# 43 - Bite of the Ant
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**[00:14] ---**
Where are you, Mr. Kimblee?
**[00:19] ---**
T-This isn't what we agreed to!
**[00:22] ---**
You said that if we attacked,
there would be turncoats at Briggs!
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Cease fire!
**[00:37] ---**
An overwhelming victory, huh?
**[00:39] ---**
Yeah.
**[00:42] ---**
It's like...
**[00:48] ---**
A crest of blood.
**[01:12] ---**
*Along our endless journey,*
**[01:16] ---**
*whenever it looked like we might stop,*
**[01:20] ---**
*releasing a deep sigh,*
**[01:28] ---**
*we'd begin to take hold of each other,
but then come apart again*
**[01:34] ---**
*But now, there is nothing more to fear*
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*The powerful ties that join our hearts*
**[01:49] ---**
*will never be broken*
**[01:57] ---**
*Here in this place where we have arrived*
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*after searching for so long, we'll place a period*
**[02:12] ---**
*Turning our sorrow and anger to strength,*
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*our destiny is right beside us*
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I told you!
**[02:35] ---**
In alkahestry, you read the dragon's pulse!
**[02:39] ---**
And I'm telling you, I don't
know what that means!
**[02:42] ---**
You have to sharpen your senses!
**[02:45] ---**
And... go! There, I sense it!
**[02:47] ---**
I told you, I can't!
**[02:49] ---**
Yes, you can!
**[02:50] ---**
Explain it to me more academically!
**[02:52] ---**
--You have to go *whoomph*!
--They sure are lively.
**[02:53] ---**
--I don't know what you mean!
--Sorry to have to hide out here.
**[02:56] ---**
Don't worry about it.
We're getting something out of it, too.
**[03:03] ---**
M-My hair! Stop that!
**[03:05] ---**
The children have someone else to play with.
**[03:11] ---**
--Help me!
--Tell Zampano that I'm going off
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to the mountains to get some firewood.
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Damn it!
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What a terrible predicament!
Everyone else is working,
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so where did that bastard Zampano go off to?!
**[03:33] ---**
Hey.
**[03:37] ---**
This way. I'll take you there.
**[03:40] ---**
Please do, Zampano.
**[03:50] ---**
I understand you've found out about Selim.
**[03:55] ---**
Yes, sir.
**[03:56] ---**
And my own true identity, as well.
**[03:59] ---**
Yes, sir.
**[04:04] ---**
As one of this country's people,
**[04:06] ---**
how do you feel about its leader
and his son being Homunculi?
**[04:12] ---**
I think it's sad that the family
in whom I've trusted is fictitious.
**[04:21] ---**
You're a make-believe family,
**[04:23] ---**
pretending to be the humans
that you sneer at as fools.
**[04:27] ---**
It's true, my "son" was given
to me from someone higher up.
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Everything, from my position
as Fuhrer to all of my men,
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were given to me.
**[04:36] ---**
You might say I'm a make-believe potentate.
**[04:40] ---**
However, my wife, at least, is someone *I* chose.
**[04:46] ---**
Is the tea ready yet?
**[04:47] ---**
Oh, y-yes, sir.
**[04:57] ---**
Mm, delicious.
**[05:05] ---**
Oh yeah, Doctor? You were one of
the bigwigs at the 5th Laboratory?
**[05:10] ---**
I was no bigwig. I just had
some men working under me.
**[05:16] ---**
I wonder how they are doing now.
**[05:20] ---**
Hey!
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Who is that gentleman?
**[05:28] ---**
A drifter that I met this morning.
**[05:31] ---**
He says he wants to get
examined by you, Doctor.
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That's enough, Zampano.
**[05:35] ---**
You can stop with the third-rate acting.
**[05:40] ---**
Good day to you, Doctor. What might
you be doing in a place like this?
**[05:47] ---**
You maggot. Trying to put one
over on me was wishful thinking.
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W-What is this?!
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Zampano!
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I can stop with the third-rate acting, right?
**[06:04] ---**
Our goal from the outset was to lure you here.
