Dabris Town, inside a hotel called Demon Kiln.
In a storage room of the hotel, Alphonse was bound hand and foot, sitting against the wall.
Alphonse is the protagonist's younger brother. Back then, he and his brother performed human transmutation. His brother lost an arm, while he lost his entire body.
Now Alphonse is a tall suit of armor, empty inside, with a blood seal that keeps his soul affixed to the armor.
Alphonse can move normally, and can even fight or use alchemy, which shows that alchemy is unrelated to the physical body but is instead driven by the soul.
At this moment, there is a woman inside Alphonse's armor, to be precise, this woman is not completely human.
Her name is Madelle, a synthetic beast of human and snake. She has the appearance of a normal human but some snake-like traits, such as heat perception and a flexible body.
Madelle is currently inside Alphonse's armor to restrict his movement.
