E19 - To Modernity

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[00:21] (Flashback) Kyoichiro
    That's the guy Tsukasa-san's
    been looking for all this time.
[00:25] (Flashback) Morito
    What? Really?
[00:30] (Flashback) Akashi
    Who is this guy?
[00:41] (Flashback) Tsukasa
    Hello, Hyoga.
[00:43] (Flashback) Tsukasa
    You're 3,700 years in the future.
[00:47] (Flashback) Tsukasa
    This is a new world,
    where your skills can truly shine.
[00:56] (Flashback) Gozan
    I was wondering what kind of
    badass he was going to revive,
[00:59] (Flashback) Gozan
    but this guy's just a little twig!
[01:03] (Flashback) Akashi
    Is he really gonna be of any use?
[01:08] (Flashback) Tsukasa
    You'll understand if you fight him.
[01:11] (Flashback) Tsukasa
    Care for a spar?
[01:13] (Flashback) Kyoichiro
    You sure? He might end up dead.
[01:16] (Flashback) Kyoichiro
    I feel kinda bad for the guy.
[01:18] (Flashback) Morito
    He just woke up, after all!
[01:23] (Flashback) Hyoga
    I don't mind.
[01:27] (Flashback) Hyoga
    If I can use my favored weapon,
    I'll take on ten men by myself.
[01:37] (Flashback) Gozan
    Too late to back out now!
[01:48] (Flashback) Gen
    Well, that's certainly impressive.
[01:53] (Flashback) Tsukasa
    I apologize. There weren't enough men
    for a warm-up spar after your rest.
[01:59] (Flashback) Hyoga
    It's not a question of numbers.
[02:03] (Flashback) Hyoga
    The only proper fighter here...
[02:05] (Flashback) Hyoga
    in other words, the one
    I wouldn't want to fight,
[02:10] (Flashback) Hyoga
    is you, the strongest primate,
    Shishio Tsukasa-kun.
[02:15] (Flashback) Tsukasa
    Let me show you around our new world.
[02:43] (Flashback) Tsukasa
    You see, Hyoga, nature is
    generous with its bounty.
[02:47] (Flashback) Tsukasa
    We lack nothing.
[02:50] (Flashback) Tsukasa
    The world was like that for ages,
    long before people began to live on it.
[02:56] (Flashback) Tsukasa
    It didn't belong to anyone.
[03:00] (Flashback) ---
    But the moment you and I were
    born, the old world told us:
[03:07] (Flashback) ---
    "This world, down to its
    last square centimeter,
[03:12] (Flashback) ---
    belongs to some rich old fool."
[03:17] (Flashback) Minami
    That's right.
[03:19] (Flashback) Minami
    I worked myself ragged day in and day out,
[03:22] (Flashback) Minami
    then had to give up more than
    half of it for rent and whatnot.
[03:25] (Flashback) Minami
    That's more or less slavery,
    looking back on it now.
[03:28] (Flashback) Minami
    The privileged exploit the impoverished
    young, feeding on them.
[03:33] (Flashback) Minami
    That was the old world, where people
    fought and stole from each other.
[03:36] (Flashback) Minami
    I'm a lot happier now.
[03:41] (Flashback) Minami
    Although part of that comes from being a fan
[03:44] (Flashback) Minami
    of the strongest primate, Tsuka-san.
[03:47] (Flashback) Dude A
    Hey, we caught a big one!
[03:52] (Flashback) Dude A
    We're back, Tsukasa-san.
[03:54] (Flashback) Tsukasa
    Excellent work.
[03:57] (Flashback) Dude A
    We managed to find a boar this time. 
    Brought it down, too!
[03:58] Gen
    Well, Tsukasa-chan was already
    charismatic in the old world...
[04:01] (Flashback) Tsukasa
    Thank you both.
[04:04] Gen
    Take someone strong,
    handsome, and soft-spoken,
[04:07] Gen
    give him a half-decent argument,
[04:10] Gen
    and it'll be tough to talk
    anyone into turning on him.
