Tsukasa, this isn't a battle between power and science...
Power is science.
Do you know how they say "power" in ancient Greek?
"Dynamite!"
How magnificent.
Let's negotiate, Tsukasa.
She's alive, isn't she, Tsukasa?
Your little sister, I mean.
We may be able to heal her.
If we use the restorative properties of the de-petrification process.
We're offering a chance for you to revive your sister.
In exchange, we want a truce.
Mirai...
Wait, Senku!
Mirai-chan's naked!
We can't!
You can't revive her like this!
Here we go again with your illogical nonsense...
It's an emergency and we're in the stone world.
Who cares if you're buck naked or if your peepee's showing?
You really like this plot twist, don't you?
Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-m!
We can figure that out once she wakes—
Is this about the right size?
So fast!
We're all set, Senku-kun.
Oh, awesome!
Amazing!
Th-The statue is cracking apart...
It's actually becoming a real person..!
Oh that's right,
The villagers are seeing this for the first time.
The problem is what happens next...
Please...
When the petrification lifts, like when Senku-kun's neck was healed
let Mirai-chan's entire body be healed as well...
The whole point of the revival fluid...
is to slap people awake after they spent millenia being ten billion percent brain dead.
Since that's the case, there's no reason
it couldn't put together another brain or two..!
Where am I?
I...
Mirai...
Brother?
You got a bit older.
But it went by so fast.
How many years did I sleep?
Six years.
No...
Thousands and thousand years...
Mirai...
Without any hope for recovery...
even knowing that, you continued to struggle.
For years and years...
You've been waiting, haven't you, Tsukasa?
All this time... for this moment.
Going right, going left
Which way? which way?
If your decision is different from mine
Here is good bye
That honey, this honey
I'm sick of it
To get to know them
There is no time left for that
Hurry on ahead, to the unseen paradise
The instinct of passion
It's right here
If you want to catch it
Stretch out your hand
In this withered place
If you remain here then
Even if it's you
I'll show you my fangs
Get tangled and re-tangle
Jump over this distorted world
It has ended and begun
Crawl up towards the wished for era
Get tangled and re-tangle
Jump over this distorted world
It has ended and begun
Crawl up towards the wished for era
Humanity's Strongest Tag Team
Now,
we'll gather our belongings.
It's time to return to the camp, where everyone's waiting!
Yeah!
Mirai-kun.
You've got many stone fragments still sticking to you.
They're doing a disservice to your beauty.
You might want to wash your face...
at that river over there.
Senku...
The dynamite numbers are off.
Well, we used a bunch of them,
of course you'll be off by a little.
Hey, I'm king of materials for a reason.
I'm not mistaken when it comes to inventory.
If someone took them...
I should have heard them.
Someone capable of slipping by me undetected...
as far as I know...
she would be the only one.
Huh?
Mantle's supposed to be in charge of watching Homura's cell.
He's not here again.
He's always slacking.
This...
This is bad!
Damn it, what the hell?!
They figured it out already?!
Damn, I figured out how to turn things around again.
I just need to go abduct Chrome again.
I'm the only one who knows where Chrome ran off to.
That Senku guy's base must be somewhere in this direction, right?
That's it!
Seriously? That only took me a few seconds!
Yo-kun still has it after all!
Homura...
Yo.
Contact Hyoga-sama.
Set me free. When the time is right.
For Hyoga-sama's true objective...
What?!
An accident?!
No, it isn't.
This feeling...
What location is that?!
The miracle cave..!
Get back!
Nobody got caught underneath, did they?
Report!
The miracle water got buried!
Now we can't make any more weapons of science!
It's Homura.
But, why the miracle cave..?
Homura-chan doesn't do anything on her own.
Not without someone's instructions.
Whose?
Who else?
What?
What is it, Senku?
Hurry, everyone!
An explosion?
What's going on?
I'll go check it out.
Get away from there!
Mirai! Tsukasa!
Whether I suck up from behind or attacked you while you slept...
Eliminating Shishio Tsukasa, the strongest primate high schooler, was impossible.
Tsukasa-kun... As long as you didn't have anything to protect.
The one who was waiting, was me.
All this time...
for this one moment!
Sen-ku...
Brother!
Senku!
Tsukasa!
Wait, Kohaku!
The current is too fast.
And look.
Let me go, Father!
There's no way you'll find them underwater.
Let's go.
We'll go downstream and search the river banks.
I pierced Tsukasa-kun's chest.
The wound is fatal.
You have no chance of saving him.
W-Wait, hang on!
I knew the river would carry us here because I checked in advance.
Yeah, I'm sure you did, Hyoga.
A guy like you
wouldn't simply risk diving into the river to chase us.
Yes.
Meaning, once I'd disposed of Tsukasa-kun who was in my way...
Senku-kun.
I wanted to speak with you in private.
What are you, a middle schooler meeting me behind the
school building to confess to me?
Sadly, I'm already married.
Wait, I'm divorced.
I don't have a millimeter to talk to you about.
