E16 - A Tale for the Ages

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[00:06] Kokuyo
    Listen, all!
[00:08] Kokuyo
    From this day forth, this man, Senku,
    is the new chief of Ishigami Village!
[00:16] Senku
    Ishigami Village?
[00:20] Ruri
    Yes, Senku.
[00:23] Ruri
    I've known about you for a long time.
[00:30] Ruri
    Your name is Ishigami Senku.
[00:40] Senku
    Thanks. Everything
    finally makes sense now.
[00:44] Senku
    If everyone on the planet was petrified,
    who first made this village?
[00:50] Senku
    Why do you and Kohaku clearly
    have foreign blood in you?
[00:56] Senku
    All the mysteries are solved.
[01:01] Kohaku
    No, sorry... None of it makes sense to me.
[01:05] Chrome
    Yeah. How does Senku happen to have
    the same name as the village?
[01:10] Chrome
    Wait, Ruri, you knew about Senku?
[01:14] Senku
    I probably come up in your
    priestess mythology, don't I?
[01:20] Ruri
    Yes.
[01:21] Chrome
    Mythology? You mean like Momotaro
    with the gorilla and all that?
[01:25] Senku
    No wonder you people
    know about folk tales
[01:28] Senku
    and giant animals you would
    never have seen before.
[01:31] Kohaku
    Yeah, Ruri-nee taught us
    about all kinds of things.
[01:35] Kohaku
    The stories the priestess uses to pass
    down knowledge to the next generation,
[01:39] Kohaku
    the Hundred Tales.
[01:42] (Flashback) Mom
    Ruri.
[01:45] (Flashback) Mom
    This last story, the hundredth,
[01:49] (Flashback) Mom
    is believed to be a true story that
    happened a long, long time ago.
[01:56] Ruri
    The story my mother told me
    was very powerful, and very kind.
[02:05] Ruri
    The hundredth story of the Hundred Tales.
[02:14] Ruri
    Its title is...
[02:18] Ruri
    "Ishigami Senku."
SIGN    A Tale for the Ages
[04:04] (Flashback) Senku
    Why do you keep following me, Moon?
[04:16] (Flashback) Senku
    Even if I juke it really hard, it follows
    me ten billion percent of the time.
[04:22] Ruri
    Ever since he was very young, the boy,
    Senku, showed interest in anything strange.
[04:32] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Maybe it has a crush on you, Senku.
[04:38] (Flashback) Senku
    I don't need that crap right now.
[04:41] (Flashback) Senku
    I'm talking serious science.
[04:43] Byakuya
    What kind of preschooler are you?
[04:47] (Flashback) Byakuya
    The reason the Moon looks
    like it's following you
[04:50] (Flashback) Byakuya
    is because it's super-duper far away.
[04:52] (Flashback) Byakuya
    It's especially far away for me,
    since I failed the astronaut exam.
[05:00] (Flashback) Senku
    I don't care about your wistful
    poetry right now, either.
[05:04] (Flashback) Byakuya
    My leg cramped up in the middle
    of the clothed swimming exam.
[05:08] (Flashback) Byakuya
    I was never a good swimmer to begin with.
[05:10] (Flashback) Byakuya
    That was rough.
[05:12] (Flashback) Senku
    When's the next time they'll
    be recruiting astronauts?
[05:15] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Who knows?
[05:17] (Flashback) Byakuya
    It's something like once per decade.
[05:24] (Flashback) Senku
    I'm going to space.
[05:25] (Flashback) Sensei
    An astronaut!
SIGN    What I want to become
[05:27] (Flashback) Sensei
    That's a great dream.
[05:29] (Flashback) Sensei
    Well, when you grow up...
[05:31] (Flashback) Senku
    No, I'm going immediately.
[05:34] Byakuya
    Senku loves space as much as I do,
[05:36] Byakuya
    but he thinks for himself and
    builds things for himself.
[05:40] Byakuya
    He was thoroughly hooked on
    the fascination of science.
SIGN    Hirosue University
[05:53] Student A
    What's your next class?
[05:54] Student B
    My grades are so bad.
