If I let you live,
you would let civilization develop.
Will you promise that you won't do that?
What the hell are you talking about?
Why would I ever keep a promise like—
No, you would never lie.
Not to science.
Will you promise here and now, for all eternity, that you'll abandon science?
If you do, I won't have to kill you, Senku.
I can't do that.
I thought that would be your answer.
Do it in one blow.
Making me bleed out forever wouldn't be logical for either of us.
Don't worry.
I'll bust your cervical nerve in a single blow.
You'll be knocked unconscious instantly, and then you'll die.
I won't make you suffer.
I promise not to miss.
Taiju-kun...
Yuzuriha...
Senku!
Senku, if we'd met 3,700 years ago...
If we'd met before this planet became a stone world...
You may have been my first friend.
Senku!
Ohayou Sekai
Good Morning World
Good Morning World!
dore hodo aruitarou
How long did we walk
ashi no itami dake ga
The pain in my feet
sono kyori wo monogataru
is the only thing that tells me
nagai yoru wo koeta
Beyond the long night
zekkei no kitai ga
The superb view of my expectations
kyou mo boku wo ikashiteru
Is giving me a power to live today
kamigami no reihou
The god's spirits
shinryoku no kyuuden
The heart's palace
gankutsu no saiou
The deepest cave
soukyuu no hate
The end of the blue sky
touha shite miseru
There in no limit
genkai wa nai
we cannot cross
hoshi no sumizumi made
To every corner of the stars
Ohayou Sekai
Good Morning World
Good Morning World!
fukanou no yami wo hanate
Overcome the darkness of the impossible
shinwa wo nichijou ni kaete iku houryuusei
Reach out to mythology
ippo zutsu ishi wo ugatsu you na
Step by step like breaking stones
kono ayumi de
And with this step
sekai wo hirogeyou
Let's expand this world
Senku!
Answer me!
Answer me, please!
No!
This is wrong!
It can't be!
You can't die here, Senku!
There's no way!
He didn't suffer.
I suggest that, as his friends, you give him a proper farewell.
So long as Yuzuriha could be used as a hostage, Taiju would never attack me.
That was the power dynamic.
But, Taiju, if Senku's death were to enrage you
and drive you to attack me mindlessly...
I'd have to kill you, too.
Please don't lose your head.
Taiju-kun!
Don't worry, Yuzuriha.
I'm calm.
It seems I have no choice but to fight him.
Sorry, Yuzuriha. If it comes to it...
It's okay, Taiju-kun.
The three of us made a promise.
I'm sure it'll work out.
It has to.
Yeah.
Thanks, Yuzuriha!
Why did he throw it in the air?
The boulder is a decoy.
Taiju, I can see you.
No matter what you do, you've lost.
Tsukasa is wary of me.
He wouldn't dare take his eyes off me.
But that's when I have my chance!
Tsukasa-kun's instincts would tell him that Taiju-kun would protect me.
I think he's right, in this stone world.
But like Senku-kun said...
Science levels the playing field for everyone!
It's black powder.
Senku-kun left us...
...with science to remember him by.
The three of us made a promise to fight together.
Yuzuriha, Senku, and I...
fight alongside each other in this battle!
Goodbye, Tsukasa!
Taiju would never attack anyone.
He wouldn't have expected me to take so much as a scrape from that.
Goodbye, Tsukasa!
I see.
That's right, Senku. You said it yourself!
If we need to run, we're running together!
I don't care what anyone says.
I know you aren't dead!
You wouldn't die while you still have the goal of restarting civilization from scratch!
What's the point of fleeing?
I shattered his cervical nerve for sure.
There's no way to revive him, especially in this stone world, with no medicine.
Heart massage...
I don't even know if I'm doing it right.
But I have to do it.
Wait, artificial respiration?
I think you should keep his neck still!
Tsukasa-kun hit him in the neck.
Senku-kun sacrificed himself for me.
Senku sacrificed himself for you?
Magic Psychology Asagiri Gen
Here's a psychology quiz.
Suppose there's an accident,
and only you, your friend, or your lover can be saved.
What would you do?
I think I'd get stuck trying to decide between my friend and my lover.
Wouldn't you obviously choose yourself?
How could you ever choose?
What kind of nasty quiz is that?
I'd say everyone.
I'd look for a fundamental rule that lets us all be saved.
Wow! Just the kind of thing a science club president would say.
Wait, that's allowed?
That's my choice, too, then!