[04:20] (Flashback) Tsukasa
    Now, Hyoga, would you have called the
    society of 3,700 years ago a utopia?
[04:27] (Flashback) Hyoga
    Not at all.
[04:29] (Flashback) Tsukasa
    Suppose the privileged class of
    the old world was revived now,
[04:34] (Flashback) Tsukasa
    and they obtained the weapons of
    science that make killing so easy.
[04:38] (Flashback) Tsukasa
    What do you think would happen?
[04:40] (Flashback) Hyoga
    I imagine they'd try to use
    those weapons to recreate
[04:44] (Flashback) Hyoga
    the pyramid of wealth they stood upon.
[04:46] (Flashback) Hyoga
    No one who has sampled that
    sweet nectar could ever abandon it.
[04:51] (Flashback) Hyoga
    Regardless, this world has been reset
[04:54] (Flashback) Hyoga
    and is in no condition to
    support seven billion lives.
[04:59] (Flashback) Hyoga
    There must be a culling.
[05:02] (Flashback) Gen
    The two most dangerous fighters,
    and they're in total agreement...
[05:08] (Flashback) Tsukasa
    Then a new world must be built by the young.
[05:13] (Flashback) Tsukasa
    There's no need to recreate the old one.
[05:20] (Flashback) Tsukasa
    There was a... I'm not sure
    I can call him a friend,
[05:25] (Flashback) Tsukasa
    but a man named Senku who had
    a superhuman grasp of science,
[05:28] (Flashback) Tsukasa
    and he sought to revive the old world.
[05:33] (Flashback) Tsukasa
    So...
[05:35] (Flashback) Tsukasa
    I killed him with my own hands.
[05:38] (Flashback) Tsukasa
    With no Senku, there will be no science.
[05:42] (Flashback) Tsukasa
    The corrupt human race will be purified
    and march on to a new world.
[05:50] (Flashback) Tsukasa
    To accomplish that...
[05:53] (Flashback) Tsukasa
    I'll stain my hands as much as necessary.
SIGN    To Modernity
[07:50] Kyoichiro
    Th-They even cut through Hyoga-san's spear!
[07:53] Akashi
    Damn it, it's useless! Run for it!
[07:55] Ginro
    We did it!
[07:58] Hyoga
    Remarkable athleticism,
    coordinated teamwork,
[08:02] Hyoga
    and dirty betrayal...
[08:06] Hyoga
    And the scientific knowledge to
    create guns and Japanese katanas.
[08:10] Hyoga
    You people truly seem to know
    the proper way to do things.
[08:16] Hyoga
    It would have been even more
    proper if you had realized
[08:20] Hyoga
    that all of this was a distraction.
[08:27] Senku
    So that's what they were after...
[08:33] Chrome
    Crap! A fire!
[08:36] Unmo
    Run!
[08:37] Argo
    Head for the bridge! Hurry!
[08:43] Ruri
    Jasper! Turquoise!
[08:45] Ruri
    I don't need protection! Save the children!
[08:48] Both
    Right!
[08:59] Jasper
    The bridge...
[09:02] Turquoise
    Who is that?
[09:06] Homura
    A hindrance.
[09:07] Jasper
    Get everyone to safety!
[09:15] Jasper
    Another one?
[09:16] Hyoga
    Say hello to my right hand, Homura-kun.
[09:19] Hyoga
    She can properly handle herself,
    unlike these men and their melted brains.
[09:44] Kohaku
    What are those moves?
[09:53] Kaseki
    This is not good.
[09:55] Kaseki
    Once a fire starts,
[09:56] Kaseki
    the wind from the mountain
    will become a wind of death,
[09:59] Kaseki
    carrying the flames far and wide!
[10:01] Gen
    Everyone!
[10:03] Gen
    This way!
[10:06] Senku
    Forget about the houses!
    Do you people want to die?!
[10:10] Senku
    Get out of here right now!
[10:16] Chrome
    We can't go that way, either!
    The bridge is burned out!
[10:18] Chrome
    We have to get to the science shed!
[10:46] Gozan
    Nice work, Homura.
