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After trouble with the lions of was over Yuzuriha was once again lifted by Taji. She was then carried back where the two of them were staying along with the person that was picked over her. Placing her down as the base of their tree their treehouse home sat in. This would be where she was kept going forward with the camphor tree no longer serve that purpose. As putting her there now probably was not a good idea. As what purpose would that serve at this point along with why make them an unnecessary trip for the second time months later. Also, the question of dressing her was still unknown as that was the reason she was still a statue at the moment. Though it was probably also the reason that they were saved as Yuzuriha probably would not have been that helpful in fighting a group of lions.
There were some complaints about leaving her at the base of the tree rather than keeping in the treehouse itself. Though that was quickly shot down by Senku claiming that she would most certainly be too heavy for them to keep up there. Also, there was the problem of getting her back down again. Should they really risk her getting too damaged to possibly be brought back after all. That run through the forest and even jumping off of that cliff as they had. It was a miracle that she remained in one piece the entire time.
Time would then once again begin to pass only this time with one other person with Senku and Taiju. Yuzuriha might have been there at the base of the tree but still did not count really, still being a statue herself after all. Though despite this she would be told various things by Taiju as it was a lot easier for him to see her. She was right there with the place he was staying after all though it's not that she was aware of any of them since just like them the day the petrifying light turned everyone effect to stone. She was cut off from the world and unaware of anything that has happened around her.
Though the first order of business that was addressed in their spare time when not working on the various projects Senku had going or fulfilling the roles each of them had. Senku and Taiju were working on Yuzuriha's clothing. Made of the same material their own were made from. The gathering and set up was done by Taiju mostly with Senku going the construction himself. Neither Senku nor their third roommate brought up the fact that they seeing her naked this entire time and saw her like that every day now, as she stood right there at the base of the tree their house was in.
As for her clothing itself, it was a simple dress with an equally simple pair of shoes. It was not that they had much to work within the first though they were making this all by hand after all. However, the dress was not in a single piece though it was two separate cloths laced together. The reason was probably that since Yuzuriha was a statue at the moment there was no real way to dress her otherwise. They could not create clothing for her similar to themselves as they made thereafter they had been freed from their stone state. Yuzuriha, however, was still a statue thus the workaround that. As Taiju and Senkuu ended up doing with her once the dress was completed. There was also another piece to the outfit she was being dressed in as there was a scarf place around her neck seemingly of the same material that kept her dress held together in a single piece.
Though when it came to dressing her this mostly something Taiju did on his own as even though she had been naked for thousands of years and Senkuu had seen her as she was many times before and even close up. After all, he had to get close to write something next to her for when Taiju eventually arrived to see her there.
Once that was done, she pretty much left alone again as even Taiju did not stop by that often for one of his visits that much. This would continue until a few weeks later the jar with her name that collecting the necessary piece to make the depetrification formula has been gathered and Taiju had to rush off to tell Senku that it was time bring her back for real this time.
Though there at first, there seem to some misunderstanding about how much of the miracle cave water there was to create the finished product needed to revive her. Though that was seemingly not the case as it readily made after Taiju and Senkuu were alone with her. The exact process is done fast as if they were a race against time. To get this done before the one that took the batch originally met for her got back again. Having left after being told about where to go to get more the miracle cave water.
Mixed and completed in a flash the full product was being dangled over her head by Taiju who wanted to be careful about this not trying waste any it seems. Of course, Senkuu was in a hurry thus the dumped on her after he noticed what was going on. Now splashed all over her hair the process of reverting her from stone statue began. The mixture seeped it's way deep into her and what was once the solid stone was becoming flesh and blood once more. The process seemingly takes a bit more time on the third usage of it. Although sure enough cracks started to form as she was no longer stone anymore just covered in full body stone shell. One that was beginning to crack all over seemingly starting with her outstretched arm, then spreading to all over her face, hair, etc. Though as this was happening an interesting spiral pattern her neck and then again on her shoulder.
It seems this was what be her marking after being brought back to life. This was something that seems to be the case after reverting from a statue. Though normally up until now this was signified with some kind of marking on the face as lines similar to scars. Of the three that were brought back before her, they had what appeared to be two scars running across their faces. One from the eye to their check and another over their left eye to their forehead. Taiju's two were over one eye and under the other. While Senkuu's ran downward between his eyes.
