Gazing upon the same sky

S: Suika, K: Kohaku, F: Francois, X: Xeno

S: It’s too hard for Suika…!

K: Suika what’s happening…! Your voice seems to be in pain…!

S: No, nothing like that Kohaku!

K: This is… the rocket craft plan Senku and Xeno made. Hm, I don’t understand just a bit. Was there something caught your attention?

S: Okay, so, Suika was really working hard on crafting the revival fluid, right?

K: Yeah, so wonderful of you! I thought the only ones who can craft such a thing would be science-user like Senku.

S: Suika was trying and trying, failing and failing, and just like that Suika understands that ‘oh this is Science!’. So Suika want to know about science more.

K: I see. So, you are interested in rocket building now.

S: Yes! But none of this makes sense to me…

Xeno: Oh, I see that you came to show interest on science from your practical experience. Absolutely elegant!

K: Xeno!

S: Yeah, that’s right! But rocket building is still too hard for Suika…

Xeno: Oh Miss Suika, that’s a big mistake for you to think like that.

S: mistake?

Xeno: Even you, as of now, can build rocket too!

S&K: what!?

Xeno: Yeah, as a proof of my statement, Miss Suika will now build a rocket for me! It’s better to understand things by actually doing than just listen to explanation!

S: Now!?

K: Hmm! To prioritize the practicality, and progress to the actual experiment immediately… you are just like Senku! You were his former teacher after all.

S: Build a rocket… but we have no tools and materials…

F: Worry not, Suika-sama!

S: Francois!?

F: I have gathered all materials, chemical substances, and all scientific tools from the lab here!

S: Since when!?

F: I figured that the situation will turn this way at the moment I saw Xeno-sama’s appearance.

K: Seriously your reading ahead is too insane!

F: It is a butler’s responsibility – to provide the right things at the right time.

X: Oh, your duty is truly elegant… All materials I need is already here. Alright, I will now lecture you on how to build a rocket using these stuffs. Ready?

S: Okay… Suika will try my best!

X: Alright, let’s start our rocket building crafting lesson! First, Miss Suika, prepare the bamboo mold that has an empty side. [disclaimer: I’m not quite sure what scientific tools being used here, so I just put it context]

S: Okay! Okay, I did it.

X: Wonderful. Your skill is absolutely elegant. Next, prepare the alcohol which has high degree of ethanol 96%, and pour it in the mold.

K: You guys are so fast, I can’t keep up with this anymore. So basically, you pour the strong alcohol in the mold and make the bottle shape?

X: That’s correct.

S: Okay, okay!

X: Next, put the rubber lid on the top of our bottle.

S: Okay I already put it!

X: The air pressure of alcohol is already high, so it will circulate around the mold…

S: Air… pressure?

K: I don’t understand a bit.

X: Let’s go to the next process. Now move the hole of the mold closed to the fire.

S: Okay! First, we have to make a fire…

F: I’ve already prepared a fire.

S: Thank you Francois!

K: Seriously you are too much!

S: Move the hole closed to the fire… the rubber lid is exploding!

X: Oh, perfect! This is called ‘alcohol rocket’!

K: What…? You called this rocket? The rubber is just a bit flying off…

S: That’s true… we cannot bring anyone to the moon with this one…

X: It works on the same fundamentality. Among the universe with no gravity, we have to utilize the gas explosion to move forward. The rocket we are going to build are on the same ground as the rocket you just made, Miss Suika.

S: Same ground…

X: The essence of science is come from the small groundworks of millions which conclusively implement to functionality. This little rocket is actually the first step most of scientists has experienced in their life. Miss Suika, this is truly your first step.

S: Suika’s first step…

F: that’s right, this is Suika-sama’s rocket!

K: You are amazing, Suika!

S: Thank you, for teach me how to build a rocket…!

X: Actually… I’m the one who should thank you. You are the savior of all of us.

S: What do you mean…?

X: Even the fact that we were your enemies and tried to take your life… you still moved our petrified statues to the safe place. If we were still beholding outside of the fort, we might shatter from the natural disasters.

F: I see. The lecture today is a part of gratitude to Suika-sama.

K: Hm, so you have a manner after all.

S: I just wanted to be helpful to everyone…

X: Oh, so that is really elegant work of you. You gather and save every tool and apparatus just to be in case, including, cigarette. Stan will also thank you as soon as he woke up.

S: Cigarette?

X: Cigarette, made from dried plants, we are inhaling the burnt smoke of it. Poisonous to the human’s body indeed, but Stan gladly smokes them anyway. It’s his old bad habit since very long time.

K: Since very long time? Since when you and Stanley have been together?

X: Simply put, we are childhood friends.

K: Childhood friends?

X: It’s a term calling friends who have spent childhood together.

S: Stanley is still being petrified… you must be lonely.

X: Lonely…? Actually I don’t feel that… to be ‘Battle companion’ is to fulfill each one’s responsibilities. No matter how far apart we are.

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Stanley: Xeno, I have to leave Boston next week.

Xeno: Oh, officially joining the air force? It’s time already?

Stanley: And there’s a basic training soon after the enlisting. I will be absent for a few months. After that, depend on the place of posting, I might not be able to see your sullen face.

Xeno: Stan, It has been 8 years since we first met, but this is the first time ever we are parting ways this long. Finally I am freed from your poisonous gas.

Stanley: If we are in the coming-of-age movie, we might burst into tears right now.

Xeno: (Laughing)

Stanley: You are joining NASA next year?

Xeno: I’m starting from April. But I’m already drafting so many projects, all of them beholding the elegant scientific discovery ever existed! Firstly I offer theory with Helium on the moon surface, Helium is a safer energy compared to the current compound…

Stanley: Okay I get it now. You don’t have to explain it further. That’s mean you are going through the universe, and make new stuffs, right?

Xeno: Correct!

Stanley: You haven’t changed a bit from the past. Especially how much you love the universe.

Xeno: Because humanity only explore just 5% of the universe. There are many things yet to be revealed among those starry skies. New discoveries and new exploration, are the pure joy of science. Science is elegant.

Stanley: Okay, be careful then.

Xeno: About what?

Stanley: About the relationship with workplace. There is a lot of idiots everywhere who can you through troubles.

Xeno: Oh, I can’t wait. Alright I will be careful.

Stanley: Xeno, if any of your work caught my ears through news or anything, I might send you a congratulation message.

Xeno: Ah, Stan, of course. I promised you since we were young. I will show you the beauty of science.

Stanley: Ah, I’m waiting. Always.

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F: Xeno-sama, what’s happening?

K: why you just shut your mouth so sudden?

X: I’m just thinking about what will happen from now on. Our goal is to free humanity from WHY-MAN. The mystery of petrification is not yet to be sorted, but if we continue moving forward with our inquisitive mind, we might be able to reach that elegant discovery in the meantime.

K: continue moving forward… Senku once said you were his teacher of science, I might understand his feeling now.

F: Senku-sama and Xeno-sama are both continually wishing, desiring upon science.

X: our first goal is to building a rocket to the moon. Just like the one Miss Suika just made.

S: Umm! Suika will learn more about science and be helpful to everyone!

X: Oh, truly elegant response! Miss Suika, no…Doctor Suika.

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