“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!”

the spot his front paw pointed to, Theo began digging

However,

Rumble.

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

it at this

motivation was

Then,

“Meow! That’s it, meow!”

Evil Spirits can levitate items,

truly a

spoke to

all of

have a use for the evil spirits, meow! Spirits, listen up, meow! Quickly come here and

find the item, you won’t let

of the black spirits cautiously approached

of you,

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

from the spots

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

-Yes!

then began to lift items from the locations Theo had pointed out and

Then,

was inspected

“Not this one, meow!”

Swoosh.

discarded in a non-attractive

2 hours later,

“Found it, meow!”

touched a leather document. He felt

-Finally!

-It’s over!

to eternal rest.

to keep

pointing to the three items he’d found before finding the

these safe? For

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

See you next time,

and left

wish

-Me too…

remaining spirits envied their departed

***

the Black Rabbit was safe, he resumed his

worked diligently until

Gurgle.

Finally, hunger struck.

“Hehehe. Cuengi, let’s eat!”

ramen, Sejun hurriedly called out to Cuengi, who

Krueng!

[Okay!]

Cuengi quickly followed Sejun.

arrived in the kitchen,

an eye on Black Rabbit and wait a bit while I

Krueng!

[Alright!]

magic power into the bronze mirror to check on

I get

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

be forgiven but one who fails to be vigilant can’t,

the right pot and

ramen was reserved for Aileen, and extremely spicy chicken ramen

the water was

Shake, shake, shake.

the

as the water

“It’s boiling.”

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

While the noodles cooked,

Chop, chop, chop.

chili peppers and

the ramen was

Sniff, sniff.

Krueng!

[It smells delicious!]

the cooking area, making

“How’s Black Rabbit?”

Krueng! Krueng!

is fine! He’s currently chasing

“Really?”

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

“Alright. Let’s eat.”

of

Slurp.

broth with his spoon. Ah! This is

Slurp. Slurp.

broth about

“Hoo! Hoo!”

the noodles by blowing on

Then,

Slurrrrp.

slurped up

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