2 - The First Day

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    Alchemy is the science of
    understanding, decomposing,
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    and reconstructing matter.
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    However, it is not an all-powerful art.
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    It is impossible to create
    something out of nothing.
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    If one wishes to obtain something,
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    something of equal value must be paid.
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    This equivalent exchange
    is the basis of alchemy.
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    Alchemists have a taboo,
    and it is human transmutation.
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    It is that which no one must commit.
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    Kono omoi wo keshite shimau niwa
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    mada jinsei nagai desho?
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    Yarinokoshite'ru koto
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    yarinaoshite mitai kara
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    Yume no tsuzuki oikakete ita hazu na no ni
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    Magarikunetta
    hosoi michi hito ni tsumazuku
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    Ano koro mitai ni tte modoritai wake ja nai no
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    Nakushite kita sora wo sagashite'ru
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    Wakatte kuremasu you ni
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    Gisei ni natta you na
    kanashii kao wa yamete yo
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    Tsumi no saigo wa namida ja nai yo
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    Zutto kurushiku seotte'ku n da
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    Deguchi mienai kanjou meiro ni
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    dare wo matte'ru no?
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    Shiroi nooto ni tsuzutta you ni
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    motto sunao ni hakidashitai yo
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    Nani kara nogaretai n da
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    ...genjitsu tte yatsu?
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    Kanaeru tame ni ikite'ru n datte
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    Sakebitaku naru yo Kikoete imasu ka?
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    Bunan ni nante yatte'rarenai kara
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    ...kaeru basho mo nai no
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    Yasashisa niwa itsumo kansha shite'ru
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    Dakara tsuyoku naritai
    (I'm on the way)
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    Natsukashiku naru
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    konna itami mo kangei jan
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    Brother...
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    What do you think about the
    stories of this priest in Liore?
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    About his miraculous works?
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    They say he can transmute
    flowers out of thin air, right?
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    It could just be simple sleight of hand.
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    Supposing it's not, though.
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    Yeah. Supposing it's not,
    then it just might be, huh?
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    The celestial stone that
    destroyed Xerxes in one night.
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    The grand elixir, sealed
    away by the Eastern Sage.
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    It goes by different names, but in short,
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    it's something that intensifies alchemy.
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    That's the Philosopher's Stone.
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    If only I had that, I might be
    able to get your body back, Al.
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    Damn! Write more
    information about it, will you?!
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    --Al...
    --What?
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    I sure hope this is it this time.
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    Mm-hmm, right.
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    "Resembool, 10 years earlier"
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    Ed! Al! Where are you?
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    Oh, my.
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    Messing up your dad's study again?
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    No, you mustn't scribble there like that.
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    It's not scribbling!
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    Watch.
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    That's alchemy, right?
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    Did your dad teach you that?
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    How can we learn anything
    from someone who's not here?
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    We read the book, and it was written in there.
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    It was written in there?
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    Should we not have done it?
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    Not at all!
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    Amazing! You're your father's sons, all right!
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    Your mom is proud of both of you.
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    Mom praised us. We were so happy about that,
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    that we became caught up in alchemy.
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    But the summer of that year,
    there was an epidemic,
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    and Mom passed away.
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    Brother, I'm hungry.
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    It's cold. Let's go home.
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    Once Dad comes home...
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    Don't you talk about him!
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    That guy is not our dad!
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    He didn't even come home for Mom's funeral!
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    I wonder if we can bring Mom back.
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    But it was written in that book that creating
    people is something you're not allowed to do.
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    That's why it will be our secret.
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    You're here again.
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    What do you want, Winry?
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    Grandma says that every time
    you think of a dead person and cry,
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    the more tears you shed, the more the
    dead person in the next world feels sad, too.
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    We're not crying!
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    What about you?
    Your mom and dad are always out somewhere,
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    and you cry because you miss them.
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    I-I don't cry!
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    Are you sure?
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    I was worried about you for nothing!
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    If you're slower than me,
    you don't get any supper!
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    What's that for?! Wait up!
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    Ah! Wait!
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    I gratefully accept this meal.
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    Come on, Ed, you drink your milk, too.
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    I hate milk.
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    If you don't drink it, you'll stay short.
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    Who are you calling a runt,
    you sawed-off old hag!
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    What was that, you little bean sprout?!
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    --Minimum hag!
    --Micro-peewee!
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    Baby-ant-sized!
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    Atom-sized!
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    You're reading a book
    that's not from school again.
