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Drink up.

Pinako...

Mind if I join you?

I can't keep focused, my body's still wavering

Trembling like I am, my control is shaky

Both the sun and my luck have turned the other way,

but I whispered "I've gotta do it," to convince myself

The situation is bad, but I've got no guts if I just run away

Nothing to look forward to, but I gotta have the grit to get past this

Gotta control my impulses and judge the distance to the target

What I need is the pride to win

Will I taste sweet victory, or bitter defeat?

Yeah, it's all one or the other

Wish I could control the threads of fate

Take this perfect golden time tightly in hand

I'll go at this with the best poker face I can muster

Dragged into a world of illusion

Slipping out of a boundless pressure game,

what does it take to leap across the glorious borderline?

How much will it cost me?

What is it I don't want to let go of?

This is nice, once in a while.

You think we're taking it too easy, don't you?

Where's the harm? At a time like this, at least.

Otherwise, this country is filled with fighting, all year around.

What with Ishval and all,

this country is always at war.

No matter how many times they repeat it, they never learn.

Humans are foolish, miserable creatures.

Between Ishval and these insurgencies,

the eastern area is having a rough time of it, huh?

It's not just the eastern area.

There are uprisings and border skirmishes in the north and west, too.

Even now, there are unending skirmishes near the borders

of Aerugo to the south, and Creta to the west.

We face the huge country of Drachma to the north.

The bodies are piling up all over, are they?

The government might just be overthrown before too long.

Ah, what a restless country.

I'd say things started tending more militaristic

once the current Fuhrer, Bradley, came to power.

Hey! Let's dance.

Oh, you're quite popular, aren't you, Hohenheim?

You can go dance by yourself.

It's no fun dancing by myself!

This old codger can't do anything fancy, like dancing.

There, go dance with those children over there.

It was about that age...

...when those boys started thinking about doing human transmutation.

As their father, you should have said something to them.

Whatever I could have said to them,

it wouldn't change the reality of what they have to atone for.

That's pretty harsh.

A sin is a sin.

Damn it all!

It's been taken away!

Help! Someone! Mom! Mom...

No... this is wrong... this isn't...

...this isn't what we wanted!

Al... Alphonse...

Alphonse! Alphonse!

This is my fault!

Alphonse!!

Damn it! Damn it!

Give him back! He's my brother!

Take my leg! Take my arm!

Take my heart! You can have it!

So, give him back! He's my only brother!

The celestial stone that destroyed Xerxes in one night.

If only I had that, I might be able to get your body back, Al.

Doctor, just what was it that you were ordered to research?

The Philosopher's Stone.

You must not seek after this thing.

It is the devil's research!

If you learn about it, you will go through hell.

This is the devil's research, which shouldn't be pursued.

Curse you, Dr. Marcoh.

The ingredients for a Philosopher's Stone...

...are live humans!

So weak, huh?

They're afraid of the dark, and won't confront it,

instead trying to forget about it, and run away temporarily like that.

Humans are very weak creatures.

Well, what do you say we make the most use of them,

as our valued resources?

Eh, Hohenheim?

Knowing you, you'll be able to find the truth within the truth.

What is this?

Is it possible that this is for transmuting a Philosopher's Stone?

Let's have a look at what you've got.

Your prosthetic arm just saved your life.

However,

my trusty sword will pierce even steel!

My brother...

I hate to say it, but we've lost.

You're not going to tell me you're actually three brothers, are you?

No, no.

Kid, hurry up and destroy us.

Don't ask me to become a murderer.

With bodies like these, are we even people?

If I don't consider you to be people,

then that would mean I don't consider my brother to be a person.

My brother is human. You guys are also human.

That's why I don't want to kill you.

Brother?

We two, as brothers, have been stealing,

destroying, and killing for as long as we can remember.

And now, to be treated as humans for the first time,

after taking the forms we have...

it's hilarious!

Kid, as a parting gift, I will tell you everything.

The ones who made the Philosopher's Stone,

and ordered us to protect this place...

That was a close one.

No, 48, we can't have you speaking out of turn.

Pipe down, you halfwit!

You were just about to kill one of our precious sacrifices.

Do you understand?

Who are you people?! What plan?! What do you mean, sacrifice?!

You are a sacrifice, after all.

Eh? Ah, right! I'm a sacrifice.

What does that mean, "sacrifice"?

Their teacher would make good material for a sacrifice, as well.

I'm sorry. You were a candidate for sacrifice,

but you must die now.

I've been thinking, all this time...

What is a sacrifice?

What is it you're trying to make me do?

Liore...

...uprisings all over... The Philosopher's Stone...

...ingredients are humans...

...what we did in Ishval...

Hey, now, who was it that came up with this?

What you're doing right now is to use this land and its people

to create a giant transmutation circle.

The purpose of which is to create a Philosopher's Stone.

Am I wrong?

You actually knew about this, didn't you?

Hohenheim...

...why didn't you tell anyone?

Hohenheim!

Even if I'd told someone,

would it have changed anything?

