

As they clash, the sewer tunnel explodes and collapses.īack in the capital, the Elrics and their escorts try to determine whether any of Marcoh's notes might have been stored in a different location, but come up empty-handed until they are referred to a young woman named Sheska, who had worked in the First Branch until her recent dismissal. Down in the sewers, Scar becomes suddenly aware that he is being followed and spies the ravenous Gluttony behind him. When he asks Lust if he is allowed to eat this target, she orders him not to leave even a single hair behind. As she speaks, however, Gluttony's attention is drawn elsewhere - to the scent of an Ishvalan cloaked in blood. Just outside, Lust joins the ever-watchful Gluttony and explains that, though she had been unable to locate Marcoh's notes, her destruction of the library's first branch ensures that the Fullmetal Alchemist will never find them either. Jean Havoc that he, too, is anxious to settle the matter with Scar, if only to earn points with Central Command and further facilitate his secret bid for the seat of Führer and supreme military authority. But while Mustang coolly brushes off the reprimand, he confides in his subordinates Lt. In East City, Colonel Roy Mustang is scolded by the visiting Major General Hakuro for his unit's failure to apprehend Scar even after all this time. Marcoh's notes were supposedly hidden - had burned to the ground the day before the Elrics' arrival in what is suspected to be an act of arson. Ross and Brosh escort the boys to their destination, the National Central Library, but explain that the First Branch building of the library - where Dr. Edward and Alphonse finally arrive in Central City, where Major Armstrong introduces them to the soldiers who will be taking over the Elrics' security detail from him - 2nd Lt.
