Bradley now had one foot rested where Lan Fan was before he attacked her, hurting Chiui in the process.
He noticed the top of one of his swords snap, and watched as Lan Fan and Chiui landed on the ground.
That Ishvalan girl...she tried to block my attack to dampen the blow. he concluded. But the other girl had used the kunai to dampen the blow as well.
"Can I eat them?" Gluttony was sounding impatient, yet excited, as drool run down his open mouth. "Huh? Huh?"
"Be quick about it."
"Hoooraaa-" Gluttony went to say, but a blurred figure came out of nowhere behind him, slicing the top part of his face and arms off.
The Homunculus fell to the ground with a thud, with Ling landing where Lan Fan and Chiui fell.
"Lan Fan! Chiui!" he yelled towards them. "Pull yourselves together! Let's get out of here!"
He t hen noticed that she couldn't get up, so he lifted up Lan Fan, putting her over his shoulder. As for Chiui, he lifted her up, resting the girl on his other shoulder, but managed to hold onto his sword as he saw Bradley approaching, stepping in the blood that expelled from Gluttony when he fell.
"Do you really think you can escape from my watchful eye?" The Fuhrer lifted up his unbroken sword, aiming it towards the Xingese Prince and his two fallen comrades.
"I agree that it's doubtful..." Ling shuffled, his sandals making sounds against the ground, "...but I won't know until I try!"
The military president and the Xingese Prince then engaged into a furious combat, the metal of their swords clanging against each other when the two swords equaled out. However, one swing came at Ling's face, missing the teen. But the second time around, it came back with more force, causing a cut to emerge Ling's right cheek. Blood from the cut dripped down the cheek for a few seconds, stopping immediately when it reached the end of that side of his face.
"Hmmm..." Bradley observed as they continued fighting. " I see you know a thing or two about combat."
Ling ran from behind the Fuhrer, and then to the front of him.
"You're constantly moving into my blind spot...circling around towards my left eye."
"In that case..." he added. "Gluttony!"
A round figure glided behind the President, appearing right in front of Ling. "Peek-a-boo!"
The prince was unaware of him, and as a result, was sent flying right into a building with one good swing from the Homunculus. Glass shattered with a deafening sound as Ling, Lan Fan, and Chiui went through it, tumbling to the floor.
The injured girls fell off of Ling's shoulders. The prince gritted his teeth, grunting in pain, only for his eyes to widen when the two Homunculi appeared.
"Well then..." Bradley started. "Now that we're out of sight from prying eyes, I have many questions to ask you. Who are you? What are your intentions? And why can you see what's inside Gluttony?"
Ling had his two female comrades on his shoulders once more, and his ears drowned out the words of the military Homunculus as his eyes locked on the exit.
It's about 40 paces to the door...can I make it?
"Even when your defeat is undeniable, you still plot escape." Bradley noticed. "How foolish. And cowardly. These girls have become a burden to you. If you leave them behind, you might stand a chance. Why do you hesitate?"
Ling's breath was becoming more short and limited as he glared at him. "A burden?" he repeated that word boldly. "Let me ask you something, then. If you were in my place, could you bring yourself to forsake your fallen comrades?"
"Yes, I could."
The answer caused Lings' eyes to became small in shock.
"That is how I've come as far as I have. I'd have no hesitation whatsoever."
"You're...the most powerful person in this country, right?" Ling's mind started to remember hearing of his opponent. "You're Fuhrer President King Bradley."
As no response came from Bradley, Ling got on one knee, resting a hand on his sword. His breathing was now in short bursts of air, his eyes shaded by his bangs. "A king exists for his people." he spoke up. "Without his people, there can be no king."
Lan Fan's face became weary in pain; her breath was becoming shortened as well.
"King Bradley!" The prince opened his eyes. "You will never be a true king!"
Lan Fan used her injured arm to grab a flash bomb, snapping the top of it off with her teeth. Small amounts of blood left her injured arm as she did so, dripping onto the ground.
Bradley and Gluttony noticed the bomb hit the ground with a TONK, and a small fssh when it set off. The room flashed a bright white when it exploded.
"A flash bomb!?" Bradley exclaimed, shielding his left eye while Gluttony shielded his own eyes. "Curses!"
"You rely too much on your eyesight, Bradley!" Ling yelled as he dashed into the mist left by the bomb.
