“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?”

the attraction on his front paw,

And then,

“It’s below here, meow!”

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

However,

Rumble.

the newly dug hole more challenging,

will I find it at

was quickly

Then,

“Meow! That’s it, meow!”

Evil

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

Theo spoke to Gaeron, who was still busy gobbling

Why all of

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

just find the item, you

the black spirits cautiously approached

of

around Theo one by one. There were about 1000 spirits in total. It

all, fetch items from the spots I point

front paw drawn

-Yes!

items from the locations Theo had

Then,

item was inspected by

“Not this one, meow!”

Swoosh.

rejected were discarded in a

2 hours later,

“Found it, meow!”

touched a leather document. He felt a pull from

-Finally!

-It’s over!

sent some of them to eternal rest. It wasn’t a joke; some of the weaker spirits

sure to keep

three items he’d found before finding

safe?

taken aback by Theo’s statement. Was he planning

right, meow! See you next time,

goodbye and

I wish

-Me too…

spirits envied

***

Rabbit was safe, he

diligently

Gurgle.

Finally, hunger struck.

“Hehehe. Cuengi, let’s eat!”

ramen, Sejun hurriedly called out to Cuengi, who was

Krueng!

[Okay!]

Cuengi quickly followed Sejun.

they arrived in

on Black Rabbit and wait a

Krueng!

[Alright!]

instruction, Cuengi infused magic power into the bronze mirror

get

out two pots and, using the 500ml water bottle he had

fails to execute a mission can be forgiven but one who fails to be vigilant can’t, a chef who fails in

ramen in the right pot and two servings

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

water

Shake, shake, shake.

the soup

as the water

“It’s boiling.”

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

While the noodles cooked,

Chop, chop, chop.

chili peppers and added them

the ramen was almost

Sniff, sniff.

Krueng!

[It smells delicious!]

throughout the cooking area,

“How’s Black Rabbit?”

Krueng! Krueng!

currently

“Really?”

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

“Alright. Let’s eat.”

pot in front of

Slurp.

of the broth with his spoon.

Slurp. Slurp.

savoring the broth about

“Hoo! Hoo!”

cooled the noodles by blowing

Then,

Slurrrrp.

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