"Alchemy is the science of understanding, decomposing, and recomposing matter." "However, it is by no means omnipotent." "It is not possible to produce something from nothing." "The nature of alchemy is such that, if one desires to obtain something, he will be required to pay an equivalent price." "This is the foundation of alchemy, called equivalent exchange." "Alchemists are bound by a taboo: human transmutation." "This taboo is not to be broken by anyone." "Children of God living on this Earth, pray, believe, and thou shalt be saved." "The God of the Sun, Leto, shall..." "Are you guys street performers or something?" "The God of the Sun, Leto, shall..." "Just what makes you think that?" "What, you aren't?" "Thanks for the food." "Hey, mister!" "Ah, sorry 'bout that." "We'll fix it." "What do you mean, you'll fix it?" "Just watch." "Well, here we go." "You happy with this?" "Whoa, impressive..." "So you guys can perform miracles?" "What the hell?" "We're alchemists." "Alchemy?" "It's the first time I've seen it." "Ever heard of the Elric Brothers?" "Elric?" "Yeah, I've heard the name!" "The Fullmetal Alchemist, Edward Elric!" "So you're the famous genius alchemist?" "I see!" "You're wearing that armor, so that's why your second name is Fullmetal..." "Er..." "It's not me, it's..." "Huh?" "The shortie over there is...?" "Who'd you call a damn bean-sized shortie?" "!" "The Town of Heresy Episode 3 Embracing those promises we couldn't fulfill, Are encounters the beginning of suffering?" "Embracing those promises we couldn't fulfill, Are encounters the beginning of suffering?" "So, what's that broadcast?" "Pray, believe..." "Fa..." "Father Cornello." "Huh?" "He came to this town a few years ago, and taught us the ways of God." "He will bestow eternity to the living, and resurrection to the dead!" "And the proof is his miracles!" ""Resurrection to the dead," huh?" "Sounds fishy." "So that's it..." "What do you think?" "What do you want me to say?" "That metamorphosis reaction can only be alchemy." "But it's ignoring equivalent exchange, you know." "One can only create something of mass 1 from something of mass 1." "That's a basic principle." "And he's turning a plant into mineral matter, too." "Brother, maybe..." "Yeah..." "Maybe it's "bingo."" "God..." "Please hear my wish." "Please give him back" "So that's Leto." "Are you interested in the Church of Leto?" "No, unfortunately, I'm atheist, you see." "Oh, that won't do." "One must live by believing and honoring God, and live with gratitude and hope." "Ah, how wonderful..." "If you believed..." "I'm certain you could become taller!" "What was that?" "!" "Above head: "Sincerity" She didn't mean anything bad!" ""Resurrection to the dead..."" "Do you really believe that?" "Yes." "35 liters of water, 20 kilograms of carbon, 4 liters of ammonia, 1.5 kilograms of caustic lime, 800 grams of phosphorus, 250 grams of salt, 100 grams of saltpeter, et cetera, et cetera..." "Huh?" "These are the base elements that construct the human body in the case of one adult person." "With current science, we know that much, yet..." "There have been no reports as of now of actual successful human transmutation." "How can prayers make possible something that even science can't accomplish?" ""Pray, believe, and thy wish shall come true."" "And by the way, those component ingredients, you see..." "At the market, with just a kid's pocket change, you can buy all of them." "Humans sure are cheaply made." "People aren't things!" "Such words are blasphemy towards the Creator!" "You will suffer punishment from the heavens!" "That's because, you see, alchemists are scientists..." "So we don't believe in a Creator, or in a God." "We strive to reveal the principles that created this world, and for the Truth." "It's really ironic that we, scientists who don't need a God are, in a way, standing at the closest place there is to God." "You think of yourself on the same level as God?" "Such hubris!" "Hubris, huh?" "Come to think of it, there was a legend about that..." ""A hero who comes too close to the sun will lose his wings hardened with wax, and be thrown to the ground," was it?" "Brother." "Miss, will Lord Leto provide salvation even to a scientist who was thinking such things just now?" "Of course!" "We always accept conversions!" "Father, two people are requesting an interview." "A child, and one wearing a suit of armor." "They say they are the Elric Brothers." "I am busy." "Have them leave." "No, wait..." "The Elric Brothers, you say?" "Yes." "This is how they named themselves." "This is bad." "The Fullmetal Alchemist, Edward Elric..." "That guy with the armor?" "Yes, most certainly." "Why did a State Alchemist come here?" "They couldn't