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To think that you saw it, and made it back alive...

You may be my pupils, but that is really something.

Nah...

Still, you will have to take responsibility for what you've done.

You're expelled.

Teacher...

Al...

The trains are still running. Go home.

Thank you... for all you've done!

I still have too long a life ahead

to get rid of these feelings, right?

I want to try doing over

the things I've left undone

I thought I was running after something carried over from my dreams

Yet I'm stumbling into people on this narrow, winding road

It's not like I want to go back to the way things were back then

I'm just searching for the sky I've been losing

Here's hoping you'll understand

Stop making that sad face as though you were a victim

Sins don't end with tears,

you have to carry the pain forever

Who am I waiting for, in this maze of emotions

with no way out in sight?

I want to purge myself more simply,

as if writing in a blank notebook

What is it I want to escape from?

...is it reality?

It makes me want to scream that we're alive

for things to come true. Can you hear me?

I can't put up with playing it safe

...I've got nowhere to go home to

I'm always grateful for kindness

That's why I want to grow stronger (I'm on the way)

I even welcome this pain

for the things I miss

If you're ever in the area, come see us.

But we're...

You idiots!

There's no "teacher" or "pupil" relationship any longer,

which means that from now on, you can interact with each other

as equal individuals. What reason is there to be so aloof now?

Damn!

Al, what did we come to Dublith for?!

Mr. Sig, we're heading on back!

Don't get yourselves killed.

Teacher!

How dare you show your faces again here?!

Who are you calling "Teacher"?! I no longer consider you pupils!

Get out of here, now!

Teacher!

We came here to find some leads on getting our original bodies back!

We can't leave here empty-handed!

Get out!

No!

You imbeciles...

Al, you didn't see "the Truth," right?

Right. I have no idea what that means.

You may have lost your memory of it out of shock.

Why don't we try getting your memory back?

Your whole body was taken away.

There's no way you wouldn't have seen it.

Right! Teacher, it was just a part of our bodies for you and me,

but considering the "toll" that Al paid,

he must be more closely acquainted with "the Truth" than any of us!

Then, once my memories of that time return,

I'll have a lead on getting my body back, too!

Still, the memories of that...

Yeah, that...

Huh? Is it something bad?

Not so much bad as... awful?

Mm-hmm, more like awful.

It might wreck your mind.

If it goes wrong, you'll be crippled.

Even so... if it means finding any leads,

I want to go for it!

All right. Let me ask someone I know

about how to get your memory back.

But before I do, let's eat. Give me a hand.

R-Right!

No doubt about it. He's the one who transmuted a soul.

You'll be transferring to Central next week, huh?

Yes, sir.

I'm going to miss you around here. You kept things pretty colorful.

Oh, no, not as much as you did when you were younger, General.

You worked as hard as you could, which allowed me to be at ease, too.

And thanks to the work that you allowed me to take on,

my insights have also been expanded.

Check.

I finally beat you, here at the end.

This win will be my parting gift to you.

General...

While you're giving out parting gifts,

there's something else I'd like.

Master Sergeant Kain Fuery.

Warrant Officer Vato Falman.

2nd Lieutenant Heymans Breda.

2nd Lieutenant Jean Havoc.

1st Lieutenant Riza Hawkeye.

You five men will be transferring to Central with me.

I won't hear any objections! You're coming with me!

Colonel, I'm in a fix. I just recently got a new girlfriend.

Break up with her.

Not again!

Your wounds haven't even closed up yet.

Master!

I'm glad that you are safe.

I understand you've been going around killing State Alchemists.

I understand the animosity you feel.

It was a State Alchemist that burned down our village.

But vengeance will only cultivate more vengeance.

You must sever this fruitless chain at once.

You must abide this.

We're coming in!

Oh, he really is here!

The Ishvalan with the X-shaped scar!

We'll split the reward with you evenly, as promised, Mr. Yoki.

Huh?

Mr. Yoki is gone?

Why, you!

What do you think you're doing?!

We took you in like family, when you had nowhere else to go!

Shut up! Don't lump me in with you Ishvalans!

I will rise up again! I will rise! I will rise!

And I will take down that detestable Edward Elric!

Now, you two, get him, if you please!

It appears that my presence here will make trouble.

