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That day,

all the humans in the world

turned to stone.

Listen to me, Senku!

I've decided.

Today, I must tell Yuzuriha about my feelings for her

for the past five years!

That's really interesting.

I'll be cheering for you so hard from the science laboratory

that my vocal cords would snap.

Is that so? Thank you, Senku.

You're so noisy.

I don't plan to support you at all, Big Oaf.

What? What do you mean?

Besides, you didn't tell her anything for five years.

It doesn't make sense at all, idiot.

I'll give you something that really makes sense.

This is a love-at-first-sight drug that accelerates the release of pheromones.

After drinking this, I'm ten billion percent sure that you'll succeed.

Thank you, Senku.

But I'm sorry.

I wouldn't pull such a lowly trick.

Hey, Senku. Is the love-at-first-sight drug real?

As if I'd had something like that.

That was just gasoline.

It was made from the cap of PET bottles.

Think about the molecular structure of polyethylene, idiot.

It's just a type of hydrocarbon in gasoline.

Isn't it obvious?

-No, it's not. -How can that be obvious?

In that case, wouldn't Taiju die if he drank it earlier?

I'm ten billion percent sure that he wouldn't drink it.

That earnest fool.

Yuzuriha.

I'm sorry to keep you waiting.

So what is it, Taiju?

What are you going to tell me?

I bet 100 yen that he would be dumped.

I bet 300 yen that he would be dumped badly.

I bet 500 yen that he would be dumped ruthlessly.

I bet 10,000 yen that surprisingly, he won't get dumped.

-Seriously? -Seriously?

I'm very scared

that once I tell her how I feel, we can't even be friends anymore.

I've always been a coward.

Listen to me, Yuzuriha.

However, today, I must…

For the past five years, I've always…

What is that light?

Yuzuriha, hold on to that camphor tree tightly!

I don't know, but…

-I can't speak. -Save me.

-What's happening? -The square…

Save me, Mom, Dad!

Am I

going to die like this?

I'm not dead!

If I'm not careful, I'll get swallowed up.

I must remain conscious.

I'm sure Yuzuriha is fine.

She will surely be all right.

I can't just die a coward.

This time, I must tell Yuzuriha how I feel.

I must rely on my determination to live!

No matter how many weeks or months it would take,

I must tell her. I must!

Since then, decades, centuries,

and millenniums have passed.

No, I won't give up.

I want to confess my love to Yuzuriha.

No matter what happens, I must survive!

I broke out. I've finally broken out!

Stone fragments?

I see.

Everyone is really…

So that's what happened.

How long has it been exactly?

I'm sorry.

This is the only thing I can do.

As long as the geography didn't change much,

I should just follow the riverbank

and return to that camphor tree's location.

Something fell.

Is it a bird sculpture?

The one who made this is so incredible.

The details are so intricate.

It looks so real.

Isn't this a real one?

My friend sent me a photo saying that he also saw one somewhere else.

It's so pitiful.

Perhaps it has a bird disease that made its skin turn hard.

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How can the veterinary clinic be open before class starts?

You must not be thinking things through.

Yuzuriha.

Besides, I can't believe you're bringing that sculpture

to the veterinary clinic as if it's a bird.

You're so silly. It's so embarrassing.

I don't want Yuzuriha to see my silly side,

yet I bumped into her.

Bumped into her?

Yes. There's another person here

who's not thinking things through and is feeling embarrassed.

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What? Don't laugh at me. Aren't you the same?

We're both late to class.

No, you're right.

Yuzuriha.

I am not mistaken.

Even after thousands of years,

from that day until now,

you're still alive.

You're still alive! Well done, camphor tree!

You've been protecting Yuzuriha from breaking or being swept away.

I'm sorry, I failed to protect you.

No. I should say that you're the one who has been protecting me.

Because of you, I managed to survive all this time.

In that hopeless darkness,

I spent centuries and millennium alone.

All right. I can finally say it.

Listen to me, Yuzuriha.

I want to finish what I wanted to say that day.

I want to finish what I wanted to say

a long time ago.

I like you a lot.

I've liked you

for centuries and millenniums.

I'll save you, Yuzuriha.

Even if I don't know how yet,

I will surely…

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"Come downstream, Big Oaf."

You're finally awake,

Big Oaf.

You're still alive, Senku!

Don't come and hug me while wearing almost nothing!

I'll kill you!

Today is October 5th, 5738.

How long were you going to sleep?

I woke up half a year ago and started getting to work.

That means, since that day…

Around 3,700 years have passed.

How do you know the date so accurately?

Well, I counted the days.

Is there any other way?

Four, five, six, seven, eight…

Damn it.

I almost lost consciousness again.

Around every 800,000 seconds, there's a peak.

It's like having diarrhea.

I'll think while counting.

Let my left and right brain work equally.

116,427,065,530 seconds.

One, two, three, four,

five, six, seven…

You've been counting continuously

in the darkness?

