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[10billionpercent]

[Senku is the kind of person that people might've seen around, but he's a quiet guy who's often got a lot on his mind, and at the moment the mystery of the train appears to be going nowhere. He can't sit that idly by though, so he sets some of his brain power on a more personal mystery.]

I've scoured the library, such as it is, for a book on advanced or complex mathematics, so I figured I would ask if that's something someone has on hand and I just missed it.

[He doesn't have any points to request books as of yet.]

Specifically, I'm looking to refresh my knowledge of knot theory calculations. If you can help, let me know. I can certainly repay any favours in the future.

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[nocawsforconcern]

Thanks, spiky guy. I do have an answer, though, I just need to be there to make it happen.

You escaped your world, then?

[10billionpercent]

Nothing like that, I intend on restoring it to its glory, and revive every single human.

[ Is he crazy? Everyone usually thinks so. He's definitely ambitious. ]

The weapon I described was used on all of humanity, the entire planet. That's how it ended. Every human, turned into a stone statue. I managed to keep my mind going, generating energy with nowhere for it to go, so when nitric acid came in contact with my statue, it mixed together and cracked, reviving me alone on a now desolate, wild planet some 3700 years later.

I'm not the kind of guy who's satisfied with that. I want the world to evolve back to what it was.

[nocawsforconcern]

3700 years...? Even if you do, there won't be time left. You're going to have to escape soon, right?

[10billionpercent]

What would I be racing against?

[ Now he's a bit confused, because he can't think of any prediction, aside from the usual kind about the end of the world, but honestly that already happened. ]

If you mean the sun's explosion, that's not going to be anytime soon.

[nocawsforconcern]

... I dunno about the sun, but Horologium said planets don't live forever. They only last about 4000 years. They get old, too.

'S'why I have to get everyone in my world to safety.

[10billionpercent]

Ah, in that case, you have nothing to worry about. It's the year 5741 on the planet Earth and it's been around four and a half billion years already. That's why I said we're from different worlds. The age of the solar system and the planets within it are much older than that where I'm from.

[nocawsforconcern]

Caw.

[It's said like an 'oh.']

..... Maybe I should take the Worldship to where you live, then.

[10billionpercent]

Assuming that's some kind of transportation tech you have, and the ability to move to other worlds, sure, you could, but you'll find most of the planet is overgrown and if you don't end up in the south of Japan, could be quite desolate and a real pain in the ass.

Not to mention most of the cutting edge technology these days is somewhere in the 1600s.

[ He's only one encyclopedia, he can only direct projects so fast. ]

[nocawsforconcern]

I dunno what most of that meant, but that's fine! The Argo Navis is a ship for moving between worlds, after all.

[10billionpercent]

[ How best to sum it up? ]

If you do decide to visit my world, don't miss where the people are. You'll probably die if you do, unless you have a lot of survival skills.

[nocawsforconcern]

Sounds easy enough! People are always easy to find. Just gotta find the treasure.

[10billionpercent]

[ He shouldn't rise to the bait, not really, but curiosity remaining unsated has never been his strong point. ]

What treasure?

[ Learning about other worlds would be fascinating and something to do on this boring, boring train ride. ]

[nocawsforconcern]

Any treasure. Where there's treasure, there's people, always! Or, there were people, recently. Shiny things, sparkling things, all of those attract people, and I can find them all!

[She puffs up a bit, clearly proud of herself.]

[10billionpercent]

Ah, unless you mean a skarn deposit, you're out of luck I'm afraid. There aren't any sparkly, shiny things any longer unless we make them.

[ That's not to say he couldn't though, in theory. ]

Really depends on what you think a treasure is.

[nocawsforconcern]

There's always shiny things. Gold or gems. People always want them.

Me, too! I want them, too. Treasure is calming. Treasure is anything that's sparkly and shiny! Except weapons, even if they're shiny, 'cause I'm really, really sick of weapons. Except my knives? But those are for ropes, not people, they just can do both if I have to. Like with pirates. I hate pirates.

[She's... just gonna keep going on and on like this for a while.]

[10billionpercent]

Not in my world. Anything like that that was manufactured at some point has completely broken down and vanished, and if it's not vanished, it's lying under the changed topography of the planet and I have no desire to go treasure hunting for things that are not useful to rebuilding civilization.

[ Well. They're not entirely useless, but a treasure hunt would take away from what they were doing. ]

It's an extremely primitive society. For now.

[nocawsforconcern]

They're not useless.

[She's pouting, now.]

And anyway, if I was there, it wouldn't matter where they were. Treasure comes to me.

[10billionpercent]

[ It's tempting to mount further argument, really, but he also knows that the sheer scope of what he's saying is hard to understand. Even for him, he gets these moments of crushing comprehension, so how can he expect strangers to get it? He can't. ]

Well then, you sound much luckier than me. Good luck.

[nocawsforconcern]

It's not luck. I dunno if I'm lucky or not... Caw, I'm good at cards, does that make me lucky?

But finding treasure is my power.

[10billionpercent]

That depends. Are you good at cards because you're lucky, or are you good at cards because you cheat?

[ He grins, rather amused at that, because he's a bit of a card shark, then again he counts cards. ]

[nocawsforconcern]

Rude! Caw. Don't be mean. I don't cheat.

[This is... not actually true. She extremely cheats at cards. The catch is, she's stupidly, ridiculously honest, but she also grew up in a tavern near a port. The sailors told her the cheating is actually part of the game. And she's gullible.

This is all completely pointless side-information, but at least she genuinely believes she's not cheating.]

[10billionpercent]

[ Senku is not the best human lie detector after all, so he'll take her words at face value. ]

Then, maybe you're lucky. I'm not lucky, but then again, the basic principles that I apply to card games isn't something I can help, but if I was actually trying to cheat, I could get creative.

[nocawsforconcern]

Don't do that. Cheating is bad.

[IMMEDIATE. yeah, that's what she's focusing on here.]

[10billionpercent]

The idea of keeping track what cards are in the deck is a stupid reason to be considered cheating.

The math is incredibly simple and there are only 52 options, so by process of elimination, it's not hard to make an appropriate guess as to what cards remain.

[ Really, that's only true for someone like Senku, but he does it so automatically, he couldn't play fair if he tried. ]

[nocawsforconcern]

[She squints a bit...]

That's not cheating, that's common sense. You're weird.