His vision won't return for a while. The teen concluded as he focused on the exit. The wind blowing...good! The exit is in that direction!
He took a sudden step back when a sword came flying right in front of him, stabbing right into the wall.
It dangled as Ling looked over at Bradley.
"You may have blinded one eye..." The president slowly put his hand down, that he was shielding with. "...But I have another!"
Ling's eyes widened when he saw the Ouroburos tattoo on Bradley's right eye as he began to stand up.
"For the first time in my life, I am thankful for this eye patch." Bradley told me. "It blocked out the light from your flash bomb quite well."
He then recalled the previous conversation. "You mentioned something about a 'true king', did you not, boy? Your immature and idealized theory is worthy of contempt. Nowhere on this Earth does a true king exist!"
Winry had just come back from visiting the cemetery with Gracia and Elicia, the cemetery where was buried. She was talking about her deceased parents that had gone into the mist of the Ishvalan war back when they were alive, and when Winry was little. All she had remembered was seeing her parents' backs as they walked away, and then finding out about being killed by someone they saved. She missed them greatly, and still misses them now.
The blonde teen could hear citizens talking about something concerning alchemists. She didn't know what they were talking about until the words "Elric brothers" came into the speech.
She knew those words all too well. So with an apology to Gracia and Elicia, she departed into a stride.
"Grr..." she grumbled. "What are those idiots up to now!?"
"The state alchemist is a murder suspect?" a man asked a woman as Winry passed by.
"He's still around?" the woman asked him.
Different questions from the chatter emerged, such as, "Are things really under control?" and "What's the military doing here, anyway?"
The flashback of her parents started playing in Winry's head, but then it transitioned to something similar, but instead with Edward and Alphonse's backs facing her.
Oh no... Winry thought, sweat running down her face as she fastened the pace she was running at. Why are they overlapping!?
Meanwhile, Scar sent a tide of power towards Ed as he approached him.
Where the heck are the Homunculi!? he gritted his teeth, but then notcied the path was coming to an end. Huh!? A dead end!? Darn it!
He grabbed a water pipe, which started breaking off the wall as he climbed up it. However, Ed didn't make it far, since Scar split the pipe in half with his alchemy.
Falling down, the Fullmetal Alchemist started screaming, but was saved by a hand-shaped piece of concrete Al had conjured from the ground. Scar ducked the shield as to not get hit by it.
Ed was crying tears of joy. "Nice one, bro!"
"Okay!" Alphonse yelled towards him. "Just hurry up and get out there!"
As if on cue, Scar struck the shield, breaking it to pieces. Ed moved just in time, landing on the railing of a woman's balcony.
One of the ledges started crumbling, and was about to come down on Ed and the woman. "Why, you..." he directed towards Scar, clapping his hands together just in time to turn the sheet into a shield to block the crumbled pieces. Holes ripped through it, making it creak as Ed tried to hold it up.
"Are you alright!?" Ed asked the woman. The woman didn't really know what to say, except "Th...thanks."
"Sorry about the mess!" the teen apologized as he started to leave and go back to the scene. "I'll fix it for you later!"
"Do we have permission to fire yet!?" the military cop asked the other one.
"Not yet, sir!"
"Why not!?"
Al dodged Scar's attack, which happened to hit right into the cops, knocking them out.
"Oh..." Al didn't realize that would happen. "Sorry about that!"
"You idiot!" Ed appeared, scolding Scar. "Don't involve the bystanders!"
"It will all be over as soon as you accept the Divine Judgement, Fullmetal Alchemist." The male Ishvalan spoke for the first time.
"Don't be so unreasonable." The suit of armor told him, then started looking around.
The Homunculi still haven't shown themselves...and Ling hasn't fired his signal flare...Al then focused on his older brother's face. Big brother looks tired. I have to buy us some time!
"Scar!" he yelled towards the Ishvalan. "How can you accuse alchemists of defying God and take it upon yourself to eliminate them, when you yourself use alchemy!?"
"I already told you in East city." Scar turned to look at him. "There are those like you who create, and there are those who destroy."
Al flinched as the remembrance of Nina passed his mind. "East...destroy..." But then he clenched his fists, his arms trembling. "If all you do is destroy, how can you hope to accomplish anything? Aren't you just invoking God's name so that you can justify murder?"
