27 - Interlude Party

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    Here.
[00:21] ---
    Drink up.
[00:22] ---
    Pinako...
[00:26] ---
    Mind if I join you?
[00:39] ---
    I can't keep focused, my body's still wavering
[00:44] ---
    Trembling like I am, my control is shaky
[00:47] ---
    Both the sun and my luck
    have turned the other way,
[00:51] ---
    but I whispered "I've gotta do it,"
    to convince myself
[00:57] ---
    The situation is bad, but I've
    got no guts if I just run away
[01:01] ---
    Nothing to look forward to, but I
    gotta have the grit to get past this
[01:05] ---
    Gotta control my impulses and
    judge the distance to the target
[01:09] ---
    What I need is the pride to win
[01:11] ---
    Will I taste sweet victory, or bitter defeat?
[01:19] ---
    Yeah, it's all one or the other
[01:22] ---
    Wish I could control the threads of fate
[01:28] ---
    Take this perfect golden time tightly in hand
[01:31] ---
    I'll go at this with the best
    poker face I can muster
[01:35] ---
    Dragged into a world of illusion
[01:43] ---
    Slipping out of a boundless pressure game,
[01:47] ---
    what does it take to leap
    across the glorious borderline?
[01:51] ---
    How much will it cost me?
[01:56] ---
    What is it I don't want to let go of?
[02:09] ---
    This is nice, once in a while.
[02:18] ---
    You think we're taking it too easy, don't you?
[02:24] ---
    Where's the harm? At a time like this, at least.
[02:28] ---
    Otherwise, this country is filled
    with fighting, all year around.
[02:38] ---
    What with Ishval and all,
[02:40] ---
    this country is always at war.
[02:46] ---
    No matter how many times
    they repeat it, they never learn.
[02:49] ---
    Humans are foolish, miserable creatures.
[03:16] ---
    Between Ishval and these insurgencies,
[03:18] ---
    the eastern area is having
    a rough time of it, huh?
[03:19] ---
    It's not just the eastern area.
[03:21] ---
    There are uprisings and border
    skirmishes in the north and west, too.
[03:25] ---
    Even now, there are unending
    skirmishes near the borders
[03:28] ---
    of Aerugo to the south, and Creta to the west.
[03:31] ---
    We face the huge country
    of Drachma to the north.
[03:35] ---
    The bodies are piling up all over, are they?
[03:38] ---
    The government might just
    be overthrown before too long.
[03:40] ---
    Ah, what a restless country.
[03:43] ---
    I'd say things started tending more militaristic
[03:46] ---
    once the current Fuhrer,
    Bradley, came to power.
[03:57] ---
    Hey! Let's dance.
[03:59] ---
    Oh, you're quite popular,
    aren't you, Hohenheim?
[04:03] ---
    You can go dance by yourself.
[04:06] ---
    It's no fun dancing by myself!
[04:08] ---
    This old codger can't do
    anything fancy, like dancing.
[04:13] ---
    There, go dance with those children over there.
[04:22] ---
    It was about that age...
[04:25] ---
    ...when those boys started thinking
    about doing human transmutation.
[04:39] ---
    As their father, you should
    have said something to them.
[04:45] ---
    Whatever I could have said to them,
[04:47] ---
    it wouldn't change the reality
    of what they have to atone for.
[04:52] ---
    That's pretty harsh.
[04:54] ---
    A sin is a sin.
[04:56] ---
    Damn it all!
[04:58] ---
    It's been taken away!
[05:02] ---
    Help! Someone! Mom! Mom...
[05:23] ---
    No... this is wrong... this isn't...
[05:28] ---
    ...this isn't what we wanted!
[05:31] ---
    Al... Alphonse...
[05:34] ---
    Alphonse! Alphonse!
[05:37] ---
    This is my fault...!
[05:39] ---
    Alphonse!!
[05:43] ---
    Damn it! Damn it!
[05:46] ---
    Give him back! He's my brother!
[05:49] ---
    Take my leg! Take my arm!
[05:51] ---
    Take my heart! You can have it!
[05:54] ---
    So, give him back! He's my only brother!
[06:07] ---
    The celestial stone that
    destroyed Xerxes in one night.
[06:12] ---
    If only I had that, I might be
    able to get your body back, Al.
[06:17] ---
    Doctor, just what was it that
    you were ordered to research?
[06:23] ---
    The Philosopher's Stone.
