E8 - Stone Road

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[00:06] Kaseki
    Someone from outside the village?
[00:10] Woman
    It's that criminal who got kicked
    out of the village a long time ago.
[00:14] Woman
    Who else could it be?
[00:17] Kujaku
    Maybe the stone statue people
    have started moving.
[00:20] Azura
    No way.
[00:23] Kokuyo
    It surely wasn't Kohaku who
    brought that foreigner in, was it?
[00:28] Jasper
    We don't know yet.
[00:30] Turquoise
    No, it was.
[00:31] Turquoise
    It was Kohaku-chan.
[00:33] Turquoise
    Jasper, you heard what Ginro said.
[00:36] Turquoise
    Don't tell such obvious lies for her.
[00:39] Kokuyo
    That fool!
[00:42] Kokuyo
    I've disowned her, and she
    still doesn't obey the rules.
[00:45] Kokuyo
    Damn it.
[00:49] Kokuyo
    Ruri!
[00:58] Chrome
    Tell me, Senku.
[01:00] Chrome
    How do we make the cure-all medicine?
[01:02] Chrome
    We're going to defeat Ruri's sickness!
[01:05] Kohaku
    I'll help in any way I can, if it
    means Ruri-nee will get better!
[01:12] Person A
    Ruri-sama!
[01:13] Person B
    I'm so worried.
[01:17] Person A
    She's not sick anymore!
[01:19] Person C
    Hooray for science!
[01:20] Person B
    I'm going to join the kingdom of science!
[01:23] Chrome
    I see what he's thinking.
[01:25] Chrome
    He's planning to save Ruri as
    part of some sleazy scheme.
[01:28] Kohaku
    I can't decide if he's a
    gentleman or a slimeball.
[01:32] Kohaku
    I guess he's just logical, but...
[01:36] Senku
    The kingdom of science is going
    to be making an antibiotic.
[01:40] Senku
    It's the scientific wonder drug that
    kills bacteria infecting a person.
[01:45] Senku
    It's saved hundreds of millions of lives
[01:47] Senku
    ever since it was discovered
    in the early twentieth century.
[01:51] Senku
    We can't do blood tests.
[01:53] Senku
    We have no idea what her disease even is.
[01:56] Senku
    But it's worth trying it anyway.
[02:00] Chrome
    All right, let's get on it right away!
[02:02] Kohaku
    What do we need?
[02:03] Senku
    We're missing all kinds of stuff.
[02:05] Senku
    Pay attention when I talk.
[02:07] Senku
    There are two routes to making antibiotics.
[02:10] Senku
    We can take the biological route and
    make penicillin from living things,
SIGN    Sulfa Drug
SIGN    Penicillin
[02:13] Senku
    or we can take the stone route
    and make sulfa drugs from rocks.
[02:16] Kohaku
    Hang on, Senku.
[02:18] Kohaku
    Living things? Rocks?
[02:20] Kohaku
    How would you make medicine from those?
[02:23] Senku
    Penicillin, made from green mold,
    is the more famous one.
[02:26] Senku
    But making penicillin in this stone world
    would be a crazy game of chance,
[02:32] Senku
    where we'd be going, "Hey, we managed
    to stumble upon this super green mold
[02:37] Senku
    that's ten billion times more powerful, woo!"
[02:39] Chrome
    Woo!
[02:40] Senku
    We'll just have to pray,
[02:43] Senku
    "Please, Lord, give us some of
    that nice green mold, thanks!"
[02:46] Senku
    Meanwhile, the stone route,
    making sulfa drugs,
[02:49] Senku
    will take insane amounts
    of diligence and manpower,
[02:52] Senku
    but even in this stone world,
    we'll land on the drug, ten billion percent.
[02:57] Chrome
    Then the answer is obvious!
[03:00] Senku
    You get it, don't you?
[03:04] Senku
    We're neither gods nor geniuses.
