Kimbly!
Hey there.
Well?
I'm going to take revenge for what you did to Greed-san and my friends!
Kimbly-san, what are you doing here?!
It shouldn't be that unusual, considering I am a State Alchemist, right?
You sold us out and returned to the military! You're the worst!
Are you sure you want to let her kill me like this?
Martel-san, please stop!
What are you doing?! Let go! Let go of me!
Are you all right?
Please stop!
Let go of me already!
You should make for some fine fireworks.
Martel-san!
Let go of me!
Kimbly-san, what are you doing to that man?!
I am, first and foremost, a soldier.
There's no reason why I should bear the blame of some hooligan.
Martel-san!
Man cannot obtain anything without first sacrificing something.
In order to obtain anything, something of equal value is required.
That is alchemy's Law of Equivalent Exchange.
At the time, we believed that to be the true way of the world.
Far away, far away, our dreams will never fade
tooku tooku omoi hatenaku
If only the two of us could go back to
futari ga mujaki ni waratteta
the days when we laughed so innocently
ano koro ni modoreru nara
the days when we laughed so innocently
ano koro ni modoreru nara
Just like glassware
konagona ni kudaketa
that has been smashed to pieces,
glass-zaiku no you na
we're putting together the fragments of our memories
omoide no kakera o atsumeteru
It's the important things that you notice
daiji na mono wa itsudatte
It's the important things that you notice
daiji na mono wa itsudatte
once you've lost them
nakushite kara kizuku yo
Oh, please, oh, please, stop time for me,
douka douka jikan o tomete
and engrave the way you look right now into my heart
kimi no omokage o kono mune ni kizandekure
And if, and if, I were ever allowed to,
moshimo moshimo yurusareru nara
I would be willing to sacrifice everything
subete o gisei ni shitemo ii
just to see that smiling face one more time
ano egao o mou ichido
The Scar
And here I was hoping to see a really exciting explosion...
But thanks to your interference...
Please don't lay a finger on Martel-san.
By Martel, do you mean this snake here?
Martel-san is a person!
I wasn't aware of that.
These guys are Chimeras.
They aren't even full-fledged life forms!
Kind of like you.
You get away from Martel-san!
I'm not giving you the chance to transmute!
Al...
Now!
To think that you'd be deliberately providing me with ingredients...
Martel-san!
Why, you monster...
Colonel...
He, like his brother, is under my jurisdiction.
If you have any problems with him, you can file a written complaint.
Mark my words, I'm going to blow up that suit of armor.
You're going to the frontlines yourself, Führer?
I won't let Liore become another Ishbal.
Unless we bring an end to this quickly, with a minimum of casualties...
Y-Yes, of course.
I want you to take over as acting Führer.
Y-You want me to?
Don't let me down.
Yes, sir!
Acting Führer! Acting Führer!
Oh, and sorry, but could you send something to my wife for me?
She gets lonely all alone at home.
All right...
I'm counting on you.
Yes, sir!
Yet another city must fall...
for those who seek the Philosopher's Stone.
If you've come this far, then you must know what my objective is.
Yeah.
You must be thinking of doing something foolish, like creating a Philosopher's Stone.
I won't let you get in my way.
A Philosopher's Stone?
There's something I have to ask you.
Four years ago, back in Central, did you see a Chimera that looked like a dog?
I sent it back to God.
Why would you do that?!
What else would you have had me do?
That's not the kind of thing that we should be deciding!
Is that all you have to say?
Do you plan on wiping out Rose and the other people of this city
with that same self-serving logic?!
You know Rose?
I'm going to open your eyes!
How?!
Don't you know? You're an alchemist, after all.
I'm an alchemist?
Alchemy is comprised of
the three steps of comprehension, decomposition, and reconstruction.
You unconsciously read your opponent's metallic composition
and then adjust your own technique to destroy it.
That's why I've been replacing the metal of my Automail
with other metals besides steel.
So that's it.
Of course, rapidly swapping around the metal in my Automail
is messing up its delicate adjustments,
so I'm going to put you down quick!
You dimwit!
Once you use the lives of this town's people to make your Philosopher's Stone,
it will then be your turn to have vengeance taken against you!
