7 - Hidden Truths

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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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    I still have too long a life ahead
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    to get rid of these feelings, right?
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    I want to try doing over
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    the things I've left undone
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    I thought I was running after
    something carried over from my dreams
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    Yet I'm stumbling into people
    on this narrow, winding road
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    It's not like I want to go back
    to the way things were back then
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    I'm just searching for the sky
    I've been losing
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    Here's hoping you'll understand
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    Stop making that sad face
    as though you were a victim
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    Sins don't end with tears,
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    you have to carry the pain forever
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    Who am I waiting for, in this maze of emotions
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    with no way out in sight?
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    I want to purge myself more simply,
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    as if writing in a blank notebook
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    What is it I want to escape from?
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    ...is it reality?
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    It makes me want to scream that we're alive
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    for things to come true. Can you hear me?
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    I can't put up with playing it safe
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    ...I've got nowhere to go home to
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    I'm always grateful for kindness
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    That's why I want to grow stronger
    (I'm on the way)
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    I even welcome this pain
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    for the things I miss
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    Ed and the others encounter a man, named Marcoh,
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    who possesses a Philosopher's Stone,
    albeit an incomplete one.
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    Moved by Ed's zeal, Marcoh reveals
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    the hidden location of his research materials.
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    After finishing repairs to his automail,
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    Ed stands before the first branch
    of the National Central Library,
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    where Marcoh's research materials are.
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    Dr. Marcoh's research materials...!
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    It was so much trouble,
    I just burned the whole building down.
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    What did you do in Central?
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    I was just explaining that to you.
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    The Fullmetal boy found out
    about Marcoh's materials.
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    With that taken care of,
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    I came back to see how
    things are going in East City.
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    Is he here?
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    Gluttony?
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    I smell him. I smell him.
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    The Ishvalan cloaked in
    the scent of blood is nearby.
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    Can I eat him?
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    Right down to the last strand of hair.
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    There haven't been any reports of Scar sightings
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    since the incident with the Elric brothers.
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    Maybe he's no longer in East City.
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    I need for him to be here.
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    Huh?
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    If I can solve a case that was
    too much for Central to handle,
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    it means my stock will go up.
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    I'll make use of everything I can use,
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    until I assume the office of Fuhrer,
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    and take full command of military affairs.
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    You may want to be more discreet
    about such improper declarations.
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    Yeah, I will make every
    effort to be more careful.
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    Excuse me, sir.
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    We've just received news of
    an explosion on Marl River.
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    What?!
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    Was it a gas explosion?
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    I don't know. It's been
    so restless lately, after all.
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    I don't think there can be any
    mistake that this is what Scar was wearing.
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    Have you found a body?
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    No, but we're still searching.
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    Either way, he can't be doing
    well after losing this much blood.
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    Mm-hmm. But until we can
    confirm he's dead, don't get careless.
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    Lieutenant Havoc...
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    Yes, sir?
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    Have your detail proceed to remove the debris.
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    Day and night, no breaks.
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    Pull his body out of there, no matter what.
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    Huh? Please, cut us some slack, sir.
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    Are you trying to work us to death?
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    Shut up!
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    After all, until I see his
    body with my own eyes,
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    I can't relax on any dates.
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    Ah, you don't say.
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    Looks like he got away from us.
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    I didn't get to eat him.
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    Okay, okay. Next time, all right?
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    But, after all that's been done to him,
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    Scar won't be taking any action for a while.
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    I'm going back to Central again.
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    I have to report to Father about Scar, and all.
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    It burned up completely, huh?
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    Major Armstrong!
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    Oh, if it isn't 2nd Lieutenant
    Ross and Sergeant Brosh.
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    What's the matter?
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    You've been ordered to
    report to the Command Center.
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    We will be taking over for
    you in escorting Edward Elric.
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    Hmm, very well.
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    What is this? Here I think I can
    get away from the stuffy old guy,
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    and now we've got another escort?
