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36 Moving in and Moving Out

  Entering the capsule house, I looked over the surprisingly spacious interior. A wood panel floor with an orangey-red couch off to the room's left. The couch was about 3/4s of a circle and stood on a blue and white ringed circur carpet, with a round table standing in the center. To my immediate left, next to the door were two button switches to turn power on and off right above a box shelf for shoes. Pressing the top one, the six lights on the ceiling lit up. “Bulbs might need to be changed,” I noted. The walls had a cream-white color, with four windows just overhead, on either side of the front door. To the right beside the entrance was also a cabinet with an old tube television. It wouldn’t work given it wouldn’t be able to pick up a signal, and it was too small for me to enter easily. "Going to have to repce that too," I noted. Checking the rest of the cabinet revealed a panel against the south wall with strange text written inside. "Either a control panel or circuit breakers..." They were a bit different than what I was familiar with so I couldn't tell. Each of the buttons inside were beled with a strange character and color-coding. (I'm going to have to try each one... Later).

  Beyond the TV cabinet was an open doorway leading into a modest-sized kitchen. Heading inside I found a modest room. There was a stove/oven, and a small section of counter space towards the right with a sink, and a dishwasher. Towards the back wall was an older-looking blue fridge, like it came out of the 80’s. “I should probably add a microwave” I noted as I started checking the kitchen cabinets and drawers. There was a surprising number of utensils, so I didn’t have to go silverware shopping. The fridge also had a bunch of food which I should test before deciding to eat or not.

  Exiting the kitchen I returned to the main room “I’m going to need to find the water tank, check the pipes, and find the heater." (There's a sor array on the roof, so power wouldn’t be an issue unless I needed significant power draw…) “Could I find a source of unlimited power?" (Surely that would break something…) Drawn from my thoughts, I stopped in front of a gss cabinet that was hiding behind the couch that I hadn’t noticed before. There were a bunch of knick-knacks sorted behind the gss and a potted pnt on the right-hand side. While the rest of the space was occupied by a mirror. “I need another shower.” After working all day, I was covered in sweat and charcoal powder had infused into my clothes and hair. "I think there's a bath in here somewhere".

  Left of the gss cabinet was a blue door, that led to a bedroom. Next to it, a part of the wall was squared off coming into the main area. Next to this odd design was another odd-looking potted pnt with palm leaves. Opening the blue door, I found a decent bedroom though, there was a lot of stuff in here. Women's clothing was strewn about the pce, as were unknown other luxuries (makeup?) A few odd-looking posters were pced up on the walls, they reminded me of boy bands. Towards a window in the back, there was a rge bed with a nightstand standing near the head of the bed. On the right-hand wall was a closet which seemed to be the reason for the squared section in the central room. On the left was another TV cabinet with another old tube television and a teal door.

  Moving towards the teal door I stopped, looking at the unkempt bed. I thought about changing the sheets- maybe just tossing the bed out entirely for a new one or repcing it with the one in the house. Then I felt a strange tingle in the back of my head. Checking the bed tossing some of the piled clothes and a magazine off I pulled off the sheets. Nothing. I was about to leave it but then I checked under the bed.

  “…Really?” A pink dildo was lodged and hidden underneath the bed. Knowing a little about the original series "Yeah," this was on brand. Discarding it on the bed I turned around towards the teal door with a pink triangle with the word 'bathroom' written on it.

  Opening the door I was greeted with a bathroom, a Japanese-style bathroom to be exact. The room was divided into two with the first half having a undry set up with a washer/dryer, and a toilet/sink. Behind a divider was a small, tiled room with a shower head and a bathtub inside. “I wonder where the septic is? I’m going to need to find that too.”

  With my tour of the house done I washed my hands in the bathroom sink. Originally, I wanted to start with some cultivation stuff but then I wondered, “Why am I always messing with cultivation stuff at night?” It mostly came down to time management, I had the most free time after dark. Then there was the new house, besides familiarizing myself with the normal stuff I also needed to check out the various oddities that came with a capsule house. There were lots of things I needed to get acquainted with.

  For now, "Looks like it's back to the house for all my shit".

  Returning to the family home I entered through the back door. Making my way toward the stairway, I spotted Dad sitting at the dining room table wearing his reading gsses as he busily typed away at an email on his ptop. There were some boxes filled with file folders and lots of paperwork on his sides. Once he finished typing, he looked up, “Ah! So, the troublemaker returns”.

  “Well, I need to get my stuff”.

  “Haa~” Dad sighed, “And your little house”?

  “It is a bit bigger than I was expecting. And a certain someone did break the door to my bedroom. Since Mom said, No using your powers under our roof. I think that’s fair, if it’s a problem I can move it.” (But I would have to find the right button).

  “Haha,” Dad released a small chuckle, "I just hope you don't mind any cow paddies on your porch."

  "I think I'll be fine".

  "..." After a short pause, “Should I bother asking what you did to your mother”?

  "I was messing around with a game this morning and took out a couple items".

  "Haa~” Dad sat there and released a sigh.

