After the introductions were due and their lunch was over the train was already far away from Central City. Emilia dismissed the gathered alchemists, though she requested that Valorie meet up with her later that evening, in Emilia's personal cabin. The Blood Rose Alchemist had acquired an interest on Valorie, since female State Alchemists were a very rare breed and most of them worked on labs, just like Emilia. A war alchemist like Valorie too rare and Emilia wouldn't lose the chance to study her better.

Other than Valorie, the only other to trigger Emilia's interest was Charles, the Corrosive Alchemist, after fighting alongside him on a one-off operation, Emilia knew that his knowledge and skill were vast. Though, she also noticed that he lacked the guts required to harvest the true fruits of his lifetime work, which would make it hard for her to convince him of helping her in the Stone research. As a matter of fact, all the other alchemists looked like the type who would oppose such an experiment even if it was to be executed on members of an inferior sub-species, or criminals, like the ones of the rebellious cell they were sent to exterminate.

[color=crimson]"Well, when the time comes, I'll see what I'll do about them..."[/color] Emilia said to herself as she went to deal with the sergeant's body and inspect a car whose access was allowed only to her, since it contained lab material that she would need on their mission and Emilia wasn't keen on letting other alchemists pry on her personal researches.