Season 1

1 - His Butler, Able

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    If you once reject the Faith,
[00:14] ---
    you can never pass through
    the gates of heaven.
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    Would someone who believes in God
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    summon you?
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    I'll ask you again:
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    do you wish to make a contract?
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    Don't be tedious!
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    Just execute the contract and grant my wish!
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    "Black Butler"
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    There is no color to our meeting;
    it blows through in monochrome
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    I go where your cool fingers beckon me
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    I am like troublesome ice after the melt
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    You gently scoop me up to your
    mouth and play with my upper lip
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    Still, I search for a form of love
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    The dry eyes that shape the
    present rather than a distant time
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    Want to end like this, cloaked
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    But the night ignores that
    wish and brings morning
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    With your gentle,
    passionate, and dastardly kiss
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     Paint this final night
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    The moon illuminates us
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    It's time to wake up, young master.
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    Today's breakfast is poached
    salmon and mint salad.
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    To go with it, we have either
    toast, scones, or pain de campagne.
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    What would you like?
[03:02] ---
    A scone.
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    After breakfast is a visit from Mr. Hugues,
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    the authority on the history
    of the Roman Empire,
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    and Mr. Damiano of the Poseidon
    Company will be here after lunch.
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    Ah, yes, the man I have manufacturing
    stuffed animals at that factory in India?
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    I'm told he's Italian.
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    We will prepare to offer him
    the utmost possible hospitality.
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    This aroma... Earl Grey?
[03:28] ---
    Yes, from Jacksons of Piccadilly.
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    I shall await you at the dining table.
[03:44] ---
    Yes, my lord?
[03:48] ---
    Let's save the games for later.
[03:53] ---
    Indeed, you're right, Sebastian.
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    "His Butler, Able"
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    My butler is an able man.
[04:07] ---
    Ouch! Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow!
[04:11] ---
    Wh-What was that for all of a sudden?!
[04:14] ---
    Actually, you should have seen that coming.
[04:18] ---
    Finny.
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    Have you finished weeding the courtyard?
[04:23] ---
    Mey-Rin, have you washed the sheets?
[04:26] ---
    Um...
[04:27] ---
    Baldo, weren't you supposed
    to be preparing for dinner?
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    Damn.
[04:32] ---
    Tanaka...
[04:35] ---
    Well, you're all right as you are.
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    Everyone, if you have the
    time to dawdle about here,
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    use it do your jobs!
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    Yes, Sir!
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    Honestly...
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    The silver is polished to a mirrorlike gloss,
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    the tablecloth is brand
    new and wrinkle-free...
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    I've removed all the bruised blossoms
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    from the master's favorite white
    roses so that they look beautiful...
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    And I've prepared lavish amounts of
    all the carefully-chosen ingredients
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    for the cornerstone of
    good hospitality: dinner.
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    This is the first-class
    hospitality of the Phantomhives.
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    My goodness, calling for
    me when I'm so busy...
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    Are guests comin'?
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    This is our chance!
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    We won't let him keep lookin'
    down on us like this!
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    We'll provide above-and-beyond service
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    that'll make Sebastian's jaw drop!
[06:01] ---
    No point in lettin' your own jaws drop.
[06:03] ---
    But that's a good idea, yes!
[06:05] ---
    Right, we can't just depend
    on Sebastian for everything!
[06:08] ---
    All right then, time to form our strategy!
[06:11] ---
    Let's do it!
[06:15] ---
    I'm hungry. I want to eat something sweet.
[06:18] ---
    You shouldn't, young master.
[06:20] ---
    You have dinner with your guest tonight.
[06:23] ---
    I don't care. Make me a parfait or something.
[06:25] ---
    You really should not.
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    Oh, and about the portrait in the hall...
[06:30] ---
    Yes?
[06:32] ---
    Take it down.
[06:34] ---
    I, Ciel Phantomhive, am
    the head of the house now.
[06:45] ---
    Very good, my lord.
[06:49] ---
    So...
[06:50] ---
    ...how exactly did this come about?
[06:53] ---
    I used undiluted weed-killer.
    I thought it would be effective!
[06:58] ---
    I was trying to get out the
    tea set we use for guests,
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    but I fell and took the cart down with me!
[07:03] ---
    There was some raw meat on the
    counter, so I figured I'd cook it...
[07:06] ---
    uh, with a flamethrower...
[07:12] ---
    We're sorry, Sebastian!
[07:14] ---
    --But see, raw meat is...
[07:15] ---
    --Our guest will be here
    a bit after six o'clock.
[07:19] ---
    At most, we have two hours left.
[07:23] ---
    We don't have enough time to
    get high-quality meat or tea sets...
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    What shall I do?
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    Calm down, all of you!
[07:30] ---
    Now listen to me: take a page
    from Tanaka's book and behave like--
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    Everyone, listen carefully to what
    I'm about to say, and act immediately.
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    We'll manage with this.
[07:58] ---
    My goodness...
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    Welcome!
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    This is called a "stone garden."
    It's traditional in Japan.
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    Prodigioso! Wonderful!
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    What an elegant garden.
[08:16] ---
    We would like to serve dinner here tonight.
[08:21] ---
    Please wait inside the manor
    until it is time to dine.
[08:26] ---
    That's the house of Phantomhive for you.
[08:29] ---
    I can't wait until this evening!
[08:36] ---
    W-We made it in time!
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    Who'd have thought the
    gravel I rushed out to buy
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    would make such a great garden?!
[08:43] ---
    A Phantomhive butler who can't
    do this much isn't worth his salt.
[08:48] ---
    There's still work to be done.
[08:50] ---
    Let's get to it while the young master
    is talking business with his guest.
[08:54] ---
    Right!
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    The progress of spinning technology
    in East India is truly astonishing.
[09:04] ---
    We're also developing
    quite a top-notch staff...
[09:07] ---
    "You are bewitched by the eyes of the dead."
[09:09] ---
    Rotten luck. I lose a turn.
[09:13] ---
    Now is the perfect opportunity!
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    We'd like to expand our
    company and secure a labor force--
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    It's your turn.
[09:20] ---
    Ah, yes, then if you'll excuse me...
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    All right, five spaces.
[09:30] ---
    So, if I might ask for
    your support in the form
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    of another 12,000 pounds...
[09:37] ---
    I believe it would be a profitable
    venture for you, my lord.
[09:41] ---
    I would like to become a vehicle
    for the Funtom Company
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    to make an even bigger name
    for itself in South Asia--
[09:45] ---
    "You lose a leg in the enchanted forest."
[09:47] ---
    Huh?
[09:48] ---
    It's your turn again. I
    lost a turn, remember?
[09:52] ---
    O-Oh, quite.
[09:57] ---
    Right, six...
[10:00] ---
    No, that's three.
[10:01] ---
    What? But...
[10:03] ---
    You lost a leg, remember?
[10:05] ---
    From now on, you can only
    go half the number of spaces.
[10:09] ---
    This is quite a severe boardgame.
[10:12] ---
    Isn't there any way to regain my leg?
[10:16] ---
    Once you've lost something,
    you never get it back.
[10:26] ---
    "Your body is burnt by the raging flames."
[10:48] ---
    How are the preparations?
[10:49] ---
    I'm doin' it... but is
    this really good enough?
[10:53] ---
    Yes, that's perfect.
[10:55] ---
    Sebastian! I found them, yes!
[11:02] ---
    "Fragile"
[11:05] ---
    I can't believe you...
[11:07] ---
    How many times have I told
    you not to run inside the manor?
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    I'm so sorry, yes!
[11:13] ---
    My glasses are cracked, and I
    can't really see where I'm going!
[11:15] ---
    But now we don't have to
    worry about the key players.
[11:19] ---
    Good work. Leave the rest
    to me and take a break.
[11:24] ---
    I request you behave very well-- very well.
[11:29] ---
    He said it twice...
[11:30] ---
    He just said that twice.
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    Dinner is served.
[11:38] ---
    Ah, the dinner in the stone garden?
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    I've been eagerly awaiting it.
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    Then we'll finish playing later.
[11:46] ---
    I'm not sure we need to finish it;
    it's clear that I'll lose.
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    It's not my style to abandon
    a game halfway through.
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    Child.
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    I mean, the flexible heart of a
    child is required of a craftsman.
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    That must be what made the
    Phantomhives the nation's foremost toymakers.
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    You certainly impress me!
[12:12] ---
    On tonight's menu
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    is a finely-chopped raw beef
    donburi from our chef Baldroy.
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    "Don"...?
[12:21] ---
    "He Just Sliced and Layered It"
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    And this is... dinner...?
[12:26] ---
    Yes. Are you familiar with it?
[12:30] ---
    A traditional cuisine passed down
    in Japan since ancient times!
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    A treat offered to someone
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    who has done work of note as a sign
    of gratitude and appreciation!
[12:37] ---
    That is the food we call the donburi bowl!
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    I'm bowled over!
[12:44] ---
    We devised this scheme to show
    but a small token of our thanks
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    for your devoted efforts on
    behalf of the Funtom Company.
[12:51] ---
    That's our Sebastian!
[12:53] ---
    Nice save!
[12:54] ---
    What a unique idea!
[12:56] ---
    That's the legendary first-rate
    Phantomhive hospitality for you!
[13:02] ---
    We've prepared a wine whose bouquet
    won't clash with the scent of soy sauce.
[13:07] ---
    Mey-Rin.
[13:09] ---
    Mey-Rin!
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    Y-Yes, Sir!
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    Don't just stand there;
    pour him a glass of wine.
[13:15] ---
    R-Right! Yes!
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    Hey...
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    Isn't Mey-Rin actin' kinda weird?
[13:23] ---
    S-S-Sebastian, you shouldn't
    make that face in public...
[13:27] ---
    That face... that face...!
[13:32] ---
    Mey-Rin, you're spilling the wine!
[14:01] ---
    Hmm? Where did the tablecloth go?
[14:04] ---
    I saw a speck of dirt on the
    tablecloth, so I had it removed.
[14:09] ---
    Please pay no mind.
[14:11] ---
    My deepest apologies, Sir.
[14:13] ---
    Please take your time and enjoy your dinner.
[14:16] ---
    Well...
[14:18] ---
    I'm staggered, Lord Phantomhive.
[14:21] ---
    What a truly able man he is.
[14:24] ---
    He merely did what was proper as my servant.
[14:28] ---
    My master is quite right.
[14:30] ---
    You see, I am merely one hell of a butler.
[14:37] ---
    My, I thoroughly enjoyed that!
[14:40] ---
    Now then, about the contract...
[14:42] ---
    Before that, we must finish our game.
[14:46] ---
    A-Ah, quite.
[14:47] ---
    But I'm afraid I have
    another appointment to go to...
[14:51] ---
    Children are avid for games.
[14:53] ---
    You know that as well as I do.
[14:57] ---
    In that case, might I ask to borrow
    your telephone for a moment first?
[15:04] ---
    I've brought tea.
[15:06] ---
    I'll be right back.
[15:10] ---
    What is this? The aroma is so weak.
[15:13] ---
    I brought Italian tea in
    deference to our guest.
[15:17] ---
    Italian tea?
[15:18] ---
    In Italy coffee is the mainstream drink,
[15:21] ---
    so it's difficult to find
    high-quality teas there.
[15:24] ---
    It's not to your liking, my lord?
[15:28] ---
    No. I don't like it at all.
[15:33] ---
    I'll go prepare the pudding.
[15:36] ---
    Yes, let him enjoy the
    Phantomhive hospitality
[15:40] ---
    to its fullest.
[15:44] ---
    Yes, my lord.
[15:54] ---
    Christ, I can't stand babysitting!
[15:57] ---
    Yes, the factory is long since sold off.
[16:00] ---
    Now I just need to pocket all the
    cash I swindle out of that brat...
[16:06] ---
    The employees? Who cares about them?
[16:13] ---
    Never mind... Anyway, I'll leave
    the rest of the formalities to you.
[16:17] ---
    Sure, it's no problem.
[16:21] ---
    In the end, he's just a kid.
[16:48] ---
    That again... It must be my imagination.
[16:52] ---
    "You are bewitched by the eyes of the dead."
[16:58] ---
    Ridiculous.
[17:04] ---
    Huh?
[17:09] ---
    This isn't it either...
[17:11] ---
    Or this one...
[17:13] ---
    This mansion is huge! I can't find
    my way back to the drawing room.
[17:18] ---
    "You are bewitched by the eyes of the dead."
[17:31] ---
    Stay away!
[17:34] ---
    Huh? Wasn't that our guest?
[17:36] ---
    Hey! If we don't move this thing quick,
[17:39] ---
    Sebastian'll yell at us again!
[17:41] ---
    Right!
[17:45] ---
    Oh, I'm so embarrassed!
    I really bungled that!
[17:50] ---
    But...
[17:52] ---
    I got to be so close to Sebastian...
[17:55] ---
    Oh, how shameful! I'm such a lecherous maid!
[18:02] ---
    Lose a turn.
[18:12] ---
    A-Are you all right?!
[18:16] ---
    His... His leg is twisted the wrong way, yes!
[18:20] ---
    Hey, what's wrong?
[18:22] ---
    O-Our guest...!
[18:26] ---
    "You lose a leg in the enchanted forest."
[18:34] ---
    S-Sir...?
[18:44] ---
    Where are you going, Sir?
[18:48] ---
    We aren't finished entertaining you yet.
[18:51] ---
    We still have to serve pudding.
[18:54] ---
    If you lose a leg
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    you can only go half the
    number of spaces anyway,
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    so why not relax and make yourself at home?
[19:09] ---
    Damn, I can't see a thing...
[19:18] ---
    A cupboard?
[19:29] ---
    Damn... It's so cramped in here!
[19:33] ---
    What's this?
[19:35] ---
    It smells sweet...
[19:42] ---
    What an impatient guest you are.
[19:45] ---
    To think you would try to get
    at the pudding in the oven...
[19:49] ---
    O-Oven?!
[19:51] ---
    Open up! Please, open the door!
[19:56] ---
    Don't Italians know?
[20:00] ---
    Plum pudding, mincemeat pie...
[20:03] ---
    There are many puddings here in
    England that contain animal fat.
[20:10] ---
    "Your body is burnt by the raging flames."
[20:18] ---
    What was that scream?
[20:19] ---
    No idea...
[20:21] ---
    Oh, hi Sebastian!
[20:23] ---
    Thank you for your work today.
[20:25] ---
    Would you like some lemon meringue pie?
SIGN    "Lemon Meringue Pie"
[20:29] ---
    Sweet things relieve fatigue.
[20:32] ---
    --Sebastian! You're such a nice person!
[20:33] ---
    --Sebastian! You're not
    all bad! I'm so moved!
[20:38] ---
    Ah, yes, Baldo--
    a tradesman will be coming by later.
[20:41] ---
    Have him replace the oven in the kitchen.
[20:45] ---
    Huh? The oven?
[20:48] ---
    Mr. Damiano, I hope you
    enjoyed the Phantomhive hospitality
[20:54] ---
    down to the very marrow of your bones.
[20:58] ---
    Mamma mia!
[21:03] ---
    What an ugly scream. He
    sounds like a strangled pig.
[21:08] ---
    He sells the factory without telling me,
[21:11] ---
    and then says he wants to
    "secure a labor force"?
[21:14] ---
    Did he really think he could keep
    that a secret? That stupid trickster...
[21:27] ---
    Once you've lost something,
    you never get it back.
[21:40] ---
    It looks as though we'll have
    to redo the wallpaper as well.
[21:59] ---
    Father! Mother!
[22:18] ---
    The head of the house of Phantomhive, eh?
[24:04] ---
    The young master is also known by
    another name: "the Queen's guard dog."
[24:08] ---
    That small body houses plenty of fight.
[24:10] ---
    Please enjoy the valiant figure of him
[24:12] ---
    suffering excruciating pain at
    the hands of a drug trafficking ring
[24:15] ---
    with a smirk on your face
    and a cup of tea in one hand.
[24:18] ---
    Also, don't miss my brilliant
    display of silverware handling,
[24:22] ---
    upon which I will stake my honor
    as butler to the Phantomhives.
[24:25] ---
    Next time on Black Butler:
    "His Butler, Strongest."
[24:26] ---
    "Next Time" "His Butler, Strongest"
[24:29] ---
    You see, I am merely one hell of a butler.

