Oh, man!
We're getting the Corn City peeps to help make all this by hand, right?
All these circuit diagram things.
What are Senku and Sai cooking up together?
I know!
We're finally getting smartphones!
Haven't heard that one in a while.
You really like smartphones, don't you?
Not just yet.
We're wrapping the coils for the computer.
One step at a time.
Surgeon
Watchmaker
Handicrafts Club
Those three sure are proper.
Why are we sitting here doing all this tiny work?!
Getting to the moon and landing there is like getting a hole-in-one.
We need a computer to do the calculations, even in this Stone World.
There's just no way!
STONE WORLD MATH OLYMPICS
Calculation duel... Tools allowed?
Could this be...
Ah, I bet it's Gen.
Trying to motivate us to make calculators.
Yo, we aren't kids.
You aren't manipulating us with some competition.
It says the winning team gets 100 million drago.
The Truth About the Rocket
Well, time to get all hands on deck to build some memory.
Mem-more-ee?
Memory.
Storage devices.
Without it, our machine has no way to remember any numbers,
let alone do any complex calculations.
Circuits for thinking and circuits for remembering.
Combine those two, and you get a computer with amazing computational prowess.
Machines?
Remember numbers?
How does that work?
Actually, I'm not sure, either.
We don't even have semiconductors, so how...
We're saving data onto magnets.
So, uh...
Senku's faxing us instructions on how to make memory.
It's so long!
Run a strong current through the oxidized iron wires,
and it becomes a magnet.
Run the current backwards, and...
Which side becomes north and which becomes south depends
on whether we're storing a one or a zero.
In other words, this one magnet can store a one or a zero.
Fool!
Anyone can memorize a one or a zero!
What's the point in making that?
Memorizing one is easy enough.
But you've seen plenty of times in the Kingdom of Science's activities when
we've gotten incredible effects by combining lots of things together.
For example, to save to this magnet...
We zap a current through the third column wire and the second row wire.
I get it!
The current gets stupid strong on just the one point where the two wires cross!
That's how you write an N or S on just that single magnet!
Bingo. Ten billion points to you.
It's primitive as hell, but it's super robust.
The space shuttle and F-15 fighters used these, too.
They had skilled tailors working around the clock to put these things together.
In other words, our mission is to sew together a ton of these tiny magnets.
Just how much is "a ton"?
Didn't he say something like 200,000?
N-N-Not that that's a problem for me!
Oh, that's 200,000 donuts that we're winding.
Oh, okay! Thank goodness!
As for the magnets...
Thirty million!
Nope!
Huh? You mean there's more work to do on these?
Yeah.
The vertical and horizontal lines are for writing data.
Now we need diagonal wires on all of them for reading.
Now we need to build a display so we can view the numbers.
They're called Nixie tubes, apparently.
So we're making numbers with wire trapped in gas,
and they light up when you run current through them.
You can leave that sort of precision work to me.
Compared to building watches, this is as easy as twisting a baby's arm.
Plenty of fuel in India!
We're ready to set out.
We hereby begin the Indian Ocean New World Math Olympics!
What the heck is going on now?
New World Math Olympics
Our contestants are Chrome-chan, Senku-chan, and Sai-chan!
It's obvious either Senku or Sai will win.
And...
Joining us remotely from Corn City is Magma-chan!
What?!
Why Magma?!
No one could be worse than him at calculating!
All the more reason, if he's the worst.
Here's the question.
There's no way!
New World Math Olympics
Eight, two, seven, four, zero...
one, one, three, six, zero, five, eight.
Uh-huh.
He got it.
It exceeded Senku's overwhelming cognition in the blink of an eye.
So this is the computer!
This day is the singularity moment of the new world.
Wow...
It happened in the Stone World?!
Yeah.
The machines that humans built from scratch end up blowing past human brains.
This is exhilarating!
Calculator acquired!!
There are 30 million magnets in there?
Obviously not.
It's just a few thousand.
So our final project is going to be even more impressive, then?
Will it be as good as a smartphone?!
We've got our work cut out for us.
He said it's a grand prize, but honestly, it's just our salary.
Right!
The winning team gets 100 million drago!
Where's Ryusui?!
Not to worry.
It'll be deposited to your account.
We're opening the Ryusui Bank!
How are you even doing that?
There's no way it's that easy.
You have to store balances and calculate sums.
Banking acquired!!
Now, then...
Xeno's got the engine, and Yuzuriha et al. are working on the computer.
Meanwhile, we're working on the rocket body for the moon landing project at last!
Yeah!
You're referring to the part
of this so-called rocket where people will be.
What are you making it out of?
Iron, as usual?
We're shooting it into space.
Iron's too heavy.
The main material is aluminum, which is stupidly light.
Time to depart from India and make our way
to the next stop on the rocket material tour!
Our destination is Australia!
Here in Australia, right at the tip, is the biggest source of bauxite,
which is what we'll make our aluminum from.
No one can dig up rocks faster than me!
Between Chelsea the pro geographer and me, the pro explorer...
I don't think it's even a contest.
Oh, I didn't see that coming.
