"Alchemy is the science of understanding, decomposing, and reconstructing matter." "However, it is not an all-powerful art." "It is impossible to create something out of nothing." "If one wishes to obtain something, something of equal value must be paid." "This equivalent exchange is the basis of alchemy." "Alchemists have a taboo, and it is human transmutation." "It is that which no one must commit." "Kono omoi wo keshite shimau niwa mada jinsei nagai desho?" "Yarinokoshite'ru koto yarinaoshite mitai kara" "Yume no tsuzuki oikakete ita hazu na no ni" "Magarikunetta hosoi michi hito ni tsumazuku" "Ano koro mitai ni tte modoritai wake ja nai no" "Nakushite kita sora wo sagashite'ru" "Wakatte kuremasu you ni" "Gisei ni natta you na kanashii kao wa yamete yo" "Tsumi no saigo wa namida ja nai yo" "Zutto kurushiku seotte'ku n da" "Deguchi mienai kanjou melro ni dare wo matte'ru no?" "Shiroi nooto ni tsuzutta you ni motto sunao ni hakidashitai yo" "Nani kara nogaretai n da ...genjitsu tte yatsu?" "Kanaeru tame ni ikite'ru n datte" "Sakebitaku naru yo Kikoete imasu ka?" "Bunan ni nante yatte'rarenai kara ...kaeru basho mo nai no" "Yasashisa niwa itsumo kansha shite'ru" "Dakara tsuyoku naritai (I'm on the way)" "Natsukashiku naru konna itami mo kangei jan" "Brother..." "What do you think about the stories of this priest in Liore?" "About his miraculous works?" "They say he can transmute flowers out of thin air, right?" "It could just be simple sleight of hand." "Supposing it's not, though." "Yeah." "Supposing it's not, then it just might be, huh?" "The celestial stone that destroyed Xerxes in one night." "The grand elixir, sealed away by the Eastern Sage." "It goes by different names, but in short, it's something that intensifies alchemy." "That's the Philosopher's Stone." "If only I had that, I might be able to get your body back, Al." "Damn!" "Write more information about it, will you?" "!" "Al..." "What?" "I sure hope this is it this time." "Mm-hmm, right." ""Resembool, 1 0 years earlier" Oh, my." "Messing up your dad's study again?" "No, you mustn't scribble there like that." "It's not scribbling!" "Watch." "That's alchemy, right?" "Did your dad teach you that?" "How can we learn anything from someone who's not here?" "We read the book, and it was written in there." "It was written in there?" "Should we not have done it?" "Not at all!" "Amazing!" "You're your father's sons, all right!" "Your mom is proud of both of you." "Mom praised us." "We were so happy about that, that we became caught up in alchemy." "But the summer of that year, there was an epidemic, and Mom passed away." "Brother, I'm hungry." "It's cold." "Let's go home." "Once Dad comes home..." "Don't you talk about him!" "That guy is not our dad!" "He didn't even come home for Mom's funeral!" "I wonder if we can bring Mom back." "But it was written in that book that creating people is something you're not allowed to do." "That's why it will be our secret." "You're here again." "What do you want, Winry?" "Grandma says that every time you think of a dead person and cry, the more tears you shed, the more the dead person in the next world feels sad, too." "We're not crying!" "What about you?" "Your mom and dad are always out somewhere, and you cry because you miss them." "I-I don't cry!" "Are you sure?" "I was worried about you for nothing!" "If you're slower than me, you don't get any supper!" "What's that for?" "!" "Wait up!" "Ah!" "Wait!" "I gratefully accept this meal." "Come on, Ed, you drink your milk, too." "I hate milk." "If you don't drink it, you'll stay short." "Who are you calling a runt, you sawed-off old hag!" "What was that, you little bean sprout?" "!" "Minimum hag!" "Micro-peewee!" "Baby-ant-sized!" "Atom-sized!" "You're reading a book that's not from school again." "You have to listen in class." "Leave us alone." "Say, what sort of book are you reading?" "It's a secret." "It's none of your business, Winry." "No fair!" "You two always keep secrets between yourselves!" "Bye, now." "Ed!" "Al!" "We're going to be having stew tonight!" "All right!" "Yeah, see you later." "You know something, whoever invented stew is great." "It even has milk in it, and it still tastes so good." "What do you mean by that?" "The idea of sticking milk into vegetable soup is amazing." "A scientist needs those kinds of leaps of imagination, too." "Maybe you're right." "Sure I am!" "I'm sure a leap of imagination is what we need for human transmutation, too." "From then on, we looked into what we would need to perform human transmutation, to