4 - An Alchemist’s Anguish

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    Alchemy is the science of
    understanding, decomposing,
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    and reconstructing matter.
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    However, it is not an all-powerful art.
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    It is impossible to create
    something out of nothing.
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    If one wishes to obtain something,
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    something of equal value must be paid.
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    This equivalent exchange
    is the basis of alchemy.
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    Alchemy has a taboo,
    and it is human transmutation.
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    It is that which no one must commit.
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    Kono omoi wo keshite shimau niwa
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    mada jinsei nagai desho?
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    Yarinokoshite'ru koto
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    yarinaoshite mitai kara
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    Yume no tsuzuki oikakete ita hazu na no ni
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    Magarikunetta
    hosoi michi hito ni tsumazuku
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    Ano koro mitai ni tte modoritai wake ja nai no
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    Nakushite kita sora wo sagashite'ru
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    Wakatte kuremasu you ni
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    Gisei ni natta you na
    kanashii kao wa yamete yo
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    Tsumi no saigo wa namida ja nai yo
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    Zutto kurushiku seotte'ku n da
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    Deguchi mienai kanjou meiro ni
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    dare wo matte'ru no?
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    Shiroi nooto ni tsuzutta you ni
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    motto sunao ni hakidashitai yo
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    Nani kara nogaretai n da
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    ...genjitsu tte yatsu?
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    Kanaeru tame ni ikite'ru n datte
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    Sakebitaku naru yo Kikoete imasu ka?
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    Bunan ni nante yatte'rarenai kara
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    ...kaeru basho mo nai no
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    Yasashisa niwa itsumo kansha shite'ru
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    Dakara tsuyoku naritai
    (I'm on the way)
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    Natsukashiku naru
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    konna itami mo kangei jan
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    In the town of Liore,
    a priest of Letoism was using alchemy,
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    together with a Philosopher's Stone,
    to deceive the people.
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    Upon entering his church,
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    Ed and Al put a stop
    to the priest's sinister designs.
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    However, the Philosopher's Stone was a fake.
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    "Stand up and walk. Move forward."
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    Having lost hope, Ed's
    words stuck in Rose's heart.
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    They were words that Ed had
    directed at themselves, as well.
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    You are the Iron Blood Alchemist,
    Basque Grand, right?
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    Who are you?
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    Alchemists who have turned
    their backs on the ways of God...
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    shall perish.
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    Hmph, so you're the murderous fiend
    who only targets State Alchemists, are you?
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    However,
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    you've picked the wrong opponent to tangle with!
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    You're fast! Still...!
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    If that's how you want it...
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    Hmph, that wasn't so hard.
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    W-What?!
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    Perish!
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    Another State Alchemist?
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    He does have considerable skill.
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    Major, you watch yourself.
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    You could be the next one he comes after.
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    Yes, sir.
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    Fuhrer, Your Excellency,
    what are you doing here?
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    I got word of this.
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    Lt. Colonel Hughes,
    are you in charge of this case?
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    Yes, sir.
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    If you need any personnel, just ask.
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    We have to crack down hard on traitors.
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    Yes, sir.
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    Lieutenant Breda...
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    Right. Sheesh, the Colonel
    is letting his work pile up again, huh?
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    Hey, Havoc, give me a
    hand with half of this, will you?
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    I've already got my hands full over here.
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    Let's see, who is this?
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    Lieutenant Yoki.
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    He's the crook who was lining his own pockets
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    with the Youswell coal mine concessions.
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    The Elric brothers exposed his misdeeds,
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    and he's currently on the run.
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    Master Sergeant Fuery, how is the radio coming?
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    The receiver has had it.
    I'll have to change out the part.
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    Edward! Alphonse!
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    Welcome back, you two.
    The Colonel is expecting you.
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    That Liore case was handled, thanks to you.
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    Let me convey my gratitude.
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    No big deal. We didn't do it for you.
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    So, this Philosopher's Stone was a dud, too?
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    The Stone was a fake,
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    but its power, at least, was incredible.
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    It transmuted this huge Chimera, and all.
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    I wonder how he used the
    Stone to do something like that.
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    We're not very familiar with
    the field of live transmutation,
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    so we don't understand it all that well.
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    Still, it is kind of interesting, huh?
    If we looked into it,
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    it might come in handy for
    us getting our bodies back.
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    Mm-hmm.
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    In that case, why don't you
    get some help from a specialist?
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    The Sewing Life Alchemist, Shou Tucker.
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    He's a researcher, dealing with Chimera
    transmutation. I'll introduce you to him.
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    You'd go to all that trouble, Colonel?
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    He's up to something!
    He's definitely up to something!
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    Don't be so suspicious of me!
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    After the Liore case, this makes us even.
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    Being indebted to you would be repulsive.
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    Two years ago, Tucker successfully transmuted
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    a Chimera that could understand human speech,
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    and earned his qualification as State Alchemist.
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    Understand human speech?
    You mean, it talks? A Chimera?
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    Yeah, supposedly, it spoke.
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    It said just one thing.
