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.

She turned to the younger spirit named

the riverbank. That was about eight years ago, when the city had just started building

was a tall building

I were washing our

sheet was too big for the washing machine to clean, that’s

he just

fell into the water.

for help, but Father was too far out in the river and didn’t hear

“That’s how Mother and

we became water spirits here. Mother was very angry, and refused to be reborn. She

seemed to remember this as well, her

daughter had died too. Her husband had just been

had drowned along with her

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

Lilly was speechless

“Because we fell into quicksand and the water weeds held us down, Father couldn’t find us. He thought that we’d gone

bamboo pole and fished around the water, but never

did you kill

as there was no use in doing so, she

at her mother, before describing what had happened

wanted to kill herself. She came to sit by the river after arguing with her

was alone, my mother and I got closer to try to

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

“Jane’s mother was really angry after she heard that. She said, ‘Very well, I see you’re trying to threaten

Lilly asked, “And then?”

could only watch as she spoke to

able to see them… or ‘listen to their stories’ made them feel

water

is boring. We should’ve

how she felt. She couldn’t even explain before her

but her mother told her not to feel too

said we could feel sorry for others, but no

she hesitated, her mother

struggled with herself watching on, but ended up not stopping

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

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