"...Al?" Ed was thrown off a bit by Al's tone, which was of confusion and anger.
"Shou Tucker..." his younger brother continued, bringing up the twisted man's name, "...and his daughter, Nina. Did you tell them that you were an agent of God when you took their lives!?"
"Tucker..." Scar echoed that word. "So...you saw the girl he turned into a chimera."
"You ask, 'how can I hope to accomplish anything?' " he added. "The alchemist that I defeated the other day said something similar. He said, 'You're no match against those of us who create.'" His red eyes were now locked on the brothers. "You claim that you wield the power of creation!? The same power that turned that innocent girl into an abomination!?"
Alphonse and Edward's eyes widened in horror.
"Such power succeeds in creating tragedy." the man reminded them. "That is the true nature of your alchemy!"
Ed gritted his teeth. "But why...why did you have to kill her!? What right did you have to take her life!? Tell me, Scar!"
Scar's expression was solemn. "You knew what would've happened, wouldn't you? It was impossible for her to be returned back to her former self. Left in that condition, she would've lived the rest of her days as a lab animal, never again treated like a human being."
He's right...Al clenched his fists, looking at them. Even if we didn't admit it then, we must have known that she would eventually be treated that way.
We didn't know what to do with her because the situation was so difficult...Ed's eyebrows furrowed. So we did nothing...nothing!
Winry was now behind a talking crowd when she heard a rumble in the distance. "Excuse me." she said to the people in the crowd. "Let me through!"
"Hey, wait!" warned a middle aged man from the crowd she pushed out of. "It's dangerous over there! Hey!"
Those words passed through one ear and out the other for the young auto-mail mechanic. She was too busy running to the scene where she heard the rumble, assuming Ed and Al will be there.
She passed by elevated pieces of the ground and a few, thick, broken pipes caused by the use of alchemy at the begging of the brothers and Scar's battle.
"It's true..." Ed spoke up, "We alchemists have made a lot of mistakes, but that doesn't mean I agree with what you're doing!"
The golden-haired teen then pursed his lips for a moment. "Scar...I have to ask you. Does an agent of God also take doctors' lives, in which they devote themselves to helping others?"
Al heard footsteps approaching and saw Winry, listening in on Ed's talking to Scar. Alphonse knew this was bad timing, but Ed was oblivious to that.
"Do you remember an Amestrian doctor couple named Rockbell?"
"Wait..." Al began, but he was cut off.
"When the Ishvalan war was at its bloodiest, they risked their lives going to the Southern front to treat refugees."
"Wait, big brother!"
"Scar! Ed's voice became sharper. "Do you remember the kind, loving, husband and wife who saved your life, and whose lives you then took!?"
"Big brother!"
Al's warning finally came through and his older brother finally rested his golden eyes on Winry. Realization and fear set on his face, now knowing that Winry just overheard what he asked Scar.
"W...what are you saying?" The girl was grief stricken and confused. "This is the man responsible...of killing my mom and dad?" Her voice was now filling up with sorrow and tears. "It can't be...they were killed...by a person that helped save...? You...killed them...?"
Scar's eyes narrowed, but he had no response.
"Y...you're not going to deny it?" her voice now shook with the said emotion rushing through her body, causing her to fall to her knees with a SLUMP.
"Why...what did my mom and dad ever to do deserve that? They never did anything harmful to anyone, did they!?"
She then rested her fingers on her head as tears ran down her face. "Give them back! Give me back my mom and dad!"
Her fists clenched and were on the ground, but then Ed noticed a gun resting on the ground near her. It was the gun from one of the knocked out cops. His eyes widened in shock as she went to reach for it, her arm trembling.
"Wait, Winry." he spoke up. "Stop...don't..."
"Winry!" Al's voice didn't help, either, for she already had her fingers on the gun.
"Don't do it, Winry!"
The distraught teen was now loosely holding the gun; the warnings were too late. Winry's expression changed from sadness to an emotion of hatred as the gun was pointed at Scar.
Meanwhile, a random citizen was walking to a small water filler, singing to himself. He went to turn the handle when an explosion from a building behind him occurred.
He looked behind him at the smoke left from the explosion, only to get assuming eyes staring at him.
All of a sudden, he heard a "OUT OF MY WAAAAAY!" then Ling landing on the ground, hard on his feet. Lan Fan and Chiui were still on his shoulders. However, his body twinged in pain from the landing, making him groan. He growled as he dashed off.
