Spoiled by Eight Uncles

Jessie stroked the doll in her arms, her voice light and airy.

"I found her."

"I went all the way to the beach, but couldn't find Mindy.I had a feeling Mindy was home, and she might even be waiting for me there."

And so Jessie rushed back home.She could feel Mindy calling for her.It was a long and grueling journey.She almost got lost.But just then...

"I heard the sound of a drum.It was a very nice sound," Jessie said.

"It was like the drum could talk, and it sounded like Mindy talking."

Despite the fact that Mindy was mute, and had never spoken before.Jessie just had a feeling that that was Mindy.

"Mindy was telling me to come home.She was looking for me."

Following the sound of the drum, Jessie kept walking.Blisters began to grow on her feet, and she even lost a toenail.

At last, she saw a large crowd.They were all surrounding a drum, kneeling as they hit it.

"I could tell at once.That drum was Mindy..." Jessie said.

"It was a drum, made out of Mindy's skin."

The sentence made Lilly and the rest tremble, a chill running down their spines! Adrum made out of human skin?! Jessie continued.

"Where I'm from, everyone's skin is tan as wheat.Mindy was the only one with fair skin, soft and smooth..."

The harem spirit could not help but ask, "How are you so sure that it was a drum made out of… human skin? Could it have been, uh, other skin? Like goatskin, or something."

Jessie shook her head firmly.

"I'm certain! Because the drum sounded like Mindy's voice!" The ghosts fell silent.

Her sister was mute, but she was insisting that the drum sounded like her sister's voice.Did this mean that the sisters’ hearts were as one? Jessie's eyes filled with tears once again.

"I saw the men that came to my house in the crowd." They hugged the drum, caressing it adoringly after the crowd had left.

"I heard their secrets.They said that the spirit drum was ‘top notch’, made by a ‘virgin girl who had never been in love before’. That kind of drum was the purest, and it was even better that the girl was mute.

A mute person could never tell a lie, and their spirit would never be tainted."

the girl this skin belonged to checked all the boxes.She was so beautiful too, with such fine skin.The drum made would be able to be heard

my Mindy." Mindy was beautiful.She was pure.She was

for Mindy as she ran towards

she would

calling out for her to run in

to lead the way, hiding in

of those people—

them again, but this time I followed

through that that Jessie finally realized why it was called the spirit drum.The spirit drum, or

the drum could connect with the afterlife,

pray to gods, to pray for the gods' protection.It had to be made out of the skin of a girl

best drum was yielded from skin that was cut off the girl while

not help but grip her father tightly, goosebumps appearing on her skin as

a drum out of skin? Why would the gods protect them

to Mindy like that enrage the gods instead?

Mindy away, but told everyone who came to pray to

intending to cause harm.Rumors that were made up

like that existed, but Mindy's drum was

made a trip around the island, and finally returned to where they had started— where

small

in alleys and bushes, she had come across Mindy's hair and

and eyes in

clutched the doll tightly,

had their sticks and weapons.So I set a

pity on me as I was a little kid who

me back to

furious,

it was her who handed Mindy over to those guys in the first place.Ma told her to shut her mouth.Ma would never admit to the truth.She threatened to stitch Jessie's

Jessie lowered her head.

the doll, and asked her if she wanted a Ma.I could give half of

Lilly was stunned.

Ma be in

not a good

Ma while she was asleep, and bashed her to death

lit up as a bolt of lightning struck, and Jessie saw her reflection in the mirror.Her face was covered in blood.She looked terrifying.She even saw the doll sit

the people who took Mindy away lived, and set a huge fire.She