Dr. STONE (Dr.STONE)

We really did it!

We made a diamond!

Yeah!

It's like printing money!

We're all gonna be filthy, stinking rich!

Senku's a genius!

We can finally relax.

At least for a minute.

I hope it's okay that our diamonds are as small as grains of sand.

Size doesn't matter in this case.

What counts is that they're 10 billion percent diamonds.

It's finally coming together.

Our goal's within our reach.

We're resurrecting the power of Medusa.

All right, we've got the diamonds.

So now what?

I guess we just shove them inside a Medusa and say the magic words?

We're not exactly at that step yet.

Our little diamonds aren't nearly big enough to match the size of a Medusa battery.

Is there something we can do to make them bigger?

Negative.

We can't possibly make one big enough synthetically.

Which is why...

Which is why what?

We're going to dig up some natural diamonds too!

No way!

But if all that grueling work was pointless, why'd you have us do it?

It was a massive undertaking.

I'll murder you!

Simmer down, morons.

We need both types to make it work.

Diamonds are just carbon, like coal.

They're no different from any other rock you might find.

It's only when humans get involved that these ordinary stones transform into treasures.

Boom! You'll find them here!

Send out an expedition team from Xeno's Fortress.

It'll take them about a week to make it there.

The place is called Lassen Peak.

It's got a lava dome and still volcanoes and cinder cones.

Oh, and not to mention, super dope stratovolcanoes!

It's like a supreme pizza, yo!

And I'm supremely jelly, because the last time it erupted was in the early 1900s and it spewed kimberlite everywhere!

I saw it myself!

Real kimberlite ore!

There wasn't much back then, but it's been a few thousand years, so we're totes scouta !

Uh, uh... come again?

Translation, she's got us covered.

Miss Geographer knows where we can find some natural diamonds.

We made diamonds, but here we are...

I found a diamond!

Who's in the mood for a fun quiz?

In a battle between natural and synthetic diamonds, which of the two do you think is stronger?

That's way too easy!

It's gotta be natural!

There's no way it's harder than the crap we cooked up with pure science!

Ah, there it is.

The unfounded belief that natural must inherently be superior to man-made.

It's rather ironic.

The one who has lived without the benefit of our 21st century learnings readily came to the correct conclusion.

Basically, Chrome is right that synthetic diamonds are harder.

That's 10 billion points for Dr. Chrome.

Diamonds are the hardest substance in the known world.

And you can only cut one with another diamond.

That's why we need the synthetic version.

It's actually harder than the natural stuff.

We're gonna use a ton of synthetic diamond dust to make sandpaper.

I get it now!

We need those tiny fake diamonds so we can grind down and polish a big natural one!

Without either, we wouldn't be able to craft a battery that fits perfectly in a Medusa!

You want me to craft a diamond that's exactly identical to the provided sample?

Best to leave it to the professional.

Now prepare to witness true precision in polish made manifest.

Hey, sounds good!

We'll be cheering you on since it's about all we can do anyway.

The poor thing may never get used to us, ladies.

Listen up.

You won't hear from the expedition team again.

We're seizing all communication.

Are you serious?!

Don't forget about Stanley.

What if he's sailing around South America?

I'd be more surprised if he wasn't.

He's both clever and persistent.

As our true captain, I know exactly which route the Perseus is taking here.

They'll be on us sooner than you think.

Sending out radio signals would reveal our position.

It completely defeats the purpose of building a stealth ship.

This is the last time we'll be in contact.

Until this battle is settled once and for all.

Oh, and Joel?

We can't respond, but we're able to hear your communications.

So we're all counting on you to broadcast it like a madman when you've worked out a way to craft a diamond battery.

He's using clever phrasing to thinly mask our true intentions from Stanley.

He has no idea what's in store.

A mountain of medusas and utter defeat by the kingdom of science.

Let's say this Joel fella manages to make a diamond battery

and then tells us everything we need to know about how to craft one.

I still don't see how we can make it happen.

Hate to say it, but we don't even have diamonds.

Also, where exactly is our stealth ship headed next?

It's obvi, to Araxa!

Ara-what?

Good work, you win.

That's one quadrillion points for you.

Araxa, a city in Brazil born of the big-ass Amazon forests and ridiculously long rivers

which gave rise to miraculous mineral veins.

A ton of rare metals drifted there and accumulated over time, making it a genuine marvel, a stone sanctuary.

It has metals necessary for rocket engines, ones that cannot be procured anywhere else.

It has loads of diamonds and other precious gems, too.

In short, that's where we'll build our super-alloy city.

That's convenient.

We were planning to build a city there anyway.

And it happens to have diamonds, which we need to make medusa batteries.

It's like killing two birds with one stone!

This doesn't come as a shock, does it?

Surely you guessed that would be our final stop in South America.

It's inconceivable Senku would fail to acquire the essential materials.

After all, we're both rocket scientists.

Can you hear it?

Some kind of static from their transmission.

I don't know what it is, but it's man-made.

This pattern's consistent and intentional.

He hijacked the fledgling science team's signal.

Xeno is sending us a message.

He must be trying to warn us about something important.

What could he possibly warn us about?

We have radar on our side, which means we should have no trouble capturing those little brats.

Our victory is a foregone conclusion.

Radio jamming?

A stealth ship?

Maybe even anti-radar missiles?

Impossible.

Never say never.

I wouldn't underestimate them.

Xeno's sending out a warning, so there must be a good reason.

That message he blinked in Morse code when they were making their getaway.

We're going to Araxa.

Turn around!

We're done playing chase with the kids.

Instead, we'll beat them to their next stop.

Hold on.

Are we really there already?

Not quite.

We're just taking a shortcut to the stone sanctuary.

OMG!

Are you azycray ?

This isn't a shortcut, it's a mountain!

What's even worse is it's a cliff!

We just need to make it past this terrain.

We can whip out our bikes and ride when we're through.

You call this rickety thing an elevator?

But it's only a bunch of freaking ropes and pulleys!

Once I devise a way to craft diamond batteries, the petrification beam will forever be in humanity's grasp!

We're finding some diamonds and making a battery.

Then we'll equip our S-Tier weapon.

Our anti-Stanley measure.

A Medusa machine gun to turn the tide.

The final battle will go down deep in the Amazon.

Within the stone sanctuary!

There's treasure waiting to be discovered!

It's at our fingertips, and what's more, I can practically taste all the rare metals we need to build our rocket!

Yeah sure, that's real bad and all, but how is there a pile of gems sitting around like a natural treasure chest?

Let me show ya!

The rocks separated themselves!

It's called gravity concentration!

So funsies!

The heavy rocks totally gathered at the bottom!

So it's the same principle as panning for gold!

Now expand that to a planetary scale.

For tens of thousands of years.

And you get the miraculous ore vein that is Araxa !

That's amazing!

The whole planet and that many years feels like way too much to wrap my head around.

Yeah, I know.

It's a lot.

Some people say, from the Earth's grand perspective, humans are nothing more than grody parasites.

I honestly don't really know the first thing about science.

Humanity has survived off the Earth's resources, collecting and sharing all kinds of wisdom over millions of years.

If you ask me, that's far grander.

Couldn't have said it better myself, Kohaku!

You're right!

I bet the planet wants us to make use of all these awesome rocks it's got!

Let's get to it!

Let's build our super alloy city!

Um, I may regret asking, but is there a reason we're building a sturdy-as-all-get-out fortress?

So we stand a chance in our final battle against Stanley.

What?!

He's gonna chase us down all the way out here?!

Stanley knows where we are!