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Chapter 82: "Soul Family" (temporary chapter title till I read the actual raw ^^)
Caption: Ed is back!! With full of actions!!
Ed and his gang run from Central Army's soldiers, and Ed is back in full action mode.
He acts as if he is a hostage to make the soldiers hesitate to shoot them. He highjacks a car, then transmute it to change the appearance. In the car, while running away from the Army's pursuit, Ed ponders where Al might go if it were Al in this situation.
Meantime, Al is with Hohenheim. Hohenheim tells Al about his past, and the secret about his body being the Philosopher's Stone. Al: "My father was a slave, and he is a Philosopher's Stone?!!!!" Though the news is shocking, Al accept it as it is not impossible to have impossible, as Al himself is the product of unusual circumstances. Both having unusual bodies, they understand each other.
Al wonders about Ed's and Al's "human-ness," born as sons of someone who is a living Philosopher's Stone, but being assured by Hohenheim that the decomposition & reconstruction have fused Hohenheim with Philosopher's Stone, but the core is still Hohenheim, a pure human.
Hohenheim adds that, on the other hand, "Father" is a non-human thing in a 'leather pouch' that happen to be in the shape of Hohenheim.
Al shows Hohenheim the diagrams of the Country-wide Translmutation Circle, and the Reverse Transmutatin Circle, and suggests destroying the underground tunnel, but reminded by Hohenheim that Pride is there, and Al gives up the idea of destroying the tunnel.
Al is worried that the tunnel can be completed soon, and he is in a rush to do something to prevent it. Hohenheim tells AL, "The tunnel may already have been completed. But 'the day' is not upon us yet."
He continues: "Stop just looking at the underground. Look up, and you may see more. That one is waiting for the arrival of 'the day'."
The scene changes to the Central underground.
Greed/Ling attacks an intruder, Bido. Bido tells Greed/Ling about the former Greed, and GreedLing vaguely recalls some of the memories from former Greed.
But, when Bido tells Greed/Ling that he was Greed's company, Greed/Ling says that he doesn't know Bido, and kills Bido. (note: NOOOOOOOO!!!! O_o)
But then, right after that the memory of his companions at the Devil's Nest passes through his head. He is troubled. Ling, from inside Greed, questions Greed's action about killing his former company. Greed: "He is not my company!! The memory of him is that of the former Greed, and not mine!! I have forgotten and left behind all my past!!" To that, Ling shouts back: "No way you can forget and leave behind your past. Your comrades are people you are being connected with in the soul level. Your soul is imbrued with their memory within. You can't wash them off like that. You cutt-off your 'soul family,' killing him on your own hands! And, you claim to be 'Greed' who wants to own everything?!"
Holding Bido's lifeless body, Greed screams.
The Führer's residence. Führer, his wife, and Selim are relaxing at home.
Suddenly, Greed bursts in and attacks Wrath.
Greed: "The memory of my former self hasn't disappeared. The memory of people falling down, the ones who were supposedly my companies." While attacking Wrath Greed continues: "And, why is King Bladley in the scene?"
Wrath counters: "Greed, the one who can't let go of anything, even the past memory!! Fool!!" and combat back. They fight. Selim watches.
The fight goes on. Even during the fight, more memories of former Greed come back to GreedLing. GreedLing runs away from the Führer's residence.
As the fight ends, the Pride's black "hands" appear underneath Selim who were watching the fight with the stern expression, and disappear into the floor.
Somewhere in the suburb of Central City.
This is Mustang's safe house, the one once used when Ed and the company caught Gluttony, and brought Gluttony to.
Ed arrives, thinking that nobody would probably suspect that Ed and others would be here again, and if he were Al he would probably show up here also. But, no Al, and no evidence of Al having stopped by.
Then, GreedLing appears, and collapse to the ground. Ed asks him whether he's Greed, or Ling.
Answers Ling, "I'm starved. I haven't expected that I can see my friend again in this place."
Caption: "Ed meets Ling again, and of course the scene is Ling starving on the ground."
(End of chapter 82)