Hunter x Hunter: Call Me Master Inventor

Seeing von Clay's gentle smile, Sheila mustered her courage.

"Um, I..."

"You can just go directly there~"

Sheila had just opened her mouth when Uvogin interrupted her.

Along with the courage she had finally mustered, and the emotions she had been building up.

However, she no longer needs to use these emotions.

"We all know that."

Paknoda also smiled and said.

"That's your favorite book!!"

Salazar looked quite reluctant, but she still forced a smile and pretended to be an adult.

Clearly, she realized something too.

"We're a 'guild'!"

The swordsman, returning from the toilet, also grinned.

"The so-called 'group'..."

Franklin said earnestly:

"It's about being on a journey, after all."

"That's right~!!"

Finks nodded vigorously.

Feitan also whispered:

"We are all on the path of acting."

"And you, you've already begun to live your own life."

Nobunaga made a rare, rather poetic remark.

"You've actually already gotten ahead of us."

"Maggie said softly."

"but……"

A sunny smile appeared on Kuroro's little face.

"We're members of the same guild! We're teammates!!"

Partner?...

Sheila's eyes had started to blur at some point.

She subconsciously reached out and touched her cheek, only to find that her face was already covered in tears.

"Of course we are partners."

Finally, it was von Klay who gave his speech:

"It was like that before, and it is like that now..."

He looked at Sheila and smiled.

"Even more so in the future."

Hillary burst into tears.

She and the others in the tour group were destined to be different.

Regardless of whether Salazar's story actually happened in the original plot, Sheila's departure was inevitable.

Determined to become a hunter, she will not follow the same path as everyone else.

"At least you're still our partner for now..."

Machi came to Sheila's side and gently comforted her.

Sheila had already thought it through clearly after Von Klay had told her.

However, when the moment actually arrived, she still felt extremely sad.

In particular, the members of these teams still regard her as a comrade.

"We're still comrades..."

With tears streaming down her face, she looked up at the other members of the troupe around her, and finally her gaze settled on von Clay.

"And it always will be!!"

Their pursuit of dreams will not stop, but it will not become an obstacle to the relationship between the group members!

They are still a whole brigade! They are a unified entity!!

Von Clay will not take Sheila out, nor will she accept Von Clay's leadership.

She quietly left when no one was paying attention.

However, before leaving, everyone noticed that von Clay had given her something.

"It will protect you, guide you, and we will meet again."

von Clay smiled and said to her:

"If you want to see us, just use this to find us."

Sheila carefully and solemnly put the things away:

"I will."

Her eyes reflected the image of von Clay:

"Thank you, von Clay."

"If you really want to thank me~"

von Clay chuckled:

"Tell me about your travels when we meet next time."

They will definitely meet again someday.

Thus, Sheila became the first member of the Phantom Troupe to leave.

Everyone understood and supported her choice, and silently wished her well.

Moreover, Hilla's departure seemed to herald the impending separation of the troupe.

Everyone else was ready, and von Clay had no intention of taking Machi with him.

However, the ticket to "Misty Valley" that Babagra had given him earlier was also given to her by Von Clay.

Even the right place needs the right people to go.

With all these arrangements made, von Clay didn't delay and left the area with his men.

Uvogin, Phinks, Nobunaga, and Feitan aren't much to deal with either; they're basically all alone...

One person is full, so the whole family isn't hungry; all his belongings were carried with him.

In that case, leaving would be much easier.

"If you walk straight ahead from here, you'll almost reach the first city outside."

Von Clay took out the map of the area around Meteor City that Elder Babagra had given him and looked at it.

He already had a pretty good understanding of the surrounding situation, so this was just a matter of confirming it once again.

According to the official description, Meteor City is roughly the same size as the combined areas of Higashikage and Saitama Prefecture.

It covers an area of ​​6,000 square kilometers and has a population of nearly 10 million.

The prototype of this place is generally recognized in three aspects:

One is Togashi's own study.

However, this should correspond to the fact that the rooms of the final guardians, Dunn and Lister, are in roughly the same state of disarray after completing the game Greed Island.

The second is the outskirts of Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, because it is also filled with garbage, surrounding Jakarta in a garbage city.

That huge garbage mountain also supports tens of thousands of people. When people are desperate and have no jobs, they come to this "mountain".

The third one is the city that is generally considered to be the most similar:

Zabrin, the garbage capital near Cairo, Egypt.

This is what is truly known as the "Garbage Capital," and the name has even spread.

The people there truly live in garbage dumps.

Although they didn't want to...

To leave Meteor City and reach the outside world, one must pass through a land covered in yellow sand.

In other words, Meteor City is surrounded by desert.

In addition to Phinks and Peelev, who were dressed as an Egyptian pharaoh and a mummy when they first appeared, there was also the most crucial reason—

That is, when Yoshihiro Togashi was creating the Phantom Troupe and Meteor City, he happened to be on his honeymoon in Egypt with his newlywed wife, Naoko Takeuchi, the author of Sailor Moon.

To paraphrase what the old thief himself later described in an SBS interview:

The biggest takeaway from their trip to Egypt was that Yoshihiro Togashi found inspiration in the pyramids and incorporated it into the "Phantom Troupe Arc."