Knowledge is love

Part 61: Next Steps

After acquiring the Medusa, the next thing was to revive your fallen comrades. So to do that, they had to make some more revival fluid. After getting some, they went on their way to revive their first person. Which was fellow scientist and honestly, the reason they were able to win in the first place, Chrome.

So the pair walks over to his statue and Senku pours the revival fluid on him. The stone cracked as his body glowed and he was back. Chrome gasped as he stared at y/n and Senku.

"Senku... Y/n... The fact that you two are standing here alone only means one thing," Chrome said.

The pair didn't say anything as Senku chuckled. But that one chuckle confirmed what Chrome was thinking.

"Oh, that's so bad! We won, didn't we, " Chrome exclaimed.

"You better believe it, Captain Chrome," y/n said.

"And it was all thanks to your creative brilliance, Chrome," Senku stated. "We survived like cockroaches too stubborn to keel over and die."

The three of them do a celebratory high five before going back to work. To make some more revival fluid. So they walked Chrome over to the little station they have so they can make some more.

"Now as the Scientist tag-team, we can get to work reviving the whole crew," Chrome stated.

Senku chuckled. "It's a bit like a logic puzzle. Cause if we don't connect the pieces in the right order, we'll starve to death."

On cue, both y/n's and Senku's stomach grumbled as the fight made them work up an appetite. Senku groaned as he patted his stomach but y/n was a bit embarrassed as she covered her stomach with her arms. Chrome places his hands over his stomach as he admits he was also hungry.

So they grabbed some baskets and went to look around but none of them had energy for it nor knew where to start. But they knew an alley that did. So it was time to revive Amaryllis.

So y/n goes to find her statue and bring it back to the boys as they get the revival fluid. They revive Amaryllis and she gathers a load of food for them. From fruits to even fish which they were very thankful for. They helped her carry the food but while y/n was able to manage the weight, the boys were having trouble with the weight.

So to help with the heavy lifting and strength in general, they need Taiju. So they found his statue and revived him. And being the guy he is, he was happy to start helping out immediately. He carried the wagon full of all the food and they hitch a ride on it which Taiju didn't mind or seem to notice.

But after gathering all the food, they ran into another problem, none of them knew what to cook or how to even start. So they need Francois. They have Taiju head back to the cave where Francois' statue was and bring it back to them. They revive Francois and they cook them a delicious feast which they were more than thankful for.

After Francois was done, y/n helped them lay down the food and they dug in. And as expected it was delicious. But this delicious meal was interrupted by the cell phone going off but the static was weak.

"Shame. The battery for our beloved cell phone is on its last breath I'm afraid," Senku said.

"It's a shame that it interfered with Ruri's last call earlier," y/n admitted. "It dropped after a minute."

"Sounds fuzzier than the noise from the earpiece," Amaryllis said.

"Because of its connection to the mainland," Francois explained.

"Oh? So Ruri just called to see how everything was going? That sounds like a village priestess to me," Taiju said.

"Hold on. Let's say she did call because she was worried about us, she knows it'll slow us down so why even bother," Chrome asked. "I'm sure some people would've checked up on us for their own piece of mind, but this is Ruri we're talking about. And she just doesn't think like that. For eighteen years, she suffered alone so others wouldn't have to."