This psych quiz tells you who is the most important to you.
That's ten billion percent obvious.
That book's absolute trash.
Senku would never kill himself.
He'd never sacrifice himself, either.
He would have bet on some way we'd all be saved.
Try to remember about Senku.
We're his friends. We'd know.
There must be a hint!
His neck...
I think Senku-kun was deliberately inviting Tsukasa-kun to attack his neck.
That thing he was doing...
That's not a habit he's always had.
Why did he keep touching his neck and cracking it like that?
There's a little bit of petrification left on his neck!
When we were removing the petrification on your foot, didn't Senku say...
that small breaks are repaired when the petrification is undone?
Taiju-kun, the revival fluid!
Yeah!
It might work on Senku-kun's neck, too.
It might fix his neck when the petrification is undone.
The petrification's gone!
Wake up!
I know you wouldn't die in a place like this!
Senku, you're...
the star of hope for humanity, for civilization!
Please!
Come back!
Wake up, Senku!
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine...
All right.
I can make it past 800,000 seconds without nearly losing consciousness now.
My brain's getting used to this.
I've been frozen like this for 117,354,889,550 seconds now.
In other words, it's the 3,718th spring.
Starting in the spring is an absolute must if I'm going to be revived.
All right, if I'm going to get up, now's the time.
Get up already, me.
Get up!
Get up, damn it!
Get up!
I broke out!
I'd love to be that boisterous, but...
I'm ten billion percent sure I would've done that if I were a simpleton like Taiju.
My first priority is to secure my surroundings.
My own body is a hint that's worth its weight in gold.
The location where I was lying down, my position...
The order in which the mystery stone fragments fell off of me...
I'm going to keep every last piece for when I'm ready to investigate.
Yo, where you from?
Where are you from, monkey?
Dude, he's all shiny!
Gross!
That monkey's got shiny skin!
He's got his nasty peepee out, too!
So do I, actually.
Gross!
Am I the first one they've seen?
It doesn't look like civilization survived.
Which means I'm the first shiny monkey to be born on this planet.
This is exhilarating.
It's been 117,354,893,870 seconds since I was petrified.
The mental arithmetic is getting hard.
The leap seconds are a pain in the ass.
Not to mention, Earth is rotating
seventeen millionths of a second slower every year.
Little numbers don't mean anything.
AD 5738 April 1
AD 5738, April 1st.
Today is Year Zero.
It all starts here.
Take a look at the power of the shiny monkey.
I'm going to build a civilization with enough technology to take us to space.
He's been rubbing that stick this whole time.
That shiny monkey's a dumb-dumb.
Let's go home.
What a moron.
I'm neither a meathead like Taiju
nor an ultra-dexterous craft club kid like Yuzuriha.
There's no way I'm going to start a fire
using a primitive hand drill in Japan's humidity.
That's right.
This shiny monkey has neither fangs nor claws.
All I can do is improvise, one step at a time.
That's exactly what civilization is.
Why does he keep banging the rock like that?
That shiny monkey's definitely a dumb-dumb.
There's some trick to it that I'll only learn through trial and error.
Bash the edges off mid-air.
Sharpen both sides of the edge by striking it on top of a surface.
I have to use the right kind of rock for the job, too.
This colorful rock, chert, is tough as hell.
Nothing will work better for making a small knife.
Learn everything.
Try everything.
\h\h\hShiny Monkey \h\h\hacquired \h\h\hStone Tools!!
I can unravel this like string cheese.
Now he's twisting it.
I bet his brain is shiny, too.
\h\h\hShiny Monkey \h\h\hacquired \h\h\hRope!!
There are actually quite a few animals that use tools.
Crows, otters, and orangutans, for example.
But there's only one species that uses science.
Generating heat by using the oxidation of the gases given off by cellulose...
In other words...
combustion!
\h\h\hShiny Monkey \h\h\hacquired \h\h\hFire!!
I use ingenuity to take in everything the universe has to offer.
I'm the master of science!
I guess I haven't introduced myself yet.
Nice to meet you.
What the hell is that?!
The shiny monkey isn't shiny anymore!
I'm the only one of my kind on this planet...
a human.
Acquired Food, Clothing and Shelter!!
I'm going to build a technological civilization from scratch,
and this is where it starts.
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This is a work of fiction, but the plants, animals, and production methods described are based on reality. Foraging and making things on your own accord is extremely dangerous and, in some cases, illegal. Please do not imitate without expertise.