[10:47] Gozan
    I couldn't leave after being
    humiliated like that.
[10:50] Hyoga
    Your humiliation means nothing.
[10:53] Hyoga
    We set those fires to force
    the villagers out into the open.
[10:56] Hyoga
    That should be obvious,
    even to your melted brain.
[11:01] Hyoga
    We're dealing with people so naive that they
    wouldn't even abandon a village guard.
[11:07] Gozan
    Why does that matter?
[11:09] Kyoichiro
    I get it!
[11:10] Kyoichiro
    We grab one of the kids that we smoked out
[11:12] Kyoichiro
    and use 'em as a hostage! Then we win!
[11:14] Gozarin
    Of course! That makes sense!
[11:18] Kinro
    There's no guarantee they'll attack head-on.
[11:20] Kinro
    Keep your senses spread
    out in every direction!
[11:24] Ginro
    Can we really protect a group this big?!
[11:26] Kohaku
    Shelter the children in the
    science shed! It's our only hope!
[11:29] Ginro
    O-Okay!
[11:41] Senku
    Get the water!
[11:42] Kokuyo
    This way, hurry!
[11:44] Senku
    Start dousing, quick!
[11:44] ---
    Hurry up!
[11:45] Ginro
    It's burning up!
[11:47] Ginro
    All those minerals Chrome
    spent years gathering,
[11:50] Ginro
    and the lab we spent months building!
[11:52] Ginro
    If it gets wrecked, we'll...
[11:55] Suika
    I'm going to protect the kingdom of science!
[12:02] Akashi
    Look!
[12:02] Akashi
    Some dumb kid who didn't get away in time!
[12:08] Gozan
    After her! She'll be our hostage!
[12:13] Hyoga
    So devoted that she'd act as a
    diversion to help the others?
[12:17] Hyoga
    I certainly appreciate her naïveté.
[12:20] Hyoga
    We only need one captive to win,
[12:23] Hyoga
    and this will be far easier than attacking
    the home base of those soldiers of science.
[12:31] Suika
    Gotta hide and run in turns to lure
    them away from the kingdom of science.
[12:35] Suika
    I'll run upwind, toward the mountain,
[12:38] Suika
    so they can't smoke me out with more fire!
[12:43] Akashi
    There she is! That way!
[12:47] Kohaku
    Suika did what?!
[12:48] Ginro
    I-I tried to stop her!
[12:50] Ginro
    She was heading up the mountain
    to the hot springs!
[12:53] (Flashback) Kohaku
    Hey, this is the hot spring area that
    I draw hot water from all the time.
[12:57] (Flashback) Senku
    It gets dangerous up ahead.
[12:59] (Flashback) Senku
    The poison gases that form here,
[13:02] (Flashback) Senku
    hydrogen sulfide and sulfur
    dioxide, are heavier than air.
[13:06] Kohaku
    There's a strong wind coming
    down the mountain...
[13:10] Senku
    Something about this wind...
[13:14] Senku
    It's not exactly giving me a good feeling.
[13:18] Gozan
    Give it up already!
[13:20] Morito
    Let's break one of her
    legs when we catch her!
[13:35] Homura
    This wind... Death.
[13:42] Senku
    Suika!
[13:44] Senku
    Get up into a tree!
[13:50] Suika
    Wh-What just happened?!
[13:53] Kohaku
    You don't have to worry.
[13:55] Kohaku
    The poison gas will settle to the bottom.
[13:58] Kyoichiro
    Did she say... poison gas?!
[14:12] Senku
    Mother Nature is neither friend nor foe.
[14:17] Senku
    She's as impartial as they come.
[14:19] Gozan
    Poison gas?!
[14:21] Gozan
    Did you make this happen, you twig?!
[14:26] Senku
    Yeah, you bet I did.
[14:29] Senku
    That's what you get for pulling a
    dumbass move like a suicide attack
[14:33] Senku
    on our kingdom of science,
    with its modern weaponry.
[14:36] Senku
    Now, let's head back, Suika.
[14:40] Senku
    If you breathe nice and slow, you'll be fine.