SIGN    JAXA Accepting Astronaut Candidate Applications
SIGN    Accepting Applications
    for Astronaut Candidates
[05:59] (Flashback) Byakuya
    JAXA astronaut candidates...
[06:02] (Flashback) Byakuya
    The first time they've hired in ten years.
SIGN    Accepting Astronaut Candidate Applications
SIGN    Science Lab
[06:23] (Flashback) Taiju
    What are we doing with this thing, Senku?
[06:32] (Flashback) Taiju
    My hand's moving on its own!
[06:33] (Flashback) Taiju
    What the heck?!
[06:36] (Flashback) Senku
    Of course it is.
[06:37] (Flashback) Senku
    I'm sending electricity
    straight into the muscles.
[06:59] (Flashback) Byakuya
    What is this weird suit?
[07:10] (Flashback) Byakuya
    My limbs are twitching and doing
    breaststrokes on their own!
[07:14] (Flashback) Senku
    The clothed swimming test is your
    biggest issue with the exam, right?
[07:17] (Flashback) Senku
    We'll pound the motions into your muscles
[07:19] (Flashback) Senku
    with the electrode training suit from hell.
[07:22] (Flashback) Byakuya
    I can't swim in this thing!
SIGN    Astronaut Selection Exam Venue
[07:45] (Flashback) Person A
    He made that crazy suit himself?
    In fifth grade?
[07:48] (Flashback) Person B
    So was it actually useful?
[07:50] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Of course not.
[07:52] (Flashback) Person C
    I figured.
[07:54] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Though...
[07:57] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Senku made it just for me.
[08:01] (Flashback) Byakuya
    I had to swim in it, even if it killed me.
[08:06] (Flashback) Byakuya
    In the end, I managed to make it
    through the clothed swimming test,
[08:10] (Flashback) Byakuya
    and I made it here to the interview.
[08:13] (Flashback) Byakuya
    I'm going to become an astronaut and
    go into space, no matter what.
[08:18] (Flashback) Byakuya
    And I'm going to work for science.
[08:21] (Flashback) Byakuya
    That's the only way I can repay Senku.
SIGN    — 5 Years Later —
[08:31] (Flashback) Reporter
    The crew has begun boarding.
[08:35] (Flashback) Reporter
    The launch of the Soyuz
    rocket is about to commence.
[08:38] (Flashback) Reporter
    There's also an astronaut from Japan
[08:38] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Hey, are you terrestrial TV?
[08:40] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Online?
[08:40] (Flashback) Reporter
    planning a long-term stay on the
    International Space Station...
[08:41] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Either way, this is live, right?
[08:44] (Flashback) Reporter
    It's Ishigami Byakuya-san!
[08:47] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Senku, knowing you,
[08:51] (Flashback) Byakuya
    you probably aren't watching the
    broadcast, but just in case...
[08:55] (Flashback) Byakuya
    I'm going to bring home tons
    of scientific gifts for you.
[08:59] Byakuya
    Just wait!
[09:00] (Flashback) Senku
    Oh, shut up.
[09:02] Byakuya
    Shoot, I gotta go.
    They're going to leave me behind.
[09:03] (Flashback) Student A
    Wait, is that your dad, Ishigami-kun?
[09:05] (Flashback) Student B
    Let me see!
[09:06] (Flashback) Sensei
    Students, class is still in session.
[09:27] Senku
    The man who started the first
    generation of Ishigami Village...
[09:32] Senku
    was Ishigami Byakuya.
[09:35] Senku
    My father.
[09:48] Astronaut A
    This is the Soyuz.
[09:50] Astronaut A
    Commencing final preparations for docking
    with the International Space Station.
[10:11] Astronaut B
    Docking successful.
[10:21] (Flashback) Yakov
    Welcome to the
    International Space Station!
[10:24] (Flashback) Connie
    Y-You've had a long journey.
[10:28] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Pleasure to work with you.
[10:29] (Flashback) Dalia
    Sorry about my husband.
[10:31] (Flashback) Dalia
    He's got a huge voice for
    someone with no balls.
