Chapter seventeen: Renkinjutsu; human or homunculus?
Renkinjutsu sped up. "I'm so much faster than he is…" She said to herself as she skid around into an alley. "It can't be too hard too—" Renkinjutsu looked around. There were no fire escapes, no windowsills, and no footholds whatsoever. She couldn't escape now.
Edward skid around the corner as well. "There you are!" He said, getting his trademark evil grin. "No place to run now. Homunculus, you can just finally die."
Renkinjutsu backed up. "Edward," She purred. "There's no need to be so aggressive. Let's talk, shall we?"
"Hell no, that's just one of your stupid tricks!"
"Did I say talk? My, my, I am having such a mix with words today. I mean to say, 'Let's talk about alchemy. And how DEADLY it can be!'" Her heel stopped. Edward looked, to see she created an alchemy circle with her foot in the dust. Once her hands were pressed next to it a wave of stone rose from the ground, crumbling towards Edward. He jumped to the side, the rock wave crashing down where he was and skidding out onto the street.
"You bitch!" Edward made a blade on his hand and darted forward. "No staff to save you now!"
"EDWARD! STOP!"
Edward paused and turned. "Huh? Coniniaue?"
Coniniaue stood behind him, an open book in one hand, the other lay on his shoulder. Her voice was more urgent than Edward had ever heard it before. "Renkinjutsu is human!"
Human.
The word echoed in his mind.
Human.
Renkinjutsu was just as shocked. "Human?" She spat. "That's preposterous. I'm a homunculus, I have uroborus tattoos on my feet."
"No, they are fake. You don't remember much about your childhood, do you?" Coniniaue asked. "Envy lied. You were the daughter of my neighbor, Angelina Malone. I remember you now! You're name was Angelica Malone, you loved playing on the big rocks on the shore. Remember? We trapped that baby shark and Angelina didn't let you keep it because it would grow too big?"
Renkinjutsu's brow furrowed in confusion. She did remember. But why would she even WANT to be friends with this bratty military lapdog? "…No."
"Well, you should." Coniniaue held up the book and pointed at a page. "This paragraph explains counterfeit uroborus tattoos. Random maniacs would get them to use as an excuse, that their bosses told them to do everything bad they've done. You didn't have those when you were a child, did you?"
"N… Yes! Yes I did!"
"No, you didn't. I saw your feet all the time and there were never uroborus tattoos on your soles. You bitch, you've been faking it all this time!" She shouted, outraged.
"I was not! I didn't know… You… You… DIE!" Renkinjutsu finished the alchemy circle she was making and made some kind of pistol. She aimed and fired without a second thought.
The bullet whizzed by Edward's head. "CONINIAUE!"
Lucky shot. Right in the alchemy tattoo. The force field shattered.
