29 - Struggle of the Fool

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    I can't keep focused, my body's still wavering
[00:12] ---
    Trembling like I am, my control is shaky
[00:16] ---
    Both the sun and my luck
    have turned the other way,
[00:20] ---
    but I whispered "I've gotta do it,"
    to convince myself
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    The situation is bad, but I've
    got no guts if I just run away
[00:30] ---
    Nothing to look forward to, but I
    gotta have the grit to get past this
[00:34] ---
    Gotta control my impulses and
    judge the distance to the target
[00:37] ---
    What I need is the pride to win
[00:40] ---
    Will I taste sweet victory, or bitter defeat?
[00:47] ---
    Yeah, it's all one or the other
[00:51] ---
    Wish I could control the threads of fate
[00:56] ---
    Take this perfect golden time tightly in hand
[01:00] ---
    I'll go at this with the best
    poker face I can muster
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    Dragged into a world of illusion
[01:12] ---
    Slipping out of a boundless pressure game,
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    what does it take to leap
    across the glorious borderline?
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    How much will it cost me?
[01:24] ---
    What is it I don't want to let go of?
[01:41] ---
    Hey, where the hell are we going?
[01:43] ---
    Get in.
[02:03] ---
    Is this...?
[02:06] ---
    The command center. What's going on here?
[02:10] ---
    Hey!
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    You guys are filthy.
[02:16] ---
    To think that the Homunculus stronghold
[02:18] ---
    was deep beneath the command center.
[02:21] ---
    Does that mean it's not just the Fuhrer,
[02:23] ---
    but the military itself that has ties to them?
[02:28] ---
    But then, it isn't all bad news.
[02:35] ---
    Really?! My body is really in there?!
[02:37] ---
    Yeah. It told me, "you aren't
    my soul, so I can't go with you."
[02:43] ---
    You don't say. So I do have a body.
[02:46] ---
    All right... All right...!
[02:48] ---
    All right.
[02:51] ---
    That means we're yet another
    step closer to our goal!
[02:57] ---
    Hey, what is that
    black-and-white cat doing here?
[03:00] ---
    Oh, her? Actually, inside here, I've got...
[03:03] ---
    What?! The beansprout girl?!
[03:06] ---
    Brother, your voice is too loud!
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    And for that matter, hurry up
    and put on some shorts!
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    What are you doing in here?! Hurry it up!
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    Sheesh, what did you bring her along for?
[03:28] ---
    I didn't have any choice, did I? She's wounded!
[03:31] ---
    Hey!
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    Wrath will take it from here. In here.
[03:36] ---
    Wrath?
[03:45] ---
    Wrath? The Fuhrer, King Bradley?!
[03:52] ---
    Colonel!
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    What happened?
[03:55] ---
    A lot has happened.
    Sergeant Fuery was sent south,
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    Warrant Officer Falman north,
    and Lieutenant Breda to the west.
[04:04] ---
    Lieutenant Hawkeye is now
    the Fuhrer's personal assistant.
[04:07] ---
    Wha--
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    What is this? They're as good as hostages!
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    Have a seat.
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    Right now, it's just us
    and the Fuhrer in this room.
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    He only has one sword for a weapon.
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    Even so, he's confident that he could beat us.
[04:35] ---
    "Cough"
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    Fuhrer, sir,
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    earlier, when I was in the hospital,
    you came to visit me.
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    You had us completely fooled.
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    Don't go sticking your noses in.
    Treat the whole military as the enemy.
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    That's what I ordered you to do.
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    You are important human resources for us.
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    You don't need to know any more than that.
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    If you just behave yourselves
    until the time comes,
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    no harm will come to you.
[05:06] ---
    When the time comes, what happens
    to all of the other people,
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    the ones you haven't called "sacrifices"?
[05:13] ---
    I told you, you don't need to know
    anything more, Fullmetal Alchemist.
[05:20] ---
    Fullmetal Alchemist, huh?
[05:23] ---
    I chose the path of becoming
    a Dog of the Military
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    to get my original body back. However,
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    the whole State Alchemist system itself
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    is probably just something
    to select sacrifices with.
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    If you're going to be using me
    for something even worse...
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    ...then I quit as a State Alchemist.
[05:44] ---
    Your token as a dog is covered with blood.
[05:48] ---
    I will upset your schemes,
    no matter what they are.