  “Just some divine vitality, physically it seems to have made her a bit younger, and she might live a little longer. Everything else is on her.” (Mentally I think she might have regressed a little.)

  “And the thing she used on me”?

  “Divine stamina, you should tire out slower. The post-absorption effect is a bit annoying if you don’t have an outlet”.

  Partially closed his ptop, “Do you have any idea the st time she was like that”?

  “I’m going to assume she’s never gone full cougar mode. So, before I was born”?

  Turning his head down and looking over his gsses Dad started, “Normally children get grossed out-”

  “Outa sight outa mind.” I quickly cut him off. After st night everyone needed some stress relief, and I just stumbled upon a solution. (Though I could use some more...)

  “And you spent the day cleaning up that mess and dealt with your brother, Thank you”.

  James put his hand on his chin thinking deeply while looking at his father, “You know, I think it might even fix up that bald spot you seem to be getting”.

  “No thank you. And it’s not a bald spot!” Dad expressed as he got back to work.

  “Sure, sure.” I waved as I went to my bedroom.

  When I got to my bedroom, I started to reminisce about all the time I spent in here, “Damn, I really spent most of my life in here.” (And I don’t know how I’m supposed to reflect on that). In the end, I just shrugged my shoulders before pulling up the images I needed from my computer. I started pulling out a few Item Bags from storage.

  Taking one of the drawers out of my dresser I started dumping the contents which were sucked into the bag like a vacuum. Next was all the games and other electronics. Once that was finished, I started taking apart the various cables and wires from the consoles. Before moving to the second bag storing some of the furniture.

  Once I got everything I thought was important, “I should leave the desk," Dad should need an in-home office. As for the dresser, I can store everything in the closet to not use up too much space, “I’m going to need another bag for storing all the junk in the bedroom”.

  *Click*

  I took a picture of the spare bag on my phone and sent the photo to my computer. Pcing the mouth of the copied bag on one of the corners of the bed It quickly got sucked inside, piece by piece. Starting with the sheets, mattress, and then the frame.

  Now that the room was empty, I started looking around online, picking up some furniture appropriate for an in-home office. A filing cabinet, a fancy office chair… A printer, what else? A potted pnt? It occurs to me that I don't know what else might be necessary for an office. If Dad needs anything else all he needs to do is, ask.

  It’s not like it takes that much effort since most furniture comes with a dispy image. Though there are times when I needed to pick something up from a store, it’s funny watching people react when I come out of nowhere and start storing things into hammerspace. There's always a wide variety of responses.

  Once the office setup was finished, I turned off my PC and started disconnecting all the cables and wires. Adding them alongside the bag with the bed the st of the leftovers, the ft screen I propped up against the wall while adding furniture was added.

  With everything packed, I returned downstairs. Dad had finished his work as he was sitting on the couch trying to rex by watching something on the TV, on the other end of the couch was Danny, after having his third shower of the day, he had just started to rex before I reappeared. “I thought you said you would be away”!?

  “Well, I went inside and checked out the pce then I came back to collect all my shit.” I motioned to the many bags I was carrying. “Also, Dad I turned my room into your new office. If you need anything else, just ask.” With that, I left the house.

  Once I returned to my new abode, I got to work storing away the various items inside the duplicate bag. Starting with the old TV in the main room before moving towards the bedroom door. Leaving behind the bags with my stuff inside I started sucking up the contents of the bedroom inside an Item Bag. With the bedroom cleaned up; I opened the closet and held out the bag while it started sucking up clothes. Shirts, dresses, coats, once everything on the hangers was gone, I moved to the floor and started adding all the shoes. There were also some boxes filled with a variety of questionable tech and circuits. Considering the original owner of this house that just made sense. And I was surprised that there wasn't more.

  With everything stored away, I grabbed the bag with my computer and started taking items out. First was a monitor, then the keyboard & mouse that had become tangled together. Then I grabbed something wooden. Standing away from the back wall I started pulling before the bed frame ejected from the bag. "I wonder if there's a setting somewhere so that rge items don't unch out of these. "At least they typically didn't have much momentum.

  Moving the frame into pce by the window I set up the rest of the bed. Pulling out the bed and the sheets was as annoying as I expected. The nightstand came out with no issues. Lastly, I added my ptop before heading to the bath to clean myself. After cleaning myself up I spent the rest of the night watching anime before I fell asleep.

  END

  SpoilerSo, I ended up realizing that describing the inside of a capsule house is quite hard (without checking the anime) as there aren't many images or snips around. In the end, it just got jumbled around. Trying Kai, the inside of the house was only in 2 episodes (22-23) for a grand total of 3 minutes... Most of which wasn't even inside the house or featured a fshback of Namek. Yeah, I think I'll just go with this version of the house (Even if it might be wrong).

  Spoiler

  [colpse]SpoilerThis one is from the Namek saga

  Couch: (Which is a different color in the anime and manga)

  Sorpanels (From Broley movie)

  [colpse]SpoilerCan confirm they use a different house on Namek than the one they use in the original series.

  Original Bedroom

  Bulma shows Goku TV

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