[10:35] (Flashback) Byakuya
    I'm Ishigami Byakuya.
[10:37] (Flashback) Byakuya
    This is Shamil.
[10:39] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Nice to meet you.
[10:42] (Flashback) Lillian
    Why are these hallways so narrow?
[10:44] (Flashback) Lillian
    I'm not the same as y'all.
[10:48] (Flashback) Lillian
    I spent 50 million dollars
    to buy a seat in the Soyuz.
[10:51] (Flashback) Lillian
    I'm a space tourist, I'll have you know.
[10:53] (Flashback) Lillian
    And this is how you greet me, Diva Lillian?
[11:00] (Flashback) Lillian
    Don't tell me you don't know me!
[11:02] (Flashback) Yakov
    N-No, of course I do.
[11:04] (Flashback) Yakov
    I even have your CDs.
[11:06] (Flashback) Lillian
    Then you get it, don't you?
[11:08] (Flashback) Yakov
    I do.
[11:09] (Flashback) Yakov
    C-Calm down.
[11:10] (Flashback) Lillian
    Do you really?
[11:19] (Flashback) Lillian
    Why are you laughing, Byakuya?
[11:22] (Flashback) Lillian
    I could have kept it up a while longer.
[11:24] (Flashback) Lillian
    Jeez!
[11:25] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Sorry, it was just so bad.
[11:29] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Who even talks like that?
[11:31] (Flashback) Shamil
    What a way to start our stay.
[11:33] (Flashback) Shamil
    Stop laughing and make her stop, old man.
[11:36] (Flashback) Lillian
    I'm truly sorry, everyone.
[11:39] (Flashback) Lillian
    I'm Lillian Weinberg.
[11:41] (Flashback) Lillian
    I look forward to this coming week.
[11:43] (Flashback) Lillian
    I'll try my best not to get in the way.
[11:48] (Flashback) Yakov
    I thought the next week was going to be hell.
[11:52] (Flashback) Dalia
    You got us good.
[11:54] (Flashback) Dalia
    If you were being serious, one more
    minute and I would have killed you.
[11:59] (Flashback) Dalia
    I'm Dalia. Nice to meet you.
[12:02] (Flashback) Dalia
    That trembling giant over
    there is my husband, Yakov.
[12:07] (Flashback) Yakov
    I thought I was going to have a heart attack.
[12:10] (Flashback) Yakov
    Dalia and I were both doctors.
[12:13] (Flashback) Yakov
    Talk to us if you ever feel sick.
[12:16] (Flashback) Lillian
    That's reassuring. Thank you.
[12:18] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Yakov's good to have around.
[12:21] (Flashback) Byakuya
    It's his second time in space, after all.
[12:24] (Flashback) Byakuya
    He's a bit of a wimp, but he's a veteran.
[12:26] (Flashback) Dalia
    Why are you acting like
    you're such a hotshot?
[12:28] (Flashback) Shamil
    Knock it off, old man.
[12:30] (Flashback) Yakov
    I'm kind of a big deal.
[12:33] (Flashback) Dalia
    You, too. Don't get full of yourself.
[12:35] (Flashback) Dalia
    The girl behind him is Connie.
[12:38] (Flashback) Dalia
    She was a staffer at NASA.
[12:43] (Flashback) Connie
    I-I'm...
[12:46] (Flashback) Connie
    I'm a huge fan of yours, Lillian-san!
[12:53] (Flashback) Lillian
    Huh?
[12:56] (Flashback) Dalia
    That came out of nowhere, Connie.
[12:59] (Flashback) Connie
    Um...
[13:01] (Flashback) Connie
    That's all.
[13:03] (Flashback) Yakov
    Come on, Connie-chan.
[13:05] (Flashback) Yakov
    Get in there and demand an autograph.
[13:08] (Flashback) Yakov
    Go on!
[13:10] (Flashback) Connie
    May I... have your... autograph?
[13:14] (Flashback) Lillian
    Sure, of course.
[13:17] (Flashback) Connie
    Thank you!
[13:19] (Flashback) Yakov
    Did you see my assist?!
