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Time continued to the past just as it always had for the last three thousand and seven hundred years. Though there was something different happening now that had been during that almost that entire time. Having been standing there holding on to the Campor Tree alone since the flood washed Tajiu away shortly after the word itself was originally petrified.

He was now finally back found the note that Senku had carved near her. Thus while working with him the two were just doing nothing to get by at the time. They were the only two non-petrified humans on the planet to their knowledge at least. Time continued to pass once more with now just Taiju visiting her ever now and then. Making sure that not too much stuff collected on her directly, now that he was able to do at least that for her.

During one of his visits to Yuzuriha that when he informed her that they had managed to create a depetrification formula. Senku having managed to figure it out after Taiju told him about some grapes he found. Thus they were able it from that liquid from the bat cave he was collected. Being mostly the brawn between the two of them, Taiju left mostly left the thinking to Senku. Yuzuriha could not hear him of course as even if she had been 'asleep' for countless centuries now. She still would not have been aware that Taiju was even right there as those petrified lost their five major senses thus were in pitch black void. Where they only their consciousness somehow remained in their stone body.

Over the course of the next year, the visits that Taiju would give to Yuzuriha were far and few between. He was busying with Senku in helping to perfect the depetrification formula (most through doing the manual labor and collecting). Though when winter came and it started to snow in the area, that is when Taiju would come around to brush off the snow from Yuzuriha's petrified self every now and again.

When had been about a year since Taiju had been depetrified that is when the two managed to perfect the formula they had been working on this entire time. The duo was now standing before her as they have a jug of the reviving liquid in hand. Standing at the base of the camphor tree she was next the two were talking about this and how it was sure to work on her. Senku having tested it out a broke piece of someone and it reverts back.

The leaves that were covering her legs along with the roots and vines that partially covering her body were removed. So that the liquid that would awaken her from this stone slumber could be poured on her. Though just as Senkuu about to it that when he was stopped by Taiju for some reason. Stopping his childhood friend, Taiju.

Claiming that if they used the formula on her now she would be naked before them. Overlooking the fact that she had basically been standing there naked for basically thousands of years now. The only part of her outfit that had managed to endure for the last nearly four thousand years being her headband. Which itself no longer looked normal as whatever it was made it of it was certainly build to last.

Senku tried mentioning this to his friend but he was not hearing it. He lifted her up like with 'hup' over his head. Even though she should weight far more than her human weight as a statue. Something Senkuu point out again with Taiju countering she is not fat or even chubby.

Though if she was wearing clothes then would she just ruin them from breaking out her stone shell once she reverted back to normal. A body cloth or blanket around her would be a better thing at least until she is fully back to normal. Than could prevent having shaking out various stone flakes from her clothes.

Things did not go as planned as the duo was not alone (Yuzuriha did not exactly count as a company yet since she was still a statue) in the form shockingly enough a lion. Though it was not that shocking really as if the gate was open or any animal that being kept in the zoo broke out their cage. There would be no one to reign them in thus they were free to roam. Apparently, there was enough lion in the area that over three thousand years later, the descendant of those zoo animals were once again fully wild animals. The idea that their ancestor were once just kept to spaces for others to watch them being unthinkable to the current animals.

Grasped firmly in one of Taiju's arm, Senkuu and him ran away from the lions jumping seemingly off a small cliff in an attempt to get away from them. They were apparently chasing them now because these lions never saw a human before thus after ensuring they were a possible threat to them they would attack and attack relentlessly. Landing the ground Taiju switched to holding her with both hands as the two of them continued to run away. In split second decision, she was tossed to Senkuu who luckily was harmed from her stone form being launched at him, even though he managed to catch her. Maybe it was because they were facing wild lions that have never seen humans before, Senkuu was holding her just fine.

The crisis that Tajiu and Senkuu were in had been resolved at least for the moment because the reviving liquid planned for her was used on someone that Taiju found on his first day after reverted back from stone. Thus if Senkuu was the brains, Taiju was the brawn, this person would be the muscle. They used the stone pieces from the shell as projectiles to attack the lions then knock one out with a single punch.

Turns out the lion was not just knocked out after all. The lion was no longer among the living, as they had been killed from that single blow. The others that recovered from being shocked ran away from new being that downed on of them with a single attack. None of them might have been aware of what humans were but there aware of what it was like to die. Amongst them they were not willing to die so they ran away, consider this new one that joined them far too dangerous for them.

Thus Yuzuriha was now slated to become the second person the depetrification formula would be used on.