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When you say "Internet,"

you mean the one you can use on a smartphone?!

Finally! We've finally gotten there!

Yeah, it'll be the final, biggest project leading up to our moon tour.

Yeah... Social media is online, too.

We've been using it without much thought, but it's kinda abstract...

Here's a really basic question...

What is the Internet made of?

Eucommia tea.

Eucommia tea

Ah, right, eucommia tea.

That stuff that's supposed to be good for your body...

I've got it!

If we all enjoy some tea together, we'll have the guts to make the Internet, too!

Nope.

Let's get started.

It's the birth of the great Internet!

Wanting Everything

Innoshima, Hiroshima

Oyster, oyster.

Oyster, oyster.

Oy!

Oyster!

Eucommia tea acquired!!

An excellent fragrance.

Its gentle sweetness would pair well with Japanese snacks.

Eucommia trees are freakishly hearty.

They don't even get pests on them, lawl!

No wonder they've been around since the time of the dinosaurs.

The whole tree's filled with stickiness.

What's up with this stickiness? It's like spider silk.

The tea's a bonus.

We're here for the stickiness.

It's called eucommia ulmoides elastomer.

It's like a kind of rubber, except it's stiff and tough as hell.

It's impervious to water and electricity,

so it's been used for golf balls and 3D printer filament and stuff.

I thought we were making the Internet.

How exactly are we using this impervious sticky stuff for making the Internet?

Impervious to water and electricity...

Crap, you aren't thinking about sinking a cable underwater, are you?

To connect the entire world?

Copper Wire

Nickel-Steel-Chromium Alloy

Steel

Eucommia Elastomer

Undersea cables acquired!!

There's no chance we'll connect from Japan all the way to the Americas.

We'll use the perpetual summer island of Hawaii as a way-stop.

Coffee acquired!!

Aloha.

You just wanted an excuse to come to Hawaii, didn't you?!

Are we holding an online meeting?!

Internet acquired!!

It's so amazing.

We're so far apart, and yet we can talk like we're all here.

Does that mean

we never have to deal with those annoying Morse code signals anymore?!

Is that what moves you to tears, Ginro?

We actually are connected now.

The science users of the world are all together.

To introduce ourselves properly, I'm former NASA rocket engineer Dr. Xeno.

I'm Senku.

Let's skip the introductions and get to it.

Here we go again.

He doesn't leave any room for any kind of sentimentality.

We're going to be distributing the design of

the several million parts comprising the spaceship.

But how?

Well, we have to draw our designs out on paper,

send anything new we do across the world, and discuss. How else?

Th-That's so much work.

Nah.

Why do you think we laid down all that Internet cabling for?

We're doing the design work online.

There's no way we could do that, not with our potato computers.

We're using e-paper.

Specifically, we're using its predecessor.

We use two electron beams instead of one for the TV: one strong and one weak.

You get a light trail on the screen where you touch it with the electronic pen.

Uh, why?

Lastly, add a metal sheet for reading,

and you can send what you draw on the screen directly.

There was an early commercial CAD system that worked the same way.

Well, now, that's an idea!

Sorry, I'm clueless as to what the idea is.

The engineers seem to be blown away.

Basically, the engineers can share their screens

in real time as they draw out their designs.

This spaceship of ours is starting to take shape.

What's this?

This is where the astronauts will sit on their way to the moon.

Already?! The whole world's firing on all cylinders now, isn't it?

Damn!

Well? How does that feel?

Honestly, tight as hell!

This'll take some getting used to.

We really are going, aren't we?

We're taking this to that distant moon.

Yeah, there and back.

We're getting everyone back safe!

Yeah.

It's finally time to face our final boss, Why-Man.

We're going to choose our moon landing team

and start training our astronauts!

I'm getting on, no matter what!

The rocket is a three-seater.

Now, as for the astronauts we'll be sending...

Who are the three who'll be going?

Yo, if you really want me to go, I wouldn't mind considering it.

No one asked you.

But, like, you're the expert here.

You should choose, Xeno.

Space flight here, in the Stone World,

will be nothing like it was in the old world.

The reason is that the crew can be petrified for almost the entire trip,

including for the launch.

Oh, right.

We can revive them just when it matters.

Yeah, we designed the life support system with that in mind.

It's a lot simpler.

That's an advantage of science in the new world, huh?

On the other hand, what makes it more difficult

is that we don't have the slightest idea what the mission entails.

What is Why-Man?

Is our science even any match at all?

All we have to go on is our experience in

dealing with Why-Man and the petrification beam.

The smallest decisions will determine humanity's fate.

Therefore, we won't be looking for astronauts from the old world.

Instead, we'll be selecting and training them from among us.

The three chosen will be a pilot, a scientist, and a fighter.

The first seat's mine!

Am I right?

No one's going to argue with you over who gets to be the pilot.

The question is who'll be the scientist.

I'll be staying on the surface, at the control tower.

We don't have much of a choice.

So we know who the scientist is, then!

What's the question here?

The crew will need some degree of strength and stamina training,

even if they'll be petrified most of the way.