Even if I can rely on my willpower to wake up,

if I happen to wake up in winter with nothing around,

it'll be game over for me due to hunger.

In order to wake up during spring,

I must accurately know the date.

All right, we're here.

Don't just talk. Do some work.

Senku, you…

You made these from scratch?

I don't have enough manpower.

I spent a whole day just preparing for the basic necessities on my own.

In order to go to the next phase of civilization,

I must have a strong assistant.

I've been waiting for you, Taiju,

because I'm ten billion percent sure that you'll survive.

You're the man who decided to confess his love to Yuzuriha.

Before doing so,

how can you not persevere for a few millenniums?

You're not that weak, right?

Yes.

Of course!

I'll let you do the thinking, Senku.

Leave the physical work to me!

Humans spent two million years getting from the Stone Age

to modern civilization.

I must catch up immediately.

I'm going to take the world back.

I'll figure out the science behind the petrification

and our revival.

We'll save Yuzuriha too.

Two high school students will build a civilization from scratch.

We'll become the Adam and Eve of this Stone World.

This is so exciting.

That's a huge haul.

Your stamina is ridiculous, Taiju.

Destroying angels are poisonous.

Beech mushrooms are edible.

Fly agaric is poisonous.

Aren't mushrooms like those from Super Mario clearly poisonous?

Next.

Mugwort is edible.

Wolfsbane. Who are you trying to poison, idiot?

It's so delicious!

How did you season this?

I just used some salt extracted from seawater.

Humans can eat anything that's seasoned with salt.

Pickled products require salt as well.

It's the greatest discovery of primitive people.

Thank you, Senku. All of these are all thanks to you.

You've put so much effort into this.

I'll work hard and harvest more items to repay you.

I'll explore the other side!

The wild ones?

Are these edible?

Just wondering about it is useless. I'll find out after eating them.

I saw him on television before.

I think he's called The Strongest High School Primate,

Tsukasa Shishio.

Even this man too?

What's this?

Aside from me and Senku, is there another person who survives?

Who placed this here?

It was me, idiot.

It was you?

Are there really no other humans in this world?

Increasing the population is our first challenge.

How can mankind have a future

if only two guys like us are alive and waiting to die?

You're right.

Besides,

after 3,700 years, why were we suddenly de-petrified?

Was it because the stone corroded?

Yes. Even if this is caused by this weird mineral corroding,

isn't it too coincidental for us both to wake up almost the same time?

Only half a year apart after 3,700 years.

There must be a logical reason for this coincidence.

We both got washed up near this cave.

Look at what's trickling down.

Miracle fluid produced by bat guano.

It's nitric acid.

What? It's nitric acid?

What's that?

I knew you would ask, Big Oaf.

It's too troublesome. I won't explain it to you.

So you're saying this something-or-other acid

corrodes the stone and revives them?

If it's that easy, we won't be having this much trouble.

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I've already tried countless times.

I used every method I could think of.

I don't know how many times I've tried.

This is all in the realm of fantasy.

Is it mineral or cellular?

I don't even have any tools to study it.

So there are puzzles that science cannot solve in this world.

Here we go again with that clichéd sentence.

That's why I keep hypothesizing and experimenting.

Science is a slow process.

It would be good if we had wine.

If we have alcohol from wine,

we'll produce Nital Etch by combining nitric acid and ethanol.

That's an industrial corrosive.

What did you just say, Senku?

What? I was telling you about Nital.

It gets into the ferrite grain boundary--

Not that. I don't understand such a complicated thing anyway.

Did you say that we only need wine?

Can't we make wine if we have grapes?

That's impressive, Big Oaf!

LABORATORY

Okay, I'll leave the physical work to you.

That's more reasonable.

It's very easy to make wine.

Just place the crushed fresh or dried grapes in a container.

Then just stir it daily.

But it was illegal to make wine at home during the era we were in.

It has been three weeks.

It should be ready.

But Senku, aren't we still too young to drink?

It's fine.

We're already over 3,700 years old.

That's right.

It turned out better than I expected.

But it should be ten billion times worse than what's in the market.

So if we have grapes, we can make wine so easily.

We must do it step by step.

Next, we must put in more effort.

Let's start distilling the wine and make brandy.

Distill the wine?

I don't get it at all!

I knew you would say that.

It means heating the wine, then cooling it to condense

and increase the alcohol content.

It's not a big deal.

In 3,000 BC, people from

ancient Mesopotamia used pottery for distillation too.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

This is so exciting.

LABORATORY

Let me tell you something, Big Oaf.

It's not that there are puzzles that science cannot solve.

If you can't solve the puzzle, find the reason.

This simple and unrelenting effort

is what we call "science."

I've experimented for a year.

I didn't expect to solve it that fast.

It's a slow process indeed.

I want to use science to defeat fantasy.

This is so exciting.

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MATERIALS AND METHODS ARE BASED ON REALITY.

DO NOT ATTEMPT FOR YOUR SAFETY.

Subtitle translation by: Coleen Chua