I've been watching for a long time,

as humanity keeps repeating the same mistakes, over and over.

How helpless they are each time, and can do nothing but run away.

Humans are very fragile.

I told you, the Philosopher's Stone is my core.

I'm a Homunculus.

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

That's what I am.

We're all going to die here anyway.

Let me show you something neat before you pass on.

Can I eat you?

Mustang!

That monster was keeping another monster inside his belly!

He's swallowing up everything around him!

So alchemy can even produce something like this?

Who are you, old man?

Just as you have your Ultimate Shield,

I have my Ultimate Eye.

Ah, I get it, Hughes.

When you said the military was in trouble,

you didn't mean the danger was closing in on us,

you meant the military itself was the source of the trouble.

Father? You have a dad?

Yes.

The person who made the Homunculi?

Yes, he made us.

People have neither an Ultimate Spear, nor an Ultimate Shield.

Nonetheless, they get snared by the most trivial things,

and are unable to bounce back from them.

What do you think folks like that can do against the Homunculi?

Still, we won't give up.

The hell we'll give up!

That's something else about humans, huh?

How did you get here with your wound?!

I burned it closed. I nearly passed out two or three times, too.

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.

You're still going to put up a fight?

Would you go down and stay down?!

There are a lot of things that are inconvenient about this body.

But inconvenient does not equal ill-fortuned!

There's no reason for anyone to take pity on me!

Brother saved my life with alchemy.

To disavow who I am now would be to disavow Brother, and alchemy.

I believe in the possibilities of alchemy. I want to believe!

He's a State Alchemist!

Get down!

Stay with me. Don't you die.

Damn, I can't stop the bleeding.

Somebody!

Live! You must not die!

Lan Fan! Get out of here!

Lan Fan!

My left arm...

What's wrong?

Young Lord... I am no longer of any use to you.

Lan Fan!

Stop!

Nicely played.

Whether we're trampled, or beaten down,

time and again, we keep going on.

And then, someday...

It's just struggling in vain.

You never can tell, unless you try!

It's better than knowing, and not acting!

Are you sure you're okay with Ed, Al, and everyone else disappearing?

What are you getting so desperate about?

Even if you do take action on behalf of those humans,

they'll just end up dying on their own, won't they?

We're just going to wind up with nothing.

So then, don't you think it's smart to take only what's important,

and flee somewhere else right away?

Wha...

Pangs of conscience? Worthless sentiment?

Huh, Hohenheim?

Whatever you think, nobody is going to accept you now.

Look at your own face!

Humans are nothing but a resource.

If you leave them to themselves, they'll proliferate on their own.

Where is the need for you to take any action?

What will change if you do?

This reality?

How weak humans are?

We will change.

We can change. I'm sure of it.

Sure, we may be weak,

but it's for that reason that we try hard to grow stronger.

You may consider our steps to be futile,

but each step we take, we are most surely building something up.

Those below me will protect those below them.

We tiny humans should be able to do that much, at least.

Let it all out, Let it all out

No... I wasn't prepared for this.

We don't have to act so brave

I'm sick of people dying before my eyes! I've had enough!

The graffiti flower that someone

I won't let anyone get killed anymore! I'll protect them!

was drawing on the wall trembles

I'm not about to run away!

We'll knock that Truth bastard flying,

Nobody knows their own uniqueness

and pull your body out of there!

Al!

Along the long, long road, there will be days where we lose things, find things,

Al! Come here!

Hurry, over here! Al!

become suddenly lonesome, and break down crying

Alphonse!

Alphonse! Alphonse!

Let's turn the tears and pain into stars

Just you wait!

So I'm sure we can change. Because we are weak. Because we die.

Let's light the lights that shine on tomorrow

We struggle to live, and we become stronger.

Holding up our little hands to them, let's make stardust together

And if your mind still isn't made up...

and a brightly shining eternity...

...try to remember...

The day may come when we say goodbye

...the days we spent together in Resembool.

The seasons will still make their rounds

Though I may wander a little, I'll still walk

Though I may wander a little, I'll still walk

Still walk with you

Let's make sure that much doesn't change

It was a dream?

Thanks for your help.

However much we may wander, I want to meet up here again

Hold my hand, so we don't get separated

We talked until the sun came up

and held hands until the sun went down again

Let's keep walking together like this tomorrow, and the day after, in light and shadow

In this city of lonely gazes

where I couldn't find any warmth alone,

I first found out that love

could provide such strength when I met you

However much we may wander, I want to meet up here again

Hold my hand, so we don't get separated

I can't sleep alone, because I can't dream

Let's keep lighting up the starless nights

going someplace where no fear can reach us

I can go on forever when I'm with you

When we're together, I can hum as we walk along

paths that I couldn't walk alone

As long as you're here, I'm happy

If you are embraced by fear of the colossal power before your eyes,

then you should depart, coward.

If you lose the power you believe in,

then you should succumb, weakling.

The decisive battle is now. Give all you have, human.

Next time on Hagane no Renkinjutsushi: Fullmetal Alchemist,

Episode 28: "Father."