have found out about our plans..." "Damn dog of the army." "I see he has a good nose." "Please come on in." "The Father is extremely busy, and has little time to share, but you are most lucky." "Sorry 'bout that." "We'll be sure not to take too long." "Yes, let's get over with this quickly." "Deacon, what are you doing?" "!" "Rose, these people are heretics who are trying to entrap the Father." "They are evil." "No way!" "Hey, didn't you say..." "let's get this over with... quickly!" "Strike!" "How noisy." "Welcome to this Holy Church, Fullmetal Alchemist." "Father Cornello!" "It seems some people were most impertinent." "I apologize for the rudeness." "You call that "apologizing," looking down on us from a high place?" "Did you come to receive our teachings?" "I would very much have you explain to us how you fool your followers with petty alchemy like that." "Oh, what are you talking about?" "I can't have you call my miracles alchemy." "What do you have to say?" "Can this be achieved through alchemy?" "Y'see, that's the catch." "For some reason, you can actually perform transmutations ignoring the laws..." "I am telling you, this is not alchemy." "And, I was thinking, that maybe with "that" legendary alchemic amplification device, that is said to make the impossible possible for the alchemist who uses it, just maybe you could." ""That"?" "Yes." "Clearly put, the Philosopher's Stone." "Isn't that what your ring is?" "We've been looking for it." "This is nothing more than a ring." "God has bestowed unto me the power of miracles." "Still playing dumb?" "Seems like I'll have to arrest you, and ask your body directly." "It seems your heresy is beyond any help." "Rose." "Yes?" "Get that gun on the ground." "Y-Yes." "Now, shoot the Fullmetal Alchemist." "I..." "I can't!" "God speaks through my mouth." "Such is the will of God." "Rose." "Shoot him." "What is the matter?" "Who is it that saved you last year when you were at the bottom of a pit of despair after losing your lover in an accident?" "You, Father Cornello..." "Yes." "I saved you." "And, what did I promise you?" "That you would make him come back to life!" "Ah, er..." "It's not me!" "{why wouldn't Al just stand there and get shot?" "he's practically immune to gunshots, whereas Ed could die easily}" "I'm the Fullmetal Alchemist, damn it!" "So it was you ?" "!" "I'm sorry..." "I have no other choice." "He's an imposter." "He's not!" "Father Cornello will bring my love back to life with his miracles!" "Then, shoot." "Al!" "Very well." "God shall be pleased." "Now, shoot the other one too." "You sure make your followers do horrible things." "What?" "!" "How can it be?" "Well, there's not much to say." "That's how it is." "An empty armor!" "This is yet more proof of their evilness!" "They must be dealt with!" "Is it the first time you've seen a chimera?" "So you even created things like that with the Philosopher's Stone?" "Seems like being barehanded just won't cut it." "Without a transmutation circle?" "!" "So your name as a State Alchemist really isn't just for show!" "But..." "How do you like the taste of claws that can even slash through steel?" "!" "Just kidding." "Too bad, it's not exactly the "normal" model." "Bite him to death!" "What's wrong, you damn cat?" "Have a good taste of it!" "That arm..." "And your brother being an armor..." "I see..." "So that's what this is!" "Fullmetal Alchemist, you commited the sin, didn't you?" "!" "Come down from there, fucking third-rate alchemist!" "I'll show you the difference in level between us!" "Come down from there, fucking third-rate alchemist!" "I'll show you the difference in level between us!" "Rose, these two have committed the greatest taboo in alchemy, a human transmutation!" "They tried to bring someone back from the grave." ""A hero who comes too close to the sun will lose his wings hardened with wax, and be thrown to the ground."" "No way..." "This is what a sinner who has trodden upon God's domain looks like." "Rose, do you have what it takes to endure becoming like this?" "Edward Elric!" "To think that you became a State Alchemist through that!" "Utterly ridiculous." "Shaddup!" "You're just a third-rate lowlife who can't do anything without the Philosopher's Stone!" "Father, while you're uninjured, please give us the Stone." "Absurd!" "Poor fools who have stepped into the domain of God, I shall now send you to Him!" "Too bad." "I guess God hates me, so even if I went there, he'd just kick me out." "Al!" "What are you doing?" "!" "After them!" "They are heretics who oppose the Church!" "Catch them!" "Stop!" "Hey, kiddo, what are you gonna do with your bare hands?" "Just surrender peacefully, before you get hurt." "Don't lower your guard just because