“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?”

attraction on his front paw,

And then,

“It’s below here, meow!”

paw pointed to, Theo began digging through the items to

However,

Rumble.

had anticipated, making his search in the newly dug hole more challenging, as the surrounding items kept on dropping into

it at

was

Then,

“Meow! That’s it, meow!”

The Evil Spirits can

truly a genius, meow! Gaeron,

idea, Theo spoke to Gaeron, who was

all

meow! Quickly come here and find the item I

find the item, you won’t let him eat us?,

black spirits cautiously approached

of you,

harm, the other spirits began to gather around Theo one by one. There were about

items from the spots

pointed to five locations he felt his front paw drawn to

-Yes!

lift items from the locations Theo had pointed

Then,

item was inspected

“Not this one, meow!”

Swoosh.

Theo rejected were discarded in a non-attractive zone, ensuring no

2 hours later,

“Found it, meow!”

he touched a leather document.

-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

sure to keep these safe,

three items he’d found before finding the

safe?

by Theo’s statement. Was

meow! See you

goodbye and

I wish I had

-Me too…

spirits envied their departed

***

Rabbit was safe, he resumed

diligently until

Gurgle.

Finally, hunger struck.

“Hehehe. Cuengi, let’s eat!”

to eat ramen, Sejun hurriedly called out to Cuengi, who was playing nearby,

Krueng!

[Okay!]

Cuengi quickly followed Sejun.

they arrived in

on Black Rabbit and wait a

Krueng!

[Alright!]

into the bronze mirror to check on Black

I get started

pots and, using the 500ml water bottle he had since he was stranded, carefully measured

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

right pot and two servings in the left pot and

for Cuengi. Jjajang ramen was reserved for Aileen, and extremely spicy chicken ramen was saved for Black Rabbit when

the water

Shake, shake, shake.

added the

as the water

“It’s boiling.”

left. He discreetly poured any broken bits into the right pot without letting Cuengi

While the noodles cooked,

Chop, chop, chop.

green chili peppers and added them

ramen was almost

Sniff, sniff.

Krueng!

[It smells delicious!]

of ramen spread throughout the cooking area, making Cuengi

“How’s Black Rabbit?”

Krueng! Krueng!

fine! He’s currently chasing someone trying to

“Really?”

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

“Alright. Let’s eat.”

front of each of them and

Slurp.

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

Slurp. Slurp.

savoring the broth about five

“Hoo! Hoo!”

cooled the noodles by

Then,

Slurrrrp.

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