“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?”

front paw, started digging in

And then,

“It’s below here, meow!”

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

However,

Rumble.

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

I find it

was quickly

Then,

“Meow! That’s it, meow!”

The Evil Spirits can levitate

truly a genius, meow! Gaeron, stop eating,

the brilliant idea, Theo spoke

all of

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

find the item, you won’t let

of the black spirits cautiously approached

of you, come over

one. There were about

fetch items from the spots

front paw

-Yes!

then began to lift items from the locations Theo had pointed out and brought

Then,

was inspected by

“Not this one, meow!”

Swoosh.

Theo rejected were discarded in a non-attractive

2 hours later,

“Found it, meow!”

as he touched a leather document. He felt a

-Finally!

-It’s over!

spirits cheered. Their two hours of labor had almost sent some of them to eternal rest.

to keep these

three items he’d found before

these safe? For

spirits asked, taken aback by Theo’s statement.

See you next

waved goodbye and left the

I wish I

-Me too…

spirits envied

***

the Black Rabbit was

diligently until

Gurgle.

Finally, hunger struck.

“Hehehe. Cuengi, let’s eat!”

to eat ramen, Sejun hurriedly called out to Cuengi,

Krueng!

[Okay!]

Cuengi quickly followed Sejun.

in

on Black Rabbit and wait a

Krueng!

[Alright!]

Sejun’s instruction, Cuengi infused magic power into the bronze

get

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

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

poured water for one serving of ramen in the right pot and two

reserved for Aileen, and extremely spicy chicken ramen was saved for Black

the water was

Shake, shake, shake.

added the soup

as the

“It’s boiling.”

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

ramen was

Sniff, sniff.

Krueng!

[It smells delicious!]

spread throughout the cooking area, making Cuengi happily jump

“How’s Black Rabbit?”

Krueng! Krueng!

brother is fine! He’s currently chasing someone trying to escape

“Really?”

quick peek into 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.”

pot in front of each of them

Slurp.

of the broth with his spoon. Ah!

Slurp. Slurp.

the broth

“Hoo! Hoo!”

cooled the noodles by blowing

Then,

Slurrrrp.

up the

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