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"Steel! Now is not the time to be willful!"

Roy said coldly.

"I know……"

The young man lowered his head and said in a deep voice, but he still didn't let go of the man's hand.Ed stood where he was, the mechanical armor made a strange trembling sound due to the too tight pressure, and the cold air filled his mouth, and there was a dead silence.He closed his eyes and said suddenly, "I know!"

"..."

Roy looked at the stubborn boy with a complicated expression, but he didn't speak any more after all.He pursed his lips and looked away, but there was only coldness in his black eyes. The bitter wind blew through the back of his long military uniform, making hunting sounds, harsh and mechanical.The soldier had one hand in his pocket and the other slightly raised—and this time, no one stopped him.

It was still a calm and calm voice, and not long ago, another owner of this voice blocked him while jokingly calling "Senior".Even if he said cold words, he couldn't hide the complexity in his eyes.

"Go!"

There seemed to be something extremely cold coming from the bottom of his heart, as if he and Al burned his own home with his own hands a few years ago, and suddenly realized that he had nothing left.Taka is like this, Nina is like this, even Pelsona is like this...

He is probably an extremely ominous person, otherwise why every person who approaches a little, always walks in a stranger's way after all?Nina died, Taka became like this, and Pelsona and the boy named Atobe finally met each other.

Life is actually a very wonderful thing, because often a few extremely small things can bring people infinitely closer.Eating together, traveling together, being disheartened by cleaning together, smiling together, and fighting back to back together, this kind of relationship may not be thrilling, but he wants to cherish it.Speaking of which, he was just a stranger who happened to live in the same house. At the beginning, his attitude towards Pelsona was quite defensive. Since when did he become such a natural affection like a relative?

Maybe it started from Pelso patting his head naturally while laughing at his height while raising his eyebrows slightly, or maybe he was used to the grand young master's gorgeous attitude anytime and anywhere and the little care hidden under it, I was used to the dark and deserted room, and gradually there were warm lights and human voices.I took that person's reminder and invisible protection for granted, and then gradually became dependent and weak when I didn't know it, but I forgot that there was never a relationship called blood relationship between them.

This has been the unalterable fact from the very beginning.

Ed walked slowly but steadily, slowly leaving small footprints one after another in the dust.Instead of looking at the crimson liquid spreading around him, and not listening to the desperate screams of his colleagues, he walked straight and without the slightest hesitation towards the man who stood there without moving.

"Parsona."

He stopped outside the raging fire wall, and looked at the man from a distance, his eyes were calm, but it seemed that countless times had suddenly passed, and he was so painful and tired that he didn't look like a teenager.No one understands this man's strength better than he who once fought side by side. That incredible power has even surpassed the scope of alchemy.No one can keep him.No one can stop what this man wants to do.

So he just stood there and said in a voice that was just barely audible, "I have a question for you."

Pelsona didn't speak, the boy looked at him, but remembered the decidedly complicated look in his eyes a few days ago. Those accusations of "not paying attention to one's own life" are just excuses for this man to draw a clear line.On that day, Pelsona looked at Glid, with the gleam in his eyes that he must win—not for this person, but for something behind this person, a certain purpose, and for this purpose, he A decision to abandon was made.

That's why he felt so uneasy at that time. He risked his life to fight Glid for the first time, and then almost instinctively tried to persuade him to stay.

But now he suddenly understands that in this man's options, I am afraid that there is no possibility of "staying" from the beginning to the end. This kind of close and self-righteous understanding is just a driftwood that has been ups and downs in guilt and remorse for a long time and has to be grasped.

The boy lowered his eyes, but his hands hidden in the cloak gradually tightened. "If it was a military practice to live with us at the beginning, then later, even when the military department offered you a place to live, you didn't have a reason to move out. What is it?"

"..."

"Answer me! Pelsona!"

The man was silent for a while, and suddenly smiled slowly, "Didn't you already guess the reason, Ed? I was arranged in your residence from the beginning, and I had a purpose."

"You are lying!"

Interrupting him eagerly, the boy's face lost all color, "That's just a coincidence, a coincidence!"

"Since you think it's a coincidence, why did you ask me specifically?"

Folding his arms, Pelsona's eyes were icy cold, mercilessly breaking the last glimmer of hope in the boy's heart.His face was no longer soft and peaceful as usual, the corners of his lips curled up mockingly, and he spit out words like sharp blades.