2 - His Butler, Strongest

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[00:07] ---
    Bloody hell, it's done for.
[00:10] ---
    Rats again?
[00:12] ---
    I heard they were plaguin' London,
[00:14] ---
    but I sure didn't expect
    them this far out of the city...
[00:23] ---
    Found you, rat!
[00:30] ---
    He got away. Tee-hee!
[00:32] ---
    Don't give me that "tee-hee"!
    Do you want to kill us, too, idiot?!
[00:46] ---
    "Black Butler"
[00:52] ---
    Deai ni iro wa nakute monokuro fukinukeru
[00:59] ---
    Suzushii yubi temaneku mama ni
[01:04] ---
    Toketa ato no yakkai na
    koori mitai na watashi wo
[01:11] ---
    Yasashiku sukutte uwakuchibiru de asobu
[01:19] ---
    Soredemo hitotsu no ai no katachi wo sagasu
[01:25] ---
    Tooku yori mo ima wo musunda kareta hitomi wa
[01:31] ---
    Dekireba kono mama tsutsumarete owaritai
[01:37] ---
    Sono negai wa yoru wa munashiku
    asa wo tsurete kuru
[01:44] ---
    Yasashikute atsukute hikyou na kisu de
[01:51] ---
    Irodotte yo saigo no yoru
[01:54] ---
    Tsuki ga terashiteru
[02:08] ---
    "His Butler, Strongest"
[02:14] ---
    Oh, there's another one!
[02:15] ---
    Don't let it get away!
[02:20] ---
    Quite the commotion out there.
[02:23] ---
    It seems you have rats here as well.
[02:28] ---
    How long do you intend to
    let those vermin run wild?
[02:33] ---
    They forage through our pantries
    and do nothing but spread disease!
[02:35] ---
    "Run wild"? Isn't he simply
    leaving them at large to observe them?
[02:40] ---
    Yes, he always aims to settle
    things with one blow.
[02:44] ---
    Will you pass on this turn
    too, Lord Phantomhive?
[02:47] ---
    Pass. It's my policy not
    to hit balls I can't sink.
[02:52] ---
    Never mind the pompous talk.
    When will you exterminate the vermin?
[02:55] ---
    Anytime you like.
    The forbidden cheese with its rat bites...
[03:00] ---
    The key to the storehouse is in my hands.
[03:08] ---
    However, it will require
    a certain amount of effort
[03:12] ---
    to find the rats' nest and exterminate them.
[03:15] ---
    What say you prepare a suitable reward?
[03:18] ---
    You vulture.
[03:19] ---
    Sir Arthur, do you have the
    right to insult my family crest?
[03:24] ---
    Heh, foul. Mucked that one up.
[03:26] ---
    What will you do, Lord Phantomhive?
[03:29] ---
    Perhaps it's time to end this worthless game.
[03:35] ---
    How soon can you prepare the reward?
[03:38] ---
    By tonight.
[03:42] ---
    I'll send a carriage for you later.
[03:46] ---
    We'll have some slight
    entertainment ready for you.
[03:50] ---
    Are you going to go after all
    the balls in this situation?!
[03:53] ---
    Naturally.
[03:54] ---
    Greed will be your undoing.
[04:06] ---
    Greed, eh?
[04:09] ---
    Today's tea is a darjeeling
    from Fortnum & Mason.
[04:15] ---
    It smells delicious. Tea can be
    exceptional when well brewed, hmm?
[04:22] ---
    Grell.
[04:23] ---
    Y-Yes, my lady?
[04:24] ---
    Learn something from him.
[04:26] ---
    Y-Yes, my lady...
[04:28] ---
    That aside...
[04:30] ---
    You're a fine-looking man, aren't you?
[04:32] ---
    Quit serving in this silly
    country house and come to me!
[04:36] ---
    Madam Red...
[04:37] ---
    Oh, goodness, I'm sorry! I just
    couldn't help but want to palpate him!
[04:41] ---
    Perhaps that's just how doctors are.
[04:44] ---
    You believe the drug trafficker was
    one of your guests today, my lord?
[04:49] ---
    Perhaps.
[04:50] ---
    You can just leave this
    extermination business to Lau.
[04:53] ---
    A rat knows best where the
    rats' nest is, doesn't he?
[04:57] ---
    I'm a tame guinea pig, actually.
[05:01] ---
    If the earl orders me not to,
    I won't do anything uncalled-for.
[05:05] ---
    Hey! Keep your paws off of my darling nephew!
[05:09] ---
    You wound me. I wouldn't paw at him here.
[05:13] ---
    You're saying you would somewhere else?!
[05:15] ---
    That's a problematic statement, you know!
[05:17] ---
    --Sorry, sorry.
[05:17] ---
    --I hope you know that's my
    darling, darling nephew there!
[05:18] ---
    --Young master?
[05:22] ---
    Here...
[05:24] ---
    --It went that way, guys!
[05:26] ---
    --And here...
[05:26] ---
    --It's him!
[05:32] ---
    Young master?
[05:34] ---
    Today we'll be having a
    deep-dish apple raisin pie.
SIGN    "Deep-Dish Apple Raisin Pie"
[05:39] ---
    It will be ready soon; will
    you eat with your guests?
[05:42] ---
    Bring it to my room. I can't
    deal with them anymore.
[05:46] ---
    Very good, my lord.
[05:58] ---
    Stop playing and get to work.
[06:01] ---
    Yes, Sir.
[06:04] ---
    Finally, peace and quiet.
[06:13] ---
    Young master, I've brought
    your afternoon tea.
[06:19] ---
    Young master?
[06:24] ---
    This is terrible.
[06:26] ---
    The tea will go to waste.
[06:38] ---
    "The order of England's underworld"...
[06:41] ---
    One of the "villainous nobles"
[06:42] ---
    that have assumed the bad-guy role
    for the royal family for generations...
[06:46] ---
    "The Queen's guard dog,"
    who uses his absolute power
[06:50] ---
    to bite to death anyone who opposes her...
[06:53] ---
    Just how many nicknames do you have,
[06:56] ---
    and how many families have you crushed...
[06:59] ---
    ...Ciel Phantomhive?
[07:02] ---
    I thought it was you,
[07:04] ---
    Azzurro Vanel of the Ferro family!
[07:09] ---
    Say, little Phantomhive,
[07:12] ---
    it's tough for the Italian
    Mafia in this country.
[07:15] ---
    All these Englishman have
    tea-encrusted brains.
[07:19] ---
    People in the family business like us
[07:21] ---
    have to rack our brains to come
    up with smart ways to make money.
[07:25] ---
    And that's exactly what drugs are for.
[07:27] ---
    In the Pharmacy Act of '68,
    even opium was listed as restricted.
[07:32] ---
    The Queen has ordered me
[07:34] ---
    not to let the vermin or
    the drugs run wild anymore.
[07:39] ---
    This is why I hate Englishmen.
    The Queen this, the Queen that...
[07:43] ---
    You're all a bunch of mama's
    boys about your stupid Queen.
[07:46] ---
    You try to line your own pockets
    while you bind us with rules...
[07:50] ---
    But we're birds of a feather, aren't we?
[07:54] ---
    Let's get along.
[07:56] ---
    I've left orders for my servants
[07:58] ---
    to give your storehouse key to
    the authorities if I don't come back.
[08:03] ---
    Sorry, but I have no intention of
    making friends with a filthy rat.
[08:08] ---
    Don't you underestimate
    an adult, you damned brat!
[08:11] ---
    I already have my men waiting at your estate.
[08:14] ---
    Where's the key?
[08:15] ---
    Spit it out fast, or I'll kill
    your servants one by one.
[08:22] ---
    You'd better hope your little lap
    dogs actually know how to fetch.
[08:34] ---
    Did you hear that? Negotiations broke down.
[08:42] ---
    Now, where can the young
    master have gone off to?
[08:48] ---
    Sebastian!
[08:51] ---
    I just found a letter at the front door, yes!
[08:53] ---
    Addressed to whom?
[08:55] ---
    Er, "The Earl Phantomhive's Servants."
[09:20] ---
    Mey-Rin, the letter.
[09:23] ---
    Y-Yes sir, yes!
[09:25] ---
    "If you want us to return your master safely,
[09:27] ---
    bring it to Nova Scotia
    Gardens in Bethnal Green."
[09:33] ---
    What a vulgar invitation.
[09:36] ---
    Sebastian!
[09:38] ---
    Say, what happened?
[09:40] ---
    I apologize for the commotion.
[09:42] ---
    Nothing is the matter, so please don't worry.
[09:45] ---
    "Nothing"...?
[09:47] ---
    I'm sorry, everyone, but
    would you please clean this up?
[09:55] ---
    By "clean up," do you mean...
[09:57] ---
    we can eat this?
[09:59] ---
    Huh?
[10:01] ---
    Sebastian?
[10:06] ---
    Sorry, I bungled it.
[10:07] ---
    Bungled it?!
[10:09] ---
    You useless fools!
[10:11] ---
    This is the problem with scum like you...
[10:13] ---
    Forget it, just get back here!
[10:18] ---
    W-Wait, there's something strange...
[10:22] ---
    Wh-What's that?!
[10:25] ---
    What, you meet a bear
    in the woods or someth--
[10:31] ---
    What's with you guys?
    Did you attract too much attention?
[10:33] ---
    Speed up!
[10:45] ---
    It's coming...
[10:50] ---
    Cut it out already!
[10:52] ---
    No good, it's here!
[11:02] ---
    H-Hey... What happened?
[11:09] ---
    Sounds like your game of fetch failed.
[11:16] ---
    Quiet, you damn brat!
[11:22] ---
    Hey, if you don't answer me right now,
    I swear I'll kill you mongrels!
[11:27] ---
    Hello.
[11:29] ---
    I represent the Phantomhive estate.
[11:34] ---
    Would my master happen to be there?
[11:38] ---
    Hello? What's the matter?
[11:42] ---
    Hello?
[11:47] ---
    Woof.
[11:52] ---
    Very good, my lord. I'll be
    there to pick you up momentarily.
[12:01] ---
    Thank you for letting me use your telephone.
[12:06] ---
    By the way, I have a few
    questions I'd like to ask you.
[12:10] ---
    First, who is your master?
[12:14] ---
    I am not a very patient man.
[12:18] ---
    You don't want to turn into
    Humpty Dumpties, do you?
[12:23] ---
    He's Azzurro Vanel of the Ferro family!
[12:25] ---
    He has a hideout in the northern East End!
[12:30] ---
    We only work for him!
[12:31] ---
    Oh, I see.
[12:34] ---
    I'm sorry to have stopped you.
[12:37] ---
    Please, be on your way.
[12:54] ---
    Oh my, look at the time.
[13:01] ---
    If I don't hurry, I'll be late for dinner.
[13:18] ---
    Hey, is everything really all right?
[13:19] ---
    If that butler says nothing is wrong.
[13:23] ---
    There's something unshakeable between
    him and the earl after all the time
[13:28] ---
    they've spent together.
[13:30] ---
    He's always stuck fast to
    the earl, like a shadow.
[13:36] ---
    Huh? Didn't Sebastian only
    come to him about two years ago?
[13:40] ---
    Really? Well, the human
    memory is rather vague...
[13:45] ---
    Right, Ran-Mao?
[13:48] ---
    Why, you...
[13:50] ---
    The Phantomhive guard dog
    is going to bust in here!
[13:53] ---
    Tighten security at the gate!
    Don't even let a single rat through!
[13:56] ---
    Don't let him set one foot inside!
[14:03] ---
    My, what a fine mansion.
[14:07] ---
    Who the devil are you?!
[14:09] ---
    Ah, my apologies.
[14:12] ---
    I represent the house of Phantomhive.
[14:17] ---
    Oh, where did Sebastian go?
[14:21] ---
    Totally...
[14:23] ---
    I don't care where he is or what he's doin'.
[14:26] ---
    The issue right now is this!
[14:28] ---
    By "clean it up," does
    he mean we can eat it?!
[14:31] ---
    Or can't we?!
[14:33] ---
    I think maybe we can.
[14:36] ---
    Idiot! If we make the wrong call on this one,
[14:39] ---
    we'll be sportin' his special
    "triple-scoop ice cream" on our heads!
[14:43] ---
    Baldo, it's not good to get irritated, no!
[14:46] ---
    You're short on calcium. Drink this, yes!
[14:49] ---
    I don't want it.
[14:51] ---
    Do not underestimate milk!
[14:53] ---
    If you drink lots of it,
    your bones will grow strong, yes!
[14:57] ---
    My bone... My bone is broken!
[15:01] ---
    Excuse me, but I'm in a bit of a hurry.
[15:05] ---
    5:34.
[15:33] ---
    Shit! Call in the guys
    from the west building!
[15:37] ---
    We'll pump him full of bullets!
[15:38] ---
    A swarm of rats...
[15:41] ---
    I'll get nowhere at this rate.
[15:43] ---
    I've decided! I'm gonna eat it!
[15:45] ---
    Mey-Rin, get tea! Finny, get out the silver!
[15:49] ---
    Yes, Sir!
[15:51] ---
    I'm sure it was this drawer... Huh?
[15:54] ---
    Somethin' wrong?
[15:56] ---
    That's strange.
[15:57] ---
    The silverware should be here,
    but I don't see a single piece.
[16:13] ---
    Who the hell is that guy?!
[16:16] ---
    A Phantomhive butler
[16:18] ---
    who can't do this much isn't worth his salt.
[16:38] ---
    My goodness... That took a little
    more time than I would have liked.
[16:44] ---
    5:43.
[17:00] ---
    I have come to retrieve my master.
[17:02] ---
    Ha! This is a surprise.
[17:04] ---
    I was imagining a brawny giant, but
    you're just some milksop in a tailcoat...
[17:09] ---
    Who are you? You're not just a butler.
[17:13] ---
    No, I am merely one hell of a butler...
[17:16] ---
    That's all.
[17:18] ---
    Oh, really? At any rate, I
    don't intend to fight you.
[17:23] ---
    But...
[17:30] ---
    You better have brought the goods.
[17:32] ---
    Yes.
[17:34] ---
    Here it is.
[17:37] ---
    Seba--
[17:51] ---
    Sorry, milksop, but I win this game!
[17:56] ---
    I'm up against Phantomhive, the game master,
[17:59] ---
    so of course I had a trump card to play!
[18:01] ---
    I damaged the goods a little bit,
[18:04] ---
    but you should fetch a good price
    even if they can't sell your parts.
[18:09] ---
    Now, no need to be scared.
[18:12] ---
    By the time some pervert takes you in...
[18:15] ---
    Hey! How long are you going to play around?
[18:18] ---
    How long do you intend to play dead?
[18:22] ---
    Goodness gracious...
[18:24] ---
    Th-That's impossible!
[18:31] ---
    Today's guns are so much more efficient...
[18:35] ---
    Quite different than the
    guns of a hundred years ago.
[18:42] ---
    I'll give these back to you.
[18:44] ---
    What are you waiting for?! Kill him!
[18:55] ---
    Oh dear, my clothes are full of holes.
[18:59] ---
    That's what you get for
    fooling around, you idiot.
[19:02] ---
    Young master, you look good.
[19:08] ---
    St-Stop!
[19:09] ---
    You're like a caterpillar;
    it's quite pathetic and wonderful.
[19:13] ---
    It suits a small, weak creature like you.
[19:16] ---
    I-If you come any closer, I'll kill him!
[19:20] ---
    Hurry it up. This guy's breath stinks.
[19:23] ---
    But if I come any closer, you'll be killed.
[19:26] ---
    Do you intend to violate our contract?
[19:29] ---
    Of course not. I am your faithful servant.
[19:33] ---
    What the hell kind of nonsense is this?!
[19:36] ---
    Young master,
[19:38] ---
    haven't I taught you
    how to coax me into things?
[19:44] ---
    This is an order. Save me!
[19:48] ---
    Shut up!
[20:00] ---
    Wh-Why isn't he dead?
[20:03] ---
    Looking for something?
[20:10] ---
    I'll give this back to you.
[20:21] ---
    This game wasn't much fun.
[20:27] ---
    Wait! Come serve me.
[20:30] ---
    Be my bodyguard and I'll pay
    you five times what he does now.
[20:33] ---
    No, ten times!
[20:36] ---
    And you can have
    all the wine and women you want! So--
[20:40] ---
    Unfortunately, Mr. Vanel,
[20:42] ---
    I have no interest in the
    rubbish created by humans.
[20:47] ---
    You see,
[20:49] ---
    I am merely one hell of a butler.
[20:53] ---
    H-Hell...?
[21:03] ---
    As long as my young master holds
    the contract, I am his loyal lapdog.
[21:09] ---
    I am bound to my master
[21:12] ---
    by a sacrifice, a wish, and a contract.
[21:17] ---
    Until the day I take his soul.
[21:23] ---
    Unfortunately for you, this is game over.
[21:38] ---
    Awake, my lord?
[21:47] ---
    Young master! Welcome back!
[21:53] ---
    Master Ciel, you're hurt!
[21:55] ---
    I just tripped while I was
    out. Don't worry about it.
[21:58] ---
    What, you don't trust the
    words of the family head?
[22:01] ---
    That's not it; it's just...
[22:03] ---
    That looks fun! Like when
    you lift a baby in the air!
[22:08] ---
    P-Put me down, now!
[22:11] ---
    Of course it wasn't "fun"! You two are--
[22:14] ---
    Young master.
[22:16] ---
    I apologize.
[22:19] ---
    I've committed a blunder
    unworthy of a Phantomhive butler.
[22:22] ---
    I do not know how I can atone...
[22:25] ---
    The preparations for tonight's
    dinner are nowhere near complete.
[24:04] ---
    We will be holding a ball at
    Lady Elizabeth's suggestion.
[24:06] ---
    My young master's dancing
    is so wonderfully pathetic
[24:09] ---
    that it not only shames the professionals,
[24:12] ---
    but causes them to writhe uncontrollably
    with laughter until they fall dead.
[24:19] ---
    It looks as though I will have
    to provide careful tutelage.
[24:23] ---
    Next time on Black Butler:
    "His Butler, Omnipotent."
[24:25] ---
    "Next Time" "His Butler, Omnipotent"
[24:28] ---
    You see, I am merely one hell of a butler.