Yuzuriha, however, seems to have them not on her face but her body. It was not just one but three of them as well. One was on her neck and there were two on each of her shoulders
At this point, the process was pretty much complete as the shell fully cracked and was starting to flake off. Yuzuriha still not fully awaken. Once completed the shell fell off, she moved on her own for the first time in over 3000 thousand years. Falling as she was not fully conscious just yet thus would have hit the ground if Taiju had not caught her. Crying his eyes out as after all this time she was finally back for real. Not just as a statue being kept at the base of their treehouse or cling to a three thousand year old tree. Of course, as she got her barring straight with a bit of her stone shell still over her left eye.
Her vision blurry Yuzuriha wonder if this was really who she thought it was holding her at the moment.
"Taiju is that you," she asked
The reply she got back was one that was confusing her as she did not understand why he was apologizing for her having to wait for 3,700 years. Her memories of being trapped in her petrified state had seemed to have vanished from her prolonged 'sleep' that had been in. Thus in her current state, it was if no time had passed at all.
Yuzuriha was not sure what was going on here. After being caught Taiju she was still lying on the ground surrounded by what was left of the stone shell she had been in until now. She was not completely sure of what was going on exactly as the last thing she really recalls was meeting with Taiju by the camphor tree at school but now she was in front of what appeared to be a treehouse of some kind. Though after meeting with Taiju like he asked she remembered seeing that flash of light, being told to hold on to the camphor tree, and then Taiju seeing turning to stone himself. She must have as well as that would explain a lot of things.
'I can recall everything up until bright flash of light and then being told to hold to the camphor tree' she thought after that everything drew a blank until now.
Though things changed quickly as Senkuu distracted her from this line of thought managing to catch her full attention. Claiming they had two plans to about what to do next. One was that she left with Taiju and got far away from here. The other plan being that three of them band together to put a plan to deal with this Tsukaka person who was going about killing others.
Of course, she was not fully understanding everything that was going at the moment as her memory was still slightly in a state of disarray. She felt there a huge gap between her last known memories and her current ones after all. Mentally shaking her head once again, Yuzuriha confirmed her choice along with Taiju that she was indeed staying to help. After all the three of them were friends after all and that what friends do for one another. Help them out when they are in their time of need.
Though the two of them had made their decision there was not much time for planning anything like the moment after it was made this was when the man in question arrived back claiming that he was not killing for the sake of it. That there was a method to his madness claiming this was for the betterment of the world. However, how could he know who was and was not as worthy of being brought back based on public knowledge alone.
After all the fragments of a statue, he had wrecked and released from his hand. They could have been the most outstandingly good and kind nice natured person he could have ever met. However, since they could have been caught at a bad moment as the transformation into stone was sudden and instant. Thus Tsukasa judged a person by merely looking at them without even knowledge of who they were.
Though the sight of what was once a person now just rumble in his hands, that pissed off Taiju who after telling Senkuu to look after her. He rushed at the man that just crushed stone with his bare hand.
Shocked that he was do something like this Yuzuriha could only watch as Taiju ran at Tsukasa. Yet as that only continued as Senkuu pulled out a crossbow and fire directly Tsukasa missing his best friend as flow over his head. Although once again in shock and awe as the attempt failed not because he missed his target. Instead, the reason the shot failed to hit was that Tsukasa grabbed the arrow and throw down. Then he landed a kick that looked as it would hurt if Taiju took it directly to his head instead of blocking a majority of it.
In a move that shocked everyone present, Yuzuriha heard Taiju attempt to make a deal where he could beat him up as much as he wanted. But in exchange, Tsukasa had to stop killing people/breaking statues.
"There is no deal here though," he said
That was clear to everyone else present. Though after be told the 'deal' again this when Tsukasa said something rather chilling
"So you would do nothing even if I were to kill the girl over there," he said
This would not be merely breaking her seemingly resulting in her death that way as when she was a statue still but killing her now that she was back to normal.
Of course, Taiju moved in front of her and this was way Senkuu gave them the offer to run away so that she would not be used as a hostage or something similar. Cause her to wonder what things this guy thing about her while she was still a statue. If she was discovered by Tsukasa first would she even be alive right now. He seems to have no problem talking about killing her and from the way Taiju and Senkuu were taking his action this was not the first time he had killed a person by destroying their statue.
The problem present before Taiju seems to be too much for him to handle and he just collapses unable to make sense of what he was present. He did not want to have to fight another person but to protect Yuzuriha that what it would require. Though with that he just left as Tsukasa claimed this where they would part ways. He would do what he wanted and would not let anything or anyone stop him.