[BigFire]

Originally Posted by YuuOminae

Brief, brief, summary for chapter 33.

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1. Al can now transmute without drawing a circle.

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So, Al has finally remembered the seeing 'truth' as seen by Ed and Izumi. At the end of Chapter 30, King Bradley personally wipe out Greed's gang, and one of the last one was hiding inside of Al's armor. When Bradley killed her, blood splashed inside of Al's armor for the first time, and onto his soul binding sigil. This allowed him to remember what happened Ed & Al tried to resurrect their mother. And he does see the shape of his mother's soul. Except when he reached for it, it becomes himself dissolving. This is somewhat different from Ed's experience at the end of Chapter 23, where he went through the door and back. He talked to a soul who claimed to be 'himself' and 'himself' exacted the payment for seeing the 'truth'. Al didn't managed to come back through the door by himself like Ed did, but the fact that he went across the threshhold of the truth and back is enough to do transmutation without sigil. He just have to remember it.