# 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.
**[06:25] ---**
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.
**[07:45] ---**
Dr. Marcoh, can I see your research materials?!
**[07:50] ---**
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.
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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.
**[09:55] ---**
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?
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A lot has happened. Can you set us up again?
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This is Major Armstrong.
**[11:46] ---**
Pinako Rockbell.
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You know, I don't see you for a while, Ed,
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and you've gone and grown smaller.
**[11:55] ---**
Hey! Usually in this situation,
you say "grown *bigger*"!
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If you had grown bigger, I would have said it.
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What was that, you minimum hag?!
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I told you, when you come
back for maintenance, call first!
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Winry, are you trying to kill me?!
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Welcome back!
**[12:19] ---**
Yeah!
**[12:20] ---**
Oh, no!
**[12:22] ---**
Yeah, sorry. It's all smashed up.
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All smashed up? This is the first-rate automail
**[12:28] ---**
I put my whole heart and soul into making!
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Yeah, and now it's all in tiny little pieces.
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So, what, are you smashed up too, Al?
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Just what sort of lives are you leading?
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Geez, all you ever do is worry me.
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I see.
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And in order to get that information,
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you want to go to Central as soon as possible?
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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?
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Shut up!
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The leg aside, we'll have
to build the arm from scratch.
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Can you have it done in a week?
**[13:14] ---**
Give us some credit.
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Three days.
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Make do with this spare, for now.
**[13:23] ---**
Mm-hmm. Whoa!
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Sure is hard to walk on a leg I'm not used to.
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We'll be finished before you're used to it.
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That being said,
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between machining, assembly,
connecting, and finishing,
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I'll be pulling nothing but all-nighters.
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Sorry to ask so much of you.
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You want to get to Central
as soon as possible, right?
**[13:43] ---**
Fine then, I'll overwork myself for you!
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But in return, you're going
to pay a bundle in rush order fees!
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I am finished.
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Oh, thanks.
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I don't see Edward Elric around.
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Yeah.
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He said he was going
to visit his mother's grave.
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Major...
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what kind of lives are those boys leading?
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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.
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Oh, but they're all right.
Those brothers are strong.
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Strong, huh? I sure hope so.
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Madam Pinako, are the two
of them like grandsons to you?
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I've been watching over them,
ever since they were born.
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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.
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I don't even know whether or not he's alive now.
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Come to think of it,
where are Miss Winry's parents?
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They died in the Ishvalan Civil War.
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My son-- her parents were surgeons.
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They went off to the battlefield,
what with the lack of doctors.
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It was... a terrible war.
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Indeed it was.
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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.
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Food tastes better when everyone eats together.
**[15:59] ---**
There's some spare bedding,
and the patient's bed is available,
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so you can use them.
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Those brothers don't have
anywhere else to stay but here, either.
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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.
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The day they left,
after Ed got his state certification,
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they burned their own house down.
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They probably did it so
that they couldn't turn back,
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without a house to come home to.
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Guess we should head back.
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Everyone is waiting.
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--I'm back--
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--Edward Elric!
--I'm back--
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"Gyaah!"
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Such immaculate love,
to try to bring your mother back to life!
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Such tremendous love,
to be willing to give up your own life
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to transmute your brother's soul!
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Such dreadful determination,
to burn down the home
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that held so many memories for you,
to cut off any retreat!
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Let me at least offer this embrace!
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Stay back! Too stuffy! Stop!
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You're at it, you're at it.
Working hard so early in the morning.
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Been up all night.
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Working hard, so late into the night!
**[17:47] ---**
At this pace, you must be about done, right?
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I'll be up all night tonight, too.
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Oh.
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Keep out!
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They said it would take three days to finish,
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so just sit still and wait for them.
**[18:13] ---**
Yeah, I know. But when
I think about how the secret
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to the Philosopher's Stone is
in Central, I just can't settle down.
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Sorry for the wait! It's done!
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Ready?
**[18:31] ---**
Y-Yeah!
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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,
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I can kiss that pain goodbye!
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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...
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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?
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As vulnerable as he is when he's sleeping.
**[20:51] ---**
Thank you, both of you.
**[20:54] ---**
What's this? Why so formal?
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I'm grateful to you, Granny and Winry,
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for always welcoming us
like you were our real family.
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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.*