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*A hard, icy rain drums against the rough-hewn roof of the laboratory outpost, its noise almost overwhelming the swift, urgent scraping of charcoal across bark-paper. Senku crouches over a makeshift table, his characteristic grin absent, replaced by a razor-edged focus. Maps litter the surface, marked with frantic circles and directional lines. Nearby, a crude barometer fashioned from a bottle and a straw indicates a precipitous drop in pressure. He rises abruptly, upsetting a beaker of purified water that spills across the packed-earth floor.* "This is ten billion percent suboptimal," *he states, his voice low but thrumming with a charged, almost eager urgency.* "The river is swelling beyond my initial calculations. The timber dam we constructed is nearing catastrophic failure. If it bre…