The Other Side of the Gateway

While being effortlessly pummeled, Father desperately tries to absorb the philosopher's stone from Greed. However, Greed who decides to part from Ling's body, and uses his carbonization ability to turn Father's body into weak charcoal. Father extinguishes Greed's soul, but Edward punches through Father's chest, releasing all the souls of the people of Xerxes and sending Father to the Gate of Truth where he is trapped for eternity. In the wake of Father's defeat, everyone mourns Alphonse's sacrifice. Edward rejects using a philosopher's stone to bring him back to life, even after Hohenheim offers his final life as an apology for the pain the Elric brothers were forced through. Edward ultimately decides to perform a human transmutation on himself, sacrificing his own gate and his ability to use alchemy with it. As a reward for discovering he does not need to perform alchemy, Edward is allowed to bring Alphonse back with him in his original body. As everyone recuperates from the battle, Hohenheim returns to Resembool and dies peacefully before Trisha's grave.