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    As far as the library incident, there is someone
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    who was well acquainted with
    the materials at the first branch.
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    Although, she was no longer working there.
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    Doesn't sound very hopeful.
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    Did you need something?
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    Oh, um, forgive me for asking,
    but why do you wear the suit of armor?
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    --It's just what I do!
    --It's just what he does!
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    What he does?
    Lieutenant, what is it that he does?
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    Who are these boys?
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    Ah, Al, isn't the view here pretty?
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    It sure is, Brother.
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    W-What is with this mountain of books?
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    Is there really someone living here?
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    Miss Sheska? Are you here? Miss Sheska?
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    Somebody...!
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    Help...!
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    Brother, there's someone...
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    there's someone buried under here!
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    Dig! Dig! Dig this place up!
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    Hang in there!
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    I'm so sorry! I'm so sorry!
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    I accidentally knocked over a mountain of books.
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    I thought I was going to die under there.
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    Thank you very much!
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    Are you Sheska?
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    Yes.
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    The one from the first branch?
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    "Flinch!"
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    The first branch. Oh, how sweet the sound of it!
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    I've always loved books,
    ever since I was born,
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    so when I wound up securing a job there,
    it felt like I had gone to heaven.
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    But I forgot that I was at work,
    and all I ever did was read books,
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    "Get to work!"
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    so I got fired.
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    I have to work,
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    because I want to move my sickly
    mother into a better hospital, but...
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    Ah, I really am a klutz at everything,
    except for reading books,
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    so no matter where I go, I can't get a job.
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    Yes, I'm a good-for-nothing person!
    I'm the scum of society!
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    Um, there's something we'd like to ask you.
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    Yes?
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    Do you remember seeing
    any research notes belonging to
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    someone named Tim Marcoh?
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    "Tim Marcoh"
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    Tim Marcoh... Tim Marcoh...
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    Ah! Yes, I remember.
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    Really?!
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    They were handwritten, and moreover,
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    they had been shoved into a
    bookcase in the wrong section,
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    so I remember them well.
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    So they really were there!
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    Which means, sure enough,
    they've been burned up.
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    Did you want to read those research notes?
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    Yeah, but they burned up.
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    Sorry to have bothered you.
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    I remember everything that was in them.
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    Huh?!
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    Well, I mean, I remember
    the content of any book I read.
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    "Are you serious?!"
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    It will take some time, but do you
    want me to duplicate them for you?
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    Thank you, bookworm!
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    Worm... you say?
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    Here is a reproduction of
    Mr. Tim Marcoh's research notes.
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    Sorry, there was quite a large
    amount of it, so it took five whole days.
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    There sure are some amazing
    people in this world, huh, Brother?
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    This really is Dr. Marcoh's?
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    Yes, no doubt about it.
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    "1,000 Type Menus for Today,
    by Tim Marcoh."
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    Huh?
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    "Add a dash of water to
    one tablespoon of sugar..."
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    This really is a thousand daily recipes.
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    Hey, what part of this did you
    think were important documents?!
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    Don't ask me. I just copied
    it down the way I remember it.
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    Apparently, this was all
    just a big wild goose chase.
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    You're absolutely sure this
    is what Dr. Marcoh wrote,
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    word-for-word, right?
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    Yes, absolutely sure.
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    You are incredible! Thanks.
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    All right! Let's take these
    back to the central library.
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    Hmm?
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    They'll have a collection
    of related books there.
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    Yeah.
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    Whoops, your fee, your fee...
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    Lieutenant Ross, here.
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    This is my registration code
    and silver pocket watch ID.
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    Withdraw this amount out of
    my annual research funding,
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    and give it to Sheska for me.
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    Yes, sir. I can go to the
    prefectural State Alchemist office, right?
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    That's right.
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    Sheska, really, thanks a lot! Bye.
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    From his research funding...
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    Aah! What kind of sum of money is this?!
