Dr. STONE (Dr.STONE)

On that day,

every man, woman, and child on Earth

instantly turned to stone.

This is it, Senku.

My mind's made up!

I'm finally gonna do it!

After five long years, I'm tellin' her how I feel!

Wow. Fascinating.

I can't leave the lab right now,

but I promise to cheer you on so vociferously,

my vocal cords'll snap.

Awesome! You mean it?

You rock, Senku!

No, you big oaf.

I won't project my voice even one millimeter for your cause.

What? Come on, man!

Look, you've felt this way for five years,

but never said anything?

I can't praise such illogical behavior,

but I can give you something logical as hell.

I've developed this drug as a kind of "love potion."

It maxes out your pheromone levels,

granting you a ten billion percent chance

of winning her heart.

Thanks, but no thanks, Senku.

I gotta do this my way.

Whoa, are you serious?

You made a love potion?

Come on, use your brain.

It's gasoline.

I simply refined it from plastic bottle caps.

Consider the molecular structure of polyethylene.

It's just like a long gasoline molecule

minus a few hydrocarbons.

You can tell by just looking.

Well, I can't.

Me, neither.

Yeah, but... If Taiju drank it, wouldn't that've killed him?

No, the odds of him drinking that were ten billion to one.

He's dumb, but too strait-laced.

Yuzuriha!

Sorry I'm late!

It's fine.

So what's going on, Taiju?

You wanted to talk to me?

A hundred yen on heartbreak.

Three hundred on her making him cry.

Five hundred on her calling him a creep.

I bet ten thousand that she's into him, too.

Seriously?

All this time, I've been so scared

that if I tell her how I really feel about her,

she could not want to be my friend anymore.

But I can't keep it a secret forever.

It's like this, Yuzuriha.

All right. No turning back now!

I've kept this inside me for five years, and--

Hold up, what's that weird light?

Quick! Grab on to the tree!

What the hell?

Why'd it get so dark?

-- I can't move! -- I can't talk!

-- What's happening? -- Please! Help!

It's the end of the world!

My children!

Mom! Dad!

Please, help me!

No. I'm scared.

Am I dying?

I'm still alive!

I gotta stay focused or else I'll fade out!

Wake up, Taiju!

Yuzuriha's smart.

I'm sure she probably got away.

But I can't die a coward!

I have to find her and tell her exactly how I feel!

I've got the willpower to survive!

I know I do!

This could go on for weeks, or even months,

but still, no matter what,

I gotta let her know!

How many decades has it been?

Centuries? Millennia?

Well, I'm not giving up!

I'm gonna tell Yuzuriha what my true feelings are.

I'm gonna survive this, even if it kills me!

I'm finally free! I can move my body again!

Pieces of stone?

Oh, no.

So like, everyone went through all that, too?

It's horrible.

How long have we been like this?

I'm sorry.

I really wish I could do more to help you.

As long as the landscape

hasn't changed too much,

I should be able to follow the river.

That'll lead me to the tree... and to her.

Whoa, something just fell over there.

Is that a bird statue?

There's so much detail.

I mean, check out those wings.

It looks so real!

I think maybe it is real.

A friend of mine just found one of these.

I saw the picture he posted of it.

You poor little thing. What happened?

Is it like some kinda disease that made your skin harden up?

Well, of course the vet's office

wouldn't be open before school hours.

Didn't really think this one through, huh?

Crap, it's her!

Not to mention that's obviously a statue or something

and not a real bird, but you still brought it to the vet.

You're so silly. It's embarrassing.

Of course, the moment I do something stupid like this,

my crush shows up outta nowhere.

Just my luck!

Uh? Why're you here?

Well, because I'm a big ol' dummy, too.

I found this little guy

and I wanted to see if I could help him.

"Great minds," huh?

Hey! Don't laugh at me!

You did the exact same thing!

Now we're both gonna be late for school!

Yeah, whoops!

Yuzuriha.

I could never forget that face.

Not even after thousands of years.

I knew you were still alive.

I never lost hope.

And now...

I'm really proud of you!

And you're incredible, too, tree!

You kept her safe for this entire time!

Like you held onto her. Thank you!

Sorry, but I just couldn't protect you.

In fact, when you really think about it,

you were actually the one protecting me.

I was able to stay alive because of you.

It's the truth.

You were my light shining in the darkness

for hundreds, even thousands of years.

And now, I can finally say it.

I started back then, but I never got to finish.

So what I was gonna tell you that day... is that...

...that I...

I've loved you...

...for hundreds and thousands of years.

I swear on my life, I'll save you!

Don't know how, but I'll find a way.

Okay? So just wait--

Huh?

"Follow the river downstream, big oaf"?

Well, look who's finally awake.

Good morning, ya big oaf.

Oh, Senku! You're alive, too?!

Don't you dare hug me while you're buck naked!

Hands off! I'm not joking!

It's October fifth, in the year 5738.

You really slept in for a hell of a long time.

I've been up and diligently working my tail off

for the last six months.

Hold on. So it's been, like...

It has been 3,700 years.

How do you know what day it is?

You got some kinda calendar, or what?

Huh? I figured it out by counting.

It was the logical thing to do.

Four, five, six, seven, eight...

Damn, almost lost consciousness again.

Seems to happen about every 800 thousand seconds.

Heh.

It's about as regular as my bowel movements used to be.

I'll need to think and count at the same time.

Run parallel processes.

One hundred-sixteen billion,

four hundred twenty-seven million,

sixty-five thousand, five hundred-thirty seconds.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven...

So that whole time you were frozen, you just counted?

Even if I had willed myself awake before then,

being out here stark-naked with no supplies in winter

would've have meant game over pretty damn quickly.

I realized I would have to start things up in the springtime.

So keeping an extremely precise account of the time

was an absolute must.

All right, we're here.