[Video] It's worth a shot.

[material_guy]

[The bar is not in the best shape compared to the usual videos; the wall has a fresh set of dents and cracks, and periodically a slim girl in a simple black cocktail dress wanders most perkily through the background with exorbitantly heavy looking arm fulls of scraps of wood, brick, upholstery, and other remains of what was probably furniture at

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[truthinfortune]

You, sir, ought to be ashamed of yourself! How could you possibly claim to have tried to cheer Winry up when you were trying to take us both hostage?

[material_guy]

I felt I could do both.

[truthinfortune]

No! You don't understand anything about her, do you? She didn't enjoy being taken hostage before, what makes you think she'd enjoy it any better this time around?

[material_guy]

She didn't enjoy lunch and a walk around town?

[truthinfortune]

I think any pleasant experiences we might have enjoyed were negated the moment you tried to use us as leverage against our family.

That was low, even for you. Taking advantage of a simple business trip in order to further your own selfish goals!

[material_guy]

I ever lay a single mother fuckin' hand on either of you, kid?

[truthinfortune]

That's not the point! It doesn't matter how well you treated us: a hostage is still a hostage, whether you keep them prisoner in a cell or a castle.

You honestly don't think you did anything wrong, do you?

[material_guy]

So it doesn't matter if I beat the hell out of you, toss you naked to the crew to play with, then slap you chained up in a wet cellar or if I wine and dine you 'n try to keep anyone from panicking. Which you did for no reason other than thinkin' I'm a bad guy after tryin' to tell her yourself I ain't.

[truthinfortune]

...

It wasn't for no reason! I thought it suspicious that you wanted to keep us there for so long, and I acted on my instincts. It's a good thing I did, too, because they were right!

[material_guy]

Let's say you cooperated. They show up. You're there not hurt. Things're goin' fine. They got a perfectly good excuse not to get violent since I got hostages, and didn't do shit to you for them to get revenge over. They can put whatever stupid assed pride is keeping them from coughing over a few pages of notes aside and fork 'em over, then rest rest of us get along real good without that immortality thing between us forever 'n ever.

Yeah. Yer instincts sure dodged a bullet on that one.

[truthinfortune]

I... don't like being deceived... and I don't like my family to worry about my safety.

I thought that you had a sense of honor, but now... but now I see that's not the case!

[material_guy]

And I don't like havin' info withheld or bein' treated like I'm some kinda creep bein' stiffed with the bill and ran off from like I'm gonna pull an Envy on you.

But y'know what? Just slap me in a pile with Envy and call us the same.

[truthinfortune]

I said I'd pay you back, didn't I?! A Shirogane always honors a debt! And I can't stand the thought of being in debt to a criminal like you, so just send me the bill for it!

[material_guy]

Maybe I want you to spend the rest of yer life sulkin' about bein' in debt to a criminal. Might be worth more than a pocket full of Cenz to me.

[truthinfortune]

I'm not about to give you the satisfaction. I'm paying you back, whether you like it or not!

[material_guy]

Good. Hate to tell you this but your sentiments ain't actually worth more than even a pocket full of Cenz to me.