That's a reasonable fellow.

W-Why, you! What the hell did you do?!

I'll give you a moment to pray to God.

W-What God? Who needs...

Wait! Stay back! l-I was wrong!

Spare my life! I will follow you from now on!

You're leaving?

Your brother would be grieved.

I can't turn back now.

He's here.

We've been expecting you, visitor.

"We know your secret. Come to the Devil's Nest."

Are you people the ones who know my secret?

Yeah, we know all sorts of things.

I'd like to know what my secret is, too.

Then that makes this simple. Come with me.

But my teacher taught me that I shouldn't go with strangers.

Hey, how old are you?

Fourteen.

Fourteen is old enough to think and act for yourself, right?

You can't go around saying "my teacher says such-and-such" forever.

Oh, right! I have to think for myself!

There you go. Now, come with us...

After thinking it over for myself,

I've decided to hog-tie you guys, and ask you what my secret is.

So we'll end up doing this by force, huh?

Forgive the intrusion!

Y-You're going inside?!

Hey, be a good little boy!

Well? How does it feel having someone inside you moving your body?

You can't completely stop me from moving by doing this!

You're right. But if I can dampen your motion even a little...

...we can finish this!

Are you hurt?

I hit my head.

You're making this awfully hard.

Just what are you people?

They're Chimeras, and they work for me.

Oh, incredible! You really are hollow!

I'm Greed. Let's you and I be friends.

What are you people, really?

It's not true that you're Chimeras, right?

After all, there's no way that Chimeras can talk.

There's no such thing as "no such thing."

In fact, the girl inside you is a Chimera

who was made by combining with a snake.

And the fellow behind me, here...

Roa, what were you, again? A cow?

Yeah.

There's also a lizard, and a crocodile.

The man you went up against earlier pees on one leg.

No I don't!

A dog?!

Yeah. It comes in pretty handy.

Impossible. It just isn't possible.

For one thing, who has ever made a successful combination?

The military.

You mean...

In any event, there is an underworld out there,

one where the sun doesn't shine.

And by the way, I'm not a Chimera.

I'm a Homunculus.

Homunculus?

You know of them, right? An artificially created person.

That's what I am.

A Homunculus?

It's a man-made person.

It says in that book that you're not supposed to make people.

You're lying!

I've never heard of anyone successfully creating a Homunculus!

My, my... Let me show you the proof.

H-How could you do that?!

There, now I'm once dead.

It can't be...

Do you get it? There's no such thing as "no such thing."

There's no better proof of that than your very existence, is there?

You, who exist only as a soul.

How do you know that?!

Most of what happens in the underworld reaches my ears.

Now then, let's get down to business.

How does it feel to be just a soul,

having a body that will never die?

Transmuting an individual soul, and attaching it to something else...

Depending on how it's done, you can gain immortality.

Am I wrong?

I am Greed. That's desire, you see.

I want money. I want women.

I want status, glory, and everything else the world has!

And I want eternal life, too!

But you are immortal, aren't you?

Well, I am put together pretty tough.

I've been alive for nearly 200 years.

But I'm not exactly immortal.

Well, I've told you my secret. Now it's your turn.

Tell me the secret of your body.

You'd best start talking.

You don't want to be taken apart limb from limb and examined, right?

It's no use. I don't have any memories from when I got this body,

and I'm not the one who did the transmutation.

I don't know anything.

Then, I can ask the person who did the transmutation for you.

Well...

Where has Al gone off to?

I'd be willing to tell you,

once you tell me your brother's secret.

Brother!

Who would have ever thought you'd get abducted?

Brother! This man is a Homunculus!

A Homunculus?

Hey! Don't go giving it away right off!

So he might have some hints as to how to get our original bodies back!

An Uroboros tattoo.

That's right. It would have been easier if I could have dealt

with just the little armor boy there.

If you're one of that bunch, ask them directly.

That bunch?

The folks with that tattoo who were at the 5th Laboratory.

We met some others there who were souls bonded to armor.

Is that right? Well, it's kind of a long story.

I'm afraid I can't do that.

I have a proposal I'd like to discuss.

The two of you want to get your bodies back. Isn't that right?

I will teach you how to fabricate a Homunculus.

In exchange, you teach me how to transmute a soul.

