She will never be my sister; Joran, the Princess of Snow and Blood episode 3 impression

The Princess of Snow and Blood continues to the third episode. Unfortunately, instead of seeing Yuki and Hana duke it out after the last episode conclusion, we are instantly brought to Yuki asking why did Kusuhara order Hana to kill the treasurer lady. Just as cold as an ice, Kusuhara said that the order of disposing her came directly from lord Yoshinobu himself and although Yuki complaining about why did they had to dispose her son too, Kusuhara just said that she should not bring her emotion along. As I watch this episode, I found out that there are more mysteries to be answered and there was an even bigger revelation waiting to be unveiled. As usual, I would like to say be very cautious cause I may spoil the story. This anime actually did answer a lot of the character's background information during the previous episode and this episode didn't try to take a steep back and prolong the surprise either.

Don't worry we will find out even sooner :)

After three episode, finally I know the little girl name; Asahi (hahaha pardon me but in the earlier episodes, Yuki never said her name before, and I am not very good at reading kanji name xP). After meeting with Kuzuhara, Tsukishiro talked with Yukimura regarding to her "little sister". He said that if possible, Yukimura should drop the " big sister" act and take the little girl out of her life. As usual Yukimura coldly replied that she never care about her "sister" well-being only for Tsukishiro replying that he too understand her sentiment.  The episode scene moved to Yukii and Asahi having a dinner. Yuki bluntly asked Asahi to leave the house because her health already recovered. She also give her some money and ticket and promised her that after she finally got her revenge, Asahi can come and kill her later. As harsh as Yukimura tried to be, I know that she was doing her best to protect the little girl from Nue's grasp. After the last incident with the treasurer lady, Yukimura knew that having Asahi with her not only will made her unable to focus on her mission, there is a possibility that the government will try to hurt Asahi too when they considered that Yuki might become another threat to the reigning order.

She was also an orphan like you right ^^ whose parents are murdered

Heartbroken Asahi went to the older lady that she kept talking about to Yuki. She was an old woman who raise a pet dog and live in nearby area. At the beginning, I thought it was just a normal scene but as the story unveiled, the lady was more than just an ordinary civilian. I thought it was better for you to see the reveal later so I wont say anything bout her for now ;p

Two dead flags confirmed

The Second part of the anime showed that Nue team (Yuki, Tsuki, and Hana) exposed the "cleaner" connection to Janome. Cleaner was a term used for a man who work for the government. His work was like a grave digger as well as a man who took any evidence left of the person that the government's erased. When the Nue team exposed his evidence money, his reaction was very surprised as if he never know that there was a money inside his casket. In a desperate moment, he exploded the bomb that he planted nearby and disappeared in the thin air. Tsuki ordered Yukimura to descent to a secret tunnel right away. Then he asked Hana to go to the tunnel's other side exit to pincer his escape. It was just a distraction anyway because he knew the person hide somewhere close. He opened the casket and find the scared man right away. I thought that Tsuki wanted to protect the man..I'm so wrong since he shot the man later and made it as if the man attacked him

Surprising but a bit too early ..maybe better if they kept it for 7-8 episode

I knew this anime tried it best to create suspense and it hide most of the character's secret. However, Joran never shy away to reveal it as fast as it got the chance. For example; Tsukishiro's gender was discovered a bit too early in my opinion. The very reason that Hana never tried to seduce "him" was because Tsuki was never a man to begin with. Her secret gender identity was so effective cos I never even saw this coming.. although this kind of revelation was better to be kept secret for later episode. This event also tell us that Tsukishiro could not be trusted entirely because "she" always work in the shadow as if holding another motive (I don't want to say it more because it was a bit too much a spoiler, better watch yourself)