The spring style outside the window is extraordinarily warm, as if someone is gently washing the world with a quill. Liu Mengchao likes the weather in Dabris very much. In this lazy weather, he lies alone on the roof and bask in the sun.

You will feel a warm and lazy sleepiness from the bottom of your heart.

Sleepiness came a little earlier than usual. Before Liu Mengchao got tired of looking at the wandering clouds in the sky, sleepiness had already stood up on tiptoes and came to Liu Mengchao's side. Their steps were light and they sat cross-legged beside Liu Mengchao quietly, carrying

Liu Mengchao fell into his sleep little by little.

A person will have many dreams in his life. Some of them are the colors of spring, with the fragrance of mud and grass, and some are with a hint of summer color, red like a flame. Such dreams taste even sweeter.

, even with a slightly spicy feeling, making people want to taste it again unconsciously.

The dream that Liu Mengchao is having now is just such a dream.

This dream was very magnificent, and seemed to have a little fantasy color. Various characters in the dream who would only appear in books appeared one after another in Liu Mengchao's dream, looking at him with a smile, and then brought him

He went to one place after another that he had never been to. There were no singing birds and fragrant flowers in these places, but there were always people smiling at him. Liu Mengchao just felt that he was tasting the sweet wine, and his whole body felt soft and dizzy.

Dreams are always such beautiful things.

But this is not the case for others. At least Edward's dreams were not beautiful things. He dreamed of his mother.

His mother, who has long brown hair, is as gentle as water. Even in his dreams, whenever he sees his mother's smiling face, Edward can always feel that he is wrapped in a warm water.

The mother in the dream was sorting the clothes of the two Edward brothers in front of the window, carefully folding the small clothes one by one and stacking them neatly on the bedside.

Edward himself was standing at the door, with sweat streaming down his face, looking like a child who had just returned from playing. There was a mixture of exhaustion and excitement on his face.

"Mother!"

Seeing his mother, Edward blurted out subconsciously. He took out his hands from behind his back. They were hands without any defects, neither steel prosthetics nor scars from battles over the years.

Those are beautiful hands that belong to a child.

"Brother! Brother!"

Behind him, Alphonse's voice came from afar. Edward turned around with a smile, looked at the shadowy silhouette of his brother, and smiled proudly. He saw him walking towards his mother with cheerful steps, stepping on his feet.

Feel the slightly soft touch on the floor at home.

The next second, Edward had already arrived in front of his mother.

"Mom! Look, this is the little bird I made."

Edward opened his palm and revealed what was in his palm. It was an alchemy product made entirely of clay. It looked like a work of art carved by a skilled artist. Even the feathers on the bird's wings were finely detailed.

Now, it looks lifelike, as if it will really fly in the next second.

"Edward is so amazing, he can make such a beautiful bird." Mom smiled and turned around. She also had an apron tied around her waist, looking so gentle.

I saw my mother's hand slowly touching Edward's cheek, and the child suddenly felt his mother's warmth and tenderness.

"only……"

Suddenly, the mother opened her mouth to speak. This felt wrong. Even in his dream, Edward still wanted to scream loudly. He could feel that this felt wrong, as if everything was about to unfold in front of him along those horrific scenes again.

.

"No no no... no... no..."

Edward was crying in a low voice, but he kept retreating. Every time he took a step back, the originally bright scenery around him dimmed, as if someone was lowering the curtain little by little, dimming the scene in front of Edward little by little.

Wipe it away. Leave nothing to the poor child.

"Edward obviously has such a high talent, why...can't he become a mother?"

The mother asked gently, but this moment turned into the most terrifying scene for Edward. He saw that the originally gentle mother's hair dried up little by little, and finally turned into strands of burnt black char. Those mother's hands,

The hand that was touching Edward's face also changed little by little at this moment.

The moisture left the mother's hand little by little, and then gradually dried up. Although the temperature could still be felt, it was no longer a human hand, and even the shape was completely different. This... this did not look like a human's.

The hands are not human hands at all, but the tentacles of a demon.

Edward finally couldn't help it and screamed loudly. But he suddenly found that he couldn't move at all. His whole body seemed to be nailed to the ground. He could only look at his mother's hands, which were completely human-free.

The small hand caressed his face little by little.

