01x21 - The Red Glow

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What's wrong, what's wrong?
Suddenly, you're not moving so well.

It looks like an artificially created
soul isn't quite perfect.

Is this what happens when you
find out what you really are?

No... I'm... I'm...

Alphonse Elric!

I told you, there's no proof of that.
Accept it. You'll feel better.

If that's so, what about you!?

You've got memories of when
you were alive. Which means...!

I'm so pleased. The fools keep
coming one after another today.

You asked what about me? It's simple.

I love cutting up live people, and I like k*lling
people so much, I just can't stand it.

I k*ll; therefore, I am!

I am who I am!

That's all the evidence I need!

There is no need for you to prove your existence.

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.

You...!

An acquaintance of yours!? That's dirty!
Who knew you still had friends around!?

Friends?

What, then!?

What!? What? What?

You have a wretched body, too?
May you find peace with God...

What is that doing there!?

What about this?

Huh? By any chance, do you
not know what that is?

Answer me!

What are you saying this is!?

I see, you want to find out
that badly. Let's see now...

No, I'm not saying.

130 years, is it...?

This is where they keep the animals
for experimentation, huh?

Come with me, or go play
in hell, you choose.

Decide now!

These devices are set so I can bust things up
and make all gone with myself at any time!

Now then, it's about time I went bye-bye.

Wait!

If you want to find out about your arm, you
have to come all the way inside here!

He got away.

Hey...

I'm sorry!

Where are you going?

If you're here, then Fullmetal must be inside.

W-wait!
Wait up, I say!

What was that tremor a moment ago?

Good question.

However, there are expl*sives set throughout
this building, for destroying evidence.

With that shock just now, there's
no telling when they will go off.

And I still don't know anything yet!

I will keep my promise.

You came here in search of the secrets
of the Philosopher's Stone, right?

It's not as though I know everything, but I will lead you to the entrance.

But what do we do with your brother?
We can't just leave him here.

You don't need to worry.
Finish me off, immediately.

I told you, I'm not k*lling anyone!

You said we were people, right?

In that case, tell me, how am I supposed
to go on living in this body?

Well, I...

Don't attach him! Don't attach him!

Are you saying I should join with my brother, and together continue guarding this deserted house!?

In this unaging, hollow body?

You could give this up, right?

And what, go outside?

Would guys like us have the freedom to just
wander around on our own outside?

Hang on! My own brother has
the same kind of body as you.

You see, it's in order to return him back to normal
that I'm searching for the Philosopher's Stone.

If I ever find it...

If we were ever returned to being
human, we'd just be ex*cuted again.

Do you understand? Even if we became
human, we'd just get k*lled again.

Or are you saying that you would turn a
blind eye to us, a couple of serial K*llers?

But still...!

Would you treat us as humans?
It sounds admirable in word,

but if you were to treat us as though we were humans,
when we can only go on living in this form...

Do you realize how cruel that would be to us!?

You idiot! What are you doing!?

Just shut up and watch!

What are you talking about!?
He's your brother!

I'm glad that you regard him as a person.

That's why he can no longer go back to being Number 48.
This is the only thing he can do as a person.

That's not so!

Brother, I'm going on ahead.

Stop!!

My brother, once I fulfill my
promise, I will come at once.

What were you thinking?
What were you guys thinking?

It was the only choice he could make.

If I treated you guys as people, all you could do is die.
In that case, what was I supposed to do for him...?

There are many problems in this world
for which there is no way to answer.

I'm going to return Al back to normal.

I'm not about to allow Al to go through this.

Let's go!

We're really going to let these guys out?

That was the order. They said they were going
to use them in some m*llitary research.

Even though they have life sentences, it wouldn't
be surprising if they were really ex*cuted.

Is that an earthquake?

That is the sound of the building
collapsing due to expl*sives.

Ah, what a pleasant sound...

Kimbly...!

Ah, that brings back memories of the extermination as*ault on Ishbal.

Come on out! You've been summoned!

You blew both friend and foe away there,
you miserable mad bomber, Kimbly...

Such a pleasant sound. It reverberates in the pit of my stomach.

This is how far the former
Crimson Alchemist has fallen.

Now all we need is for Envy
to gather the ingredients.

How long have we been waiting for this, I wonder...

Lust!

What's this...?