bring Mom back to life, and honed our skills under an alchemy teacher." "It took years and years, but we wanted to see Mom's smile, and we wanted to live happily with Mom again." "With those thoughts in mind..." "Done." "Water, 35 liters; carbon, 20 kilograms;" "ammonia, 4 liters;" "lime, 1 .5 kilograms;" "phosphorus, 800 grams; salt, 250 grams;" "saltpeter, 1 00 grams; sulfur, 80 grams;" "fluorine, 7.5 grams;" "iron, 5 grams; silicon, 3 grams..." "All right, now to write the constructional formula." "Now, we just need some soul data." "Here we go, Al." "Mm-hmm." "Brother, there's something strange here." "Al!" "It can't be..." "A rebound?" "!" "Brother!" "Brother!" "Brother!" "Brother!" "Al!" "Al?" "Huh?" "What was I doing, again?" "Hey." "Who are you?" "Oh, I'm glad you asked that." "I am what you call the world." "Or perhaps the universe, or perhaps God, or perhaps truth, or perhaps all, or perhaps one, and I am also... you." "Welcome, you stupid fool who doesn't know his own place." "Pipe down." "This is what you wanted, isn't it?" "I will show you the truth!" "It was like a tremendous amount of information was being stuffed directly into my head." "Stop!" "My head's gonna split open!" "I'm being broken down..." "No!" "Stop it!" "Stop!" "It felt like my head was going to burst open." "But then suddenly, I understood." "This was truth." "M-Mom..." "How was it?" "Yeah..." "My theory of human transmutation was not wrong!" "But it's missing something." "What I seek was just ahead... the truth about human transmutation!" "Please, show it to me again!" "I can't." "I can only show you this much for the toll you've paid." "Toll?" "Yes, toll." "It's an equivalent exchange, right?" "Alchemist?" "Damn!" "This can't be happening!" "It wasn't..." "It wasn't supposed to..." "Damn it all!" "It's been taken away!" "Help!" "Someone!" "Mom!" "Mom..." "No... this is wrong... this isn't... this isn't what we wanted!" "Al..." "Alphonse..." "Alphonse!" "Alphonse!" "This is my fault...!" "Alphonse!" "Damn it!" "Damn it!" "Give him back!" "He's my brother!" "Take my leg!" "Take my arm!" "Take my heart!" "You can have it!" "So, give him back!" "He's my only brother!" "Yo, are you still in Central?" "Luckily, I'll be able to go back to the Eastern Command Center." "Aren't you the hard worker?" "Next time you come here, see to it that you've made brigadier general, Colonel." "Easy for you to say." "Oh, right." "If you're leaving, I'll give this to you now." "What is it?" "The final report on Isaac McDougal." "It probably hasn't reached your office yet." "Yeah." "Xingese alkahestry?" "Apparently, that's something they have." "To be honest, I have no idea what it is." "Do you know it?" "No, first I've heard of it." "By the way, how are the Elric brothers doing?" "I'm not their guardian." "Hey, why did you decide to make Ed a State Alchemist?" "He's still just a child." "As long as he's in the military, he'll end up having to go through hell someday." "Like we did." "Hell, huh?" "Oh, they've seen hell." "Both of them, and plenty of it." ""4 years earlier"" "Lt. Colonel, they're not in back, eith" "What is this?" "!" "Where are they?" "Where are the Elric brothers?" "!" "Be quiet, Den." "Don't bark at our guests" "Wha-- hey, you!" "What are soldiers bursting in here for?" "!" "We went to your house!" "What was that over there?" "!" "What did you make?" "!" "We're sorry." "Please forgive us." "We're sorry... we're sorry... we're sorry..." "You're..." "This is a surprise." "I had heard that there was a brilliant alchemist here, so I came to see him, but I never imagined that a child like this could ever perform human transmutation, imperfect though it was, and even bond a soul." "He is more than qualified to become a State Alchemist." "Once he becomes a State Alchemist, he will have to serve as a soldier in the event of an emergency, but at the same time, he will receive various special privileges, and research of the highest level will become possible for him." "They may even find a way to get their bodies back, or" "After he came stumbling in here, covered with blood," "I went over to their house." "What was there..." "What was there was not human!" "Is alchemy what created that horrific thing?" "!" "I'm against it!" "Would you have these boys go through hell again?" "!" "Here you are." "Thanks." "Um, Lieutenant..." "You can call me Riza." "Riza Hawkeye." "Nice to meet you." "Miss Riza, have you ever shot anyone?" "Yes." "I hate soldiers." "My mother and father were taken away to the battlefield, and they were