A single eyebrow arches upward. While Ed can understand that it seemed especially harsh to issue punishments on children, most of the reasoning behind that became lost on him after Izumi Curtis had become his master. Then again, he and Al weren't like most other kids and had somehow endured that beating. Most kids were more fragile, weren't they?

"But there's still nothing guaranteeing that. And chances are that whatever 'power' is locking our memories away or whatever will become ineffective once we find a way out of here, right? Our focus should be on all of us leaving, not on surviving."

Though even as he's saying that there's a strange, nagging feeling in the back of his head. Like there's something he's supposed to do here as well. But what...?