It's him... it's him...!

Him? You don't mean...

...Greed?

It looks like we'll have to hurry, before
there are any unwanted intrusions.

There aren't any more weird traps, right?

There haven't been any intruders
who have gotten in this far.

You mean, because they were
all dealt with by you guys?

So, who was it that placed you in that form?

What, you were lying about the traps!?

This isn't a trap.

Damn it!

What?

It's the one who created these Chimera.

There are still people here?

If you can call him a person...

The Chimera...?

This thing created the Chimera...?

Not all of them.

It's been a long time, Edward.

Tucker...

The Sewing Life... Alchemist...

Why!?

Why are you here!?

We are here because we are
supposed to have been ex*cuted.

It shouldn't seem strange that there would be
those who are living as Chimera here, too.

That's not what I'm talking about! Nina...!

Nina...

That girl is dead because of you!
Why are you still alive!?

For Nina.

I know well how you must feel now.

Um, can't I ask you to stop going after Brother now?

It is the will of Ishbala.

He is an accursed alchemist, and what's worse, he now seeks the Philosopher's Stone.

Why is alchemy so bad?

I mean, your own right arm has a transmuting
circle, although it's one I've never seen before.

It is a brand I received when I took on the
calling to destroy all State Alchemists.

And as for the Philosopher's Stone,

he isn't looking for it to use it in battle.

It's in order to return my body to me.

You don't know the terror of the Philosopher's Stone!

Yes we do!

There's a legend that says that those who come near
the Philosopher's Stone will be destroyed, right?

But if we were afraid of that, we'd never get our hands on anything.

Come to mention it, I heard that Ishbal also perished
because it came too close to the Philosopher's Stone.

No!!

Ishbal did not perish.
It was destroyed!

Brother!
Brother! Open up!

Brother!

Brother, is it true?
You've tried alchemy?

I failed. It cannot be done in this way.

However, there is still the Philosopher's Stone.

Brother, alchemy is a heretical practice that
alters the Creation that God has given us!

But... our God, Ishbala...

...will not bring her back to life for us.

Brother!

The m*llitary... they mean business...!

Brother, it's too dangerous here!

Brother...!

I have finally begun to see...

What the Philosopher's Stone is...
Why Ishbala has forbidden it to us...

Brother, stop this already!

The enemy is trying to destroy us
with this power of the Devil!

Yes, it's true.
Ishbal will be destroyed.

That is something that has been preordained.

I believed that if I could obtain
the Philosopher's Stone,

that she would come back to life,
and Ishbal would be saved.

However, it is for that purpose
that Ishbal must be destroyed.

Brother...

Brother...!

Brother!

Scar...

I know that the Philosopher's Stone
could be made from people's bodies.

We came to verify that.

If that's true, then we...

My, my...

There sure are a lot of intruders today.

Who are you?

You...! Why are you making that face?

Did my brother succeed?

What do you mean?

Can I eat them?

The armored one would be
bad for your stomach.

I'll do my best!

Homunculus...

Homunculus...?

They couldn't be...!

So the m*llitary falsified your execution,
and had you create Chimeras here?

Not just Chimeras...

I'm doing research on a number of things...
that cannot be made... public knowledge...

Spirit bonding, and other tricks you
can't do with ordinary alchemy.

You may have become a Chimera, but you still have
your complete memory from when you were human.

Who has that kind of skill?
Doctor Marcoh? Basque Grand? Someone else?

Answer me! Who the hell runs this place!?

Please don't look upon them.
They're quite bashful.

Nina...?

They still cannot keep their shape
when exposed to the open air.

There's no way you could be able to
perform human transmutation...

You've created a Chimera... to look like Nina?

But each time I failed, and in the
end, I wound up in this form.

However, I'm just one step away...

Just one step away...

One... step away...?

The unfinished Philosopher's Stone
material that Doctor Marcoh had...

You must already know that it
alone has considerable power.

If this large amount of unfinished
material could be completely refined,

you would have a Philosopher's Stone.

Too slow!

However, no one has yet been successful.

It is impossible... for any ordinary alchemist.

I'm...

I'm...

...no ordinary alchemist.

Fullmetal Alchemist!

Episode 22: "Created People"

Homunculus: a pseudo-human,
created through alchemy.

But they only exist in legends.