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.

older spirit was saying. She turned to the younger spirit

said, “We were villagers living by the riverbank. That was about eight years ago, when the

building erected there now, the old houses nowhere to be

were washing our sheets

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

but he just swam

into the water.

Father was too far out in

as she spoke. “That’s how Mother and

to be reborn.

seemed to remember

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

drowned along with

her teeth clacking from the force of talking.

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 went back

bamboo pole and fished around the water, but never found

you

older spirit thrashed around at the words. Seeing as

at her mother, before describing what had happened in

sit by the river after arguing with her mother, sulking on a stone

was alone, my mother and I got closer to try

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

her lips. “Jane’s mother was 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 you’re scaring, going down to the river and everything? Go on, jump and

Lilly asked, “And then?”

only watch

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

water spirits saying to

“This is boring.

she felt. She couldn’t

wanted to kill Jane, but her mother told her

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

she hesitated, her mother dragged Jane into the

with herself watching on, but ended

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

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