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My first impressions aren't always the best.

The first time I met Maes, I was hanging off the side of a speeding train like an amateur little kid.

I guess I was back then.

But despite that, he still helped me, and everything got worked out, and he didn't lose respect for me.

He made Roy just bearable.

It was always a pleasure talking to him, even with all those stupid pictures of Elysia that documented her life every five minutes.

I should visit her and Gracia more.

Maes always helped me out, but alchemy is about equivalent exchanges, right? He was nice, so he had to die.

How screwed up is that?

Then bastard Roy had to hide the fact from me.

Who the hell did he think he was?

It makes it so much worse that Maes died by my own creation. By my own goddamned homunculi.

Damn you, Sloth.

I'm sorry Maes, please forgive me.

Rest in Peace.