“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?”

on his front paw,

And then,

“It’s below here, meow!”

to, Theo began digging through the items to reach the source of

However,

Rumble.

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

find it

motivation was quickly

Then,

“Meow! That’s it, meow!”

Theo. The Evil Spirits can levitate

truly a genius, meow! Gaeron, stop

for the brilliant idea, Theo spoke

Why all

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

the item, you won’t let him eat

the black spirits cautiously

The rest of you,

spirits began to gather around Theo one by one. There were about 1000 spirits in total. It was no exaggeration to call

the spots

locations he felt his front paw drawn to and

-Yes!

spirits then began to lift items from the locations Theo

Then,

item was inspected

“Not this one, meow!”

Swoosh.

discarded in a

2 hours later,

“Found it, meow!”

as he touched a leather document.

-Finally!

-It’s over!

labor had almost sent some of them to eternal rest. It wasn’t a joke; some of

to keep these

items he’d found before finding the

safe? For

by Theo’s statement. Was he planning

right, meow! See you next

and left

I wish I had

-Me too…

remaining spirits envied their

***

that the Black Rabbit

diligently until

Gurgle.

Finally, hunger struck.

“Hehehe. Cuengi, let’s eat!”

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

Krueng!

[Okay!]

Cuengi quickly followed Sejun.

in the

on Black Rabbit and

Krueng!

[Alright!]

into the

I get started

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

who fails to be vigilant can’t,

ramen in the right pot and

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

the water was

Shake, shake, shake.

added the

as the water

“It’s boiling.”

the right pot and two to the left.

While the noodles cooked,

Chop, chop, chop.

green chili peppers

ramen was

Sniff, sniff.

Krueng!

[It smells delicious!]

aroma of ramen spread throughout the cooking area,

“How’s Black Rabbit?”

Krueng! Krueng!

is fine! He’s currently chasing someone

“Really?”

Rabbit, arms crossed, standing atop the head of the Giant Rock Salt Snake, chasing

“Alright. Let’s eat.”

placed a pot in front of each of

Slurp.

with his spoon. Ah! This is

Slurp. Slurp.

the broth about

“Hoo! Hoo!”

noodles by

Then,

Slurrrrp.

slurped up the

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