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Chapter 3 — Episode 3

**Beginning:** The episode opens with Tsukasa revealing his ideology to Senku — he wants to revive only pure-hearted young people and use the Stone World as a chance to purify humanity. Senku privately acknowledges Tsukasa is dangerous but reasons he cannot act against him yet, since Tsukasa wants the revival fluid formula. However, Taiju accidentally blurts out the existence of the miracle cave water in front of Tsukasa, forcing Senku to quickly pivot and stage a "science revival show" to demonstrate it. **Middle:** When the revival fluid turns out to be just barely insufficient for Yuzuriha, Senku deliberately sends Tsukasa away to fetch more water — a calculated trap to get him away from the cave. Senku then reveals to Taiju that Tsukasa is a murderer who has been destroying adult stone statues, making him an existential threat to Senku's plan to revive all of humanity. Tsukasa returns and a confrontation erupts: Taiju refuses to fight back against Tsukasa, instead absorbing blows to protect the stone statues, while Senku fires a crossbow to create a distraction. Tsukasa threatens to kill the newly revived Yuzuriha, forcing Senku to stand down, and Taiju collapses from his injuries — though Senku privately knows he will recover quickly. **End:** Senku stages a fake hasty retreat to deceive Tsukasa into thinking they fled in panic, while secretly leading Taiju and Yuzuriha on an 80-kilometer journey west toward Hakone. Along the way, Senku harvests bronze from a statue for navigation tools and explains his true plan: to build gunpowder using sulfur from