There is alchemy in our world, aru. It's just different from your world's. In my country, we mainly used alchemy for medical purposes. Me and other Chinese alchemists were trying to find the elixir of life, but we stumbled upon gunpowder instead, aru. [He was sitting cross legged on the bed now.]

Then in the Western World, alchemy came to center on the transmutation of base metals into noble ones, but there were some who sought what is called the "philosopher's stone," which is the Western equivalent to the elixir of life, aru.