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 she began to usurp other spirits so

for everything to fall

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

eyes flashed with hopelessness and she said, “We were villagers living by the riverbank. That

pointed at the riverbank. There was a tall building erected there now, the old

Mother and I were washing our

big for the washing machine

came too, but he just swam

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

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

as she spoke. “That’s how

became water spirits here. Mother was very angry, and refused to be reborn. She resented Father, calling him a coward for not turning

remember this as well, her eyes

had died, but her daughter had died too. Her husband

she had drowned

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

Lilly was speechless

us down, Father couldn’t

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

you kill that girl

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

at her mother, before describing what had happened in the

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

mother and I got

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

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?”

only watch as she spoke to

not being able to see them… or ‘listen to their stories’ made

water spirits saying

is boring. We should’ve brought Drake

I understood how she felt. She couldn’t even explain before her mother hung up on her…

kill Jane, but her mother

for others, but

mother dragged

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