Dr. STONE (Dr.STONE)

If Why-man was so determined to end us.

He actually used more than one Medusa to make sure no one could escape.

There's a good chance we'll find more than one waiting for us.

Hey everyone!

I found a Medusa in the river!

You seriously found the thing already?

That's so bad!

I can't believe we got that lucky!

Luck?

I'm not so sure it has anything to do with that.

You see?

This is sickening yet beautiful.

And full of malice.

That was one meter in three seconds.

All right, if I get turned into stone Taiju again, give me a dose of that sweet revival fluid.

One meter in one second.

One meter, one second.

One meter, one second.

One meter, one second.

Ha, sounds like he's having fun.

Maybe we should help out.

One meter, one second.

Yeah, kind of had a hunch this would be the outcome.

Every last one of these statue makers has run out of batteries.

Huh, just as expected.

They were activated a while ago.

But more importantly, our Medusa died after zapping Treasure Island.

So it makes sense that these are cooked after covering the whole planet.

Elegant.

What a sight it must have been.

A vast number of advanced weapons of science

blazed across the horizon

thousands of years ago

and transformed the earth into a stone world.

A merciless barrage.

They went out of their way to petrify all of humanity.

So much malice on such a grand scale.

No joke.

We never stood a chance.

Our fate was sealed the moment Why-man devised his plan.

Do me a favor, Xeno.

Let me see your right hand.

That stolen Medusa must be burning a hole in your little pocket.

Now, isn't it?

I've got to admit that was a rather solid attempt saying such profound things as you swiped it.

But you've got to wake up earlier than that to fool a mentalist.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

My ass you don't know.

It's fine.

Let him have it.

The thing's out of juice anyway.

He can't pull anything sus while we're guarding him.

His wings are clipped.

We're better off letting him get cozy with it.

Then we can pick that glorious brain of his for answers.

Figuring out how it works is our only chance of survival.

Otherwise we're screwed whenever Stanley finds us.

I don't get it.

What's the point of learning how they work if we can't even use them because they're all out of battery?

Well, they're not worthless.

Having so many in our possession gives us new options.

Senku, may I?

Yeah.

Brilliant!

We had to track down an expert like Joel to handle the delicate dissection.

But smashing them to bits is easy.

We can thank Matsukaze for that little bit of intel.

When we only had one Medusa to play with, we couldn't risk doing anything that might have damaged it.

But the tides have changed and now we can be as rough as we want with them.

Am I wrong?

This is what science geeks live for.

Tearing apart something you don't understand and trying to figure out how it works.

Oh Matsukaze, where's Stanley taking us and exactly how doomed are we?

I apologize.

It is yet unclear.

But I'm certain that Senku and the others have safely escaped by now.

Poor little science kids.

They probably think they're safe now.

I bet they've got their feet kicked up and everything.

Don't count on it.

Those kids are nothing if not clever.

It doesn't matter either way.

Their bike tracks tell the whole story.

And right now they're they made their escape down the Amazon river.

Their little group urgently needs to build themselves a new ship.

Considering what an enormous time investment that is, we'll eventually catch up, even taking the long way around.

Won't it be much more difficult to recognize them if they have a different ship?

How the vessel looks is irrelevant.

No anomaly can escape radio waves.

Despite how clever they are, it's only a matter of time.

They can't evade radar.

The eye of science.

Heads up.

I wish I could give you two all the time in the world to play with those things.

But we sail the moment the ship is finished.

Yeah, yeah.

We'll just have to bring as many as we can.

Right, of course.

I suppose we'll be hitting the high seas again soon, so we're going to need more than a dinky raft.

One tiny question.

Is there a reason it's not actually ship shaped?

I wondered the same thing myself.

Does it matter?

I happen to think all the pointy edges are bad.

Why are all men fascinated by pointy objects?

Especially when round things are obviously much cuter.

It's comprised of diagonal planes, and they're tilted as upward as possible.

You gotta be kidding me.

Good eye.

I knew our sonar operator would piece it together.

Stanley's not going to just let us slip away.

It'll be game over unless we can evade their radar.

That's why we're building a stealth ship.

What's all this about a shelf?

Stealth as in secretive.

Covert.

It means our ship will be invisible to the eyes of radar.

Well, that's scary.

I can't believe our science crafting has already progressed to this point.

We swiftly went from the Stone Age to legit modern warfare.

Ryusui's hyped to the max for realsies.

Of course!

The King of Greed himself has never had his very own stealth ship and I want it!

I mean, yeah, your average civilian doesn't need to avoid detection.

So adding pointy edges makes a ship invisible to radar?

Right.

That basically sums it up.

Remember how the tech works?

You watch the radio waves that bounce back after hitting objects.

Picture a normal ship...

I've got you now!

Now imagine it's all slanted and pointy.

I can't see a darn thing!

It absorbs radio frequencies because we're covering the whole thing in rubber filled with carbon powder.

Is there anything this rubber of yours isn't useful for?

Various designs are used for stealth, but I don't know the specifics.

Things like that were closely guarded military secrets.

So this will take a bit of trial and error.

I bet Mr. NASA here had clearance.

Am I right or am I right?

I'm happy to lend my vast knowledge to any scientific pursuit that ensures my own safety.

But you can't seriously expect that I would help you evade Stanley.

That is stone cold savage, Xeno!

Now that it's done, the pointy ship is actually kinda cool!

Tried to tell ya!

Only function matters, not form.

We're still testing its stealth capability.

Your verdict?

Are we stealthy or not?

Kind of.

What does that mean?

I suppose if I had to quantify it, we're just a tiny bit stealthy.

It's maybe a little blurry for how big it is.

Maybe.

Just maybe?!

But we need to be way more stealthy than that!

You thought we'd nail secret military tech first try?

We're gonna refine the hell out of it.

Why'd he say it was blurry for how big it is?

Is stuff easier to see if it's bigger?

What if there were a whole bunch of smaller things?

Now you get it.

Radar works like eyesight.

But it doesn't make any sense!

That day when a crazy number of these things rained down from the sky

how is it possible no one in the 21st century noticed until moments before?