“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,

And then,

“It’s below here, meow!”

paw pointed to, Theo began digging through the items to reach the

However,

Rumble.

in the newly dug hole more challenging, as the surrounding items kept on

I find it at this

motivation was

Then,

“Meow! That’s it, meow!”

idea struck Theo. The Evil

truly a genius, meow! Gaeron, stop

spoke to Gaeron,

Why all

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

you won’t

black spirits

of you,

one spirit approached without harm, the other spirits began to gather around Theo one by one. There were about 1000 spirits in total. It was no exaggeration to call this

items from the spots

to five locations he felt his front

-Yes!

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

Then,

item was

“Not this one, meow!”

Swoosh.

in a non-attractive

2 hours later,

“Found it, meow!”

as he touched a leather document. He

-Finally!

-It’s over!

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

pointing to the three items he’d found

safe?

taken aback by Theo’s

See you

goodbye and

wish I

-Me too…

spirits envied their departed

***

confirmed that the Black Rabbit was safe, he resumed his

diligently

Gurgle.

Finally, hunger struck.

“Hehehe. Cuengi, let’s eat!”

called out to Cuengi, who was playing nearby,

Krueng!

[Okay!]

Cuengi quickly followed Sejun.

they arrived in the kitchen,

Black Rabbit and wait a bit while I

Krueng!

[Alright!]

magic power into the bronze mirror

I get started

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

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

serving of ramen in the right pot and two

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

the water was

Shake, shake, shake.

the soup

the

“It’s boiling.”

and two to the left. He discreetly poured any broken

While the noodles cooked,

Chop, chop, chop.

chopped green onions and green chili

the ramen was almost

Sniff, sniff.

Krueng!

[It smells delicious!]

aroma of ramen spread throughout the cooking area, making

“How’s Black Rabbit?”

Krueng! Krueng!

brother is fine! He’s currently chasing

“Really?”

quick peek into the mirror showed Black Rabbit, arms crossed, standing atop the head of the Giant Rock Salt Snake, chasing after a mine worker. Wherever he learned it

“Alright. Let’s eat.”

in front of each of them and began to

Slurp.

his spoon.

Slurp. Slurp.

the broth

“Hoo! Hoo!”

noodles

Then,

Slurrrrp.

slurped up

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