# E10 - A Flimsy Alliance
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**[00:09] Senku**
*The first biography I ever read*
***SIGN*** Biography Series
Edison
**[00:11] Senku**
* once I started going through*
* science books was Edison's.*
**[00:16] (Flashback) Senku**
What even is electricity, anyway?
**[00:19] (Flashback) Senku**
Huh, there are only four fundamental
forces in the universe?
***SIGN*** Science Explained
***SIGN*** Stories About Space That Will Keep You Up at Night
***SIGN*** Intro to Cosmology
***SIGN*** Encyclopedia of Incredible Science I
***SIGN*** Science Basics in Manga
***SIGN*** Encyclopedia of Incredible Science II
**[00:24] (Flashback) Senku**
Gravity, electromagnetism...
**[00:25] (Flashback) Teacher**
What's five plus three?
**[00:26] (Flashback) Senku**
So that's what electricity is.
**[00:28] (Flashback) Senku**
And then there's the strong
force and the weak force?
**[00:33] (Flashback) Senku**
That's hilariously weird.
**[00:37] Senku**
* Basically, electricity is the most*
* essential power in this universe.*
**[00:43] Senku**
*How exhilarating is that?*
**[01:08] Senku**
* I was born buck-naked and alone*
* on this primitive Earth.*
**[01:13] Senku**
* A year and four months later,*
* I've finally made it.*
**[01:19] Senku**
*To the essential power of science...*
**[01:22] Senku**
*To electricity.*
**[01:28] Senku**
*This is it.*
**[01:30] Senku**
*I'm off to a good start.*
**[01:44] Chrome**
All right!
**[01:47] Gen**
Man, electricity in the stone age!
**[01:50] Gen**
Seriously!
**[01:55] Gen**
Right, Tsukasa-chan?
***SIGN*** A Flimsy Alliance
**[03:34] Kohaku**
So you see, Suika, this man called Tsukasa
**[03:38] Kohaku**
is the one behind Senku's murder.
**[03:41] Senku**
Though I'm not dead.
**[03:42] Chrome**
He's seriously bad news.
**[03:45] Chrome**
He wanted to stop scientific progress,
**[03:47] Chrome**
and he didn't think twice
about killing Senku to do it.
**[03:50] Senku**
I told you, I'm not dead.
**[03:53] Suika**
So that Tsukasa person is a
bad man, and Gen is with him?
**[03:58] Suika**
Then Gen's a bad person!
**[04:01] Suika**
Wait... But Gen saved us from Magma.
**[04:05] Suika**
He's a good person!
**[04:07] Senku**
He's neither a good
person nor a bad person.
**[04:10] Kohaku**
He's just a thoroughly
shallow bat of a man.
**[04:12] Senku**
It doesn't matter whether Asagiri Gen
is a good guy or a bad guy.
**[04:16] Senku**
We need him to be on the side
of the kingdom of science.
**[04:19] Senku**
We'll have him make a bogus report to
Tsukasa, saying "Senku is definitely dead."
**[04:25] Senku**
That's the only way we can win.
**[04:30] Chrome**
Hear that, Gen?
**[04:32] Chrome**
You saw it, didn't you?
**[04:33] Chrome**
The electricity?
**[04:34] Chrome**
The insane light of science?
**[04:37] Chrome**
Who cares about who wins?
**[04:39] Chrome**
Who gives a damn about whether
Tsukasa or Senku has the edge?
**[04:43] Chrome**
The kingdom of science
is just way more fun!
**[04:49] Gen**
Gosh, you're so passionate, young man.
**[04:53] Gen**
Too bad, though.
**[04:54] Gen**
I don't have what you do, Chrome-chan.
**[04:57] Gen**
I'm the most superficial man on earth.
**[05:00] Gen**
All I care about is whether or
not something will benefit me.
**[05:25] Gen**
What is this, a prank?
**[05:28] Gen**
Did my manager not stop them?
**[05:30] Gen**
I told them I'm a mentalist,
so I only work as the prankster.
**[05:36] (Flashback) Tsukasa**
It's AD 5739.
**[05:40] (Flashback) Tsukasa**
But you're still nineteen years old.
**[05:44] (Flashback) Gen**
Huh?
**[05:46] (Flashback) Gen**
Aren't you...
