Episode 3

is the 3rd episode of The Seven Deadly Sins anime series.

Summary
''Meliodas, Hawk and Elizabeth travel to the Forest of White Dreams that even Holy Knights avoid. There, the Prankster Imps that inhabit the Forest attempt to confuse them by impersonating Hawk and Elizabeth in order to lead them away. However Meliodas defeats them and then he, along with Elizabeth and Hawk, follows them and finds the Serpent's Sin of Envy, Diane sleeping in the forest. Gilthunder suddenly arrives and binds all of them with his lightning magic. Meliodas battles Gilthunder, purposely allows the Holy Knight to slash him, and under the pretense of dying due to the grave wound, acquires information about the whereabouts of two members of the Seven Deadly Sins, King and Ban, as his apparent last wish.''

Plot
The main characters soon arrived at the Forest of White Dreams that is said to even be avoided by the Holy Knights because of how dangerous it can potentially be. After walking for over three hours and having lost their sense of direction, they suddenly discover multiple copies of Hawk.

All of the copies attempt to proclaim that they are the real one, until Meliodas easily defeats them. The mysterious monsters then decided to transform into copies of Elizabeth. In order to discover who is the real Elizabeth, Meliodas decides to instruct them to do some actions (e.g. left hand on cheek), and when he tells all of them to jump, all the fake copies of Elizabeth jumps up and the real one stays on the ground. With one attack, Meliodas defeats all the monsters that are revealed to be the Prankster Imps who love to play hide and seek. The monsters retreat and the characters decide to follow them, and finally discovering Diane of the Seven Deadly Sins. The Prankster Imps appears to be Diane's underlings and believed that Meliodas was a Holy Knight.

Worried that Meliodas is a Holy Knight, the Prankster Imps decided to wake up Diane who was sleeping in the Forest of White Dreams. As soon as she woke up, Diane grabbed hold of Meliodas with her left hand, only to realize that Meliodas was her captain. Hawk and Elizabeth then realized that she was the Sin of Envy, Diane. As soon as Diane discovered that Meliodas was traveling with Elizabeth, she got jealous and threw him away, calling him a cheater. The impact of her thrust destroyed areas of the surrounding forest. She continues crying and rampaging until finally, she calmed down and listened to the reason why they were travelling.

When Meliodas revealed that he had no memory of what had happened 10 years ago, Diane explained what had happened. She told him that 10 years ago, during the National Foundation Festival, the Seven Deadly Sins were summoned by the Great Holy Knight, Zaratras. However, when they arrived at the meeting point, they only could discover his dead body, which was completely skewered with spears. The Seven Deadly Sins were then surrounded by all the knights of the kingdom, and were then branded as traitors of Liones. After the recollection, Diane decided to help search for the Seven Deadly Sins. Immediately afterwards, the group encounters Gilthunder of the Holy Knights who paralyzed them with his electrical abilities.

Gilthunder suddenly appeared and trapped Meliodas, Diane, Hawk and Elizabeth with rings of electricity. After realizing that Gilthunder was a Holy Knight, she revealed he was like her elder brother. She became shocked to learn that he was the person who attempted to wipe out Bernia, and was then released from the electrical rings. When she demanded him to release the spell, Gilthunder ignorantly kicked Hawk away and began to question Meliodas about whether he knows why the Holy Knights are after the heads of the Seven Deadly Sins. He continues to answer his own question and states that he wishes to take revenge for his father Zaratras as well as surpassing him. Afterwards, Meliodas recognizes Gilthunder as Little Gil, the son of the Great Holy Knight.

In order to begin their battle, Meliodas breaks the electrical spell and draws his sword. He was able to deflect Gilthunder's initial lightning slash, but was cut by his second from behind and subsequently fell onto the ground. Gilthunder thought that he was dying and decided to ask for his last words. Meliodas took the opportunity to asked for the locations of the Seven Deadly Sins, and discovered the location of the Fox's Sin of Greed, Ban, and the Grizzly's Sin of Sloth, King, from Gilthunder. Immediately after receiving the information, Meliodas jumped back up and return to entered the battle again.

Characters In Order of Appearance

 * Zaratras
 * Gilthunder
 * Hawk Mama
 * Hawk
 * Meliodas
 * Elizabeth Liones
 * Prankster Imps
 * Diane
 * Bartra Liones
 * Veronica Liones
 * Margaret Liones
 * King
 * Gowther
 * Ban
 * Escanor
 * Merlin

Manga & Anime Differences

 * In the anime, Gilthunder is shown to be present when his father, Zaratras' corpse was found.
 * In the anime, Elizabeth's reaction to realizing her panties were stolen was shown with Elizabeth trying to think where they went.
 * Diane physically creates a campfire and starts cooking Hawk.
 * Meliodas recollects the moment when the Seven Deadly Sins were framed, after Gilthunder appears.

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