“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?”

the attraction on his front paw, started digging in the pile of

And then,

“It’s below here, meow!”

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

However,

Rumble.

dug hole more challenging, as the surrounding items kept on

find it

was

Then,

“Meow! That’s it, meow!”

idea struck Theo. The Evil Spirits can levitate items,

am truly a genius,

for the brilliant idea, Theo spoke to

Why all of

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

you won’t let

spirits cautiously

rest of you, come over here

one. There were about 1000 spirits in total. It was no exaggeration to

all, fetch items from the

locations he felt his front paw drawn to

-Yes!

began to lift items from the locations Theo

Then,

item was inspected

“Not this one, meow!”

Swoosh.

were discarded in a non-attractive zone,

2 hours later,

“Found it, meow!”

a leather document. He felt a

-Finally!

-It’s over!

rest. It wasn’t a joke; some of the weaker spirits had completely expended their energy and

keep these safe,

pointing to the three items he’d found before finding the

these safe?

spirits asked, taken aback by Theo’s statement. Was he

right, meow! See you next

and left the

I wish

-Me too…

spirits envied their departed

***

that the Black Rabbit was

worked diligently until

Gurgle.

Finally, hunger struck.

“Hehehe. Cuengi, let’s eat!”

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

Krueng!

[Okay!]

Cuengi quickly followed Sejun.

arrived in

an eye on Black Rabbit and wait a

Krueng!

[Alright!]

power into the bronze mirror

I get

bottle he had since he

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

the right pot and

the left for Cuengi. Jjajang ramen was reserved for Aileen, and extremely spicy chicken ramen was saved for Black Rabbit when he

the water was

Shake, shake, shake.

added the

the water

“It’s boiling.”

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

While the noodles cooked,

Chop, chop, chop.

chopped green onions and green chili peppers and

ramen was almost

Sniff, sniff.

Krueng!

[It smells delicious!]

cooking area,

“How’s Black Rabbit?”

Krueng! Krueng!

He’s currently chasing someone trying to

“Really?”

the head of the Giant Rock Salt Snake, chasing

“Alright. Let’s eat.”

front of

Slurp.

sip of the broth with his spoon. Ah! This is

Slurp. Slurp.

savoring the broth about

“Hoo! Hoo!”

cooled the noodles by

Then,

Slurrrrp.

slurped up the

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