“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

And then,

“It’s below here, meow!”

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

However,

Rumble.

his search in the newly dug

find it

motivation was

Then,

“Meow! That’s it, meow!”

The Evil Spirits can levitate

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

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

all

meow! Quickly come here and find the item I

item, you won’t let him

spirits cautiously approached

of you,

around Theo one by one. There were about 1000

fetch items from the spots I

front paw drawn to and instructed the

-Yes!

items from the locations Theo

Then,

was inspected by

“Not this one, meow!”

Swoosh.

discarded in a

2 hours later,

“Found it, meow!”

leather

-Finally!

-It’s over!

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

keep these safe,

three items he’d found before finding

safe? For

Theo’s statement. Was he

right, meow! See you next

waved goodbye and left the

I wish I

-Me too…

envied their

***

the Black Rabbit was safe, he resumed

diligently until

Gurgle.

Finally, hunger struck.

“Hehehe. Cuengi, let’s eat!”

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

Krueng!

[Okay!]

Cuengi quickly followed Sejun.

arrived in the kitchen, Sejun

keep an eye on Black Rabbit and wait a bit

Krueng!

[Alright!]

into the bronze mirror

I get

bottle he had since he was

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

of ramen in the right

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

water

Shake, shake, shake.

added the soup

the

“It’s boiling.”

one noodle pack to the right pot and two to the left. He discreetly poured any

While the noodles cooked,

Chop, chop, chop.

quickly chopped green onions and green chili peppers and added them to

the ramen was

Sniff, sniff.

Krueng!

[It smells delicious!]

the cooking area, making Cuengi happily

“How’s Black Rabbit?”

Krueng! Krueng!

He’s currently chasing someone trying to escape

“Really?”

standing atop the head of the Giant Rock Salt Snake, chasing after

“Alright. Let’s eat.”

front of each of them and began

Slurp.

with his spoon. Ah!

Slurp. Slurp.

savoring the broth

“Hoo! Hoo!”

noodles

Then,

Slurrrrp.

up

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