“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

And then,

“It’s below here, meow!”

spot his front paw pointed to, Theo began digging through the items

However,

Rumble.

making his search in the newly dug hole more challenging, as the surrounding items kept on dropping into the hole Theo had

I find it at this rate,

was

Then,

“Meow! That’s it, meow!”

Evil Spirits can levitate items,

Theo, am truly a genius, meow! Gaeron, stop eating,

brilliant idea, Theo spoke to Gaeron, who was still busy

all

for the evil spirits, meow! Spirits, listen up, meow! Quickly come here and find

you won’t let him eat

spirits

of you, come over

the other spirits began to gather around Theo one by one. There were about 1000 spirits in

all, fetch items from the spots I point

locations he felt his front paw drawn to and instructed

-Yes!

to lift items from the locations Theo had

Then,

item was inspected

“Not this one, meow!”

Swoosh.

in a non-attractive zone, ensuring no

2 hours later,

“Found it, meow!”

a leather document. He felt a pull from

-Finally!

-It’s over!

Their two hours of labor had almost sent some of them to eternal rest. It wasn’t a joke; some of the weaker spirits had completely expended their energy and faded

keep these

said, pointing to the three items he’d

these safe?

by Theo’s statement. Was

right, meow! See

waved goodbye and

I wish I

-Me too…

envied their departed

***

that the Black Rabbit was safe, he

diligently until

Gurgle.

Finally, hunger struck.

“Hehehe. Cuengi, let’s eat!”

ramen, Sejun hurriedly called out to

Krueng!

[Okay!]

Cuengi quickly followed Sejun.

they arrived in the kitchen,

Rabbit

Krueng!

[Alright!]

magic power into the bronze mirror to check

get started

water bottle he had since

but one who fails

ramen in the right pot and two servings

Jjajang ramen was reserved for Aileen, and extremely spicy chicken ramen was saved for Black

water

Shake, shake, shake.

added the

the water

“It’s boiling.”

to the left. He discreetly poured any broken bits into

While the noodles cooked,

Chop, chop, chop.

chopped green onions and green chili peppers and added them to

the ramen was almost

Sniff, sniff.

Krueng!

[It smells delicious!]

ramen spread throughout the cooking

“How’s Black Rabbit?”

Krueng! Krueng!

fine! He’s currently chasing someone trying to escape

“Really?”

quick peek into the mirror showed Black Rabbit, arms crossed, standing atop the head of the Giant Rock Salt Snake, chasing after a mine worker. Wherever he

“Alright. Let’s eat.”

of each of them and

Slurp.

his spoon. Ah! This is it! The taste

Slurp. Slurp.

the broth

“Hoo! Hoo!”

noodles

Then,

Slurrrrp.

slurped up

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