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As nasty as you are, I knew that
if you found out I was still alive,
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you'd come after me all on your own.
**[06:16] ---**
Ha! What can you three
pieces of trash do to me?!
**[06:19] ---**
No matter how many of you
gang up, trash is still trash!
**[06:26] ---**
They're like landmines.
Alchemy evolves day by day.
**[06:32] ---**
There's no such thing as this kind of alchemy--
**[06:39] ---**
Damn it! If these are landmines,
**[06:42] ---**
then if I trace your footsteps,
I won't set them off!
**[06:49] ---**
How?!
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They only respond to Homunculi.
**[06:56] ---**
Thanks to the snow, you can't tell
what's waiting in store for you.
**[07:00] ---**
Well? How does it feel to be made a mockery of
**[07:04] ---**
by someone you treated like scum and trash?
**[07:09] ---**
We've got him fooled, don't we?
**[07:11] ---**
It's just remote transmutation.
**[07:16] ---**
W-Why, you...
**[07:18] ---**
Scum should do what scum is told to do!
**[07:23] ---**
Don't act so cocky, you worthless piece of crap!
**[07:45] ---**
Doctor!
**[07:51] ---**
That was a close one!
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T-Thank you.
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As tubby as he is, he's fast.
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Don't sell us "pieces of crap" short.
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Damn it!
**[08:09] ---**
You think this two-bit attack is going to work?!
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No, huh?
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Well then, how do you like this?!
**[08:30] ---**
Did he get him?
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Ha, ha! I caught you!
**[08:38] ---**
--Doctor!
--Doctor!
**[08:39] ---**
Whoa, don't you move.
I'll snap him like a twig. Now then...
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I'll have to give you your punishment.
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I told you, Doctor,
**[08:50] ---**
you try anything, and I'll
wipe out the whole village.
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I won't let you do that.
**[09:01] ---**
You're still resisting? You really are an idiot.
**[09:11] ---**
All right, I'm going to lay waste to that slum.
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Stop!
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But simply crushing them won't be much fun.
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Maybe I'll take them back to Central,
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and use them as ingredients
for Philosopher's Stones.
**[09:25] ---**
Why, you! Are you still having
those things made there?!
**[09:30] ---**
Let the researchers there-- let my men go!
**[09:33] ---**
Huh? No can do.
**[09:36] ---**
After all, we've turned them all
into a Philosopher's Stone.
**[09:40] ---**
Wha--? Not my men, too...
**[09:46] ---**
Huh? You mean I didn't tell you?
**[09:49] ---**
But Doctor, there's no need
to mourn them now, is there?
**[09:54] ---**
I mean, you've made so many
Philosopher's Stones, haven't you?
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And used people's lives to do it!
**[10:09] ---**
Yes. I've sacrificed many people's
lives to make Philosopher's Stones.
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I know better than anyone else in the country
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how to make Philosopher's Stones.
**[10:21] ---**
And knowing how to make them...
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...means I know how to destroy them, as well!
**[10:56] ---**
What is that?
**[10:57] ---**
It's coming from the hill where
the Doctor and the others are.
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It hurts! It hurts!
It hurts! It hurts! It hurts! It hurts!
**[11:16] ---**
No! This can't...
**[11:20] ---**
This can't...
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No, this can't... this can't
be happening to me, Envy...
**[11:34] ---**
There's no way you lower
creatures can beat me...
**[11:39] ---**
No... not the Chimeras, too...
**[11:42] ---**
Don't look at me... Don't... don't look at... me...
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Don't you look down on me, humans!
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Don't look at me, you worms...
you filth... Don't look!
**[12:00] ---**
This is the guy that was manipulating us?
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We beat him, Marcoh.
**[12:19] ---**
Oh, they're coming back.
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Dr. Marcoh! You're hurt! What happened?
**[12:29] ---**
Hmm? What's that?
**[12:35] ---**
Ho, you were up to something that
amazing without us knowing about it?
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That's what you get for
going against us humans,
**[12:44] ---**
you little... you little...
**[12:46] ---**
Dr. Marcoh, why would you
do something so rash?