***SIGN*** Mentalist Battle!!
**[05:47] (Flashback) Gen**
from the TV special about
psychological magic?
**[05:49] (Flashback) Gen**
You were on screen with me, weren't you?
**[05:54] (Flashback) Gen**
Oh, right.
**[05:55] (Flashback) Gen**
You're the "strongest primate high-schooler,"
**[05:58] (Flashback) Gen**
Shishio Tsukasa-chan!
**[06:02] (Flashback) Tsukasa**
I'm gathering here the statues
**[06:06] (Flashback) Tsukasa**
of the people who ought to be
revived first, including you.
**[06:22] (Flashback) Tsukasa**
The dusty old people of power aren't
needed in this beautiful stone world.
**[06:29] (Flashback) Tsukasa**
Let's make a new world together,
**[06:32] (Flashback) Tsukasa**
Gen.
**[06:35] (Flashback) Tsukasa**
There's something I'd like you
to do, as a skilled mentalist.
**[06:43] (Flashback) Tsukasa**
Follow them.
**[06:45] (Flashback) Tsukasa**
Figure out their psychology.
**[06:47] (Flashback) Tsukasa**
I'm just being extra careful,
**[06:49] (Flashback) Tsukasa**
but if this man, Senku, is still
alive, I want you to find him.
**[06:54] (Flashback) Gen**
Senku?
**[06:55] (Flashback) Tsukasa**
Senku was the first one to revive.
**[06:58] (Flashback) Tsukasa**
This is where he created a drug to undo the
petrification using the power of science.
**[07:03] (Flashback) Tsukasa**
He's the man who revived me.
**[07:06] (Flashback) Tsukasa**
And he was attempting to revive all humans,
**[07:10] (Flashback) Tsukasa**
including the tainted old people,
**[07:13] (Flashback) Tsukasa**
and start a civilization that
would create weapons of science.
**[07:18] (Flashback) Tsukasa**
The most intelligent man in the world,
**[07:20] (Flashback) Tsukasa**
whom I killed with these hands.
**[07:48] Gen**
Who... are you?
**[07:52] Gen**
Why...
**[08:02] Kohaku**
What was that noise?
**[08:08] Chrome**
Hey, are you all right, Gen?
**[08:09] Kohaku**
It's no use...
**[08:10] Kohaku**
He obviously died instantly.
**[08:12] Suika**
This is terrible!
**[08:14] Senku**
No, hang on.
**[08:19] Senku**
He guarded himself with bags of fake blood.
**[08:21] Suika**
They're all over him!
**[08:23] Chrome**
This is nuts.
**[08:25] Chrome**
He covered himself with
these things, just in case!
**[08:30] Senku**
Not bad.
**[08:32] Senku**
You're a magician through and through.
**[08:38] Kohaku**
He may have blocked it with those
bags, but he's severely injured.
**[08:42] Chrome**
Damn it.
**[08:44] Chrome**
We have to catch the attacker!
**[08:46] Kohaku**
But who could have done
such a terrible thing?
**[08:54] Suika**
I'm going to go investigate!
**[09:16] Suika**
Big news!
**[09:18] Suika**
I found out who it was!
**[09:21] Senku**
Good going, Great Detective Suika.
**[09:25] Suika**
I know who's behind the
murder of Asagiri Gen!
**[09:29] Kohaku**
Uh, he's not dead, you know.
**[09:31] Senku**
So who was it?
**[09:33] Suika**
It was...
**[09:38] (Flashback) Magma**
Now that I've killed the sorcerer,
I, Magma-sama, am the most powerful!
**[09:44] (Flashback) Magma**
Fighting sorcery is no more of a
challenge than twisting a baby's arm.
**[09:49] (Flashback) Mantle**
Yeah! Indeed!
**[09:52] (Flashback) Magma**
It's a shame I couldn't kill Kohaku herself.
**[09:56] (Flashback) Magma**
She's just too well-prepared.
**[09:58] (Flashback) Mantle**
She's way too strong for a woman.
**[10:02] (Flashback) Mantle**
It *must* be sorcery.
**[10:06] (Flashback) Magma**
But now that I've gotten rid
of her powerful sorcerer ally,
**[10:10] (Flashback) Magma**
Kohaku is just another girl.
