“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?”

front paw, started digging in the

And then,

“It’s below here, meow!”

front paw pointed to, Theo began digging through the items to reach the source of

However,

Rumble.

the newly dug hole more challenging, as the surrounding items kept on

will I find it

was

Then,

“Meow! That’s it, meow!”

The Evil Spirits

truly a genius, meow! Gaeron, stop eating,

himself for the brilliant idea, Theo spoke to Gaeron, who was still busy gobbling up

all

the evil spirits, meow! Spirits, listen up, meow! Quickly come here and find the item I want, meow! Otherwise, Gaeron will eat

item, you won’t

black spirits cautiously approached and

rest of you,

approached without harm, the other spirits began to gather around Theo one by one. There were about 1000 spirits in total.

the

five locations he felt his front paw drawn

-Yes!

spirits then began to lift items from the locations Theo had

Then,

item was

“Not this one, meow!”

Swoosh.

rejected were discarded in a

2 hours later,

“Found it, meow!”

exclaimed as he touched a leather document. He felt a pull

-Finally!

-It’s over!

to eternal rest. It wasn’t a

sure to keep these safe,

the three items he’d found before finding

these safe?

Theo’s statement. Was he

right, meow! See you next

waved goodbye and left the

I wish I had

-Me too…

remaining spirits envied their

***

Sejun confirmed that the Black Rabbit was safe, he

diligently

Gurgle.

Finally, hunger struck.

“Hehehe. Cuengi, let’s eat!”

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

Krueng!

[Okay!]

Cuengi quickly followed Sejun.

they arrived in the kitchen,

keep an eye on Black Rabbit and wait a bit while

Krueng!

[Alright!]

Sejun’s instruction, Cuengi infused magic power into the bronze mirror

get

took out two pots and, using the 500ml water bottle he had since he was stranded, carefully measured the

be forgiven but one who fails to be vigilant can’t, a chef who fails in water measurement for ramen can’t be

right pot and two

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

water was

Shake, shake, shake.

added the

as the

“It’s boiling.”

two to the left. He discreetly poured any broken bits into

While the noodles cooked,

Chop, chop, chop.

and green chili peppers

the ramen

Sniff, sniff.

Krueng!

[It smells delicious!]

cooking area, making Cuengi happily

“How’s Black Rabbit?”

Krueng! Krueng!

fine! He’s currently

“Really?”

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 learned it from, he was doing a

“Alright. Let’s eat.”

a pot in front of

Slurp.

his spoon. Ah! This is it! The

Slurp. Slurp.

savoring the broth about

“Hoo! Hoo!”

noodles by blowing on

Then,

Slurrrrp.

slurped up the

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