030. yoroi no naka, shinri no oku
030. inside the armor, the truth within
Military man: Colonel Mustang, there's a call on the public line for you.
Roy: I'll take it. Ah, First Lieutenant Hawkeye. What's up? Aren't you off-duty today?
Hawkeye: No, about that...
Barry the Chopper: Missy~
Hawkeye: I just finished capturing a weirdo.
Roy: What?
Barry the Chopper: How about letting me dissect you, missy?
Hawkeye: No!
Barry the Chopper: Hmm... ah! How about those approaching fellas?
Hawkeye: Absolutely not! Ah, please! Hurry up and come, Colonel.
031. onore no o wo kamu hebi
031. the serpent swallowing its tail
Hawkeye: I'm sorry to have disturbed you, Colonel.
Barry the Chopper: Missy, who's this rascal?
Hawkeye: Stop this! Can't you settle down for a while?
Roy: ... Step aside, First Lieutenant. Tonight, my flames shall be exceptionally strong.
Hawkeye: Colonel, please calm down! This man was supposed to have been hung, he's Barry the Chopper!
Roy: How's it going?
Falman: He was not fooled by the trick question. As I thought, to know this much as well as behaving so alike means that he's the real thing...
Barry the Chopper: What? You dare to suspect that I am an imitation! Let me skillfully dismember you, to prove tha--
Hawkeye: No, you won't.
Barry the Chopper: Oh, come on Missy. I was only joking~
Roy: We acknowledge that you are the real stuff. How is it that you who should have been hung to death, are still here? Furthermore, existing in an armored body like Alphonse Elric.
Barry the Chopper: Before I answer to your questions, I got a few of my own for you. You look like military men but you don't know anything about how I became this type of body?
Roy: That's it.
Barry the Chopper: Okay, okay! Do you know about the 5th Laboratory incident?
Roy: What incident?
Barry the Chopper: That fella, Alphonse, and his brother came and infiltrated the Lab. We had a fight at that time. He was quite strong.
Roy: Infiltration... Is it about the Philosopher's Stone?! ... Barry, tell me the details!
Barry the Chopper: Heh, heh, heh. I'll spit it all out if you don't rat me out to the fellas that did this to my body, as well as not punishing me.
Roy: It's a deal!
Roy: Well, to put it all in order... The 5th Laboratory was used for making the incomplete Philosopher's Stone. The components were live humans. The laboratory was however destroyed. To look for evidence would be impossible... The military engineers and researchers are involved... Concerning the military's upper echelons, they're likely to have a hand in it as well. Lust and Envy are the people said to be connected with the military... What do these two look like?
Barry the Chopper: Lust, she's like this... all shapely. If you cut her, it will be very soft. Envy, well... he is very boney. With his small body, it will be tough to cut too. Eh, what's wrong?
Roy: No, that's enough... Well then, was your soul alchemised by those people?
Barry the Chopper: No, this was done by the researchers. My alchemisation was also slightly different too. My soul was torn out of my living body and transferred to this suit of armor. Anyhow, because my soul was torn out against my will, that pain... made me think that it would have been luckier to get hanged instead.
Falman: Shall we investigate those researchers? They might know the identity of the one who directed the experiments.
Barry the Chopper: Not possible. Those fellas were used as the Stone's components. It was just a few days before the lab got destroyed. Not one survived.
Roy: Silencing them, then using them as research materials. They really don't waste anything, now, do they...
Hawkeye: Does that mean that there is no more need to make the Stones as well?
Roy: The organisation related to the military's higher echelon and the Philosopher's Stone... Barry the Chopper, this is my last question for you. Slightly less than a month ago, a Brigadier General was murdered in a telephone booth in Central. Did you do it?
Barry the Chopper: I dunno! Was that fella chopped and dismembered?
Roy: No, it doesn't matter if you don't know. Warrant Officer Falman, you can go back now.
Falman Yes.
Roy: Also, forget everything that you have heard tonight. Do you understand? It's a dangerous bridge and though you're my associate, you have no need to cross it with me.
Falman: Mmh... that is true. However, Colonel, I'm afraid I have too good a memory. Telling me to forget about this is something I can't do. Since I stepped aboard this boat, I have to follow you wherever you go. If there's anything I can do, just say so.
Roy: Falman... I apologize. Thank you. Now then, you will immediately take care of this man.
Falman: Huh?
Roy: Keep him at a place where most people as well as any military, except us, would not be able to find! I need to return to the military to investigate something! Ah, I'll help you to apply for leave so that you can concentrate on keeping watch over Barry! I'll leave it to you!
Hawkeye: Barry! You're not allowed to chop this person up, okay?
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