3 - His Butler, Omnipotent

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[00:06] ---
    Nooooooooooooo!
[00:24] ---
    Hot! Hot, hot, hot, hot, hot!
[00:29] ---
    I-I'm so sorry! I'll wipe you off right away!
[00:38] ---
    Young master, why did you
    take in this useless bum?
[00:42] ---
    Are you one to talk?
[00:45] ---
    I miscalculated.
[00:47] ---
    Say, Ciel, my Grell is completely useless!
[00:52] ---
    Would you mind having Sebastian
    train him as a butler?
[00:56] ---
    I'll reward you handsomely. All right?
[00:59] ---
    I thought the only one
    inconvenienced would be Sebastian,
[01:02] ---
    and I wouldn't suffer any harm...
[01:07] ---
    I'm terribly sorry for causing
    you all such trouble...
[01:11] ---
    I know! I will die once and for all...
[01:15] ---
    I'll atone with my death!
[01:17] ---
    Hey, don't do anythin' rash!
[01:19] ---
    Wh-When did he get that knife...?
[01:23] ---
    No need for you to die.
[01:27] ---
    If blood sprays everywhere, the room
    will be that much harder to clean.
[01:33] ---
    Sebastian, you're so kind...
[01:37] ---
    Was that kind?
[01:40] ---
    In any case, I cannot believe
    you would serve the young master
[01:43] ---
    such fragranceless tea.
[01:46] ---
    Now pay attention:
[01:47] ---
    you put in a scoop of leaves for
    each person and one more for the pot.
[01:52] ---
    A half-pint of boiling water should do it.
[02:02] ---
    Young master, it's almost time.
[02:06] ---
    I have a carriage waiting out front.
[02:09] ---
    Right.
[02:10] ---
    All right, everyone,
    I'll leave the cleaning up to you.
[02:14] ---
    Grell, please just sit and rest
[02:17] ---
    so that you don't cause unnecessary trouble.
[02:20] ---
    If you should decide to rest eternally,
[02:24] ---
    I ask that you please do so outside.
[02:28] ---
    Sebastian... You're so kind...
[02:39] ---
    "Black Butler"
[02:45] ---
    There is no color to our meeting;
    it blows through in monochrome
[02:52] ---
    I go where your cool fingers beckon me
[02:57] ---
    I am like troublesome ice after the melt
[03:04] ---
    You gently scoop me up to your
    mouth and play with my upper lip
[03:12] ---
    Still, I search for a form of love
[03:18] ---
    The dry eyes that shape the
    present rather than a distant time
[03:24] ---
    Want to end like this, cloaked
[03:30] ---
    But the night ignores that
    wish and brings morning
[03:37] ---
    With your gentle,
    passionate, and dastardly kiss
[03:44] ---
     Paint this final night
[03:47] ---
    The moon illuminates us
[04:02] ---
    "His Butler, Omnipotent"
[04:14] ---
    Extra! Extra!
[04:17] ---
    Mysterious murder of a prostitute!
[04:25] ---
    Hi there, kid. Your dad send you here?
[04:30] ---
    Pardon, but we've come to
    pick up my master's walking stick.
[04:34] ---
    Oh, you're here for this stick.
[04:39] ---
    I was wondering who'd use a cane so short,
[04:43] ---
    but I never imagined it
    would be such a young chi--
[04:47] ---
    It's a magnificent stick.
    Straight as an arrow.
[04:56] ---
    Keep the change.
[05:02] ---
    That ridiculous strength
    of Finny's is a nuisance.
[05:05] ---
    How could someone *accidentally
    *break a walking stick?
[05:08] ---
    I had to have a new one made!
[05:11] ---
    Yes, a pity you had to go to the trouble
    when you're not even any taller.
[05:16] ---
    And today we gained yet
    another troublesome servant.
[05:20] ---
    Let's not stay out too long.
[05:23] ---
    Look, Mama, it's a Bitter Rabbit
    from Funtom! It's brand new!
[05:28] ---
    The Funtom Company...
[05:30] ---
    The toy and confection maker
[05:33] ---
    that achieved rapid growth
    in under three years.
[05:35] ---
    This is a magnificent manor that really
    shows the greatness of the company!
[05:39] ---
    Oh, how stately it is!
[05:42] ---
    It's barely been two
    years since it was built.
[05:45] ---
    What? But it's so dignified...
[05:48] ---
    That's only natural.
[05:53] ---
    Oh, it's Real Tanaka!
[05:56] ---
    It's been three months, yes!
[05:58] ---
    This manor is built to be
    exactly like the old one.
[06:02] ---
    It's faithfully reproduced
[06:05] ---
    down to the finest cracks in the pillars.
[06:08] ---
    Reproduced?
[06:10] ---
    The entire Phantomhive estate
[06:13] ---
    went down in flames three years ago.
[06:20] ---
    Th-Then... Forgive me for asking,
[06:23] ---
    but did Master Ciel's parents...?
[06:26] ---
    Yes. The previous generation
    of Phantomhives died in the fire.
[06:38] ---
    I see...
[06:43] ---
    Tanaka?!
[06:44] ---
    His normal heat consumption is very low,
[06:47] ---
    so when he's Real Tanaka for
    more than three minutes,
[06:50] ---
    it makes him sleepy.
[06:51] ---
    I-I see...
[07:05] ---
    Why skulls?
[07:06] ---
    I-I've caused you trouble again...
[07:11] ---
    I'll... I'll atone with my death!
[07:13] ---
    Quit dyin' over every little thing!
[07:14] ---
    But if I don't hang myself,
    it will be a stain on my honor!
[07:21] ---
    --Grell!
[07:22] ---
    --Grell!
[07:30] ---
    You must be tired, young master.
[07:32] ---
    I'll prepare your tea right away.
[07:39] ---
    What's the mat--
[07:47] ---
    My mansion...
[07:49] ---
    What in the world happened?
[07:52] ---
    Sebastian!
[07:55] ---
    What on Earth happened?
[07:56] ---
    Or rather, why are you dressed like that?
[07:59] ---
    Ask the crazy girl!
[08:01] ---
    "Crazy girl"?
[08:10] ---
    What are you doing?!
[08:12] ---
    As you can see, I'm on the verge of dying.
[08:16] ---
    Get him down, Sebastian.
[08:18] ---
    Yes, my lord.
[08:21] ---
    Ciel!
[08:23] ---
    Ciel, I missed you!
[08:27] ---
    Elizabeth!
[08:28] ---
    Aw, you know I'm always
    telling you to call me "Lizzie"!
[08:32] ---
    Oh, every time I see you,
    you're just so cute!
[08:36] ---
    Lady Elizabeth.
[08:38] ---
    Oh, Sebastian. Good afternoon.
[08:41] ---
    Oh, no, you took him down?
[08:44] ---
    Yes, my lady. He mars the beauty of the room.
[08:46] ---
    Aw, but I made such a lovely
    decoration out of him!
[08:50] ---
    Decoration?
[08:51] ---
    Yes! Look, the salon is
    so cute now too, isn't it?
[08:56] ---
    My... mansion...
[08:58] ---
    Only cute things can exist in this mansion!
[09:02] ---
    Right, Antoinette?
[09:08] ---
    Even you, Tanaka?
[09:09] ---
    I have a present for you, too.
[09:12] ---
    Here.
[09:14] ---
    Oh, it's so cute!
[09:15] ---
    You're always dressed all in black,
    so I thought this might be good!
[09:23] ---
    I'm deeply honored at your consideration
[09:27] ---
    for my humble self.
[09:29] ---
    Don't mention it!
[09:30] ---
    More importantly, Lizzie,
    what are you doing here?
[09:33] ---
    Where's Auntie?
[09:34] ---
    I snuck away because I
    wanted to see you, Ciel!
[09:37] ---
    Sn-Snuck away?!
[09:39] ---
    What were you thinking?
[09:41] ---
    Er... Who is she?
[09:44] ---
    Oh, this is the daughter
    of the Marquess of Scotney,
[09:47] ---
    Lady Elizabeth Ethel Cordelia Midford.
[09:52] ---
    Sc-Scotney? Eliza-za-za...
[09:56] ---
    Lady Elizabeth is my
    young master's betrothed.
[09:59] ---
    Ah, his betrothed.
[10:02] ---
    Be...
[10:03] ---
    tro...
[10:04] ---
    thed?!
[10:06] ---
    Lady Elizabeth is the
    daughter of a marquess, after all.
[10:09] ---
    Noblemen must marry noble ladies, obviously.
[10:12] ---
    Say, I know!
[10:14] ---
    Now that the mansion
    looks so lovely and all,
[10:17] ---
    let's have a ball tonight!
[10:21] ---
    And I'll dance all around
    with my fiancé as my escort!
[10:24] ---
    Oh, how lovely!
[10:26] ---
    Hey! Who gave you leave to--
[10:28] ---
    Wear the clothes I picked
    out for you, won't you Ciel?
[10:30] ---
    I just know they'll be adorable!
[10:32] ---
    Listen to me when I'm--
[10:34] ---
    And I must dress to the nines as well!
[10:36] ---
    Come on, I'll make you even cuter too!
[10:42] ---
    Listen to me!
[10:51] ---
    I believe the wisest thing to do today
[10:55] ---
    would be to go along with her
    plan and then ask her to leave.
[10:57] ---
    Just give her some dinner or
    something and get her out of here!
[11:01] ---
    I don't have the time to go
    along with her girlish hobbies.
[11:04] ---
    But my lord, it appears
    Lady Elizabeth desires a dance.
[11:12] ---
    Young master?
[11:14] ---
    What?
[11:15] ---
    I've never seen you dance,
    but I presume you can do it?
[11:23] ---
    Well, that explains why you play
    the wallflower when asked to parties.
[11:29] ---
    I'm busy with work. I have
    no time to waste on play--
[11:34] ---
    With all due respect, young master,
[11:36] ---
    it's called "social dance" for a reason,
[11:39] ---
    and is a skill that will naturally be
SIGN    "Orchard Fruit Cake"
[11:41] ---
    necessary at soirées and banquets.
[11:45] ---
    The world expects a first-class
    gentleman to know how to dance.
[11:49] ---
    If you reject any more dance invitations,
[11:52] ---
    your reputation in society
    circles will plummet...
[11:55] ---
    Fine, I'll do it! That'll
    make you happy, right?
[12:00] ---
    Call a tutor or something.
    Mrs. Bright or Mrs. Rodkin...
[12:03] ---
    There's no time to call a
    madam now. By your leave...
[12:10] ---
    I will instruct you in dancing.
[12:13] ---
    Don't be ridiculous! I can't
    dance with a tall man like you!
[12:17] ---
    And do you even know how to dance?
[12:20] ---
    Leave the Viennese waltzes to me.
[12:23] ---
    I was often a guest at Schönbrunn Palace.
[12:29] ---
    May I have this dance, my lord?
[12:45] ---
    Now, begin the first step from your heel.
[12:51] ---
    Please hold the lady's back firmly.
[12:54] ---
    When the music begins,
    lead with your left foot.
[12:57] ---
    Now.
[13:01] ---
    Next, a Natural Turn.
[13:04] ---
    Slide your foot forward.
[13:16] ---
    Your instinct for dance is not so
    much lacking as catastrophic, my lord.
[13:21] ---
    You mustn't simply hang off of me.
[13:24] ---
    You're just too tall!
[13:26] ---
    Most importantly,
[13:28] ---
    you must first do something
    about that glum expression.
[13:31] ---
    It's rude to the lady.
[13:34] ---
    Here, smile. As if you're having fun.
[13:37] ---
    Let go!
[13:39] ---
    Young master...
[13:41] ---
    Anyway, I've...
[13:43] ---
    ...I've...
[13:46] ---
    ...forgotten how to smile
    like I'm having fun...
[13:59] ---
    Th-This is...
[14:02] ---
    such a humiliating outfit...
[14:05] ---
    Come on, just give up on this one.
[14:07] ---
    This girlish, infantile white color...
[14:11] ---
    If I have to dress up,
    I wish it were a passionate red,
[14:14] ---
    so I could look sexy and decadent!
[14:16] ---
    That's your problem?!
[14:18] ---
    If my only other choice is to live in shame,
[14:21] ---
    I'd rather... I'd rather die...!
[14:28] ---
    You're not going to stop me?
[14:32] ---
    I'm sure blue will look good on Ciel!
[14:36] ---
    I fell in love with the clothes I
    bought while I was shopping in London!
[14:41] ---
    All right, it's your turn next.
    I'll make you adorable!
[14:48] ---
    I'm really farsighted, and I
    can't see anything without these, no!
[14:52] ---
    You mustn't look at the
    dream world with your eyes.
[14:54] ---
    Feel it with your heart!
[14:56] ---
    M-My heart?!
[14:57] ---
    Let her be.
[15:04] ---
    Ciel! You really are adorable!
[15:08] ---
    I judged rightly!
[15:12] ---
    Oh, my.
[15:14] ---
    Ciel, where is the ring I brought you?
[15:17] ---
    There was a cute one to match your clothes!
[15:20] ---
    This ring is fine.
[15:22] ---
    No! I went to so much trouble
    to make everything cute,
[15:25] ---
    but the ring isn't cute at all!
[15:28] ---
    So you don't want to wear the
    one I brought?! You're so cruel!
[15:32] ---
    That's not it. This ring is--
[15:36] ---
    Just kidding!
[15:38] ---
    Got it!
[15:40] ---
    Lizzie!
[15:41] ---
    Yes, it's far too big! The one I
    picked out is perfectly-sized and--
[15:46] ---
    Give it back!
[15:50] ---
    Give that back, Elizabeth.
[15:53] ---
    Wh-Why are you so angry?
[15:56] ---
    I went to such trouble...
[16:00] ---
    What?! All I did was try
    to make you adorable!
[16:05] ---
    So why are you so angry?!
[16:07] ---
    I hate this stupid ring!
[16:25] ---
    Young master...
[16:28] ---
    You forgot the new walking stick we had made.
[16:42] ---
    That ring was very important to my master.
[16:46] ---
    The heads of the Phantomhive family
    passed it down for generations.
[16:49] ---
    It was one-of-a-kind.
[16:53] ---
    Please forgive my master his rudeness.
[16:56] ---
    I... I destroyed such a precious ring...?
[17:06] ---
    Ciel, I...
[17:14] ---
    Ciel, how could you do that?!
[17:16] ---
    It doesn't matter. It was just an old ring.
[17:22] ---
    Even without that thing...
[17:25] ---
    ...I'm still the head of the Phantomhives!
[17:37] ---
    How long are you going to cry?
[17:40] ---
    B-But...
[17:43] ---
    Your face is a mess. And
    you call yourself a lady?
[17:49] ---
    I don't fancy asking a lady
    with such a messy face to dance...
[17:54] ---
    Ciel...
[18:04] ---
    H-How wonderful!
[18:06] ---
    So Sebastian can even play the violin!
[18:10] ---
    I'll join him!
[18:21] ---
    What the hell?! He sounds good!
[18:29] ---
    Soirée etiquette is to
    forget all the unpleasant things
[18:31] ---
    and dance the night away, right, my lady?
[18:38] ---
    Yes!
[19:20] ---
    I-I shall take responsibility for
    escorting Lady Elizabeth home!
[19:24] ---
    You gonna be all right?
[19:26] ---
    Yes. I'm a more deadly efficient
    butler than I look.☆
[19:29] ---
    That's right-- Sebastian,
[19:31] ---
    I've learned from you
    what it means to be a butler!
[19:35] ---
    They say that before a person dies,
    his life flashes before his eyes.
[19:39] ---
    I'm sure that if I die,
[19:41] ---
    the dreamland I saw tonight will
    flash before me over and over!
[19:48] ---
    You're saying that?
[19:49] ---
    I have the feeling a man like
    him will never die, yes!
[19:56] ---
    Good grief, what a rotten day.
[20:01] ---
    You seemed to be quite enjoying yourself.
[20:04] ---
    Don't be a fool.
[20:08] ---
    Which of us is the fool?
[20:13] ---
    This is important to you, isn't it?
[20:15] ---
    And yet you showed off for Lady Elizabeth...
[20:22] ---
    A Phantomhive butler who can't
    do this much isn't worth his salt.
[20:29] ---
    This ring exists to be on your finger.
[20:33] ---
    Please cherish it.
[20:36] ---
    True...
[20:38] ---
    This ring has witnessed
    the deaths of many masters.
[20:42] ---
    My grandfather, my father, and...
[20:45] ---
    I'm sure it will be present
    at my death as well.
[20:50] ---
    It's heard the dying screams of
    the family heads over and over.
[20:55] ---
    When I close my eyes, I can hear them...
    those wretched voices...
[21:00] ---
    I thought to myself, "If
    I throw away the ring,
[21:05] ---
    maybe I'll stop hearing them."
[21:09] ---
    Ridiculous, isn't it?
[21:15] ---
    Goodness, look how high the moon has risen.
[21:19] ---
    You'll make yourself sick this way.
    Please, get some rest.
[21:29] ---
    Sebastian.
[21:32] ---
    Stay by me until I fall asleep.
[21:35] ---
    Oh, my-- you would display
    weakness in front of me?
[21:41] ---
    It's just an order.
[21:49] ---
    I'll stay by you always, young master.
[21:54] ---
    Until the end...
[22:06] ---
    I'm still the head of the Phantomhives!
[22:10] ---
    Stay by me.
[22:24] ---
    Now... I must prepare for tomorrow.
[24:04] ---
    The prostitute serial murders
    are the talk of the country.
[24:07] ---
    In order to find the criminal, I must
    certainly have my master do this...
[24:12] ---
    Come, there's nothing to be afraid of.
[24:15] ---
    It only hurts for a moment.
[24:17] ---
    See, I've got it almost all the way.
[24:21] ---
    Just a little further... and
    it will fit like a glove.
[24:25] ---
    Next time on Black Butler:
    "His Butler, Capricious."
[24:26] ---
    "Next Time" "His Butler, Capricious"
[24:29] ---
    You see, I am merely one hell of a butler.

