Spoiled by Eight Uncles

Layton did not know what to say. “What’s our mission today, Mr. Macneil?”

Blake said, “We’re going to lure someone out. They’ve seen Lilly and I before, so we can’t show ourselves. You’re going to lure it out.”

“I remember you’re pretty good at swimming, aren’t you? You’ve done an underwater battle before.”

Layton nodded his head. This was all not a problem.

But…

“Has that person seen me before? He asked solemnly.

Which enemy was this? Was it a prisoner on the loose?

Mr. Macneil was clearly so concerned!

Yet Blake stopped short, before saying. “No, they haven’t seen you.”

Layton was speechless.

So what was the point of him dressing up like this!

As if he could guess what Layton was thinking, Blake rattled off some nonsense off the top of his head at once. “This outfit’s to protect you. It’ll ward off evil spirits.”

Layton thought to himself, Thanks, so so much.

The ferry puttered off onto the river, spinning around slowly on the water.

“What are we going to do now?” Layton covered his face.

Blake was comfortably reclined on the couch, his arms spread out and his legs crossed.

“See that window?” he said. “Open it, and stick your head out.”

The ferry had been designed for the river tour. The second floor was the dock, with comfortable sofas. In the cabin was a minibar, with a window made of glass that could be opened.

Layton opened the window, and stuck his head out.

Lilly took off her shoes and climbed onto the sofa, copying the way Blake was sitting with her limbs stretched out. “Then you need to stick your arms out, and play with the water.”

Layton was baffled by it.

Crossdressing, sticking his head out of a window, and now playing with the water.

Why did something feel strangely off?

Whatever. A mission was a mission, and Layton was on one.

had no choice but to lean out of the window

had pretty long hands,

thumbed away on her phone, taking picture after picture of Layton before saying, “Say,

on TV said

Anthony smirked.

“Don’t shout

sipping their coffees as Layton toiled away by the window. The wind

a beautiful

Layton felt

He frowned. Water weeds?

thin and

next second, he felt as if his wrist was

Layton was elated.

The bait had worked?

the hell was this? They were pretty good with underwater combat,

they could hold their breath for so long, and they

just about to

Blake’s voice rang behind him, “It’s

about to say that he had this

of the water to grab his other

into the water with

wearing a red dress as he fell, and a piercing cry rang through the air, “Help… someone’s fallen into the

quite a sharp eye, and was able to

around to grab the person’s hands instead, yanking harshly to see who

was a pale face drained of all color with its eyes

it was a young girl, staring daggers at him as

thought, What the f*ck, these were

shock made him swallow a mouthful of water, and before he could blink twice the two ‘people’ had dragged him to

emitted

Don’t

his feet

grabbed both wrists at once, yanking hard. With

dragged out of the water, landing

vision darkened

the amulet, crying

nailing the two corpses who were

scared the living lights out of Edward and the

they were dealing with ‘spirits’ here. Which meant that they wouldn’t be able to see said spirits, merely watching Lilly

these two were clearly

yet, and shouldn’t take care of spirits on her own. He

it was very thin and slippery, and

didn’t put these water spirits to rest, her amulet wasn’t going to last long enough to nail them to the both. Her Master wouldn’t make it

red bracelet was

enough,