17 - Sickening Yet Beautiful

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[00:03] Stanley
    All right. We're good to fly.
[00:13] Ukyo
    This is Stanley's final chase.
[00:16] Ukyo
    There's not much time until
    the fighter plane arrives.
[00:20] Taiju
    We just need to get to the other
    side of the mountains, correct?
[00:24] Senku
    Yeah.
[00:26] Senku
    This is what the Amazon's famous for.
[00:28] Senku
    The insane tree cover will
    serve as a perfect barrier
[00:32] Senku
    against the fighter plane's attacks.
[00:36] Gen
    Let's hope there really is a
    dense jungle past the mountains.
[00:41] Chelsea
    There totally will be!
[00:43] Senku
    And so, we're getting right to crafting.
[00:48] Senku
    The three-dimensional vehicle of science:
[00:51] Senku
    the ropeway!
SIGN    Sickening Yet Beautiful
[02:31] Gen
    Man...
[02:33] Gen
    That's seriously steep.
[02:35] Gen
    We definitely aren't crossing it
    without a ropeway or something.
[02:40] Kohaku
    This is where I come in.
[02:51] Gen
    Are you serious?!
[02:54] Kohaku
    I'll have you remember
[02:56] Kohaku
    that I've been training for years by going
    to the hot springs for Ruri-nee every day.
[03:03] Kohaku
    None of this would be a problem
    if I were the only one crossing...
[03:07] Kohaku
    but even I can't carry everyone
    across along with the bikes.
[03:09] Kohaku
    What do we do now?
[03:23] Luna
    A ropeway? With this thin rope?!
[03:26] Ukyo
    Nah, it's just a guide.
[03:28] Ukyo
    We'll use it to pull the cable across.
[03:31] Gen
    Crap! Kohaku-chan didn't bring a phone!
[03:35] Gen
    How are we going to give her instructions?
[03:37] Senku
    We just said the enemy planes are coming!
[03:40] Senku
    We'd be broadcasting our
    location if we used a radio.
[03:44] Senku
    We have a rope.
[03:46] Senku
    A landline will do the job.
[03:48] All
    A landline?!
[03:51] Senku
    You hearing me, lioness?
[03:53] Kohaku
    Which I am not!
[03:55] Gen
    A string phone?!
[03:56] Taiju
    Ooh, I remember those!
[03:58] Ukyo
    It's nice to have low-tech options
    in these situations, huh?
[04:17] [SONG] Text
    m 0 0 l 182 0 l 182 70 l 0 70
[04:17] [SONG] Text
    Ropeway
    acquired!!
[04:21] Ryusui
    Set a cable and push it along with a pulley.
[04:25] Ryusui
    Simple enough.
[04:27] Ryusui
    Just like how cable logging is done
    in the timber industry.
[04:31] Senku
    Yeah. The potential problem is the weight.
[04:34] Taiju
    The Power Team—Kohaku,
    Tsukasa, and I—will go first!
[04:38] Taiju
    We can pull 100 kilos easy!
[04:41] Senku
    Why would we do it manually?
[04:43] Senku
    We've got engines and tires.
[04:45] Senku
    We're pulling it by machine.
[04:47] Senku
    It's the cable that won't survive.
[04:51] Xeno
    A wire of carbon and iron.
[04:53] Xeno
    Light and strong.
[04:55] Xeno
    Elegant indeed, but...
[04:57] Senku
    The maximum load of the
    Kingdom of Science's ropeway is...
[05:02] Senku
    Somewhere in the ballpark
    of 160 kilograms.
[05:05] Chrome
    We can just take our equipment
    apart to carry it.
[05:08] Ukyo
    But we aren't carrying more
    than two people at a time.
[05:10] Ukyo
    We'll be all right if we pair up by weight.
SIGN    Boiler 130kg
     Tsukasa 99kg
     Taiju 95kg
     Hyoga 81kg
     Ryusui 78kg
     Carlos 72kg
     Xeno 69kg
     Ukyo 63kg
     Chrome 63kg
SIGN    Senku 61kg
     Gen 61kg
     Max 59kg
     Kaseki 59kg
     Luna 55kg
     Kohaku 52kg
     Francois 50kg
     Chelsea 40kg
     Suika 21kg
[05:15] Taiju
    Good thing we measured everyone, huh?
[05:17] Kohaku
    Actually...
[05:19] Kohaku
    It might be dangerous if
    we pair up by just weight.
[05:23] Kohaku
    The problem is Xeno.
[05:25] Kohaku
    For example, what if we choose carelessly,
    and Xeno and Suika are left at the end?
[05:37] Ukyo
    This is kind of becoming like
    a river crossing puzzle.