**[10:15] (Flashback) Magma**
Though, if she apologizes tearfully,
**[10:16] (Flashback) Magma**
I wouldn't mind making her
mine, along with Ruri.
**[10:20] (Flashback) Mantle**
How lucky the siblings are to have
the privilege of belonging to Magma!
**[10:26] Suika**
*This is really bad news!*
**[10:30] Chrome**
Magma did it? That bastard!
**[10:33] Kohaku**
I see...
**[10:34] Kohaku**
Asagiri Gen made those flowers
disappear before their eyes.
**[10:38] Kohaku**
From Magma's perspective,
**[10:40] Kohaku**
Gen is the rumored outsider
sorcerer that I brought with me.
**[10:45] Chrome**
So Magma stabbed Gen because
he mistook him for Senku?
**[10:50] Kohaku**
It's a real insult that Magma believes
my strength is due to sorcery, though.
**[10:55] Chrome**
Well, you have the raw
power of an actual gorilla.
**[10:58] Chrome**
So you're a legit gorilla.
**[11:01] Kohaku**
I'm sorry.
**[11:03] Senku**
So why is Magma looking for an
opportunity to kill you, Kohaku?
**[11:10] Kohaku**
Probably... no, *definitely* because of...
**[11:13] Kohaku**
the Grand Bout.
**[11:16] Kohaku**
Once every generation,
**[11:17] Kohaku**
the village holds a large martial arts
battle called the Grand Bout.
**[11:23] Senku**
So that's what that arena-looking
thing on the far island is for.
**[11:27] Kohaku**
Several months ago,
**[11:29] Kohaku**
on the day that the village priestess,
Ruri-nee, came of age...
**[11:37] Kohaku**
The winner of the Grand Bout was to
wed her and become the village elder.
**[11:42] Kohaku**
That's also how my father became
the current village elder.
**[11:51] (Flashback) Ref**
The winner is Magma.
**[11:53] (Flashback) Guy**
On to the finals!
**[11:55] (Flashback) Carbo**
Damn, Magma's unstoppable.
**[11:58] (Flashback) Mantle**
Yeah!
**[12:00] (Flashback) Jasper**
Ruri!
**[12:03] (Flashback) Chrome**
Hey, are you all right, Ruri?
**[12:05] (Flashback) Turquoise**
Hold it.
**[12:06] (Flashback) Turquoise**
Don't just approach the priestess so casually.
**[12:16] (Flashback) Magma**
Ruri, huh?
**[12:18] (Flashback) Magma**
Well, she's got a year at most.
**[12:20] (Flashback) Magma**
I don't want to take care of her.
**[12:22] (Flashback) Magma**
If she'd just go ahead and croak,
**[12:24] (Flashback) Magma**
I could take the elder's seat
without all the trouble.
**[12:27] (Flashback) Magma**
Maybe I ought to make it
**[12:29] (Flashback) Magma**
look like she drowned herself
out of despair in her sickness.
**[12:39] (Flashback) Magma**
Mercy!
**[12:40] (Flashback) Magma**
The winner of the Grand Bout is Kohaku.
**[12:43] (Flashback) Kohaku**
Magma, I cannot allow a man
like you to have Ruri-nee.
**[12:49] Magma**
*Kohaku... This kid...*
**[12:51] Magma**
*She joined the Grand Bout just to stop me!*
**[12:55] (Flashback) Suika**
Wait, what happens now?
**[12:57] (Flashback) Suika**
The rules say the winner is
supposed to marry Ruri-nee, so...
**[13:02] (Flashback) Ginro**
Ruri-chan and Kohaku-chan
are going to get married?!
**[13:07] (Flashback) Ginro**
It's forbidden love!
**[13:10] (Flashback) Turquoise**
Obviously not.
**[13:10] (Flashback) Ginro**
Ouchie!
**[13:12] (Flashback) Turquoise**
Jeez, what do we do now?
**[13:14] (Flashback) Turquoise**
Who's going to marry Ruri-sama?
**[13:18] Senku**
Is that why your old man,
the elder, disowned you?
**[13:22] Kohaku**
No... well, that was the last straw, but...
**[13:26] Chrome**
Kohaku has caused a ton of
trouble ever since she was little.
**[13:31] Kohaku**
Of course, the Grand Bout
is set to be redone.
**[13:33] Kohaku**
It's going to be held next month.
