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, and she began to usurp other spirits so

for everything to fall

younger spirit named Roxie. “What

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

pointed at the riverbank. There was a tall building erected there now, the old houses nowhere

and I were washing our sheets by the

too big for the washing

came too, but he just swam in

mother had been washing the sheets when she fell into the water. Roxie ran to help her,

Father was too far out in the river and

as she spoke. “That’s how Mother

was very angry, and refused to be reborn. She

remember this as

that she had died, but her daughter had died too. Her husband had just been swimming a hundred meters away, her daughter could have been

drowned along

howled, her teeth clacking from the force of talking. “I need

Lilly was speechless

fell into quicksand and the water weeds held us down, Father couldn’t find us. He thought

with a bamboo pole and fished around the water, but never

frowned. “How did you kill

as there was no use in doing so,

her mother, before describing what had happened in the

to kill herself. She came to sit by the river after arguing with her mother, sulking on a stone

she was alone, my mother and I got

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

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 don’t

Lilly asked, “And then?”

only watch as she spoke

being able to see them… or ‘listen to

what were the water spirits

boring. We should’ve

to speak. “Jane was around my age, and I understood how she felt. She couldn’t even explain before her mother

to kill Jane, but her mother told her not to

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

hesitated, her mother dragged