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.

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

“We were villagers living by the riverbank. That was

a tall building erected there

and I were washing our

thought the sheet was too big for the washing machine to clean, that’s why we went to

came too, but he just swam

into the water. Roxie ran

but Father was too far out in the river and

she spoke. “That’s

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

seemed to remember this as

her daughter had died too. Her husband had just been swimming

had drowned along

talking. “I need to find him, I need to kill him! What

Lilly was speechless

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

bamboo pole and fished

frowned. “How did you kill that

as there was no use in doing so, she

her mother, before describing what had

to sit by the river after arguing with her mother, sulking on a stone

I got closer

yelled at her asking where she was, and Jane said she was

lips. “Jane’s mother was really 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

Lilly asked, “And then?”

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

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

what were the water spirits saying

boring.

She couldn’t even explain before her

her mother told her

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

hesitated, her mother dragged Jane

with herself watching on, but ended up not stopping

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

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