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    You have to listen in class.
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    Leave us alone.
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    Say, what sort of book are you reading?
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    It's a secret.
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    It's none of your business, Winry.
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    No fair! You two always keep
    secrets between yourselves!
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    Bye, now.
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    Ed! Al! We're going to be having stew tonight!
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    All right!
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    Yeah, see you later.
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    You know something,
    whoever invented stew is great.
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    It even has milk in it,
    and it still tastes so good.
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    What do you mean by that?
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    The idea of sticking milk
    into vegetable soup is amazing.
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    A scientist needs those
    kinds of leaps of imagination, too.
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    Maybe you're right.
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    Sure I am! I'm sure a leap of imagination
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    is what we need for human transmutation, too.
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    From then on, we looked into
    what we would need to perform
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    human transmutation, to bring Mom back to life,
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    and honed our skills under an alchemy teacher.
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    It took years and years,
    but we wanted to see Mom's smile,
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    and we wanted to live happily with Mom again.
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    With those thoughts in mind...
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    Done.
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    Water, 35 liters; carbon, 20 kilograms;
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    ammonia, 4 liters; lime, 1.5 kilograms;
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    phosphorus, 800 grams; salt, 250 grams;
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    saltpeter, 100 grams; sulfur, 80 grams;
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    fluorine, 7.5 grams;
    iron, 5 grams; silicon, 3 grams...
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    All right, now to write
    the constructional formula.
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    Now, we just need some soul data.
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    Here we go, Al.
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    Mm-hmm.
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    Brother, there's something strange here.
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    Al!
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    It can't be... A rebound?!
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    Brother!
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    Brother! Brother! Brother!
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    Al!
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    Al? Huh? What was I doing, again?
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    Hey.
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    --Who are you?
    --Oh, I'm glad you asked that.
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    I am what you call the world.
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    Or perhaps the universe, or perhaps God,
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    or perhaps truth, or
    perhaps all, or perhaps one,
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    and I am also...
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    you.
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    Welcome, you stupid fool
    who doesn't know his own place.
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    Pipe down. This is what you wanted, isn't it?
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    I will show you the truth!
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    It was like a tremendous amount of information
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    was being stuffed directly into my head.
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    Stop! My head's gonna split open!
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    I'm being broken down...
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    No!
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    Stop it!
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    Stop!
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    It felt like my head was going to burst open.
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    But then suddenly, I understood. This was truth.
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    M-Mom...
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    How was it?
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    Yeah...
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    My theory of human transmutation was not wrong!
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    But it's missing something.
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    What I seek was just ahead...
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    the truth about human transmutation!
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    Please, show it to me again!
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    I can't.
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    I can only show you this
    much for the toll you've paid.
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    Toll?
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    Yes, toll.
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    It's an equivalent exchange, right? Alchemist?
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    Damn! This can't be happening!
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    It wasn't...
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    It wasn't supposed to...
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    Damn it all!
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    It's been taken away!
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    Help! Someone! Mom! Mom...
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    No... this is wrong... this isn't...
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    this isn't what we wanted!
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    Al... Alphonse...
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    Alphonse! Alphonse!
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    This is my fault...!
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    Alphonse!
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    Damn it! Damn it!
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    Give him back! He's my brother!
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    Take my leg! Take my arm!
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    Take my heart! You can have it!
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    So, give him back! He's my only brother!
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    Yo, are you still in Central?
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    Luckily, I'll be able to go back
    to the Eastern Command Center.
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    Aren't you the hard worker?
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    Next time you come here, see to it that
    you've made brigadier general, Colonel.
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    Easy for you to say.
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    Oh, right. If you're leaving,
    I'll give this to you now.
[12:24] ---
    What is it?
[12:25] ---
    The final report on Isaac McDougal.
[12:29] ---
    It probably hasn't reached your office yet.
[12:32] ---
    Yeah.
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    Xingese alkahestry?
[12:37] ---
    Apparently, that's something they have.
[12:39] ---
    To be honest, I have no
    idea what it is. Do you know it?
[12:42] ---
    No, first I've heard of it.
[12:45] ---
    By the way, how are the Elric brothers doing?
[12:48] ---
    I'm not their guardian.
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    Hey, why did you decide
    to make Ed a State Alchemist?
[12:56] ---
    He's still just a child.
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    As long as he's in the military,
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    he'll end up having to go through hell someday.
[13:05] ---
    Like we did.
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    Hell, huh?
[13:14] ---
    Oh, they've seen hell.
