“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 pile of

And then,

“It’s below here, meow!”

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

However,

Rumble.

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

I find it

motivation was quickly

Then,

“Meow! That’s it, meow!”

idea struck Theo. The Evil Spirits

truly a genius, meow! Gaeron, stop eating,

for the brilliant idea, Theo spoke to Gaeron, who was still

all

Spirits, listen up, meow! Quickly come here and find the item I want, meow! Otherwise, Gaeron will

item, you won’t let him eat

of the black spirits cautiously

The rest of you, come over here

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 to call this

from the spots

to five locations he felt his front paw drawn to and instructed the

-Yes!

the locations Theo had

Then,

was inspected by

“Not this one, meow!”

Swoosh.

were discarded in a non-attractive

2 hours later,

“Found it, meow!”

exclaimed as he touched a leather document. He felt a pull

-Finally!

-It’s over!

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

sure to keep these safe,

the three items he’d

safe?

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

right, meow! See you

goodbye and left

wish I had

-Me too…

remaining spirits envied their

***

the Black Rabbit

worked diligently until

Gurgle.

Finally, hunger struck.

“Hehehe. Cuengi, let’s eat!”

called out to Cuengi, who was playing nearby,

Krueng!

[Okay!]

Cuengi quickly followed Sejun.

arrived in

Black Rabbit and wait a

Krueng!

[Alright!]

power into the bronze mirror to check on

I get

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

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

ramen in the right pot

Jjajang ramen was reserved for Aileen, and extremely spicy

water

Shake, shake, shake.

the

as the

“It’s boiling.”

added one noodle pack to the right 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 added them to both

the ramen

Sniff, sniff.

Krueng!

[It smells delicious!]

spread throughout the cooking area, making Cuengi happily jump in

“How’s Black Rabbit?”

Krueng! Krueng!

is fine! He’s currently chasing someone trying to

“Really?”

Rock Salt Snake, chasing after a mine worker.

“Alright. Let’s eat.”

a pot in front of each of them and began

Slurp.

took a sip of the broth with his spoon. Ah!

Slurp. Slurp.

the broth about five

“Hoo! Hoo!”

noodles

Then,

Slurrrrp.

up the

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