"The reason I live there is you, Ed. If it weren't for this, how could I, who knew I was about to betray me, have anything to do with the alchemist in the military department. After all..."

He smiled, "Besides Taka, you are the only alchemist I know who knows how to make a human body. If that guy accidentally dies before I find it, then Ed, you are the only one left." ——How could I not intentionally get close to such an important person?"

"So, your previous protection..."

"As I said, you are an important person who is related to opening the door of truth. Before that, if you were injured or died, it would be very difficult for me. But now I will tell you the truth like this, love De, do you know why?"

The young man was taken aback, his face suddenly turned pale, and he said slowly and shyly, "Because... I am useless."

"You have already found Taka who is weaker, crazier, and easier to control than me, so I am naturally useless... So, you don't have to work so hard to pretend to me, haha. "

As the boy said this, the corners of his lips curled up involuntarily, "Pelsona, you have been liberated."

The man's gaze flashed, but the boy with his head down didn't notice it. He only heard the deep and pleasant voice lose its previous gentleness and softness, and said coldly, "That's right."

Although these two words were short, to Ed, they were no less than a thunderbolt, which completely dispelled the last bit of hesitation in his heart.

The boy raised his head, with a self-deprecating smile on his face, "Well, I know. I... I'm such an idiot."

Unexpectedly, he would regard such a person as his own family.However, from this moment on, the relationship between the two, apart from enemies, there will be no second one!

The bright alchemy light filled the entire field of vision, and the young man folded his palms together, "Although I know I can't beat you, but if you don't come to fight with the determination to kill me, you should be prepared to be caught." Bar!"

The boy's moves are sharp and awe-inspiring, and his whimsy is endless. Even Pelsona has to admit that this boy's fighting talent is really outstanding.

However, that's about it.

Pelso paused for a moment, and smiled slightly amidst the sudden jump of flames.Ed stood outside the firewall, only a meter away from him.

Holding back the young man who wanted to rush in regardless, Roy sternly shouted, "Steel, be sober! Take a good look at these fires!"

These firewalls seem to have their own consciousness, and they are constantly shrinking, enclosing the people of Pelso.On the contrary, these flames gradually grew higher, as if they were condensed, and became more and more bright and scorching.No one can touch such a flame, and the flying ash is the proof.

Most of the alchemists in the military department have been killed or injured in such flames, and the result of this battle is self-evident.

Pelso held Taka, who was unconscious due to fright, in one hand, and held Atobu in his arms with the other hand, and said unhurriedly, "Ed, and..."

He turned his eyes to look at the man with short black hair, "Master Roy, who has been mentioned by him all the time, this time, it's really goodbye."

No, in fact, we will never see each other again.

Ed's golden pupils shrank suddenly, "Hurry up and stop him..."

Before the words were finished, the man had disappeared before everyone's eyes, just like the day when he turned around with Glide, and disappeared in just a split second.

The flame that remained in place seemed to have lost all vitality at once, dimmed little by little, and after a while, it gradually extinguished like an ordinary flame.

Ed stood there expressionless, not knowing what he was thinking.And at the place where the man disappeared, a thin piece of white paper whirled and was blown into the air, and soon floated to Ed's feet.

The boy looked at the paper under his feet in a daze, and slowly bent down to pick it up.It's just that when his eyes glanced at this piece of paper, he couldn't help but startled, and his whole body became stiff.

On this piece of paper, what is depicted in detail is the Liancheng Formation that sealed Glider.With this, androids are no longer immortal.But such an ordinary piece of paper survived such a fierce fire...

Roy saw this piece of paper from a distance, and his expression was full of understanding.Sighing softly in his heart, hiding the complicated look in his eyes, he stood silently behind Ed, with a hand lightly on his shoulder.

The proud and awkward young man didn't move, and didn't move as usual, he slapped his hand away with one hand and scolded with a smile, "Don't treat me like a child, Chief" and "Go to hell with your incompetence." With his own lips, he swallowed all the fine sobs back into his stomach.

The fragile paper is held tightly in the hand, and it can be torn almost instantly.A transparent liquid dripped down, wet the familiar characters on the paper, the ink color twisted and dyed, and the blurred characters were almost unrecognizable. ——"Forged into formations and bones, man-made humans can be removed."

Sometimes, perhaps the best protection is just to stay away.