(Let's see about getting updates back on track. It was supposed to be one day, but somehow it turned into a whole week. Hehe, sorry.)
After returning, Chen Yu drew on his previous experience and feel for the work to quickly finish making equipment for the other melee fighters. There were too many ordinary fighters, however, so they could only take turns using it. After all, only Kaseki and he were doing this work at present. For everyone else, shipbuilding came first.
In the end, Chen Yu joined the shipbuilding effort too. But that day... he seemed to run into someone familiar.
Not long before...
Senku, North East West South, and fighters including Nikki, Kohaku, and Magma rode a small wooden boat to an island, relying on Taiju's stamina to get them there.
As soon as they landed, North East West South took the lead and introduced the place to everyone.
"Nanami Academy. Sailing lessons are part of the curriculum at a maritime school like this. Waking up a teacher to sail a ship shouldn't be a problem."
By dusk, they reached an open clearing. According to North East West South's memory, this seemed to be where the school had stood. Even if thousands of years of change had muddled things, they probably weren't too far off.
"All right, time to find some suitable statues." Senku looked at the stone statues buried in the earth before him and said, "Dig like your lives depend on it, gorilla squad!"
The moment he finished speaking, Taiju was the most excited of all. He volunteered for the heavy lifting, grabbed a stone shovel, and charged off.
Kohaku and Magma were left speechless. "We told you, we're not gorillas."
Despite their protests, their hands never stopped moving. They found a statue that looked