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    What is with that boy,
    throwing that kind of money around?!
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    Are these cookbooks really
    research notes about alchemy?
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    Alchemy can be a dangerous art if misused.
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    To prevent that, alchemic research is encrypted.
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    It may look like an ordinary
    cookbook to the average person,
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    but the actual content can only
    be understood by whoever wrote it.
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    These are advanced alchemic notes.
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    If only the writer can understand them,
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    how are you going to be able to decipher them?
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    With knowledge and insight.
    The rest is intensive, arduous work.
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    Wow, that's mind-boggling.
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    Al! There's a section on squab in here!
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    Pigeons? You don't suppose that means...
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    Yeah, it might refer to the
    Green Lion, the philosopher's month.
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    Did you bring over Flamel's Codex,
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    or Lambspring's Concerning
    the Philosopher's Stone?
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    Of course!
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    All right, look here.
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    Mm-hmm.
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    And here, too, right?
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    You're right, and maybe here, too.
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    Yeah. All right, let's get to this!
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    Why is this code so damn hard to figure out?
[11:59] ---
    Brother, maybe we ought to
    ask Dr. Marcoh about this directly.
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    No! If we ask him, we admit defeat.
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    Is that what the issue is here?
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    Um...
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    Sheska...
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    Thanks to you, Edward,
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    I was able to move my
    mother into a better hospital.
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    Thank you very much.
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    Ah, don't mention it, don't mention it.
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    Have you made any progress deciphering it?
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    Have you found a job yet?
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    Still, thanks to you, I've come to believe
    that even a good-for-nothing person like me
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    can be of help to someone.
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    Thank you very much.
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    You're not a good-for-nothing person.
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    I think that being able to try
    your hardest to be something
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    is a talent all by itself,
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    and besides, your memory is incredible.
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    I think you should have faith in yourself.
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    Thanks.
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    Yo!
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    Lt. Colonel Hughes!
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    I heard from Major Armstrong that you were here.
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    What gives?
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    I told you, whenever you
    get to Central, give me a holler.
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    Oh, we just had something urgent come up.
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    --Well, I've been busy, too, and haven't been
    --They're speaking casually
    with Colonel Hughes, there.
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    --able to get away from the court-martial office.
    --Who are these boys?
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    Lately, we've had a lot of cases and whatnot.
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    The Tucker Chimera case
    hasn't even been settled yet.
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    Oh, sorry, I guess that brings up
    some unpleasant memories, huh?
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    But you know,
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    as if it wasn't bad enough,
    the first branch had to burn down,
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    right when things are hectic.
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    The first branch?
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    Yeah. Our case records
    and stuff were being stored
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    in the stacks there, so it's
    impeding our duties something awful.
[13:44] ---
    Hmm? What?
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    What do you say, Lt. Colonel?
    She is looking for a place to work.
[13:54] ---
    And I have indeed read
    the military's criminal records,
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    and remember them.
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    All righty! We'll get you processed right now.
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    My office pays well!
[14:02] ---
    Huh? You mean... um... thank you very much.
[14:06] ---
    I'll have faith in myself, and do my best.
[14:08] ---
    Really, thanks so much.
[14:10] ---
    Come on, come on, right to work!
[14:14] ---
    Who is this guy, a kidnapper?
[14:21] ---
    Being able to try your hardest to be something
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    is a talent all by itself, huh?
[14:27] ---
    Nicely said, little brother.
[14:29] ---
    Whenever I look at a certain someone,
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    that's what I think, deep down in my heart.
[14:37] ---
    Okay, well, that certain someone
    will continue to try his hardest.
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    Uh-oh.
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    It's closing time.
[15:13] ---
    It's ten whole days today.
[15:16] ---
    I'm impressed they persevered until closing.
[15:18] ---
    The hell with it!
[15:28] ---
    A little quarrel between brothers?