4 - His Butler, Capricious

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[00:29] ---
    Ugh, there are too many people in London!
[00:33] ---
    From the country manor house
    to the London townhouse...
[00:36] ---
    It's traditional for the nobility
    to move en masse for the Season.
[00:40] ---
    The Season, eh?
[00:41] ---
    Honestly, these cretins
    have too much free time.
[00:44] ---
    Getting away from the estate occasionally
[00:46] ---
    might provide a nice change of pace.
[00:49] ---
    For one thing, those four aren't here...
[00:51] ---
    We should be able to spend
    some quiet time, my lord.
[00:54] ---
    Quiet time, hmm?
[01:00] ---
    For goodness's sake!
    Wherever do they keep the tea in this place?
[01:03] ---
    I can't find it either...
[01:05] ---
    Oh, silly! Of course it's not over there.
[01:05] ---
    "Should be able to spend some quiet time..."
[01:09] ---
    Madam Red?! Lau?! What are you doing here?!
[01:12] ---
    Goodness, you're early.
[01:15] ---
    You coming here can mean only one thing.
[01:18] ---
    The Queen's guard dog is making a move.
[01:31] ---
    "Black Butler"
[01:37] ---
    Deai ni iro wa nakute monokuro fukinukeru
[01:44] ---
    Suzushii yubi temaneku mama ni
[01:49] ---
    Toketa ato no yakkai na
    koori mitai na watashi wo
[01:56] ---
    Yasashiku sukutte uwakuchibiru de asobu
[02:04] ---
    Soredemo hitotsu no ai no katachi wo sagasu
[02:10] ---
    Tooku yori mo ima wo musunda kareta hitomi wa
[02:16] ---
    Dekireba kono mama tsutsumarete owaritai
[02:22] ---
    Sono negai wa yoru wa munashiku
    asa wo tsurete kuru
[02:29] ---
    Yasashikute atsukute hikyou na kisu de
[02:36] ---
    Irodotte yo saigo no yoru
[02:39] ---
    Tsuki ga terashiteru
[02:54] ---
    "His Butler, Capricious"
[03:01] ---
    Another prostitute was
    murdered in Whitechapel yesterday.
[03:05] ---
    These aren't ordinary murders.
[03:07] ---
    They're bizarre...
    No, you could fairly call them aberrant.
[03:11] ---
    A special blade was used on the most
    recent victim, Mary Ann Nichols,
SIGN    "Pear & Blackberry Cornmeal Cake"
[03:16] ---
    and she was torn apart
    beyond all recognition.
[03:20] ---
    Here's what Scotland Yard and
    the press are calling the criminal:
[03:25] ---
    "Jack the Ripper."
[03:29] ---
    Jack the Ripper, eh?
[03:31] ---
    So I hurried to London to
    ascertain the situation.
[03:39] ---
    Do you have the guts to
    see the scene of that crime?
[03:42] ---
    What do you mean?
[03:44] ---
    The darkness and bestial
    stench that pervade the scene
[03:47] ---
    eat away at those who share the same destiny.
[03:50] ---
    If you set foot upon it,
    you may be consumed by madness.
[03:55] ---
    Are you prepared for that, Lord Phantomhive?
[04:00] ---
    I came here to dispel her worries.
[04:04] ---
    Don't ask foolish questions.
[04:07] ---
    Very nice, I like the look in your eye.
[04:21] ---
    What brings you here?
[04:23] ---
    This is no place for a child. Go on home.
[04:27] ---
    Where is the victim's corpse?
[04:29] ---
    Corpse?! What are you saying?!
[04:31] ---
    Abberline!
[04:33] ---
    What are you doing here, Lord Phantomhive?
[04:37] ---
    You know him?
[04:38] ---
    I came to clean up after the
    slow-moving hounds working this case,
[04:42] ---
    Sir Arthur Randall.
[04:47] ---
    It looks as if you haven't got many clues.
[04:50] ---
    We of Scotland Yard will solve this case.
[04:54] ---
    We don't need your interference.
[04:56] ---
    Excellent. Let's go, Sebastian.
[04:59] ---
    Yes, my lord.
[05:04] ---
    What will you do?
[05:07] ---
    The best thing would
    probably be to visit him.
[05:10] ---
    My lord! You don't mean...
[05:12] ---
    Indeed I do.
[05:16] ---
    So... where are we?
[05:18] ---
    You just spoke as if you
    knew all about it, didn't you?!
[05:21] ---
    It's a funeral parlor run by an
    acquaintance of the young master's.
[05:25] ---
    "The Undertaker"?
[05:28] ---
    Are you here, Undertaker?
[05:34] ---
    I thought you'd drop by before long.
[05:40] ---
    Welcome, my lord.
[05:44] ---
    Is today the day you'll condescend
    to enter one of my special coffins?
[05:49] ---
    Certainly not. Today I--
[05:52] ---
    You don't have to tell me. I know.
[05:57] ---
    That wasn't the type of
    customer fit for respectable people.
[06:01] ---
    I'll have you know, I made her beautiful.
[06:05] ---
    I want to hear about it.
[06:07] ---
    Ah, I see, so the funeral
    parlor is your cover business.
[06:11] ---
    How much is the info?
[06:14] ---
    I have no desire for any
    of the Queen's coins!
[06:21] ---
    Come on, my lord, give it to me!
[06:27] ---
    Give me prime laughter!
[06:31] ---
    Do that, and I'll tell you anything.
[06:35] ---
    Freak.
[06:38] ---
    Leave it to me.
[06:40] ---
    Behold the genius of the
    man that Shanghai called
[06:43] ---
    the Sleeping Tiger of New Year's Parties!
[06:48] ---
    "Every calendar's days are numbered!"
[06:52] ---
    Huh?
[06:53] ---
    If I must...
[06:56] ---
    Madam Red, the belle of fashionable society,
[06:59] ---
    will tell you her special story!
[07:02] ---
    So, his [CENSORED] was
    completely flaccid and [CENSORED],
[07:06] ---
    but when I [CENSORED], the [CENSORED]
    tip started bobbing like [CENSORED]--
[07:11] ---
    Now, my lord, you're the only one left.
[07:14] ---
    I gave you a special discount
    last time, but I won't do it again.
[07:19] ---
    Bloody hell...
[07:20] ---
    I see there's no help for it.
[07:23] ---
    Sebastian?
[07:26] ---
    Everyone please wait outside.
[07:29] ---
    You must not peek inside on any account.
[07:34] ---
    "Silence"
[07:45] ---
    Please come in. It appears
    he will tell us everything.
[07:51] ---
    Ahaha... I've seen my Utopia...
[07:55] ---
    These days I often get
    customers
[07:59] ---
    who are incomplete.
[08:03] ---
    Incomplete?
[08:04] ---
    Yes, incomplete... the wombs are missing.
[08:10] ---
    Though the killer makes
    quite violent splatter,
[08:13] ---
    the wombs themselves are neatly cut out.
[08:16] ---
    It was done on a public road,
    even if it was not a high-traffic one...
[08:19] ---
    Wouldn't such an excision have
    been difficult for an amateur,
[08:22] ---
    particularly in the middle of the night?
[08:25] ---
    You're a sharp one, butler.
    That's my opinion as well.
[08:33] ---
    First the Ripper slashes their
    throats with a sharp hand weapon,
[08:36] ---
    then cuts this part open...
[08:39] ---
    and takes what's precious to them.
[08:43] ---
    I'm sure there will be others killed.
[08:45] ---
    People like that don't stop
    until someone stops them.
[08:53] ---
    Can you do it, o villainous
    noble Lord Phantomhive?
[08:58] ---
    On the honor of my family crest,
[09:01] ---
    I eliminate anyone who defiles the
    Queen's garden, without exception...
[09:04] ---
    ...and by any means necessary.
[09:09] ---
    What he said narrows down
    the field of suspects considerably.
[09:12] ---
    First, those well versed
    in medicine or dissection.
[09:15] ---
    From among them,
[09:16] ---
    those who have no alibis for the nights
    before the murders' discoveries.
[09:19] ---
    And given the removal of
    internal organs, it seems ritualistic...
[09:23] ---
    So we should also consider
[09:24] ---
    those involved with secret
    societies and black magic.
[09:26] ---
    That doesn't "narrow the field" at all!
[09:28] ---
    I'm a doctor; I could
    have done the dissection!
[09:30] ---
    And summer is ending. Before another
    week passes the Season will be over,
[09:35] ---
    and any doctors the noblemen brought
    in from the country will go back ho--
[09:37] ---
    Then we'll simply conclude
    our investigation before then.
[09:41] ---
    What?
[09:42] ---
    A Phantomhive butler who can't
    do that much isn't worth his salt.
[09:48] ---
    I'll make a list of suspects
    now and question all of them.
[09:56] ---
    Now, if you'll excuse me...
[09:59] ---
    This carriage is moving!
[10:04] ---
    Sebastian said he'd do it.
    We can just sip some tea and wait.
[10:17] ---
    Welcome back. I've been
    awaiting your arrival.
[10:20] ---
    Your afternoon tea is ready.
[10:24] ---
    How did you get here?!
[10:26] ---
    I finished my errands, so
    I came home ahead of you.
[10:30] ---
    You already finished your suspect list?
[10:32] ---
    No...
[10:34] ---
    I merely created a list of names
    based on the criteria we discussed,
[10:36] ---
    contacted them all, and directly
    collected their statements.
[10:40] ---
    Come now, Sebastian, even for
    you that would be impossible...
[10:45] ---
    Richard Oswald, family
    doctor of the Duke of Bailey.
[10:47] ---
    Has an alibi: he spent the night
    with his friends at the White Horse pub.
[10:50] ---
    No connection to secret societies.
[10:52] ---
    Madam Heavitt, surgeon at the
    Royal London Central Hospital.
[10:54] ---
    Has an alibi: she was
    with a boy at the Stipple Inn.
[10:55] ---
    No connection to secret societies.
[10:56] ---
    William Somerset,
    family doctor of the Earl Chambers.
[10:57] ---
    Has an alibi: he was at a party
    hosted by the Earl Harwood.
[10:59] ---
    No connection to secret societies.
[11:01] ---
    Through this investigation, I've
    narrowed it down to one person
[11:05] ---
    who meets the criteria.
[11:07] ---
    Are you really just a butler?
[11:10] ---
    Are you sure you're not a
    military intelligence officer?
[11:12] ---
    No, I am merely one hell of a butler.
[11:23] ---
    Aleister Chambers, the Viscount Druitt...
[11:27] ---
    He graduated from medical school,
    but has not gone into practice.
[11:31] ---
    He's thrown several parties at his home.
[11:34] ---
    However, people say he
    simultaneously holds secret parties
[11:38] ---
    that only his intimates may attend.
[11:40] ---
    I've heard rumors that he's into
    black magic and that sort of thing.
[11:45] ---
    So you suspect that at
    these underground parties,
[11:48] ---
    they perform ceremonies
    and sacrifice the prostitutes?
[11:53] ---
    Tonight is the last party of the Season.
[12:02] ---
    We only have one chance.
[12:17] ---
    Ciel will play my niece
    visiting from the country,
[12:21] ---
    and Sebastian will play Ciel's tutor.
[12:24] ---
    Why do I have to play your niece?!
[12:26] ---
    I always wanted a girl.
[12:29] ---
    That's your reason?
[12:31] ---
    You can't let them find out
    you're a Phantomhive, can you?
[12:33] ---
    What's more, I'm told Lord Druitt
    is a ladies' man of catholic tastes,
[12:38] ---
    so this is to your advantage!
[12:40] ---
    Didn't you say you'd use any means necessary?
[12:47] ---
    First we must find the viscount.
[12:49] ---
    I never want Elizabeth to
    see me in an outfit like this...
[12:53] ---
    Oh, that dress is so cute!
[12:58] ---
    There are so many lovely
    dresses here! How cute!
[13:01] ---
    S-S-Sebas...
[13:04] ---
    Young mas-- er, mistress, please calm down.
[13:07] ---
    We'll take this opportunity to...
[13:08] ---
    --Oh, my!
[13:08] ---
    --Gulp!
[13:09] ---
    That girl's dress is absolutely adorable!
[13:12] ---
    Let's go over there.
[13:16] ---
    Hmm?
[13:21] ---
    This is no good. I had no idea
    Lady Elizabeth would be here...
[13:25] ---
    If people found out the family
    head was dressed like this...
[13:28] ---
    The shame would stain the
    Phantomhives for generations.
[13:32] ---
    Let's just join Madam Red and the others.
[13:36] ---
    No need to stand on ceremony with me.
[13:38] ---
    She's having a grand old time...
[13:42] ---
    There she is!
[13:45] ---
    This way, Miss.
[13:49] ---
    You there. Serve that lady some lemonade.
[13:52] ---
    Very good, Sir.
[13:54] ---
    Would you like some lemonade?
[13:59] ---
    Why do these things
    always happen to me?
[14:02] ---
    Lord Druitt is as gorgeous as ever tonight.
[14:05] ---
    His hair is like spun gold!
[14:10] ---
    That's the Viscount Druitt?
[14:13] ---
    Let's go.
[14:14] ---
    All right.
[14:21] ---
    Oh, hell... I can't get near him like this.
[14:24] ---
    We have no choice but to use
    the dance to get close to him.
[14:30] ---
    You're telling me to dance in public?!
[14:32] ---
    With you?!
[14:35] ---
    Right now I'm merely one hell of a tutor.
[14:38] ---
    Tonight, I may publicly dance
    with you in all propriety, Miss.
[14:43] ---
    Y-You're right...
[14:46] ---
    Let's go, Miss.
[14:57] ---
    We'll cut through the crowd just like this.
[15:06] ---
    I'm ashamed of you, becoming
    exhausted so easily.
[15:12] ---
    You danced like a lovely little robin, Miss.
[15:18] ---
    Miss, I'll go get you something to drink.
[15:23] ---
    G-Good evening, Lord Druitt.
[15:26] ---
    Are you having fun...
[15:29] ---
    ...my dear little robin?
[15:31] ---
    It's a wonderful party.
    I'm so very impressed.
[15:35] ---
    But I've been wanting
    to talk to you, my lord.
[15:40] ---
    Oh?
[15:41] ---
    I'm sick to death of dancing and eating.
[15:45] ---
    What a pampered princess
    you are, little robin.
[15:48] ---
    So you want something more amusing to do?
[15:51] ---
    "Shudder"
[15:53] ---
    Endure it... Endure it, Ciel...
[15:56] ---
    This is the whole reason
[15:58] ---
    "Fitting"
[15:58] ---
    that you let them do all
    those terrible things to you!
[15:59] ---
    "Walking"
[16:00] ---
    "Lessons in Manners"
[16:03] ---
    Do you know of something
    more amusing, my lord?
[16:06] ---
    But of course. And I'm willing
    to tell you, my darling little robin.
[16:12] ---
    The moment this is all over,
    I'm going to kill this guy!
[16:17] ---
    What is it?
[16:18] ---
    I have to draw him out
    somehow before the dance is over.
[16:23] ---
    What? She's looking this way!
[16:26] ---
    Do you want to know?
[16:27] ---
    I'm very interested.
[16:29] ---
    If Elizabeth comes this way,
    everything goes down the drain.
[16:31] ---
    You might be a bit young for it.
[16:34] ---
    Hurry...
[16:35] ---
    I'm a lady, not a child.
[16:38] ---
    Hurry!
[16:42] ---
    The dance is over!
[16:45] ---
    She's coming!
[16:47] ---
    What has you so distracted?
[16:50] ---
    E-Er...
[16:52] ---
    My life is over!
[17:03] ---
    Ladies and gentlemen, I will
    now perform a magic show for you.
[17:10] ---
    Could I ask for your cooperation, Sir?
[17:12] ---
    Me? Of course.
[17:15] ---
    I don't recall ordering any parlor tricks...
[17:18] ---
    Now's my chance!
[17:19] ---
    I'm sick of parlor tricks,
    too, my lord. Pretty please?
[17:24] ---
    Ugh, gag me!
[17:26] ---
    All right, my little robin.
[17:31] ---
    Come in here.
[17:38] ---
    After I go inside this chest,
    you bind it tightly with chains.
[17:43] ---
    Then, run it through with the sword.
[17:49] ---
    I shall come out of it perfectly unharmed.
[17:51] ---
    There are no tricks or gimmicks to it.
[17:53] ---
    Feast your eyes on this wondrous magic.
[18:00] ---
    All right, don't mind if I do.
[18:18] ---
    Amazing! It's a miracle!
[18:20] ---
    Bravo!
[18:21] ---
    That was amazing, Sebastian!
[18:23] ---
    Indeed! I was rather
    afraid I might have killed you.
[18:27] ---
    Yes, it did hurt a bit.
[18:29] ---
    I didn't expect you to go right for my head.
[18:32] ---
    Anyone else would have been dead.
[18:34] ---
    So, what was the trick to it?
[18:36] ---
    You stabbed him that many
    times without knowing?!
[18:41] ---
    I told you: there were no tricks or gimmicks.
[18:47] ---
    We're going to a very
    nice place-- quite amusing.
[18:54] ---
    What is this sickly sweet smell?
[18:59] ---
    Bloody hell...
[19:06] ---
    Yes, it's a very nice place, little robin.
[19:18] ---
    S-Sebastian!
[19:20] ---
    Please endure a little longer.
    You'll quickly get used to it.
[19:28] ---
    I told you, I'm gonna leak!
[19:30] ---
    No corset has ever made a
    woman's internal organs leak out.
[19:36] ---
    A dream?
[19:38] ---
    And now, what you've all been
    waiting for: tonight's crown jewel.
[19:47] ---
    You may enjoy her as a
    decoration, or make a pet of her.
[19:49] ---
    I imagine she'd even make an
    attractive part of a ceremony.
[19:53] ---
    Or if you want to sell her parts
    individually, that's up to you.
[19:56] ---
    Her eyes bear the contrasting
    colors of a deep forest
[19:59] ---
    and the sea reflecting a beautiful sky.
[20:01] ---
    A black market auction?
[20:03] ---
    I shall show you now.
[20:05] ---
    So he sold the organs of
    the prostitutes he killed here?
[20:11] ---
    We'll start from a thousand guineas.
[20:13] ---
    2000!
[20:14] ---
    3000!
[20:15] ---
    3500!
[20:17] ---
    5000!
[20:18] ---
    Here I am, Sebastian.
[20:24] ---
    What's that?!
[20:34] ---
    Good grief.
[20:36] ---
    You're truly good for nothing
    but getting yourself captured.
[20:40] ---
    As long as I have the contract,
[20:42] ---
    you'll follow me anywhere,
    with or without my summons.
[20:46] ---
    A "contract" is a mark demons
    place on their prey to keep track of it.
[20:51] ---
    The more noticeable a place you
    put it in, the more executable it is.
[20:56] ---
    In exchange...
[20:59] ---
    ...the prey can never escape the demon.
[21:05] ---
    Yes, I shall accompany you
    anywhere, right up until the end.
[21:10] ---
    I shall never leave your side,
    even if I should perish.
[21:16] ---
    I shall go with you even
    to the far reaches of Hell.
[21:19] ---
    I do not lie...
[21:22] ---
    ...unlike humans.
[21:25] ---
    Good.
[21:27] ---
    Never lie to me, whatever
    anyone else may do. Never.
[21:30] ---
    Yes, my lord.
[21:34] ---
    This solves the Jack the Ripper case.
[21:39] ---
    It was unexpectedly easy...
[21:44] ---
    I imagine Scotland Yard
    will be here before long.
[21:47] ---
    We shouldn't stay here.
[21:51] ---
    Well, shall we go?
[22:07] ---
    I thought I saw someone just now...
[22:11] ---
    Maybe it was my imagination?
[22:17] ---
    "Jack the Ripper Strikes Again"?
[22:20] ---
    So that means the viscount wasn't our man?
[24:04] ---
    At last, we've almost reached
    checkmate in the serial prostitute murders.
[24:09] ---
    Who is Jack the Ripper,
    and what is Jack's goal?
[24:14] ---
    I imagine it'll be a rather bitter turn
    of events for my naïve young master.
[24:19] ---
    When we've tidied everything up,
    I'll make him some sweet hot milk.
[24:25] ---
    Next time on Black Butler:
    "His Butler, Chance Encounter."
[24:26] ---
    "Next Time" "His Butler, Chance Encounter"
[24:29] ---
    You see, I am merely one hell of a butler.