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    "I want to die."
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    After that, it refused
    to eat anything, and died.
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    What a huge house.
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    B-Brother!
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    Lots of visitors!
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    Nina, you have to keep the dog tied up.
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    Ah, sorry about this.
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    Ever since my wife ran out on me,
    the house has been like this.
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    Once again, it's a pleasure to meet you, Edward.
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    I'm the Sewing Life Alchemist, Shou Tucker.
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    He is interested in transmuting living things.
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    He says he would love
    to have a look at your research.
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    Sure, I don't mind.
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    However...
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    If you want to see what I have up my sleeve,
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    I'll have to see what
    you've got up your sleeve, too.
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    That's what it is to be an alchemist.
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    Why are you interested
    in transmuting living things?
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    Oh, uh, he's...
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    Colonel...
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    You transmuted your mother?
    An eleven-year-old child?
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    I see, so that's why
    you're the "Fullmetal Alchemist."
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    You've had a bitter experience, huh?
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    I don't know if it will be
    of any use to you or not,
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    but why don't I have you look at my laboratory?
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    Oh, how embarrassing.
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    I'm popularly regarded as some
    authority on Chimeras, but the truth is,
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    it hasn't been going all that well.
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    Oh, incredible!
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    This is my materials room.
    Feel free to look around.
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    All right, I'll start with this shelf.
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    Then, I'll start over there.
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    I'm going back to work.
    I'll send someone by for you this evening.
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    They have incredible focus, don't they?
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    They've already shut out the voices around them.
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    There are prodigies out there, huh?
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    Way up high! Way up high!
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    Al! What are you doing?!
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    Nina looked like she wanted to play.
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    Hey, what are we here to do?
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    Alexander says he wants to play, too!
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    You've got some nerve.
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    They say that a lion uses all
    of his strength to hunt even a rabbit.
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    So I, Edward Elric, will use my
    whole body and soul to take you on,
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    you beast of a dog!
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    Hey, chief! I'm here to pick you up.
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    What are you doing?
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    Oh, you might call it a breather
    from searching through data.
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    Did you find any good material?
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    Come on by tomorrow, too.
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    You're going to come again?
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    Let's play more tomorrow, okay, Nina?
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    Mm-hmm!
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    Ah, Mr. Tucker,
    I have a message from the Colonel.
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    He says "Don't forget,
    Assessment Day is coming soon."
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    Yes, I know.
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    Okay.
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    Dad...
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    What's "assessment"?
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    State Alchemists have to report
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    on the results of their research once a year.
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    Last year,
    Dad didn't get a very good evaluation.
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    If I fail this year, I won't be
    a State Alchemist anymore.
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    Huh?! You'll do fine, Dad!
    You're always studying so much!
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    You're right. I have to try hard...
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    or there will be nothing left...
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    Your mother left two years ago?
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    Dad said that she went
    back to her parents' house.
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    I see. It must be lonesome,
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    with just you and your father
    living by yourselves in this big house.
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    Mm-mm, it's fine. Dad is nice to me,
    and I have Alexander, too!
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    But lately, Dad has
    been in his lab all the time.
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    I am a little bit lonely.
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    Aah, my shoulders are stiff.
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    You should get a little exercise, Brother.
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    That's a good idea. Hey, dog!
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    Come exercise with me!
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    Come on, Nina, you too.
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    Wait up!
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    Wait!
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    Alexander, hang in there!
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    Don't forget, Assessment Day is coming soon.
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    Tell me,
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    what does it mean that he
    only targets State Alchemists?
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    If the military was his objective,
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    he could just attack soldiers indiscriminately.
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    Alchemists, with their special abilities,
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    are not opponents who are easily killed.
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    That goes double for
    those with state certification.
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    Perhaps that certification is the cause?
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    The enormous pay and various special privileges.
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    There must be many who are
    envious of them. What's more,
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    "Alchemist, be thou for the people."
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    Alchemists, who are
    supposed to be seekers after truth,
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    are changed into the military's walking weapons
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    the moment they receive state certification.
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    Ever since the Ishvalan Civil War,
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    there are any number of
    people who would bear a grudge.
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    I have something to report, sir.
    Yesterday, at 9:30,
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    a man with a large scar on his
    face was witnessed on the grounds
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    of Central City Train Station
    by multiple station employees.
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    The train station? The bastard got away, did he?
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    Our life before my earning
    state certification was terrible.
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    We were so poor.
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    My wife couldn't put up with
    living like that, so she left us.
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    I have to pass this assessment, no matter what.
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    I don't ever want to go
    back to those days again.
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    It's all right, Dad! If they tell you no,
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    then me and Alexander will get
    mad at the important people for you!
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    Nina, you sure are strong.
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    Nina, do you want to play with Dad tomorrow?
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    Really?!
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    Yeah.
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    Hooray!
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    Alexander!
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    Dad said he's going to play with us!
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    Hello, Mr. Tucker!
    Thanks for having us again today!
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    Huh?
[15:25] ---
    Mr. Tucker?
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    Hey, Nina!