[13:22] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Well, I guess it's time to set the stage
    for a proper greeting for Diva Lillian,
[13:27] (Flashback) Byakuya
    who spent 50 million to get here.
[13:32] (Flashback) Byakuya
    This'll be our background music
    for the rest of the trip.
[13:35] (Flashback) Connie
    Agreed!
[13:36] (Flashback) Dalia
    Let's play it at least a hundred times a day.
[13:38] (Flashback) Lillian
    No! Please, no! That's too embarrassing!
[13:41] (Flashback) Lillian
    I'm sorry, I really am!
[15:09] Lillian
    That concludes my mini-concert in space.
[15:13] Lillian
    I'm not masochistic enough
    to want to sing live
[15:15] Lillian
    in front of my astronaut buddies,
[15:17] Lillian
    so you'll have to let me off the hook now.
[15:19] Lillian
    See you, fans!
[15:24] (Flashback) Lillian
    Aren't y'all going to use the
    comms, Shamil and Byakuya?
[15:28] (Flashback) Lillian
    To contact your family or anything?
[15:30] (Flashback) Shamil
    No need.
[15:32] (Flashback) Shamil
    I don't have family.
[15:33] (Flashback) Lillian
    What about you, Byakuya?
[15:35] (Flashback) Byakuya
    I have a son named Senku,
[15:39] (Flashback) Byakuya
    but he's a bratty kid, like Shamil here.
[15:42] (Flashback) Byakuya
    He has no interest in staying in touch.
[15:45] (Flashback) Byakuya
    He's probably focused on his
    research right about now.
[15:54] Senku
    The distribution of posts
    about stone swallow figures
[15:57] Senku
    being found around the
    world is proportional
[16:00] Senku
    to the distribution of
    swallow populations.
[16:03] Senku
    Calculating statistical
    significance would be overkill.
[16:06] Senku
    Which means these stone figures are
    real swallows that have been petrified.
[16:12] Senku
    Swallows being petrified
    all over the world?
[16:15] Senku
    That's so insane, it's hilarious.
[16:18] (Flashback) Senku
    This is exhilarating.
[16:28] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Can't sleep?
[16:30] (Flashback) Lillian
    Sorry, was I too loud?
[16:33] (Flashback) Byakuya
    So loud, my eardrums popped.
[16:40] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Sorry about that.
[16:42] (Flashback) Byakuya
    You really like singing, huh?
[16:48] (Flashback) Lillian
    I've been singing my whole life.
[16:49] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Since you were a kid?
[16:52] (Flashback) Lillian
    I picked up a record in the trash one day.
[16:57] (Flashback) Lillian
    I've been listening to songs every day since.
[17:02] (Flashback) Lillian
    Then, one day, my record player broke down.
[17:07] (Flashback) Lillian
    After that, I started singing for myself.
[17:10] (Flashback) Lillian
    Singing was just so much fun.
[17:14] (Flashback) Lillian
    I want all kinds of people from
    all around the world to hear me sing.
[17:20] (Flashback) Lillian
    If it makes people appreciate the world
    and feel glad they were born,
[17:26] (Flashback) Lillian
    that would make me so happy.
[17:28] (Flashback) Lillian
    Just as I felt back then...
[17:35] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Sorry about that.
[17:37] (Flashback) Lillian
    This is seriously embarrassing.
[17:42] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Hey...
[17:45] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Would you mind letting Senku
    hear you sing someday, too?
[17:53] (Flashback) Lillian
    Of course.
[17:57] (Flashback) Miso
    Hey!
[17:58] (Flashback) Miso
    I'm miso soup!
[18:00] (Flashback) Miso
    Help me!
[18:01] (Flashback) Miso
    I don't want to get eaten!
[18:03] (Flashback) Miso
    Whew, I'm flying!
[18:04] (Flashback) Miso
    Zero gravity!
[18:05] (Flashback) Miso
    I'm free!
[18:11] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Oh, no, you don't!
[18:12] (Flashback) Connie
    What are you doing?
[18:16] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Want to try some Japanese, Shamil?
