in 2001, maiza and a few immortals appear in a rural european town to apprehend a fellow alchemist and immortal elmer c. albatross, who had been masquerading as a demon and was imprisoned by the locals. they uncover an age old conspiracy detailing the origins of water homunculi from the 1930s (sham and leeza laforet, sister of chane) and also putting a stop the experiments on the people that had been ongoing in the town as they remained unaware of szilard quaite's demise for almost the remaining century, his descendant bild quaites later encounters the immortals and reveals the horrific secrets of the village. phil and felt nebil, homunculi resulting from szilard's experiments are subsequently freed from the village and allowed to wander the earth, ending up in new york after the ordeal.