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isn't me.

Senku.

Here's a fairy tale.

Let's say you're a knight in an imaginary kingdom.

Wha?

The young knight falls in love with the princess.

They discuss the future.

But there's a more appropriate man for the princess:

the prince of the neighboring kingdom.

Their marriage would bring peace to the land.

What would you do, as a man of science?

What the hell are you going on about now?

A man of science cares about effectiveness.

If there were someone ten billion percent more apt for the job, I'd step aside.

You knew the answer before you asked me, didn't you?

Don't be so unromantic.

That is the best choice indeed.

I would never object to that.

Always trying to be cold, hiding his emotions whenever he can.

He and Senku are like master and apprentice.

That decision is also a surprising one, though.

Should Stan, the world's best soldier, and I work together,

we may attempt, once again, to take over the world.

There's no way you're pulling that off after the world's recovered so much.

Am I right?

A scientist is obsessed with effectiveness.

That's why I can trust you.

Although I'm sure some people would cower in fear.

Tell them I threatened you if you want.

That if we didn't awaken Stan, I would diminish the rocket engine's performance.

No, I'll tell them the truth.

Xeno, you don't need to play the villain all the time.

Like it or not, you're already a member of the Kingdom of Science.

One of its leaders.

What?!

Stanley Snider?!

We're waking him up?!

And making him a pilot?!

Ta-da!

Tsukasa-chan is going to be by Xeno-chan's side!

Nominally, I suppose I'll be a VIP bodyguard.

Should Stan attempt to revolt, Tsukasa will beat me to a pulp.

I'm essentially a hostage.

Why him?!

He might shoot at us the moment we wake him up!

That won't be a problem.

Stanley's a soldier.

He simply does his job according to the mission.

He always has. He always will.

That's terrifying!

Keep him in jail!

That's all the more reason, then.

The moon, where we're going, is extremely dangerous.

And we're having him save all of humanity.

There could be no redemption more appropriate.

You're okay with that, Ryusui?

I'm just as good a pilot as him.

But my shooting skills...

No, I mean...

didn't you want to go?

The person with the best abilities does the biggest job.

That's exactly what I want.

I'm the greediest person in the world, after all.

My task?

Getting right to work. I love it.

Anything Stanley says can be done, can be done.

It's always quickest to ask a pro.

Suppose a one-pound bullet is shot with a muzzle velocity of 600 m/s.

As we're on the moon,

acceleration due to gravity is a sixth of that on Earth.

Assume a drag of zero.

We shoot at a target, a Medusa, a kilometer away.

A firing angle of 0.13 degrees ought to do it.

He got the math right.

Is this Stanley guy doing it entirely by gut instinct?

Can you do it, Stan?

Yeah.

I can do it.

I won't be setting off into space, but I'd better be trained to be a backup.

That's the duty of a pilot.

Am I right?

I'm ever impressed, Ryusui-sama.

You have greed beyond greed for yourself.

Your desire for the victory of all humanity

compelled you to relinquish your seat to Stanley-sama without any hesitation.

You don't need to comfort me.

I wanted to go.

Shit.

Shit.

You hit them dead center at this range!

Incredible.

No.

What are they making this time?

Senku-chan, Stanley-chan, and Kohaku-chan...

Does that mean...

Salt

Electricity

Oil

Sodium

Gasoline

Silica

Fluorite

Vinyl

Aluminum

Silicon Rubber

Spacesuits?!

Spacesuit

They mentioned the three treasures of traveling to the moon a while ago...

Spaceship, rocket engine, and spacesuits.

It's coming together.

Well, then, we're finally going up against Why-Man.

Dude, what's this "vinyl" stuff?

Of course. The Ishigami villagers don't know about it.

It's odd, huh?

Y'all built rockets, and you've never seen vinyl until now.

It's the power of oil plant development.

Everything's completely anachronistic.

Humanity's been rushing toward rocket science this whole time.

We've completely neglected everything else.

This is our last time

doing any science crafting before we head to the moon.

I'll build you whatever you want.

Washing machine!

Video camera!

Game consoles!

Protein powder!

Maid robot!

I want...

Slot machines!

Microwaves! Jacuzzis!

Wine cellars!

Er, maybe not all of that.

I want all the things!

We've already made cell phones and radar.

We just need to use radio again.

Bounce an insane amount of radio waves inside a metal box...

Microwave oven acquired!!

Hot! Hot!

That's amazing!

The rice was so cold!

But how?

We didn't even use fire.

The radio waves make friction in the water inside the food.

It's the same reason your TV signal sucks when it's raining.

You're ever so slightly nuking the raindrops.

And speaking of nuking food in the microwave...

Remember the vinyl we made for the spacesuits?

Stretch it thin, and...

We have plastic wrap!

Plastic wrap acquired!!

We're really coming back to a 21st century dining room, aren't we?

Food-related stuff seems to get crafted early.

I'm pretty sure this is Ryusui-chan's "greed is good" at work.

Next! Washing machine!

Yay!

Washing machine acquired!!

Film!

8mm video acquired!!

Heat pads!

Iron heats up when it rusts.

That's one even I can make!

Iron powder and seawater sheets. How's that?

Senku! What I want is...

A smartphone, right?

Here we go.

Wait... Really?

You can make one?

Finally? Really?

We're making an LCD smartphone touchscreen.

How?!

What exactly is liquid crystal, anyway?

It isn't that there's anything specifically called "liquid crystal."

It's just the term for when a crystal is watery instead of solid like it should be.

Hence "liquid crystal."

There's a bunch of ways to make it.

For example,

we use the toluene extracted from N-Butylaniline and petroleum,

synthesized from aniline...

