25 - Doorway of Darkness

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    Beckoned now by the snow-white backdrop,
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    I go into a yet unseen world
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    Lost as I traveled
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    under a gray sky,
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    with a different map each day,
    so many dreams ran together
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    I wonder if someday,
    even with my modest stride,
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    I'll be able to get beyond those clouds
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    Falling raindrops provide
    a persistent diffuse reflection
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    as though able to see into my heart,
    wounded for acting tough
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    Beams of light crisscross
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    and shoot on forever without
    announcing where they're headed
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    Faint afterimages burn into my eyes
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    Wherever I am under this sky,
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    I should still arrive at a yet unseen world
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    Hey, is anyone there?!
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    Al! Answer me!
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    Where is this place?!
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    Damn.
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    Ling, you dumb prince!
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    Dumb? What do you mean, dumb?
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    Ling?
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    What a thing to call the prince of a nation!
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    You're all right?
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    You're...
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    What?
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    You're not Envy, turned into him, right?
[02:04] ---
    Now, look...
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    If you want, I can recite the
    entire hotel room service menu!
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    All right, it's really you.
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    What about you?
    You're not a fake, are you? You bean--
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    Who're you calling a bean-sized runt?!
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    All right, it's really you.
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    I have to ask, where is this place?
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    I'm pretty sure we were swallowed
    whole by Gluttony back there.
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    There's no way the inside of
    his belly could be as big as this.
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    Yeah, but...
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    ...look.
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    That's the run-down house we were just in.
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    What's more, over here is...
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    The lieutenant's car?
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    The fires all around are probably
    the colonel's, aren't they?
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    Yeah.
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    Which means, we really are
    inside Gluttony's belly?
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    I dunno. But it is pretty clear
    that this isn't a good place.
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    Let me borrow this.
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    What's wrong?
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    Ling, look at this.
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    Is that Al's?!
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    If it's just his hand, that means
    that Al wasn't swallowed.
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    Thank goodness.
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    I'll bet Al's worried, though.
    He doesn't know where we are, either.
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    Awaken conveniently, my telepathic powers!
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    Elric Telepathy!
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    --Come in, my brother!
    --You can just do that by yourself.
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    There are all sorts of buildings
    and skeletons scattered around.
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    The time periods are all mixed up, though.
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    Is there even a way out
    of here in the first place?
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    I don't know. If there isn't, I'll make us one.
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    Make us one? Where?
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    All right, let's have the torch.
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    I get it.
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    Let's see...
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    I didn't hear it hit bottom.
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    The wall! Let's find a wall!
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    Yeah! However big this space may be,
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    if we keep going straight,
    we'll reach the edge of it!
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    We should then find an exit!
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    I didn't find her.
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    Where could Shao May have gone?
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    Are you sure she wasn't eaten
    by a stray dog, or something?
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    Stray...?
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    Sorry, I was kidding!
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    She...
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    Shao May is a giant bearcat,
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    who has been sick from birth,
    and never grew very big.
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    I took her in when her mother abandoned her.
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    Ever since, we've grown up
    together, like sisters.
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    My clan, the Chang clan, is the
    lowest-ranked clan in all of Xing,
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    and we wield next to no power.
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    Maybe that's why...
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    Maybe those whose positions
    are weak are drawn to each other.
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    Mm-hmm, maybe at first, it was out of sympathy.
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    But we've lived together like family,
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    and gone through hardships together...
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    and she has become an
    indispensable part of my life.
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    There have been many things that I've
    been able to endure because of her.
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    Crossing the desert is something
    that I only got through because of her.
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    Yeah, but there was no need for
    you to cross it in the first place.
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    Why, for the sake of something
    as ridiculous as immortality,
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    would you intentionally...
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    If I don't return with the
    way to gain immortality,
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    present it to His Highness
    the Emperor, and gain his trust,
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    our clan will continue on until it perishes.
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    That's why I came to this country...
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    ...with her...
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    --Shao May!
    --Ah, don't cry anymore! I'm begging you!
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    Sir?
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    There's still some time left
    before the sun comes up.
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    There will be fewer military police now.
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    You're going to help me look for her?
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    He's a good person.
