We made it! The treasure island!
I wish we could all charge in together.
But we don't even know what kind of people inhabit the island.
Still, though, we definitely have a huge lead on them in science!
How can you be so sure?
We're the only ones with radar, at least.
If the islanders have radar, they would have found our ship by now.
Yeah.
At the same time, our only advantage is science.
Let's use our eyes of science
to sneak up to the island while the storm is giving us cover.
I can't see anything ahead of us.
We aren't going to hit anything underwater with such a large ship, are we?
You don't want to underestimate our sonar man, Ukyo-sama.
Hooray for the eyes of science!
Who could have crafted such a thing?
Oh, wait, it was me!
All hands, return to your stations!
It's about to stop raining.
We're going to hide the ship behind a rock before the weather clears.
I'll have special rewards for those who work well.
Time to storm the treasure island!
Ray of Despair, Ray of Hope
What spectacular weather!
We managed to slide behind a rock just in time.
You've all done well.
A ten-thousand-drago bonus to all.
We don't have time to waste on games.
They'll find us if we stay too long.
Let's get going.
Treasure hunting!
I'm gonna kill everyone on the island!
Recon squad, let's go.
R-Recon squad?!
If we go in large numbers, we'll start a war.
Am I right?
We'll go in with the smallest team possible.
Yup.
Don't you lot forget why we're here.
We're here for the infinite revival fluid machine.
We're taking the platinum that's in our treasure chest.
If we find it right away, great.
Otherwise, we'll have to ask the islanders where it is.
Which means the recon squad will need...
four members.
Senku!
You'll need me to identify the platinum, after all.
Soyuz!
You're the only native.
I-I'll do my best to try to remember something.
Kohaku.
Defense and vision.
Indeed.
Gen.
You're in charge of negotiating with the islanders.
Bleah.
Good.
Commence operation!
Is Ukyo not coming with us?
It'd be useful to have his hearing in addition to my eyesight.
I saw him staring down the sonar.
Something about wanting to look at the sea floor.
Well, they've gone.
Why are you on the ship?!
When did you get on?!
I want to make myself useful!
I'm good at recon!
I was wondering why I didn't see you at the farewell.
I can't allow it.
Stowaways are to be sent back.
Stay put until we get back to Japan!
A captain can't risk the life of a child on such a dangerous mission,
scouting a mysterious island.
Ryusui-sama is only being so stern because he's concerned for your safety.
Stay out of this, Francois.
My apologies.
Don't worry! It'll be all right, Suika.
There are plenty of ways you can be useful.
Now, let's clean the ship while we wait for the others! It's nasty from the storm!
Okay!
I'll do my best!
Ew, this sucks.
I knew it.
There's something down there.
If anyone has a moment, could you please look at the sea floor?
Oh, fine!
Here I go! Man of the sea!
Damn it! That's dirty!
Just to get out of having to clean?!
Swimming at a southern island!
This is ten billion times easier than cleaning.
Man, that scared me.
It's just a statue.
I've seen them all over the... wait...
They're all over the place!
What's the deal? We've seen plenty of statues before.
The chronology doesn't line up.
When Earth was showered by the petrification beam, this island was uninhabited.
It was only way later that people came here.
When were those statues Ginro saw petrified?
Someone's watching!
Who are you?
I thought I saw something shining on the ship.
Was it my imagination?
The signal's so poor.
This is hopeless.
They aren't picking up the phone for some reason.
Senku-chan, Kohaku-chan, you two go ahead.
I'm going to try calling from higher up.
Got it.
Yello?
I-I can see it from here.
What's wrong, Soyuz-chan?
I don't know what just happened, but Ryusui kicked me away to save me.
Damn it, what's with the sudden dash?
Did you find something?
Yeah.
A lead.
Discarded sea shells.
They're nearby.
The ones who can revive all of us! The people of the island!
Good going, Miss 11.0/11.0.
But how do we track them down now?
That won't be a problem at all.
Senku-chan!
Er, let's try to relax. Seriously.
Wait, are you listening?!
I knew this would happen!
Why did you tie me down?!
We need to go rescue them!
