Edward... You've gotten bigger.
I heard from Pinako.
About you performing human transmutation.
Why did you come back here now?
This is not where you belong anymore!
Oh, right. My house... Why did you burn it down?
Because we made up our minds that there was no turning back.
- We did it to show our resolve-- - No, you didn't.
You didn't want to look at it.
You wanted to escape from your unpleasant memories.
You wanted to hide the traces of what you'd committed.
You're wrong!
Just like a child hiding the sheets when he wets the bed.
You ran away, Edward.
What the hell do you know?
Damn! You turn my stomach!
Just like when I was young.
You haven't changed.
You're just... as you were all those years ago.
Why didn't you come back any sooner?
Trisha was waiting for you all that time.
Pinako...
What my sons transmuted...
Was it really Trisha?
I told you. It didn't have a human form.
- I wouldn't say it was Trisha-- - No, that's not what I mean.
For example, the eye color and the hair color.
What do you mean? Are you telling me that wasn't Trisha?
Are you saying that those boys created someone completely unrelated
and had their bodies taken away because of it?
You can keep going without ever eating or sleeping?
As long as this seal is unharmed.
Amazing! You truly are immortal, aren't you?
No, I'm not. This body is like a... time bomb.
Barry mentioned it.
A body is inherently incompatible with someone else's soul.
If you force one into it, it will undergo rejection.
Whether that will happen tomorrow or ten years from now, I don't know.
Oh, no. Then you need to get back to normal as soon as you can.
Yeah, but still, if your body has some sort of problem,
can't you transfer your soul into something else and go on living?
If that's the case, then the way you are now...
You don't feel pain and you don't need to eat.
That body of yours is nice and handy, isn't it?
There's nothing nice about it! You don't know anything!
- Sorry. - Winry.
Winry? I'm coming in.
Geez, Winry, you and Brother always get mad so quickly.
My timing is always off when it comes to getting upset.
Well...
Apparently, this body is unable to go to sleep.
Al...
You'll be able to get your original body back. Right?
Give it back! It's my brother's body! He's the only... the only family I have!
Give it back?
What are you talking about?
You're the one who put your brother in that body, alchemist.
Yes. You're just like I am, Edward Elric.
Besides...
Edward... I don't like being stuck in this form.
Ed! Are you still in bed? Your father is leaving.
Do you mind... if I take this?
This was taken with the four of us. It's the only one.
- No, I don't mind. - Thanks.
In return, I'm going to let you in on something important.
Something awful is going to happen in this country soon.
Run away to some other land.
Awful things are not all that rare. For that matter,
there are those who use this place as somewhere to come home to.
I've given you my warning.
Hohenheim!
Come back once in a while and break bread with us!
It's a shame, Pinako. I won't be able to eat your cooking anymore.
Are you really going to dig that thing up?
Do you want to stop?
No. My stumps are aching.
It's going to rain. Let's hurry and get this done.
Ed!
Didn't I tell you so?
Let's pack it in, already.
No.
I can't move forward unless I'm sure! Besides...
You ran away.
I'm not about to run away!
Granny, Mom's hair was chestnut-colored.
It's black.
The femur... is too long.
- And the pelvis... This one is male. - Granny...
Ed...
This is not your mother.
That's it. A dead person cannot be brought back. That's the truth.
It was impossible to do.
Ed, snap out of it. Get a hold of yourself.
I'm all right, Granny.
Ever since that day, this has been a symbol of despair.
But now, it's our link to hope.
Al can be returned to normal.
Yes, Curtis residence. Oh, it's you, Ed. What's up?
Teacher, there's something I need to ask you.
It's just...
What? Just say it.
It's about when you transmuted your baby.
What about it?
Teacher, what Al and I transmuted was not our mother.
What are you talking about? What are you trying to say?
Teacher, the child that you transmuted...
Was it really your child?
I see.
My son and his wife did some good on the battlefield?
You don't say...
Where did he... Where did Hohenheim say he was going?
He didn't say.
I forgot. I have an important message to give him.
- Message? - Yeah.
