“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, started digging in

And then,

“It’s below here, meow!”

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

However,

Rumble.

dug hole more

I find it at this

motivation was

Then,

“Meow! That’s it, meow!”

The Evil Spirits can levitate

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

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

all

have a use for the evil spirits, meow! Spirits, listen up, meow! Quickly come here and find the item I want,

you won’t

of the black spirits cautiously approached and

right, meow! The rest of you, come over here now,

spirits began to gather around Theo one by one. There

items from the spots I point to,

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

-Yes!

to lift items from the locations

Then,

was inspected by

“Not this one, meow!”

Swoosh.

were discarded in a non-attractive

2 hours later,

“Found it, meow!”

touched a leather document. He felt

-Finally!

-It’s over!

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

to keep these

three items he’d found

these safe? For

asked, taken aback by Theo’s

See you next time,

and left the

I wish I

-Me too…

spirits envied their departed

***

Sejun confirmed that the Black Rabbit was safe, he resumed his

diligently

Gurgle.

Finally, hunger struck.

“Hehehe. Cuengi, let’s eat!”

hurriedly called out to Cuengi, who was playing nearby,

Krueng!

[Okay!]

Cuengi quickly followed Sejun.

they arrived in the

keep an eye on Black Rabbit and

Krueng!

[Alright!]

magic power into

get started

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

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

one serving of ramen in the right pot and two servings in the left pot

reserved for Aileen, and

water was

Shake, shake, shake.

added the soup

the water

“It’s boiling.”

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

While the noodles cooked,

Chop, chop, chop.

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

ramen was almost

Sniff, sniff.

Krueng!

[It smells delicious!]

cooking area, making Cuengi happily

“How’s Black Rabbit?”

Krueng! Krueng!

is fine! He’s currently chasing someone trying to

“Really?”

the 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,

“Alright. Let’s eat.”

placed a pot in front of each of them and began

Slurp.

his spoon. Ah! This is it! The taste

Slurp. Slurp.

the broth about

“Hoo! Hoo!”

cooled the noodles by blowing on

Then,

Slurrrrp.

slurped up

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