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.

much to bear, and she began to usurp other spirits

for everything to

did not care about what the older spirit was saying. She turned to the younger spirit named Roxie. “What are your names, and

and she said, “We were villagers living by the riverbank. That was about

at the riverbank. There was a tall building erected there

and I were washing our sheets by the

was too big for the washing machine to clean,

came too, but he

she fell into the water. Roxie ran to

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

spoke. “That’s how Mother and

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 eyes

died too. Her husband had just

had drowned along with her

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

Lilly was speechless

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

he came out with a bamboo pole

you kill that girl

thrashed around at the words. Seeing as

mother, before describing what had happened in

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

and I got closer to try to

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

her lips. “Jane’s mother 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? Go on, jump and

Lilly asked, “And then?”

the four men could only watch as she

able to see them… or ‘listen to their

the water spirits

“This is boring.

to 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

hadn’t wanted to kill Jane, but her mother

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

she hesitated, her mother