[06:26] ---
    You must not seek after this thing.
[06:28] ---
    It is the devil's research!
[06:30] ---
    If you learn about it, you will go through hell.
[06:33] ---
    This is the devil's research,
    which shouldn't be pursued.
[06:38] ---
    Curse you, Dr. Marcoh.
[06:41] ---
    The ingredients for a Philosopher's Stone...
[06:45] ---
    ...are live humans!
[07:13] ---
    So weak, huh?
[07:16] ---
    They're afraid of the dark,
    and won't confront it,
[07:20] ---
    instead trying to forget about it,
    and run away temporarily like that.
[07:25] ---
    Humans are very weak creatures.
[07:30] ---
    Well, what do you say we
    make the most use of them,
[07:34] ---
    as our valued resources?
[07:37] ---
    Eh, Hohenheim?
[07:52] ---
    Knowing you, you'll be able to
    find the truth within the truth.
[08:00] ---
    What is this?
[08:02] ---
    Is it possible that this is for
    transmuting a Philosopher's Stone?
[08:07] ---
    Let's have a look at what you've got.
[08:13] ---
    Your prosthetic arm just saved your life.
[08:16] ---
    However,
[08:17] ---
    my trusty sword will pierce even steel!
[08:46] ---
    My brother...
[08:48] ---
    I hate to say it, but we've lost.
[08:51] ---
    You're not going to tell me you're
    actually three brothers, are you?
[08:54] ---
    No, no.
[08:55] ---
    Kid, hurry up and destroy us.
[09:00] ---
    Don't ask me to become a murderer.
[09:02] ---
    With bodies like these, are we even people?
[09:08] ---
    If I don't consider you to be people,
[09:11] ---
    then that would mean I don't
    consider my brother to be a person.
[09:17] ---
    My brother is human. You guys are also human.
[09:22] ---
    That's why I don't want to kill you.
[09:28] ---
    Brother?
[09:30] ---
    We two, as brothers, have been stealing,
[09:33] ---
    destroying, and killing for
    as long as we can remember.
[09:36] ---
    And now, to be treated
    as humans for the first time,
[09:39] ---
    after taking the forms we have...
[09:41] ---
    it's hilarious!
[09:43] ---
    Kid, as a parting gift,
    I will tell you everything.
[09:47] ---
    The ones who made the Philosopher's Stone,
[09:49] ---
    and ordered us to protect this place...
[09:55] ---
    That was a close one.
[09:58] ---
    No, 48, we can't have you speaking out of turn.
[10:05] ---
    Pipe down, you halfwit!
[10:08] ---
    You were just about to kill
    one of our precious sacrifices.
[10:12] ---
    Do you understand?
[10:15] ---
    Who are you people?! What plan?!
    What do you mean, sacrifice?!
[10:22] ---
    You are a sacrifice, after all.
[10:25] ---
    Eh? Ah, right! I'm a sacrifice.
[10:29] ---
    What does that mean, "sacrifice"?
[10:32] ---
    Their teacher would make good
    material for a sacrifice, as well.
[10:37] ---
    I'm sorry. You were a candidate for sacrifice,
[10:42] ---
    but you must die now.
[10:44] ---
    I've been thinking, all this time...
[10:49] ---
    What is a sacrifice?
[10:52] ---
    What is it you're trying to make me do?
[10:58] ---
    Liore...
[10:59] ---
    ...uprisings all over...
    The Philosopher's Stone...
[11:03] ---
    ...ingredients are humans...
[11:05] ---
    ...what we did in Ishval...
[11:09] ---
    Hey, now, who was it that came up with this?
[11:14] ---
    What you're doing right now is
    to use this land and its people
[11:19] ---
    to create a giant transmutation circle.
[11:22] ---
    The purpose of which is to
    create a Philosopher's Stone.
[11:26] ---
    Am I wrong?
[11:38] ---
    You actually knew about this, didn't you?
[11:44] ---
    Hohenheim...
[11:46] ---
    ...why didn't you tell anyone?
[11:50] ---
    Hohenheim!
[11:52] ---
    Even if I'd told someone,
[11:55] ---
    would it have changed anything?
[12:02] ---
    I've been watching for a long time,
[12:06] ---
    as humanity keeps repeating
    the same mistakes, over and over.
[12:13] ---
    How helpless they are each time,
    and can do nothing but run away.
[12:23] ---
    Humans are very fragile.
