“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 the

And then,

“It’s below here, meow!”

Theo began digging through the items to

However,

Rumble.

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

will I find it at this rate,

motivation was quickly

Then,

“Meow! That’s it, meow!”

idea struck Theo. The Evil Spirits can levitate

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

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

all of a

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

find the item, you won’t let

black spirits cautiously

right, meow! The rest of

around Theo one by one. There were about 1000 spirits in total. It was

from the spots I point to,

felt his front paw drawn to and instructed the

-Yes!

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

Then,

was

“Not this one, meow!”

Swoosh.

were discarded in a

2 hours later,

“Found it, meow!”

touched a leather document.

-Finally!

-It’s over!

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

sure to keep these

pointing to the three items he’d found

safe? For

asked, taken aback by Theo’s

See you next time,

and left the

I wish I

-Me too…

remaining spirits envied their departed

***

that the Black Rabbit

diligently until

Gurgle.

Finally, hunger struck.

“Hehehe. Cuengi, let’s eat!”

hurriedly called out to Cuengi, who

Krueng!

[Okay!]

Cuengi quickly followed Sejun.

arrived in the kitchen, Sejun

Black Rabbit and wait a bit while

Krueng!

[Alright!]

instruction, Cuengi infused magic power into the bronze mirror to

I get started

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

but one who fails to be vigilant can’t, a chef

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

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

water

Shake, shake, shake.

added the soup

the water

“It’s boiling.”

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

While the noodles cooked,

Chop, chop, chop.

quickly chopped green onions and green chili peppers

ramen was almost

Sniff, sniff.

Krueng!

[It smells delicious!]

spread throughout the cooking area, making Cuengi happily jump

“How’s Black Rabbit?”

Krueng! Krueng!

is fine! He’s currently chasing

“Really?”

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

“Alright. Let’s eat.”

in front of each of them

Slurp.

took a sip of the broth with his spoon.

Slurp. Slurp.

savoring the broth about five

“Hoo! Hoo!”

cooled the noodles by

Then,

Slurrrrp.

slurped up

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