    Both of them, and plenty of it.
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    "4 years earlier"
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    Lt. Colonel,
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    they're not in back, eith--
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    What is this?!
[13:32] ---
    Where are they? Where are the Elric brothers?!
[13:38] ---
    Be quiet, Den.
[13:41] ---
    Don't bark at our guests--
[13:42] ---
    Wha-- hey, you!
[13:45] ---
    What are soldiers bursting in here for?!
[13:52] ---
    We went to your house!
    What was that over there?!
[13:55] ---
    What did you make?!
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    We're sorry. Please forgive us.
[14:05] ---
    We're sorry... we're sorry...
[14:08] ---
    we're sorry...
[14:11] ---
    You're...
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    This is a surprise.
[14:16] ---
    I had heard that there was a brilliant
    alchemist here, so I came to see him,
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    but I never imagined that a child like this
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    could ever perform human
    transmutation, imperfect though it was,
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    and even bond a soul.
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    He is more than qualified
    to become a State Alchemist.
[14:33] ---
    Once he becomes a State Alchemist,
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    he will have to serve as a
    soldier in the event of an emergency,
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    but at the same time,
    he will receive various special privileges,
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    and research of the highest
    level will become possible for him.
[14:45] ---
    They may even find a way
    to get their bodies back, or--
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    After he came stumbling
    in here, covered with blood,
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    I went over to their house.
[14:59] ---
    What was there...
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    What was there was not human!
[15:04] ---
    Is alchemy what created that horrific thing?!
[15:08] ---
    I'm against it! Would you have
    these boys go through hell again?!
[15:15] ---
    Here you are.
[15:17] ---
    Thanks.
[15:24] ---
    Um, Lieutenant...
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    You can call me Riza.
    Riza Hawkeye. Nice to meet you.
[15:36] ---
    Miss Riza, have you ever shot anyone?
[15:42] ---
    Yes.
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    I hate soldiers. My mother and father
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    were taken away to the battlefield,
    and they were killed there.
[15:53] ---
    And now, you're trying
    to take Ed and Al away, too.
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    It's up to them to decide
    whether or not they will go.
[16:02] ---
    Yes, they will decide for themselves.
[16:05] ---
    I'm not forcing you.
    I'm just offering you the possibility.
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    Whether to move forward,
    or whether to stay still.
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    Will you end your days in despair,
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    or will you seek the possibilities,
    and bow to the military?
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    The boys will be the ones to decide.
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    If the possibility is there,
    you should move forward,
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    in order to get your bodies back.
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    Even if the way ahead is through a river of mud.
[16:37] ---
    Miss Riza, why did you become a soldier?
[16:43] ---
    Because there is someone I have to protect.
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    We're leaving.
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    Yes, sir.
[16:55] ---
    Well, goodbye, young lady.
[16:59] ---
    It's Winry.
[17:02] ---
    Okay, Winry.
[17:06] ---
    I hope we'll meet again.
[17:10] ---
    Will they be coming?
[17:11] ---
    Yes, they will.
[17:12] ---
    That boy had a spiritless look in his eye.
[17:16] ---
    You think so?
[17:18] ---
    Those...
[17:19] ---
    were eyes that had flame in them.
[17:28] ---
    Sure you won't regret this?
[17:30] ---
    Mm-hmm, I've already made up my mind.
[17:34] ---
    How long will the surgery
    and rehabilitation take?
[17:36] ---
    About three years.
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    One year!
[17:44] ---
    You're gonna be spitting blood.
[17:48] ---
    Al, hang in there for a little while longer.
[17:50] ---
    I'm going to get you your body back.
[17:53] ---
    Mm-hmm, and when that happens,
    Brother, your body will be with it.
[18:11] ---
    Your body is perfect now.
[18:13] ---
    Yeah! Now for the alchemy.
    I haven't used it since then, after all.
[18:18] ---
    Right, not since you transmuted my soul.
[18:27] ---
    Brother...
[18:28] ---
    Yeah, right on the money!
[18:30] ---
    Amazing, Brother!
    You didn't even use a transmutation circle!
[18:33] ---
    You've gotten so you can do
    the same thing that Teacher does.
[18:36] ---
    Al, you can do it too, right?
[18:38] ---
    No I can't, Brother.
[18:42] ---
    You didn't see it?
[18:44] ---
    See what?
[18:46] ---
    Nothing, never mind.
[18:49] ---
    Hey! You've deformed my automail!