[05:41] Taiju
    A river crossing puzzle?
[05:43] Ukyo
    You're a traveler trying to
    carry some items across a river.
[05:48] Ukyo
    You have three items: a fox,
    a chicken, and some corn.
[05:53] Ukyo
    But you can only carry one
    thing across at a time.
[05:57] Ukyo
    If you try to carry the corn across,
    leaving the chicken and fox behind...
[06:01] Gen
    The fox will eat the chicken!
[06:04] Ukyo
    If you try to carry the fox across and
    leave the corn and chicken behind...
[06:09] Chelsea
    The chicken eats the corn!
[06:12] Ukyo
    So, how would you bring all your stuff across?
[06:16] Mecha Senku
    It's a famous puzzle.
[06:18] Mecha Senku
    Give it a try when you get a
    chance, if you haven't before.
[06:22] Kohaku
    The greatest concern is
    Hyoga's and Xeno's partners.
[06:26] Kohaku
    Let's not forget,
[06:28] Kohaku
    Hyoga once killed Tsukasa for his ideals.
[06:32] Kohaku
    I don't know what's going
    through their minds right now.
[06:35] Kohaku
    If they were to be left together...
[06:39] Kohaku
    It may not be likely, but...
[06:40] Hyoga
    You and I are fundamentally
    the same, Xeno-kun.
[06:44] Hyoga
    Why don't we make a kingdom of the chosen?
[06:48] Hyoga
    Now would be our chance to ru—
    to rendezvous with Stanley and the others.
[06:53] Xeno
    That's quite the elegant proposition.
[06:57] Chelsea
    Wait, my brain...
[06:58] Chelsea
    Hyoga killed Tsukasa?!
[07:00] Chelsea
    Holy crap! But you're all so close!
[07:02] Chelsea
    Y'all have a freaky relationship!
[07:04] Gen
    I get it.
[07:05] Gen
    It must be weird from your
    perspective, Chelsea-chan.
[07:08] Gen
    Let me give you a rundown
    of everyone's relationships.
SIGN    Craft Team
SIGN    Battle Team
SIGN    Aiee!
SIGN    Childhood friends
[07:13] Gen
    Hyoga-chan killed Tsukasa-chan.
SIGN    Killed
[07:16] Gen
    Tsukasa-chan killed Senku-chan.
SIGN    Killed
[07:18] Gen
    Senku-chan killed Tsukasa-chan.
SIGN    Killed
[07:21] Gen
    Xeno-chan killed Senku-chan.
SIGN    Killed
SIGN    Nanami
    Conglomerate
[07:23] Chelsea
    That's a lot of killing!
[07:25] Ukyo
    Well, now that you mention it...
[07:29] Chrome
    The real problem is Xeno, no?
[07:32] Chrome
    If someone's got to carry him across,
    it has to be someone from the battle team.
[07:39] Ukyo
    That's a bit risky.
[07:41] Ukyo
    They both exceed the 160 kilo limit.
[07:44] Kohaku
    Shall I go back down?
[07:47] Ukyo
    This really is turning into
    a river crossing puzzle.
[07:51] Taiju
    Xeno and Hyoga could cross together!
[07:53] Chrome
    We were just talking about
    how that's the worst pair!
[07:58] Senku
    They'll be fine.
[08:00] Senku
    We don't have time to be fussy.
    We've gotta move quick.
[08:11] Chrome
    Holy crap!
[08:23] Gen
    Oh, man!
[08:45] Kohaku
    Okay. We're almost—
[08:52] Kohaku
    Suika!
[09:08] Gen
    That was close!
[09:10] Chrome
    Thank goodness for Kohaku's
    usual reckless action.
[09:16] Chrome
    Shit...
[09:17] Chrome
    There's not a single person on this
    side who can fight right now.
[09:21] Kohaku
    That's right.
[09:22] Kohaku
    Hyoga wouldn't be risking
    anything to betray us right now.
[09:26] Kohaku
    I'm defenseless right now after saving Suika.
[09:30] Kohaku
    He could push us to the bottom of the valley.
[09:54] Chelsea
    You're a good kid, Hyoga!
[09:55] Chelsea
    Look at you! I like Hyoga!
[09:58] Chelsea
    You're all buddies even when your
    relationship diagram's a mess!
[10:02] Chelsea
    Hilar!
[10:04] Taiju
    Yeah.
[10:05] Taiju
    We've gone through a lot.
[10:20] Taiju
    The dawn of the petrification
    is right in front of us.
[10:23] Taiju
    The Kingdom of Science is—
[10:28] Taiju
    we are—one team!
[10:36] Gen
    Now we just have to hope Mother Nature
[10:40] Gen
    has a barrier set up for us
    past the mountains.
