Hunter x Hunter: Call Me Master Inventor

"We are the ones truly concerned for von Clay's safety!"

Uvogin made his position clear.

"Yeah?"

Phinks sneered:

"I think you're the ones who really have ulterior motives, aren't you?"

"They've followed them all the way to their doorstep!"

"What, is this your home? You can come here, but I can't?"

"What did you say?!"

It looked like the two were about to start fighting again...

Feitan and Machi, already quite experienced, stood in the middle, calmly separating the two.

"Alright, stop arguing, come on in, everyone!"

"Von Clay, who was already inside, called out from inside."

Uvogin and Phinks then glared at each other fiercely before going inside.

Upon entering, Finks immediately sensed that the place was indeed crowded.

Bon Clay was right, the house was small, like Nobita's second-floor room...

It barely fits the portable super rice paddy that was previously used for growing rice.

With so many people sharing one broken bed, there's hardly any space left.

But it is not important.

After briefly surveying the surroundings, Phinks...

Just like everyone else, their eyes were all fixed on the new thing that had appeared in von Clay's hand.

"Those...are building blocks?"

Uvogin asked the question bluntly.

"On the surface, it really does look like a pile of building blocks!"

von Clay picked up a block from a box of building blocks that he had "invented" nearby...

I weighed it in my hand:

"But in reality, these are 'newly expanded floors and rooms'."

He smiled and placed the building block that resembled a bungalow model on the ground.

"Floor and room?"

Uvogin subconsciously looked up at the ceiling, which was almost touching his head:

"Isn't this just a single-story house? It doesn't even have a second floor."

"Don't worry, it'll be ready soon~"

von Clay picked up the roof of that bungalow block...

Then he picked up another block representing the middle floor, inserted it, and then put the roof on.

Now, this block model looks like a two-story building.

"Are you playing with building blocks and stacking them up...?"

Uvogin tilted his head...

"It's just building blocks, it's not your house..."

blah blah...

Before he could finish speaking, his clothes were tugged at.

"Um?"

Uvogin knew that only Machi would tug at his clothes, so he immediately shut up and quickly scanned his surroundings.

Then--

"Where did this staircase come from?!"

Uvogin stared in astonishment at the staircase that had appeared out of nowhere in the corner of the room, leading to the next floor.

What shocked him even more was that there seemed to be an extra floor space at the top of the stairs!

"How is this possible?!"

Uvogin, refusing to believe in superstition, climbed up the stairs.

Then--

"There really is one?!"

Upon arriving on the second floor, I saw with my own eyes the extra space, which was even cleaner and tidier than the downstairs area…

Uvogin felt that there was something wrong with his eyes and brain.

What he saw before him was completely different from his understanding of the world.

"There really is an extra layer?!"

Uvogin's shouts could be heard clearly downstairs.

Finks smacked his lips, his gaze once again fixed intently on the building blocks in von Clay's hands.

Without a doubt, these changes were caused by those building blocks.

Just by adding one layer to the model, the real house actually has an extra layer!

This ability to so easily alter reality...

Phinks' mouth was dry, and he subconsciously licked his lips...

His gaze toward von Clay was incredibly intense.

Who wouldn't yearn to possess such power?

After hearing Uvogin's shout, Machi and Feitan paused for a moment, then simultaneously pushed open the door and went outside.

"The houses outside haven't changed at all..."

From the outside, the two men saw that Von Clay's house was still the same ordinary, dilapidated bungalow, with no change in appearance.

But inside, there is indeed an extra layer.

"Is it a force that confuses space?"

A sharp glint flashed in Feitan's long, narrow fox-like eyes.

This world is starting to become interesting!

Machi, too, silently compared the differences between the inside and outside of the house...

She was just as shocked as Uvogin, Phinks, and Feitan.

"An extra floor was added inside, but you can't tell from the outside at all..."

Although she was young and had a limited vocabulary, she didn't understand anything about dimensional space theory...

But this highly deceptive "invention" is surprisingly practical!

"The vertical space is exactly the same..."

When Machi and Feitan went back inside and closed the door...

Uvogin also came down from the second floor, clicking his tongue in amazement:

"And the top is cleaner than the bottom."

Both the floor area and the layout are exactly the same on the second floor and the ground floor.

"Since the added floors are based on the current building, the second floor will be exactly the same as the first floor!"

With a smile, von Klay took the block representing the floor out of the block house model.

Suddenly, the staircase leading to the second floor disappeared, and the newly created second-floor space vanished without a trace.

Invention: Four-Dimensional Addition Box

Source: Doraemon World - Future Technology Company.

Effect: Based on the current room, each additional layer of blocks added to the model will actually add one floor to the actual room.

This addition is achieved in the form of dimensional space without altering the building's appearance.

This was a tool "invented" in response to Phinks's previous "request" to improve the living environment.

It can add more floors to a house, but the added space completely replicates the area and layout of the current floor.

In the original Doraemon story, Doraemon used this gadget in Nobita's second-floor room...

Therefore, the newly added floors are exactly the same as Nobita's room, rather than being based on the living room on the first floor.

Moreover, the newly added floors are only visible from inside the rooms and are completely invisible from the outside, providing excellent concealment.

In other words, if the house is small, the extended floors will also be small.

"The house is big, so the extended floors are also big..."

This principle is not difficult to understand, and everyone understood it.

"So, if we can find a larger house, we could add a few more floors..."

When Phinks realized this, his eyes lit up:

"Doesn't that mean we have a huge, hidden space, a perfect secret base?!"

Yes, it's hard for any teenager to resist the temptation of a "secret base"!

"But besides the elders' residences, where else in Meteor City can you find such a large house..."

At this moment, even Uvogin, unusually, didn't argue with Phinks, but instead began to think seriously.

He doesn't have high requirements for where he lives; his house is neither too big nor too small, just ordinary.

but……

"Speaking of relatively large houses, I do know one."

Uvogin's lips curled into a smile, as if he had thought of something.

A relatively clean area in Meteor Street, far from garbage dumps.

The houses here are noticeably more orderly and spacious than those over there in the ruins.

As the saying goes, wherever there are people, there is a world of its own.

Meteor City is no exception; it has an invisible class system.

Those who can live here either have some status or are not to be trifled with.