"A flash bomb, a smoke bomb, and a grenade..." Bradley observed the teen as he and Gluttony stepped out of the aftermath of the explosion. "Tsk, tsk. Such a reckless boy. Of course, in my younger years, I was every bit as wild and reckless as him. That's the problem with getting older. I may have my vision still intact and alert, but my body just doesn't want to do what I tell it to do."
He then looked at Gluttony, who was rubbing his eyes. "Your eyesight still hasn't returned, Gluttony?"
Gluttony answered with a nod.
"Circle around from the East to contain them." he gave an order to the round Homunculus. "Don't let them get out into the main streets. Drive them into a dead end alley ahead. They'll not escape again."
As he left the building, using the stairs, he put his eyepatch back on his tattooed eye. "My, my. And we still haven't even dealt with Scar yet."
Ling was running this way and that down the many alleyways of Central. He stopped for a moment, noticing Gluttony on top of one of the buildings.
"That one, he sure is persistent!" Ling grumbled in annoyance and continued running.
...Looks like...the farther I go...the less people there are... he started pondering as he went furher down the alleyways, noticing the Homunculus once more on the way, then looked around.
"They've run me into a trap!"
"That fool is heading straights towards a dead end." Gluttony could heard Bradley as he was walking by, and jumped down to meet him.
Gun shots, crashes, and booms were then heard in earshot of the two Homunculi.
"Hm...I'll take care of things from here." Bradley told Gluttony. "You keep a watch on Scar."
"Huh?" Gluttony lifted up an index finger, resting it on his lips. "But I like the girl better..."
This struck the Fuhrer as odd. "What? Are you into women?"
The gluttonous villain nodded. "Yup. I like girls. Their flesh is so tender and tasty!"
He started drooling, which made Bradley a tad uneasy.
"...Just hurry up and find Scar."
Ling was running down an alleyway that didn't lead to a dead end. Small clouds of dust appeared under his feet as he did so, his breath coming out in short bursts of air.
"Prince." Lan Fan's voice was weary from pain, and her Lord could tell as he replied with a, "What is it?"
"My left arm...it's no longer of any use." Her injured arm dangled as she said this, still dripping blood.
"What of it?"
"I can no longer fight. If you bother with an unworthy burdens like myself or Chiui, you'll also fall. Then all will have been in vain."
She had to pause for a moment to catch her breath. "A king cannot exist without his people. But without their king, the people will have no sense of purpose. Prince, you must return to Xing alive in order to preserve the hopes of our clan."
"I'm not leaving any of you behind!" Ling told her, stressing his concern for both of the girls' safety and injuries.
A smile came across Lan's lips. "There are many things one can sacrifice to fulfill one's duty."
As she said this, she pulled out one of her kunai, spinning it until it was directed where she wanted it at. Chiui could see what was going on as her red eyes observed the bodyguard's movements, having a gut feeling what she was about to do...which was to cut off her own arm.
"Lan Fan..." Chiui spoke up for the first time since the attack earlier, her voice weak.
"What are you doing?" The Prince could tell that Lan was up to something. "Lan Fan!"
The female Xingese teen fiercely grabbed the collar of her outfit with her teeth, squeezing her eyes shut as sweat ran down her face. Her heart beat was increasing by the minute.
"Don't do anything foolish!"
Lan Fan opened her eyes, showing determination despite the adrenaline and fear pulsing through her. And without any hesitation, she thrusted the weapon at her injured arm.
"NOO!" The Prince and Xingese/Ishvalan girl yelled at the same time to stop her, but it was too late.
Explosions emerged as Al and Scar fought with Ed away from the battle to take care of Winry.
He had managed to calm her down so she wouldn't end up shooting the male Ishvalan. He reminded her of the many things she's done to help and save people, including the Elric brothers themselves. After that, he gave his friend the red coat he wore with his dark outfit, and Winry burst into tears in his arms.
Officers were nearby, and Ed informed one to take Winry to a safe location.
He then went off to join Alphonse once more.
"Stay out of my way!" Scar warned Al as the suit of armor rushed past. "Do you want me to destroy you?"
"No, I don't!" replied Al, using his alchemy to make blocks out of buildings to jump onto.