[10:50] Chrome
    Hell yeah. We've lost them for real this time!
[10:55] Chrome
    We made it to the great Amazon jungle!
[10:58] Chrome
    We win!
[11:11] Senku
    We're crashing through the South American
    cross-continent jungle course!
[11:18] Ryusui
    Stanley's fighter plane is no threat to us,
    now that we're in the Amazon!
[11:26] Leonard
    They got away from us.
[11:28] Stanley
    Yeah.
[11:29] Stanley
    It would have been an easy game if we
    could have shot them in the desert.
[11:34] Stanley
    The first round goes to
    the Youth Science Team.
[11:38] Leonard
    Fair enough.
[11:40] Leonard
    That wasn't the main
    purpose of coming by plane.
[11:42] Leonard
    We've spotted the bike trails.
[11:46] Leonard
    The Youth Science Team's route is confirmed.
[11:52] Maya
    Those bikes could be another decoy.
[11:56] Charlotte
    That's why he put pressure on them.
[11:58] Charlotte
    So that they'd keep going straight.
[12:01] Charlotte
    He even broadcast that we
    were repairing our plane.
[12:06] Charlotte
    Captain Stanley is playing a game
    that he can't lose in the end.
[12:13] Stanley
    I got it.
[12:15] Stanley
    I know which way they're running.
[12:27] Chrome
    Nice! No more enemies!
[12:30] Taiju
    Now we're just headed straight to the goal,
    where humanity's petrification began!
[12:33] Chelsea
    Manaus.
SIGN    We are here
SIGN    Brazil
SIGN    South America
[12:35] Chelsea
    To the east of here, in Brazil.
[12:40] Taiju
    So now it's just full steam ahead!
[12:43] Ukyo
    You aren't wrong about that, but, well,
    we're talking about crossing the Amazon.
[12:48] Senku
    There's no chance our feeble human
    bodies are going to conquer it.
[12:53] Senku
    We're ten billion percent dead.
[12:55] Gen
    Ten billion percent?!
[12:58] Senku
    Bugs from hell at our feet.
[13:00] Senku
    Parasitic sand fleas, vampiric stink bugs,
    and giant leeches are all out to kill you.
[13:07] Senku
    And it's human ingenuity—scientific crafts—
[13:11] Senku
    that'll elevate our flimsy bodies
    into the strongest things ever.
[13:13] [SONG] Text
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[13:13] [SONG] Text
    Rubber Boots
    acquired!!
[13:14] Kohaku
    Rubber is the best!
[13:20] Suika
    The water bounces right off!
    None of it gets through!
[13:25] Kohaku
    This is mighty fantastic!
[13:34] Suika
    This is edible, too!
[13:40] Gen
    That's huge!
[13:42] Francois
    It looks to be a kind of jackfruit.
[13:44] Francois
    They're known to be the
    largest fruit in the world.
[13:48] Francois
    They're refreshing and have a gentle,
    delicious sweetness when they're ripe.
[13:58] Francois
    Impressive, Gen-sama.
[14:01] Gen
    N-Not nice...
[14:26] Suika
    What are you burning, Xeno?
[14:28] Xeno
    I'm making an insect repellent mist
    out of parsley and artemisia plants.
[14:32] Xeno
    The mosquitoes in the Amazon are ferocious.
[14:35] Xeno
    I don't want to get bitten
    along with the rest of you.
[14:38] Chrome
    Crap, bugs everywhere.
[14:42] Senku
    What do you think is the strongest
    animal in the Amazon right now?
[14:47] Taiju
    Tsukasa!
[14:49] Kohaku
    That sounds about right.
[14:52] Tskuasa
    No, I'm hopeless myself.
[14:56] Tskuasa
    The king of the Amazon,
    the strongest animal on the planet...
[15:01] Senku
    ...is the army ant.
[15:04] Gen
    I-I've seen them in a movie or something!
[15:07] Gen
    Army ants are the ones that attack in
    groups and can reduce anything to bone!
[15:12] Senku; Chelsea
    Yay!
[15:14] All
    Why?!
[15:19] Chelsea
    Sorry, it's a trap.
[15:21] Gen
    And you're capturing them?!
[15:27] Senku
    It's like Okinawan snake wine.
[15:30] Senku
    We extracted army ant spirits with alcohol.
[15:33] Taiju
    Something smells brothy.
[15:36] Chelsea
    Army ants smell like bonito broth!
[15:39] Chelsea
    Weird! Fun! ROFL!
[15:42] Senku
    And this almighty extract...
[15:44] Suika;Chrome
    No...
[15:45] Ukyo
    ...way!
