Chapter fifty-six: Love and hate

"Renkinjutsu!"

The four present sins turned. Edward and Coniniaue burst onto the roof via the inside stairs. At almost the same time they alchemized knives into their automail arms.

"I knew you were a homunculus!" Edward hissed. "Ever since I saw those uroborus tattoos… And on top of that, you're associated with Lust, Gluttony and Envy!"

"I just met them. So yes, now I am associated with them" Renkinjutsu smiled. "We meet again, little Ed."

Edward's cheeks turned red.

Coniniaue looked at him. "Huh…?"

"SHE KISSED ME!"

Coniniaue just glared at him.

"…Sorry. But I didn't kiss her! SHE KISSED ME!"

"Whatever…"

Renkinjutsu twirled her staff. "You come to put me away?"

"Hell yeah. I've also come to grab that staff…"

Renkinjutsu tapped her staff on the roof. A cage rose around Edward, the bar going around his wrists so he could no use alchemy. "Envy, why don't you take care of Coniniaue?"

"My pleasure!" Envy morphed into Edward and smiled at Coniniaue. Coniniaue kept a brave face; she knew the real Edward was right beside her, thought in a cage. Coniniaue sliced through the bars holding Edward's hands and said, "Go for Lust and Gluttony!"

Edward nodded and freed himself from the cage. Of course, Coniniaue went after the Edward-Envy and Renkinjutsu. Envy made a blade on his (now) automail arm and clashed it against Coniniaue's, forcing her back to the edge of the roof. Coniniaue threw her weight in her arm and sent him back so she could stumble forward. Edward was flipped through Lust's nails and away from Gluttony to avoid getting sliced.

Coniniaue's knife plunged through Envy's heart, which sent him even farther back so he could recover. Renkinjutsu tapped the roof and made a hand come out and grab Coniniaue's ankle, making her fall. Coniniaue kicked the broke the hand, jumped at Renkinjutsu.

Her knife crashed against her staff. Coniniaue pushed, but Renkinjutsu actually stepped forward, aided by her uroborus tattoos. "Coniniaue, you don't stand a chance against me. I'm the Renkinjutsu homunculus, I'm stronger than you and Ed combined!"

"Hah! You obviously haven't had a long encounter with the bloodless alchemist!" Coniniaue grunted, pushing her back. "No blood means no pain!"

"Uroborus tattoos mean no effort!" Renkinjutsu took another step forward, still pushing her staff on Coniniaue's knife. "I'm strong, Coniniaue. Hah."

"I said it once and I'll say it again! You haven't had a long encounter with the bloodless alchemist!" Coniniaue pulled back, unaware she stood on the edge of the roof.

"And I said it once. I'm stronger than you and Edward COMBINED!" Renkinjutsu jumped into the air and brought her staff in towards Coniniaue. She could do nothing as, at that moment, Renkinjutsu's staff plunged deep through the heart of Coniniaue, sending her off the edge. Renkinjutsu's staff was wrenched from her grasp as it held fast in Coniniaue's heart, falling to the streets below with her.