If you have not read the first part of this review, you may do so here: Full Metal Alchemist E2: Body of the Sanctioned (Part 1)
When we left off, Al had just saved Rose from Cornello’s monster. Al tells Rose a little bit about alchemy and she asks him about his mother. With his mother being a sensitive topic for obvious reasons, he changes the subject without answering. Elsewhere, Al is still chained up. He gets Cornello to admit he is a fake. Cornello starts bragging but isn’t aware that Al and Ed set up a recorder. Everything Cornello just said has been broadcast to the entire town.
Cornello attempts to fight Ed but ends up running away. Outside all of the town’s people have shown up, confused and angry over what they have just heard. Has Cornello really been playing them for fools this whole time? They want answers and they want them now! Cornello, being quick on his feet, makes up a lie. He says that they faked his voice and to prove what he says is true, he brings the statues from earlier alive again.
Not one to be outdone, Ed brings the sun god statue to life in front of everyone. Cornello collapses and we find out his philosopher’s stone is a fake. The stone shatters before their very eyes. Rose is angry because Ed crushed her/the town’s illusions. Even if it was all a lie, at least Cornello gave them hope, according to Rose. Ed tells her to go off on her own, she doesn’t have to stay in this town.
Cornello speaks to the mysterious woman again, who is named Lust. Her partner, Gluttony, eats Cornello after she reveals this town is just a trap to lure in alchemists. Still wanting to keep the game going, another partner, Envy, will take the form of Cornello and continue his work. Al tells Rose not to make the same mistakes him and Ed made and gives her a little bit of their back story.
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