Dante, I want you to stop using my sons as pawns for your malicious games. In exchange for that promise, I'll tell you why your new body is rotting too.
Heh, perhaps but it's been centuries since our last meeting, Hohenheim. We'll have plenty of time to talk later. Right now, why don't you help me enjoy this new body? [licks her arm]
Sorry, But I have a wife.
So? I was married as well wasn't I? Again, and again, and again, and again. After all, if I stayed with one of them, he'd have noticed my slowly aging body and our secret would be out.
Thats where we're different. Trisha was my first and my last. The only woman I ever really loved.
How odd. 400 years ago, when we first met, back when I was still an innocent...you whispered words of love to me. Or do my memories deceive me?
No, they don't.
On that day, 400 years ago... [goes to flashback, which Dante is narrating] ...we had finally achieved our goal. By using the lives those sentenced to hang during the witch hunts, and those who were dying of the plague. By repeating our experiments relentlessly, despite countless failures. We finally grasped it, the Philosopher's Stone. But the demands of the transmutation took its toll on you. You were dying. Out of sheer impulse, I attached your soul to the body of another man. And it was then, that we discovered eternal life. [end flashback]
So by using the Philosopler's Stone, you transplanted your souls again and again?
Yes, thats right.
Why did you have us find someone to make the stone if you already had one?!
After Hohenheim of Light left my side, I needed a new stone. And I didn't know how to make one on my own. That's why. [to Hohenheim] Tell me, why did you leave? Wasn't eternal life enough for you?
Dante, there is no such thing as eternal life.
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