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.

It was too much to bear, and

everything to fall

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

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 these

building erected there now, the old houses

were washing our sheets

was too big for the washing machine

came too, but he just

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

far out in

spoke. “That’s how Mother

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

seemed to remember this as well, her

her daughter had died too. Her husband had just been

drowned along with her

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

Lilly was speechless

down, Father couldn’t

that he came out with a bamboo pole and fished around

“How did you kill that girl

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

mother, before describing what

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

mother and I got

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

short, pursing 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

Lilly asked, “And then?”

to her, the four men could only watch

to see them… or

what were the water spirits

is boring. We should’ve brought

“Jane was around my age, and I understood how she felt. She couldn’t even explain before her mother hung up on her… She knelt by the

Jane, but her mother

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

her mother dragged Jane