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.

spirit was saying. She turned to the younger spirit named Roxie. “What are

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

was a tall building erected there now, the old houses nowhere

Mother and I were washing our sheets by the

the washing machine to clean,

he

washing the sheets when she fell into the

far out in the river

as she spoke. “That’s how Mother

Mother was very angry, and refused to be reborn. She resented Father, calling

to remember this as well,

husband had just been swimming

she had drowned

the older spirit howled, her teeth clacking from the force of talking.

Lilly was speechless

us down, Father couldn’t find us. He thought that we’d gone home, and went back

bamboo pole and fished around the water, but never found

frowned. “How did you

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

before describing what

by the river after arguing with her mother,

she was alone, my mother and I

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

angry after she heard that. She said, ‘Very well, I see you’re trying to threaten me with suicide, aren’t you! Who do you think you’re scaring, going down to the river and everything? Go on,

Lilly asked, “And then?”

to her, the four men could only watch as

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

water

“This is boring. We

continued to speak. “Jane was around my age, and I understood how she felt. She couldn’t even explain before her mother hung up on her… She knelt by the river,

wanted to kill Jane, but her mother told her not to

sorry for others, but no one’s going to feel sorry

her mother dragged Jane

on, but

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

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