"I know that beneath that suit of armor you are empty inside." The two jumped onto a base where a giant water tank was as Scar said this. "Is that also thanks to your alchemy?"
"Yup." Alphonse didn't deny it.
"How sad! You've been put into that cursed body, and you still devote yourself to alchemy!?"
Al clapped his hands together, blocking Scar's kick to the tank by creating a small, but thick, pipe out of it, gushing out water. The two then landed on the ground.
"It's true that there are many things that this body keeps me from doing..." Al continued Scar's mentioning of his body, "but being hindered isn't the same as being cursed! I don't need anyone's pity!"
He then made a fist, hitting his chest. "My big brother made a great sacrifice to bind my life to this word. Denying what I am would be like denying his hopes...or denying alchemy itself. I still believe in its potential. I want to believe in it!"
"Is that so?" Scar reached a hand into the running water, sending smoke by using alchemy, in Al's direction.
"Huh!?" It surrounded Al, but not for long as he noticed Scar charging at him, his right hand open. "Oh no..."
"HIYAAAAH!"
After that loud sentence emerged from the distance, the two saw Ed come out of nowhere, kicking Scar's leg to stop him.
"Whoa!" Ed looked shocked, as he and Scar skidded on the ground opposite from each other. "I actually hit him!"
"Big brother! Thanks for the save!" His younger brother thanked him, relieved, then his mind set on his friend. "How's Winry?"
"The MPS have her in protective custody." Ed replied. "I'm so pathetic. I made her cry again."
"Big brother, you're always too careless!" Al got after him, and Ed's face showed that he knew that already. "...She caught you in mid-battle at a brutal moment."
"I know." The alchemist's eyebrows furrowed, then locked his eyes on scar. "Now...let's get things under control."
"Peek...a...boo!"
The three of them heard this, and suddenly, Gluttony appeared in front of Scar, his tongue sticking out. "I found you! I found the Ishvalan!"
"You're..." Scar's crimson eyes widened, for he recognized him.
Al recognized Gluttony, too. "Hey...it's a Homunculus!"
The Ishvalan dodged just in time as the villain ran towards him, biting off a pipe. He then rested his right hand on Gluttony's back, sending a jolt of power through his body, causing blood to expel from it.
However, a twisted grin appeared on his face as his wounds started healing, slamming Scar into a wall an abandoned house.
Alphonse saw Ed dash off. "Ling said he would head them off before they could make their move!"
"So...where is he!?" The golden-haired teen was growing impatient.
Bradley strided furiously down the alleyways Ling was before following the trail of blood left by Lan Fan's arm, and blood from Chiui's wounds.
The president took his sword out of its hilt right as he turned a corner of where he found Lan Fan's arm, dripping with blood, but it seemed to be wrapped around something. His eyes widened.
BAKANG!
The lid covering an entrance to something undeground popped off into the air, going in the same direction as an airborne, shirtless figure in the sky appeared in the group's view.
It took a moment for the brothers to see who it was. "Ling!?"
Ling had his sword held between his teeth, taking out a bomb out of the bag strapped around his waist. He snapped the top of the bomb off with his sword.
When he landed, he was on Gluttony, shoving the bomb into his mouth. Once the Homunculus swallowed the bomb, Ling took his hand out, though a little of Gluttony's saliva was on it.
He removed the sword from his mouth, and jumped off, "Get down!"
The 2 Elric brothers jolted, and in a split second, Gluttony exploded, blood and body parts splattering in every direction.
A piece of Gluttony's jaw, with some teeth visible fell in front of Ed, making him cringe.
His golden eyes widened in amazement as the parts started dissolving, returning back to the Homunculus, who was already regenerating.
"Get me a sturdy wire!" Ling ordered to Edward, who was watching in awe of what just happened.
It took a second for that order to go through the alchemist's head. "R-right!" He ran towards a beam of a railroad track, and rested his hands on it. Soon, it became the wire that the Prince had described, and Ling took a hold of it.
He started wrapping it around the Homunculus as he was almost done reforming, so parts of his body were squished between the wire.
"The fact your regenerative ability is so powerful became your downfall!" Ling told Gluttony. As he said this, he crossed the end of the wire, tying it into a knot. "Your own meat that expands from within, the wire will end up binding you tighter!"
"I got you, Homunculus!" he added with a sharp raise in his voice.