[12:29] ---
    I told you, the Philosopher's Stone is my core.
[12:33] ---
    I'm a Homunculus.
[12:36] ---
    You know of them, right?
    An artificially created person.
[12:41] ---
    That's what I am.
[12:45] ---
    We're all going to die here anyway.
[12:48] ---
    Let me show you something
    neat before you pass on.
[13:02] ---
    Can I eat you?
[13:08] ---
    Mustang!
[13:12] ---
    That monster was keeping
    another monster inside his belly!
[13:16] ---
    He's swallowing up everything around him!
[13:19] ---
    So alchemy can even
    produce something like this?
[13:26] ---
    Who are you, old man?
[13:37] ---
    Just as you have your Ultimate Shield,
[13:40] ---
    I have my Ultimate Eye.
[13:57] ---
    Ah, I get it, Hughes.
[14:00] ---
    When you said the military was in trouble,
[14:02] ---
    you didn't mean the danger
    was closing in on us,
[14:06] ---
    you meant the military itself
    was the source of the trouble.
[14:12] ---
    Father? You have a dad?
[14:16] ---
    Yes.
[14:18] ---
    The person who made the Homunculi?
[14:21] ---
    Yes, he made us.
[14:26] ---
    People have neither an Ultimate Spear,
    nor an Ultimate Shield.
[14:34] ---
    Nonetheless, they get snared
    by the most trivial things,
[14:38] ---
    and are unable to bounce back from them.
[14:43] ---
    What do you think folks like that
    can do against the Homunculi?
[14:50] ---
    Still, we won't give up.
[14:55] ---
    The hell we'll give up!
[15:03] ---
    That's something else about humans, huh?
[15:08] ---
    How did you get here with your wound?!
[15:10] ---
    I burned it closed. I nearly passed
    out two or three times, too.
[15:19] ---
    No matter how much you try,
    you cannot beat me!
[15:25] ---
    Now then, why don't you tell me your secret?
[15:31] ---
    --Thanks.
    --Huh?
[15:33] ---
    The blood that had rushed
    to my head has settled a bit,
[15:36] ---
    and my brain is starting to cool off.
[15:43] ---
    You're still going to put up a fight?
[15:45] ---
    Would you go down and stay down?!
[15:55] ---
    There are a lot of things that
    are inconvenient about this body.
[15:59] ---
    But inconvenient does not equal ill-fortuned!
[16:02] ---
    There's no reason for anyone to take pity on me!
[16:06] ---
    Brother saved my life with alchemy.
[16:09] ---
    To disavow who I am now would be
    to disavow Brother, and alchemy.
[16:15] ---
    I believe in the possibilities
    of alchemy. I want to believe!
[16:20] ---
    He's a State Alchemist!
[16:29] ---
    Get down!
[16:38] ---
    Stay with me. Don't you die.
[16:47] ---
    Damn, I can't stop the bleeding.
[16:51] ---
    Somebody!
[17:03] ---
    Live! You must not die!
[17:08] ---
    Lan Fan! Get out of here!
[17:12] ---
    Lan Fan!
[17:14] ---
    My left arm...
[17:16] ---
    What's wrong?
[17:18] ---
    Young Lord... I am no longer of any use to you.
[17:24] ---
    Lan Fan!
[17:26] ---
    Stop!
[17:28] ---
    Nicely played.
[17:35] ---
    Whether we're trampled, or beaten down,
[17:39] ---
    time and again, we keep going on.
[17:42] ---
    And then, someday...
[17:44] ---
    It's just struggling in vain.
[17:46] ---
    You never can tell, unless you try!
[17:49] ---
    It's better than knowing, and not acting!
[17:54] ---
    Are you sure you're okay with Ed, Al,
    and everyone else disappearing?
[18:04] ---
    What are you getting so desperate about?
[18:10] ---
    Even if you do take action
    on behalf of those humans,
[18:13] ---
    they'll just end up dying
    on their own, won't they?
[18:18] ---
    We're just going to wind up with nothing.
[18:22] ---
    So then, don't you think it's smart
    to take only what's important,
[18:27] ---
    and flee somewhere else right away?
[18:29] ---
    Wha--
[18:33] ---
    Pangs of conscience? Worthless sentiment?
[18:37] ---
    Huh, Hohenheim?
[18:41] ---
    Whatever you think,
    nobody is going to accept you now.
