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.

saying. She turned to the younger spirit named Roxie. “What are your names, and where are you from?

before her eyes flashed with hopelessness and she said, “We were villagers living by the riverbank. That was about eight years ago, when the city had just started building these

riverbank. There was a tall building erected there now, the old houses

I were

sheet was too big for the washing machine to

came too, but he

sheets when she fell into the water. Roxie

help, but Father was too far out in the

sobbed as she spoke. “That’s

Mother was very angry, and refused to be reborn. She resented Father, calling him a coward for not

older spirit seemed to remember this as well,

too. Her husband had

had drowned

clacking from the force of talking. “I need to find him, I need to kill him! What were his ears

Lilly was speechless

water weeds held us down, Father couldn’t find

he came out with a bamboo pole and fished

did you kill that girl

the words. Seeing as there was no

before describing what had happened in the past two

by the river

mother and I got closer to try to

where she was, and

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

Lilly asked, “And then?”

men could only

terrifying to see these spirits, but not being able to see them… or ‘listen to their stories’ made them feel a little

water spirits saying to

“This is boring. We should’ve brought Drake

felt. She couldn’t even explain before her mother hung up on her… She

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

but

hesitated, her mother dragged Jane

herself watching on,

for her a day after she died. She couldn’t find her after searching the whole day. Mother dragged another two girls into the water

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