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.

tens of thousands of times in this river! It was too much to bear, and

everything to fall

did not care about what the older spirit was saying. She turned to the younger

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

was a tall building erected there now, the

Mother and I were washing our sheets by the

washing machine to clean, that’s why we

too, but he

the water. Roxie ran to help her, and

but Father was too far out in the

“That’s

very angry, and refused to be reborn. She resented Father, calling him a

spirit seemed to remember this as well, her

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

she had drowned

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

Lilly was speechless

us down, Father couldn’t find us. He thought

out with a bamboo pole

did you kill

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

before describing what had happened in the

She came to sit by the river

she was alone, my mother and I

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

was really angry after she heard that. She said, ‘Very well, I 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?

Lilly asked, “And then?”

her, the four men could only watch as

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

water spirits saying

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

to kill Jane, but her mother told

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

she hesitated, her mother dragged Jane into the