[15:30] ---
    You can't get desperate,
    just because you can't crack this.
[15:33] ---
    We did crack it.
[15:35] ---
    We did crack the code.
[15:38] ---
    Really? That's good, isn't it?
[15:40] ---
    There's nothing good about it, damn it!
[15:43] ---
    This is the devil's research,
    which shouldn't be pursued.
[15:47] ---
    Curse you, Dr. Marcoh.
[15:50] ---
    What exactly is it?
[15:53] ---
    The ingredients for a Philosopher's Stone...
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    are live humans!
[15:59] ---
    What's worse, in order to manufacture one Stone,
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    it requires multiple sacrifices.
[16:04] ---
    How could the military carry
    out such an inhuman practice?
[16:08] ---
    This is unpardonable.
[16:13] ---
    Would you mind not
    speaking to anyone about this?
[16:17] ---
    But...
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    Please!
[16:20] ---
    Just pretend that you never heard this.
[16:27] ---
    What's this?
[16:29] ---
    The Elric brothers are holed
    up in their rooms again tonight?
[16:32] ---
    Yes. They haven't even eaten all that much.
[16:35] ---
    Hmm, their fatigue must
    have caught up with them.
[16:38] ---
    Lately, they seem to have
    devoted all their energy to this.
[16:42] ---
    After working so hard to decipher
    the material, and have it be that...
[16:45] ---
    It disturbs me, too, just thinking about it.
[16:48] ---
    What?
[16:50] ---
    N-Nothing at all!
[16:52] ---
    Most suspicious!
[17:01] ---
    Brother, go get something to eat.
[17:04] ---
    Don't want anything.
[17:08] ---
    What a pain, huh?
[17:10] ---
    Mm-hmm.
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    You know, it's kind of like...
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    just when we think it's within
    reach, it slips away from us.
[17:21] ---
    When it's finally in our grasp,
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    we get kicked down by whatever we've caught.
[17:28] ---
    God must really hate people who commit taboos.
[17:35] ---
    I wonder if we'll be like
    this the rest of our lives.
[17:44] ---
    There's something I've been
    meaning to say to you for a while,
[17:49] ---
    but I've been too afraid to mention it.
[17:52] ---
    What?
[17:57] ---
    Elric brothers, I know
    you're in there! It is I! Open up!
[18:01] ---
    What do we do?
[18:03] ---
    Ignore him, ignore him.
[18:05] ---
    I heard, Edward Elric!
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    Such a tragedy!
    To think that such a terrible secret
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    was being concealed by the Philosopher's Stone!
[18:15] ---
    W-We're sorry.
[18:17] ---
    When someone as stuffy
    as he is closes in on you...
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    Imagine, the military
    conducting something like that!
[18:22] ---
    The truth can be a cruel thing at times!
[18:27] ---
    The truth?
[18:28] ---
    What is it, Brother?
[18:30] ---
    Do you remember what Dr. Marcoh said?
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    Knowing you, you'll be able
    to find the truth within the truth.
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    The truth within the truth...
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    It's the same as with alchemy research notes.
[18:45] ---
    What you see on the surface
    is only a portion of the truth.
[18:49] ---
    There's still more.
[18:51] ---
    There's still...
[18:54] ---
    Currently, there are four
    alchemy laboratories within Central
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    which have connections to the government.
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    From among those, Marcoh
    worked at the 3rd Laboratory.
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    That one is the most suspect.
[19:07] ---
    Hmm. We went around to all
    of the laboratories in the city,
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    but they weren't doing any remarkable research--
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    Here.
[19:15] ---
    What is this building?
[19:17] ---
    It was the building for the 5th Laboratory,
[19:19] ---
    but it's not currently in use.
[19:21] ---
    There's a risk of it collapsing,
    so it has been declared off-limits.
[19:25] ---
    It's here.
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    Eh? What makes you so sure?
[19:28] ---
    There's a prison next door to it.
[19:30] ---
    What about it?
