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Lieutenant Riza Hawkeye tells Edward and Alphonse that both Tucker and the chimera have been killed. In the mean time, back in Liore, Lust and Gluttony endeavor to cause a rebellion utilizing the faith of local people, with Envy using his shape-shifting powers to camouflage himself as Cornello. Back at East City, as Edward and Alphonse dwell on their limits in alchemy, they are violently attacked by Scar. They rapidly retreat until they are cornered and are compelled to guard themselves, bringing about Scar harming Alphonse's body and afterward obliterating Edward's right arm. The state alchemists arrive right when Scar plans to end Edward. Mustang, unable to defeat Scar, is saved by Hawkeye, who reminds him that his fire alchemy is pointless in the downpour. At the point when Armstrong shows up and fights Scar, it is uncovered that the man is an Ishvalan. Outnumbered by the enemy, Scar figures out how to escape into the sewers, and Mustang informs the Elric brothers about the Ishval civil war. Edward and Alphonse choose to go travelling to Resembool to fix their bodies.

A suspicious man with a deep cross-shaped scar across his face assaults and murders Brigadier General Basque Grand. The Führer orders Hughes and Armstrong to utilize all suitable assets to stop the killer. In the meantime, to try not to be in their obligation, Mustang acquaints Edward and Alphonse to the state chemist Shou Tucker, the "Sewing-Life Alchemist", who got his qualifications by making a chimera which could talk with people. He opens up his library to the Elric siblings to study up on living creature transmutation. The brothers also play with Tucker's only daughter Nina and the family canine Alexander. On getting back to the house for another review meeting, they find that Tucker has made one more talking chimera, fulfilling his yearly appraisal prerequisites. However, Edward is infuriated to find that the chimera was made by joining Nina and Alexander together. He then understands that Tucker's wife had also gone through this process two years previous. Alphonse prevents Edward from almost pounding the life out of Tucker. Mustang lets him know that by being a state alchemist, he should be prepared to sacrifice a life when necessary. While Tucker is captured for his activities, he is visited by the scarred man, who kills him, and afterward conveys a benevolent killing to the Nina/Alexander chimera.

Edward and Alphonse show up at Liore, where they witness Father Cornello gaining the devotion of the residents by performing "phenomenal" changes, which they accept could have been achieved utilizing a philosopher's stone. They meet Rosé and ask to see Cornello. At the point when Cornello understands that Edward and Alphonse are alchemists, he ambushes them with a chimera. While fighting, Edward unexpectedly shows his prosthetic automail appendages, and Cornello understands that he had done the crime of human transmutation. Edward and Alphonse flee, taking Rosé with them. While Alphonse makes sense of their story for Rosé, Cornello tracks down Edward and reveals his horrible scheme, uninformed that it had been communicated to the entire town of Liore through a mouthpiece. Cornello assaults Edward utilizing the philosopher's stone on his ring, however Edward figures out how to overcome him. Edward understands that the stone is a phony when it falls and breaks on the ground. Cornello runs off, yet is killed by Lust and eaten by Gluttony. Afterward, Rosé requests the stone from Edward, yet he stands up to her with reality with regards to the phony stone and Cornello and he advises her to find strength inside herself.

As Edward and Alphonse leave for Liore via train, their early childhood lives is displayed in flashback where they gained simple speculative chemistry from their dad's books. Upon their mom's passing, they endeavored to resuscitate her by performing human change, a training formally thought to be no among chemists. A dim mass of shadowy hands then, at that point, continued to break down Alphonse's actual body, while a bodiless figure named Truth showed Edward the mystery behind ideal human change in return for his left leg. To stop the loss of his only brother, Edward bonds Alphonse's spirit to a suit of armor, forfeiting his right arm to finish the cycle. Somewhere else in the present, Colonel Maes Hughes shows Horse the desk work concerning the McDougal episode, which expresses that McDougal utilized a semi-secret Xingese craftsmanship known as alkahestry. Back before, Edward's expertise in enduring the endeavored human transmutation and anchoring of his sibling's spirit pulled in the consideration of Colt, who proposed that Edward become a state chemist. Edward later breezes through the state chemist assessment and is given the title of "Fullmetal Alchemist".

The Elric siblings, Edward and Alphonse, have previously made a reputation for themselves regardless of Edward's short military vocation. They are called upon by the Führer Ruler Bradley and Colonel Roy Colt to chase down the "Freezing Chemist", the rebel state chemist Isaac McDougal. Edward and Alphonse snare and effectively catch their objective. In any case, Edward becomes angered by McDougal referring to him as "little" and McDougal tracks down an opening and escapes. The Elric brothers and the state military are compelled to stand up to McDougal again when he at the same time actuates various change circles in Focal. This makes a catalytic response including the whole war room. Edward associates the utilization with a logician's stone, yet can't affirm his doubt. Fortunately, the brothers, Major Alex Louis Armstrong, and Horse prevail with regards to defeating McDougal's arrangements to cover Focal in ice. The Führer faces McDougal as he endeavors to get away. In the short fight that follows, McDougal is effortlessly cut to death by the Führer, who later credits Horse and the Elric siblings with assisting with achieving the mission.