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.

was too much to bear, and

for everything to

about what the older spirit was saying. She turned to the younger spirit named Roxie. “What are your names, and where are

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

and I were washing our sheets by the

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

came too, but he

mother had been washing the sheets when she fell into the

but Father was too far out in the river and didn’t hear

as she spoke. “That’s how Mother and I

to be reborn. She resented Father, calling him a coward for

to remember this as well,

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

had drowned along with

the force of talking. “I need to find

Lilly was speechless

fell into quicksand and the water weeds held us down, Father couldn’t find us. He thought that we’d gone home, and went back as

with a bamboo pole and fished around the water, but

you kill that

older spirit thrashed around at the words. Seeing as there was no use in doing so, she

at her mother, before describing what had happened in the past

came to sit by the river after

my mother and I got closer to try to lure

where she was, and Jane said

lips. “Jane’s mother was really angry after she heard that. She said, ‘Very well, I see you’re trying to threaten me

Lilly asked, “And then?”

only watch

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

water

is boring. We should’ve brought Drake

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

kill Jane, but her

others, but no one’s

she hesitated, her mother