to the empire so no chance he will defect AT ALL. esdeath is the only one of the two that would even have the slightest chance of it if any with a small reason to, but again, if tatsumi is enough for her, that remains to be seen.

As for whether she dies or not i'm not sure but i feel like esdeath, akame and tatsumi have the highest chance of surviving the story.

it would take an army of 5000 elite soldiers and ten teigu users and akame to defeat esdeath, but its seems like that would be the revolutionary army force, and budo already plans to attack them. so unless more characters and a new army appear, it does not look like there is another force to counter her.

as for Akames trump card. i get the feeling that she would use it on someone else than esdeath regardless if they remain enemies. probobly izou if anyone. all depends on the conditions that akame needs.

not sure if kurome has a trump. remember, only a few teigu have one, not all.