Have you forgotten? I can also destroy living flesh.
Homunculi?
Call me Lust, please.
I'm Gluttony!
You understand why we're telling you our names, right, Fullmetal Boy?
Yeah, you mean that today, we'll be saying good-bye.
Ah, that was hot!
Don't kill us off so casually, if you don't mind.
Like you did to Greed.
And here we were protecting you,
scarred man of Ishbal.
I am your enemy, am I not?
If you're going to create a Philosopher's Stone,
then we will protect you.
We won't let the boy interfere, either.
Do you recognize this?
It is something you gave my brother.
What are you talking about?
Remember!
Lust?
Lust!
I hate you! I hate you all!
What's the story between you and that homunculus?
It's none of your business!
Wait!
Rose... and Lyra as well?!
"Please, listen to what that man has to say, Ed."
That's what Rose-san apparently wants to tell you.
Rose, you can't talk?
Keep it as a good-luck charm
so that even when I'm gone, you won't forget about me.
Back when Ishbal was still peaceful,
I had an older brother.
An intelligent brother, whom I was proud of and whom was respected by everyone.
My brother had a beautiful girlfriend.
She fell ill,
and soon after, she was called home to Ishbala.
Brother, what are you searching for?
The Grand Art.
It's a hallowed endeavor that can bring all people back to life.
That's what those people from Central recently tried to promulgate here—
what they called alchemy—isn't it?
They say that within the Grand Art,
there is a technique that brings people back to life.
I see...
So that's it. That explains it.
Brother! Brother!
My brother defied the teachings of Ishbala in order to bring her back to life.
He lost part of his body.
And yet, she still had not come back.
My brother was cast out.
The Grand Art was the greatest abomination in Ishbal, after all.
However, did my brother succeed after all?
That woman named Lust...
Do you know how homunculi are born?
People conduct human transmutation and fail.
The botched product that is born at that time is a homunculus.
Come to mention it, I heard about that from Dante-san as well.
She said she once committed human transmutation
and had created a homunculus.
That could have been Greed.
But they shouldn't be able to survive very long as they are.
Someone is gathering up homunculi like Lust and Envy,
giving them multiple lives, and controlling them.
Then Lust is the one my brother created?
She doesn't have a soul.
She's just a monster that has the same appearance.
Lust was affected by this good-luck charm.
Homunculi have a weakness when it comes to the remains of the person
who was the basis of their human transmutation.
Soon after my brother departed,
we were invaded for no reason.
We were angered by the sudden attack and rose up.
And so, a long conflict began.
I've learned a way to create a Philosopher's Stone.
Brother!
If we were to possess its power,
we could save Ishbal from its crisis.
In the middle of the war,
nobody rebuked my brother for returning.
However, just as my brother was about to complete the Philosopher's Stone,
he suddenly renounced his research.
I now know the reason why.
I also heard the story, from an outcast in Kishua.
It takes a large number of human lives
to create a Philosopher's Stone using the Grand Art as well.
That's right.
It probably takes so many lives
that it would mean the destruction of a whole town, or a whole people.
Unless the frustration, malice, and anger released at that time
all blend together,
a Philosopher's Stone cannot be formed.
In order to save Ishbal, we needed a Philosopher's Stone.
However, for that to happen,
Ishbal would have to be destroyed.
I am the State Alchemist in charge of the extermination of this district.
State Alchemist?
No more, please!
We have been driven from our land, and we are fleeing.
Isn't that enough?
I was just told to exterminate you.
I am to stamp out every last one of you who has eyes and skin of a different color.
Why?!
Who knows?
A light bulb just went off in my head.
I think I'll blow up your body, a little bit at a time.
First, I'll turn your skin into an explosive.
Whoops...
Next will be this arm.
Now then, next will be...
That body of yours looks like a transmutation circle.
I didn't know there were any alchemists in Ishbal.
However, we have these transmutation amplifiers.
Colonel Grand!
What the?
Brother!
I commit the lives of our people within my body...
to you.
No! Brother, why did you do this?!
There is power within that arm.
If I had not done this, you would be dead.
