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."

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

talking about my Mindy." Mindy was beautiful.She was pure.She was also

as she ran towards her, but was chased

seemed to be afraid that she would spread the

seemed to hear her sister calling out for her to run

to lead the way, hiding in a

had escaped the abuse of those people— but they had

again, but this

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

drum could connect

for the gods' protection.It had to be made out of the skin of a girl who had never been in love before, and it was

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

her father tightly, goosebumps appearing on her skin as

Making a drum out of skin?

to Mindy like that

took my Mindy away, but told everyone who came to pray to it that nothing of the

to cause harm.Rumors that were made up just because

but Mindy's drum was

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

was small

hiding in alleys and bushes, she had

Mindy's hair and eyes in the

the doll tightly, her eyes flashing with

to get Mindy back, but they had their sticks and weapons.So

people around, so they said they would take pity on me as I

they sent me back

furious, locking

if 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

Jessie lowered her head.

doll, and asked her if she wanted a Ma.I could

Lilly was stunned.

Ma be in half..." Jessie

was not a good

Jessie crept up on Ma while she was asleep, and bashed her to death with a big

her house 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

she went to where the people who took Mindy away lived, and