They got everyone on the ship!
If the four of us go and the enemy is there,
they're just going to petrify all of us, and bam! Game over! Right?
When did he tie the rope on her?
Good work, you scam artist magician.
No! We can't go near them!
I just remembered something traumatizing when I saw everyone petrified on the ship.
When I left the island as a baby...
We were running.
From something that was petrifying people.
S-Sorry I don't remember everything.
I'm sure I've seen it, but...
You were an infant, weren't you?
It's actually kind of amazing that you remember anything at all.
No, that's a jackpot of a hint.
Good going, Soyuz.
It means there's an enemy force
that's trying to petrify all of the Kingdom of Science.
And a friendly force that's trying to escape the petrification.
If we can get even one person on our side who knows this island,
we might be able to ask them where the treasure chest is!
Islander
Got the platinum!
Infinite revival fluid!
Then we can revive all of humanity, including everyone on the ship!
This shell does look like it's been handled by someone.
Yeah.
They've thrown out the ones that are dead or that are hard to eat.
That doesn't tell us if they're friend or foe, though.
But that's ten billion times quicker than wandering around the island
aimlessly like idiots.
Let's find this person.
We can still catch up if we hurry.
It hasn't been half an hour since they left.
How can you be so sure?
Greenbottle flies have an OP ability
that lets them detect the stench of death from 16 kilometers away.
On an island this small, it couldn't have taken long for them to get here.
And they've just started gathering, which means...
It's been maybe ten or twenty minutes since these shells were thrown out.
And now it's time for some slow-ass forensics to shine.
We'll make the crime scene exhibits fess up where the perp is.
Time to start the science investigation!
Is that the stuff you used when you operated on Tsukasa-chan?
Adhesive, yes.
Cyanoacrylate.
We cook this stuff up to a boil, and cover the shell with the steam.
Then we shine a black light on it, and the evidence will show up.
Fingerprints!
You can see where someone's touched it?
We can make some inferences about who touched it from the shape.
Female.
Average height and weight.
You can tell that from the adhesive?
That's awesome, Detective Science.
Stop being so impressed and come up with a suspect profile.
That's your job, Detective Mental.
Detective Mental... That's my name?
Sheesh.
A mentalist isn't a psychic.
This is all hypothetical, all right?
The suspect is a young woman.
An older veteran wouldn't bother
picking up shells that she didn't have any use for.
It's a waste of energy.
Older people are good at being lazy.
They wouldn't bother picking up everything just to sift through it later.
She's been choosing which ones to keep after she walked some distance from the beach.
It was probably a bit of a pain to carry all of it.
Which means it would have been hard to crouch in the bushes or set them aside.
A young girl, average height and weight...
About 160 centimeters?
Her head would have been around here, so...
Yup, bingo.
Found you.
A young girl's hair.
Fantastic.
We'll store the evidence.
We only need one?
We're going to search everywhere together.
We'll get as many as we can...
And we'll put this in a centrifuge.
C-Centrifuge?!
Where do we even get one of those?
Right here.
Spin it good.
Got it!
We use a human-powered centrifuge to divide it into its constituent parts.
We're especially interested in pollen.
To which end...
What?!
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Microscope acquired!!
Thank goodness for our leveled-up lathe.
It makes easy work of a microscope.
Now, then, let's get a good look.
Lily pollen.
Lilies don't grow on the coast.
The suspect lives in the mountains in the interior.
Scientific investigations are quite formidable.
It can find answers from what seems like nothing.
Senku and Gen...
No one could possibly escape your search.
The rest is easy.
Shells discovered!
We just need to extrapolate this trajectory all the way to the mountains.
Hair discovered!!
That's all I need to know.
It's my battleground from here!
If I can fight with speed and vision, there's no way they can get away.
S-So that's...
One of the people who split off from Ishigami Village.
One of the last remaining humans.
An enemy?
Or a friend?
There's even a chance that she's the one who petrified everyone on the ship.
I-I have to remember...
Anything I can!
Either way, our only option is to make contact and gather information.
We've made it with the power of science.
The key to reviving all of humanity...
The residents of the treasure island!
