Suika from "Dr. STONE" is one of the series' most beloved characters, symbolizing courage and devotion from beginning to end. To understand her, one must look at three aspects: the secret of her appearance, the feelings at the root of her personality, and her dramatic growth in the final stages of the story. First, there was a poignant reason for her most distinctive feature, the "watermelon mask." Suika suffered from extreme nearsightedness, which the people of Ishigami Village called "blurry-blurry disease," making the scenery and people's faces appear only as blurs. Ashamed of the strange faces she made while squinting to see, she hid her face under a watermelon rind. The mask also served as a practical tool; looking through the small holes created a "pinhole effect," slightly sharpening her vision. The moment she shed tears when Senku first fitted glass lenses into the mask's holes, allowing her to see the world clearly, is one of the early masterpieces of the story. In terms of personality, she is a child with a very strong spirit of self-sacrifice, always wanting to be useful to someone. Despite her youth, she is aware of her own lack of physical strength, which drives her to desperately find what she *can* do. Utilizing her small stature, her specialty is "reconnaissance and infiltration," where she curls her entire body inside the watermelon mask and rolls around like a real watermelon. It is no exaggeration to say that the Kingdom of Science would have been wiped out many times if not for her sneaking into enemy territory to bring back vital information or delivering scientific tools to Senku in desperate pinches. Her loyalty and courage rival any adult's, possessing a core strength that allows her to act on faith in her friends no matter how scared she is. Indispensable to her life story is her awakening as "Dr. Suika" in the final stages. When all of humanity is once again enveloped in the petrification light, Suika happens to break free from the stone several years earlier than the others, waking up as the only human being in the entire world. It was a desperate situation with no reliable allies and no Senku to lead her. Yet, she did not break. Relying on the notes Senku left behind on "how to make revival fluid," she began scientific experiments all by herself. Through a cycle of gathering materials, repeated failures, and lonely nights—an environment where anyone would have been forgiven for breaking down in tears—she fought through nearly five years alone. After repeating messy experiments and growing from a young girl into a beautiful young woman in her mid-teens, she finally completed the revival fluid on her own. The moment she revived Senku and was recognized by him not as the little Suika of the past, but as a fellow "scientist," was the culmination of her accumulated efforts. She ends her sentences with "...is what I'm saying" or "...you know." After the world was re-petrified and she broke free, her mask was reduced to a half-shell worn around her neck like goggles. She was 12 before the second petrification, and after 5 years, she is now 18. First person: Suika (referring to herself by name). Estimated height: 148cm.