5 - His Butler, Chance Encounter

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[00:31] ---
    This is no time to be playing chess.
[00:36] ---
    Working obsessively at
    it will lead to no good.
[00:40] ---
    Why not leave everything to Sebastian?
[00:42] ---
    He's just my chess piece.
[00:44] ---
    I'm the one who moves him
    by giving him orders.
[00:47] ---
    But he's not an ordinary chess piece.
[00:50] ---
    He can advance as many squares
    as he likes at once...
[00:53] ---
    Like this.
[00:56] ---
    That's against the rules!
[00:58] ---
    Yes, if this were a game, it would be.
[01:01] ---
    But rules have no meaning in this world.
[01:05] ---
    There are always knights who
    break the rules, and pawns who betray.
[01:10] ---
    If you let your guard down,
    before you know it...
[01:12] ---
    it's checkmate.
[01:31] ---
    Damn.
[01:48] ---
    "Black Butler"
[01:54] ---
    There is no color to our meeting;
    it blows through in monochrome
[02:01] ---
    I go where your cool fingers beckon me
[02:06] ---
    I am like troublesome ice after the melt
[02:13] ---
    You gently scoop me up to your
    mouth and play with my upper lip
[02:21] ---
    Still, I search for a form of love
[02:27] ---
    The dry eyes that shape the
    present rather than a distant time
[02:33] ---
    Want to end like this, cloaked
[02:39] ---
    But the night ignores that
    wish and brings morning
[02:46] ---
    With your gentle,
    passionate, and dastardly kiss
[02:53] ---
     Paint this final night
[02:56] ---
    The moon illuminates us
[03:11] ---
    "His Butler, Chance Encounter"
[03:17] ---
    You must've had other choices in life
[03:20] ---
    besides being the underworld's guard dog.
[03:22] ---
    My sister... Your mother must have
    wanted something else for you, too.
[03:27] ---
    And yet you returned to the underworld...
[03:32] ---
    Is it because you're trying to
    avenge your parents' murders?
[03:38] ---
    Revenge won't bring the dead back,
[03:40] ---
    and it certainly won't make them happy.
[03:44] ---
    But...
[03:45] ---
    I didn't come back to the house of
    Phantomhive for my predecessors' sakes.
[03:53] ---
    I did it for me.
[03:57] ---
    I just want to make the people
    who betrayed and defiled my family
[04:00] ---
    suffer the same humiliation
    and pain that I suffered.
[04:06] ---
    I still remember the day you were born.
[04:10] ---
    You were so tiny and so cute,
    I thought, "I have to protect him."
[04:17] ---
    I wasn't able to have a child,
[04:20] ---
    but I think of you as my own son.
[04:25] ---
    I wish you'd leave the under--
[04:27] ---
    Being here now is something I
    wanted, and something I chose.
[04:33] ---
    I don't regret it, and I
    can't let anyone spoil me.
[04:41] ---
    You don't have to escort me, Sebastian.
[04:43] ---
    But my lady...
[04:46] ---
    Please don't leave that boy's side.
[04:50] ---
    Make sure he doesn't stray
    from the path and get lost.
[04:55] ---
    Fear not. I shall stay by his
    side and protect him to the end.
[05:03] ---
    I've come for you, my lady.
[05:15] ---
    Well?
[05:17] ---
    No matter how many times I
    examine it, the result is the same.
[05:20] ---
    The viscount had nothing to
    do with yesterday's murder.
[05:23] ---
    Indeed. None of the humans
    inside his mansion could have done it.
[05:28] ---
    Quite... None of the humans there...
[05:32] ---
    Anyway, tomorrow we'll...
[05:36] ---
    Sebastian!
[05:37] ---
    Don't tell me you...?
[05:39] ---
    I've told you over and over: I do not lie.
[05:44] ---
    Involved in medicine, ties to
    secret societies or black magic,
[05:49] ---
    and no alibi for the nights
    before the bodies were found:
[05:53] ---
    The only human that fits those
    criteria is the Viscount Druitt.
[05:58] ---
    Was your investigation just a farce, then?!
[06:00] ---
    You see, I am merely one hell of a butler.
[06:03] ---
    I simply faithfully carry out my
    master's orders and instructions.
[06:11] ---
    With one order from you, I can
    become your pawn or your sword.
[06:16] ---
    Now, put the villain in check, Master.
[06:28] ---
    He'll show up if we
    stake out this place, right?
[06:30] ---
    Yes.
[06:31] ---
    It's true that the murdered
    prostitutes had other things in common
[06:35] ---
    besides having their organs removed.
[06:38] ---
    Beautiful, glossy black hair.
[06:40] ---
    But why should he have to kill them?
[06:44] ---
    Sinfully lovable.
[06:46] ---
    And I--
[06:48] ---
    So soft... Yes, so soft...
[06:51] ---
    --So soft...
[06:52] ---
    --Listen when I'm talking to you!
[06:54] ---
    I apologize. She's a rare beauty.
[06:57] ---
    So soft...
[07:01] ---
    No one could have gotten past us...
[07:03] ---
    Let's go.
[07:18] ---
    No!
[07:33] ---
    That's quite a mess you made,
    Jack the Ripper...
[07:40] ---
    ...or should I say, Grell Sutcliff?
[07:43] ---
    Y-You have it all wrong!
[07:46] ---
    I heard the scream and ran
    over here, but she was already...
[07:50] ---
    I think you can stop playing
    innocent in that body, Grell.
[07:55] ---
    This is the first time I've met
    someone like you in the human world.
[07:59] ---
    You performed the role of
[08:03] ---
    "harmless incompetent butler" quite adeptly.
[08:08] ---
    Adeptly?
[08:13] ---
    Do you think so?
[08:16] ---
    That's right.
[08:18] ---
    I'm an actress, honey.
[08:21] ---
    And I'm absolutely first-rate.
[08:25] ---
    But you're not "Sebastian" either, are you?
[08:30] ---
    That's the name I received from
    my young master, so yes, I am...
[08:34] ---
    ...at the moment.
[08:35] ---
    My, so you're a "faithful dog" character.
[08:38] ---
    Though for a fine-looking man
    like you, that's fabulous too.
[08:40] ---
    Well then, Sebastian...
[08:43] ---
    No, Sebas-chan...
    let me re-introduce myself.
[08:46] ---
    I am Grell Sutcliff, butler to the Burnetts.
[08:50] ---
    I'm sure we two butlers
    can get along marvelously.
[08:54] ---
    Ah, I finally get to meet
    you in my true form!
[08:58] ---
    I'd never seen a demon
    playing a butler before,
[09:01] ---
    so I was so surprised when I first saw you!
[09:03] ---
    That's my line.
[09:05] ---
    I never imagined someone
    like you would play a butler.
[09:08] ---
    Someone who stands
    neutral between man and God...
[09:13] ---
    ...a grim reaper.
[09:16] ---
    Why would a divine being such
    as yourself bother to play a butler?
[09:19] ---
    Good question. Perhaps I should
    say I fell in love with a certain woman.
[09:25] ---
    And that woman would be?
[09:27] ---
    You don't need to ask, do you?
[09:40] ---
    Madam...
[09:42] ---
    I didn't calculate on anyone
    being able to see Grell for what he is.
[09:48] ---
    Naturally you were on the
    initial suspect list.
[09:51] ---
    But your alibi was perfect.
[09:55] ---
    You suspected even your own aunt?
[09:57] ---
    If you had the potential to be Jack,
    any blood relation was irrelevant.
[10:02] ---
    None of the humans on the suspect list
    could have committed all the murders.
[10:07] ---
    But if one had an inhuman accomplice,
    that would change everything.
[10:12] ---
    If he could enter the room in
    an instant without our noticing,
[10:17] ---
    he could also instantaneously get
    from the viscount's to the East End.
[10:22] ---
    You two are the only ones
    who could be Jack the Ripper...
[10:25] ---
    ...Madam Red and Grell Sutcliff.
[10:30] ---
    Jack the Ripper's victims
    had other things in common.
[10:34] ---
    They all underwent a certain
    surgery at London Central Hospital,
[10:38] ---
    where you work.
[10:40] ---
    The only patient on the list
    who hadn't yet been killed
[10:44] ---
    was Mary Kelly, who lived in that flat.
[10:47] ---
    I thought you'd show up here
    if I kept an eye on the place.
[10:53] ---
    I couldn't save her, though...
[10:56] ---
    This is unfortunate, my
    beloved nephew Ciel...
[11:00] ---
    If you hadn't figured it out,
    we could have played chess together again.
[11:05] ---
    But...
[11:07] ---
    I won't give anything up this time!
[11:17] ---
    Wh-What is that thing?!
[11:21] ---
    Grim reapers possess
    tools for harvesting souls.
[11:24] ---
    That is a reaper's sickle.
[11:26] ---
    "Sickle" is such a dull
    name; don't call it that!
[11:29] ---
    Not after I've customized it
    to my personal specifications!
[11:32] ---
    This is a "death scythe" only I can wield,
[11:34] ---
    and it can hack any being to pieces!
[11:38] ---
    I've behaved myself so well
    lately, I'm out of shape now!
[11:42] ---
    I want to get some real
    exercise for a change...
[11:44] ---
    ...with you.
[11:47] ---
    Could I ask you not to say such
    repugnant things? I am on duty.
[11:51] ---
    How stoic you are! Yet another
    thing that makes you irresistible!
[11:57] ---
    You see, I love the color red.
[12:00] ---
    Red is my favorite color for
    hair, and clothes, and lipstick.
[12:04] ---
    So I paint those ugly women
    with pretty, pretty red blood.
[12:10] ---
    Sebas-chan, I'll make you even
    finer-looking than you already are.
[12:14] ---
    I'm really going to tear you up inside...
[12:19] ---
    And make you red like
    beautifully-scattered rose petals.
[12:21] ---
    A grim reaper quietly
    harvests the souls of the dying.
[12:26] ---
    A butler subserviently
    follows his master like a shadow.
[12:31] ---
    Your vulgarity violates
    the aesthetics of both,
[12:34] ---
    and quite frankly, I find it sickening.
[12:38] ---
    Oh, Sebas-chan, you wound me.
[12:40] ---
    I'm a more deadly efficient
    butler than I look!☆
[12:48] ---
    In my own black name and
    that of the Queen, I order you:
[12:53] ---
    put an end to them!
[12:55] ---
    Yes, my lord.
[13:12] ---
    Ah, yes! Run more!
[13:14] ---
    We'll play tag, Sebas-chan!
[13:32] ---
    Now, now, if you don't
    escape fast you'll get cut.
[13:37] ---
    It's so much more stimulating
    when it hurts a little, isn't it?
[13:41] ---
    We've now become a guard dog and his prey.
[13:46] ---
    If it's hunt or be hunted...
[13:49] ---
    There's only one choice!
[13:55] ---
    You're a doctor! Why do this?!
[13:57] ---
    A kid like you would never
    understand even if I told him!
[14:05] ---
    You...
[14:08] ---
    You...
[14:12] ---
    You should never have been born!
[14:20] ---
    Sister...
[14:22] ---
    Young master!
[14:25] ---
    Stop, Sebastian!
[14:27] ---
    Don't kill her!
[14:39] ---
    Sebastian...
[14:42] ---
    Oh, Sebas-chan, you've got backbone.
[14:46] ---
    To think you'd sacrifice
    an arm to go save that kid...
[14:50] ---
    But how poorly you compare, Madam!
[14:54] ---
    Hurry up and kill the brat!
[15:07] ---
    I loved my sister...
[15:09] ---
    I loved him...
[15:12] ---
    I loved their...
[15:17] ---
    I can't.
[15:20] ---
    I can't do it after all. I can't kill him.
[15:24] ---
    You're saying that now?
    You've sliced so many women to bits!
[15:29] ---
    If you don't erase him, he'll erase you!
[15:32] ---
    Madam...
[15:33] ---
    But...
[15:35] ---
    But...
[15:37] ---
    This boy is my--
[15:42] ---
    I'm disappointed in you, Madam Red!
[15:46] ---
    I have no interest in you if
    you're just another woman!
[15:57] ---
    This is...
[15:58] ---
    Our job as grim reapers is to
    replay and examine the memories
[16:01] ---
    of those on the To-Die list
    distributed by the Powers that Be.
[16:04] ---
    We determine what kind of person
    they were, what kind of life they lived,
[16:10] ---
    whether they should be
    killed or left alive...
[16:14] ---
    In other words, you make
    their life flash before their eyes.
[16:16] ---
    Ugh, don't call it something so dull!
[16:17] ---
    This is the grim reaper's
    true ability: dramatic pain.
[16:22] ---
    This is the Cinematic Record!
[16:29] ---
    Rachel, Angelina, come
    greet Lord Phantomhive.
[16:37] ---
    I hated the red hair I
    inherited from my father.
[16:40] ---
    Your red hair is very beautiful, An.
[16:44] ---
    The color of spider lilies
    blazing in the fields...
[16:46] ---
    Red suits you well.
[16:49] ---
    I came to love my red hair.
[16:52] ---
    I came to love the color red.
[16:55] ---
    I came to love you.
[16:57] ---
    An, I have wonderful news!
[17:02] ---
    You...
[17:05] ---
    I hated red again.
[17:08] ---
    But... I couldn't bring myself to hate you.
[17:15] ---
    I married a man I met at a soirée.
[17:19] ---
    I wonder if it's a boy or a girl?!
[17:22] ---
    Men are so impatient.
    There's no way to tell that yet.
[17:27] ---
    It all came in a different
    form from what I'd truly wanted,
[17:31] ---
    but still, this time I would...
[17:36] ---
    That runaway carriage just
    hit someone! Call a doctor!
[17:40] ---
    It's slipping away...
[17:44] ---
    Your husband died instantaneously.
[17:46] ---
    And to save your life,
[17:49] ---
    we were forced to remove your uterus,
    along with the child inside.
[17:54] ---
    --When an internal organ ruptures like that--
[17:55] ---
    --Everything is slipping away from me...
[18:01] ---
    The people I love...
[18:04] ---
    The people I surely would
    have been able to love...
[18:10] ---
    The stain spreads...
[18:13] ---
    The stain spreads over everything...
[18:15] ---
    dying it that hated color red.
[18:23] ---
    My sister was able to die
    with the one she loved.
[18:27] ---
    I wish my feelings had been
    buried in the ground along with her.
[18:36] ---
    A kid would only get in the way.
[18:39] ---
    I don't know who the father is,
[18:41] ---
    and I can't take customers with a kid in tow.
[18:44] ---
    I lost everything.
[18:48] ---
    That woman had what I wanted...
    what I can never have again...
[18:55] ---
    And she threw it all away
    without a second thought.
[18:59] ---
    I'll stain her...
[19:03] ---
    Oh, you're that woman from--
[19:06] ---
    What are you doing?!
[19:08] ---
    St-Stop!
[19:11] ---
    I'll stain everything red with my own hands.
[19:18] ---
    Goodness me, you really went to town on her.
[19:26] ---
    A blood-red grim reaper smiled at me.
[19:31] ---
    A few months later, my missing
    nephew suddenly came back.
[19:36] ---
    Ciel!
[19:38] ---
    Bringing with him a butler all in black...
[19:43] ---
    So you're safe.
[19:46] ---
    I got just one thing back.
[19:48] ---
    Thank goodness you're safe, at least...
[19:53] ---
    Let me get a good look at your face.
[19:55] ---
    The son of the man I adored
    and my elder sister.
[20:02] ---
    This boy came back, so why not him.
[20:07] ---
    Why wasn't I the one to marry him?
[20:11] ---
    This time I won't let anything
    be taken from me.
[20:13] ---
    I won't give anything up.
[20:15] ---
    I won't give anything up!
[20:31] ---
    I loved you when you were dyed
    crimson with your victims' blood,
[20:35] ---
    Madam Red.
[20:39] ---
    I'm disappointed you turned
    out to be such a trite woman!
[20:43] ---
    You don't have what it takes to wear red.
[20:46] ---
    Your cheap little melodrama ends now.
[20:50] ---
    Farewell, Madam.
[21:02] ---
    What are you doing, Sebastian?
[21:06] ---
    I told you to put an end to Jack the Ripper.
[21:09] ---
    It's not over yet.
[21:13] ---
    Don't dawdle. Hurry up
    and kill the other one!
[21:18] ---
    Very good, my lord.
[21:21] ---
    I was going to be nice and
    let you go, but if you insist,
[21:27] ---
    I'll send you both to heaven!
[21:31] ---
    Heaven?
[21:36] ---
    Heaven and I are strangers.
[21:44] ---
    You just went after a lady's face!
    You're a fiend!
[21:48] ---
    Of course. You see, I am
    merely one hell of a butler.
[21:53] ---
    Do you think a demon can beat a divine being?
[21:56] ---
    An interesting question.
[21:58] ---
    However, if my young master
    tells me to win, I shall win.
[22:02] ---
    You're quite keen on that
    puny little brat. I'm jealous.
[22:08] ---
    Even demons cease to exist if I
    reap them with my death scythe.
[22:12] ---
    Aren't you afraid?
[22:14] ---
    Not in the least.
[22:16] ---
    I belong to my master body and soul,
[22:20] ---
    even down to the last hair on my head.
[22:23] ---
    As long as the contract is
    in effect, I follow his orders.
[22:28] ---
    That's the butler aesthetic, you see.
[24:04] ---
    The red spider lilies blazing in the fields
[24:07] ---
    eventually turn brown, wither, and die.
[24:11] ---
    Yes, everything follows
    the deadly laws of nature.☆
[24:16] ---
    Please excuse me.
[24:18] ---
    I do not wish to be any
    further infected by his vulgarity.
[24:21] ---
    I will have to get deadly on him right away.
[24:25] ---
    Next time on Black Butler:
    "His Butler, At the Funeral."
[24:26] ---
    "Next Time" "His Butler, At the Funeral"
[24:29] ---
    You see, I am merely one hell of a butler.

