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.

saying. She turned to the younger spirit named Roxie. “What are your names, and where are

were villagers living by the riverbank. That was

a tall building erected there now, the

weekend, Mother and I were washing our sheets by

sheet was too big for the washing machine to clean, that’s why we went to the

too, but he just swam in the

fell into the water. Roxie ran to help her,

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

“That’s how Mother and

we became water spirits here. Mother was very angry, and refused to

to remember this

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

she had drowned along with

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

Lilly was speechless

weeds held us down, Father couldn’t find us. He

out with a bamboo pole and fished around

you kill that girl

Seeing as there was

before describing what had happened in

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

alone, my mother and I got closer to try to lure her

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

‘Very well, I see you’re trying to threaten me with suicide, aren’t you! Who do you

Lilly asked, “And then?”

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

not being able to see them… or ‘listen to their stories’ made them feel

were the water spirits saying

boring.

age, and I understood how she felt. She couldn’t even explain before her mother hung

Jane, but her mother

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

she hesitated, her mother dragged

herself watching on, but ended up not stopping

couldn’t find her after searching the whole day. Mother

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