[03:07] Senku
    We crawl around on the ground,
    making everything step by step.
[03:21] Senku
    We're taking the stone route.
[03:24] Senku
    We'll get each of these things one by one
[03:26] Senku
    and warp right through two million
    years of science history.
[03:31] Senku
    This is the science roadmap to the cure-all.
SIGN    Iron
SIGN    Alcohol
SIGN    Electricity
SIGN    Vinegar
SIGN    Sodium
    Bicarbonate
SIGN    Salt
SIGN    Sulfuric
    Acid
SIGN    Urine
SIGN    Powerful
    Magnets
SIGN    Copper
SIGN    Phosphorus
SIGN    Sodium
    Hydroxide
SIGN    Sodium
    Hydrogen Sulfate
SIGN    Coal
SIGN    Aniline
SIGN    Chlorosulfuric Acid
SIGN    Hydrochloric Acid
SIGN    Carbonic Acid
SIGN    Acetic Anhydride
SIGN    Ammonia
SIGN    Cure-all
    Sulfa Drugs
[05:16] Chrome
    Oh, damn, man!
[05:18] Chrome
    Let's start with this "iron" stuff, then.
[05:20] Chrome
    Wait, what is iron, anyway?
[05:22] Chrome
    Teach me everything.
[05:24] Senku
    Iron isn't going to be that easy.
[05:26] Kohaku
    Senku-sensei's sorcery
    science classes, huh?
[05:30] Kohaku
    I don't think I could even keep up.
[05:35] Chrome
    Are you serious?! Damn!
[05:38] Chrome
    The planet's the one that's moving?! Dude!
[05:42] Senku
    Yeah, that's right.
[05:44] Kohaku
    That doesn't make sense.
[05:46] Kohaku
    Why am I not being flung
    off this branch, then?
[05:49] Senku
    Because there's gravity.
[05:52] Chrome
    I always thought it was weird.
[05:54] Chrome
    Some of the stars don't move at all.
[05:57] Senku
    That's the North Star.
[05:59] Senku
    It's a ridiculously useful star that's
    ten billion percent true north.
[06:03] Senku
    Remember that.
[06:04] Chrome
    Oh, is it?
[06:06] Kohaku
    It seems slightly off from true north.
[06:09] Senku
    It can't be. It's within the margin of error—
[06:14] Senku
    Earth's axis is shifting!
[06:16] Senku
    The whole planet has tilted slightly
    over the past 3,700 years.
[06:22] Senku
    It's currently AD 5,739.
[06:25] Senku
    The North Star's moved!
[06:28] Senku
    No wonder my GPS screwed up and
    got me lost on my way to Hakone.
[06:34] Senku
    A true scientist would laugh at me.
[06:37] Senku
    How could I not have seen that?
[06:40] Senku
    You guys are way more observant because
    you have no preconceived notions.
[06:44] Senku
    I'm such a loser.
[06:48] Kohaku
    You don't seem like a loser to me, Senku.
[06:53] Senku
    I'm not saying that to put myself down.
[06:55] Senku
    I think of myself as being so rational,
[06:57] Senku
    but I couldn't keep up on
    this scale. That's all.
[07:01] Senku
    3,700 years.
[07:04] Senku
    It never hit me until now
    how insanely long that is.
[07:08] Senku
    Wait, how did you know that the
    ex-North Star isn't true north?
[07:14] Chrome
    So even the great Senku
    doesn't know about this rock!
[07:18] Chrome
    This crazy rock that I happened
    to find on a bald mountain!
[07:22] Chrome
    For some reason, when you hang it or
    float it, it always points straight north!
[07:25] Chrome
    Isn't that nuts?
[07:30] Senku
    It's a magnet.
[07:31] Chrome
    You know of it?! Damn it!
[07:36] Senku
    Good going, Chrome.
[07:38] Senku
    If we have magnets...
[07:53] Kohaku
    Look at how much it picked up.