he's a child!" "You're in the way!" "Here we go!" "Do you understand now, Rose?" "Cornello shot at me even though you were there." "That's because you..." "What he was saying..." "Is it true?" "We only wanted to see our mom's smile again, that's all." "But the transmutation failed." "It didn't have a human shape." "We've been made to realize our mistake." "You can't resurrect people." "That goes for Mom, too." "That can't be..." "I mean..." "The basis to alchemy is equivalent exchange." "The price of a human transmutation was great." "Brother lost his left leg, and I lost my body." "See that?" "Brother wrote this with his own blood, even though he was surely hurting after losing his left leg." "But Brother sacrificed his left arm to transmute my soul and attach it to this armor." "I want to return his body to normal, and he wants to make my body normal too." "As a result, we may lose our lives." "This is the path of sin that we chose to walk." "But maybe Father Cornello can..." "Rose..." "Even if you two couldn't, Father Cornello can accomplish it!" "He can!" "Kid!" "Prepare to die!" "Old man, let's have an open chat." "All I want to know is the secret of that stone." "Or should I request that the army barge in here?" "To investigate that stone, ya know." "Fair enough." "Just what are you planning to do with the Philosopher's Stone?" "With it, you wouldn't need some shitty little church, would you?" "The church will produce followers who will gladly throw away their lives for me!" "The strongest of armies - one that doesn't fear death!" "Just look!" "In a few years, I will take over this country, thanks to the Philosopher's Stone and those foolish followers!" "I'll give you the leftovers, too." "What's so funny?" "That's why I called you a mere third-rate." "N-No way!" "There is no such thing as a miracle." "It was all thanks to the power of the Philosopher's Stone." "Why, you little..." "When did you turn that on?" "!" "When?" "!" "At the beginning." "Everything has just been aired." "What have you done?" "!" "Damn kid!" "Too slow!" "I told you, we're not on the same level." "I am invincible!" "A..." "A rebound!" "I-I won't give up yet!" "I..." "I..." "I am the representative of God!" "My words are the words of God." "This fist is the fist of God!" "You call that the fist of God?" "!" "If you like it that much, I'm gonna give it to you!" "Ouch!" "Shut up!" "Show me the Philosopher's Stone!" "It broke." "What does that mean?" "The Philosopher's Stone is supposed to be a perfect material." "How can it break?" "!" "I don't know!" "I haven't been told anything!" "P-P-Please help me!" "I beg of you!" "I was wrong!" "A fake..." "I can't do anything without the Stone!" "Please, help me!" "We came this far, thinking we could finally get our normal bodies back..." "It's a fake." "Er..." "What about me?" "Just go wherever the hell you want!" "Of course!" "What about the Philosopher's Stone?" "It was a damned fake." "I see." "And here I thought I could bring you back to your normal body." "Give me the Philosopher's Stone!" "Rose..." "I told you, didn't I?" "It was just an imitation, and it broke on its own." "You're lying!" "You want to keep it for yourselves, right?" "For your bodies..." "Yes, and you could try for your mother again!" "Shut up!" "The dead never come back to life." "Never!" "But he said they would..." "That our wishes would be granted through prayer..." "That miracles do occur..." "What should I rely on to live now?" "!" "Tell me!" "Come on..." "You'll have to think about that on your own." "Stand up and walk." "Move forward." "You have two good legs, don't you?" "You don't need to rely on anything." "What the hell is going on?" "!" "Bring out the Father!" "So, you were deceiving us?" "!" "Open up!" "That kid crushed my ambitions." "Indeed, he did spoil everything." "It would've been enough to spread a little chaos." "Why, you..." "Hey, Lust, can I eat that old man?" "You can't, Gluttony." "If you ate that, you'd hurt your stomach." "Every single one of them is making a fool of me!" "We're done with you." "To think, we had things roused up here..." "We'll just have to start over, I guess." "Our father is going to be angry with us.{"Father" as in family, not as in a religious "Father"; this is why I don't like the word :}" "Now then, what shall we do next time?" "Ed and Al went to the city where the Eastern Headquarters resides, East City, to report the trouble in Lior." "There, they met Shou Tucker, the Life-Binding Alchemist, and his daughter, Nina." "Next time, Fullmetal Alchemist, Episode 4:" "An Alchemist's Distress." "An Alchemist's Distress Episode 4 Are encounters the beginning of suffering?" "Are encounters the beginning of suffering?"