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Up to now, I've always done
whatever I was told to do.
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But this time, I wanted to settle things myself.
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To think and decide for myself.
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Like your parents did.
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Still, don't be so reckless, okay?
**[13:11] ---**
--Yeah.
--Yow!
**[13:13] ---**
Ow-w-w-w...!
**[13:17] ---**
Mr. Yoki?
**[13:20] ---**
H-Help me!
**[13:23] ---**
I've taken this guy's body!
**[13:28] ---**
S-Stop this, you monster!
**[13:30] ---**
I-I can't move my body!
**[13:32] ---**
No, you can't!
**[13:33] ---**
Now, everyone, if you want me to spare his life...
**[13:37] ---**
Nah, do whatever you like.
**[13:39] ---**
He's not one of us, after all.
**[13:42] ---**
Mr. Yoki, it's been nice knowing you,
even for this short time.
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I won't forget about you.
**[13:49] ---**
Scarred sir, you'll take my side, right? Right?
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Don't you look away from me!
**[14:00] ---**
--Sir, I had faith in you,
at least. I had faith in you!
--W-Why? He's one of you, isn't he?
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Save your breath, Envy.
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We've taken the gloves off now.
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If you get in our way, we'll destroy
you and that man together!
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Damn it!
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--He came off.
--Really?
**[14:18] ---**
Nice performance.
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B-Bluffing isn't my strong suit.
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Damn it all! You guys are not my friends!
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I'm through with you!
I'm severing our relationship!
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Damn...
**[14:35] ---**
Well, I think it's about time
we asked you about your plans.
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I don't know anything.
**[14:41] ---**
What was that?! Spit it out!
Spit it out, you little worm!
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Go! Let him have it, Zampano!
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After I tell you, you're just
gonna kill me, aren't you?!
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You expect me to talk, you fool?!
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Damn you!
**[14:58] ---**
Come to think of it, isn't the
Fullmetal pipsqueak here?
**[15:02] ---**
Brother? He should be back at Briggs right now.
**[15:07] ---**
I heard he'd gone missing.
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What? What are you talking about? Tell me!
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Apparently, the mine shaft in Baschool caved in.
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I wonder if he's still alive.
**[15:20] ---**
That's... not true...
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What do we do? Head back to Baschool?
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No. Knowing brother, at a time like this,
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I'm sure he would trust
that the other was all right,
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and decide to move forward.
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That's why we're moving on, too.
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There's still hope.
**[15:50] ---**
I will go my separate way for now.
**[15:54] ---**
There's something I was thinking a little earlier.
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I'm not out to just hold a
grudge against this country,
**[15:59] ---**
for rejecting Ishval...
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...but to change it.
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For that purpose, Marcoh,
I will need your assistance.
**[16:10] ---**
All right. I will go with you.
**[16:14] ---**
In order to change this country...
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Actually, there's a town I'd
kind of like to go to, as well.
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Oh, and where is that?
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A town called Liore.
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If my guess is correct,
that tunnel will be there, too.
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--So I was thinking, that could be
the fastest way to destroy it.
--May, take this, and go back to your land.
**[16:32] ---**
--That would buy us some time,
--Hold on, sir!
**[16:34] ---**
--and let us figure out how to set up
the reverse transmutation circle.
--It's what's left of a Homunculus
that doesn't die when you kill it.
**[16:37] ---**
--By "reverse transmutation circle,"
--It may be enough to save your clan.
**[16:40] ---**
--you mean that diagram we found earlier, right?
--B-But if I go home, who will
teach you about alkahestry?
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--Mm-hmm, that. We have to set it up.
--Is this any time to be concerned
about someone else's country?!
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Is that the resolve you had
when you came to this country?
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If you lose the power struggle,
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are you going to apologize to those
who have entrusted their fate to you
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by telling them you
weren't able to save them
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because you were involved in
some other country's affairs?
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Go on. This country's problems
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will be dealt with by this country's people.
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Thank you... very much...
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May, take care.
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Once I get through the basics of alkahestry,
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I'll come to you to learn some more.
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Oh, Al...
