“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?”

following the attraction on his front paw, started digging in the pile of

And then,

“It’s below here, meow!”

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

However,

Rumble.

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

will I find it at this rate,

was

Then,

“Meow! That’s it, meow!”

Evil

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

Theo spoke

Why all of a

meow! Quickly come here and find the item

you won’t let

spirits

meow! The rest of you, come over

spirit approached without harm, the other spirits began to gather around Theo one by one. There were about 1000 spirits in total. It was no exaggeration

from the spots I point to,

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

-Yes!

the locations Theo had pointed out and brought

Then,

was inspected

“Not this one, meow!”

Swoosh.

in a non-attractive zone, ensuring no

2 hours later,

“Found it, meow!”

touched a leather document. He felt a pull

-Finally!

-It’s over!

spirits cheered. Their two hours of labor had almost sent some of them to eternal rest. It wasn’t a joke; some of

sure to keep these

items he’d found before

these safe?

spirits asked, taken aback by Theo’s statement. Was he

See you next

and

I wish I

-Me too…

remaining spirits envied their

***

Rabbit was

worked diligently

Gurgle.

Finally, hunger struck.

“Hehehe. Cuengi, let’s eat!”

to Cuengi, who was playing nearby,

Krueng!

[Okay!]

Cuengi quickly followed Sejun.

in

keep an eye on Black Rabbit and wait a bit while I

Krueng!

[Alright!]

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

I get

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

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

right pot

for Sejun, the left for Cuengi. Jjajang ramen was reserved for

water was

Shake, shake, shake.

added the soup

as the water

“It’s boiling.”

to the right pot and two to the left.

While the noodles cooked,

Chop, chop, chop.

and green chili

the ramen was almost

Sniff, sniff.

Krueng!

[It smells delicious!]

ramen spread throughout the cooking area, making Cuengi happily jump in

“How’s Black Rabbit?”

Krueng! Krueng!

fine! He’s currently chasing someone

“Really?”

of the Giant Rock Salt Snake, chasing after a mine worker. Wherever he learned it from, he was doing a good

“Alright. Let’s eat.”

in front of

Slurp.

broth with his spoon. Ah!

Slurp. Slurp.

broth about five

“Hoo! Hoo!”

noodles by blowing on

Then,

Slurrrrp.

slurped up

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