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    His people were wiped out
    in the civil war earlier.
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    That's why...
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    ...maybe he feels some kinship
    for the survival of your minor clan.
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    Well?! Aren't we going to go look?!
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    Yes, we're going!
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    It sure is tiring...
    when our footing is like this.
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    Yeah. What's worse,
    after all this, there's no exit.
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    I'm starving.
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    Once we get out,
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    I'll feed you as much as you like.
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    You can eat as much as you like,
    and sleep as much as you like.
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    Ling?
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    I-I've had it.
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    Hey, now, throwing in the towel?
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    What a wuss.
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    You're going to collapse here, too?
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    Get up! Walk!
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    Move forward! Come on!
[08:08] ---
    Go on.
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    You spineless wimp!
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    I'm going!
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    I'm not going to let myself croak
    someplace like this, after all!
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    I really am going to go, all by myself!
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    I really, really am!
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    I thought you were going.
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    I'm not going to let us both go down!
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    You've got people waiting
    for you, too, don't you?
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    And if you've got strength enough to talk--
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    If only... we had something to eat...
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    You know something, Ling?
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    Leather goods are edible.
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    Just about there.
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    Here.
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    There's no... athlete's foot, right?
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    Does it look like there's any, you bonehead?!
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    Whew, I'm full.
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    I'm sorry.
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    For what?
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    This is all because you were protecting me.
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    It's nothing. Compared to the
    training I went through as a kid,
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    this is no big deal.
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    It sucks that we don't know
    where this place is, though.
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    But we're still alive and kicking,
    so we can look for a way out.
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    You sure are positive.
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    I'm just stubborn about staying alive.
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    If I give up even a little bit,
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    I get Al's iron fists and
    angry howls flying at me.
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    What is it?
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    Something's coming.
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    Is that...?
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    Oh my, it's you guys, is it?
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    It's Envy, all right.
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    Tell me the way out of here!
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    That's pretty ugly of you, Edward Elric!
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    Shut up! A man will do anything to survive!
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    --For shame! For shame!
    --Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!
    --Unfortunately...
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    ...there is no way out.
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    You've really gone and done it now.
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    You even got me, Envy,
    dragged into this, as well.
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    Where is this place?
    Are we really inside Gluttony's belly?
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    We're both inside his belly,
    and not inside his belly.
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    Fullmetal pips-- er, Alchemist,
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    you've realized what this place is, haven't you?
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    Now that you mention it,
    the moment that Gluttony swallowed us...
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    I've felt that sensation before somewhere.
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    You remember it, right?
    You experienced it in the past, after all.
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    The Doorway of Truth!
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    B--
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    But, it wasn't like this there!
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    It was an all-white space, with a doorway.
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    Yeah? So that's what
    the real thing is like, huh?
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    The real thing?
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    Gluttony is a failed attempt by our Father
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    to create a Doorway of Truth.
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    He's... what?
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    But Father couldn't create one,
    not even with his power.
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    This is a defective Doorway of Truth.
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    I guess you could call this the area
    between reality and truth.
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    Between?!
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    There are no exits, nor any ways out.
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    All we can do is use up our strength
    and wait for our lives to end.
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    Guys,
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    all we can do is wait around in here to die!
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    Oh, man...
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    I'll be damned if that's true!
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    Don't go telling us crap like that, Envy!
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    Hey!
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    There isn't any exit?
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    We're going to die here?
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    Hey... Hey! Hold on! If I die...
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    What's Al going to do?
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    I promised him! We're going to
    get back to normal together!
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    Damn it!
[12:39] ---
    Doorways and creating things aside,
    just who is this Father?
[12:44] ---
    Is it Fuhrer Bradley?
[12:47] ---
    Bradley? Ha! No, he's just a Homunculus.
[12:54] ---
    I knew it.
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    The 5th Laboratory...
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    Human lives used to make...
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    ...Philosopher's Stones...
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    Homunculi...
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    If the Fuhrer is one, too, then are
    you guys behind the Ishval War?
[13:11] ---
    Ishval?
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    I've never had a job more
    delightful than that one.
[13:17] ---
    Do you know what the trigger
    was that started the uprising?