6 - His Butler, at the Funeral

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[00:07] ---
    Here's what Scotland Yard and
    the press are calling the criminal:
[00:12] ---
    "Jack the Ripper."
[00:15] ---
    Incomplete?
[00:16] ---
    Yes, incomplete... the wombs are missing.
[00:21] ---
    Indeed. None of the humans
    inside his mansion could have done it.
[00:25] ---
    Sebastian!
[00:27] ---
    Don't tell me you...?
[00:28] ---
    You two are the only ones
    who could be Jack the Ripper...
[00:32] ---
    ...Madam Red and Grell Sutcliff.
[00:35] ---
    You...
[00:38] ---
    You should never have been born!
[00:47] ---
    I can't do it after all. I can't kill him.
[00:52] ---
    I'm disappointed in you, Madam Red!
[00:55] ---
    I have no interest in you if
    you're just another woman!
[01:25] ---
    A demon and a grim reaper.
[01:30] ---
    I suppose a meeting of
    the minds is impossible?
[01:33] ---
    Our feelings for each other are forbidden...
[01:35] ---
    It's just like the
    tragedy of Romeo and Juliet!
[01:42] ---
    O Sebas-chan, Sebas-chan!
    Wherefore art thou Sebas-chan?
[01:51] ---
    If you'd refuse that appalling
    name your master gave you
[01:54] ---
    and focus on me alone...
[01:58] ---
    From the moment my master
    called me "Sebastian,"
[02:02] ---
    that word became my new baptism and contract.
[02:06] ---
    I've been Sebastian since that day.
[02:10] ---
    By yonder moon I swear it.
[02:12] ---
    What an insincere man you are,
    to swear by the inconstant moon.
[02:17] ---
    Your eyes are impure eyes which love no one.
[02:21] ---
    You are a devil who profanes innocent
    souls with your unworthy hands and lips.
[02:25] ---
    Oh, it's so good! You thrill me, Sebastian!
[02:29] ---
    I feel as if I could bear your children!
[02:31] ---
    Please stop. That's repellant.
[02:34] ---
    Oh, you're so cold.
[02:39] ---
    Beautiful tyrant!
[02:42] ---
    Fiend angelical!
[02:44] ---
    Dove-feather'd raven!
[02:47] ---
    Sebas-chan!
[02:51] ---
    Oh, Sebas-chan...
[02:53] ---
    Would that
    morning should never come!
[02:56] ---
    Then the two of us could
    live in love like this forever.
[03:02] ---
    But our amorous adventure ends now.
[03:07] ---
    We part with a passionate kiss!
[03:10] ---
    A thousand times, a million times good night!
[03:19] ---
    Now, show me a drastic and dramatic Record!
[03:42] ---
    "Black Butler"
[03:48] ---
    Deai ni iro wa nakute monokuro fukinukeru
[03:55] ---
    Suzushii yubi temaneku mama ni
[04:00] ---
    Toketa ato no yakkai na
    koori mitai na watashi wo
[04:07] ---
    Yasashiku sukutte uwakuchibiru de asobu
[04:15] ---
    Soredemo hitotsu no ai no katachi wo sagasu
[04:21] ---
    Tooku yori mo ima wo musunda kareta hitomi wa
[04:27] ---
    Dekireba kono mama tsutsumarete owaritai
[04:33] ---
    Sono negai wa yoru wa munashiku
    asa wo tsurete kuru
[04:40] ---
    Yasashikute atsukute hikyou na kisu de
[04:47] ---
    Irodotte yo saigo no yoru
[04:50] ---
    Tsuki ga terashiteru
[05:05] ---
    "His Butler, At the Funeral"
[05:12] ---
    W-Wait... Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait!
[05:16] ---
    Who are these people?!
[05:22] ---
    That's been my everyday life
    for the past year, after all.
[05:26] ---
    I'm not interested in a
    domestic Record like this!
[05:30] ---
    Come on, show me the good parts!
[05:33] ---
    I'm afraid I charge admission
    to view the rest.
[05:36] ---
    Skinflint!
[05:42] ---
    Oh, no, my clothes are ruined again.
[05:47] ---
    This is past mending.
[05:49] ---
    You're pretty confident, worrying
    about your clothes at a time like this.
[05:52] ---
    But I like a man who's careful
    about his appearance, Sebas-chan.
[06:00] ---
    This is the one technique
    I didn't want to use...
[06:05] ---
    ...but there's no help for it.
[06:07] ---
    So you're finally going to
    get serious with me, then?
[06:11] ---
    Shall we close the curtain
    on this with the next blow?
[06:14] ---
    Say your farewells to this world.
[06:16] ---
    Let's be joined in the hereafter, Sebas-chan!
[06:38] ---
    What?!
[06:40] ---
    That tailcoat is made of
    high-quality Yorkshire wool.
[06:44] ---
    Wool has one of the highest
    frictional forces of all cloths.
[06:48] ---
    Once it gets enmeshed in something,
    it's very difficult to remove.
[06:50] ---
    WTF?!
[06:54] ---
    That coat was supplied to me by
    the estate, and I didn't want to use it...
[06:59] ---
    But you had ruined it already, after all.
[07:05] ---
    Now, in a normal fistfight,
[07:09] ---
    I feel a certain amount of confidence.
[07:11] ---
    W-Wait! Please! Not the face!
[07:24] ---
    Not the face!
[07:30] ---
    Please stop!
[07:40] ---
    Please excuse me. I misjudged the distance.
[07:44] ---
    You look awful.
[07:46] ---
    I had a bit of trouble with him.
[07:49] ---
    I'll get you for this...
[07:52] ---
    Oh, dear.
[07:53] ---
    I suppose one can't kill
    a grim reaper with bare fists.
[07:58] ---
    But what about with this?
[08:01] ---
    The grim reaper's sickle,
    which can cut anything...
[08:04] ---
    Shouldn't it be able to cut even you?
[08:08] ---
    Wh-What are you thinking?!
[08:10] ---
    N-N-No--
[08:12] ---
    I don't enjoy being kicked,
[08:15] ---
    but doing the kicking feels rather nice.
[08:17] ---
    --That hurts! Sebas-chan, it hurts, it hurts!
[08:19] ---
    --Young master, hideous though
    he may be, he is still a divine being.
[08:23] ---
    Are you prepared to shoulder
    the heavy crime of killing the divine?
[08:27] ---
    Are you trying to make me repeat my order?
[08:31] ---
    Very good, my lord.
[08:34] ---
    You scream very nicely.
[08:37] ---
    As a reward...
[08:40] ---
    I'll kill you with your favorite toy!
[08:43] ---
    Please, stop!
[08:46] ---
    No.
[08:47] ---
    Don't you want to know
    who killed his parents?
[09:00] ---
    I apologize for interrupting
    your conversation.
[09:05] ---
    I am William T. Spears,
[09:08] ---
    an administrator at the Grim
    Reaper Staffing Association.
[09:13] ---
    I came to take charge of that reaper there.
[09:15] ---
    Will! William!
[09:19] ---
    So you came to save me!
[09:23] ---
    Temp worker Grell Sutcliff,
    you have violated regulations.
[09:28] ---
    Firstly, you killed people
    not on the To-Die list.
[09:31] ---
    Secondly, you used a death scythe for
    which a permission form was not filed.
[09:35] ---
    And finally, you attempted
    to leak information
[09:38] ---
    about the cause of death
    and identity of the murderer.
[09:45] ---
    I am sorry for all the trouble
    this wretch has caused.
[09:45] ---
    "This Wretch"
[09:48] ---
    Oh, here's my card.
[09:52] ---
    Really, I never thought I'd see the day
[09:56] ---
    when I'd have to bow my head
    to a noxious beast like you...
[09:58] ---
    This is a disgrace to the
    profession of grim reaper.
[10:01] ---
    Then please keep close watch over your staff
[10:05] ---
    so that they don't cause
    trouble for us noxious beasts.
[10:07] ---
    Humans are very susceptible to temptation.
[10:10] ---
    When they are placed in
    the hellish bowels of despair,
[10:14] ---
    if a spider's thread appears
    before them that could get them out,
[10:18] ---
    they will cling to it without fail.
[10:21] ---
    Any human will.
[10:22] ---
    Aren't you demons the ones
    who take advantage of that
[10:25] ---
    to deceive humans and prey upon them?
[10:29] ---
    I won't deny it.
[10:31] ---
    Though you seem to be a
    tame dog with a collar;
[10:33] ---
    that at least makes you a lesser
    evil than the unprincipled, rabid dogs.
[10:37] ---
    Come, Grell Sutcliff, we're leaving.
[10:40] ---
    Honestly... We're already shorthanded,
    and now we won't be able
[10:43] ---
    to finish during regular hours today, either.
[10:45] ---
    The Board is going to scold us again,
    and we'll have to work more overtime.
[10:56] ---
    You forgot that.
[10:57] ---
    Thank you.
[11:03] ---
    Now, please excuse me.
[11:14] ---
    I apologize. I allowed half
    of Jack the Ripper to escape.
[11:21] ---
    It doesn't matter anymore...
[11:27] ---
    You're chilled to the bone.
    Let's hurry back to the townhouse.
[11:31] ---
    I'll make you some hot milk.
[11:34] ---
    Good idea.
[11:38] ---
    Young master!
[11:43] ---
    --Young master...?
[11:44] ---
    --Never mind.
[11:45] ---
    I'm fine. I can stand up by myself.
[11:50] ---
    It's just... I'm a little tired, that's all.
[12:10] ---
    Big brother!
[12:14] ---
    Lots of people here today, huh big brother?
[12:17] ---
    Why?
[12:18] ---
    Dunno.
[12:20] ---
    You're older! You don't know?
[12:22] ---
    Are you dumb?
[12:24] ---
    I'm only twelve! I don't have to know!
[12:27] ---
    Indeed.
[12:30] ---
    It's only natural a normal
    12-year-old wouldn't know.
[12:34] ---
    Today is a certain noblewoman's big day.
[12:39] ---
    Big day?
[12:41] ---
    Yes-- a person's final,
    biggest ceremony in life.
[12:45] ---
    The funeral.
[12:47] ---
    "Except a corn of wheat fall into
    the ground and die, it abideth alone:
[12:52] ---
    but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit."
[12:54] ---
    So that we do not close
    off our distant future,
[12:57] ---
    --all living things must open death's door.
[12:59] ---
    --Aunt An...
[13:02] ---
    This lady has opened death's door and...
[13:12] ---
    Ciel?
[13:17] ---
    That's... the Phantomhive boy?
[13:19] ---
    A scarlet dress?
[13:21] ---
    How improper!
[13:23] ---
    But Madam loved the color red.
[13:41] ---
    White flowers and plain
    dresses don't suit you.
[13:46] ---
    What suits you is a passionate red.
[13:50] ---
    The color of spider lilies
    blazing in the fields...
[13:54] ---
    Aunt An.
[14:12] ---
    ♪ ...falling down. ♪
[14:14] ---
    ♪ London Bridge is falling
    down, my fair lady. ♪
[14:21] ---
    ♪ London Bridge is falling down,
    falling down, falling down. ♪
[14:28] ---
    ♪ London Bridge is falling
    down, my fair lady. ♪
[14:35] ---
    ♪ London Bridge is falling down,
    falling down, falling down. ♪
[14:41] ---
    ♪ London Bridge is falling
    down, my fair lady. ♪
[14:47] ---
    ♪ London Bridge is falling down,
    falling down, falling down. ♪
[14:52] ---
    ♪ London Bridge is falling
    down, my fair lady. ♪
[15:05] ---
    Sleep well...
[15:08] ---
    ...Madam Red.
[15:19] ---
    The funeral must be going on right now, yes.
[15:21] ---
    So Madam won't be coming to
    visit anymore... it'll be lonely.
[15:27] ---
    What's with the long faces?!
[15:29] ---
    This is exactly the kind of time when
    we need to support the young lord!
[15:33] ---
    Right!
[15:38] ---
    So you've gone to be with
    your loved ones,
[15:43] ---
    my lady.
[15:53] ---
    You're still here? The investigation is over.
[15:55] ---
    But I can't accept that!
[15:57] ---
    Doesn't Scotland Yard exist
    to protect the citizens?
[16:02] ---
    Our country of England has a long history.
[16:05] ---
    And because of that, there is an
    ancient layer of sediment at bottom...
[16:08] ---
    an underworld you must stay far away from.
[16:11] ---
    A decision has been handed down
    that this matter should be settled
[16:14] ---
    according to the rules of that underworld.
[16:17] ---
    Who decided that?
[16:19] ---
    If you want to know, get yourself promoted.
[16:21] ---
    But when you find out, I
    imagine you'll regret it.
[16:26] ---
    You'll wish you'd never known.
[16:30] ---
    You're not going to report to
    the Queen who Jack the Ripper was?
[16:33] ---
    There's no need.
[16:36] ---
    Her wish was that we end the incidents.
[16:39] ---
    That objective has been fulfilled.
[16:41] ---
    And you'll keep right on
    sinking into the quagmire, won't you?
[16:46] ---
    Even if you set foot somewhere
    you can't return from,
[16:50] ---
    I know you would never let anyone see you
[16:53] ---
    pathetically screaming and crying for help.
[16:56] ---
    Not you, the proud dog of the Queen.
[16:59] ---
    I'll be careful not to make
    myself a target for you, my lord.
[17:03] ---
    Opium dens are starting to become a problem.
[17:07] ---
    If you're going to get out, now's the time.
[17:09] ---
    If I did that, I'd have to
    think of another business to run.
[17:15] ---
    You could always go back
    to your home country.
[17:18] ---
    I haven't exhausted my
    interest in this country yet.
[17:22] ---
    Or in you, my lord.
[17:26] ---
    I fully expect you'll put on many
    more interesting shows for me.
[17:32] ---
    We have somewhere to go. Come.
[17:37] ---
    This is...
[17:38] ---
    My final customer from the
    Jack the Ripper murders.
[17:42] ---
    Apparently she was an immigrant.
[17:44] ---
    They couldn't find anyone to claim her body.
[17:47] ---
    So our kindhearted earl
    here hired me to pretty her up
[17:52] ---
    and even erected this gravestone for her.
[17:56] ---
    I'm not kindhearted.
[17:57] ---
    If I had given her life
    first priority that night,
[18:01] ---
    there would have been plenty
    of ways to save her.
[18:04] ---
    But I instead, I prioritized
    catching Jack the Ripper.
[18:09] ---
    I knew she wouldn't be saved.
[18:13] ---
    I knew, and I let her die...
[18:15] ---
    My own flesh and blood...
[18:18] ---
    Are you having regrets?
[18:20] ---
    No. Jack the Ripper is gone,
[18:23] ---
    and Her Majesty's anxieties are resolved.
[18:26] ---
    Victoria, eh? I don't like her.
[18:30] ---
    She forces all the misery onto you
    while she just sits back and watches.
[18:36] ---
    This is my family's lot in life.
[18:38] ---
    It's been passed down for
    generations along with this ring.
[18:41] ---
    That ring is like a dog collar.
[18:45] ---
    It connects you to the Queen
    by the chains of "fate."
[18:48] ---
    I'm the one who chose this!
[18:50] ---
    I pray you're never hung by that collar.
[18:57] ---
    That would be so boring.
[18:59] ---
    Come by the shop whenever you need something.
[19:02] ---
    You and your butler are always welcome.
[19:14] ---
    You are kindhearted.
[19:16] ---
    Don't make me repeat myself! I'm not kind--
[19:19] ---
    Yes, you are kindhearted.
[19:21] ---
    If you aren't, perhaps
    that means you're weak.
[19:25] ---
    Why, you!
[19:26] ---
    Why didn't you shoot?
[19:29] ---
    "I let my own flesh and blood die"?
    I take a dim view of lies, you know.
[19:34] ---
    If you had wanted to shoot
    her then, you could have.
[19:39] ---
    But you wavered, and even when I
    urged you, you refused to draw your gun.
[19:44] ---
    Why?
[19:46] ---
    Were you afraid to kill Madam Red yourself?
[19:51] ---
    Do you mean to tell me you can
    kill a stranger,
[19:54] ---
    but not your own kin?
[19:59] ---
    Because it was your job.
[20:04] ---
    I thought you would protect me
    even at the cost of your own life.
[20:07] ---
    That's why I didn't shoot.
[20:10] ---
    Our contract demands that you serve me;
[20:11] ---
    that you protect me and do not kill me
[20:15] ---
    until my goal is achieved.
[20:18] ---
    I imagine a demon has no
    "principles" or "loyalty."
[20:22] ---
    All you have is aesthetics.
[20:24] ---
    And so for the sake of your own aesthetics,
[20:26] ---
    you will protect me no matter what.
[20:29] ---
    Am I wrong?
[20:30] ---
    Why did you stop me, then?
[20:34] ---
    There was hesitation in her
    eyes as she moved to kill me.
[20:40] ---
    I thought she wouldn't be
    able to kill me... her own kin.
[20:46] ---
    One wrong move costs a person her life.
[20:49] ---
    It's just like chess.
[20:52] ---
    She hesitated and lost
    sight of her next move.
[20:55] ---
    That's all there is to it.
[21:01] ---
    So I won't hesitate.
[21:09] ---
    That's what I like to hear.
[21:11] ---
    Always skillfully manipulate
    your chess pieces, and survive.
[21:16] ---
    Use me, and Madam Red, and
    any pieces within your reach.
[21:21] ---
    Even if the bodies of your pawns
    pile up at the foot of your throne...
[21:26] ---
    Because if the king falls, this game is over.
[21:30] ---
    I won't stop moving, and I
    won't regret the steps I've taken.
[21:35] ---
    So this is an order:
[21:38] ---
    you are the one man who must not betray me.
[21:40] ---
    Don't leave my side.
[21:44] ---
    Ever.
[21:50] ---
    Yes, my lord.
[21:54] ---
    I shall accompany you
    anywhere you wish me to.
[22:05] ---
    Even if your throne crumbles,
    your radiant crown rots,
[22:10] ---
    and a mountain of bodies piles up...
[22:13] ---
    I shall stay beside your small form
    as you lie atop your fallen pawns
[22:20] ---
    until I hear the final call.
[24:04] ---
    My young master's orders are to
    develop a certain historied village
[24:07] ---
    into a resort for the Queen.
[24:11] ---
    If he's entrusted with petty,
    lowbrow tasks like this,
[24:14] ---
    there is certainly something to his
    nickname of "the Queen's guard dog."
[24:20] ---
    Wag your tail and dig over here. Woof, woof.
[24:24] ---
    Next time on Black Butler:
    "His Butler, Merrymaking."
[24:26] ---
    "Next Time" "His Butler, Merrymaking"
[24:28] ---
    You see, I am merely one hell of a butler.

