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

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

at the riverbank. There was a tall building

were washing our sheets by the

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

he just

fell into the water. Roxie ran to help her, and fell into the

too far out in the

sobbed as she spoke. “That’s how Mother

very angry, and refused to be

older spirit seemed to remember this as well, her eyes

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

drowned along with her

howled, her teeth clacking from the force of talking. “I need to find him, I need to kill him! What were

Lilly was speechless

water weeds held us down, Father couldn’t find us. He thought that we’d

he came out with a bamboo pole and fished around the

“How did you kill that

thrashed around at the words. Seeing as there was no use in doing

describing what had happened in the past

the river after arguing with her mother,

and I got closer to try

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

that. She said, ‘Very well, I see you’re trying to threaten me with suicide,

Lilly asked, “And then?”

the four men could only watch as she

was terrifying to see these spirits, but not being able to see them… or

were the water spirits saying to

is boring. We

I understood how she felt. She couldn’t

Jane, but her mother told her not

but no

her mother dragged Jane

struggled with herself watching on,

day after she died. She couldn’t find her after

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