[18:50] ---
    Look at your own face!
[18:58] ---
    Humans are nothing but a resource.
[19:01] ---
    If you leave them to themselves,
    they'll proliferate on their own.
[19:05] ---
    Where is the need for you to take any action?
[19:09] ---
    What will change if you do?
[19:11] ---
    This reality?
[19:14] ---
    How weak humans are?
[19:32] ---
    We will change.
[19:34] ---
    We can change. I'm sure of it.
[19:38] ---
    Sure, we may be weak,
[19:41] ---
    but it's for that reason that
    we try hard to grow stronger.
[19:46] ---
    You may consider our steps to be futile,
[19:49] ---
    but each step we take, we are
    most surely building something up.
[19:56] ---
    Those below me will protect those below them.
[19:59] ---
    We tiny humans should be
    able to do that much, at least.
[20:01] ---
    Let it all out, Let it all out
[20:03] ---
    No... I wasn't prepared for this.
[20:07] ---
    We don't have to act so brave
[20:08] ---
    Lan Fan was more ready than I was.
[20:11] ---
    I'm sick of people dying before
    my eyes! I've had enough!
[20:12] ---
    The graffiti flower that someone
[20:16] ---
    I won't let anyone get killed
    anymore! I'll protect them!
[20:18] ---
    was drawing on the wall trembles
[20:20] ---
    I'm not about to run away!
[20:23] ---
    We'll knock that Truth bastard flying,
[20:24] ---
    Nobody knows their own uniqueness
[20:25] ---
    and pull your body out of there!
[20:28] ---
    Al!
[20:29] ---
    Along the long, long road, there will be
    days where we lose things, find things,
[20:31] ---
    Al! Come here!
[20:33] ---
    Hurry, over here! Al!
[20:35] ---
    become suddenly lonesome,
    and break down crying
[20:39] ---
    Alphonse!
[20:42] ---
    Alphonse! Alphonse!
[20:44] ---
    Let's turn the tears and pain into stars
[20:46] ---
    Just you wait!
[20:49] ---
    So I'm sure we can change.
    Because we are weak. Because we die.
[20:50] ---
    Let's light the lights that shine on tomorrow
[20:55] ---
    We struggle to live, and we become stronger.
[20:56] ---
    Holding up our little hands to them,
    let's make stardust together
[21:00] ---
    And if your mind still isn't made up...
[21:04] ---
    and a brightly shining eternity...
[21:05] ---
    ...try to remember...
[21:06] ---
    The day may come when we say goodbye
[21:08] ---
    ...the days we spent together in Resembool.
[21:12] ---
    The seasons will still make their rounds
[21:18] ---
    Though I may wander a little, I'll still walk
[21:22] ---
    Still walk with you
[21:26] ---
    Let's make sure that much doesn't change
[21:59] ---
    It was a dream?
[22:20] ---
    Thanks for your help.
[22:32] ---
    However much we may wander,
    I want to meet up here again
[22:38] ---
    Hold my hand, so we don't get separated
[22:44] ---
    We talked until the sun came up
[22:47] ---
    and held hands until the sun went down again
[22:50] ---
    Let's keep walking together like this tomorrow,
    and the day after, in light and shadow
[22:55] ---
    In this city of lonely gazes
[23:00] ---
    where I couldn't find any warmth alone,
[23:05] ---
    I first found out that love
[23:11] ---
    could provide such strength when I met you
[23:16] ---
    However much we may wander,
    I want to meet up here again
[23:22] ---
    Hold my hand, so we don't get separated
[23:27] ---
    I can't sleep alone, because I can't dream
[23:32] ---
    Let's keep lighting up the starless nights
[23:38] ---
    going someplace where no fear can reach us
[23:43] ---
    I can go on forever when I'm with you
[23:45] ---
    When we're together, I can hum as we walk along
[23:48] ---
    paths that I couldn't walk alone
[23:52] ---
    As long as you're here, I'm happy
[23:58] ---
    If you are embraced by fear of the
    colossal power before your eyes,
[24:03] ---
    then you should depart, coward.
[24:06] ---
    If you lose the power you believe in,
[24:09] ---
    then you should succumb, weakling.
[24:12] ---
    The decisive battle is now.
    Give all you have, human.
[24:17] ---
    Next time on Hagane no Renkinjutsushi:
    Fullmetal Alchemist,
[24:22] ---
    Episode 28: "Father."