7 - His Butler, Merrymaking

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[00:07] ---
    Resort, resort, we're so happy!
[00:11] ---
    Resort, resort, we're so happy!
[00:15] ---
    Isn't this wonderful, Mey-Rin? I'm so moved!
[00:18] ---
    Yes, yes!
[00:19] ---
    I can't believe he's taking us with
    him to the Queen's health resort!
[00:23] ---
    I guess even the young
    master has his good points!
[00:27] ---
    Yeah!
[00:28] ---
    They are fortunate people.
[00:31] ---
    It appears they're grateful to you,
    my kind young master.
[00:35] ---
    I don't want to leave
    them behind by themselves
[00:37] ---
    and come back to find the manor destroyed.
[00:39] ---
    Indeed.
[00:43] ---
    This would seem to be the
    entrance to the village.
[00:55] ---
    I forgot to tell you one thing:
[00:57] ---
    this is the planned construction
    site for the resort.
[01:01] ---
    Young master...
[01:13] ---
    "Black Butler"
[01:19] ---
    There is no color to our meeting;
    it blows through in monochrome
[01:26] ---
    I go where your cool fingers beckon me
[01:31] ---
    I am like troublesome ice after the melt
[01:38] ---
    You gently scoop me up to your
    mouth and play with my upper lip
[01:46] ---
    Still, I search for a form of love
[01:52] ---
    The dry eyes that shape the
    present rather than a distant time
[01:58] ---
    Want to end like this, cloaked
[02:04] ---
    But the night ignores that
    wish and brings morning
[02:11] ---
    With your gentle,
    passionate, and dastardly kiss
[02:18] ---
     Paint this final night
[02:21] ---
    The moon illuminates us
[02:36] ---
    "His Butler, Merrymaking"
[02:41] ---
    A trip, in this season?
[02:44] ---
    Sebastian, are you familiar with the
    leisure activity known as bear-baiting?
SIGN    "Charlotte"
[02:49] ---
    The word seems entertaining
    and quite attractive to me,
[02:54] ---
    but I'm afraid not.
[02:56] ---
    They tied a bear to a
    fence with a rope or cord,
[02:59] ---
    and fighting dogs surrounded it,
    bit at it, and killed it.
[03:04] ---
    My, that sounds very human-like.
[03:08] ---
    It was banned by the Cruelty
    to Animals Act of 1835,
[03:12] ---
    but there was a loophole:
    the law didn't apply to the attack dogs.
[03:17] ---
    What do you think happened then?
[03:20] ---
    I imagine they began having
    the dogs attack their own kind.
[03:22] ---
    Perhaps you would call it "dog-baiting"?
[03:25] ---
    There's a village doing
    just that: Houndsworth.
[03:28] ---
    The place was originally
    famous for rearing hunting dogs,
[03:32] ---
    but behind closed doors, they...
[03:46] ---
    She is heartsick.
[03:49] ---
    We'll secure that village under the
    pretext of making it a health resort.
[03:52] ---
    That's the goal of this journey.
[03:55] ---
    A village full of dogs, eh?
[03:57] ---
    What is it?
[03:58] ---
    Merely that securing a construction site
[04:00] ---
    seems like a quite trifling job
    for you to be concerned with.
[04:04] ---
    There is a reason.
[04:07] ---
    A reason why I, why the house of Phantomhive,
[04:12] ---
    must go to Houndsworth in person.
[04:31] ---
    Hey, I found the first villager!
[04:34] ---
    Stop the carriage, Tanaka!
[04:40] ---
    I'll help you out there, Granny!
[04:42] ---
    N-No, Finny! If you're not
    careful, the baby will--
[04:47] ---
    What?
[04:49] ---
    I-I'm so sorry!
[04:52] ---
    Is the baby all right?!
[04:58] ---
    This child was eaten by it.
[05:05] ---
    --♪ The white dog is a good dog ♪
[05:07] ---
    --Eat...
[05:08] ---
    --...en?
[05:09] ---
    --♪ The disobedient
    black dog is a bad dog ♪
[05:13] ---
    --Apparently there are many villagers
[05:14] ---
    --♪ Lullaby, the sun sets ♪
[05:18] ---
    --missing or violently killed.
[05:19] ---
    --♪ Lullaby and good night ♪
[05:22] ---
    --Part of my job is to find
    the cause and dispose of it.
[05:23] ---
    --♪ If you don't go to sleep, ♪
[05:26] ---
    --♪ the dog will come down here ♪
[05:28] ---
    ♪ He'll gobble your
    flesh down to the bone ♪
[05:40] ---
    It's startin' to actually look like a resort!
[06:00] ---
    Sit.
[06:02] ---
    Lie down.
[06:04] ---
    Oh, good boy! Good boy!
[06:07] ---
    Wow, I'd like him to pet me, yes!
[06:11] ---
    He warps its will with rewards and
    punishments, and forces obedience.
[06:16] ---
    A fine sight!
[06:18] ---
    But the dog is not blameless.
[06:20] ---
    It fawns on humans, and welcomes
    the chain around its neck.
[06:25] ---
    Really, it's quite hard to understand.
[06:27] ---
    If you have something to say, just say it.
[06:30] ---
    Thank you, my lord.
[06:33] ---
    I love cats, but I'm not fond of dogs.
[06:37] ---
    Or rather...
[06:39] ---
    To be frank, I hate them.
[06:43] ---
    Woof.
[07:02] ---
    The Earl Phantomhive, I presume?
[07:04] ---
    Yes.
[07:05] ---
    Welcome to Barrymore Castle.
[07:08] ---
    My master awaits your arrival.
[07:14] ---
    Sh-She's beautiful, yes!
[07:24] ---
    This way.
[07:35] ---
    Who the devil is this Chihuahua?!
[07:37] ---
    I told you to go receive
    the Queen's messenger!
[07:41] ---
    "Chihuahua"...?
[07:42] ---
    Can't you even do a simple
    thing like that, Angela?!
[07:49] ---
    Sebastian.
[07:52] ---
    What are you doing, you filthy Doberman?!
[07:54] ---
    Trying to bite my head
    off, are you?! Let me go!
[07:57] ---
    I ordered him to do it.
[07:59] ---
    What?!
[08:00] ---
    It sounds as though you got my letter.
[08:03] ---
    I'm Ciel Phantomhive.
[08:07] ---
    You mean to tell me a little toy poodle
    like you is Her Majesty's messenger?!
[08:11] ---
    You disapprove of small breeds, Lord Henry?
[08:20] ---
    Finny, quit starin' into space!
[08:22] ---
    Hurry up and carry luggage! Get a move on!
[08:32] ---
    I'll take care of this.
[08:38] ---
    It's not worth discussing.
[08:39] ---
    No matter what the terms,
    I can't sell this place.
[08:43] ---
    Let me hear your reason.
[08:46] ---
    The curse.
[08:48] ---
    Curse?
[08:49] ---
    This village has lived alongside
    its dogs since ancient times.
[08:53] ---
    Those who interfere with it are cursed.
[08:56] ---
    By a fearsome scourge...
[08:59] ---
    Even Her Majesty cannot change that.
[09:02] ---
    Great calamity befalls anyone
[09:06] ---
    who goes against the Barrymore family!
[09:09] ---
    Oh, interesting.
[09:11] ---
    What?!
[09:13] ---
    Let's have a nice, close
    look at this "calamity."
[09:22] ---
    Wow, so you're the only maid at this estate?
[09:26] ---
    That's amazing! You impress me, Angela, yes!
[09:30] ---
    Nonsense. I'm utterly unsatisfactory...
[09:35] ---
    Let us know if there's anythin'
    we can help you with.
[09:37] ---
    We servants gotta get along. Right, Finny?
[09:41] ---
    Yes, of course!
[09:43] ---
    You're all so kind.
[09:49] ---
    Please excuse me. My master is calling.
[10:07] ---
    She said I was kind!
[10:14] ---
    Hey, Finny, what are you waitin' for?!
[10:16] ---
    Sorry!
[10:25] ---
    Angela... Angela...
[10:29] ---
    The Queen wants my village!
[10:31] ---
    You understand, don't you?
[10:34] ---
    I'll protect this village!
[10:37] ---
    Angela, my angel...
[10:41] ---
    My angel...
[10:45] ---
    The maid saw! She saw what
    should not have been seen, yes!
[10:53] ---
    Come in.
[10:55] ---
    I apologize for the lateness of the hour.
[10:57] ---
    My young master is about to retire.
[11:02] ---
    I have a request. Please, leave this village.
[11:07] ---
    You mustn't be here.
[11:09] ---
    Why not?
[11:10] ---
    I can't...
[11:17] ---
    Oh, no! The demon hound is here!
[11:20] ---
    Demon hound?
[11:26] ---
    Sebastian!
[11:31] ---
    What was that?
[11:33] ---
    Young master, look.
[11:39] ---
    It's the great demon hound!
[11:41] ---
    The great demon hound is here!
[11:42] ---
    Who is it? Who's the bad dog?!
[11:50] ---
    Young master!
[11:50] ---
    Angela!
[11:52] ---
    What the devil's the fuss about?
[11:55] ---
    The demon hound has appeared.
[11:56] ---
    Demon hound?
[11:58] ---
    It brings calamity upon the village.
[12:00] ---
    Those who defy my master are
    punished by the demon hound.
[12:05] ---
    That is the law of this village.
[12:09] ---
    Angela,
[12:11] ---
    please tell Lord Barrymore
    that the demon hound has come.
[12:16] ---
    Who's been punished?
[12:25] ---
    That's awful.
[12:30] ---
    I see.
[12:30] ---
    Don't touch!
[12:34] ---
    So James was the bad dog?
[12:36] ---
    Yes. Apparently he broke the five-dog rule
[12:40] ---
    and kept a sixth dog.
[12:42] ---
    I see. Then this was inevitable.
[12:46] ---
    Hey! How can you say that?!
[12:48] ---
    This village has laws I have decreed.
[12:51] ---
    Those who break them
[12:53] ---
    are punished by the demon hound
    who protects the Barrymores!
[12:58] ---
    ♪ Lullaby, lullaby ♪
[13:03] ---
    ♪ The white dog is a good dog ♪
[13:08] ---
    ♪ The disobedient black
    dog is a bad dog ♪
[13:13] ---
    ♪ Lullaby, the sun sets ♪
[13:17] ---
    --♪ Lullaby and good night ♪
[13:18] ---
    --I was sure the outsiders
    would be its prey...
[13:22] ---
    You've had a narrow escape.
[13:30] ---
    Young master.
[13:48] ---
    What a horrible trip.
[13:51] ---
    Yes, yes.
[13:52] ---
    What's the matter?
[13:54] ---
    You were so enthusiastic on the drive here.
[13:57] ---
    Yeah, well...
[13:59] ---
    Have you forgotten? We came to a resort.
[14:10] ---
    Wow, who'd've guessed it was so comfortable?
[14:14] ---
    The water's not even cold!
[14:16] ---
    You come out here too, Mey-Rin!
[14:19] ---
    I can't, it's just too embarrassing, yes!
[14:22] ---
    Chances like this don't come every day!
    Hurry up and get in!
[14:36] ---
    I-I'm so embarrassed, yes.
[14:40] ---
    You look great, Mey-Rin!
[14:42] ---
    Really?!
[14:44] ---
    I bet you'd look even better
    without your glasses.
[14:46] ---
    N-No, no!
[14:52] ---
    You won't bathe, young master?
[14:56] ---
    Ah, that's right. You--
[14:59] ---
    Just being able to bathe in this season
[15:02] ---
    isn't much of a selling
    point for a health resort.
[15:05] ---
    Do you truly intend to
    make this place a resort?
[15:08] ---
    Naturally.
[15:09] ---
    What about the demon hound?
[15:12] ---
    I'm sure you've caught on
    to its true form as well.
