Master Inventor Starting from Hunter x Hunter

In Mog's hand appeared a combination of a syringe and needle used for injections.

And also...

"These are the big meat and fried rice~"

Mog tossed the small vial in his hand and said with a smile.

"???"

Question marks floated above Uvogin's forehead.

Things that look like medicine, and you're telling me they're food?!

He opened his mouth, wanting to say something more.

But when he saw Machi beside him silent without a word, after thinking it over, he too silently shut his mouth.

Then, under the two's equally probing gazes, they watched as Mog opened one of the vials and drew all the liquid inside into the syringe.

"Let's use this tree."

Mog said, and directly stabbed the syringe into the tree in front of him.

Immediately after, under everyone's watch, one of the tree's branching twigs began to faintly glow.

Then it rapidly swelled and sprouted, and slowly bloomed into flowers.

"Once the flowers bloom and bear fruit~~~"

With Mog's soft words, that tender flower quickly withered and fell, producing a large fruit as dark as a black coconut.

It then drooped down into Mog's hand.

"Like this, the food you wanted is complete."

Mog directly handed it over to Uvogin.

"This is meat?"

Though shocked by the sprouting, swelling, blooming, and fruiting happening before his eyes in rapid succession, the idea of meat growing from a tree was still too fantastical.

Uvogin still took the fruit lid with a mix of doubt and belief and opened it.

Crack.

The moment the black lid opened, a burst of intense meat aroma rushed out.

It directly assaulted the olfactory nerves of everyone present!!

"Hm?!!"

Even Feitan and Phinks, the duo not far away preparing to infiltrate the Church, stopped in their tracks almost simultaneously.

"Sniff sniff~~~ This is..."

Phinks' nose twitched vigorously, then he whipped his head around.

His gaze locked straight onto a certain direction.

"What's that smell?!!"

"It smells so good!!!"

Chapter 018: I'm Not That Gluttonous Person!!

Not just Phinks, Feitan had also long since cast his gaze over.

And he stared directly at the direction from which the fragrance came, barely able to look away.

Even Feitan and Phinks, the duo farther away, could smell this aroma.

Let alone Uvogin and Machi, who were right at the scene.

The moment that fragrance burst forth, the two of them, as the first to be hit head-on by the impact of the scent, felt their throats roll uncontrollably at almost the same time.

And Uvogin was drooling from the sheer deliciousness of the smell.

"This is meat!!!"

He looked at the chunks of fragrant, big meat placed inside the plump, black coconut-like fruit.

Taken from the fattest, most tender, and most aromatic parts of a big, plump pig, then specially cooked to create a meat dish with an ultimate fragrance.

Piece by piece, they were placed inside this black coconut fruit, continuously emitting a rich, enticing aroma.

The craving in his mouth churned deeply, and his oral cavity frantically secreted salivary amylase, eager to taste.

His tongue and nose both conveyed to Uvogin the desire to further engage with these chunks of meat.

And under this intense urge~~~

Chomp!!

Uvogin couldn't take it anymore. He directly plunged his hand into that black fruit.

Ignoring the scalding steam rising from it, paying no mind to the burning heat on his skin, he grabbed a large chunk of meat and shoved it straight into his mouth.

Chomp chomp.

That rich, mouthwatering fragrance exploded instantly inside Uvogin's mouth.

The fatty, tender, fragrant meat was frantically chewed between his teeth.

The plump meat juices splattered everywhere inside Uvogin's mouth, some even slowly trickling down from the corners of his lips.

"Delicious, so damn delicious!!!"

If this were the old Uvogin, he'd never have let those meat juices drip out of his mouth like that.

But now, he couldn't care less about any of that.

There was still so much meat inside that black coconut fruit that he wished he could stuff every piece into his mouth at once.

In fact, Uvogin even felt his mouth was too small, unable to cram all the meat in at the first go.

No help for it—he'd been poor too long... hungry too long... or rather, craving too long?

Having never eaten anything this good before, Uvogin tasted such fragrant, savory meat for the first time and nearly sank into utter indulgence.

So much so that, as he ate, he instinctively turned his back to Machi.

Yep, Uvogin had learned to guard his food.

Machi: "~~~~~~"

Is it really that serious?

I'm not some glutton!!

Machi cast a faint glance at Uvogin's back, her expression still as calm as a chrysanthemum.

But in truth, her throat involuntarily bobbed again.

No help for it—the smell of that meat was just too enticing.

It even made Machi slightly regret choosing the fried rice.

She should have picked the meat to try too!!

Still, since Mog had brought out something so fragrant, and seeing how Uvogin was devouring it with such relish, clearly savoring every bite, the taste must be genuinely good.

It stirred a bit of anticipation in Machi's heart.

She wondered what kind of fried rice Mog could produce!!

While Machi was anticipating, back in the church's projection room.

"Gulp~"

Both Chrollo and Pakunoda in the room were swallowing their saliva.

Even though they couldn't smell the aroma from inside the room, just watching the steam rising from those chunks of meat, their enticing color, and Uvogin madly shoving them into his mouth, chewing wildly, with meat juices flying everywhere—

scenes like that were enough to completely awaken the cravings in anyone's stomach.

Especially here in Meteor City, where there was almost no oil or grease—this was absolute temptation.

Even someone like Chrollo, a genius of extraordinary intelligence since childhood, upon seeing Uvogin devouring meat like that, had his thoughts momentarily crash.

Why had the syringe and medicine suddenly appeared? Why did sticking the syringe into a branch make it instantly bloom and bear fruit?

Why did the branch grow a coconut-like black fruit? Why, when the fruit's lid was opened, was there fragrant meat inside...

All these questions, completely beyond common sense, beyond his understanding of this world, phenomena that shattered his worldview—

in the face of Uvogin eating meat, they were all forgotten.

Yeah, on that front, Uvogin definitely qualified as a qualified food streamer.

Besides, Chrollo was just a child born and raised in Meteor City.

He often rummaged through garbage dumps and ruins, searching for useful things.

As for big chunks of meat like that, he'd never actually eaten them~~~

But still, Chrollo was Chrollo after all.

With sheer willpower, he forcibly tore his gaze away from Uvogin—or rather, from the meat in Uvogin's hands—

and turned instead to look at Mog, who had opened another vial of medicine, drawn it into a syringe, and was starting to inject the tree again.

He had been curious all along: what exactly was this thing Mog had brought out?

It could change a tree's very nature and make it bear fruit that was food.