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.

did not care about what the older spirit was saying. She turned to the younger spirit named Roxie.

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

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

were washing our sheets by the

the washing machine to clean, that’s why we went to the

but he just swam in the

into the water. Roxie ran to help her, and

far

sobbed as she spoke. “That’s how Mother and

to be reborn. She resented Father, calling him a coward for not

older spirit seemed to remember this as

that she had died, but her daughter had died too. Her husband had

had drowned

older spirit howled, her teeth clacking from the force of talking. “I need to find

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 back

bamboo pole and fished around the water,

did you

around at the words. Seeing as there

her mother, before describing what had happened in the

herself. She came to sit by the river after arguing with her mother,

mother and I got closer to try to lure

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

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?”

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

able to see them… or ‘listen to their stories’ made them feel a little left

what were the water spirits

boring. We

She

hadn’t wanted to kill Jane, but her mother told her not to

we could feel sorry for others, but

mother dragged

watching on, but

came looking for her a day after she died. She couldn’t find her after searching

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