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Execute Leanna - 7 votes (Wishmaster, Amko, Deliries, Kits Kitsunka, Morning, Vistrit, Pale)
Execute Morning - 1 vote (Leanna)
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Life and active activity returned once again to Roy Mustang's office. Somehow, the colonel managed to gather his strength and decided to continue pursuing his goal, despite the death of his best subordinate. Furthermore, the position of the Führer had finally become vacant, and this was an excellent chance for Mustang to take it. All that remained was to deal with the homunculi and the handful of generals who currently rule the country...
The colonel's thoughts were interrupted by the creak of a opening door. A short youth entered.
- Ah, it's you, - Mustang nodded. - Have a seat.
- Colonel, I want to take a leave of absence.
- I understand... After such events and your brother's death... I know it is hard for you to remember, but I also lost someone dear...
- Alphonse is alive, - Edward Elric interrupted his superior. - His body has been cut into such a state that it is impossible to put it back together even with alchemy. But the blood seal that holds his soul here is intact. My brother currently lives in the form of an iron plate, but he is still alive. In our home in Resembool, there are some old armor... Father was quite interested in them. I will think of something and transfer his soul into them. So please, Colonel Mustang, grant me leave. I know that better times are not coming to the capital, and I am running away like a shameful coward... But my brother is more important to me. Please understand.
Roy Mustang stood up and placed a hand on Edward's shoulder.
- I understand. Go. I hope to see you soon... From the Führer's chair, - the colonel winked and signed the paper Elric had brought. - Until we meet again, Fullmetal Alchemist.
- See you, Colonel.
The men shook hands, and Fry turned around and left Mustang's office: a train heading home awaited her.
Not long after, Maes Hughes visited the colonel. The friends greeted each other and sat in chairs.
- Glad to see you in high spirits, - the captain said. - You'll need it; we have a little job for us.
- What have those petty generals come up with now? - the colonel asked with surprise and mockery.
- Leanna, - Hughes simply replied and handed Mustang a paper.
- A warrant for her arrest. Classified as an especially dangerous criminal with psychological abnormalities. In case of resistance, killing on the spot is permitted... But she was recently rehabilitated by the Führer's personal order!
- Apparently, they realized she is too unpredictable a dog to be kept on a leash. In any case, it's better for us to move out right now. She was last seen in the west of the city.
- Let's go, - Mustang nodded.
Leanna was found in a labyrinth of alleys and streets in the western residential quarters. She didn't bother with the police and blew them up immediately. Arriving at the scene, Mustang immediately gave the order to retreat and stepped forward.
- Solf J. Kimble! You are accused of numerous war crimes during the Ishvalan War, resisting the army, and killing many innocent people! You are sentenced to death on the spot!
- Accused? - he asked distractedly. - I was only doing my job, which was assigned to me. Is it my fault that I always did it with quality and that I enjoyed performing it? Or...
Kimble looked into Mustang's eyes and burst out laughing.
- Oh, Colonel, I understand everything! You regret that you couldn't avenge the murder of that girl, your lieutenant... I killed that greedy Menta, and now you want to avenge the killer of her killer! You are so amusing!
Mustang did not waste time and immediately sent a wave of flame at Kimble. He dodged, but the colonel did not stop his attacks. Kimble could not counterattack because he could not see the target behind the blazing fire, and the colonel was constantly moving, so no explosion could reach him. Kimble could only retreat.
- Hm... Apparently, I have no choice, - he muttered and took a red stone from his pocket. - This really turned out to be harder than I imagined.
Kimble prepared to perform a transmutation, but the unexpected happened. The stone crumbled into ash as soon as the alchemist began the process of transmutation. Unable to believe his eyes, he watched as the wind scattered what had been a prototype of the Philosopher's Stone. Mustang immediately took advantage of the hesitation and ran up close to him.
- You lost!
The colonel grabbed Kimble by the arm and burned his palm. The psychopath screamed in agony, and Mustang said with a proud look:
- Transmutation circles - on your palms. Without them, you are powerless. And now - die.
Kimble only laughed with satisfaction in response:
- Wonderful. I have heard many explosions in my life... I wonder if I'll manage to hear the one in which I perish. Even if your flame is not an explosion, it will suit me...
The colonel did not answer and only raised his hand to finally burn the defeated Kimble.
- Stop! - Hughes' cry was heard. - Do not let revenge and rage cloud your vision! You have defeated him - that is enough! We will hand him over to the police.
Roy Mustang lowered his hand and looked at his friend with a cold gaze.
- We were ordered to kill him if he resisted. I am carrying out an order.
- He also justified himself by carrying out his job! Look at ourselves! If you become like him, will you be a worthy ruler?
These words changed the expression on Mustang's face. He looked at his hands and at Kimble, who was kneeling before him with a smile and looking at him proudly.
- You really are amusing... - the psycho said and sliced the back of his forehead against the paving stones, hitting his head against them. - So amusing that I'm bleeding because of you... Go, call the police. I've already spent many years in prison; a couple more is no trouble.
The colonel snorted contemptuously and turned around, heading toward the police. And Kimble dipped just one finger of his whole hand into his blood and began to draw something on the asphalt. Hughes, who was looking at Mustang's back, turned to him and asked, pointing the muzzle of his pistol at Kimble:
- What, feel like drawing?
- Yes, Captain... My final piece of art... You know, they say that art is an explosion? - Kimble smiled with a psycho's smile.
- What nonsense are you talking? - Hughes asked skeptically. - Get up.
- Hughes, why are you hesitating?! - Mustang approached his friend again. - What is he do... Damn, it's a transmutation circle! He's going to blow us all to hell right now!
And indeed: the circle was almost ready. Kimble burst out laughing and raised his head, looking at the sky.
- BOOM! - he screamed.
But Kimble's scream was cut short. Hughes pulled the trigger - and the psychopath's body fell to the ground. A hole gaped in its forehead, and the captain turned away and looked at Mustang with bitterness.
- That was the only way to save us... Let's go.
And the two military men walked away. And Leanna remained lying on the ground, looking into the sky with the gaze of a mad person...