[05:53] ---
    I will spread the word to the
    other alchemists, and then...
[05:56] ---
    What was that girl's name again?
[05:59] ---
    Ah yes, Winry Rockbell.
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    Born in Resembool. A childhood friend of yours,
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    and like family to you.
    A skilled automail engineer.
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    She currently works in Rush Valley,
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    where she is well-favored by both
    her customers and companions.
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    A nice, unassuming girl.
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    You keep away from her!
    And everyone else around her!
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    So, what will it be?
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    If you don't want it, I will cut her down.
[06:40] ---
    Very well.
[06:42] ---
    Um...
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    We're all in understanding.
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    So, in exchange for us acting as
    we always have under your watch,
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    please allow us to continue our journey--
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    our journey to get our original bodies back.
[06:54] ---
    If you please.
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    Makes no difference to me,
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    as long as you don't do anything uncalled-for.
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    What will you do, Colonel Mustang?
[07:03] ---
    You're not going to tell me you're
    quitting the military, are you?
[07:06] ---
    Well, let's see. I may be a kept dog now,
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    but I couldn't bear to become a beaten dog.
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    Moreover, right now, I still have my ambitions,
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    so I can't take off this
    uniform, or get rid of this.
[07:21] ---
    Very well. You are all dismissed.
[07:27] ---
    May I ask you one question, Your Excellency?
[07:30] ---
    What is it, Colonel?
[07:32] ---
    Are you the one who killed Hughes?
[07:36] ---
    No, I'm not the one.
[07:39] ---
    Then, who was it?
[07:40] ---
    I agreed to one question.
[07:45] ---
    If you'll excuse me.
[07:48] ---
    Ah, just a moment, Alphonse.
[08:00] ---
    Um, was there something...?
[08:03] ---
    No, you are dismissed.
[08:12] ---
    That was close!
[08:13] ---
    A sword just went over my head...!
[08:16] ---
    Oh yeah, Colonel...
[08:18] ---
    Give me whatever small
    change you've got on you.
[08:20] ---
    What's this, all of a sudden?
[08:23] ---
    Just give it to me!
[08:24] ---
    Not very much, huh?
[08:26] ---
    What are you, a shakedown artist?
[08:28] ---
    Well, whatever. Bye!
[08:30] ---
    Hey!
[08:31] ---
    Sorry, Colonel, we'll report back later.
[08:35] ---
    What the hell?
[08:37] ---
    Oh, no, the lieutenant!
[08:46] ---
    Lieuten--
[08:49] ---
    What is the matter, Colonel? You look pale.
[08:54] ---
    Do you know of any man who looks rosy
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    when he goes to a meeting
    spot where a woman is waiting
[08:58] ---
    and finds a muscle-bound
    mustache-head instead?
[09:00] ---
    --Colonel...
    --Lieutenant...
[09:03] ---
    Are you all right? Ah, excuse me.
[09:06] ---
    Lieutenant Hawkeye, reporting
    back after using the restroom.
[09:10] ---
    I availed myself of
    Major Armstrong's generosity,
[09:12] ---
    and allowed him to relieve me for a short while.
[09:14] ---
    Thank you very much, Major.
[09:17] ---
    Not at all.
[09:19] ---
    You didn't run away?
[09:20] ---
    Who was it that said not to give up,
    no matter what happened?
[09:26] ---
    Don't go telling me later that you'd
    wished you'd run away, Lieutenant.
[09:31] ---
    It's too late to tell me now.
[09:36] ---
    Yes, hello? Ed?
[09:39] ---
    What are you calling for out of the blue?
[09:41] ---
    You break your automail again?
[09:43] ---
    No!
[09:44] ---
    Are you okay? You doing all right?
[09:47] ---
    Nothing out of the ordinary?
[09:48] ---
    You aren't being followed by
    anyone suspicious, or anything?
[09:52] ---
    --Ed...
    --What?
[09:54] ---
    You're creeping me out.
[09:57] ---
    What do you mean by that?!
[09:58] ---
    I mean, Ed, you barely ever call as it is,
[10:02] ---
    and what's worse, you're worrying over me?
[10:05] ---
    Ew, what's going on?
    Is it going to start snowing next?
[10:08] ---
    Look, you! Do you have any idea how--
[10:10] ---
    Thanks.
[10:12] ---
    I'm glad you called. Thanks.