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Al... I... I...
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Mm-hmm.
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Thank you so much, everyone! Goodbye!
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Take care!
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There she goes.
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Mm-hmm.
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Well then, we should be going, too.
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Yeah.
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Mr. Greed...
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It's no use. Izumi Curtis went
on a trip with her husband,
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and no one knows when they are returning.
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Hmm, there's nothing we can do.
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For now, I guess we go back
to Fuhrer Bradley and report in.
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*Bradley!*
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You're coming with me, Greed.
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Let's get him to provide us with replacements.
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Yeah.
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*If I follow them, I'll find Mr. Greed. But...*
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Um... would you mind moving your foot, Sister?
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Address me as General while we're here!
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Yes, ma'am!
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Tch, same old gutless mug as ever, I see.
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I-I hear the fight against Drachma
earlier was a complete victory.
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Of course it was!
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The countrywide transmutation circle
is about to be finished, isn't it?
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I don't care.
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Right now, we should be keeping the
peace and security of this country.
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If there is a foe that threatens that,
even for a moment,
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we must bring them to
overwhelming and utter defeat!
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My word, how ferocious.
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If you keep this up, you'll never
have anyone ask for your hand--
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You are short on fighting spirit!
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You scum! I'm going to catch your
cowardice by being around you!
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Oh, here you are, General. Is this your brother?
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I hate to think of him as my brother, sir.
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Not some coward who would desert from Ishval.
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Come with me. There's something
I'd like to show you.
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Do you know the three grand
restrictions of State Alchemy?
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As I recall, they are "do not oppose the military,"
**[20:42] ---**
"do not create gold,"
and "do not fashion people."
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That is correct.
**[20:47] ---**
"Do not oppose the military"
should go without saying.
**[20:51] ---**
"Do not create gold" is there
to avoid financial disorder.
**[20:54] ---**
But what about "do not fashion people"?
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Why does the state prohibit
the creation of people?
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Because it is unethical, I suppose.
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I've heard that even among alchemists,
**[21:06] ---**
it is implicitly forbidden
as sacrilege against God.
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That's not why.
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Ethics is something that varies
over time and among individuals.
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That is not where the reason lies.
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It is to prevent the individual
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from possessing a powerful
military force, General.
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*A promise that we would have never made*
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*will seek to take our future from us again today*
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*Why is it that even though
we got what we wanted,*
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*we are unable to offer an honest smile?*
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*These tears welling up
are fragments born of pain,*
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*not of weakness or regret*
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*Whatever moment, whatever fate I face,*
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*I've learned that one thing is certain*
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*Whatever limits, whatever hardship I face,*
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*I don't want to give up*
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*Don't let me go*
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*The warmth of your right hand that I held so tight*
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*is still here with me*
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This is awful.
**[23:04] ---**
Is there anywhere we can
get something to eat here?
**[23:07] ---**
Let's see, I know it's around here...
**[23:12] ---**
Rose! How have you been?!
**[23:15] ---**
How are *you*, Al? What, are you traveling again?
**[23:19] ---**
Oh, you know her?
**[23:21] ---**
Well, yeah, somewhat.
**[23:23] ---**
Al, where's Ed? Isn't he with you?
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Ah, B-Brother isn't here today.
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Oh... That's too bad. I've really missed him.
**[23:37] ---**
Oh...?
**[23:38] ---**
W-What?!
**[23:40] ---**
Oh, I was just wondering what that
subtle expression on your face was.
**[23:43] ---**
Don't go talking crazy.
**[23:45] ---**
Hey, Rose, I'm finished washing the pots.
**[23:49] ---**
Do you have anything else for me to...
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*Reunion, revival, resolution.*
**[24:01] ---**
*The time for spirits to take flame has arrived!*
**[24:03] ---**
*As long as people are alive,
they keep moving forward,*
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*no matter how difficult their road might be.*
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*Next time on Hagane no Renkinjutsushi:
Fullmetal Alchemist,*
**[24:16] ---**
*Episode 44: "Revving at Full Throttle."*
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*Awaken, humans. Now is the beginning.*