“Just like last time, it’s 1,000 Tower Coins for a single draw, and you can only take one item.”

The same conditions as before.

“Got it, meow! Here are 1,000 Tower Coins, meow!”

Theo coolly handed over the money, accepting Taru’s conditions.

“Good. I wish you luck.”

Creak.

After receiving the payment, Taru opened the door to the storage that was filled with only junk.

“Puhuhut. I don’t need luck, meow!”

Theo confidently entered the lost-and-found storage.

A moment later…

“Meow! What is this, meow?!!!”

Crash!

From inside the storage, the sound of things breaking and Theo’s shriek echoed.

“What happened?”

Taru, about to rush in to help, stopped.

“Come to think of it, I heard there’s a ghost in here…”

Quietly, Taru stepped back, creating distance from the door, and waited for Theo.

***

“Meow! What a mess in here, meow!”

Theo looked around the storage, which resembled a vast sea of junk. The entrance of the storage had stairs leading downward, with an entirely open structure. It seemed the constant piling of items resulted in its current state.

“But every time I look at it from the outside, the inside seems more spacious, meow!”

Theo mused as he walked over the heap of items, towards the attraction on his front paw.

Then…

-Hehehehe.

-Give me your body!

-I won’t hand over my item!

Rustle. Rustle.

With a sinister voice, items began levitating,

Whoosh.

and began rapidly flying towards Theo.

“Meow! What’s happening, meow?!!!”

A flustered Theo dodged the flying objects while shouting.

Bang! Crash!

Items fell and broke everywhere. But Theo soon regained his composure, noting the objects weren’t faster than him, and started looking around again.

And then,

“Meow?”

He noticed black shadowy figures appearing and disappearing as the items were thrown. What were those, meow?

Just as Theo grew curious about these entities,

– Master, those are evil spirits!

Gaeron informed Theo.

“What’s an Evil spirit, meow?”

– They are souls filled with grudges or attachments to certain items. If continuously exposed to negative energy, they turn into such evil spirits. Summon me! I can subdue them.

“Got it, meow! My servant Gaeron, come forth, meow!”

Upon summoning, a small frog the size of Theo’s foot emerged from a swamp on the floor. Gaeron had chosen a smaller size to avoid breaking things around.

Ribbit!

When Gaeron croaked,

-Kiiyip!

The evil spirits screamed in panic and started to flee. Gaeron was once a divine being. The spirits panicked due to the divine aura emitted by Gaeron’s soul. As they tried to escape, Gaeron began hunting them down.

Zap. Zap.

Each time Gaeron extended his tongue, spirits got stuck to it and were sucked into his mouth.

While Gaeron busily hunted the spirits,

“Here, meow?”

the attraction on his front paw, started digging in the

And then,

“It’s below here, meow!”

Theo began digging through the items to reach the source of

However,

Rumble.

the newly dug hole

will I find it at this rate,

motivation was quickly

Then,

“Meow! That’s it, meow!”

struck Theo. The Evil Spirits can levitate

Theo, am truly

praising himself for the brilliant idea, Theo spoke

all

meow! Quickly come here and find

the item, you won’t let him

black spirits cautiously approached and

meow! The rest of you, come

began to gather around Theo one by one. There were about 1000 spirits in total. It was no exaggeration to call this

from the spots I point to,

locations he felt his front paw drawn to and instructed the spirits, who

-Yes!

items from the locations Theo had pointed out and brought them to

Then,

item was inspected

“Not this one, meow!”

Swoosh.

in

2 hours later,

“Found it, meow!”

leather

-Finally!

-It’s over!

almost sent some of them to eternal rest. It wasn’t a joke; some of the

keep these safe,

pointing to the three items he’d found before

these safe? For

aback by Theo’s statement. Was he

See you next

and

wish I

-Me too…

spirits envied their departed

***

confirmed that the Black Rabbit was safe, he

worked diligently

Gurgle.

Finally, hunger struck.

“Hehehe. Cuengi, let’s eat!”

to eat ramen, Sejun hurriedly called out to Cuengi, who was playing nearby, and ran to the

Krueng!

[Okay!]

Cuengi quickly followed Sejun.

they arrived in

an eye on Black Rabbit and wait a bit

Krueng!

[Alright!]

magic power into the

get

the 500ml water bottle he had since he was stranded, carefully measured the required amount

as a soldier who fails to execute a mission can be forgiven but one who fails to be vigilant

of ramen in the right pot and two

for Sejun, the left for Cuengi. Jjajang ramen was reserved for Aileen, and extremely spicy chicken ramen was saved for

the water was

Shake, shake, shake.

the

the

“It’s boiling.”

added one noodle pack to the right pot and two to the left. He discreetly poured any broken bits into the right

While the noodles cooked,

Chop, chop, chop.

green onions and green chili peppers and added

the ramen

Sniff, sniff.

Krueng!

[It smells delicious!]

aroma of ramen spread throughout the cooking area, making Cuengi happily

“How’s Black Rabbit?”

Krueng! Krueng!

brother is fine! He’s currently chasing someone trying to

“Really?”

showed Black Rabbit, arms crossed, standing atop the head of the Giant Rock Salt

“Alright. Let’s eat.”

front of each of them and began

Slurp.

of the broth with his

Slurp. Slurp.

broth

“Hoo! Hoo!”

the noodles by

Then,

Slurrrrp.

slurped up the

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