Becoming a Master Inventor Starting from Hunter x Hunter, Part 38

"If you want to play the villain, I'd be happy to let you have the role..."

Feitan, standing nearby, picked up the thread. His eyes turned incomparably deep as he stared at Phinks, who had his hands in his pockets, whistling and gazing at the sky as though nothing had happened.

"Why the hell did you have to drag me along to play a villain too?!!"

Chapter 53: She Could Get the Answer from Mog!!

"Uh... the weather's pretty nice today, huh~!"

Phinks laughed awkwardly and changed the subject, refusing to answer Feitan directly.

It was not until Feitan's gaze grew increasingly sharp that Phinks finally gave an embarrassed smile. "There's nothing bad about playing a villain. Look at Uvogin—doesn't he seem pretty happy?"

Well, that big idiot Uvogin had been assigned the role of the Monster Humans, biological weapons developed by an evil organization to invade Sacred Mountain, and he was grinning foolishly nonstop.

The Monster Humans here did not refer to just one individual.

Rather, every Monster Human that appeared in each episode would be played by Uvogin.

For instance, if Episode Ten featured the Hippo Monster Human, then after playing that role, Uvogin would appear again as the Platypus Monster Human in Episode Eleven.

He would merely switch costumes.

Uvogin never got tired of it. He had even strongly requested that the final ultimate boss villain also be played by him.

He wanted to be the world's number one villain!!

However~~~

That was Uvogin's dream, not Feitan's.

Yes, young Feitan had the heart of a righteous young hero as well.

In the original plot, he had followed Chrollo to audition for the voice roles of the protagonist team's righteous allies, thereby landing the role of Little Green from the Cleaning Squad.

This time, he also wanted to be part of the protagonist team. For example, he quite liked Sea Shark's blue color.

But Phinks had simply dragged him over to play a villain.

If not for the fact that the two of them had a fairly good relationship, Feitan would have wanted to skin him alive.

"Fine, I'll tell you the truth..."

Seeing that Feitan's expression was becoming more and more dangerous, Phinks knew he could not push it too far. He decisively raised his hands in surrender.

"The characters we're playing are executives of the evil organization that controls the Monster Humans. We can control Uvogin to our hearts' content!!"

Phinks said animatedly.

Like corporate executives, the characters they played were the officers who summoned and controlled those Monster Humans.

They counted as villains who appeared in every episode and opposed the protagonists.

But that reason was clearly not enough to convince Feitan.

"Fine, I admit it..."

Seeing Feitan's expression clearly saying, "Don't try to fool me just because I'm not well-read," and that he was about to make a move, Phinks could only tell the truth.

"I asked Mog before whether, if I played a villain, I could wear a different outfit in every episode..."

At that point, Phinks became even more animated than before.

"Especially outfits like ancient pharaoh attire. I think that kind of thing is super cool..."

Yes, one of Phinks's well-known hobbies was constantly changing outfits. In particular, he loved clothing styled after pharaohs.

When the Phantom Troupe first gathered and appeared in Yorknew City, Phinks made his debut in exactly such an outfit~~~

"You really said that to Mog?"

"Yeah. Why else would I agree to play a villain? You know Mog has always been willing to grant requests."

That was true enough.

Mog, who had obtained the Costume Change Camera from Phinks's request, gave him a thumbs-up.

"So come play a villain. You'll get to wear even more nice clothes. What do you think?"

"I don't think so!!"

With his rage fully built up, Feitan struck without hesitation.

"Ah~!!"

Phinks let out a scream and fled with his head in his hands.

Feitan chased after him with furious determination.

He had obviously wanted to be a righteous protagonist, yet this idiot had dragged him into villainy instead.

And the blue role of Sea Shark, which he had wanted, had gone to Shalnark—and Shalnark actually seemed somewhat dissatisfied with it?

As he joked, he actually preferred Mog's role.

Yes, in the original plot's voice-role assignments, Shalnark had wanted to play the genius doctor from the Cleaning Warriors, who was caught in a love triangle with the two female warrior members, Little Purple and Little Pink...

From this alone, it was not hard to see what Shalnark's true nature was like.

"Any role is fine. We just need to do our best together."

Gentle Shira smiled as she comforted and encouraged Sarasa and the others.

She herself had no desire to perform.

Even when Chrollo wanted to add another female character to the main cast for her, such as a peacock representing the color green, she smilingly refused.

In Shira's words, she could manage voice acting, but appearing on camera and performing was something she was not suited to.

As a result, she took on the voice work for the narration and other parts of the production.

After failing to persuade her, Chrollo chose to respect her decision.

Of course, more importantly, he had also noticed the sparkling look in Shira's eyes whenever she glanced at Mog.

Yes, it was filled with something Chrollo knew all too well.

An overwhelming thirst for knowledge.

Shira always carried a book in her hands, titled [Adventure Story D Hunter].

She was full of longing for the outside world.

Especially for the profession called [Hunter] mentioned in the book.

And after reading its contents countless times, Shira had vaguely gleaned another meaning from it.

It seemed that after becoming a Hunter, one would become different from ordinary people.

As for exactly how they were different, Shira normally could not put it into words.

She had thought that perhaps she would only understand after reaching the outside world.

But now, after seeing the incredibly peculiar [inventions] Mog had brought out—

Shira suddenly had a feeling.

Perhaps she could find that answer in Mog!!

Everything Was Ready, and Filming Officially Began~!

In the original storyline, Shira appeared in the Phantom Troupe's flashback arc.

She was born in Meteor City and had grown up alongside the Phantom Troupe's original members.

But after their companion Sarasa was tortured to death, she parted ways with them because she did not agree with Chrollo's views.

From then on, she left Meteor City and ventured into the outside world to explore.

Later, while exploring a certain forest, she collapsed from thirst.

And by coincidence, there was a race called the Kurta Clan.

Because they all possessed the [Scarlet Eyes], Hokushin, said to be one of the [Seven Beauties of the World], they were coveted by others.

Thus, the 129 members of the Kurta Clan lived alone in an isolated forest to avoid pursuit by outsiders.

That was right—Shira had collapsed in the very forest where the Kurta Clan lived.

In that forest, one of the protagonists, Kurapika, lived in a warm and harmonious little village.

He had a lively mother, a steady father, and a good friend named Pairo.

Like most children, young Kurapika yearned for novel things.

He constantly begged the clan chief to let him go outside, but was always refused.

In the end, thanks to Pairo's help and his own intelligence, Kurapika finally received permission to leave.

Later, this was also what allowed him to escape the crisis of the Kurta Clan's extermination.

Shira had been found in the forest by young Kurapika and Pairo.

After Kurapika and Pairo saved her, she gave them a book about a Hunter's adventures as a gift.

After making them promise not to tell anyone, she thanked them once more and left.

It was this very book that sparked young Kurapika's interest in going outside.

Incidentally, the story of D. Hunter, the protagonist of this book, was likely New World Chronicle, which recorded the five great calamities of the Dark Continent and was written by Don Freecss.

Like the D. Hunter mentioned by Kurapika, the author's name also began with the letter D.

Because of this, some believed that Kurapika's race might also have originated from the Dark Continent.

Shira was the sort of person who read while walking without watching where she was going. She was always absentminded and constantly tripped.

She had been like that whether in Meteor City or in the Kurta Clan's forest.

Yet this scatterbrained girl possessed an exceptionally firm resolve. She aspired to become a Hunter.

However, she had no further role in the story, and she did not appear during the Chairman Election arc either.

This indicated that, in the original storyline, her path to becoming a Hunter might not have gone very smoothly~~~