I didn't think so.
But you will still listen.
Whether you cooporate willingly or by me torturing you
doesn't make much of a difference.
Me and Tsukasa-kun were in agreement in one fundamental belief.
That being... that the petrification phenomenon that befell this planet thousands of years ago
was to select certain humans...
to thin us out.
Oh?
That's a ten billion percent un-exhilarating idea.
Such zero-evidence personal theories are
nothing but jokes in the world of science. Remember that.
Let's stop with the platitudes, Senku-kun.
I'm sure you're well aware...
This Earth is no longer in any state to sustain seven billion people.
So then, who should be allowed to live?
Hyoga, what do you think?
The young should be given priority, as their lives hold the future.
We can dismiss the established powers who only preyed on the young have-nots
It's a chance to create a new world.
What our high-minded Tsukasa-kun aspired to
was a Shangri-la, where nobody takes from one another.
I have no interest whatsoever in such a thing.
Because with nothing left but brain-dead incompetent youths,
we'd still be taken from in order to provide for them!
What's needed is a selection.
We must allow only the superior people of this world to survive.
Ordinary useless people should all disappear.
That's the most logical answer, is it not?
We, humanity, were given that chance by the petrification—
Yeah, that's so incredibly logical.
It's logical but, it isn't exhilarating.
If we can't sustain seven billion people,
all seven billion of us will look for a way to sustain all seven billion people.
That's the way science does things.
Indeed, Senku-kun...
Your scientific abilities are magnificent.
Given enough time, I know you will even create nitric acid.
Let's rule this world and cull humanity to it's proper form.
If we were to join forces, we'd become the ultimate tag team.
Your answer will be "yes."
Until you say that, you'll lose one finger at a time.
After that, your legs.
I said so at the start, didn't I?
You don't have a choice.
Stay away, damn it!
Don't come any closer!
How unsighty.
Falling to this, Senku-kun.
I may have overestimated you a bit.
Shut up!
But I'll promise you one thing: you will never be in danger again.
To see my ideals realized
Senku, I betrayed our promise once before.
And yet, you kept yours.
It's my turn to uphold my end, our promise of a truce...
This time, I won't let harm come to you ever again.
Because from now on, I'll be fighting!
Then I'll just eliminate the both of you together.
With Tsukasa-kun, my only equal in this world at the verge of death,
The title of the world's strongest primate belongs to me!
Hyoga is saying that to break our spirit.
But, as a battle assessment it's the truth.
Yeah, I bet.
Tsukasa. If you're the one saying it there's no doubt.
Let's team up together and fight, Senku!
Yeah.
A tag-team between Tsukasa and me...
With science and strength we'll massacre him!
Now this is exhilarating.
Making proclamations to buy time and discuss strategy huh?
Well no matter, I have no intention of waiting for you!
Anyway, a wounded lion and a man without any combat abilities
make up humanity's weakest tag-team!
I won't let you hide from my eyes, Senku-kun.
Not you.
Your eleven o'clock!
Gunpowder?
Are you a monster?
Coming to crush me without any time-out, huh?
I'm going to use science to kill you with just one finger!
Only a primitive would fall for such a brain-dead bluff...
Senku-kun..!
Tsukasa-kun. In your current state you are no match for me.
You should've known that from the beginning.
That hole in your lung is quite literally fatal.
Yes. I suppose it is.
So then, why struggle in vain?
When your death has already been decided.
Who knows? I'm not sure.
But perhaps, if I had to guess...
I wanted to fight on for as long as I could.
Because that might have been how much fun it was...
Fighting together. This final fleeting partnership.
Is that so?
That is a terrible shame...
It's time for the fun times to come to an end.
Yeah... It's over.
His finger is bandaged?
The one I cut earlier..?
I told you, didn't I?
With science I can kill you with just the tip of my finger.
That's right...
Those flames earlier...
How did he ignite them so fast?
Primitive science isn't so bad...
Lithium batteries would have exploded when you pierced them...
but sturdy manganese batteries are great for both offense and defense..!
How?!
From where?!
When did you construct a device like that?!
Did you forget already?
Hyoga, you were the one kind enough to provide me with the materials.
Hook some batteries up to the thin wire coil from a cell phone,
and you get a high-voltage transformer.
It's the birth of the 100,000-volt stun gun.
I had fun too, Tsukasa...
tag-teaming with you.
A scientific present from me and Tsukasa...
Take it..!
Damn science...
An exit I cannot see, this voice that cannot reach
I don't even know who I am anymore
I continue struggling and suffering but even so
Someday I'll use these feelings to push myself on
It's a story that will definitely, decidedly not change
I knew that I'd never stand a chance and said so
Hey, hey!
Let me hear it, in your all-out voice!
Reach out and grab the outstretched hand
Change the future
Live! Live!
Wander long and far, scramble and search
There's still more to discover ahead of you
If you need me to give you something important
I'll keep on going, further and further!
Again and again! Again and again!
Looking for the answers
Moving forward
Closer to the future!
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