Chapter 94: The Flames of Vengeance

Mustang's unit brings Mrs. Bradley to Radio Capital and stages an interview meant to swing the Amestrian public against the military. They play up the president's disappearance and the order to shoot his wife, framing the coup as the army's own doing. The station's producers pretend to be captives while secretly working with Mustang's people. Listening in, Denny Brosh catches the voice of Maria Ross and grasps that her reported death was staged. At a separate stronghold, soldiers learn the rebels are far better organized than expected, hear that their side is on the defensive, then die moments later to a tank shell.

Deep underground, Roy Mustang presses his bloody revenge against the homunculus Envy. He orders Edward and the rest to leave, keeping only Riza Hawkeye beside him, then dominates the fight by mixing long-range blasts with close, precise flame. Envy flees, drawing Mustang deeper as he tells Riza to hold her position. Nearby, Edward and Scar talk over the colonel's craving for vengeance, and Scar, who once walked that same road, warns that such flames will one day burn away Mustang's very soul.

Cornered, Envy takes the shape of Maes Hughes to make Mustang hesitate, but the trick backfires when the colonel roars that Hughes is gone and the mockery only feeds his rage. Retreating further, Envy stumbles onto Hawkeye, who trailed the colonel against orders, and disguises itself as Mustang to lure her along. She counters with a lie, claiming the colonel calls her Riza when they are alone, and the fooled homunculus reverts to its true shape only to catch her bullet. Envy overpowers her and threatens her life just as Mustang smashes through the wall, scorches the creature back into its small parasitic form, and pins it underfoot for the kill. Hawkeye then levels her gun at the colonel's head, vowing to fire if he murders Envy, having seen how hatred has blinded him. At the peak of his fury, Edward and Scar reappear and pull the helpless homunculus out of reach of his revenge.

The chapter appears in volume 23 of the series as part of the Promised Day Arc. It first ran in Japan on April 10, 2009, and VIZ Media published the English edition on July 20, 2010. Scar's warning about vengeance consuming the soul frames the whole confrontation and echoes his own history as a former avenger.