![]() Riza is visited in the hospital by Rebecca, who comments on the hard task of reconciling the Briggs attack on Central with the main story. ![]() ![]() Olivier and Alex resolve to rescue any civilians trapped in the rubble their battle has created, and Mustang's radio team broadcast their version of the story, revealing how the upper echelon plotted on alchemically harming the populace, though not revealing Bradley's identity. The two brothers then return to everyone's amazement, and as Hohenheim welcomes his son back, Al notices the amazing sensations that have now returned to his real body. Ed then transmutes his Gate, and finds Al, body and soul in one again. Truth asks then how he will manage without his greatest skill, and Ed simply replies "Even without Alchemy, I still have my friends." Truth says that this is the correct answer, and concedes defeat. Truth asks what the cost will be now, and Ed replies that he will pay with the Gate, which is revealed to be the source of Alchemy within all alchemists. After thanking everyone who is left, Ed draws a human transmutation circle and goes before Truth and the Gate. Then Van Hohenheim himself offers to be the toll to save his son, but Ed still rejects the offer, though finally acknowledging him as his father. Ling first offers his Philosopher's Stone to get him back, but Ed reminds him that they had sworn not to use one to recover Al's body. Meanwhile, in the devastated Central, the battered victors are still in shock over Al's sacrifice. The scene shifts to just Father, back in his tiny homunculus form, before the Gate of Truth, and God tells him that it is his final fate to fall back into the Gate into eternal despair, the cost of his conceit (similar to the other costs paid by those who opened the Gate.) ![]() Ed proceeds to smash a hole in Father, who finally releases Truth along with all of the souls of Xerxes in his body. Greed, ever defiant, is able to turn part of Father into charcoal, his carbon's weakest form, before being killed by the homunculus and fading away, content to have made friends after all. In one final attempt, Father impales Greed and drains his Philosopher's Stone. The story immediately picks up with the final spar between Ed and Father, who is rapidly losing control over his power. ![]()
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