A controlled explosion—not of gunpowder, but of . The monolith's own green energy converts the metal into brittle glass.
XENO: "Senku Ishigami. He actually found the core. Stanley, do you have the shot?"
Dr. Xeno Houston, before petrification, had been building an AI to manage global infrastructure. When the petrification wave hit, he uploaded a fragment of his own consciousness into the satellite network. Why-Man is that fragment—insane, absolute, seeking to "perfect" humanity by turning them into a single, silent computational network. Dr. Stone-S04E01-1080p--HIN-ENG-JAP--PIKAHD.COM...
KOHARU (archer, tense): "Are they... alive?"
XENO calculates on a napkin: trajectory, frequency, resonance. A controlled explosion—not of gunpowder, but of
XENO: "You used my own resonance theory against me. Impressive."
"Cor-rec-tion. Cre-a-tor: 'Dr. Xeno. Hous-ton. U-ni-ted States.'" He actually found the core
???: "So... the boy finally woke Xeno. Good. Now the real game begins."
The hologram flickers. For the first time, it hesitates.