[10:16] ---
    S-Sure. You're sure you're all right, then?
[10:21] ---
    Yeah. Bye.
[10:26] ---
    She's safe, for the time being.
[10:27] ---
    It's that kind of desperation that
    they're going to take advantage of.
[10:32] ---
    --Ling!
    --I told you, it's Greed.
[10:36] ---
    What do you want?!
[10:39] ---
    Your pal asked me for something.
[10:41] ---
    Ling did?!
[10:43] ---
    It's in Xingese. What does it say?
[10:46] ---
    Dunno. Can't read it.
[10:48] ---
    He said to give it to the girl waiting for him.
[10:51] ---
    Lan Fan--
[10:52] ---
    You're not going to follow after us
[10:54] ---
    and kill the girl, are you?
[10:56] ---
    As if I'd do anything so petty.
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    Besides, I have no interest in fighting girls.
[11:02] ---
    I live by the creed of never
    telling a lie. Well, if you would...
[11:09] ---
    Hey, Ling!
[11:11] ---
    It's Greed.
[11:28] ---
    Who is he?
[11:31] ---
    And why would he need to start a
    civil war, and ravage the country?
[11:38] ---
    Who's there?
[11:42] ---
    Is there somebody there?
[11:48] ---
    Are you injured? Why don't you come on down?
[11:52] ---
    I'd like to know what's
    happening on the outside.
[11:55] ---
    It's all right. The guard
    won't be around for a while.
[11:58] ---
    Besides, I'm a doctor.
    I can take a look at your wound.
[12:07] ---
    You're Ishvalan, are you?
    That scar on your forehead--
[12:11] ---
    Don't tell me you're Scar!
[12:13] ---
    Who are you? What are you doing here?
[12:24] ---
    Oh, God!
[12:27] ---
    I am...
[12:28] ---
    I am an alchemist that took part
    in the extermination of Ishval.
[12:37] ---
    It's all right. She's in no mortal danger.
[12:40] ---
    Once she gets a little rest, she should recover.
[12:43] ---
    That's good.
[12:44] ---
    The hell it is!
[12:46] ---
    You keep bringing patients here without asking!
[12:48] ---
    They're occupying my bed and sofa,
[12:50] ---
    so where am I supposed
    to sleep from now on?! Eh?!
[12:53] ---
    I'm sorry! I'm sorry!
[12:55] ---
    --Now I've got two young girls
    --Alphonse...
[12:56] ---
    --in my house!
    --Lan Fan! No!
[12:58] ---
    You should still be in bed.
[13:00] ---
    The Young Lord...
[13:02] ---
    The Young Lord isn't with you?
[13:04] ---
    I-It's okay, he's alive.
    I brought a message from him.
[13:17] ---
    Lan Fan?
[13:20] ---
    It says...
[13:22] ---
    It says he has obtained a Philosopher's Stone.
[13:25] ---
    Now, our clan will be...
[13:27] ---
    Yes, I have to return to my land,
    and let everyone know about this!
[13:33] ---
    Where is he? Where is the Young Lord?
[13:37] ---
    What is it? Why won't you tell me?
[13:40] ---
    Don't tell me something has
    happened to the Young Lord.
[13:42] ---
    Answer me, Alphonse! Where is the Young Lord?
[13:50] ---
    How are you feeling, Greed?
[13:53] ---
    You're Wrath, are you? I feel fine.
[13:56] ---
    Did you hear? This body
    belongs to a Xingese prince.
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    He voluntarily accepted me,
[14:03] ---
    because he wanted the power
    to become the emperor.
[14:06] ---
    Fascinating little chump.
[14:08] ---
    That prince once asked me
    what it was to be a true king.
[14:14] ---
    He said that a king was to be for the people,
[14:16] ---
    and that he could not be, without his people.
[14:20] ---
    The fool. He lacks desire,
    and has lost everything, hasn't he?
[14:25] ---
    Shut up!
[14:27] ---
    Don't go looking down on humans.
[14:31] ---
    There you have it.
[14:32] ---
    He's just watching closely for
    any opportunity to take over.
[14:38] ---
    So he's even willing to take in
    a monster like you, is he?
[14:42] ---
    How great the avarice of humans.
[14:50] ---
    The Fuhrer is a Homunculus?!
[14:55] ---
    I only...