**[13:35] Chrome**
Are you saying Magma killed
Gen to win the Grand Bout?
**[13:41] Suika**
So Gen really *is* dead?!
**[13:43] Kohaku**
No, he's not dead.
**[13:45] Chrome**
Wouldn't it be really bad news if
a guy like him became the elder?
**[13:49] Senku**
Yeah.
**[13:50] Senku**
If Magma were to become the elder,
**[13:53] Senku**
it might be hard to even
get the medicine to Ruri.
**[13:58] Kohaku**
It's also an opportunity.
**[14:00] Kohaku**
If a man from the kingdom of science
defeats Magma and wins the Grand Bout,
**[14:04] Kohaku**
marries Ruri-nee, and becomes
the elder, it'll solve everything.
**[14:08] Kohaku**
Rounding up citizens for
the kingdom of science
**[14:10] Kohaku**
and giving Ruri-nee the cure-all
medicine would be easy.
**[14:16] Kohaku**
Kinro, Ginro,
**[14:18] Kohaku**
there's something I want to ask you.
**[14:21] Kohaku**
How do you view Ruri-nee?
**[14:25] Kohaku**
Would you like to take her as your wife?
**[14:28] Ginro**
I-I've never even thought about it.
**[14:31] Ginro**
But Ruri-chan—
**[14:32] Ginro**
Ruri-sama is pretty, and I mean...
her face is almost the same as yours, but...
**[14:39] Ginro**
But she's busty— I mean,
she's really graceful and cute,
**[14:41] Ginro**
and she has big, round eyes...
**[14:43] Kinro**
All you've talked about is about her face.
**[14:45] Kinro**
Do you only ever look at a girl's appearance?
**[14:47] Kinro**
You're utterly shallow, Ginro.
**[14:50] Ginro**
C-Come on, I said she's bus—
she's bu— she's graceful!
**[14:55] Kinro**
My answer is simple.
**[14:57] Kinro**
The gatekeeper doesn't ask questions.
**[14:59] Kinro**
Rules are rules.
**[15:01] Kinro**
But listening to one murmur to
themselves is not against the rules.
**[15:07] Kinro**
I already understand that Senku isn't evil.
**[15:13] Kinro**
You can skip the explanation, as usual.
**[15:16] Kinro**
What's your objective?
**[15:23] Kohaku**
I want to save my sister's life.
**[15:35] Kohaku**
All right.
**[15:37] Ginro**
You don't need to explain further.
**[15:40] Kohaku**
Too shallow!
**[15:41] Kohaku**
Do you really think you can
defeat Magma like that?
**[15:45] Ginro**
Let's take a break!
**[15:48] Kinro**
No!
**[15:48] Kinro**
Finish three more sets first!
**[15:50] Kohaku**
Hold it!
**[15:58] Kohaku**
Chrome.
**[16:00] Kohaku**
I'd really prefer to train
you more than anyone.
**[16:03] Kohaku**
But Kinro and Ginro are the only ones
who have a chance of defeating Magma.
**[16:09] Kohaku**
I'm sorry.
**[16:11] Senku**
Yo, Chrome, she's being all
"sorry, sorry!" about our plan
**[16:15] Senku**
to get Kinro or Ginro to marry Ruri
**[16:17] Senku**
because you're in love with her.
**[16:19] Kohaku**
You're as brutal as ever.
**[16:27] (Flashback) Chrome**
This place is amazing!
**[16:30] (Flashback) Chrome**
Hey, Ruri!
**[16:33] (Flashback) Ruri**
I'm okay.
**[16:34] (Flashback) Chrome**
Is it the usual thing again?
**[16:38] (Flashback) Ruri**
Chrome, they told me I'm
not going to get better.
**[16:43] (Flashback) Ruri**
I'm not going to live to become an adult.
**[16:46] (Flashback) Chrome**
I'll take care of it, Ruri.
**[16:48] (Flashback) Chrome**
I'll look for whatever I can.
**[16:50] (Flashback) Chrome**
I promise I'll cure you someday!
**[16:59] Chrome**
Yeah.
**[17:00] Chrome**
I'm totally cool with that.
**[17:04] Chrome**
I can ask for nothing more than the cure-all
**[17:07] Chrome**
science drug to save Ruri
so she can live a good life.
**[17:11] Chrome**
I'm the genius sciencer, after all.
