6 - Road of Hope

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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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    Alchemists have 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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    Scar, a man who only
    goes after State Alchemists,
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    had attacked Edward Elric.
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    Under the assault from Scar,
    Ed was ready to die,
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    but thanks to the intervention
    of Col. Mustang and company,
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    he escaped with his life.
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    Once again realizing the joy of being alive,
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    Ed and Al decided to return
    to their home of Resembool,
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    in order to restore their bodies.
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    Yo!
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    Lt. Colonel Hughes...
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    The folks at the Eastern
    Command Center were all busy,
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    and couldn't come,
    so I'm seeing you off, instead.
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    That's fine and all, but...
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    why is the major here?
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    Isn't it obvious? What if Scar were
    to attack you again, or something?
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    You'd be in trouble,
    in the shape you're in, right?
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    The major means well. Just accept it willingly.
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    Children need not act so coy!
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    Don't treat me like a child!
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    By the way, you're sure Al got aboard, right?
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    Of course.
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    --I thought he would
    be lonesome, all by himself.
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    --What do you think my brother is?!
    --I thought he would
    be lonesome, all by himself.
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    Oh, it's time.
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    Okay, be careful on your journey.
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    If you ever come by Central, give me a holler.
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    Doctor Marcoh!
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    Doctor Marcoh, that's you, isn't it?!
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    It's Alex Louis Armstrong, from Central!
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    Friend of yours?
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    He's a capable State Alchemist, from Central.
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    He was researching how to apply
    alchemy to medical treatment,
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    but after the Ishvalan
    Civil War, he went missing.
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    Let's get off, Major.
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    A person like him might know something
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    about transmuting living things.
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    Do you, by any chance, know this person?
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    Major, you sure draw well.
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    The art of drawing likenesses
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    has been passed down among
    the Armstrongs for generations.
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    That looks like Dr. Mauro.
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    Mauro?
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    During the civil war,
    the town's doctors were all drafted,
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    which left us hard up. Dr. Mauro
    really saved us when he came here.
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    He doesn't give up on any
    patients, and sees them all.
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    We're glad to have him.
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    No sooner do you see this
    flash of light, than you're cured!
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    This is the place.
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    Hello...!
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    What are you here for?!
    Are you here to take me back there?!
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    Please, calm down, Doctor.
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    I don't ever want to go back there!
    Please, anything but that!
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    It's not that. Hear me out--
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    Then, you're here to silence me, is that it?!
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    No, it's not that.
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    You won't trick me!
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    Please, I'm asking you, calm down!
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    Al!
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    Imagine, changing your name and living
    in hiding out here in the countryside.
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    I'd heard stories that
    when you disappeared,
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    you took top-secret materials with you.
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    I couldn't take it anymore.
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    Never mind that it was ordered from above,
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    to have to dirty my hands
    researching that thing...
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    That thing?
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    During the Ishvalan Civil War,
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    so many innocent people
    lost their lives because of it.
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    I could give my whole life,
    and still not atone for what I've done.
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    Even so, I decided to do all that
    I could, so I became a doctor here.
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    Doctor, just what was it that
    you were ordered to research?
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    The Philosopher's Stone.
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    What I took out of there
    were my research materials,
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    and the Stone itself.
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    You have a Stone? Here?!
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    That's the Stone? But it's a liquid...
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    "The Sage's Stone," "The Celestial Stone,"
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    "The Grand Elixir,"
    "The Red Tincture," "The Fifth Element"...
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    Just as the Philosopher's Stone
    is called by many names,
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    its form is not necessarily that of a stone.
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    However, this is an incomplete product.
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    There's no telling when it will
    reach its limit, and become unusable.
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    Even so, it demonstrated plenty
    of force during the Ishvalan Civil War.
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    The same was true of that false priest in Liore.
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    It may have been incomplete,
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    but his abilities were definitely increased.
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    If something as potent as that can be produced,
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    then depending on the research,
    a complete product is not impossible.
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    Dr. Marcoh, can I see your research materials?!
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    Major, who exactly is this boy?
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    He is a State Alchemist.
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    A child like this?
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    After the civil war,
    there were so many alchemists
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    who turned in their certifications,
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    because they could not bear to be human weapons.
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    And yet, you...
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    I realize how foolish it is!
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    But even so, I have to keep
    lying here until I achieve my goal,
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    even if it is on a bed of thorns!