A young girl. Bingo!
What do we do? Capture her?
No. Let's do this the friendly way.
We'll talk her into joining us.
Yeah.
She's our only lead at the moment.
Once we get the location of the platinum out of her,
we can un-petrify everyone we want.
She looks like a tough nut to crack.
And she's a stunning beauty, too.
Time to show off my mentalist skills.
Please marry me!
Handsome
Strong
Good fisher
What's even going on?!
She's cute.
I guess we should wait for this to finish.
Yeah!
Looks like we can learn about their personalities, too.
Let's see how it plays out!
Why are you kind of excited about this?
Hush!
It's getting good! Watch!
I-I, um...
What do I do?
My heart's pounding. I think I might be saying something I shouldn't.
I'm really happy.
You're really proposing to someone like me?
What do you mean, "someone like me," Amaryllis?!
You're the most beautiful person on this island!
Are you actually a super pure-hearted boy, Soyuz-chan?
But I'm to be taken to the master tomorrow to become a bride of the inner palace.
I'm sure you understand.
You know what'll happen to all of us if we go against him.
Damn it! I didn't have a chance.
That's why we wanted to confess on this last day!
We were right to follow that woman.
Ten billion points to us.
We're already starting to get a glimpse of the evil boss that we're up against.
Amaryllis-chan, was it?
That pretty girl.
We might have a common enemy.
She might cooperate with us if she has an idea where the treasure chest might be.
Though, first impressions make up about 90% of these kinds of interactions.
So let's make our introductions carefully.
Where's the treasure chest?
Way too blunt!
That's how Senku always is.
All he can think about is efficiency.
Not a problem.
We want to be as quick as we can to save the people on the ship who were petrified.
If worst comes to worst, I'll press this katana up against her throat.
You really don't hold back when it comes to your friends, do you, Kohaku-chan?
Who are they?
I've never seen any of them before.
Does that mean they're from the inner palace?
Are you here to take me to the master?
But that was to be tomorrow.
Master?
Does that ring a bell, Soyuz-chan?
You're the master?!
I love you.
Such might, such embracing, kind eyes...
I've been in love since the first time I saw you.
Soyuz!
He's petrified!
You aren't the master?
N-N-Nope. Sorry.
You seemed the most familiar, so...
The other three don't appear to be from this island.
Master?
You mean a leader?
I guess this man here would be our leader.
I love you!
Such might... well, maybe not so much...
Such embracing, kind... actually, they look pretty evil.
Such intelligent eyes!
I've been in love since the first time I...
Yeah, yeah, whatever.
So where's the treasure chest?
You two are both so obtuse.
It didn't work!
My unbeatable attack failed!
Is this even possible?
But I'm so adorable!
That kind of attack isn't going to work on Senku-chan.
Not until civilization is restarted.
It'll work on me right now, though.
Oh, I just remembered!
I'm the master.
I love—
I was about to believe you for a second.
Bah.
If you want to be embraced so badly, how about I embrace you?
I'll pass.
You'll break every bone in my body.
You aren't here to take me to the master?
Then which village are you from?
N-No...
What's that screaming?
Where are you going, Amaryllis?
My village!
We're just going to have to take him down!
Our master... I mean, that damn master!
Let's go, guys!
Riot!
They've gone mad because someone else is taking Amaryllis!
It's no use! It won't help, no matter how many of us there are!
Everyone in this village is going to get turned into stone!
What do I do?
I'll cut them all down and stop them.
That's the only option.
You'd be ruining everything!
No one would ever side with us!
Then what do we do?
Damn it.
Gen, we're using this.
Science's own suppression device: chloroacetone.
Basically, it's tear gas.
This'll calm you down!
Wow...
Sorcery?
Who are you people?
We want to be as quick as we can to save the people on the ship who were petrified.
I...
I know the secret of the petrification beam.
I thought if I could be cute and infiltrate the master's inner palace,
I could defeat him.
I'd made up my mind that I would become
the prettiest girl on the island to save everyone.
I want your help.
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The island's most beautiful girl, Amaryllis, has joined the party!!
Please fight alongside me!
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