**[17:17] Senku**
Job-changing from a sorcerer
to a sciencer, huh?
**[17:20] Chrome**
Yeah. I'm not calling myself
a sorcerer anymore.
**[17:23] Senku**
Let's let the battle team
deal with the Grand Bout
**[17:26] Senku**
while we, the science team,
focus on making the sulfa drug.
**[17:30] Chrome**
Heck yeah!
**[17:38] Kohaku**
I plan on participating in the Grand Bout.
**[17:41] Kohaku**
The kingdom of science team,
with Kinro, Ginro and me,
**[17:44] Kohaku**
will do whatever it takes
to stop Magma's victory.
**[17:47] Chrome**
Yeah.
**[17:50] Chrome**
Hey, Gen, are you all right?
**[17:52] Kohaku**
His recovery is going to take
a long time at this rate.
**[17:56] Chrome**
Which means...
**[17:57] Senku**
Yeah.
**[17:59] Senku**
We have a short time limit before
Tsukasa comes to kill me.
**[18:39] Ginro**
I'm still sleepy!
**[18:42] Kinro**
Wake up, Ginro.
**[18:44] Kinro**
You *just* agreed to do morning training
until we rotate on our guard duty.
**[18:47] Chrome**
Oh, no!
**[18:49] Chrome**
Gen's vanished!
**[18:56] Senku**
Yeah, I'm sure he went back to Tsukasa.
**[19:01] Chrome**
But why would he sneak out like that?
**[19:03] Kohaku**
That bat bastard better not intend
to tell Tsukasa that Senku's alive.
**[19:09] Chrome**
This is bad, Senku.
**[19:10] Chrome**
We have to go after him.
**[19:32] Gen**
Wait, Tsukasa-chan! It's me!
**[19:37] Gen**
Tsukasa-chan!
**[19:38] Gen**
I found a primitive village.
**[19:41] Gen**
I got in a fight with them and
ended up just slightly injured.
**[19:50] Gen**
And Senku-chan was...
**[19:54] Kohaku**
We have to catch the bat bastard, quick.
**[19:58] Senku**
Hold it!
**[20:03] Kohaku**
Why are you stopping me, Senku?
**[20:05] Kohaku**
We have to catch the bat bastard!
**[20:08] Senku**
We can leave him be.
**[20:11] Senku**
If Gen really didn't have a
millimeter of interest in science,
**[20:16] Senku**
he never would have cooperated to begin with.
**[20:20] Senku**
He'd already made up his mind on whose
side he was on when I made electricity.
**[20:27] Senku**
But as a superficial man, he has
his superficial ways of saving face.
**[20:34] Kohaku**
Men are such a pain in the ass,
**[20:37] Kohaku**
in any era.
**[20:40] (Flashback) Gen**
This is making me thirsty for a drink.
**[20:45] (Flashback) Gen**
Like, say, cola.
**[20:47] (Flashback) Gen**
Can you make it in this
stone world, Senku-chan?
**[20:54] (Flashback) Gen**
Can you make a bottle of cola?
**[21:01] (Flashback) Senku**
Yeah, I can.
**[21:03] (Flashback) Senku**
Even if no one else can.
**[21:12] Gen**
Senku-chan... was gone without a trace.
**[21:19] Gen**
He's dead, without a doubt.
**[21:24] Chrome**
So Gen's joining the kingdom of science?
**[21:26] Senku**
Yeah.
**[21:27] Senku**
I'm sure he'll wander back
like nothing happened.
**[21:31] Kohaku**
Looks like the first battle between the
Tsukasa Empire and the kingdom of science,
**[21:34] Kohaku**
the fight for Asagiri Gen, ends in
victory for the kingdom of science.
**[21:38] Suika**
Gen is a good person after all!
**[21:41] Chrome**
Yeah!
**[21:43] Senku**
* It's the world's flimsiest alliance,*
* bound by a single bottle of cola.*
**[21:50] Gen**
Man, this really isn't worth it.
**[21:54] Gen**
All for a single bottle of cola...
**[21:57] Gen**
I hope it's super well-cooled, at least.
**[22:02] Senku**
All right, damn it.
**[22:04] Senku**
I'll have to apply science to
make Gen a ridiculously chilled
**[22:07] Senku**
bottle of cola in time for when he gets back.
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