After hearing that there is research on Kenja no Ishi at Zenotime, Ed and Al proceed to this town which is famous for its gold but realises that it has lost its lustre due to the mining of the available gold reserves. Just then, they hear cries for help as a little girl, Elisa is trapped under a cart and Ed manages to remove it using alchemy. As such, Elisa's father, Remark is very grateful for his help and brings the brothers back to his place for food.At Elisa's place, a man by the name of Belsio comes to look for Elisa and brings her some lemons from his orchard. However, Remark seems very unhappy at the sight of Belsio and chases him away which makes the brothers puzzled over this behaviour. The locals then talk about Mugear, the local landlord who is conducting research on Kenja no Ishi to restore the town to its former prosperous state. When the locals ask the brothers about their names, they tell them truthfully but are thrown out because the locals think that they are imposters since the "Elric brothers" are already conducting research at Mugear's place. This makes Ed very interested to find out who has the audacity to use his name.
Ed and Al infiltrate into Mugear's mansion and comes into contact with the imposters, Russell and Fletcher Tringun. Russell tells them to leave the town and stop obstructing them which Ed refuses to. In the scuffle, Ed gets punched by Russell on the face and the brothers have to run away hurriedly. After this incident, Fletcher tries to convince Russell to give up the experiment but he would not hear of it.
In the meantime, Mugear and Lust are standing beside the red water stream and discussing what to do with the real Elric brothers who have come to Zenotime. Mugear promises that he will deal with them and asks Lust to give me more time to create Kenja no Ishi from the red water.
Belsio meets Ed and Al and brings them to his home for the night. The next day, Ed is out trying to find out more on the Tringun brothers and Kenja no Ishi while Belsio asks Al to get medicine for Elisa and Ed's wound at the pharmacy. However, word spreads around in town that the real Elric brothers barged into Mugear's residence and Al is thrown out of the pharmacy. Fletcher comes to Al and offers to buy the medicine for him.
Fletcher reveals to Al that his brother is bent on conducting the research which their father was halfway through even though the vapour from the red water is harmful to the human body. That is why Al notices that a lot of the locals were coughing including Elisa. However, Fletcher is unable to stop Russell at all. Al remarks that Ed is the exact opposite from Russell as he hates their father for getting too obsessed with alchemy and left their mother to suffer.
Ed and Al decide to enter the Mugear mansion again, this time via underground where they see the red water stream. Fletcher gets them to leave in the nick of time since Ed has fainted due to the vapour. Just then, Russell appears and threatens to spray the red water on Ed which Fletcher ends up getting hurt since he wants to save Ed. Fletcher tells Russell to give up the experiment so that they would not harm other people again. At this time, warning sirens sound in the mansion...
I'm not too sure whether Kenja no Ishi exists in the first place or it has to be created from some minerals though. However, it seems that the crystalised version of the red water does help in the alchemy rituals since Russell does not need to draw a formation to use alchemy. And it seems like there is more than meets the eye with regards to the Tringun brothers' father conducting research on this dangerous substance. Well, we'll get more answers in the second part of this story. By the way, Belsio does not seem like a simple man too. There must be something about him which makes him isolated from the rest of the locals.
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