That's an equivalent exchange.

Then again, is there really any need to get your original body back?

I think the body you've got is nice and handy.

No it isn't!

Oh no? You don't get hungry, you don't get sleepy,

and you don't get fatigued.

That's great, isn't it?

Stop spouting that ridiculous non...

- sense!

Handy? Great?!

I can't sit here and listen to you go off on your own

when you don't know what it's like!

How to transmute a soul?!

I don't see any reason to give you even one iota of it!

I pound on bad guys! Beat them up! Make them spill their secrets!

Snatch them away from them!

In other words, it's all for me, and none for you!

I don't have any need for equivalent exchange with bad guys!

So we end up doing this by force again?

Don't kill him.

Yeah, yeah.

You're a lot slower than a certain condemned prisoner.

Next.

Roa, take the armor boy away.

We'll take him apart and analyze him.

Right.

J-Just a minute!

Hold it!

No way, no way! You can't even scratch the Ultimate Shield

with that steel sword of yours!

You left your noggin wide open!

Oh, that one hurt.

Any normal person would be on his way to the hospital.

You're not at all normal, huh?

Well, my body is normal enough.

All I have are slightly advanced regenerative powers,

and my "Ultimate Shield."

You get it, right? You cannot beat me.

You'd be smarter to make a deal.

You're one of those guys, huh?

You don't mind if you get all beat up,

but you can't bear to have a family member

get even a little hurt, and you lose your cool.

How foolish. Are you going to give yourself over to your passion,

and lose both the precious information and your brother?

Once I've defeated you, I'll go get my brother back.

Your regenerative powers aren't unlimited, right?

As long as I keep pounding away at the exposed parts of your body...

My apologies. I've been skimping on you.

This doesn't look too handsome,

so I don't like showing it to people.

Didn't I tell you? You can't lay a single scratch on me.

This was lying in the back alley off of the road to the west.

Al has disappeared, and now Ed, too.

Those idiots! I ought to make them my pupils again,

then beat it into them how they should take care of things!

I know something!

Earlier, a boy matching Ed's description

supposedly went into a bar called the "Devil's Nest."

Are you dead?

Good, that's better. Children should be energetic.

No matter how much you try, you cannot beat me!

Now then, why don't you tell me your secret?

Thanks.

Huh?

The blood that had rushed to my head has settled a bit,

and my brain is starting to cool off.

That's my mechanic for you. Even like this, it still works.

You're still going to put up a fight?

Would you go down and stay down?!

I'm hardened, right? That was strange.

What was that for?!

You've got a single-pattern style! That's not gonna cut it!

What the hell did you do to my shield?!

It's simple, when you think about it.

You may be a Homunculus, but if you have a normal body,

it means that a third of your structural material

is made up of carbon.

Depending on the degree to which the carbon atoms combine,

its hardness can change from pencil lead up to diamond.

Once that is known, the rest is all in the realm of alchemy.

Good! That's more like it! It's no fun otherwise!

And I just learned one other thing!

You can't harden yourself and regenerate at the same time!

I thought you were just some reckless kid, rushing in here.

But then, how much more can you attack me in your condition?

Hello, pardon me!

T-Teacher!

You imbecile!

What do you think you're doing, not even putting the broom away?!

S-Sorry about that!

It looks like you've shown considerable hospitality to my boy there.

Teacher, he's...

I know. Your voices were carrying out into the hallway.

Hey now, give me a break here.

I have no interest in fighting a woman.

Why, you! Who the hell are you?!

I'm just a passing...

...housewife!

Do you remember the ruby sky

we saw that day?

The two of us drew close, encircled by promises, vows

and an early summer's breeze

I hide the shadow

that stretches out behind my forced smile

So pretending not to notice, I choose rebirth

I kept waiting for settling news on the table,

knowing all about the empty night,

and the morning that would not come

Someday, you will remember the ruby sky

we saw that day

Embracing the promise we couldn't keep,

the two of us start walking

The mighty are destined to be given over to an even greater power.

However, the spirit is indomitable,

as long as it has its pride.

Next time on Hagane no Renkinjutsushi: Fullmetal Alchemist,

Episode 14: "Those Who Lurk Underground."

All that is visible is not all that there is.