killed there." "And now, you're trying to take Ed and Al away, too." "It's up to them to decide whether or not they will go." "Yes, they will decide for themselves." "I'm not forcing you." "I'm just offering you the possibility." "Whether to move forward, or whether to stay still." "Will you end your days in despair, or will you seek the possibilities, and bow to the military?" "The boys will be the ones to decide." "If the possibility is there, you should move forward, in order to get your bodies back." "Even if the way ahead is through a river of mud." "Miss Riza, why did you become a soldier?" "Because there is someone I have to protect." "We're leaving." "Yes, sir." "Well, goodbye, young lady." "It's Winry." "Okay, Winry." "I hope we'll meet again." "Will they be coming?" "Yes, they will." "That boy had a spiritless look in his eye." "You think so?" "Those... were eyes that had flame in them." "Sure you won't regret this?" "Mm-hmm, I've already made up my mind." "How long will the surgery and rehabilitation take?" "About three years." "One year!" "You're gonna be spitting blood." "Al, hang in there for a little while longer." "I'm going to get you your body back." "Mm-hmm, and when that happens, Brother, your body will be with it." "Your body is perfect now." "Yeah!" "Now for the alchemy." "I haven't used it since then, after all." "Right, not since you transmuted my soul." "Brother..." "Yeah, right on the money!" "Amazing, Brother!" "You didn't even use a transmutation circle!" "You've gotten so you can do the same thing that Teacher does." "Al, you can do it too, right?" "No I can't, Brother." "You didn't see it?" "See what?" "Nothing, never mind." "Hey!" "You've deformed my automail!" "Does that make it okay for you to deform my head?" "!" "Good grief, you are one uncharming gearhead." "I'm okay with being uncharming." "I'm okay with being a gearhead." "I've made up my mind to support you until you get your body back." "Huh?" "!" "It's unusual for you to observe the examinations." "Oh, but I heard there would be a twelve-year-old child here." "I thought I would come see what the topic of conversation was." "Ho, a steel prosthetic, huh?" "In the Eastern Rebellion..." "Ah, you had a time of it in Ishval, then." "Hmm." "Who's that?" "You idiot, that's His Excellency, Fuhrer King Bradley." "Okay, begin the examination." "Do you have something to draw transmutation circles with?" "I don't need anything like that." "He's not even using a transmutation circle...!" "That's quite something." "Excellency!" "There might be those out there who would assassinate VIPs like this, so maybe you should reconsider how you conduct examinations." "Hmm." "You must have nerves of steel." "But you do not know the breadth of the world." "Good luck on the rest of your exam, my overly young alchemist." "When did he draw his sword?" "I wonder if Brother is doing all right on his exam." "Say, Al..." "Hmm, what?" "If Ed becomes a State Alchemist, are you leaving the village?" "Mm-hmm." "This is proof of your state certification, a silver pocket watch." "Your certificate of appointment and detailed regulations are here." "The Fuhrer has given you quite the ironic title." "What?" "Nothing." "Congratulations." "You are hereby an official Dog of the Military." "In the name of Fuhrer King Bradley, I appoint thee, Edward Elric to be a State Alchemist, and grant the title "Fullmetal."" "Fullmetal?" "Yes." "It's a second name given to State Alchemists." "The name that you now bear is the Fullmetal Alchemist." "Nice." "It has an oppressive feel to it." "Sure, I'll take that on!" "Brother, we're just about there." "Liore?" "Will there be any leads to getting Al's body back in that town?" "The Philosopher's Stone!" "Ano hi mita sora akaneiro no sora o nee kimi wa oboete imasu ka" "Yakusoku chigiri shoka no kaze ga tsutsumu futari yorisotta" "Muri na egao no ura nobita kage o kakumau" "Dakara kizukanu furi saisei o erabu" "Table no ue no furuenai shirase machitsuzukete" "kuuhaku no yoru mo kuru hazu no nai asa mo zenbu wakatte'tan da" "Ano hi mita sora akaneiro no sora o nee itsuka omoidasu deshou" "Hatasenakatta yakusoku o idaite futari arukidasu" "Ed and Al, having arrived in Liore, encounter Cornello, a man who claims to resurrect the dead." ""Pray in faith, and ye shall be saved."" "As Cornello preaches these words, a Philosopher's Stone shines red on his finger." "Next time on Hagane no Renkinjutsushi:" "Fullmetal Alchemist," "Episode 3: "City of Heresy."" "What happiness is to be gained by looking away from the truth?"