Edward and Jean were in a state of shock, their jaws agape.

They stared at Lilly’s bold provoking, listening to her ask for a fight.

Then she chanted some prayers, and attacked using a fart… and it worked!

Before they could return to their senses, she had thrown out the jar of souls and shouted “Come on!”…

They couldn’t see much more after that. After all, the water spirits had been drawn out already.

The harem spirit herself was quite confused too.

She had gone into this like any other battle, and was holding down a resentful spirit when the one next to it fell to her knees and began begging for forgiveness for her mother. What was going on?

Lilly clapped her hands, impressed. “You’re amazing, Auntie Harem!”

The harem spirit blinked. “Who’s this…”

The younger spirit continued to kneel, sobbing as she begged. “Mother and I are sorry, we won’t do anything bad anymore. Please let us go, please…”

Lilly shook her head. “Do you know how many lives you’ve taken?”

The young spirit’s eyes flickered. “Just, just seven or eight…”

Lilly frowned. The word ‘just’ for seven or eight lives was hardly appropriate

The resentful spirit being held down by the harem spirit spoke up in a hoarse whisper, “Roxie, don’t beg her…”

“It’s our bad luck that we were caught this time…”

The spirit glowered at Lilly, furious that she had lost.

She had only needed one more innocent soul… just one more!

And she would become a malignant spirit, leaving this river forever.

She had drowned tens of thousands of times in this river! It was too much to bear, and she began to usurp other spirits so she could leave sooner.

Only for everything to fall apart.

what the older spirit was saying. She turned to the younger spirit named Roxie. “What are your names, and where are you

and she said, “We were villagers living by the riverbank. That was about eight years ago, when the city

There was a tall building erected there now, the old

were washing our sheets by

big for the washing machine to clean, that’s why we went to

came too, but he

she fell into the

Father was too far out in the

she spoke. “That’s how

was very angry, and refused to be reborn. She resented Father, calling him a coward

to remember this as well,

but her daughter had died too. Her husband had just been swimming a hundred

she had drowned along with her

howled, her teeth clacking from the force of talking. “I need to

Lilly was speechless

continued speaking. “Because we fell into quicksand and the water weeds held us down, Father couldn’t

with a bamboo pole and fished around the water, but never found

you kill

words. Seeing as there was no use in doing so, she

her mother, before describing what

never wanted to kill herself. She came to sit by the river after arguing with her mother, sulking on a stone

alone, my mother and I got

heard her calling her mother. Her mother yelled at her asking where she was, and Jane said

trying to threaten me with suicide, aren’t you! Who do you think you’re scaring, going down to the

Lilly asked, “And then?”

four men could only watch as she spoke to

but not being able to see them… or ‘listen to their stories’ made

were the water

mumbled, “This is boring. We

continued to speak. “Jane was around my age, and I understood how she felt. She couldn’t

hadn’t wanted to kill Jane, but her mother told her not

we could feel sorry for others, but no

hesitated, her mother dragged Jane into

struggled with herself watching on, but ended up

came looking for her a day after she died. She couldn’t find her after searching

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