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.

turned to the younger spirit named Roxie. “What are your names, and

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

pointed at the riverbank. There was a tall building

Mother and I were washing our sheets by the

was too big for the washing machine

but he just swam in

had been washing the sheets when she fell into the water. Roxie ran to help her,

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

spoke. “That’s

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

seemed to remember this as

was fine that she had died, but her daughter had died too. Her husband had just been swimming a hundred

had drowned along with

of talking. “I need

Lilly was speechless

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

he came out with a bamboo pole and fished

you

Seeing as there was no use in doing

her mother, before describing what had happened in the

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

was alone, my mother and I got

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

‘Very well, I see you’re trying to threaten

Lilly asked, “And then?”

to her, the four men could only watch as she spoke

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

water

“This is boring.

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

Jane, but her mother told her not

for others, but no

hesitated, her mother

with herself watching on, but

She couldn’t find her after searching the whole day. Mother dragged

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