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    Mr. Tucker?
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    Oh, you are home, aren't you?
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    Hey.
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    I did it. This is the finished product.
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    A Chimera that understands human speech.
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    Look there.
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    Listen to me. That person is Edward.
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    Ed... ward...?
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    Yes. Well done.
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    Amazing! It really does talk!
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    Yeah. Now I won't have
    to lose my state certification.
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    Ed... ward...
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    Ed... ward... Ed... ward...
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    Big... Bro... ther...
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    Mr. Tucker, when did you
    get your state certification again?
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    Let's see, two years ago.
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    And when did your wife leave?
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    Two years ago.
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    Can I ask you one more question?
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    Where did Nina and Alexander go?!
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    I hate kids like you, who are quick to catch on.
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    Brother!
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    Yeah, that's it, all right! You went and did it!
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    Two years ago, it was your wife!
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    And this time, you used your own
    daughter and a dog to transmute a Chimera!
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    There are limits to what you can do
    with animal experimentation, after all!
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    It's much easier to just use humans, huh?!
[17:17] ---
    W-What are you getting upset over?
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    Mankind's progress has been the result
    of countless human experiments, right?
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    If you're a scientist, then...
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    Screw you!
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    Do you think you can get
    away with something like this?!
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    Toying around with a person's life like this?!
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    A person's life?
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    Yes, a person's life, indeed.
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    Fullmetal Alchemist,
    your arm and leg, and your brother--
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    that was also the result of toying
    with a person's life, as you say, right?
[17:50] ---
    No!
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    We are the same!
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    You, and me!
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    No we aren't!
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    Yes, we are! The possibility
    was right in front of us, so we tried it!
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    Even though we knew that it was taboo!
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    No!
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    I don't...
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    Alchemists don't...
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    do this sort of...
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    I'm not... I'm not...
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    Brother!
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    Any more, and he's going to die.
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    Dad...
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    do you hurt? Dad, do you hurt?
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    I'm sorry. With our power,
    we can't return you back to normal.
[18:54] ---
    I'm sorry... I'm sorry...
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    Let's play... let's play...
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    I made it in time... Now...
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    I'll be a State Alchemist again.
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    The hell you're a State Alchemist!
    The hell you are!
[19:24] ---
    Let's... play...
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    Damn it!
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    If ever there was an
    act of the devil in this world,
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    this case would definitely have to be it.
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    The devil, huh?
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    Then again, State Alchemists
    must be willing to act,
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    and not refuse when
    ordered to take another's life.
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    As far as dealing with others' lives,
[19:54] ---
    Mr. Tucker's actions and our own
    positions are not all that far apart.
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    And we chose this path,
    knowing that fact full well.
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    Isn't that right, Fullmetal?
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    You will probably come across
    other cases like this one later on.
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    You may have to get your
    own hands dirty, as well.
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    Are you going to come to a
    standstill like this, each time it happens?
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    Whether we get called
    Dogs of the Military, or cursed as devils,
[20:29] ---
    Al and I are going to get our bodies back.
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    But even so,
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    we're not devils, let alone gods.
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    We're human.
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    We're human!
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    We can't even save one little girl.
[20:54] ---
    We're just insignificant humans.
[20:59] ---
    I wonder why nobody understands,
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    Nina.
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    Shou Tucker, right?
[21:13] ---
    Who are you? You're...
    not with the military, are you?
[21:18] ---
    How did you get in here?
    There were military policemen out front.
[21:22] ---
    Alchemists who have turned
    their backs on the ways of God...
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    shall perish.
[21:38] ---
    Dad...
[21:42] ---
    Dad... Dad...
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    Poor thing. Once you have taken this form,
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    there is no way to turn you back.
[21:53] ---
    At least your passing will be in peace.
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    God,
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    two souls have just returned to you.
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    Please accept them into thy open bosom,
[22:13] ---
    and grant these poor souls rest and salvation.
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    Ano hi mita sora akaneiro no sora o
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    nee kimi wa oboete imasu ka
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    Yakusoku chigiri shoka
    no kaze ga tsutsumu
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    futari yorisotta
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    Muri na egao no ura
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    nobita kage o kakumau
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    Dakara kizukanu furi saisei o erabu
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    Table no ue no furuenai shirase machitsuzukete
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    kuuhaku no yoru mo kuru hazu no nai asa mo
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    zenbu wakatte'tan da
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    Ano hi mita sora akaneiro no sora o
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    nee itsuka omoidasu deshou
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    Hatasenakatta yakusoku o idaite
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    futari arukidasu
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    The rain pours down in East City.
[24:02] ---
    Grief-stricken by the death of Nina,
[24:06] ---
    Ed and Al are attacked
    by the mysterious man Scar.
[24:09] ---
    In a life-or-death crisis,
    Ed makes a desperate decision.
[24:13] ---
    Next time on Hagane no Renkinjutsushi:
    Fullmetal Alchemist,
[24:18] ---
    Episode 5: "Rain of Sorrows."
[24:21] ---
    Will he be able to accept the
    decision brought on by desperation?