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    As I recall, a military officer
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    accidentally killed an Ishvalan child.
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    Yes.
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    And I, Envy, am the very
    person who shot that child.
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    Um...
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    I heard from Mr. Yoki about
    what happened to Ishval.
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    That felt so good.
[14:10] ---
    The civil war flared up right before my eyes,
[14:12] ---
    all over one bullet.
[14:14] ---
    Man, that was a real thrill.
[14:17] ---
    Ah, and incidentally,
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    the officer that I, Envy, turned myself into
[14:23] ---
    was a moderate, who opposed
    the military's intervention in Ishval.
[14:28] ---
    And the guy...
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    ...he couldn't even account for himself,
    and was court-martialed!
[14:35] ---
    You humans really are
    easily manipulated creatures!
[14:42] ---
    So you're the one who shot that innocent child?
[14:48] ---
    Who ruined our home,
    and drove out the Ishvalans?
[14:53] ---
    The one who made Scar
    so hell-bent for vengeance?
[14:57] ---
    The reason...
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    ...why Winry's parents were taken from her?
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    Why, you...!!
[15:08] ---
    What?
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    He didn't even flinch.
[15:12] ---
    You wanna fight, you punks?!
[15:15] ---
    Ed, get back!
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    We're all going to die here anyway.
[15:25] ---
    Let me show you something
    neat before you pass on.
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    Did you see his footprints when
    we were fighting in the forest?
[15:32] ---
    No.
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    You mean...
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    He's unusually heavy for his size.
[15:42] ---
    His true body is quite...
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    Damn.
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    What is this?!
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    How is he a Homunculus, a man-made "person"?!
[16:29] ---
    What...
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    ...do I do?
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    I don't know.
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    What do I do?
[16:40] ---
    Father will be mad at me.
[16:45] ---
    Father? You have a dad?
[16:49] ---
    Yes.
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    The person who made the Homunculi?
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    Yes, he made us.
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    Where does the mass he swallows go?
    Is it some kind of trick?
[17:06] ---
    Think! Think!
[17:08] ---
    We promised each other we'd
    get back to normal together.
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    What good will it do to give up?
[17:15] ---
    Gluttony!
[17:16] ---
    Take me with you!
    Take me to where your father is!
[17:23] ---
    Okay.
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    You are a sacrifice, after all.
[17:29] ---
    Ah, right! I'm a sacrifice.
[17:33] ---
    What does that mean, "sacrifice"?
[17:38] ---
    As for that matter,
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    the only ones that have
    been confirmed at present...
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    ...are the two Elric brothers.
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    What about Dr. Marcoh? Isn't it about time...
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    There's also Kimblee.
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    He doesn't have the nerve
    it takes to open the doorway.
[17:54] ---
    Come to think of it, what about Mustang,
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    the other sacrifice candidate?
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    The Fuhrer said he would like
    to have a nice long talk with him.
[18:08] ---
    Why are you keeping me alive?
[18:12] ---
    In order to allow you to
    understand your position.
[18:16] ---
    How long has the military
    been bowing to the Homunculi?
[18:20] ---
    This has all been set up
    since the birth of this nation.
[18:26] ---
    So you've been watching us struggle
[18:27] ---
    and snickering to yourselves for all this time?
[18:30] ---
    Your hands that were trembling
    at General Hughes' funeral...
[18:35] ---
    Did you fake that, too?
[18:39] ---
    Everyone makes too great a fuss
    over the death of one soldier.
[18:43] ---
    He must have at least known
    that there was a possibility
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    that his uniform was what he would be buried in.
[18:50] ---
    General Hughes' child...
[18:53] ---
    Could there be anything more
    noisy in the middle of a funeral?
[18:59] ---
    She truly did grate on my nerves.
[19:02] ---
    I thought you had a child, too!
    How can you say that?
[19:07] ---
    You mean Selim?
[19:09] ---
    He's a very good boy.
[19:13] ---
    What if he were to find out
[19:15] ---
    that the father he looks up to is a Homunculus?
[19:19] ---
    Is that a threat?
[19:21] ---
    It won't work.
[19:24] ---
    He will never be a way to get to me.
