“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?”

paw, started digging in the

And then,

“It’s below here, meow!”

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

However,

Rumble.

buried deeper than Theo had anticipated, making his search in the newly dug hole more challenging, as

find it at this

motivation was

Then,

“Meow! That’s it, meow!”

The Evil Spirits can levitate items,

I, Vice Chairman Theo, am truly a genius, meow! Gaeron, stop

idea, Theo spoke to

all of a

up, meow! Quickly come here and

just find the item, you won’t let him eat us?,

the black spirits

of you, come over

Theo one by one. There were about 1000 spirits in total. It was no exaggeration to call this a cursed

fetch items from the spots I point to,

five locations he felt his front paw drawn to and

-Yes!

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

Then,

item was inspected

“Not this one, meow!”

Swoosh.

in a non-attractive

2 hours later,

“Found it, meow!”

he touched a leather document. He felt a pull from

-Finally!

-It’s over!

to eternal rest. It

keep these

said, pointing to the three items he’d found

these safe?

taken aback by Theo’s statement. Was

See you

and

wish I

-Me too…

spirits envied

***

Rabbit was safe, he resumed his farming

diligently until

Gurgle.

Finally, hunger struck.

“Hehehe. Cuengi, let’s eat!”

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

Krueng!

[Okay!]

Cuengi quickly followed Sejun.

arrived in the kitchen, Sejun

an eye on Black Rabbit and wait a bit while I

Krueng!

[Alright!]

Cuengi infused magic power into the bronze mirror to check

I get

water bottle he had since he was

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

for one serving of ramen in the right pot and two servings in the left pot

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

water was

Shake, shake, shake.

added the soup

as the

“It’s boiling.”

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

While the noodles cooked,

Chop, chop, chop.

onions and green chili peppers and

ramen was

Sniff, sniff.

Krueng!

[It smells delicious!]

spread throughout the cooking area, making Cuengi happily

“How’s Black Rabbit?”

Krueng! Krueng!

He’s currently

“Really?”

standing atop the head of the Giant Rock Salt Snake, chasing after a mine worker. Wherever he learned it

“Alright. Let’s eat.”

pot in front of each of them and began to

Slurp.

he took a sip of the broth with his spoon. Ah! This is it! The taste he

Slurp. Slurp.

broth about five

“Hoo! Hoo!”

cooled the noodles by blowing

Then,

Slurrrrp.

slurped up

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