[15:52] Senku
    ...is going all over our bodies.
[15:55] Ryusui
    I get it now!
[15:56] Ryusui
    The fear of the almighty army
    ant keeps everything else away.
[16:01] Chelsea
    I've heard about this before.
[16:03] Chelsea
    Wisdom of the locals.
[16:05] Gen
    You really go all-out on your
    field work, Chelsea-chan.
[16:09] Chrome
    Crap, I thought we were drinking it.
[16:12] Ukyo
    At least we aren't doing that.
[16:14] Luna
    B-Bugs?
[16:15] Luna
    On my skin?
[16:18] Carlos; Max
    Miss!
[16:40] Senku
    We're here.
[16:42] Senku
    The Amazon River!
[16:58] Senku
    Water slides!
[17:05] Ryusui
    The final sprint is a ride
    straight down the river!
[17:11] Taiju
    And that's where we'll find
[17:13] Taiju
    the ancient petrification device
    that turned humanity to stone!
[17:17] Kohaku
    We journeyed all the way out here.
[17:20] Kohaku
    We can't go home empty-handed!
[17:22] Kohaku
    We'll have to pray that we find the treasure!
[17:26] Gen
    It's going to be a hellish
    task to find it, though.
[17:31] Gen
    The Medusa is so tiny.
[17:36] Kaseki
    What are you working on there, Chrome?
[17:41] Chrome
    Oh, I was just thinking,
[17:44] Chrome
    maybe there's a way to spray that ant
    extract automatically on an interval.
[17:51] Chrome
    Automatically? On an interval?
[17:53] Chrome
    Right...
[17:54] Chrome
    The same goes for the Medusa's light, then.
[18:02] Chrome
    Senku! I just had a huge idea!
[18:05] Chrome
    A machine that'll protect us
    from the petrification beam!
[18:08] Chrome
    You figured it out on the
    treasure island, remember?
[18:11] Chrome
    That trick to get the revival fluid
    to drop after you're petrified.
[18:14] Chrome
    We do that automatically!
[18:17] Chrome
    Douse it on an interval!
[18:21] Senku
    But if you were Why-Man, and you
    had to avoid such tricks and duds
[18:27] Senku
    to make sure you knocked out
    humanity, what would you do?
[18:32] Tskuasa
    Fire the petrification beam several
    times in quick succession.
[18:36] Tskuasa
    A multi-shot attack, in other words.
[18:40] Gen
    You mean that could have been
    the case thousands of years ago,
[18:42] Gen
    and that there might be more
    than one Medusa at ground zero?
[18:49] Senku
    Who knows?
[18:51] Senku
    Either way, we're finally here to
    investigate the scene of the crime.
[18:55] Senku
    This is exhilarating!
[19:23] Senku
    This should be the spot.
[19:32] Senku
    Four months since we left Japan...
[19:34] Senku
    At last, we've made it to
    the other side of the planet.
[19:42] Senku
    At the epicenter of the wretched light that
    petrified humanity thousands of years ago.
[20:00] Kohaku
    If Why-Man was truly dead-set on ending
    us and had deployed several Medusas...
[20:20] Suika
    I found one! A petrification device!
[20:22] Chrome
    Seriously? Already?
[20:25] Chrome
    Crap, we're too lucky!
[20:28] Kohaku
    Luck...
[20:30] Kohaku
    It seems it may have nothing to do with luck.
[20:57] Kohaku
    What sickening yet beautiful...
[21:02] Kohaku
    malice.
SIGN    River Crossing Puzzle Answer
[22:37] Ukyo
    Here's the answer to the
    river crossing puzzle!
[22:39] Suika
    Yup!
[22:41] Ukyo
    You're a traveler trying to bring
    your possessions across a river.
[22:46] Ukyo
    You have three things:
    a fox, a chicken, and corn.
[22:50] Ukyo
    But you can only bring one thing at a time.
[22:54] Suika
    But if you leave the fox and chicken
    behind, the fox will eat the chicken.
[23:00] Ukyo
    Or, if you leave the corn and chicken
    behind, the chicken will eat the corn.
[23:06] Suika
    First, the traveler crosses
    the river with the chicken.
[23:10] Gen
    I don't eat corn.
[23:16] Ukyo
    Then he goes back and crosses with the fox.
[23:21] Suika
    He takes the chicken back
    and brings the corn across.
[23:28] Suika
    I'm not afraid of the fox!
[23:32] Ukyo
    He returns for the chicken and crosses again.
[23:39] Ukyo; Suika
    And that's how he crosses safely!
SIGN    The End
[23:43] Ukyo; Suika
    The end.
SIGN    Next Episode
SIGN    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.