[07:55] Kohaku
    All this suspicious black sand!
[07:58] Senku
    We're finally taking the first step on
    the road to the kingdom of science.
SIGN    Iron
[08:01] Senku
    The curtain is rising on the age of iron!
[08:04] Senku
    Now that's exhilarating.
[08:07] Senku
    Seriously, though, that lioness...
[08:09] Senku
    Is everyone in your village like that?
[08:12] Chrome
    We have a few brute strength gorillas,
[08:15] Chrome
    but Kohaku's the only agile gorilla.
[08:17] Kohaku
    I said I'm not a gorilla!
[08:19] Kohaku
    Also, I'm doing all the collecting here!
[08:22] Kohaku
    Why don't you guys get off your
    asses and do some work, too?
[08:24] Kohaku
    We don't have enough manpower!
[08:27] Senku
    Sorry.
SIGN    Acquired iron sand!!
[08:31] Senku
    She's right, though.
    This is going to take all day.
[08:35] Chrome
    Should I get someone from
    the village to help out?
[08:37] Kohaku
    As far as the villagers know,
    you two are both suspicious sorcerers.
[08:42] Kohaku
    Sadly, no one's going to come help.
[08:52] Senku
    A watermelon?
[08:58] Kohaku
    It's Suika.
[09:00] Kohaku
    Why are you here?
[09:04] Kohaku
    Did you follow us here?
[09:07] Senku
    Her name is Suika?
[09:09] Chrome
    It's a nickname, probably.
[09:11] Chrome
    She's always wearing a watermelon rind.
[09:15] Chrome
    Hey, Suika! you took my magnet!
[09:20] Chrome
    Iron sand.
[09:22] Suika
    I want to help.
[09:25] Suika
    I can never make myself useful to anyone
    because I have this thing on my head.
[09:30] Suika
    That's not going to change
    even when I grow up.
[09:35] Suika
    So if there's ever anyone in need...
[09:38] Senku
    Yeah, yeah, I get it.
[09:43] Senku
    I appreciate it.
[09:45] Senku
    The kingdom of science
    doesn't turn anyone away.
[09:48] Senku
    We need all the help we can get.
[09:52] Senku
    A shrimp like you would be ten billion
    times better at gathering sand.
[09:58] Senku
    We're counting on you, Suika.
[10:05] Suika
    He's the first person to not ask me
    why I'm wearing this on my head.
[10:11] Suika
    He must have thought I don't want anyone
    to see my face, so he's being nice.
[10:15] Kohaku
    You really don't know Senku.
    You're glorifying him too much.
[10:20] Chrome
    He just doesn't care what you look
    like, as long as you're useful.
[10:24] Suika
    I'm going to gather all the iron sand!
[10:27] Suika
    Donburako, donburako...
[10:30] Chrome
    Who are you, Momotaro?!
[10:31] Chrome
    Don't drown!
[10:35] Senku
    You don't know Dragon Quest or Monster Hunter, but you do know Momotaro?
[10:39] Senku
    Who taught you?
[10:40] Chrome
    Hey, you know Momotaro, too?
[10:44] Suika
    Ruri-nee told us all about him.
[10:47] Senku
    Come to think of it,
    why do you know about gorillas?
[10:50] Senku
    Are they out in the wild?
[10:52] Kohaku
    I've never actually seen one.
[10:55] Chrome
    But there's a gorilla in Momotaro, isn't there?
[10:57] Senku
    No, there isn't!
[11:00] Chrome
    He used millet dumplings
    to win friends, remember?
[11:02] Chrome
    A bear, a lion, a gorilla, and an alligator.
[11:06] Senku
    What kind of wild-ass Momotaro is that?!
[11:09] Senku
    Was it meant to be an easy-to-understand
    story to teach about dangerous animals?
[11:14] Kohaku
    I heard all kinds of stories
    from Ruri-nee, too.
