“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, started

And then,

“It’s below here, meow!”

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

However,

Rumble.

his search in the newly dug hole more challenging, as the

it at this rate,

motivation was

Then,

“Meow! That’s it, meow!”

Theo. The Evil Spirits can

Vice Chairman Theo, am truly a genius, meow!

spoke to Gaeron, who

Why all of

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

item, you

black spirits

right, meow! The rest of you, come

spirit approached without harm, the other spirits began to gather around Theo one by one. There were about 1000 spirits

the spots I point

five locations he felt his front paw drawn to and instructed

-Yes!

lift items from the locations Theo had pointed out and brought them

Then,

item was inspected by

“Not this one, meow!”

Swoosh.

in a

2 hours later,

“Found it, meow!”

he touched a leather document. He felt

-Finally!

-It’s over!

relieved 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 had completely expended their energy and faded

keep these safe,

three items

these safe?

aback by Theo’s statement. Was he planning

See

and

wish

-Me too…

envied their departed

***

Rabbit was safe, he resumed

diligently

Gurgle.

Finally, hunger struck.

“Hehehe. Cuengi, let’s eat!”

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

Krueng!

[Okay!]

Cuengi quickly followed Sejun.

arrived in the

on Black Rabbit and wait a bit while I

Krueng!

[Alright!]

power into the

get

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

one who fails to

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

Cuengi. Jjajang ramen was reserved for Aileen, and extremely spicy chicken

water

Shake, shake, shake.

added the

as the water

“It’s boiling.”

and two to the left. He discreetly poured any broken bits into the right pot without letting

While the noodles cooked,

Chop, chop, chop.

onions and green chili peppers and added them to both

ramen was almost

Sniff, sniff.

Krueng!

[It smells delicious!]

of ramen spread throughout the cooking area,

“How’s Black Rabbit?”

Krueng! Krueng!

currently chasing

“Really?”

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

“Alright. Let’s eat.”

placed a pot in front of each of them and began

Slurp.

of the broth with his spoon. Ah! This

Slurp. Slurp.

savoring the broth about

“Hoo! Hoo!”

noodles by blowing

Then,

Slurrrrp.

slurped up the

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