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    I see. You've committed the taboo, have you?
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    You surprise me.
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    Imagine, being able to
    transmute a specific person's soul.
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    You just might be able to
    produce a complete Philosopher's Stone.
[08:43] ---
    So then...?
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    But I cannot show you my materials.
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    You can't mean...
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    You must not seek after this thing!
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    Not even to get our bodies back?!
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    No!
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    It is the devil's research!
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    If you learn about it, you will go through hell.
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    I've already gone through hell!
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    No.
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    Please leave.
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    I've already gone through hell!
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    Are you sure about this?
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    Incomplete though it may have been,
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    you could have at least taken
    the Stone from him by force.
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    Yeah. I wanted it so bad I could taste it.
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    But...
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    We don't want to get our bodies back so badly
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    that we would deprive this
    town of its source of care.
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    We gained plenty just finding out that
    a Philosopher's Stone can be made.
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    We'll look for some other way.
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    What about you, Major?
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    Are you okay with not reporting
    back to Central about Dr. Marcoh?
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    All I met today was a simple
    small-town doctor named Mauro.
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    Hey!
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    Dr. Marcoh...
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    This is where my materials are hidden.
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    If you're sure you won't
    regret learning the truth,
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    then take a look at this.
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    Knowing you, you'll be able
    to find the truth within the truth--
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    No, I've said too much.
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    I pray that the day will come
    when you get your bodies back.
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    Brother, what does it say?
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    National Central Library, First Branch.
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    I get it. To hide a tree,
    place it in a forest, eh?
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    The volume of books
    there is enormous, after all.
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    There are clues about the Stone there.
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    I've been looking for you, Marcoh.
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    Winry! Winry!
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    Our regular customer is here!
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    Yo, Granny.
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    We're home.
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    My word, what have you gotten into?
[11:39] ---
    A lot has happened. Can you set us up again?
[11:44] ---
    This is Major Armstrong.
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    Pinako Rockbell.
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    You know, I don't see you for a while, Ed,
[11:52] ---
    and you've gone and grown smaller.
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    Hey! Usually in this situation,
    you say "grown bigger"!
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    If you had grown bigger, I would have said it.
[12:03] ---
    What was that, you minimum hag?!
[12:08] ---
    I told you, when you come
    back for maintenance, call first!
[12:12] ---
    Winry, are you trying to kill me?!
[12:17] ---
    Welcome back!
[12:19] ---
    Yeah!
[12:20] ---
    Oh, no!
[12:22] ---
    Yeah, sorry. It's all smashed up.
[12:25] ---
    All smashed up? This is the first-rate automail
[12:28] ---
    I put my whole heart and soul into making!
[12:31] ---
    Yeah, and now it's all in tiny little pieces.
[12:35] ---
    So, what, are you smashed up too, Al?
[12:38] ---
    Just what sort of lives are you leading?
[12:44] ---
    Geez, all you ever do is worry me.
[12:48] ---
    I see.
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    And in order to get that information,
[12:53] ---
    you want to go to Central as soon as possible?
[12:56] ---
    Yeah. We'd like you to put a rush on this.
[13:00] ---
    It's not just the arm,
    your leg needs adjusting, too.
[13:04] ---
    Oh, because he's grown so much, right?
[13:07] ---
    Shut up!
[13:08] ---
    The leg aside, we'll have
    to build the arm from scratch.
[13:12] ---
    Can you have it done in a week?
[13:14] ---
    Give us some credit.
[13:18] ---
    Three days.
[13:21] ---
    Make do with this spare, for now.
[13:23] ---
    Mm-hmm. Whoa!
[13:26] ---
    Sure is hard to walk on a leg I'm not used to.
[13:29] ---
    We'll be finished before you're used to it.
[13:31] ---
    That being said,
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    between machining, assembly,
    connecting, and finishing,
[13:36] ---
    I'll be pulling nothing but all-nighters.
[13:38] ---
    Sorry to ask so much of you.
[13:40] ---
    You want to get to Central
    as soon as possible, right?
[13:43] ---
    Fine then, I'll overwork myself for you!
[13:45] ---
    But in return, you're going
    to pay a bundle in rush order fees!
[13:59] ---
    I am finished.
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    Oh, thanks.
[14:03] ---
    I don't see Edward Elric around.
[14:06] ---
    Yeah.
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    He said he was going
    to visit his mother's grave.
[14:18] ---
    Major...
