Prime Minister Honest

"Time Like these, when the nation is in chaos, are the best opportunity to determine who is loyal or who is not. Any fools who oppose me will be driven out and executed."

- Honest

Honest, also known as Prime Minister Honest, the Prime Minister and the First Minister, is the true main antagonist on the anime Akame Ga Kill!.

He is the Prime Minister of the Empire and himself seized control over the Empire while the Emperor is a child. He manipulates Emperor Makoto for his own ends, bringing suffering through his orders by manipulating his innocence. Honest secretly rules the Empire in the shadows, bringing misery, hunger and poverty throughout the land.

History
It is stated that Emperor Makoto only won the battle of succession due to the Prime Minister's influence and planning. The Prime Minister before him was Chouri, a man that was a kindhearted but strong willed and a strong adviser to the former emperor, who desired to return to the capital to stop the decline of the empire. When the Prime Minister became aware of this, he had Esdeath's force's (The Three Beasts') tasked to kill him. He is known to have one son, and he is also known to have one blood relative named Iwokura, who was killed by Night Raid.

Personality
Honest is a heartless, cruel and sadistic human being. He is pleased to mentally abuse people with the power he has, and he does not care about the country or the people around him begging for his help for a better life. In nearly every scene he appears in, he is always seen gorging himself on food with little care for his table-manners. Honest appears to be a rich supremacist who thinks he is above everyone else. He is able to commit any atrocity possible, in order for him to get a higher power.

On the surface, he is a quiet man and appears to be gentle and soft-spoken in almost all his interactions with the young emperor. However, behind the mask of man who appears to be responsible, hides a demon who shows no sympathy for any human in the world. He does not regret anything cruel in what he does, seeing them as nothing more than another step to achieve his goals of getting more power over the country.

He also shows a like of the psychological suffering of people, making them feel like nothing and making them fear him. Honest always hides his facial expressions when he speaks of something that can make a person be intimidated by fear and always hides the true monster that he is behind his jolly facade.

Appearance
He is a big and old man with a demonic and frightening appearance, he appears to be 50 years old with yellow skin, gray hair, dark yellow eyes, he has a long white beard that extends until him abdomen, he's got a nasty and scary smile when he is always plotting something against someone. He wears a pair of brown boots that resembles the shoes of Ages, with a dark green shirt that goes up his legs with a belt below his belly and short pants which is also dark green and come into his shoes and he also wears a gray coat with some hair of the animals in his neck, resembling a bourgeois.

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