[19:32] ---
    What were the ingredients
    for a Philosopher's Stone?
[19:34] ---
    Let's see, live huma--
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    They'd have condemned criminals in a prison.
[19:41] ---
    Officially, they could say they were executed...
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    You don't mean, the
    prisoners were the ingredients...?
[19:47] ---
    Don't make that face.
    I don't want to think about it, either.
[19:51] ---
    And if prisons from other
    jurisdictions were involved...
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    I wonder if the government is involved.
[19:57] ---
    I kind of get the feeling
    that we've stuck our noses
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    into something terrible here.
[20:01] ---
    You see? This is why we told you
    to pretend you never heard anything!
[20:07] ---
    This could become a highly political issue.
[20:11] ---
    I shall look into this.
[20:13] ---
    In the meantime, 2nd Lieutenant,
    Sergeant, speak of this to no one.
[20:16] ---
    Yes, sir!
[20:17] ---
    And you Elric brothers, behave yourselves.
[20:23] ---
    Look here, you two!
    You were just thinking of sneaking
[20:26] ---
    into this building, and
    looking around inside, weren't you?
[20:29] ---
    No we weren't, no we weren't!
[20:31] ---
    Yeah, sure we weren't.
[20:39] ---
    Hmm, a guard posted at an unused building, huh?
[20:43] ---
    That's suspicious.
[20:46] ---
    How are we getting in?
[20:48] ---
    We could make our own entrance.
[20:49] ---
    They'd notice the light
    from the transmutic reaction.
[20:52] ---
    In that case...
[20:54] ---
    Ups-a-daisy.
[20:55] ---
    Whoa...!
[21:12] ---
    It's locked up tight here, too?
[21:21] ---
    Al, wait here.
[21:23] ---
    Will you be all right by yourself?
[21:25] ---
    All right or not, with your huge size,
    you can't get through here, right?
[21:30] ---
    "Dejected"
[21:31] ---
    I didn't get this big because I wanted to.
[21:37] ---
    66...
[21:39] ---
    What, 48?
[21:41] ---
    After all this time, we've got guests.
[21:44] ---
    Some daredevil dumbasses, huh?
[21:48] ---
    Damn it, it's even
    tighter in here than I thought.
[21:52] ---
    I couldn't have gotten
    through here if I were regular-sized.
[21:55] ---
    Luckily, my body is smaller.
[22:00] ---
    I just said I was small!
[22:07] ---
    There are lights on.
[22:09] ---
    "Not currently in use" my foot.
[22:14] ---
    Bingo.
[22:16] ---
    Brother sure is taking a long time.
[22:27] ---
    Do you remember the ruby sky
[22:33] ---
    we saw that day?
[22:38] ---
    The two of us drew close,
    encircled by promises, vows
[22:44] ---
    and an early summer's breeze
[22:52] ---
    I hide the shadow
[22:57] ---
    that stretches out behind my forced smile
[23:02] ---
    So pretending not to notice, I choose rebirth
[23:14] ---
    I kept waiting for settling news on the table,
[23:25] ---
    knowing all about the empty night,
[23:30] ---
    and the morning that would not come
[23:34] ---
    Someday, you will remember the ruby sky
[23:40] ---
    we saw that day
[23:45] ---
    Embracing the promise we couldn't keep,
[23:51] ---
    the two of us start walking
[23:58] ---
    There was someone who took
    pride in his skill with the sword.
[24:01] ---
    There was someone who knew he was a deviant.
[24:04] ---
    These denizens of the darkness laugh,
[24:06] ---
    as their bloodsucking blades roar.
[24:10] ---
    Next time on Hagane no Renkinjutsushi:
    Fullmetal Alchemist,
[24:14] ---
    Episode 8: "The Fifth Laboratory."
[24:18] ---
    Ye who seek pleasure in battle,
    and feel alive to the fullest,
[24:23] ---
    give your names.