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    what kind of lives are those boys leading?
[14:25] ---
    They never send us a single letter.
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    They are alchemists who are
    well-known, even in Central.
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    They also seem to find
    trouble as a result of it.
[14:37] ---
    Oh, but they're all right.
    Those brothers are strong.
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    Strong, huh? I sure hope so.
[14:48] ---
    Madam Pinako, are the two
    of them like grandsons to you?
[14:53] ---
    I've been watching over them,
    ever since they were born.
[14:57] ---
    The boys' father was a drinking
    pal of mine from long ago, you see.
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    He up and left the village,
    leaving his wife and children behind.
[15:06] ---
    I don't even know whether or not he's alive now.
[15:17] ---
    Come to think of it,
    where are Miss Winry's parents?
[15:22] ---
    They died in the Ishvalan Civil War.
[15:27] ---
    My son-- her parents were surgeons.
[15:32] ---
    They went off to the battlefield,
    what with the lack of doctors.
[15:36] ---
    It was... a terrible war.
[15:40] ---
    Indeed it was.
[15:46] ---
    Oh, it's just about time to start supper.
[15:49] ---
    You look like you eat a lot,
    so it makes it worth cooking.
[15:52] ---
    Oh, no, I couldn't let you
    trouble yourself over me.
[15:56] ---
    Food tastes better when everyone eats together.
[15:59] ---
    There's some spare bedding,
    and the patient's bed is available,
[16:01] ---
    so you can use them.
[16:03] ---
    Those brothers don't have
    anywhere else to stay but here, either.
[16:07] ---
    Having one more along makes no difference.
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    What about their home?
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    They don't have one.
    Those boys have no home to return to.
[16:20] ---
    The day they left,
    after Ed got his state certification,
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    they burned their own house down.
[16:27] ---
    They probably did it so
    that they couldn't turn back,
[16:30] ---
    without a house to come home to.
[16:39] ---
    Guess we should head back.
[16:42] ---
    Everyone is waiting.
[16:47] ---
    --I'm back--
[16:48] ---
    --Edward Elric!
    --I'm back--
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    "Gyaah!"
[16:52] ---
    Such immaculate love,
    to try to bring your mother back to life!
[16:56] ---
    Such tremendous love,
    to be willing to give up your own life
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    to transmute your brother's soul!
[17:01] ---
    Such dreadful determination,
    to burn down the home
[17:04] ---
    that held so many memories for you,
    to cut off any retreat!
[17:07] ---
    Let me at least offer this embrace!
[17:11] ---
    Stay back! Too stuffy! Stop!
[17:34] ---
    You're at it, you're at it.
    Working hard so early in the morning.
[17:37] ---
    Been up all night.
[17:45] ---
    Working hard, so late into the night!
[17:47] ---
    At this pace, you must be about done, right?
[17:49] ---
    I'll be up all night tonight, too.
[17:51] ---
    Oh.
[18:04] ---
    Keep out!
[18:09] ---
    They said it would take three days to finish,
[18:12] ---
    so just sit still and wait for them.
[18:13] ---
    Yeah, I know. But when
    I think about how the secret
[18:17] ---
    to the Philosopher's Stone is
    in Central, I just can't settle down.
[18:25] ---
    Sorry for the wait! It's done!
[18:30] ---
    Ready?
[18:31] ---
    Y-Yeah!
[18:32] ---
    One...
[18:33] ---
    two...
[18:34] ---
    three!
[18:38] ---
    I hate that moment when
    the nerves connect, every time.
[18:41] ---
    But once we get a Philosopher's Stone,
[18:44] ---
    I can kiss that pain goodbye!
[18:46] ---
    I hate to lose our biggest source of income.
[18:50] ---
    Right. You don't have to overexert
    yourselves to get back to normal.
[18:55] ---
    Besides, isn't it nice?
    The smell of the oil, the hum of the bearings,
[18:59] ---
    the rugged, yet beautiful form,
[19:01] ---
    whose design is based
    on anatomical engineering...
[19:04] ---
    Ah, how wonderful you are, automail!
[19:08] ---
    Crazy gearhead.
[19:09] ---
    Shut up, alchemy freak!
[19:12] ---
    All right, we're done.
[19:17] ---
    Well?
[19:18] ---
    Yeah, feels good.
[19:20] ---
    This time, I increased the percentage of chrome,
[19:22] ---
    to try to make it less prone to rusting.