[11:18] Kohaku
    Come to think of it, I think I learned
    all my big words from Ruri-nee, too.
[11:23] Senku
    Ruri...
[11:24] Senku
    Just who are you?
[11:27] Senku
    I'm low-key interested in this Ruri chick.
[11:32] Senku
    We really need to make the cure-all
    and save her, whatever it takes.
[11:38] Chrome
    What do you mean, you're interested in Ruri?
[11:40] Chrome
    What does that mean, Senku?
[11:43] Kohaku
    Senku, Senku, Senku-sensei...
[11:46] Kohaku
    Chrome seems to have a crush on Ruri-nee.
[11:50] Senku
    So that's what it was.
[11:52] Senku
    Here we go.
[11:54] Kohaku
    And Chrome's such a child.
[11:57] Kohaku
    I like how oblivious he is.
[12:00] Chrome
    What are you guys talking about?!
[12:01] Chrome
    Damn it, who are you calling a child?!
[12:05] Suika
    So the black sand we got from the
    river turns into this "iron" stuff?
[12:09] Senku
    Yeah.
[12:10] Senku
    Mix four parts iron sand
    to one part coal, and bake.
[12:13] Chrome
    Hey, that's easy.
[12:17] Senku
    It's harder than it sounds.
[12:19] Senku
    It's not like making clay pots.
[12:21] Senku
    The highest temperature we can get
    by burning wood is 700 degrees.
[12:26] Senku
    But ironmaking, turning iron sand
    into iron, requires 1,500 degrees.
[12:32] Kohaku
    That's not even close to enough.
[12:34] Kohaku
    What do we do?
[12:36] Senku
    We blow like hell.
[12:38] Senku
    We have to give it as much oxygen as we can.
[12:41] Senku
    We'll send in a ton of air
[12:43] Senku
    and double the flame's damage
    output from 700 to 1,500.
[12:48] Kohaku
    This thing blows air?
[12:50] Kohaku
    With something this useful,
    I could probably do it by myself.
[12:53] Senku
    You can make that claim once you've done it.
[12:55] Senku
    We're never going to have enough manpower.
[13:08] Chrome
    Damn it, my arms are killing me!
[13:11] Senku
    Don't you dare take a break!
    It'll get cooler!
[13:14] Kohaku
    How many more minutes are we doing this?
[13:16] Senku
    Roughly... another... twenty to thirty hours.
[13:19] Kohaku
    Ironmaking is insane!
[13:24] Kohaku
    Don't push yourself, Suika!
[13:26] Kohaku
    Take a break!
[13:28] Suika
    I still can't make myself useful.
[13:33] Ginro
    It looks like they're up to
    something really grueling.
[13:37] Ginro
    I-I... I think I'm going to help—
[13:40] Kinro
    No, Ginro.
[13:42] Kinro
    Don't abandon your post.
[13:43] Kinro
    Rules are rules.
[13:44] Ginro
    Come on.
[13:46] Ginro
    Just because you already had
    a golden spear made for you...
[13:49] Ginro
    I want...
[13:50] Kinro
    A thing?!
[13:51] Kinro
    That's incredibly low, Ginro!
[13:55] Ginro
    Swap spears with me, then.
[13:57] Kinro
    No.
[13:57] Ginro
    I'll settle for gold, even though that's
    kin for gold instead of gin for silver.
[14:02] Kinro
    No!
[14:16] Senku
    Manpower is our top priority.
[14:19] Senku
    The kingdom of science needs more citizens.
[14:23] Ginro
    The spear...
[14:24] Ginro
    Kinro...
[14:27] Senku
    I knew it.
[14:28] Senku
    We almost have Ginro.
[14:30] Chrome
    Good.
[14:31] Chrome
    This is working in our favor!
[14:33] Senku
    We're using the bait that is
    science to gain manpower!
[14:37] Kohaku
    Quit calling it bait, both of you.