[18:53] ---
    Does that make it okay
    for you to deform my head?!
[18:56] ---
    Good grief, you are one uncharming gearhead.
[19:01] ---
    I'm okay with being uncharming.
    I'm okay with being a gearhead.
[19:04] ---
    I've made up my mind to support
    you until you get your body back.
[19:09] ---
    Huh?!
[19:14] ---
    It's unusual for you to
    observe the examinations.
[19:17] ---
    Oh, but I heard there would
    be a twelve-year-old child here.
[19:21] ---
    I thought I would come see
    what the topic of conversation was.
[19:25] ---
    Ho, a steel prosthetic, huh?
[19:29] ---
    In the Eastern Rebellion...
[19:30] ---
    Ah, you had a time of it in Ishval, then. Hmm.
[19:35] ---
    Who's that?
[19:37] ---
    You idiot, that's
    His Excellency, Fuhrer King Bradley.
[19:43] ---
    Okay, begin the examination.
[19:48] ---
    Do you have something
    to draw transmutation circles with?
[19:50] ---
    I don't need anything like that.
[19:59] ---
    He's not even using a transmutation circle...!
[20:12] ---
    That's quite something.
[20:16] ---
    Excellency!
[20:22] ---
    There might be those out there
    who would assassinate VIPs like this,
[20:26] ---
    so maybe you should reconsider
    how you conduct examinations.
[20:34] ---
    Hmm. You must have nerves of steel.
[20:38] ---
    But you do not know the breadth of the world.
[20:46] ---
    Good luck on the rest of your exam,
[20:46] ---
    "Ha ha ha ha"
[20:49] ---
    my overly young alchemist.
[20:53] ---
    When did he draw his sword?
[20:59] ---
    I wonder if Brother is
    doing all right on his exam.
[21:04] ---
    Say, Al...
[21:05] ---
    Hmm, what?
[21:07] ---
    If Ed becomes a State Alchemist,
    are you leaving the village?
[21:15] ---
    Mm-hmm.
[21:18] ---
    This is proof of your state certification,
    a silver pocket watch.
[21:22] ---
    "East City, Eastern Command Center"
[21:22] ---
    Your certificate of appointment
    and detailed regulations are here.
[21:26] ---
    The Fuhrer has given you quite the ironic title.
[21:30] ---
    What?
[21:30] ---
    Nothing. Congratulations.
[21:33] ---
    You are hereby an official Dog of the Military.
[21:36] ---
    In the name of Fuhrer King Bradley,
    I appoint thee, Edward Elric...
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    ...to be a State Alchemist,
    and grant the title "Fullmetal."
[21:48] ---
    Fullmetal?
[21:49] ---
    Yes. It's a second name
    given to State Alchemists.
[21:53] ---
    The name that you now bear is...
[21:56] ---
    ...the Fullmetal Alchemist.
[21:59] ---
    Nice. It has an oppressive feel to it.
[22:03] ---
    Sure, I'll take that on!
[22:09] ---
    Brother, we're just about there.
[22:17] ---
    Liore?
[22:20] ---
    Will there be any leads to
    getting Al's body back in that town?
[22:25] ---
    The Philosopher's Stone!
[22:27] ---
    Ano hi mita sora akaneiro no sora o
[22:33] ---
    nee kimi wa oboete imasu ka
[22:38] ---
    Yakusoku chigiri shoka
    no kaze ga tsutsumu
[22:44] ---
    futari yorisotta
[22:52] ---
    Muri na egao no ura
[22:57] ---
    nobita kage o kakumau
[23:03] ---
    Dakara kizukanu furi saisei o erabu
[23:14] ---
    Table no ue no furuenai shirase machitsuzukete
[23:25] ---
    kuuhaku no yoru mo kuru hazu no nai asa mo
[23:30] ---
    zenbu wakatte'tan da
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    Ano hi mita sora akaneiro no sora o
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    nee itsuka omoidasu deshou
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    Hatasenakatta yakusoku o idaite
[23:51] ---
    futari arukidasu
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    Ed and Al, having arrived in Liore,
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    encounter Cornello, a man
    who claims to resurrect the dead.
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    "Pray in faith, and ye shall be saved."
[24:09] ---
    As Cornello preaches these words,
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    a Philosopher's Stone shines red on his finger.
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    Next time on Hagane no Renkinjutsushi:
    Fullmetal Alchemist,
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    Episode 3: "City of Heresy."
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    What happiness is to be gained
    by looking away from the truth?