Trisha's last words to him.
Once he comes back, could you tell him something for me?
Tell him I couldn't keep my promise.
That I was dying before him and that I'm sorry.
Promise? What promise?
Who knows? I hate to ask, but if you see him, tell him.
Why should I have to?
Despite how he acts, he really is quite concerned about you two.
I'll tell him after I pop him one!
You're going back to Central?
Yeah. Al's going to be mad at me, off doing all this on my own.
What the hell!
I'm sorry.
You're all beat-up!
And what's worse...
- What are you guys doing here? - We're eating.
Sheesh, what happened to you?
A Homunculus, Barry the Chopper,
and to top it off, a reaction of rejection between an incompatible body and soul?
I'll extend what's left of your armor.
Al... can go back to the way he was, right?
Of course, he can! I said I would put him back together and I will!
Al...
I dug up what we transmuted together in Resembool.
Why would you do that?
And as a result, I discovered that it wasn't Mom.
What are you talking about? I mean...
What we transmuted was something completely different.
So then, that means I was...
And I've become convinced that you can get back to normal.
Really?
Yeah. But, before I get into that...
Winry, do you remember when we had that brotherly quarrel
about which one of us was going to marry you?
You mean what we talked about on the roof before?
Yeah. Al said you turned him down.
I did, I did.
So, this question is for both of you. What was the reason?
- I don't like men shorter than me. - I don't like men shorter than me.
Don't go judging the value of men by their height!
So does this have something to do with Al's body?
What it comes down to is that Al knew something that I didn't.
And Winry, since you remember the same thing,
it means that it was an actual event.
Since Al remembers something that actually happened,
it means that what's bonded inside that armor really is Al.
I really was able to pull you out of that doorway,
even if it was just your soul.
And if I was able to pull your soul out,
we should be able to get your body back from beyond the doorway, too.
My body... existing separately from my soul...
Barry the Chopper!
Al, try to remember back, when you were taken inside the Truth.
Back then...
It's me! It was me in there!
Yeah. So, just like when I pulled your soul out,
- we just need to get your body, as well! - Brother!
At the time, I could see you from inside the thing...
we thought was Mom.
So it was you inside that thing?
My soul probably didn't bind to it because it was rejected.
We didn't do any harm to anyone's soul.
Mr. Elric, sir? You have a telephone call from Mrs. Izumi Curtis.
I checked into the family lines of both me and my husband.
It turns out...
going by the skin and hair color of the child I transmuted,
it was something that couldn't have been born to us as a couple.
You've struck upon something, haven't you?
Yes. I'm convinced that we can get Al's body back.
And that bringing back the dead is impossible.
I get it. It's not that we were missing something.
It was impossible to do in the first place.
- Ed! - Yes?
Thanks.
What did our teacher say?
I'm not entirely sure why.
But she said thanks.
Al?
Ever since that day, I've been blaming myself.
I thought that...
I was the one who put Mom in that form and killed her.
So did I, Al.
Thanks, Brother. I didn't kill Mom after all.
Izumi...
I feel like I've been saved.
I didn't kill our child a second time.
Still...
The fact remains that I am the one who put you in that body.
Whatever it takes, I'm going to make your body right--
Brother...
I agreed to what we did, and I'm just as much at fault.
So don't talk about it as though it's all on you.
You always take it all on yourself.
I can't stand to let others become victims over what I've done anymore!
Like Mr. Hughes!
When I found out he was dead,
I honestly felt that if it meant others were going to get hurt,
I didn't need my body back.
Brother...
I've seen others who didn't have human bodies.
And they all managed to live in their own way.
Even in this body, people around me treat me as a human being.
Maybe this body is a ticking time bomb, but even with a live body,
you never know when you might die in an accident or from an illness.
So because I can live normally, I'm not bothered by this body.
That's what I've started to think. But...
I just can't take it.
I... I... I can't take all the nights by myself!
That's the reason why I want to get back to normal.
Yeah. We'll get it done.
We'll send that Truth bastard flying.
And pull your body out of there!
Have his...
Have his shoulders always been so broad?