Separate Destinations

Bradley appears at the hospital and warns the Elric brothers to be careful around the military, and he then hops out of a window to evade his subordinates. Edward and Alphonse decide to go to the town of Dublith to visit their alchemy teacher, Izumi Curtis, to ask her for information about the philosopher's stone. They agree to take Winry with them when she notices that Rush Valley, a town best known for its automail shops, is on the way to Dublith. Hughes investigates the problems in Liore, the fifth laboratory, and the Ishval civil war. He discovers a connection, but is then attacked by Lust. He escapes her and tries to contact Mustang with his information at a public telephone booth, only to be gunned down by Envy disguised as Ross, and then as his wife Gracia. Hughes is posthumously promoted to the rank of a brigadier general and his murder is later investigated by Mustang, who concludes via Armstrong that a high ranked member of the military may be responsible for the command of Hughes' death.