[Edward will try not to twitch at the word magic, mostly because this guy is at least as annoyed by it as one properly should be, though Edward is busy paying attention to what else he's saying.

Oh it sounds like alchemy, but only the first half of it. Analyzing and understanding, breaking down into its elements and components, and then recreating it. Leaving off that last step, well, then it stayed at destruction, all right. Like the man from Ishval, like Scar.]

...it takes some practice, but everything that exists can be broken down into basic components -- organic, non-organic, doesn't matter. We're all basically the same building blocks. [Except maybe souls, but even those, well, there were laws there too.]

But hey. As bad an attitude as this pig has, it was defending its family. [Maybe they don't destroy it? Maybe just shoo it off.]