Brother... Brother!
I have done something that cannot be forgiven.
You... liked her, didn't you?
Forgive me.
I am going on ahead... to see her, first...
Your brother was trying to transmute a Philosopher's Stone inside his own body.
He took the lives of the dying Ishbalan people
and entrusted them to you, together with his own arm.
The Philosopher's Stone itself possesses power.
That's how I managed to hold on to my life.
That arm itself is an unfinished Philosopher's Stone.
That's why it reacts with red stones.
It will take even more lives to complete it.
Which is why you're setting Rose up to be some charismatic leader
and manipulating the people of Liore?!
Hold on!
Scar-san is not going to sacrifice the people of Liore.
Lyra, what are you even doing here?
After Dante-san passed away,
I searched for a place where I could make my alchemy useful.
And then I learned of Scar-san's plans.
Just before the fighting begins,
the people are going to flee through an underground passageway
that has been made under the old church.
And then, the soldiers who have been lured into the city will be...
That means there will still be casualties!
Besides, how is it all right to kill soldi—
Do you know what they've done in this town?
What did the military do to Rose?
She was taken into the military's custody,
and when she came home, she had lost her speech.
Would you still ask us to forgive the military?
Martel-san, where are you?
This is a problem. I want to go pick up Brother.
Havoc-san!
What's the matter? Don't tell me there's an attack!
I don't know what's going on, but I heard that the Führer has arrived.
It pleases me that the Führer himself would call for someone such as myself.
There is a matter of some secrecy that I would like you two to lend me a hand with.
Lt. Col. Kimbly, I want you to take the lead of Tucker-kun's Chimeras and infiltrate the city.
I see, so you want us to run wild and provoke them into attacking?
The same trick that we used in the fighting at Ishbal.
But even if we don't go to all that trouble...
We will only act in order to restore peace.
If they're the ones who start it, we can say we're fighting for a just cause.
Also, there is still one State Alchemist in Liore, right?
Edward Elric?
He has probably been killed. Find his body for me.
That will make our cause even more just.
Even if I don't find his corpse, I will see to it that he becomes one.
A shame that we had to lose him.
I won't let you do it!
I won't let you do the same thing you did to Ishbal, nor will I let you kill Ed!
Come on, you're going to withdraw those orders!
Or else...
Your swift movements will not work against me.
I have the Mightiest Eye, you see.
Ed! Al!
Al!
Martel-san!
Al, listen to me, and tell Ed, too!
Whatever, just get inside me!
Al, listen...
Are you okay, Alphonse-kun?
I have executed the Chimera that appeared to be threatening you.
On the day you left,
kimi ga tabidatsu hi wa
I said good-bye and waved, like always
itsumo to onaji 'jaa ne' to te o futta
Almost as if I would see you again
maru de ashita mo mata
in this town tomorrow
kono machi de au mitai ni
To believe in love
ai o shinjiru no wa
To believe in love
ai o shinjiru no wa
is to not give up on yourself
jibun ni mo makenai koto
And until the day my dream comes true,
yume ga kanau hi made
I will be here with a smile as I look up at the stars,
egao no mama hoshi o mite inori sasage
offering up a prayer
koko ni iru kara
I want to be the sky for you,
watashi wa kimi ni totte no sora de itai
I want to be the sky for you,
watashi wa kimi ni totte no sora de itai
I want to be the sky for you,
watashi wa kimi ni totte no sora de itai
I want to be the sky for you,
watashi wa kimi ni totte no sora de itai
bundling you up, sorrows and all,
kanashimi made mo tsutsumikonde
so that you know, whenever you look up, that you are not alone,
itsudemo miageru toki wa hitori ja nai to
so that you know, whenever you look up, that you are not alone,
itsudemo miageru toki wa hitori ja nai to
even when you're far away,
tooku de omoeru you ni
and that you have a place to come home to
kaeru basho de aru you ni
and that you have a place to come home to
kaeru basho de aru you ni
Fullmetal Alchemist...
Holy Mother
Episode 41: "Holy Mother"
I hear it—that voice...
That familiar voice, that was supposed to have been lost a long time ago...