Spoiled by Eight Uncles

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.

river! It was too much to bear,

everything

the older spirit was saying. She turned to the younger spirit

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

There was a tall building erected there now, the old

I were

for the washing machine to clean, that’s why we went

he just swam in the

been washing the sheets when she fell into the

but Father was too far out in

“That’s how

we became water spirits here. Mother was very angry, and refused to be reborn. She resented Father, calling him

to remember this as well, her

daughter had died too. Her husband had just been swimming

she had drowned along with

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

Lilly was speechless

held us down, Father couldn’t find us.

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words. Seeing as there was no use in doing so,

glanced at her mother, before describing what had

never wanted to kill herself. She came to sit by the river after arguing with her mother, sulking on a stone

I got closer to

calling her mother. Her mother yelled at her asking where she was, and Jane

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

Lilly asked, “And then?”

could only watch as she spoke to thin

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

water spirits saying to

“This is boring. We should’ve brought

speak. “Jane was around my age, and I understood how she felt. She couldn’t even explain before her mother hung up on her… She knelt by the river,

wanted to kill Jane, but her mother

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

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