Episode 3

Kill Your Cares (蟠りを斬る Wadakamari wo Kiru) is the third episode of the Akame Ga Kill! anime.

Synopsis
Some assassins were found lurking near Night Raid's base so the team went to kill them, as of orders from Najenda. Tatsumi went along with Bulat, who gave him advice since he hadn't been in a combat fight before. This was the moment when Bulat told him to either call him 'bro' or 'handsome' and Tatsumi ended up calling him bro. Bulat then showed him his teigu transformation, Incursio.

By the lake, Akame was with three assassins who thought lowly of her skills and unfortunately they were killed because they let their guards down. In this part, it's also learnt that Akame's teigu, Murasame, has cursed poison that kills a person in one slice.

One assassin was caught running through the woods by Mine, who was about to snipe him. Before that happened, another assassin sneaked up on her and tried to kill her. She knew but never hesitated because Sheele had her back and killed off the assassin. Mine thanked her for killing him and aimed her teigu, Pumpkin, in the direction of the assassin who she had targetted. Her shot turned the assassin into thin air. Leone heard the explosion and smiled as she sat ontop of her victim who she had just killed with her teigu beast, Lionelle.

Lubbock was in a cave, having the assassin he caught tied up in his teigu strings, Cross Tail. He was bothered because the assassin he trapped in his strings was a girl. But he didn't hesitate considering when the girl pleaded and begged, willing to give up herself to live, he didn't care. This was because he knew a guy who died falling for a girl's charm.

The scene then changed to Tatsumi killing off a man with a wolf mask over his head. He looked over to Bulat as four assassins surrounded the man. When the assassins jumped to kill, Bulat used his spear to slice up the four. All the members (excluding Najenda) came together and Bulat said to Tatsumi that his work was promising, which made Tatsumi smile with happiness. Then later in the night Tatsumi awoke, thinking about the assassins, revolution and Night Raid. He then said aloud that he joined an amazing group, closing his eyes only to find that he pictured Bulat smiling at him. This made him blush a little of shock and surprise because he thought it was weird to think of Bulat. He was then taken to a flashback where he, Sayo and Ieyasu were looking at a map, pointing to where the Capital was. Ieyasu then talked about the hot babes there with Tatsumi agreeing, which got Sayo angry and she punched Ieyasu. Tatsumi started laughing as Ieyasu asked why he was the only one to get hit. Then Tatsumi said, looking at the night sky that he'd do his best for them.

In the morning, Sheele found Tatsumi standing outside the main room waiting for Mine to come since he was assigned to work with her for the day. Because Mine doesn't wake up easily, even though it's for work, Sheele insisted on waking her up but Najenda told Tatsumi to do it instead. Tatsumi asked why he had to do it and Najenda replied with the surbordinate having to wake up their superiors. When Tatsumi entered Mine's room, he found her only in her underwear and bra which made him blush with shock. Mine got angry and shot a hole through the door and wall, right next to Tatsumi. She was angry that he didn't knock before he went into the room and she started blasting a couple more shots. Akame was in the middle of making food when she heard the blast. Leone ran into the main room where Najenda and Sheele was, asking what was happening. The two were relaxed as if nothing had happened.

Tatsumi and Mine were walking through the Capital and Tatsumi noticed the expressions on the citizens' faces were gloomy. When he asked about them, Mine explained the reason and then stopped when they passes an alley way. They found that two citizens were enslaving a refugee. Mine took this on seriously and asked them why they did this. Their response was that they were a higher rank because they were citizens of the Capital and the little girl was the refuge. Tatsumi scared them away when he sliced at their pants. The little girl thanked them but Mine said that she needed to become stronger. As they walked around again, Tatsumi asked why they were allowed to roam the Capital if they were Night Raid members. Mine answered by saying that the peoples' attention were on the wanted posters, which Tatsumi and Mine weren't on. Tatsumi was then shocked to see how Bulat looked before he joined Night Raid.

Throughout the day, Mine and Tatsumi walked around Capital buying Mine clothes to wear, which Tatsumi had to hold. When they sat outside a shop to rest, Tatsumi was upset that today was used for shopping. Both Mine and Tatsumi knew that he wasn't strong enough to fight in an actually battle but Tatsumi still wanted to get stronger, saying 'I still have to keep moving forward' which got Mine blushing because his speech was nice. Then they heard and saw people running into an area and Tatsumi wondered what was happening. Mine said that it was public execution and Tatsumi didn't like it.

Tatsumi wondered what the Emperor was like, which led the scene to change to the throne room. The Emperor was sentencing a man to death for his late actions. Then the Prime Minster walked in, eating food and the man took his chance to tell the Emperor that the Prime Minister was manipulating him. The Prime Minister denied the fact and the Emperor told the guards to send the man away to be killed. The Prime Minister then walked up to the man and said that he'd take good care of the wife, insinuating that he might use her body or kill her too.

Najenda ordered the members of Night Raid to kill the Prime Minister's relative who was using women for pleasure. She also wanted the five guards who were with the relative killed too since they took part of the relative's shares. Tatsumi and Mine were set up far from the palace but close enough for Mine to get a shot. Tatsumi then asked about Mine's teigu and she explained, also including that no one knows how the teigus were made. Mine started concentrating and that made Tatsumi impressed. When the relative of the Prime Minister came out of his palace, he was surrounded by women. Tatsumi thought it was impossible for Mine to shoot the man without hurting or killing one of the women but she was able to do it. She announced to Tatsumi that she was a 'master sniper'.

Four of the guards of the Prime Minister's relative were running through the forest when they met up with the other members of Night Raid. Mine was annoyed about the route that she and Tatsumi was taking as it was hard to transverse. Tatsumi then wondered if the enemies were all eliminated which Mine responded with the guards were trained at Koukenji, the empire's top martial arts temple, so they would be hard to beat. Tatsumi then thought about what happened in Mine's past and as if reading his mind, Mine told him her past, that she lived in the western parts and was half foreign. The people there used to torment her because of who she was and she disliked it. She then said that once a new ruler is made, people won't have to worry about where they were from and they wouldn't have to go through the horrors that Mine went through. At first Tatsumi was impressed with what she said but as she carried on, he found it foolish since she said she'd be rich after revolution happens.

The other members of Night Raid had finished off killing the guards but they thought it was weird since there were supposed to be five guards, not four. Lubbock was then annoyed since he didn't get to kill a guard. Leone joked and said that he'd get half of what he'd earned. Tatsumi and Mine made it to the meeting point. Whilst Mine was occupied with talking, she hadn't noticed that the last surviving guard was behind her and Tatsumi immediately pushed her out of the way, taking the hit. Mine was angry at first but found that he saved her. She then started shooting but every shot was dodged. When the guard was close enough to hit her, Tatsumi jumped up behind him and slammed his sword down. The guard blocked the hit but was surprised when Tatsumi wrapped his arms around the waist of him, keeping him in place. Tatsumi then told Mine to take the hit, saying that she could do it without hurting him because she was a master sniper. The guard tried to get Tatsumi off him as the gun was loading but he was too late and the shoot blasted a big hole in his chest. Mine was about to acknowledge Tatsumi but when he flicked her in the forehead, she got angry and demanded why he did that. The reason was because she was so close to killing him shown as the top part of his hair was burned. They then got into a bawl, without noticing that the other members were watching them. Then a man was seen staring at Akame's wanted poster, saying that she was like him.

Characters
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