[14:40] Senku
    But it's not like the whole village
    is going to appreciate a shiny spear.
[14:44] Senku
    We need intel about what people want.
[14:48] Suika
    I'm good at that kind of thing!
[14:51] Suika
    I can turn into a watermelon, so I can
    go anywhere without being noticed!
[14:59] Senku
    Not bad.
[15:00] Senku
    All right, Great Detective Suika-sama,
[15:03] Senku
    we call on your services to find
    us manpower for ironmaking.
[15:06] Chrome
    You got this, Great Detective Suika!
[15:10] Suika
    Great Detective Suika...
[15:12] Suika
    I'm going to make myself useful!
[15:23] Carbo
    So where did that foreigner go?
[15:26] Carbo
    The one Kohaku supposedly brought in.
[15:30] Shovel
    He's living in Chrome's shed!
[15:35] Natori
    The elder believes we should let him be,
[15:38] Natori
    so long as he doesn't try
    to come into the village.
[15:42] Arumi
    I agree with that.
[15:44] Natori
    But if he tries to do anything funny...
[15:48] Magma
    I'll kill anyone who's a threat.
[15:50] Mantle
    Yeah!
[15:52] Magma
    And Ruri will fall for me.
[15:54] Mantle
    Yeah!
[15:56] Garnet
    The only question is whether
    that man is strong or not, right?
[16:01] Sapphire
    I don't care if he's strong or not.
[16:03] Sapphire
    What matters is that he's got a good face.
[16:06] Ruby
    I don't care about a man's
    inner or outer beauty!
[16:09] Ruby
    As long as he can hunt and stuff!
[16:10] Garnet
    Seriously, though...
[16:12] Garnet
    All three of us sisters have different
    tastes, so how are we all still single?!
[16:19] Woman
    Fresh fish is so delicious.
[16:22] Sagan
    The flesh is so firm.
[16:24] Gan'en
    I'm so tired of grilled fish.
[16:34] Suika
    I went to listen in on people,
    to see if there's anything they want.
[16:38] Suika
    First, the dazzling sisters,
    Garnet, Sapphire, and Ruby.
[16:43] Kohaku
    Ah, the prettiest girls in town.
[16:46] Kohaku
    What those three really want...
[16:49] Senku
    I'd appreciate if it's something we can
    make with the technology of this age.
[16:53] Kohaku
    ...is a boyfriend!
[16:54] Senku
    And that's something we have no
    chance of making with science!
[16:58] Sapphire
    A strong man.
[16:59] Ruby
    A handsome man.
[17:00] Garnet
    Someone who'll feed me.
[17:02] Kohaku
    They're perfectly faithful to their desires.
[17:06] Kohaku
    If you ask me, you're quite
    an attractive man, Senku.
[17:11] Kohaku
    But I don't think you're the kind of
    "handsome man" that Sapphire's asking for.
[17:14] Chrome
    Look at them, saying whatever they want.
[17:18] Chrome
    This is the problem with women.
[17:19] Chrome
    That's why I hate women.
[17:22] Kohaku
    You're such a child, Chrome.
[17:24] Kohaku
    Ruri-nee and I are both women,
    so do you hate us?
[17:27] Chrome
    Kohaku, I don't think of you as a woman.
[17:30] Chrome
    You're a gorilla.
[17:33] Kohaku
    I'm sorry.
[17:36] Senku
    I think I have a shot with the one
    who wants someone to feed her.
[17:40] Senku
    What does she want?
[17:41] Suika
    A feast, like fish and stuff.
[17:44] Suika
    Speaking of feasts, Ganen,
    the biggest glutton in town,
[17:45] Suika
    So sick of this...
[17:48] Suika
    said he's bored to death of
    eating grilled fish every day.
[17:49] ---
    So sick of this...
[17:52] Suika
    He's been looking for something new to try.
[17:52] ---
    So sick of this...