[14:42] Suika
    O-Okay!
[14:46] Suika
    You guys head back and suckle
    on Mommy Tsukasa's teat...
[14:50] Suika
    After you wait ten billion seconds
    for the gas to clear out, that is.
[15:00] Gozan
    Is he screwing with us?!
    I'm not gonna wait ten billion seconds!
[15:03] Akashi
    How could he even make poison gas in
    this stone world in the first place?!
[15:09] Hyoga
    Good point. Let's deal with this properly.
[15:12] Hyoga
    We'll need to make sure the
    gas is gone before we move.
[15:15] Hyoga
    How fortunate that you lot
[15:17] Hyoga
    will finally do a job properly,
    despite your melted brains.
[15:38] Hyoga
    Well, look at that. They properly died.
[15:42] Hyoga
    So those gas masks, at least, were real.
[15:47] Hyoga
    It seems that Senku-kun
[15:49] Hyoga
    and his allies have a variety of metals
    and chemicals under their control.
[15:54] Hyoga
    The kingdom of science
    certainly does loom large.
[15:58] Kokuyo
    We can always rebuild the lost buildings!
[16:01] Kokuyo
    We've repelled the attackers
    without a single casualty!
[16:04] Kokuyo
    Ishigami Village has won this battle!
[16:10] Kokuyo
    You managed quite the achievement, Suika.
[16:14] Kaseki
    It was reckless as all get out, though.
[16:19] Hyoga
    We'll need to overwhelm them with numbers.
[16:23] Hyoga
    Tsukasa-kun and I will be
    among them, of course,
[16:26] Hyoga
    along with the most massive, powerful
    fighting force the empire can muster.
[16:50] Gen
    What are you going to do now?
[16:52] Gen
    Tsukasa-chan's finally about
    to find out that you're alive.
[16:56] Senku
    Yeah, and he'll also figure out that
    we can't produce the gunpowder
[17:00] Senku
    for guns fast enough.
[17:02] Ginro
    Wait, we can't?
[17:05] Kaseki
    What do you mean?
[17:06] Senku
    Listen up. The revival fluid that
    Tsukasa's guys have been cranking out
[17:11] Senku
    is actually pretty easy to make.
[17:14] Senku
    But we haven't revived a single statue.
[17:18] Senku
    And that's because we don't
    have the nitric acid we need.
[17:21] Senku
    We could make some
    from dung or sea shells,
[17:24] Senku
    but it'd take an insane amount
    and too much time.
[17:26] Senku
    No nitric acid means no gunpowder, either.
[17:30] Senku
    Tsukasa is smart enough to
    figure that out easily.
[17:35] Senku
    We don't even have any leftovers
    in our gunpowder supply.
[17:39] Kohaku
    There's so much science lingo,
    I'm not quite following...
[17:43] Kaseki
    Break it down more simply, would you?!
[17:46] Senku
    I'm trying to say that even if we have guns,
    he knows we can't really use them.
[17:51] Senku
    And knowing Tsukasa,
    he'll have a full army built up,
[17:55] Senku
    ready for a huge invasion.
[17:57] Gen
    The more time passes, the more
    fighters they have, after all...
[18:01] Gen
    Which doesn't apply to our gunpowder.
[18:06] Ginro
    S-So what are we gonna do?!
[18:09] Senku
    That should be obvious.
[18:12] Senku
    We attack them first.
[18:15] Senku
    With one of our fun scientific inventions.
[18:20] Kohaku
    I agree.
[18:21] Kohaku
    Waiting will put us at a disadvantage.
[18:23] Kohaku
    So the only option is to strike first!
[18:26] Senku
    We've gotta put that weapon of
    science together first, though.
[18:30] Chrome
    What is this weapon you're talking about?
[18:34] Senku
    Go ahead and cry tears of joy!
[18:36] Senku
    It's time to break out the real modern tech!
[18:41] Senku
    The scientific advancements we've
    recreated from the stone age
[18:44] Senku
    will finally reach all the way into modernity!
[18:48] Senku
    This is the stuff that won wars in modern times.
