
Higurashi: When They Cry: Local Creepy Child Rika likes to discuss the activities of "cats" that are quite prone to doing things.When Mithril realizes during a mission that they got an information leak, Kalinin invokes this conversation, secretly telling the team that they are about to confuse the enemy by him giving orders and the team doing the exact opposite. During briefing, one soldier mentions the "Cretan paradox" when a Cretan (someone from the island of Crete) says that all Cretans are liars. Mustang later does it again with General Armstrong, by having a seemingly normal conversation about the Armstrong family mansion, while they plan to hide the Briggs soldiers in said mansion in preparation for the upcoming coup.The first initials of the names Riza mentions Roy spells out (in the loo) to convey the shocking Reveal: SELIM BRADLEY IS A HOMUNCULUS.

There's a lovely one which consists of Roy and Riza discussing a bunch of friends at lunch.A particularly notable case occurs when it turns out that a seemingly ordinary cookbook is actually code for the process to create a Philosopher's Stone. Also, alchemical research is often written in code to make it difficult for the wrong people to decipher it.Most of the few actual women he's seen with turn out to be agents with his foster mother's information network.

Who, incidentally, by the end of the manga pretty clearly utterly fail to exist.