Bradley put his sword down when he noticed the dog that Lan's arm was wrapped around. Once the dog shook, with small splatters of blood flying off, the dog looked at the arm in confusion, oblivious to where it came from.
"Well played."
Down in the sewer, blood was splattered from Ling carrying Lan Fan and Chiui. He had taken off his over shirt, resting it where Lan Fan had cut off her arm, and wrapped it around her waist to stop the bleeding.
Lan Fan and Chiui, who was holding her right arm-since it was injured, were walking down the sewer in the water.
Both of the girls were limited of breath due to their wounds.
"The blood...is washing out in the water...so those monsters won't be able to track us..." the bodyguard of Ling directed towards Bradley, then with Chiui in unison as Lan Fan rested her back up against the wall to catch her breath, "We've outwitted you, monster!"
"What?" Scar was completely confused by the wrapped up villain before him. "A Homunculus?"
The steering of a car caught his attention, and before he knew it, he felt a blow to his right knee. Noticing that it was a bullet now, he grunted, falling to his knees, resting a hand on his wound.
When the dust subsided from the car steering, it stopped right in front of the two brothers and the Xingese Prince, who had a foot rested on top of the Homunculus.
When the group saw the person who shot the Ishvalan, only the brothers didn't know it was Riza. She had her hair down, and was wearing a white jacket over her military clothes. It...also looked like she was wearing glasses similar to Fuery.
"Get him on!" she directed this towards Ling. "We're making a run for it!"
Ed was totally confused by what's going on right now, but when he pictured Riza right now, and how she originally looks like, their mouths dropped open in shock. "WHAAAAT?!"
Ling had a bit of trouble picking up Gluttony, and could feel his muscles aching a bit as he put Gluttony into the car, soon jumping in after him. The disguised Lieutenant then got the car ready.
"Hey, wait a minute, Lieute-" Ed went to say, but Riza shushed him.
The wheels to the cars made a high squealing sound as it set off, and the brothers and the now injured Scar watched as she disappeared from their sight.
Several horns from cars went off as Riza sped past them in the street.
Her hair, as well as Ling's hair, moved in the wind.
"I've already heard about you, Ling Yao." Riza informed the Prince. "We're heading straight to our hideout."
"Wait!" Ling leaned in to talk to her. "I left two comrades. Pick them up for me!"
"Huh?" Riza's brown eyes expressed her baffled look. "No, we don't have time!"
"I'm begging you!" Ling's eyes opened slightly. "They're in critical condition! Both of the girls are waiting for me to get them!"
Riza gave that some thought, knowing how Ling felt about his bodyguard and Chiui. She felt the same way about her comrades, mostly Roy. "Make it quick."
With a forward push of the lever, Riza steered the car and headed for where Lan Fan and Chiui were at, listening to Ling's directions.
However, they didn't notice the president with a few military police with him, and happened to see them swoosh by. He watched them closely.
If I recall...that woman is Mustang's...
A little smirk went across his lips, but was covered by his big mustache.
"You've gone and done it now, youngster. This is the last straw..."
It was now sunset, and Roy was dressed up in different attire than his military uniform. It would be considered casual. He had Ed and Alphonse in the car, as he had told them to get in earlier. But besides those points, the Colonel was focusing on meeting someone in particular.
When the figure appeared, it was a man older than him, with short dark hair, glasses, and a growing beard. He wore casual clothing like Roy, and grumbled when his eyes locked on him. He had a cigarette in his mouth.
Roy waved to him as the figure approached closer. Roy knew the figure; it was , an old friend of his.
"There's someone seriously injured." he informed Knox. "We need a doctor."
Knox walked past him, opening the gated door. "Doing dangerous things again?"
"You stupid brat." This caused the doctor to stop in his tracks when Roy said that. "As I recall, you have family." Roy then turned away from him with a troubled look on his face. "If it'll cause trouble, you don't have to do it."
Knox was silent for a moment, taking out the cigarette. "I'll go bring some instruments, so hang tight."
Roy looked at him. "Is it okay?"
Knox's glasses shimmered as he walked to his door, resting a hand on the door knob. "I divorced my wife soon after I came back from Ishval."
A/N: Again, sorry that the 1st part was short, but at least the 2nd part is finally finished! Chapter 10 is in progress, and I'm so happy for 10 chapters!