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Chapter 2 — Episode 2

**Beginning:** The episode opens with a brief flashback to the moment of the global petrification event, showing Taiju about to confess his feelings to Yuzuriha when a mysterious light turns all of humanity to stone. Thousands of years later, Senku has already revived Taiju and informs him that approximately 3,700 years have passed — a date he determined simply by counting. Taiju immediately declares his goal: to revive Yuzuriha, and the two set off with a nitric acid solution capable of dissolving the stone. **Middle:** At Yuzuriha's stone statue, Taiju insists on carrying her back to camp to dress her before revival, leading to a comedic argument with Senku about practicality. Their debate is cut short when a pride of lions — escaped from a zoo over millennia — surrounds them. Desperate, Senku and Taiju shatter and revive a petrified young man named Tsukasa Shishio, a legendary martial arts fighter, who single-handedly defeats the lions with his bare hands. Tsukasa quickly proves his worth by hunting a boar and providing the group with abundant food, and Senku explains the multiple uses of seashells — including making mortar, soap, and improving agriculture — demonstrating steady scientific progress toward rebuilding civilization. **End:** That night, while the others sleep, Tsukasa reveals a dark ideology to Senku: he destroys the stone statue of an elderly man, arguing that only pure-hearted young people should be revived, not corrupt adults who would recreate an unjust society. He shares a painful childhood memory of being beaten for collecting shells for his sick sister. Senku firmly rejects Tsukasa's vision, declaring he will use science to rev