# 20 - Father Before the Grave
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*Masshiro na keshiki ni ima sasowarete*
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*Boku wa yuku yo mada minu sekai e*
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*Maigo no mama tabi shiteita*
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*nezumiiro no sora no shita*
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*Higawari no chizu
ikutsumo no yume ga nijinde ita*
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*Itsuka wa sa chippoke na
boku no kono hohaba demo*
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*Ano kumo no mukou made yukeru kana*
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*Tsuyogatte kizutsuita kokoro sukashita you ni*
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*Furidashita amatsubutachi ga
ranhansha kurikaesu*
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*Massugu na hikari ga kousa shite*
**[01:01] ---**
*Yukusaki mo tsugenu mama
dokomademo tsukinukeru*
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*Awai zanzou ryoume ni yakitsukete*
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*Kono sora no shita donna toko ni ite mo*
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*Todoku hazu nanda mada minu sekai e*
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Edward... You've gotten bigger.
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I heard from Pinako.
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About you performing human transmutation.
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Why did you come back here now?
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This is not where you belong anymore!
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Oh, right.
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My house...
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Why did you burn it down?
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Because we made up our minds
that there was no turning back.
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We did it to show our resolve.
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No you didn't.
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You didn't want to look at it.
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You wanted to escape from
your unpleasant memories.
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You wanted to hide the traces
of what you'd committed.
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You're wrong!
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Just like a child, hiding the
sheets when he wets the bed.
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You ran away, Edward.
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W-What the hell do you know?!
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Damn, you turn my stomach!
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Just like I was, when I was young.
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You haven't changed.
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You're just as you were all those years ago.
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Why didn't you come back any sooner?
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Trisha was waiting for you, all that time.
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Pinako...
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What my sons transmuted...
**[03:55] ---**
Was it really Trisha?
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I told you, it didn't have human form.
I wouldn't say it was Trisha.
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No, that's not what I mean.
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For example, the eye color,
and the hair color...
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What do you mean?!
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Are you telling me that wasn't Trisha?!
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Are you saying that those boys
created someone completely unrelated,
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and had their bodies taken away because of it?!
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You can keep going,
without ever eating or sleeping?
**[04:33] ---**
Mm-hmm, as long as this seal is unharmed.
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Amazing! You truly are immortal, aren't you?
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No, I'm not.
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This body is like a time bomb.
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Barry mentioned it.
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A body is inherently incompatible
with someone else's soul.
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If you force one into it,
it will undergo rejection.
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Whether that will happen tomorrow,
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or ten years from now, I don't know.
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Oh, no. Then you need to get back
to normal as soon as you can.
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Yeah, but still...
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if your body has some sort of problem,
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can't you transfer your soul into
something else, and go on living?
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If that's the case, then the way you are now...
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You don't feel pain, and you don't need to eat.
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That body of yours is nice and handy, isn't it?
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There's nothing "nice" about it!
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You don't know anything!
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Sorry.
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Winry!
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Winry? I'm coming in.
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Geez, Winry, you and Brother
always get mad first.
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My timing is always off
when it comes to getting upset.
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Well...
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Apparently, this body is unable to go to sleep.
**[06:14] ---**
Al...
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You'll be able to get your
original body back. Right?
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Give it back! It's my brother's body!
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He's the only... the only family I have!
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Give it back?
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What are you talking about?
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You're the one who put
your brother in that body,
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alchemist.
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Yes. You're just like I am,
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Edward Elric.
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Besides...
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Edward, I don't like being stuck in this form.
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Ed! Are you still in bed?!
Your father is leaving!
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Do you mind if I take this?
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This was taken with the
four of us. It's the only one.
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No, I don't mind.
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Thanks.
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In return, I'm going to let you
in on something important.
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Something awful is going to
happen in this country soon.
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Run away to some other land.
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Awful things are not all
that rare. For that matter,
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there are those who use this place
as somewhere to come home to.
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I've given you my warning.
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Hohenheim!
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Come on back once in a while,
and break bread with us.
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It's a shame, Pinako. I won't be
able to eat your cooking anymore.
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Are you really going to dig that thing up?
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Do you want to stop?
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No. My stumps are aching.
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It's going to rain.
Let's hurry and get this done.
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Ed!
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Didn't I tell you so?!
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Let's pack it in, already.
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No.
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I can't move forward unless I'm sure! Besides...
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You ran away.
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I'm not about to run away!
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Granny, Mom's hair was chestnut-colored.
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It's black.
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The femur is too long.
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And the pelvis... this one is male.
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Granny...
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Ed...
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...this is not your mother!
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That's it. A dead person cannot
be brought back. That's the truth.
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It was impossible to do.
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Ed! Snap out of it! Get a hold of yourself!
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I'm all right, Granny.
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Ever since that day, this has
been a symbol of despair.
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But now, it's our link to hope!
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Al can be returned to normal!
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Yes, Curtis residence.
Oh, it's you, Ed. What's up?
**[12:29] ---**
Um... Teacher, there's
something I need to ask you.
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It's just...
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What? Just say it.
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It's about when you transmuted your baby.
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What about it?
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Teacher, what Al and I
transmuted was not our mother.
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What are you talking about?
What are you trying to say?
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Teacher, the child that you transmuted...
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Was it really your child?
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I see...
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My son and his wife did some
good on the battlefield, huh?
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You don't say...
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Where did he... Where did
Hohenheim say he was going?
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He didn't say.
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Ah! I forgot! I have an
important message to give him!
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Message?
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Yeah. Trisha's last words to him.
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Once he comes back, could you
tell him something for me?
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Tell him I couldn't keep my promise,
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that I was dying before him, and that I'm sorry.
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Promise? What promise?