[19:28] ---
    But your case is different.
[19:31] ---
    She can be used to get to you.
[19:38] ---
    Lieutenant Hawkeye!
[19:41] ---
    What is it?
[19:42] ---
    Someone from the
    Personnel Bureau came by earlier.
[19:45] ---
    They informed me
[19:47] ---
    that I was being assigned to duty
    at the Southern Command Center.
[19:50] ---
    What?!
[19:51] ---
    And it's not just me, either.
[19:54] ---
    Lieutenant Breda is going to
    the Western Command Center,
[19:57] ---
    and Warrant Officer Falman
    has apparently been transferred
[19:59] ---
    to the Northern Command Center.
[20:11] ---
    Lieutenant Hawkeye?
[20:13] ---
    Yes, sir.
[20:14] ---
    I'm Yakovlev, from the Personnel Bureau.
[20:16] ---
    Personnel Bureau?
[20:19] ---
    And I'm Storche, assistant to the Fuhrer.
[20:23] ---
    Please take this.
[20:25] ---
    Are these transfer orders?
[20:27] ---
    That's correct.
[20:30] ---
    If I may look at them...
[20:36] ---
    What's this?!
[20:38] ---
    What kind of implausible assignment is this?!
[20:41] ---
    Where are you being whisked away to?
[20:44] ---
    "Starting tomorrow,
    First Lieutenant Riza Hawkeye
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    is assigned to the Central Command Center...
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    ...as an assistant to the Fuhrer."
[20:54] ---
    And that's that,
[20:56] ---
    Colonel Roy Mustang.
[21:03] ---
    --Let us out!
    --The pain!
[21:06] ---
    Ah, delightful, delightful...
[21:08] ---
    Damn, there's nothing delightful about this.
[21:11] ---
    Yeah, no doubt.
[21:19] ---
    Ling!
[21:25] ---
    Ed!
[21:30] ---
    Can you make a weapon?
[21:32] ---
    Leave it to me!
[21:33] ---
    With this sea of blood,
[21:35] ---
    there's no shortage of iron.
[21:42] ---
    You've got lousy taste.
[21:45] ---
    What part? It's pretty slick, isn't it?
[21:52] ---
    Can we take him?
[21:54] ---
    I'm not sure. I mean,
    what with the way he's built.
[21:57] ---
    What's worse, he broke two
    or three ribs in that last attack.
[22:01] ---
    I'm in pretty similar shape.
[22:03] ---
    Nonetheless, we have to
    pump this guy up full of hurt!
[22:14] ---
    Gluttony, are you sure this is the right way?
[22:17] ---
    Mm-hmm.
[22:18] ---
    But this way is...
[22:20] ---
    This is...
[22:23] ---
    Your Father is in Central?!
[22:27] ---
    Let it all out, Let it all out
[22:33] ---
    We don't have to act so brave
[22:38] ---
    The graffiti flower that someone
[22:44] ---
    was drawing on the wall trembles
[22:50] ---
    Nobody knows their own uniqueness
[22:55] ---
    Along the long, long road, there will be
    days where we lose things, find things,
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    become suddenly lonesome,
    and break down crying
[23:11] ---
    Let's turn the tears and pain into stars
[23:16] ---
    Let's light the lights that shine on tomorrow
[23:22] ---
    Holding up our little hands to them,
    let's make stardust together
[23:30] ---
    and a brightly shining eternity...
[23:32] ---
    The day may come when we say goodbye
[23:38] ---
    The seasons will still make their rounds
[23:44] ---
    Though I may wander a little, I'll still walk
[23:48] ---
    Still walk with you
[23:52] ---
    Let's make sure that much doesn't change
[23:59] ---
    Is the soul that works behind the
    scenes a signpost to the future?
[24:04] ---
    Young man, you must fight,
[24:06] ---
    if you are to bump into the truth,
[24:08] ---
    and learn the depths of the darkness.
[24:11] ---
    Next time on Hagane no Renkinjutsushi:
    Fullmetal Alchemist,
[24:16] ---
    Episode 26: "Reunion."
[24:20] ---
    I will not say goodbye,
[24:22] ---
    because I believe the day
    will come when we meet again.