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.

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

her eyes flashed with hopelessness and she said, “We were villagers living by the riverbank. That was about

riverbank. There was a tall building erected there now, the old houses nowhere to be

weekend, Mother and I were washing our sheets

too big for the washing machine

he

had been washing the sheets when she fell into the

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

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 not

remember this

had died too. Her husband had just been swimming a hundred

she had drowned along

the force of talking. “I need to find him, I

Lilly was speechless

down, Father couldn’t find us. He thought

that he came out with a bamboo pole and fished around the water, but

frowned. “How did you

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

what had happened in the

to kill herself. She came to sit by the river

and I got closer to

yelled at her asking where she was,

‘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

Lilly asked, “And then?”

only watch as she spoke to

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

the water spirits saying

boring. We should’ve brought

she felt. She couldn’t even explain before her mother hung up on her… She knelt by the river,

to kill Jane, but her mother told her not

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

mother dragged

watching on, but ended up not stopping

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

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