[19:24] ---
    The tradeoff is that
    its strength isn't as great,
[19:26] ---
    so don't try anything crazy with--
[19:28] ---
    hey, listen to me!
[19:29] ---
    Al, sorry to keep you waiting!
[19:32] ---
    You can fix him right away?
[19:33] ---
    Uh-huh. You kind of have
    to know the trick to it, though.
[19:37] ---
    This seal on the inside
    of his back is the medium
[19:40] ---
    between Al's soul and the armor,
[19:43] ---
    so I have to be sure not to ruin it.
[19:52] ---
    All right, good as new!
[19:54] ---
    You wanna go right at it?
[19:56] ---
    Mm-hmm!
[19:59] ---
    It's going to be quiet around here again.
[20:03] ---
    It's almost time, huh?
[20:05] ---
    We're going to Central,
    to get Dr. Marcoh's materials!
[20:09] ---
    We leave first thing tomorrow morning!
[20:23] ---
    He's sleeping with his tummy out again.
[20:25] ---
    What am I going to do with him?
[20:27] ---
    You're almost like his guardian, Al.
[20:30] ---
    It's hard work having a brother
    who takes so much time and effort.
[20:34] ---
    How old are you boys now?
[20:36] ---
    I'm 14, Brother is 15.
[20:41] ---
    To think that someone the
    same age as me, and as tiny as him,
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    is a "human weapon" is laughable, huh?
[20:48] ---
    As vulnerable as he is when he's sleeping.
[20:51] ---
    Thank you, both of you.
[20:54] ---
    What's this? Why so formal?
[20:56] ---
    I'm grateful to you, Granny and Winry,
[20:59] ---
    for always welcoming us
    like you were our real family.
[21:03] ---
    He won't say it, but Brother feels the same way.
[21:07] ---
    Al...
[21:09] ---
    We know that.
    He doesn't have to say it for us to know.
[21:15] ---
    Granny, Winry...
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    thanks.
[21:23] ---
    Thanks for everything, Granny.
[21:25] ---
    Sure.
[21:26] ---
    Huh? Where's Winry?
[21:28] ---
    She has been working
    overnight for several days in a row.
[21:30] ---
    Want me to wake her up?
[21:32] ---
    Oh, that's okay, that's okay.
[21:34] ---
    She'd just nag me about making sure
    to do maintenance, and whatever. Bye.
[21:38] ---
    Listen, boys,
[21:42] ---
    come on back once in a
    while and have dinner with us.
[21:44] ---
    Mm-hmm.
[21:46] ---
    Heh, you want us to come all this
    way into the mountains just for dinner?
[21:51] ---
    Ed, Al...
[21:54] ---
    Come back soon.
[22:00] ---
    Yeah.
[22:08] ---
    Ano hi mita sora akaneiro no sora o
[22:14] ---
    nee kimi wa oboete imasu ka
[22:19] ---
    Yakusoku chigiri shoka
    no kaze ga tsutsumu
[22:25] ---
    futari yorisotta
[22:33] ---
    Muri na egao no ura
[22:38] ---
    nobita kage o kakumau
[22:43] ---
    Dakara kizukanu furi saisei o erabu
[22:55] ---
    Table no ue no furuenai shirase machitsuzukete
[23:05] ---
    kuuhaku no yoru mo kuru hazu no nai asa mo
[23:11] ---
    zenbu wakatte'tan da
[23:15] ---
    Ano hi mita sora akaneiro no sora o
[23:21] ---
    nee itsuka omoidasu deshou
[23:26] ---
    Hatasenakatta yakusoku o idaite
[23:32] ---
    futari arukidasu
[23:42] ---
    I slept just about the entire day.
[23:45] ---
    Really, whenever he comes here,
    it's like a war hits this place.
[23:55] ---
    Uh-oh...
[23:59] ---
    The clues for the
    Philosopher's Stone were there.
[24:02] ---
    However, the fiendish hand of the enemy
[24:05] ---
    seized firmly upon their goal, and the boys
[24:09] ---
    are drawn into a maze by
    "the truth within the truth."
[24:14] ---
    Next time on Hagane no Renkinjutsushi:
    Fullmetal Alchemist,
[24:18] ---
    Episode 7: "Hidden Truths."
[24:22] ---
    If one wishes to arrive at a destination,
[24:23] ---
    one must not turn one's eyes away.