Oh, we're good on the "for examples."

We put subtle vertical trenches on glass

and drip our precious liquid crystal onto it.

That gets it cleanly inside the trenches.

Next, we use glass with horizontal trenches.

Sandwich the liquid crystal between the horizontal and vertical trenches,

and it twists itself into place.

That's where the light can pass through.

It turns into a twisty tunnel.

All right, let's run some electricity through it.

And a boop.

When the liquid crystals are zapped, they straighten out,

and the light can't go through the twisty tunnel.

And that part ends up looking black.

You're right!

I kinda get it, but I don't.

I don't really know what I'm building, either!

In any case, liquid crystal turns black when you run electricity through it.

Lastly, you put two sheets of vinyl on top of the liquid crystal display, and...

Vinyl's a hell of a hero, huh?

Set it up to pass electricity through where you press on it...

and you have a liquid crystal touchscreen!

Smartphone acquired!!

This is...

This is really incredible!

It's an actual smartphone!

It really is small!

It ended up huge!

The machine itself is straight-up just a computer.

It's a 40-kilogram smartphone.

Nothing wrong with that!

As long as the hand-held part is small enough!

We can send messages with the touchscreen, though.

And we can play games, too.

That's definitely a smartphone.

It is.

He made a liquid crystal display just for his best buddy Taiju.

Senku's so kind.

Nah, I very much doubt that.

Why would I do that?

Of course.

We're mounting liquid crystal displays in the spaceship!

Vacuum tube displays are shockingly vulnerable to vibration.

We save volume and mass in one fell swoop.

We've succeeded in lightening the payload for our multi-stage round-trip rocket.

Crew capsule acquired!!

It really does come together with the diligence of hammering wedges.

The grand road map of science.

Yeah.

We finally made it.

From a single rock.

It's the moment of departure.

To the lunar battle!

To the lunar battle!

Moon rocket completed!!

Kohaku...

Please don't put yourself in any danger.

Please, please, come back home safe.

Of course I will.

You'd better not be getting cold feet now, Senku-sensei.

You sleep-talk hella loud.

At last, our showdown against Why-Man.

By sheer chance, we fight together once again.

Your military prowess, Stanley, and my science.

By sheer chance.

Though it isn't just us two.

You're correct.

Senku's team, too.

No... the whole world, working together.

Needless to say, there's no smoking in space.

Chewing tobacco made specially in the form of cigarettes.

It ought to help a little.

Between your martial arts, Kohaku, and your marksmanship, Stanley,

you are the most powerful force of two there could ever be on the lunar surface.

You stole my seat to space, Stanley!

So it's your duty to defeat Why-Man and return victorious.

Am I right?

Rather...

Can you do it?

Yeah. I can do it.

I can't do this!

No way!

I finally met Senku after so long!

It's dangerous out there! Please don't go to space!

Not that I ever get anxious or anything.

I mean, I think I'm a little too collected.

You'll come back safe and sound, right, Senku?

Yeah. Relax.

The fatality rate in space is historically only around five percent.

That isn't relaxing at all!

Of course...

She's right.

We're celebrating going to the moon now,

but if the rocket fails like the other ones did...

All good, all good!

For real!

They're all going to be petrified on the rocket, right?

Even if the launch fails and they end up in bits and pieces,

we just have to gather all the parts

and put them together, and they're back to life!

Yeah, that's not happening.

Even our meathead Taiju here isn't sure about that.

It'll be all right.

It'll be all right.

There'll be no failure!

On the off-chance there is, I'll gather all the pieces,

no matter how many decades it takes!

And Yuzuriha will put you back together!

You guys are hardworking enough. I worry that you'll actually do it.

That's not just a worry.

That's a promise.

I promise we will!

Yeah. You just might.

All we can do here on Earth is back you up.

We're counting on you.

Senku!

Stanley!

Kohaku!

You must be Kaseki.

Joel-chan!

We can finally toast today,

my fellow stone world engineer.

Battery going in for the first time in years.

Wakey-wakey, Medusa-chan!

So fast!

That tag team is so fast!

In this Stone World, starting with nothing but Stone Age technology,

we've completed the rocket and are now going to the moon.

And this astronomical, gargantuan project is in its final stretch.

Boarding the rocket is our leader in science, Ishigami Senku...

the strongest, speediest warrior, Kohaku...

and an exceptional pilot and marksman, Stanley Snider.

Five meters, one second.

There's the Medusa's light.

The light that once brought humanity to the precipice of extinction

is now an indispensable asset in our departure from Earth.

Yo, remember how the Medusa went off by accident?

What if it lights up on its own again?

We have no idea why it happened, and we can't reproduce it.

Unless we have an alternate plan,

our only option is to accept the risk for the next several days.

That's one we have no control over. All we can do is pray.

It's time.

Switching to onboard power.

Tank pressures nominal.

Injecting water.

All systems nominal.

T-minus 60 seconds.

What awaits us on the moon?

We are moments away from launch!

Main engine start.

Ten, nine, eight, seven, six...

Booster ignition.

It's hella quiet when you're petrified.

I don't hear a single thing that's going on outside.

Don't feel any vibrations, either.

If Xeno's got this under control...

Nah, he definitely does.

The count is currently five...

This takes me back.

The first time I got hit by the petrification beam...

From that day on, for 3,700 years, I counted up the seconds.

And now I'm counting down.

Three, two, one...

With human ingenuity, with science,

we'll return the world's petrification to zero.

And we're about to set off from that Earth.

Lift-off.

All metrics nominal and within acceptable tolerances.

The launch is a success!

Readjust trajectory.

Switch displays to monitoring mode.

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