Al and Van, knowing the truth, begin a contact chain from Mason to Sig and Izumi Curtis to Major Miles and Captain Buccaneer to General Grumman to 2nd Lt. Rebecca Catalina to Lt. Riza Hawkeye to Jean Havoc to Colonel Mustang, informing them all that the Promised Day - the end of this great battle - will take place in the Spring of 1915. The manga takes a short time skip to Spring 1915, when both sides gather all their resources for the final clash. In Chapter 89, as the final march begins, the younger siblings of Sergeant Denny Brosh declare that there is to be a solar eclipse on that very day, suggesting perhaps (in conjunction with Hohenheim's earlier statement) that the eclipse (and perhaps the celestial circle created by the sun's corona around the moon) is part of the ritual that will