[18:52] Senku
    The strongest weapon in two
    million years of human history...
[18:55] Gen
    You... don't mean nukes, do you?
[18:57] Senku
    Nope.
[18:59] ---
    The strongest weapon in two
    million years of human history:
[19:02] ---
    communications technology.
[19:05] ---
    We're gonna make cellular phones,
    right here in the stone world!
[19:11] Kohaku
    Cell...
[19:12] Haseki
    ...ular...
[19:13] Ginro
    ...phones?
[19:16] Gen
    Is he crazy? Because he just
    said something really crazy.
[19:22] Magma
    A cellular phone?
[19:24] Magma
    What's that? Some kind of fish?
[19:29] Crowd
    From a distance?
[19:31] Ginro
    So you can talk to someone...
[19:34] Suika
    ...from really far away?
[19:36] Magma
    That is definitely sorcery!
[19:38] Kohaku
    Is such a thing really possible?!
[19:41] Chrome
    Oh, man! I wanna know how that works!
[19:45] Kohaku
    And that'll be our weapon?
[19:47] Senku
    You bet it will. Communications can
    completely turn the tide in a battle.
[19:52] Senku
    Suppose we have a double agent
    who leaks intel to us in real time...
[19:57] Gen
    This is Asagiri Gen.
[19:59] Gen
    Senku-chan, the bad guys are
    wide open on the west side.
[20:02] Gen
    Barely even any guards. Over.
[20:06] Gen
    This is Asagiri Gen.
[20:08] Gen
    Senku-chan, the bad guys are
    wide open on the west side.
[20:12] Gen
    Barely even any guards. Over.
[20:15] Senku
    Now that's some exhilarating intel!
[20:17] Senku
    We're gonna go nuts on their western flank!
[20:20] Senku
    If we coordinate our efforts the right way,
[20:22] Senku
    we might be able to dismantle the
    Tsukasa Empire without bloodshed.
[20:26] Ginro
    But who would be our double agent?
[20:34] Senku
    They're already out there.
[20:42] Senku
    Two of them: Taiju and Yuzuriha!
[20:47] (Flashback) Taiju
    Smartphones!
[20:48] (Flashback) Senku
    Sure, smartphones!
[20:50] (Flashback) Senku
    Smartphones would be nice to have, huh?
[20:52] (Flashback) Taiju
    Smartphones?!
[20:54] (Flashback) Taiju
    You sure love your smartphone.
[20:57] Senku
    That blockhead Taiju wanted
    a smartphone so badly,
[21:02] Senku
    and now it's finally going to happen.
[21:12] Senku
    Granted, this time it'll just be a
    regular phone, not the smart kind.
[21:18] Chrome
    We can do this!
[21:20] Chrome
    We were able to make sulfa drugs,
    and they took a ton of work, too!
[21:25] Gen
    Uh, listen...
[21:26] Gen
    You guys clearly aren't aware of this,
[21:28] Gen
    but this road map is full
    of implausible things.
[21:34] Senku
    Nothing implausible about it.
[21:37] Senku
    No matter how far off the goal may seem,
[21:40] Senku
    if you stick to the rules, you'll get
    there ten billion percent of the time.
SIGN    Copper
SIGN    Coal
SIGN    Charcoal
SIGN    Beehive
SIGN    Sulfuric
    Acid
SIGN    Lead
SIGN    Tin
SIGN    Solder
SIGN    Gold
SIGN    Wire
SIGN    Coil
SIGN    Mercury
SIGN    Vacuum
    Pump
SIGN    Phosphorus
SIGN    Rochelle
    Salt
SIGN    Plastic
SIGN    Battery
SIGN    Circuit Board
SIGN    Vacuum Tube
SIGN    Light Bulb
SIGN    Wine
SIGN    Microphone
SIGN    Headphones
SIGN    Cell Phone
[21:45] Senku
    That's how science works.
[21:57] Hyoga
    All of Gen-kun's reports were lies.
[22:02] Hyoga
    The village already has
    considerable scientific power.
[22:08] Hyoga
    Senku-kun is alive.
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