[17:57] Senku
    I knew you could do it,
    Great Detective Suika-sama.
[18:00] Senku
    I can already see the scientific bait
    we need to get them on our side.
[18:06] Kohaku
    Are you actually going to cook for them?
[18:08] Chrome
    What does that have to do with science?
[18:11] Senku
    It has everything to do with science.
[18:12] Senku
    Food is science.
[18:15] Senku
    Where do you think the umami of the
    fish you eat every day comes from?
[18:20] Senku
    It's glutamic acid and inosinic acid.
[18:31] Senku
    Suika, what is that, anyway?
[18:34] Suika
    This is my friend Chalk's favorite toy.
[18:38] Suika
    Dogtail millet!
[18:39] Senku
    You mean foxtail millet.
[18:41] Senku
    That might work.
[18:45] Senku
    We might be able to make the
    world's most delicious dish
[18:49] Senku
    that everyone in my old world loves.
[19:03] Senku
    We're making gourmet
    survival food from scratch.
[19:07] Senku
    Now that's exhilarating.
[19:10] Kohaku
    We aren't actually eating
    this foxtail millet, are we?
[19:16] Kohaku
    I think I'll pass.
[19:17] Senku
    We're whacking the hell out of 
    it to husk it so we can eat it.
[19:22] Senku
    Foxtail millet is genuinely,
    ten billion percent a grain.
[19:26] Senku
    It's a primitive millet.
[19:29] Kohaku
    It looks mighty nasty.
[19:31] Suika
    It's covered in furry stuff.
[19:43] Senku
    It's a cycle of inspiration
    and trial-and-error.
[19:47] Senku
    Food is a perfect example of science.
[19:51] Senku
    Now we have wheat flour,
    or rather, foxtail millet flour!
[19:58] Senku
    Toss in wild bird eggs, and tenderize
    it using potassium carbonate.
[20:05] Senku
    It's a dish of science,
    discovered accidentally
[20:07] Senku
    by some nameless Mongol
    sometime around the fourth century.
[20:11] Senku
    I guess there was some crazy nut like
    you, Chrome, who would try anything.
[20:16] Senku
    Even in fourth-century Mongolia.
[20:26] Chrome
    Th-This scent...
[20:29] Senku
    We had a name for this stupidly good
    scientific food 3,700 years ago.
[20:36] Senku
    We called it "ramen."
[20:41] Kohaku
    But this is actually foxtail millet, isn't it?
[20:47] Chrome
    I'll make sure it's safe!
[20:49] Chrome
    It's the duty of a sorcerer not
    to be afraid of anything new!
[20:56] Chrome
    I-It's good!
[21:00] Chrome
    Dude!
[21:08] Suika
    It's so chewy and slippery!
[21:10] Suika
    I've never had anything like it!
[21:12] Kohaku
    I can't believe such a thing
    would exist in this world!
[21:17] Senku
    I guess I'll dig in, too.
[21:19] Senku
    It's been 3,700 years since
    I've had a proper meal.
[21:27] Senku
    It wasn't proper at all.
[21:29] Senku
    What did I expect from foxtail millet?
[21:32] Senku
    It's so damn crumbly, and it has
    a horrible, bitter aftertaste.
[21:36] Senku
    I guess it's edible if you
    think of it as medicine.
[21:39] Senku
    Then again, for them,
    I'm sure it's the food of the gods.
[21:44] Senku
    This'll work.
[21:45] Senku
    Foxtail millet ramen!
[21:54] Kokuyo
    What is going on?!
[21:59] Gan'en
    Something smells really good!
[22:03] Senku
    People have waged wars over pepper.
SIGN    Ramen
[22:06] Senku
    That's how fundamental
    food is to civilization.
[22:12] Senku
    I'm going to colonize this village
    with the scientific food that is ramen.
[22:17] Kohaku
    You look like the villain.
SIGN    Next Episode
SIGN    Let There Be the Light of Science
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.