Chelsea's here with the trash talk.
No, I mean, it isn't even about searching.
Here.
This whole ground's made of bauxite, the source of aluminum!
Lawl, it's a freaking buttload!
For real?!
Holy crap.
No wonder it's the world's biggest producer of aluminum.
This is insane!
It's a literal city of aluminum!
Yeah.
The plain old red rocks we dig up here
are going to transform into the rocket body.
If I'm being honest, I'd like a bucket-wheel excavator.
Say what?
Buck, er... Excalibur?
A super giant strip mining machine!
The biggest machine ever made by man!
Okay, sure, you may have owned one for all your errands, but...
I tried driving one owned by the Nanami Conglomerate.
It was quite spectacular.
You actually did!
Yeah, eventually.
For the time being, we're going to hire a ton of people.
How many people do we need to wake up to dig
at the same pace as that Excalibur-whatchamacallit?
We're eventually going to run out of food.
We don't have much revival fluid, either.
That won't be an issue.
Why do you think our first move was to build Corn City?
That's where we're making our food and raw ingredients.
Corn en route from Corn City, USA!
Hey!
Corn dishes!
I know Ukyo's a radarman for the ship, but why are you here, Yo?
Suika?!
Is it just me, or are you huge?
Also, you're pretty cute.
Yo, isn't it obvious?
I already got a ton of money, and making those donuts was a pain in the...
I mean, no, I'm a bodyguard!
I'm a former policeman, after all.
I dunno what's up, but Ukyo's carrying something that looks super important.
Something that looks super important?
So this is the petrification device—
the complete Medusa— with brand new batteries.
One meter, three seconds.
There it is.
The wretched light that was seared into my sight so long ago.
Wow!
After all of my fruitless efforts!
Only Joel could have made that diamond battery!
No.
That one we just lit up was
the Medusa from Treasure Island that we threw your battery in, Kaseki.
What do you mean?
None of my batteries worked.
Look.
This is one of the many Medusas we got from ground zero
with Joel's batteries installed.
One meter, one second.
It doesn't work, even with Joel's battery?
Those old Medusas from thousands of years ago
were busted after eons of degradation.
This one from Treasure Island was still working when we got it.
Do you mean that my dear batteries were good all along?!
So it was the Medusas themselves that were defective!
This is getting complicated.
What does all this mean?
The point is...
if we keep using Kaseki's batteries in this newer petrification device,
we can use it all day long.
Yep.
Now that we have a working Medusa,
we can launch our kamikaze run to the moon.
It's the most important part of our moon trip.
There's no telling when Why-Man-sensei's going to hit us with
an all-out petrification assault.
We need to get to the moon ASAP and go head-to-head.
Our moon trip isn't going to afford us the time to craft a return trip.
In other words, no matter the outcome of our confrontation against Why-Man,
the moon expedition team isn't coming back to Earth.
Am I right?
Someday, humankind will progress to
the point of making trips to and from the moon as we please.
Until that day, the scientist, fighter, and pilot who set foot on the moon
will use the power of the Medusa to petrify themselves.
They'll wait as long as it takes for their rescue.
Years, decades, centuries...
The petrification device that completes our moon rocket
is taking us on a one-way trip.
Well, there you have it.
Until the rocket's done, we're locking away the Medusa.
Unless we have some serious injuries.
We don't want to go showing off its restorative abilities
just to patch up a minor boo-boo.
Especially not to the 21st century humans we're about to wake up,
who are going to make up the overwhelming majority.
Senku, judging from how secretive you are about the Medusa...
You can trust a sailor's instincts!
The Medusa can bring back the dead!
It's a source of eternal life!
Am I right?
You get ten billion points.
Then again, if our dear Why-Man-sensei on the moon
hits us all with a mass petrification, eternal life won't mean squat.
We need to make our kamikaze run to the moon as quick as we can,
and this one working petrification device is our one-way ticket there.
One-way ticket...
Who are the three passengers?
I'm sure Ryusui's the pilot.
Who's going to be the fighter?
Tsukasa? Or... Hyoga?
And the scientist...
We might never see them again once they go to the moon.
Senku and Xeno are the ones designing the rocket.
Xeno's a min-maxer.
I bet he's going to agree with Senku on the one-way trip.
Yeah, that's for the best if you ask the experts, I guess.
I'm just a layman. I don't have the credibility to speak up.
I'm just an amateur.
To hell with that!
A one-way ticket?!
We have to get together in the end and toast to a job well done!
That's the way we win!
We aren't getting a happy ending?
Then we can make one ourselves!
We'll build a rocket that'll take us back to Earth at insane speed!
Suika!
For all my big talk,
I don't know the first thing about rockets. I'm so pathetic.
I can't do shit!
But you made revival fluid all by yourself, Suika.
We're Ishigami Village's up-and-coming science users.
Let's build the return rocket together, Suika!
S-Sure, but are we going to make it without telling Senku?
Hell yeah!
We can finally build it.
Watch us build it!
The anti-Why-Man one-way moon rocket.
The anti-Why-Man round-trip rocket that'll bring us all back together!
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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.