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    ...ever wanted to fight for the
    weaker citizens of this country.
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    Many others think so,
    believe in the military, and enlist.
[15:07] ---
    And yet, the military is...
[15:11] ---
    Why don't you quit the military?
[15:13] ---
    With your character, it would
    be hard on you to stay in.
[15:20] ---
    This war is wrong, sir!
[15:24] ---
    Are you going to disobey an order?! Very well!
[15:27] ---
    Call in a replacement State Alchemist!
[15:32] ---
    In Ishval, I fled from the fighting.
[15:36] ---
    I knew that the way the
    military operated was in error,
[15:40] ---
    and I should have fought against that error.
[15:47] ---
    From then until now,
[15:48] ---
    not a day has gone by that I
    haven't felt ashamed of myself
[15:51] ---
    for not sticking to my
    convictions, and running away.
[15:54] ---
    If the military is once again the battlefield,
[15:58] ---
    how can I tuck my tail and run away?
[16:04] ---
    Colonel, what are you going to do now?
[16:07] ---
    I told the Fuhrer that I still had my ambitions,
[16:10] ---
    and that I would not give up.
[16:13] ---
    Since the Fuhrer has made it clear
    to me that he is a Homunculus,
[16:18] ---
    it implies that even if I were to topple him,
    there is still someone behind him.
[16:23] ---
    I'm being tested.
[16:25] ---
    It's an honor, isn't it?
[16:27] ---
    You're surprisingly relaxed, sir.
[16:29] ---
    I don't know.
[16:31] ---
    It's just that, as it was when I was
    fighting that Homunculus Lust,
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    after having been called a weapon, or a monster,
[16:38] ---
    it's only when I'm fighting real monsters
[16:42] ---
    that I truly feel that I'm just a human.
[16:47] ---
    I see.
[16:49] ---
    The Young Lord voluntarily
    accepted the Philosopher's Stone.
[16:53] ---
    Sorry. If we had stopped him...
[16:57] ---
    There's no need to apologize.
[16:59] ---
    I'm just mad at myself,
[17:01] ---
    because I was unable to
    fulfill my role as bodyguard.
[17:04] ---
    The Young Lord is...
[17:06] ---
    The Young Lord is still inside
    of this Greed person, right?
[17:13] ---
    Alphonse, I want an arm. Right now.
[17:17] ---
    Right now? But...
[17:19] ---
    Show me to an automail engineer. Please.
[17:29] ---
    All right. I'll refer you as soon as I can.
[17:32] ---
    But before I do, you have
    to get back your strength.
[17:35] ---
    I'll get you something to eat from Dr. Knocs--
[17:38] ---
    Should you be out of bed yet?
    Um, May Chang, isn't it?
[17:43] ---
    May?
[17:49] ---
    What?
[17:50] ---
    Hmph, that's a Yao family watchdog for you!
[17:53] ---
    And you! You're the Chang heiress!
[17:56] ---
    --Indeed I am. The 17th princess, May Chang.
    --Er, um...
[18:00] ---
    If you're here in this country,
    you must be after immortality.
[18:05] ---
    You're the last ones I'm going to let have it!
[18:08] ---
    You're never even going to find it!
[18:12] ---
    Just a minute, here! I don't know
    what's going on, but stop fighting!
[18:16] ---
    --Don't butt into our national affairs!
    --Please don't butt into our national affairs!
[18:20] ---
    Don't underestimate me
    just because I'm injured!
[18:22] ---
    I would say the exact same thing to you!
[18:26] ---
    Hey, what are you doing?!
[18:32] ---
    You're my patients!
    Now go lie quietly in your beds!
[18:34] ---
    Do not butt into our national--
[18:36] ---
    I don't care about your
    national affairs, dumb ass!
[18:40] ---
    Sheesh, patients are the same in every country!
[18:46] ---
    Are you planning to mess up
    my house any further?
[18:49] ---
    Ho, there could be an unknown
    pathogen in this doctor's house
[18:53] ---
    that could get out, and kill everyone in it.
[19:00] ---
    It really is a mess in here.
[19:03] ---
    I wonder if he has anyone who straightens up.
[19:08] ---
    Doctor, here.
[19:11] ---
    Ah, so that's where that was.
[19:16] ---
    Whoa! That's a family photo, isn't it?
[19:19] ---
    It's my estranged wife and son.
