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

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

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

weekend, Mother and I were washing our sheets by

washing machine to clean,

he just swam in the

fell into the water. Roxie ran to help her, and

was too far out in the

spoke. “That’s how Mother and I

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

remember this as well,

but her daughter had died too. Her husband had just

had drowned

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

Lilly was speechless

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

with a bamboo pole and

“How did you kill

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

her mother, before describing what had happened in the past

by the

my mother and I got closer to try to

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

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

Lilly asked, “And then?”

four men could only watch as she spoke to

was terrifying to see these spirits, but not being able to see them… or ‘listen

the water

mumbled, “This is boring. We should’ve brought Drake

was around my age, and I understood how she felt. She couldn’t

wanted to kill Jane, but her mother told her

sorry for others, but no one’s going to

she hesitated, her mother dragged Jane

herself watching on,

a day after she died. She couldn’t find her after searching the whole day. Mother dragged another

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