Li Xiang looked at the contemplative Senku and Xeno and continued along her line of reasoning, picking apart every suspicious detail.
"Let's take our hypothesis a step further."
"If Why-man's original intention really was to wipe out humanity, he could simply have disabled the revival mechanism when setting the rules of petrification."
"He could have left all humans dormant forever and destroyed civilization once and for all. There would have been no reason to give us a chance to restart the world."
That alone was enough to prove that he had never intended to exterminate them.
Her eyes bright, Li Xiang methodically reviewed the first warning signal they had received from space.
"Remember when we first received that death threat? It was after we developed communications equipment capable of receiving signals on frequencies from outer space."
"That line, [Do you want to die?]-everyone immediately assumed it was an intimidation tactic, a death sentence, right?"
"But perhaps there was always more than one way to interpret it."
She paused briefly.
"Look at it from another angle. It could have been confusion, a lack of understanding."
"He went to enormous expense to petrify the entire planet, freezing everyone's lives and putting aging, illness, and death on hold. That was essentially giving all of humanity near-eternal life."
"In his understanding, existing forever was the best form of protection."
"Yet we went and broke through the petrification, deliberately waking up and reviving ourselves."
"Revival means restarting our metabolism. Our cells constantly regenerate, wear down, and deteriorate. We'll age, get sick, and eventually die."
"So that question wasn't an announcement that he was going to kill us."
"It was his confusion, wasn't it? I clearly helped you avoid every form of death, so why insist on waking up and deliberately returning to aging, illness, and