The first 200 lines.
All right.
It's finally time to bring
our god-tier craftsman, Kaseki, back to life.
I'm ten billion percent sure he'll have
a bad-ass drone ready in no time.
Just a little splash and we can rock 'n' roll!
Whoa! Hold it, Senku! Don't be asty-hay!
Not that this is too unceremonious or anything...
Though I guess that's somewhat part of it.
Look.
Either Kaseki had a giant birthmark right here,
or a sizable piece of his back is still M.I.A.
Wow! You're right!
So?
Thing'll heal right up thanks to the restorative effects
of the revival process.
Sure. But it's bound to leave a brutal scar, though.
Like the ones on Senku and Gen's mugs.
Well, the cracks on their faces look cool,
but Kaseki's mark kinda looks like a...
I'd hate to have something shaped like that
permanently carved into my skin...
This is the age of the stone world.
No one gives a crap about that crap.
No, I'm sure some of us still do.
Fine. If we wanna play it safe,
we can wait until Taiju gets back from his errand.
Taiju? Where did he go?
Hey, check it out, everybody! I just gathered a buncha parts!
Whoa, how'd you do that? There aren't any oxygen tanks left.
How? Freediving!
I can hold my breath for a couple of minutes, easy!
And I already knew where they were thanks to you, so... Ha!
Piece of cake! If we're talkin' endurance, then I'm your guy!
Which fragment is the one Kaseki's missing, though?
That I couldn't tell ya. Best to just get all of 'em!
Hang on!
Your brute strength is incredible,
but there's no way you can retrieve every single piece...
Not in one go! But I can bring 'em back little by little!
It's gonna take a few hundred trips,
but that's totally doable!
Um, please save some of your crazy strength and take a boat.
Oh! Good thinking!
He said it's gonna take a few hundred trips
like they're casual strolls through the woods.
I love how shocked you guys are
even after all the time you've spent with him!
You haven't figured out
that Taiju defies logic on the regular!
Well, there is one thing that I fully grasp now.
I was baffled by how Senku and Taiju got on
like a house on fire despite being polar opposites.
But you both have the same resilience.
Never folding in the face of adversity.
That chunky hunk was the perfect size to fill Kaseki's poop hole!
Yes, you're technically correct, but please mind your phrasing.
Whatever, man. It's splashy time!
No ceremony at all?!
No clothes to spare for our god-tier craftsman?
The dude's rockin' that kelp. It's fine.
Eally-ray?!
So that's how it feels to have your whole body petrified.
Marvelous!
Though I'm a first timer, I was thrilled from start to finish!
Oh, yeah.
All of you Ishigami people are new to the stone thing.
Since it entails being motionless, powerless,
and fearful of what might happen,
I would call it "harrowing"
before "marvelous" or "thrilling."
Harrowing?
I was perfectly relaxed
because I knew you fellas would crack me out with science.
My confidence in that didn't waver for a second,
not even the tiniest bit!
And now, for some reason,
I'm feeling as spry as I did in my younger days!
What's up with that?
Yep, that's how the restorative effects work.
I'm sure an old fossil like you
had arthritis and stuff that got cured.
And I've got just the job for ya, Kaseki 2.0,
assuming you're up to the task of building something.
Like what?
A drone.
A d-d-d-d--! A drone?
I completely forgot you do that!
You're gonna need a stronger outfit!
Oh, no! I can't work without my beloved mobile lab!
Tee-hee.
Guess your first project isn't the drone.
Ha!
All right.
We gotta start somewhere,
and I say that somewhere should be with the propellers!
Ah, yes. A feature that many would deem essential.
The blades have to be extremely light,
so we'll gather some bird feathers,
or pluck them if need be, and dunk them in plastic.
Once coated, we'll adjust them by hand.
Trial and error will be quicker
than explaining aeronautic theory.
Oh, one more thing.
There's a key item we need Kaseki to make for us,
and that'd be a fidget spinner!
Ah, yes. That's quite essential, too.
You wanna waste resources on a frivolous children's toy?!
This is the furthest thing from a waste, though, Gen.
All our sub-par motors shook enough
to register on the Richter scale.
But that would change if they had a bearing.
It stabilizes things along an axis,
which allows for high-speed rotation.
As I'm sure you know,
Leonardo da Vinci came up with the idea.
You act like that's common knowledge
when most people know him as the guy who painted the Mona Lisa.
He's an OP dude who mastered both art and science.
You get these incomprehensible crazies once in a while.
Hmm.
I think you fit in that category pretty nicely, too.
Take little fragments of steel,
throw 'em in these tubes with some rocks,
then spin them around real fast
so the rough edges grind down and round off.
And you're left with a bajillion pachinko balls.
Then pachinko machines are on the way, too!
Sure.
We'll have 'em sometime in the next ten billion years.
We'll sort the balls by size with these holes.
And once we've got a bunch that are the same size...
Ah-ha!
It's a simple enough concept, but making that with the parts
and lathe we have lying around here
is gonna be another back breaking job for us, huh?
Hey! This haul's the last of the pieces, everyone!
Uh?
The god-tier craftsman of the kingdom of science
is back and things are really looking up!
Chrome. Francois. Ukyo.
Who's this guy?
It appears we have a rando on our hands.
I did bring back everything I found out there.
And yet another victim of petrification.
No telling how long he's been like this.
Well, fancy that.
Taiju managed to assemble our entire crew and then some.
Most of us may still be petrified, but we're here.
Though it's not the way we originally planned,
the kingdom of science is finally making landfall
on this island.
Yes, that we are. 'Bout time.
I should be glad we're all on dry land together,
but I'm still so sad we can't wake everyone up.
There's more revival fluid on the way,
just takes some time to make.
And time is one resource we're scarce on right now.
The enemy will find this cave
and they'll fire a petrification beam from the outside
when they do.
Then we'll really be screwed.
That would suck.
So before those guys are able to locate our hideout,
we'll just have to nab their petrification beam by air.
Numbers won't matter once we have that.
Because the power of science will beat them every time.
The drone's our trump card.
If Kaseki can build it.
You certainly have a way with words.
I'm more fired up than ever now!
I've been crafting for over five decades!
Don't underestimate me, kid!
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Wow! It's flying!
It's like a mechanical bird!
Yeah, it's just a mark one, guys.
Stabilizing it comes next.
No. No, no!
Have a heart! I really don't wanna meet the master!
At the very least, please come with me!
You were the one who was called. Not us.
This is as far as we're going. Now suck it up!
Ha! It's a golden opportunity for our team!
Our mission is to investigate the enemy,
and you're about to make contact with their leader!
Get friendly and get info,
and then maybe we can even take him hostage
if we get the chance!
You think I can stay collected enough
to accomplish all that stuff?
I think you can do whatever you set your mind to,
and I doubt he'll assault you since you're a man.
You doubt that he will, and I'm stuck hoping he won't!
Not my fault I look good in a dress.
Heh. Hey, Kohaku.
So about that intruder Ibara mentioned.
He meant you, right?
Since you're caught,
go on and tell me where the rest of your friends are hiding.
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