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Who knows? I hate to ask,
but if you see him, tell him.
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Why should *I* have to?
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Despite how he acts, he really is
quite concerned about you two.
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I'll tell him, after I pop him one!
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You're going back to Central?
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Yeah. Al's going to be mad at me,
off doing all this on my own.
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What the hell?!
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I'm sorry.
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Y-You're this beat up...!
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And what's worse...
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What are you guys doing here?!
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We're eating.
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Sheesh, what happened to you?!
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A Homunculus, Barry the Chopper,
and to top it off,
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a rejection reaction between
incompatible body and soul?
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I'll extend out what's left of your armor...
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Al can go back to the way he was, right?
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Of course he can! I said I would
put him back, and I will!
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Al...
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I dug up what we transmuted
together in Resembool.
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W-Why would you do that?!
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And as a result,
I discovered that it wasn't Mom.
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What are you talking about? I mean...
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What we transmuted was
something completely different.
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So then, that means, I was...
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*And*, I've become convinced
that you can get back to normal.
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Really?!
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Yeah. But, before I get into that...
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W-Winry, um, d-do you remember
when we had that brotherly quarrel,
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as to which one of us was going to marry you?
**[16:34] ---**
Hmm? You mean, what we
talked about on the roof before?
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Yeah. Al said you turned him down.
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Mm-hmm, I did, I did.
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So, this question is for both of you.
What was the reason?
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"I don't like men who are shorter than me."
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Don't go judging the value
of men by their height!
**[16:57] ---**
Eh? So does this have
something to do with Al's body?
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What it comes down to is that
Al knew something that I didn't,
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and Winry, since you remember the same thing,
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it means that it was an actual event.
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Since Al remembers something
that actually happened,
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it means that what's bonded
inside that armor really is Al.
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I really was able to pull
you out of that doorway,
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even if it was just your soul.
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And if I was able to pull your soul out,
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we should be able to get your body
back from beyond the doorway, too!
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My body, existing separately from my soul...
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Ah! Barry the Chopper!
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Al, try to remember back then,
when you were taken inside the truth.
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Back then...
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It's me! It was me in there!
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Yeah. So, just like when I pulled your soul out,
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we just need to get your body, as well!
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Brother!
**[18:08] ---**
At the time, I could see you from
inside the thing we thought was Mom.
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So it was you inside that thing?
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My soul probably didn't bind
to it because it was rejected.
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We didn't do any harm to anyone's soul.
**[18:34] ---**
Mr. Elric, sir? You have a
telephone call from Mrs. Izumi Curtis.
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I checked into the family lines
of both me and my husband.
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It turns out,
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going by the skin and hair color
of the child I transmuted,
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it was something that couldn't
have been born to us as a couple.
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You've struck upon something, haven't you?
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Yes. I'm convinced that
we can get Al's body back.
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And that bringing back the dead is impossible.
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I get it. It's not that we
were missing something.
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It was impossible to do in the first place.
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--Ed!
--Y-Yes?
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Thanks.
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What did Teacher say?
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I'm not entirely sure why,
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but she said thanks.
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Al...?
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Ever since that day, I've been blaming myself.
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I thought that I was the one who
put Mom in that form, and killed her.
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So did I, Al.
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Thanks, Brother. I didn't kill Mom after all.
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Izumi...
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I feel like I've been saved.
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I didn't kill our child a second time.
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Still,
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the fact remains that I am
the one who put you in that body.
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Whatever it takes, I'm going
to put your body right.
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Brother...
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I agreed to what we did,
and I'm just as much at fault,
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so don't say it as though this is all on you.
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You always take it all on yourself.
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I can't stand to let others become
victims over what I've done anymore.
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Like Mr. Hughes did!
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When I found out he was dead,
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I honestly felt that if it meant
others were going to fall victim,
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I didn't need my body back.
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Brother...
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I've seen others who didn't have human bodies,
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and they all managed to live their own way.
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Even in this body, people
around me treat me as human.
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Maybe this body is a ticking time bomb,
but even with a live body,
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you never know when you might
die in an accident or from illness.
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So for as much as I can live normally,
I'm not put out by this body.
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That's what I've started to think. But...
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I just can't take it.
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I... I... can't take all the nights by myself!
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That's the reason why I
want to get back to normal.
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Yeah, we'll get it done.
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We'll knock that Truth bastard flying,
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and pull your body out of there!
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Mm-hmm!
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Huh?
**[22:19] ---**
Have his shoulders always been so broad?
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*Let it all out, Let it all out*
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*Tsuyogaranakute ii n da ne*
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*Dareka ga kaite'tta*
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*kabe no rakugaki no hana ga yureru*
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*Jibunrashisa nante, dare mo wakaranai yo*
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*Nagai nagai michi no tochuu
de nakushitari, hirottari,*
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*Kyuu ni samishiku natte,
naichau hi mo aru kedo*
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*Namida mo itami mo, hoshi ni kaeyou*
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*Ashita wo terasu akari wo tomosou*
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*Chiisana te kazashite
futari de tsukurou hoshikuzu wo*
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*Tsuyoku hikaru eien wo...*
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*Sayonara itsuka wa kuru ka mo shirenu*
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*Kisetsu wa sore demo meguri megutte'ku*
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*Chiisaku mayotte mo aruite'ku*
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*Kimi to aruite'ku*
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*Sore dake wa kawaranaide iyou ne*
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*The sight of his friend injured
hastens the man's step,*
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*while the young man puts everything he has*
**[24:08] ---**
*into escaping from a dead end.*
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*Next time on Hagane no Renkinjutsushi:
Fullmetal Alchemist,*
**[24:16] ---**
*Episode 21: "Advance of the Fool."*
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*Be the one who gets the battle started!*