This episode is adapted from content in Chapter 20: The Terror of the Teacher, Chapter 21: The Brothers' Secret, Chapter 23: Knocking on Heaven's Door and Chapter 24: Fullmetal Alchemist.The brothers burn down the family home on the night they leave, deciding to leave no traces and this act forces them to move forward, unable to turn back. Ed states to Al that he does not want to risk losing his brother, while Al conveys that all they have left is each other and nothing could ever pull them apart. While sparring, the brothers decide to leave to meet Mustang and for Edward to try being a state alchemist. But Ed considers it his responsibility to fix his brother and asks Winry and Pinako to fix him with automail.Ī year passes with the surgery and rehabilitation. He understands it is against Pinako's wishes not to as the military has taken many lives away, including her own son and daughter. The following morning, Ed, having heard the conversation despite being seemingly unconscious at the time, decides to become a state alchemist due to the amount of resources available, even though he would become a ‘dog of the military’ forced to do what the state commands. As Mustang calmly leaves, he suggests that they should pay him a visit at Central sometime. Pinako is furious with Mustang's presence due to her disgust of the military and its nature as a result of the war and the deaths of the many people within, demanding that he leave at once. Over there, Lieutenant Colonel Roy Mustang, the mysterious man who had been observing the situation from the outside looking in the whole time, arrives in response to one of their letters and expresses a keen interest in Edward owing to the fact that he can perform human alchemy and survive. Al then takes his injured brother to the Rockbell's house. In a tearful panic, Ed sacrifices his right arm to bind his brother’s soul to a nearby suit of armor. The process goes horribly wrong, the thing they brought back to life was not human Ed loses his left leg and Al disappears. Months pass, then the brothers are shown attempting to bring their mother back to life. They find themselves a teacher and learn alchemy seriously from page one. Unable to think of living without her, Ed and Al decide to bring her back to life using human transmutation even though it is forbidden. Their mother soon dies and her last words make them realize that alchemy made her smile only because it reminded her of their father. Believing that their father's presence will make her feel better, Ed and Al write letters to all acquaintances hoping for a response, but are unsuccessful. While she is resting in bed, her doctor informs Pinako outside that Trisha may have been dealing with this illness for years not telling anyone. Ed back talks her and she kicks the boys out.Ībout four years later, the brothers one day arrive home to find their mother unconscious and gravely ill. However, Pinako stops Ed from speaking any further, condemning him for believing alchemy is the answer to everything as it is forbidden to resurrect the dead and that's why automail engineers exist. He conveys that a homunculus is an artificial living being without a mind of its own and that some scholars believe it to be a result of alchemy. Ed then brings up the subject of a homunculus that he read from a book. At Winry's house, Ed and Al learn both her parents have been left to become surgeons for the Ishval Civil War, but they were soon killed due to a surprise attack. Despite their father leaving a long time ago, their mother is assured that he will come back eventually.Ī year later, Ed admits to Al that he is angry at their father for leaving them, though he barely remembers him, and that their mother always gets sad every time she thinks about or mentions him.

Since then, the brothers compete with each other for her attention. She credits it to their father, hinting at him being a great alchemist and then says she is proud of their alchemy. On the way home, Trisha asks her sons about alchemy and gets surprised by how easily they understand it. Their mother Trisha, along with Winry’s parents and grandmother, try to calm her down. The boys make a present for their friend and neighbor Winry Rockbell, using alchemy. As Ed reads it, a flashback occurs to when Ed and Al were just respectively 6 and 5 years old. Al then chances upon an ‘Introduction to Alchemy’. Ed and Al revisit childhood memories, recalling the constant and unconditional love of their mother - and the horrors that began when she died.Įd and Al are in a library trying to find more leads, now that they discovered Cornello's stone was a fake.

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