Finally, the most terrifying scene finally appeared in front of Edward.

His own mother transformed into what she was after being refined.,

In short, this was not a person at all! He couldn't even do the simplest thing like standing up. He was just like a shapeless toy made of black mud, slumped on the ground, and kept moving toward Edward.

He slapped his dark palms.

"Why...why...can't you become a mother?"

"ah!"

With a scream, Edward straightened up suddenly and sat up. His forehead was already covered with cold sweat, and his whole body was shaking as if he had just experienced a cold. A pair of golden eyes were full of emotions

With a horrified expression, he kept looking around him. Looking at the quilt under him that was soaked with sweat, he subconsciously raised his right hand.

The steel prosthetic limb stayed silently in front of Edward's eyes. The metal's luster was illuminated by the sun, and the reflected light burned Edward's eyes, but it also brought the young man back to his senses from the terrifying dream.

For Edward, becoming his own mother was a lifelong nightmare. Even just a glimpse of it in his dream could make the young man tremble from the bottom of his heart.

"Al...Mom...I'm sorry..."

Edward just sat blankly on his bed, using his steel prosthetic legs to support his face, and covering his face with his steel fingers. Cold tears flowed from his eyes, flowing to the cold

Under the steel, the two mixed together to laugh at the young man's heart, which was not as cold as steel.

This was Edward's morning. He just sat on the bed like this. He didn't know how much time had passed, nor how much sweat and tears he had shed. Until his whole body began to feel chilled by the cold,

Edward put on his coat again and stood at the window.

The sunlight was so dazzling that it even made the young man feel that everything was so unreal. He raised his hand, blocked the direct sunlight from his eyes with his right hand made of steel, and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Al... no matter what, I will let this brother regain his body and return to a human body."

The face tortured by the sun gradually showed a resolute look, and even the sun was infected by this look. Gradually, the proud head lowered, no longer dazzling and arrogant.

Edward finally got used to the excessively dazzling sunlight. He put his hands on the window sill and stared at the blue sky in the distance. There was no one in the room. His brother Al must have gone out long ago. Counting the time, he should be there now.

Is there cleaning at the entrance of the store?

Edward thought to himself, but couldn't help but feel a little sad in his heart. Maybe this young man didn't know it, but he had already been burdened with too many things. His mother was made from a human body, his father left when he was young, and his younger brother was dependent on each other.

It turned into an armor with only a soul but no flesh and blood, and he also lost one hand and one foot.

These sufferings turned into sharp spears that pierced Edward's body, turning the pain into a panacea that urged the young man to move forward, beating Edward's thin body all the time.

This was Edward's morning, too bitter compared to Liu Mengchao who was still sleeping in his dreamland. But as long as there are dreams, it will always be good.

As Edward's younger brother, he has long been accustomed to sleepless nights. Whether it's dreams or fatigue, these have become extravagant hopes, like stories told in storybooks, which will never be possible.

become a real existence.

Alphonse Eric had just experienced another sleepless night. He held a broom in his hand, gently sweeping away the dust on the road. Just this sight made this man even smaller than Edward.

The year-old boy felt extremely sad.

He will not feel sleepy or happy. He will not feel thirsty and want to drink water, nor will he feel cold and want to put on more clothes.

Spring, summer, autumn and winter, if the different scenery of the four seasons are stripped away, there is no difference at all to Alphonse. Three meals a day are reflections in the water. Although they can be seen every day, they can never be touched.

Wow... Wow... Wow...

The thick broom was sweeping the road in front of him bit by bit, sweeping together pieces of red leaves that had been blown down from nowhere, but Alphonse felt as if infinite sadness was welling up in his heart.

If everything Liu Mengchao said can really succeed, maybe his brother and master will be able to recover. But what about himself?

How long will it take for me to take off this armor and truly feel the dazzling sunlight in front of my eyes?

Stretching out his hands, they were a pair of armored hands. There was a black leather palm in the center of the rough armor, but neither the cold steel nor the warm leather palms could make this person who was not yet fourteen years old

The child feels a warm breath.

"Tap...tap!"

Under the sun, a small paper ball suddenly drew an arc in the air and landed in Alphonse's palm. He lowered his head and watched the paper ball open in his palm.

"I know your secret, please come with me alone."
Chapter completed!