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

everything

spirit was saying. She turned to the younger spirit named Roxie.

hesitated, before 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 started building

tall building erected there now, the

and I were washing our sheets by

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

but he just swam in the

when she fell into the water. Roxie ran to help her, and fell

far out in the river and didn’t hear

she spoke. “That’s how Mother

angry, and refused to be reborn. She resented Father, calling him a coward for not turning

seemed to remember this as well, her eyes

daughter had died too. Her husband had just been swimming a hundred meters away, her daughter

she had drowned along

the older spirit howled, her teeth clacking from the force of talking. “I need to find him, I need to kill

Lilly was speechless

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

that he came out with a bamboo pole and fished around the water, but never found

frowned. “How did you kill that girl

Seeing as there was no use

her mother, before describing what had happened in

wanted to kill herself. She came to sit by the river after arguing with

and I got closer

where she was, and Jane said she

see you’re trying to threaten me with suicide, aren’t you! Who do you think you’re scaring, going down to

Lilly asked, “And then?”

to her, the four men could only watch

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

were the water

“This is boring. We should’ve brought Drake

around my age, and I understood how she felt. She couldn’t even explain before her mother hung up

to kill Jane, but her mother told her not to

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

her mother dragged Jane