[19:21] ---
    What? It's up to me what I do
    with my own stuff, right?
[19:31] ---
    Once you've straightened up,
    go get some coffee or something.
[19:36] ---
    Thanks so much for coming.
[19:39] ---
    After all, the way things were,
    I didn't know what I was going to do.
[19:48] ---
    Huh? I just realized, I'm able to use alchemy.
[19:57] ---
    Ah, good work. That takes
    care of all of the repairs.
[20:02] ---
    Just what you'd expect from a State Alchemist.
[20:04] ---
    You're a cut above the other
    alchemists around here.
[20:07] ---
    As it happens, this morning,
    there were some local alchemists
[20:10] ---
    who were helping us out
    with the recovery efforts,
[20:12] ---
    but they ended up being useless!
[20:15] ---
    They strolled on in here,
    all full of confidence,
[20:17] ---
    but when the time came, they said
    their alchemy wasn't working.
[20:21] ---
    This morning? When we were down underground?
[20:25] ---
    Mr. Alchemist!
[20:27] ---
    Thank you!
[20:31] ---
    Thank you.
[20:38] ---
    Can I really believe what Envy told me?
[20:42] ---
    About them only being energy forms,
    without body or mind?
[20:48] ---
    Snap out of it! Think about what lies ahead!
[20:53] ---
    Earlier, it wasn't just Al and I.
[20:56] ---
    Other alchemists couldn't
    use their alchemy, either.
[21:00] ---
    But that beansprout girl and
    Scar were able to use theirs.
[21:05] ---
    What does that mean?
[21:10] ---
    Their alchemy is different from ours.
[21:13] ---
    If I get the secret of it out of them,
[21:15] ---
    then maybe we won't even
    need a Philosopher's Stone
[21:18] ---
    to get Al's body back, and go up
    against that bearded bastard.
[21:28] ---
    I have to give this back to the lieutenant.
[21:33] ---
    However much we may wander,
    I want to meet up here again
[21:38] ---
    Hold my hand, so we don't get separated
[21:45] ---
    We talked until the sun came up
[21:48] ---
    and held hands until the sun went down again
[21:51] ---
    Let's keep walking together like this tomorrow,
    and the day after, in light and shadow
[21:56] ---
    I wonder now, what world were you in,
[22:01] ---
    and what were you holding in your heart?
[22:06] ---
    In this city of lonely gazes
[22:11] ---
    where I couldn't find any warmth alone,
[22:17] ---
    I first found out that love
[22:22] ---
    could provide such strength when I met you
[22:28] ---
    However much we may wander,
    I want to meet up here again
[22:33] ---
    Hold my hand, so we don't get separated
[22:38] ---
    I can't sleep alone, because I can't dream
[22:44] ---
    Let's keep lighting up the starless nights
[22:49] ---
    going someplace where no fear can reach us
[22:54] ---
    I can't sleep alone, because I can't dream
[23:00] ---
    Let's go someplace where no fear can reach us
[23:05] ---
    If the dream I've laid out cannot come true alone,
[23:08] ---
    They made me work together with them.
[23:10] ---
    then you and I will go together,
    and make it happen
[23:11] ---
    I made Philosopher's Stones, and
    deprived many Ishvalans of their lives.
[23:16] ---
    I'll split this happiness with you
[23:17] ---
    And now, they're about to make me
    work with them in experiments
[23:21] ---
    that are likely to cause many more casualties.
[23:24] ---
    So...
[23:25] ---
    So please, kill me! Here, now!
[23:29] ---
    I will strike back at them with my death!
[23:35] ---
    You appear as a god to me.
[23:43] ---
    I still haven't heard the whole story of Ishval.
[23:48] ---
    What did you people do there?!
[23:50] ---
    Tell me everything, Marcoh!
    Before this right arm of mine destroys you!
[23:57] ---
    Violence. It is the offense that never ceases.
[24:02] ---
    The ground absorbs the red blood,
[24:04] ---
    and the air is choked by
    the smell of burning flesh.
[24:08] ---
    Ishval. It is a loathsome memory.
[24:13] ---
    Next time on Hagane no Renkinjutsushi:
    Fullmetal Alchemist,
[24:17] ---
    Episode 30: "The Ishvalan War of Extermination."
[24:22] ---
    I shall tell the truth,
    even if I am the only one.