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.

care about what the older spirit was saying. She turned to the younger spirit named

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

There was a tall building erected there now,

were washing our sheets by the

the washing machine to clean,

but he just swam in

when she fell into the water. Roxie ran

screamed for help, but Father was too far out in the river and

spoke. “That’s how Mother and I

very angry, and refused to be reborn. She

older spirit seemed to remember this as

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

she had drowned along

the older spirit howled, her teeth clacking from the force of talking.

Lilly was speechless

continued speaking. “Because we fell into quicksand and the water weeds held us down, Father couldn’t find us. He thought that we’d

bamboo pole and fished around the water,

did you

older spirit thrashed around at the words. Seeing as there was no

her mother, before describing what

kill herself. She came to sit by the river after arguing with

she was alone, my mother and I got closer to try to

we heard her calling her mother. Her mother yelled at her asking where she was, and Jane said she was

after she heard that. She said, ‘Very well, I see you’re trying to threaten me with suicide, aren’t you! Who

Lilly asked, “And then?”

men could only watch as she

these spirits, but not being able to see them… or ‘listen to their stories’ made them feel a little left out

were the water spirits saying to

mumbled, “This is boring. We

She couldn’t even explain before her mother hung up on her… She

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

could feel sorry for others, but no one’s

hesitated, her mother dragged Jane

struggled with herself watching on, but ended up not stopping

find her after

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