Hope ꨄ Male Reader x Edward Elric

ꨄMiss. Curtisꨄ

Chapter 21
"You are both expelled."
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M/R's pov

We were back inside the butcher's shop, sitting around the same table we had tea on. Izumi had found out about Edward and Alphonse's transmutation and had listened to what had happened to them. She scolded the two of them on their actions, telling them to "Go down road about three blocks and you'll find a coffin store! Go and buy two in your size!"

She sighed and hugged both of them, telling them not to hold back. Edward seemed to lean into her touch, but he never cried. I've never seen him cry.

After the hugging, she turned to look at me. "So, M/R...Was it?"

I paused and nodded, "Yeah..."

"What are you..? No human can transmute without seeing the truth or drawing a transmutation circle either on the ground or themselves." She crouched down and looked up directly into my eyes, "What are you?"

A heavy sigh left me and I looked back at her, "I'm a homunculus."

The air grew tense around those who didn't know what I was. Edward and Alphonse remained silent, as they already knew what I was. "To be honest...I believe I'm on the borderline between homunculus and human. I've got a philosophers stone inside of me, which is keeping me alive. That tells me I'm not human...But the fact that I once used to be human, proves I'm human, does it not?"

She began to think and then softly looked up to smile at me. "As long as you have a heart, you're human," She says, lifting a hand and ruffling my hair lightly.

A weight lifted off of my chest as I smiled back in relief, leaning into the hand. "Thank you.."

Edward turned to look at me and placed a hand on my shoulder, smiling at me in reassurance. "I'm aware that you've also committed the same sin as them, right?" Izumi asked.

I nodded in response, "Mhm...I tried to bring back my sibling once...It ended up costing the life of my other siblings and my two relatives."

"What was taken away from you? Apart from your siblings, that is."

"My memories. They're getting worse, I can't seem to remember much of my past. Only those who are close to me in the present time. I think it's gotten so bad that if I don't see someone within a month, I might forget them."

"That's an unusual case of amnesia." She sighed, to which I nodded.

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"But to be able to get a Government License at 12 years old, most people would call that genius." Izumi hummed as she walked down the hallway, me, Edward and Alphonse following from behind.

"No way!" Edward exclaimed, "I'm not genius, it's just that I saw that thing."

"If you came back alive after seeing that thing, then that's enough to call you a genius, Ed!" I chimed in, waddling behind him whilst holding onto his arm, almost hugging it. Edward shook his head, frowning.

"Even though you are my apprentice, I'm impressed by you. But I still have to hold true to my principles." The teacher sighed, turning around to look at the other. "You're both expelled."