“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?”

on his front paw, started digging in the

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 the

However,

Rumble.

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

it at

motivation was

Then,

“Meow! That’s it, meow!”

Theo. The Evil Spirits can levitate

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

Theo spoke to Gaeron, who was still busy gobbling

all

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

the item, you won’t let him eat

of the black spirits cautiously approached

The rest of you, come over here

began to gather around Theo one by one. There

the spots I point to,

front paw

-Yes!

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

Then,

was

“Not this one, meow!”

Swoosh.

in a non-attractive

2 hours later,

“Found it, meow!”

exclaimed as he touched a leather document. He

-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 the weaker spirits had completely expended their energy and

keep these safe,

to the three items he’d found

safe? For

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

meow! See you

and left

I wish I had

-Me too…

spirits envied their departed

***

Rabbit was safe, he resumed

diligently

Gurgle.

Finally, hunger struck.

“Hehehe. Cuengi, let’s eat!”

eat ramen, Sejun hurriedly called out to Cuengi,

Krueng!

[Okay!]

Cuengi quickly followed Sejun.

in the kitchen, Sejun

eye on Black Rabbit and wait a bit while

Krueng!

[Alright!]

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

get started

pots and, using the 500ml water bottle he had

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

the right pot and two servings in the left

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

water was

Shake, shake, shake.

the soup

as the

“It’s boiling.”

right pot and two 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

ramen was

Sniff, sniff.

Krueng!

[It smells delicious!]

spread throughout the cooking area, making Cuengi happily

“How’s Black Rabbit?”

Krueng! Krueng!

is fine! He’s currently chasing someone trying

“Really?”

into the mirror showed Black Rabbit, arms crossed, standing atop the head of the Giant Rock Salt Snake, chasing after a

“Alright. Let’s eat.”

front of each of them

Slurp.

sip of the broth with his spoon. Ah! This is it!

Slurp. Slurp.

savoring the broth about five

“Hoo! Hoo!”

the noodles by

Then,

Slurrrrp.

slurped up

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