Episode thirteen opens with
Izumi speaking. She tells Edward that she can’t believe he saw it and made it
back alive. Then she adds that they may be her pupils, but it’s still really
something. Izumi goes on to say that even so, they’ll have to take responsibility
for what they’ve done. With that, she informs them that they’re expelled.
Alphonse starts to protest,
and Edward stops him. Izumi tells them that the trains are still running and to
go home. Although it’s clearly difficult for him, Edward bows and thanks her
for all she’s done. Afterward, the opening credits play.
When the story resumes,
Edward and Alphonse are at the Dublith Station. Sig tells them that if they’re
ever in the area, they should come see him and Izumi. Alphonse starts to
protest, and Sig silences him with a shout. He tells the two that there is no
“teacher” or “pupil” relationship any longer, which means that from now on,
they can interact with each other as equal individuals. Then he asks what
reason there is for them to be aloof now.
The brothers exchange a
glance, and Edward slaps himself, asking what he and his brother came there
for. With that thought in mind, he tells Sig that they’re heading back, and he
and Al dash back to the butcher shop as Sig calls after them to not get killed.
Edward rushes in through the
doorway and greets Izumi as Teacher, promptly having to dodge the knife she
throws at his head. It lodges in the wall, and she asks how they dare barge
into her home like that. Edward and Alphonse are effectively terrified as she asks
who they’re calling “Teacher”, since she no longer considers them her pupils,
ordering them to get out.
Instead, Alphonse and Edward
come inside and get on their knees, telling her that they came to find leads on
getting their original bodies back. That being the case, they can’t go back
empty-handed. Izumi shouts for them to leave, and Edward shouts no in response.
After a stare-off, Izumi finally relents as she calls them imbeciles.
A short span of time elapses,
and the three are seated in a living room. First, Izumi checks that Alphonse
didn’t see the truth, and Al confirms that he didn’t, so he doesn’t know what
it means. Izumi postulates that he may have lost his memory of it out of shock.
She suggests that they try and get Al’s memory back, certain that since he lost
his whole body, there’s no way he didn’t see it.
Edward has to agree. After
all, for him and her it was only the loss of a part of their bodies, but
considering the “toll” that Alphonse paid, he must be more acquainted with “the
truth” than either of them.
Al believes that if that’s
the case, restoring his memory would mean he’d have a lead on getting his body
back too. However, Izumi and Edward consider the fact that these are some
rather unpleasant memories they’re trying to unearth, and they aren’t exactly
reassuring as they tell Alphonse that it’s something awful he’d be recalling.
Edward goes as far as to suggest that it might even wreck his brother’s mind,
and that if it went wrong, he might be crippled.
Despite these things, Alphonse
believes that it’s worth it if there’s the chance they might find any leads.
Izumi tells him that she’ll ask someone she knows about getting his memory back.
But before that, she says they should get some dinner.
Watching them from outside
the window, a man with a haggard face concludes that one of those he’s watched
is the one who transmuted a soul. With that, he crawls right up a wall, a
lizard tail visible as he reaches the rooftop and disappears.
The next day, the scene is
set in East City, in particular, the Eastern Command Center. There, Roy is
playing chess with an older military officer. The man asks Roy if he’s
transferring to Central next week, which Roy confirms. In response to that, the
man says that he’s going to miss having Roy around, since he kept things pretty
colorful. Roy replies that he doesn’t do so nearly as much as the man does,
addressing him as “General”.
After a pause, the General
says that Roy worked as hard as he could, and that allowed him to be at ease.
Roy answers that thanks to the work the General allowed him to take on, his
insights have also been expanded. With that Roy, calls checkmate, saying that
he finally beat the General in the end. The General tells him that the win will
be his final parting gift to him.
Roy then comments that while
the General’s handing out parting gifts, there’s something else he’d like. By
this, he means personnel, listing Master Sergeant Kain Fuery, Warrant Officer
Vato Falman, Second Lieutenant Heymans Breda, Second Lieutenant Jean Havoc, and
First Lieutenant Riza Hawkeye.
It appears that Roy got his
request granted, as he stands before these five and informs them that they’ll
be transferring to Central with him. He informs them that he won’t be listening
to any objections; they’re coming with him.
All five salute, but then
Jean realizes something, approaching Roy and telling him that there’s a bit of
a problem. That is, he recently got a new girlfriend. Roy offers no compassion,
simply telling the man to break up with her.
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