I was born. [It's a quick but vehement insistence, but he calms his voice some after that.]

Tell you a story. Four hundred years ago, there was an alchemist who had a son. That son died when he was eighteen, but the alchemist wanted him back. So he performed human transmutation to bring his son back to life.

[Envy lets out a low, humorless laugh.] He didn't get his son back.