"You'd better go somewhere else and cool off!"
If he hadn't been worried about stealing the spotlight, Phinks would have disdainfully raised a hand and shooed them away.
"Aren't we worried that certain people can't even recognize the road and might lead him straight into a garbage heap next?"
Uvogin immediately shot back, "And maybe they're harboring some nasty intentions too, plotting something."
"We're genuinely here because we care about Mog's safety!!"
"Is that so?!" Phinks sneered. "Looks to me like you're the ones plotting something. You followed him all the way to his doorstep!"
"What, is this your house? If trash like you can come here, why can't I?!"
"What did you say?!!"
Seeing the two glaring at each other, practically ready to start fighting again, Feitan and Machi expertly stepped between them.
Calmly separating the two.
"Enough. Stop arguing and come inside."
At that moment, Mog, who had gone inside first, called out from within.
Only then did Uvogin and Phinks shoot each other vicious looks before entering one after the other.
The moment he entered, Phinks felt that the place really was rather cramped.
After all, Mog hadn't been lying. His house truly was not large.
Like Nobita's upstairs room, it could barely fit the [Super Mini Rice Field] used for growing rice.
With so many people inside, along with a shabby bed, it naturally felt even more crowded.
But that wasn't the point. After briefly looking over the room,
Phinks, along with everyone else, turned his gaze directly toward the new object in Mog's hands.
"Those things... are they building blocks?"
Uvogin bluntly asked the question outright.
"On the surface, they're just a pile of building blocks..."
Mog took out one block from a box of blocks he had [invented] beside him and weighed it in his hand.
"This is a newly added floor."
Smiling, he placed the house-shaped block on the ground.
"A floor?"
Uvogin instinctively raised his head and looked at the ceiling, which was nearly touching his head.
"Isn't this just a one-story house? You don't even have a second floor."
"Don't worry, you'll have one soon~"
Mog removed the roof from the block house resembling a one-story building, then picked up another block resembling a flat middle level and placed it on top.
When he put the roof back on, it looked like a two-story house.
"Are you just stacking blocks to make a taller building...?"
Uvogin tilted his head. "They're only blocks. This isn't your hous—"
Tsk, tsk.
Before he could finish, someone tugged on his clothes again.
"Hm?!"
Uvogin knew that only Machi would tug at his clothes, so he first shut up, then quickly swept his gaze around the room.
And then~~~
"Where did these stairs come from?!!"
Uvogin stared in shock at the staircase in the corner of the room, which had not been there before but now seemed to have appeared out of thin air.
And what startled him even more was that it seemed to be more than just a staircase.
At the point where the stairs connected, at the top of the staircase, it seemed as though another floor had been added.
"How is this possible?!!"
Refusing to believe it, Uvogin immediately stomped up the stairs.
And then~~~
"There really is one?!!"
When he reached the second floor and saw the additional space with his own eyes, along with the floor that was cleaner and tidier than the one below,
Uvogin felt as though there might be something wrong with both his eyes and his brain.
What he was seeing and the knowledge and understanding of the world stored in his mind~~~
Seemed to be completely unrelated.
They simply did not match up at all.
"A whole extra floor really appeared?!!"
Everyone downstairs naturally heard Uvogin's shout clearly.
Phinks smacked his lips, then quickly looked toward the building blocks in Mog's hands.
Without a doubt, these changes had all been caused by the blocks Mog held.
He had merely added a level to the blocks, yet the corresponding house in the real world had truly gained another floor as well.
The ability to alter reality so effortlessly...
Phinks' mouth went dry, and he instinctively stuck out his tongue to wet his lips.
The look in his eyes as he watched Mog became incomparably fervent.
How could anyone not yearn to possess such power?!!
After hearing Uvogin's shout, Machi and Feitan both fell silent for a moment.
Then, as though by mutual understanding, they pushed open the door and walked outside.
"There's no change to the exterior at all..."
Looking at Mog's house from outside, it was still that ordinary, unremarkable little rundown one-story house.
There was absolutely no outward sign of an extra floor having been added.
Yet inside, there truly was an additional floor~~~
"Power capable of distorting space?!"
A glint flashed through Feitan's narrow fox-like eyes.
This world was starting to become interesting~!!
Chapter 27: [Four-Dimensional Space Expansion Box]
Machi also silently assessed the contrast between the inside and outside of the house.
The impact on her was no less than it had been on Uvogin, Phinks, and Feitan.
"The house gained another floor inside, but it can't be seen from outside at all..."
Though she was still young, with a limited vocabulary and no understanding of concepts such as dimensions or spatial changes,
This highly deceptive [invention] was exceptionally practical!!
"The upstairs space is exactly the same too..."
After Machi and Feitan returned inside and closed the door, Uvogin came down from the second floor, clicking his tongue.
"And it's even cleaner than down here."
Whether in floor area or layout, the second floor was exactly the same as the bottom floor.
"Because the added floor is based on this house. Whatever the first floor looks like, the second floor will look the same."
Mog smiled and removed the building-block floor of the [Four-Dimensional Space Expansion Box] from the block house.
Immediately, the staircase leading to the second floor vanished from the room.
Naturally, the second floor that had appeared out of nowhere disappeared along with it.
Invention: [Four-Dimensional Space Expansion Box] Source: Doraemon World—Future Technology Company. Effect: Using the current room floor as a template, each additional building-block level will physically add a corresponding floor to the existing room. It is added only in the form of dimensional space and does not alter the actual exterior.
This was precisely the [invention] obtained from Phinks' earlier [request] to improve the house.
It could add more floors to the house and create more space, though that space would use the current room as its template.
In other words, the floors added by this [Four-Dimensional Space Expansion Box] used the current floor as their blueprint.
For example, since Mog had built it in his own small house, the newly constructed block floor had exactly the same area and layout as the floor he was currently in.
In Doraemon World, when Doraemon took out this gadget and used it, he had also been in Nobita's room on the second floor of Nobita's house.
Therefore, the specifications of the floors added above were all based on Nobita's room. Their area and layout were exactly the same as Nobita's room, rather than using the first-floor arrangement as a template.
Furthermore, the added floors would only be visible inside the house. From outside, there would not be the slightest sign of them.
That also provided excellent concealment.
"In other words, if the house is small, the expanded floors will be small as well. The larger the house, the larger the added floors will be too..."
The principle was not difficult to understand, and everyone grasped it.
"So, if we can find a fairly large house and add several more floors..."
Thinking of this, Phinks' eyes lit up. "Then we'd have a massive hidden space, practically a secret base!!"
Well, no man—or rather, no teenage boy—could possibly resist the allure of a secret base!!
"But aside from the elders' residences, where in Meteor City is there a house that large..."
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