I really don't like the humor of this author. Must every non-action chapter of this comic be filled with humor attempts.

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Those rabbits can't fit in that book hole?

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Smart, you can keep exploiting them like a asshole without so much risk of revolt as long as you be nice with your words in a rare blue moon.

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How do they get any money at all if they can't sell even the 40% of crops that isn't stolen from them. Even going on a hunt, if you can't sell what you got how do you get any money.

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You have to buy a plant found in the woods....

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Saying that AFTER asking. OK so if es winds then you die, right? Come on, if everything else ends in you murdering a little girl, surely the little kid winning should result in your death, you fucking evil prick.

Well from what I recall there was people who posted in that chapter like they were certain to die.

There was no reason to wish them dead either though. But I will skip getting into that topic for now.

Yeah, they need to take each situation as though it were real or what's the point. Stomp harder! (wait should we be stomping suspicious persons just for fighting with us? Never mind, keep stomping!)

With so many false alarms it's bound to reduce readiness. Also what if someone needs to use the toilet or something

Actually I'm thinking more in terms of physics, "The law of equivalent exchange" sounds alot like the idea that energy can't be created or destroyed, only transferred. But during the comic and anime energy is constantly appearing from nothing at all.

The thing about the equivalent exchange idea is that seems to depend on what you yourself value. Like the brother got a strong immortal metal body for free. But I suppose if that is what the brother wanted, then something else would have had to been paid. It's like it's saying two things at once, things have a set price, but also you can haggle on price depending on what each side wants. But also a price isn't really being paid per say. Like it's not like some other system or being is receiving anything in exchange for the brother losing a organic body. So it's only what the specific person values.

They still do stuff for free with alchemy all the time in FMA and the "prices/costs" are arbitrary and less like forces of nature and more like a capricious mercurial weird god making deals at random times. Like what does limbs have to do with knowledge? Nothing Also it seems crazy to trade a presumably immortal powerful metal body and cyborg limbs for flesh and blood and loose valuable knowledge knowledge as well. Like all the time in FMA they are changing the shape of things etc. getting all this free energy from nothing at all. Arbitrarily random things have a "cost" that makes no sense and seems to have no relation to each other. So I find that whole idea of "The law of equivalent exchange" which is constantly violated despite being talked about so much in the story, garbage.

secretly chinese? hmm?

Well out with it then.

meaning "law of equivalent exchange" talked about over and over again in the story was meaningless and better off without that nonsense.

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This rough housing seems kinda chummy and almost intimate, notice the fat kid was sort of treated the same but held up by color of coat and not arm around neck. Seems the "body"/unconscious remembers

Even the apparent belief this is a large come on is sort of weird, it's such a huge overreaction/assumption and if you really believed that, why keep going along with it? If I didn't know better it almost would seem like trolling.

Also possibly knows this is the evil fucker who messed them up and killed the rest of the town in the first place or will learn. Hard to imagine working for someone you should have a massive grudge against.

Well the giant eyes and tiny mouths and chins always bug me much more.

Ah, I didn't notice the blood drawing a tail outline with first read through. Yeah pretty multi-talented tail.

Except in that story there was constantly something from nothing with this so called "alchemy". It was annoying to hear because it was so inconsistent and not actually followed.

of course it comes with a catch, not because "too good to be true" but because the person offering is a evil fucker. Remember this is the person ultimately responsible (aside from dead greedy adoptive mom) for said limited lifespan in the first place.

Probably the catch is that es needs to join them.work for them, and leave the monster front lines. Perhaps and even likely other catches as well but certainly that one. Why would a evil fucker help prolong someones life other than to get them working for them with those years, especially with saying es "very talented" Another catch could be to live longer you have to steal life from others.

Meh, it rather annoys me when people second guess stories like this. It also insults the story, which is fine, but I just want you to recognize that saying there is "flags" as in predictable tropes that mean certain things, is saying the story is formulaic and boring.

Besides everyone else who commented was certain the brigands were going to die and I knew they wouldn't because of the trajectory of the story. I suppose that's a "life flag" did you miss that "life flag" before? If so, maybe your judgment about "death flags" is wrong as well.