[18:20] (Flashback) Shamil
    This nutrient jelly is enough for me.
[18:23] (Flashback) Byakuya
    For every meal?!
[18:25] (Flashback) Byakuya
    D-Don't you get tired of it?
[18:31] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Here.
[18:35] (Flashback) Lillian
    What's that? Noodles?
[18:37] (Flashback) Byakuya
    It's ramen that I had custom-made.
[18:39] (Flashback) Byakuya
    It's the same taste you can get at the
    popular spot my son Senku and I frequented.
[18:44] (Flashback) Shamil
    I don't deny that you have good
    taste, but you're pampering us.
[18:49] (Flashback) Shamil
    The Space Agency people are here to work.
[18:53] (Flashback) Shamil
    Humans don't need to have fun to survive.
[18:56] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Come on, just try it.
[18:58] (Flashback) Byakuya
    It'll shock you.
[19:15] (Flashback) Byakuya
    See?
[19:16] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Isn't it scary good?
[19:17] (Flashback) Lillian
    Really? Can I try some?
[19:21] (Flashback) Shamil
    No...
[19:23] (Flashback) Shamil
    Look.
[19:24] (Flashback) Shamil
    Outside the window.
[19:27] (Flashback) Shamil
    At Earth.
[19:38] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Senku!
[20:12] (Flashback) Shamil
    Why?!
[20:13] (Flashback) Shamil
    I can't get in touch with
    either NASA or Roscosmos!
[20:16] (Flashback) Lillian
    Is it broken?
[20:17] (Flashback) Byakuya
    No, no one's responding.
[20:19] (Flashback) Connie
    N-No one's responding over
    amateur radio, either.
[20:22] (Flashback) Dalia
    That light...
[20:24] (Flashback) Dalia
    Something must have happened on the surface.
[20:25] (Flashback) Dalia
    Something terrible.
[20:28] (Flashback) Connie
    L-Like a nuclear war?
[20:31] (Flashback) Dalia
    Don't even talk like that!
[20:35] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Yes!
[20:36] (Flashback) Byakuya
    The Internet works.
[20:38] (Flashback) Lillian
    Is anyone tweeting about the situation?
[20:45] (Flashback) Byakuya
    No good.
[20:46] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Everyone around the world stopped
    posting at the same time.
[20:49] (Flashback) Byakuya
    I know! The live cameras!
[20:56] (Flashback) Byakuya
    There!
[20:59] (Flashback) Byakuya
    What the hell is this?
[21:01] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Statues?
[21:04] (Flashback) Lillian
    Is this even possible?
[21:17] (Flashback) Connie
    Oh, God...
[21:25] (Flashback) Yakov
    We shouldn't do anything rash.
[21:26] (Flashback) Yakov
    Let's wait here.
[21:28] (Flashback) Yakov
    There are seven billion
    humans on the planet.
[21:31] (Flashback) Yakov
    Let's wait for the survivors to contact us.
[21:33] (Flashback) Yakov
    They'll help us!
[21:35] (Flashback) Shamil
    Wait for how long?
[21:37] (Flashback) Shamil
    A month?
[21:38] (Flashback) Shamil
    Two months?
[21:39] (Flashback) Shamil
    With humanity in this state,
[21:41] (Flashback) Shamil
    we don't have any hope of
    a rescue out here in space.
[21:50] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Let's go back to Earth.
[21:54] (Flashback) Yakov
    What are you talking about, Byakuya?!
[21:56] (Flashback) Yakov
    I told you, there are seven billion people!
[21:59] (Flashback) Yakov
    Someone will come help us!
[22:00] (Flashback) Byakuya
    No, Yakov.
[22:04] (Flashback) Byakuya
    We're the last six humans.
[22:09] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Wait for help?
[22:11] (Flashback) Byakuya
    You're wrong.
[22:14] (Flashback) Byakuya
    We're going to help them.
[22:17] (Flashback) Byakuya
    All seven billion humans.
SIGN    A Hundred Nights and a Thousand Skies
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SIGN    A Hundred Nights and a Thousand Skies
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