Disclaimer: These characters do not belong to me, (as much I want them to), but they belong to Arakawa Hiromu-sensei.
Warnings: Spoiler for Chapter 15 and/or Episode 25
Just a Dream
It was only yesterday that Roy Mustang was talking to his best friend on the phone, talking about things that didn't pertain to work nor any important business, unless you considered Maes Hughes talking about this daughter, and his latest photo album of her and his wife. Maes Hughes, Roy's best friend who had always supported him from the lower ranks since the Ishbal War, but now he was dead; gone from this world that Roy knew and he was never going to see him again in this lifetime. Maes had died trying to pass on information about the military and how there was something going on. But other people had thought that Maes had known too much and he had played his role and decided it was time to let him go. Maes death was a changing point in Roy's life, it was a murder that he couldn't just let go, and he would avenge his friend.
But did it really matter how he died? No, a person's death doesn't matter, it matters how they lived. Maes Hughes lived a wonderful life, being able to marry a beautiful wife, and being honored with a wonderful little girl, whom he loved both very dearly. He had carries out his promise to Roy, that he would support him all the way till the end. Living how he did should have been honorable but yet there was still guilt in Roy. He had thought it had been his fault that he died, yet he knew that it was Maes Hughes that choose the life he took and that his death was not in vain. Now that Maes was gone he left alone people that would always cry for him and would always remember him in their memories. "It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives." (Samuel Johnson), Roy Mustang was taught this many times yet he hoped that everything was just a dream.