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.

to the younger

flashed with hopelessness and she said, “We were villagers living by the

pointed at the riverbank. There was a tall building

Mother and I were

sheet was too big for the washing machine to clean,

but he just swam

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

for help, but Father was too far out in

sobbed as she spoke. “That’s

we became water spirits here. Mother was very angry, and refused to be reborn. She resented Father, calling him a coward

spirit seemed to remember this as well,

husband had just been swimming a hundred

had drowned along with her

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

Lilly was speechless

the water weeds held us down, Father couldn’t find us. He thought that

he came out with a bamboo pole and fished

did you kill

words. Seeing as there

mother, before describing what had happened in

She came to sit by the

I got closer to

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

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?”

could only

see them… or ‘listen to their stories’

what were the water spirits saying to

“This is boring. We should’ve

to speak. “Jane was around my age, and I understood how she felt. She couldn’t even explain before

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

said we could feel sorry for others, but no one’s

mother

on, but ended up

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 at

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