At Central's train station, Mustang and his men prepare to head to Scram so as to arrest Scar. One of them, Fuery remarks that they seem to be overdoing things by bringing so many soldiers along despite the Isbal refugees being ordinary people and would not be dangerous. Mustang says that their aim is to capture Scar only and expects that they would not meet with resistance by the Isbal people. However, Falman brings up the fact that the Isbal people may feel hostile towards them since they were previously attacked by imposters of the millitary who destroyed their homes in Central so there is a chance that they may meet with resistance. Mustang does not mention clearly what they should do in case the Isbal people refuse to cooperate and is in deep thought...Meanwhile, in Scram, Leo and Rick are looking around for Scar who has gone to the mysterious man's tent. Scar finds a similar alchemy symbol on the wall of the tent which matches the drawings on his right arm when the mysterious man is shocked to see him...
In Southern Command Centre, Izumi refuses to give up Wrath despite being cornered. Armstrong is surprised to see Kimbly who should have been executed for disobeying orders during the Isbal war and killing mercilessly. Kimbly remarks that he was looking forward to the execution but says that the King should know why the sentence was never meted out. As the King is impersonated by Envy who knows nothing about this, he tells Armstrong and Archer to capture Wrath first instead of finding out the reason why Kimbly is still alive.
Ed and Al try to stop Izumi from leaving and Envy (the King) seizes the opportunity to grab Wrath away from her. When Izumi tries to stop him from leaving, Armstrong blocks her attacks as he is focused on protecting the King from harm. The two of them then get embroiled in a battle of alchemy.
Ed and Al wants to intervene in the fight but the kimera and Kimbly stop them for doing so. They are shocked to see that Kimbly is able to induce an explosion out of nowhere and Ed realises that Kimbly is using the metallic elements within any object to create this explosion. Unknown to them, Archer is eavesdropping on their conversation. Kimbly reveals that they wish to get Wrath and their chief, Greed wishes to see the brothers. However, Ed takes the chance to launch an counterattack against the kimera and Kimbly so as to break free from them.
In the meantime, Envy reveals her usual self to Wrath and gives him some red water crystals to eat. This makes Wrath crave for more and Envy explains that as long as Wrath can eat those crystals, this proves that he's not a human being. Envy also finds out that Wrath can use alchemy because he has Ed's limbs as Wrath remembers how he came about...
The kimera and Kimbly escape from the Southern Command Centre after failing to get anything. On his way out, Kimbly is stopped by Archer who asks him whether he has the intention to return to the millitary as he can help...
Ed and Al are searching for Izumi after breaking free from Kimbly and sees Armstrong injured from his battle with her. He gives them a hint as to where Izumi is despite the fact that they are supposed to be from opposing sides.
Izumi finds Wrath who runs out from a room and she senses that something is not the same with him. In addition, she finds the King lying in a pool of blood and assumes that this is his doing. Actually, that is Envy pretending to be dead so as to fool Izumi. Ed and Al decide to leave the Southern Command Centre as they have no authority to enter in the first place and cannot find Izumi anywhere.
Archer finds out that the King has not come to the south and orders Armstrong to search for the King again within the building.
Ed and Al ask Sigu about Izumi's whereabouts. Winry reveals that Izumi should be at the island since that was where she performed human alchemy to bring back her dead child. The reason why she chose that island was due to it being secluded and away from other people thus nobody would be hurt if anything goes wrong.
Izumi brings Wrath to the spot where she tried to perform human alchemy and recalls that it failed thus creating a monster-like thing. Izumi tries to strangle Wrath but cannot bear to do so. Wrath says that if she doesn't kill him, he will be killing her. Meanwhile, Ed, Al and Winry have arrived on the island to look for Izumi with Envy observing them from the top of the cliff.
They find Wrath trying to kill Izumi and Ed stops him from continuing. Ed wants to kill Wrath but Izumi stops him from doing it. Izumi says that she intends to kill Wrath because he was created due to her failed human alchemy ritual. At that time when the monster-like thing was created, Izumi decided that it was not possible to let it continue living and offered it to the door she saw during the alchemy ritual. Wrath explains that the Homcrest came about as a result of failed human alchemy rituals and they are just half-completed beings with a body and spirit. He says that Envy and the rest of the Homcrest tribe were created ages ago so everyone hopes to become real humans.
Meanwhile, Sloth comes to join Envy to monitor the situation while Greed and his gang also arrive on the island to get Wrath on his side. Envy says that after sealing Greed for more than a century, he's still the same and warns that history might repeat itself. Greed says that he wants to get Wrath on his side but Envy says that it's too late for him to do anything. Just then, Sloth arrives and Greed realises that he is outnumbered so he gets his gang to leave the island immediately.
Wrath continues with his explanation that he had been waiting behind that door for a chance to take on a form of life after Izumi offered him to the door and his body started to grow bigger with time. When Ed came to offer his limbs at the door in exchange for Al's soul, they became Wrath's to use where he subsequently came into the world as a Homcrest. Ed is stunned to know the truth and Wrath takes the opportunity to attack him but Al protects Ed from harm. Al wants to get Ed's limbs back from Wrath since this is the reason why they have gone through so much to date...
To think that the Homcrest are created due to failed human alchemy rituals and Ed actually contributed to making one. I guess the shock of finding out about this would affect him greatly. As for Izumi, her obsession with trying to protect Wrath just because he was created from her dead baby will obstruct Ed and Al's fight against the Homcrest.
Greed seems to be scared of Envy and gang for the reason of being sealed again for a century. I wonder what he did to deserve that punishment since they should be from the same tribe but I don't think that he's as weak as he seems just because he ran away from the island after seeing Sloth and Envy. Besides, he's the only Homcrest who can use alchemy until Wrath came along and given that he has been living for a long time, I think he is indeed powerful.
By the way, Sloth and Envy mentioned that there were 7 of them but I could only count 6 among them i.e. Greed, Lust, Gluttony, Wrath, Envy and Sloth. Who is the 7th Homcrest? Since these people cannot die at all, how can Ed and Al get rid of them?
I have a feeling that the trip to Sram for Mustang and gang would be disastrous given that Lust and Gluttony are already there. They might create chaos and distrust between the millitary and the Isbal people so as to obstruct the arrest of Scar who seems to be closer to finding out the meaning of the symbols on his arm. Come to think of it, Scar said that Lust looked similar to his brother's lover so I have a guess that she was created as a Homcrest due to his brother's failed human alchemy.
I'm right to say that Archer is not a good guy after all. Imagine him enticing Kimbly to return to the millitary and he must have an hidden agenda to do so. As for Kimbly, I'm not sure whether he will continue to stay with Greed or be driven by his personal ambitions which is unclear at the moment.
No comments:
Post a Comment