“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, started digging

And then,

“It’s below here, meow!”

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

However,

Rumble.

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!”

Theo. The Evil Spirits can levitate items,

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

praising himself for the brilliant idea, Theo spoke to Gaeron,

Why all

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

you won’t let him eat us?,

spirits cautiously

right, meow! The rest of you, come

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

from the spots I point to,

front paw drawn to and

-Yes!

to lift items from the locations Theo

Then,

was

“Not this one, meow!”

Swoosh.

in a non-attractive

2 hours later,

“Found it, meow!”

as he touched a leather

-Finally!

-It’s over!

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

keep these

three items he’d found

safe?

asked, taken aback by Theo’s statement.

See you next time,

waved goodbye and left the

wish I

-Me too…

spirits envied

***

that the Black Rabbit was safe, he resumed his

diligently until

Gurgle.

Finally, hunger struck.

“Hehehe. Cuengi, let’s eat!”

to

Krueng!

[Okay!]

Cuengi quickly followed Sejun.

in the

Rabbit and wait a bit while I

Krueng!

[Alright!]

magic power into the bronze mirror to check on

I get

he had since

who fails to be vigilant can’t, a chef who fails in

right

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

the water

Shake, shake, shake.

the soup

the water

“It’s boiling.”

to the right pot and two to the left. He discreetly poured any broken bits

While the noodles cooked,

Chop, chop, chop.

green onions and green chili peppers and added them to

the ramen

Sniff, sniff.

Krueng!

[It smells delicious!]

aroma of ramen spread throughout the cooking area, making Cuengi

“How’s Black Rabbit?”

Krueng! Krueng!

currently

“Really?”

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

“Alright. Let’s eat.”

front of each of

Slurp.

took a sip of the broth with his spoon. Ah! This is it! The taste

Slurp. Slurp.

the broth

“Hoo! Hoo!”

cooled the noodles by

Then,

Slurrrrp.

slurped up the

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