Senku-chan's...

...strength.

Come on, Senku!

We all know you have the stamina of a flea,

but you can't be getting wrecked just from swimming with your clothes on!

The spacesuit is going to be way harder to move around in!

Hey, look, it's Nikki's group!

When did they get back to Japan?

It takes a moment to notice they've been gone,

especially since we've been talking to them online all the time.

Now, with the Internet, we don't need to designate messengers.

The world shares information online,

and people around the world are beginning restoration efforts.

Yuzuriha!

Taiju-kun!

Ginro!

Kohaku-chan!

So, Xeno-chan...

You're gathering us here now because...

Ah, that's my Gen. An elegant deduction.

We're selecting the fighter crew member.

Team Ishigami Village is keeping up!

I see why they're the "people of the water"!

Clothed or not, we were always swimming.

Clothed swimming is your biggest problem in the exams, isn't it?

Whoa, I wasn't expecting that!

Senku's going for it, too!

Focus Test

I've heard about this before.

Something about doing insanely patience-testing exercises

like solving blank white jigsaw puzzles.

Man, he's stupid fast when it comes to mental stuff.

Who even came up with these crazy mazes?

Maze Generator Program

Balance Training

So high, Tsukasa!

He's fantastically proper, as always.

Damn it, he's obviously the strongest candidate from the start!

Are we set on Tsukasa, then?

No, everyone's elegant so far.

Yeah, we can only make numerical comparisons,

but that's not exactly what we need against Why-Man.

We aren't experts in combat, after all.

What is it, Tsukasa?

Did you need something?

Have you lost your mind?!

What are you—

Unbelievable.

We've come this far, and you...

You would betray us now?!

Apologies, Kohaku.

Forgive me for testing your strength.

This takes me back.

The first time we met, we clashed the same way.

And now, after countless battles,

your combat ability rivals mine and Hyoga's.

Spare me. I can tell from our duel.

I'm still nowhere near a match for you in combat.

You aren't far off.

Especially with the weapons of our Kingdom of Science.

Yes, science brings equality to all.

In which case, an agile warrior would be ideal on the lunar surface.

We can save several dozen kilograms on the rocket, as well.

This is my assessment as an expert in combat.

Our three brave crew members to be confronting Why-Man are...

Ryusui, Senku, and Kohaku.

It's done!

Ever since Ryusui-chan won that seat to the moon...

...he's been super excited.

Yes.

He is a man who wants everything.

This scale is freakishly precise!

I love how useful a reference this is.

We built the Perseus as a blown-up version of Ryusui's model, in fact.

So it's a ship-in-a-bottle spaceship!

That's right...

I remember how Ryusui always made me do

the calculations for his ship-in-a-bottle models, too.

You really love making those models, huh?

This is no toy model that I'm making!

It's the ship of the future!

I'll see to it that this becomes more than just a model!

I'm going to set sail on a real ship!

Away onto the high seas!

Can you write a sailboat navigation simulator, Sai?

It's a spaceship navigation simulator program!

Another high score!

No wonder you do this professionally.

I can't allow anyone to best me in a mere simulation.

There's no telling what'll happen in this special new world flight, after all.

Our Stone World experience and instincts will have to guide us.

Am I right?

I mean, no one in the Stone World compares to you.

We aren't going to find a better pilot, Ryusui.

Experience in the Stone World...

A pilot.

What exactly is this?

Are we expecting a shoot-out in space?

No way.

It's just for fun.

Hey, who knows? We might end up in a gunfight.

Research Lab

None of us can know how the battle will play out on the moon.

What do you think would be the ten-billion percent most powerful weapon

that Why-Man could throw at us?

The Medusa!

Bingo. Ten billion points for you.

We aren't stupid.

We aren't charging in without a plan.

We have two anti-Medusa items of science.

Here's the first one.

I'm staking my pride as a watchmaker on this one.

It'll revive you on command.

The resurrection watch.

There's one dose of revival fluid inside the watch.

Just before you get hit by the petrification beam,

you set the timer for some seconds or minutes after.

This is huge!

Crap, if all of us wear one of these,

we'll be all right even if the whole planet gets petrified!

You've seen the mountain of Medusas at ground zero at Manaus.

Wait, what if they

shoot successive petrification beams at us? We won't stand a chance.

But a multi-stage attack has its weaknesses.

Should Why-Man shoot petrification beams at us in multiple stages,

he would have to create a delay between each of the waves.

In other words, there's a countdown between the first shot and the next.

Right before the Medusa fires its subsequent shot...

Is this...

The second and final special item.

Our ultimate anti-Medusa weapon...

the net gun grenade.

Check out our try-hard Ryusui-sensei, all eager to go to space.

You and I can't be relied upon for our shooting skills.

Our captain must be determined to make up for us.

We have to put in our work, too.

Don't look away.

There's someone out there.

A man who's an even more capable pilot than I am

and even happens to be the world's best shot.

The secret place that only we know,

because we fought in the Kingdom of Science,

where the strongest man once slept.

Stanley Snider.

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