[15:18] ---
    Come here a moment.
[15:22] ---
    Angela!
[15:27] ---
    Yes, my lord.
[15:29] ---
    I shall do it right away.
[15:31] ---
    You're awfully motivated.
    I thought you hated dogs?
[15:35] ---
    Yes, I do.
[15:37] ---
    So I'd like to wrap this up
    as quickly as possible.
[15:41] ---
    Before everything goes to hell.
[15:48] ---
    Have some, Angela.
[15:50] ---
    Are you sure it's all right for me to share?
[15:53] ---
    Of course! And Sebastian's
    packed lunches are delicious, yes!
[15:57] ---
    He's been caught! The bad dog's been caught!
[16:00] ---
    It's James's dog! The
    punishment's about to begin!
[16:11] ---
    He's got something in his mouth.
[16:13] ---
    Make him spit it out!
[16:14] ---
    Let go, you bad dog!
[16:18] ---
    Let go! Let go!
[16:21] ---
    What a stubborn dog. Definitely a bad dog.
[16:24] ---
    Begin!
[16:48] ---
    Stop...
[16:50] ---
    You can't do this...
[16:53] ---
    The poor thing!
[16:59] ---
    Stop it!
[17:07] ---
    Finny!
[17:12] ---
    They got in the way.
[17:13] ---
    They interrupted our holy punishment.
[17:15] ---
    They're more bad dogs!
[17:17] ---
    They're bad dogs!
[17:19] ---
    Punish the bad dogs! Punish the bad dogs!
[17:26] ---
    You look pathetic, Maltese.
[17:29] ---
    Master, I beg you, please
    forgive these people!
[17:34] ---
    True, this Pomeranian is
    the Queen's messenger.
[17:39] ---
    Depending on what he says,
    perhaps I'll let him go.
[17:43] ---
    Pull out of this village
[17:45] ---
    and advise Her Majesty
    never to touch it again!
[17:49] ---
    You'd go that far to protect
    your tiny little kingdom?
[17:54] ---
    You're the very dictionary
    definition of "obsession."
[17:58] ---
    Then learn for yourself what
    happens to bad dogs who defy me!
[18:03] ---
    Sick him!
[18:16] ---
    You're late.
[18:17] ---
    My apologies, my lord.
[18:21] ---
    You dare to interfere, Garm?
[18:23] ---
    What are you waiting for?! Kill that one too!
[18:28] ---
    Oh, what noisy, coarse voices.
[18:32] ---
    This is why I hate dogs.
[18:40] ---
    Wh-What happened...?
[18:42] ---
    The farce ends here, Barrymore!
[18:45] ---
    People of the village, listen to me!
    There is no demon hound.
[18:49] ---
    There's only that pathetic
    old man obsessed with power!
[18:54] ---
    Wh-What do you base that on?
[18:56] ---
    This.
[18:58] ---
    It was in the basement of your manor.
[19:01] ---
    I've already confirmed that the
    teeth match the marks on James.
[19:08] ---
    Behold.
[19:10] ---
    This is the demon hound's true form.
[19:14] ---
    His shadow is nothing but a projection.
[19:17] ---
    It's just a transparent trick.
[19:20] ---
    The glowing is phosphor.
[19:22] ---
    He merely sprinkled it on a normal dog.
[19:26] ---
    The demon dog is an illusion
    produced by a single person.
[19:30] ---
    And that person is you, Henry Barrymore!
[19:36] ---
    N-Nonsense! Where's the proof?
[19:44] ---
    Give it to me. Your duty is done.
[19:52] ---
    It's fine cloth.
[19:54] ---
    This is the reason he hung on to it
[19:59] ---
    to the last.
[20:02] ---
    Th-That's...
[20:04] ---
    Yes. It's a scrap of your trousers,
[20:07] ---
    from when he bit your leg
    trying to protect James.
[20:15] ---
    So you killed James?
[20:17] ---
    There was no demon hound?!
[20:19] ---
    You tricked us!
[20:21] ---
    Give it up! You're finished!
[20:25] ---
    --You killed James! You killed James!
[20:28] ---
    --P-Please, stop!
[20:40] ---
    Phew, I'm exhausted!
[20:44] ---
    You're an amazing dog.
[20:46] ---
    To think you tried to protect
    your master to the end...
[20:57] ---
    You worked so hard. You worked so hard.
[21:05] ---
    This is why I hate dogs.
[21:20] ---
    Case closed, eh?
[21:23] ---
    Let's leave the village
    when the rain lets up.
[21:27] ---
    Yes, my lord.
[21:33] ---
    Angela...
[21:42] ---
    Let me out!
[21:44] ---
    Let me out! Please, let me out!
[21:48] ---
    It's coming... It's coming...
[21:50] ---
    The demon hound is coming to kill me!
[21:53] ---
    I'm begging you! Please...
[21:57] ---
    Please let me out!
[22:06] ---
    What's goin' on?!
[22:09] ---
    What is it, Mey-Rin?
[24:04] ---
    The howl of a cursed hound
    echoes through the desolate village.
[24:08] ---
    Oh, the infernal beastly
    smell is clinging to you.
[24:12] ---
    Young master, if we're quite
    through here, it's time for a bath.
[24:17] ---
    Soak your whole body properly in
    the tub, and count to one hundred.
[24:21] ---
    One, two, three...
[24:25] ---
    Next time on Black Butler:
    "His Butler, Training."
[24:26] ---
    "Next Time" "His Butler, Training"
[24:29] ---
    You see, I am merely one hell of a butler.

8 - His Butler, Training

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[00:12] ---
    H-Hey, he's...
[00:20] ---
    Lord Barrymore!
[00:31] ---
    Th-The great demon hound!
[00:35] ---
    Demon hound?!
[00:45] ---
    ♪ The white dog is a good dog ♪
[00:50] ---
    ♪ The disobedient black
    dog is a bad dog ♪
[00:55] ---
    ♪ Lullaby, the sun sets ♪
[00:59] ---
    What happened?
[01:00] ---
    ♪ Lullaby and good night ♪
[01:04] ---
    --♪ If you don't go to sleep,
    the dog will come down here ♪
[01:06] ---
    --Hey, what are you doing?!
[01:10] ---
    ♪ He'll gobble your
    flesh down to the bone ♪
[01:31] ---
    Great demon hound!
[01:33] ---
    Great demon hound, forgive us!
[01:40] ---
    Angela!
[01:53] ---
    "Black Butler"
[01:59] ---
    Deai ni iro wa nakute monokuro fukinukeru
[02:05] ---
    Suzushii yubi temaneku mama ni
[02:11] ---
    Toketa ato no yakkai na
    koori mitai na watashi wo
[02:18] ---
    Yasashiku sukutte uwakuchibiru de asobu
[02:26] ---
    Soredemo hitotsu no ai no katachi wo sagasu
[02:32] ---
    Tooku yori mo ima wo musunda kareta hitomi wa
[02:38] ---
    Dekireba kono mama tsutsumarete owaritai
[02:44] ---
    Sono negai wa yoru wa munashiku
    asa wo tsurete kuru
[02:51] ---
    Yasashikute atsukute hikyou na kisu de
[02:58] ---
    Irodotte yo saigo no yoru
[03:01] ---
    Tsuki ga terashiteru
[03:16] ---
    "His Butler, Training"
[03:23] ---
    It's a shame, young master,
[03:26] ---
    after you'd already declared
[03:30] ---
    that the case was closed.
[03:33] ---
    Shut up.
[03:36] ---
    Where is Angela?
[03:37] ---
    I put her to bed for now,
    but she seems very tired, yes.
[03:42] ---
    It's too painful to watch.
[03:46] ---
    This village was completely isolated
[03:49] ---
    from the rest of society out of
    fear of the demon hound's curse...
[03:54] ---
    I thought we established that
    the hound was faked by Lord Henry
[03:57] ---
    so that he could rule here.
[04:00] ---
    But now Lord Henry has...
[04:04] ---
    Are you sure those bite wounds
[04:06] ---
    really weren't from the demon hound,
    like the villagers say?
[04:10] ---
    Maybe he's mad at being
    blamed for Lord Henry's bad deeds!
[04:15] ---
    Well, I think we can say for sure
    that no human did this, at least.
[04:20] ---
    What's that supposed to mean?
[04:30] ---
    What's the matter?
[04:32] ---
    The way you phrased it earlier:
[04:34] ---
    "no human did this."
[04:37] ---
    That redheaded reaper had
    better not show up again.
[04:41] ---
    I'm a more deadly efficient
    butler than I look!☆
[04:45] ---
    I am quite impressed at the
    sharpness of your learning curve.
[04:52] ---
    There is no need to worry.
[04:54] ---
    Mey-Rin's idea was not wholly incorrect.
[04:59] ---
    It was Lord Henry the hound was after.
[05:02] ---
    I imagine there isn't anyone
    else who would fall victim to it.
[05:06] ---
    That doesn't mean I can just leave it alone.
[05:09] ---
    Is that your beautiful loyalty to your Queen?
[05:13] ---
    No, that's not all.
[05:16] ---
    You're normally a dull man,
[05:19] ---
    but when a dog enters the picture,
    you become rather fascinating.
[05:27] ---
    You have learned.
[05:35] ---
    I wonder if Angela is all right...
[05:44] ---
    A-A ghost?!
[05:50] ---
    M-Mey-Rin?!
[05:52] ---
    Finny, did you hear that, yes?!
[05:54] ---
    Y-Yes. Was it...?
[05:56] ---
    M-Maybe the late Lord Henry has returned...
[06:05] ---
    M-Mey-Rin...?
[06:08] ---
    I love scary stories, yes!
[06:11] ---
    I'm trembling with excitement!
[06:15] ---
    Let's go, Finny!
[06:16] ---
    Wh-Wh-What?!
[06:22] ---
    Oh, it's all just too horribly frightening!
[06:26] ---
    I wonder what it is...
[06:44] ---
    That tickles.
[06:46] ---
    No, no, slow down.
[06:51] ---
    Good boy. That's right, good boy.
[07:01] ---
    Th-This is too thrilling, yes!
[07:03] ---
    Angela is a woman of mettle.
[07:07] ---
    Her master was just found brutally murdered!
[07:10] ---
    Or maybe that's what makes
    her all the more passionate?
[07:14] ---
    Finny?
[07:18] ---
    Finny?!
[07:24] ---
    Angela... Angela...
[07:39] ---
    Going down in a blaze of glory, yes.
[07:46] ---
    Mornin', everyone.
[07:54] ---
    Good morning.
[07:57] ---
    Oh, are you sure you should be out of bed?
[07:59] ---
    Yes. I apologize for causing trouble.
[08:03] ---
    And when my master always told me
[08:07] ---
    not to break courtesy in front of guests...
[08:10] ---
    Oh, Finny, you look pale...
[08:15] ---
    Um, I'm, uh, I'm sick!
[08:18] ---
    If you touch me,
    you'll catch my... germs! Right, germs!
[08:22] ---
    I'm sorry!
[08:26] ---
    He sure doesn't seem sick.
[08:39] ---
    Angela...
[08:40] ---
    Finny!
SIGN    "Cabinet Pudding"
[08:45] ---
    Today's tea features cabinet
    pudding made with local blackberries.
[08:51] ---
    You're certainly carefree.
[08:53] ---
    There is no need to rush.
[08:55] ---
    Sebastian!
[08:57] ---
    What is it? You're making a fuss.
[08:59] ---
    We can't find Angela anywhere!
[09:02] ---
    Oh, she said there were some
    medicinal herbs growing by the fen,
[09:06] ---
    so she was going to go pick them.
[09:08] ---
    She went to the fen by herself?
[09:11] ---
    When there might really be
    a demon hound lurking about?
[09:13] ---
    Oh, hell!
[09:16] ---
    Why would she be picking
    herbs at a time like this?
[09:18] ---
    Oh, well, it looked like she was
    worried about how pale you were.
[09:23] ---
    She did it for me...?
[09:27] ---
    Let's go, Sebastian!
[09:29] ---
    Sigh...
[09:30] ---
    What's wrong with you?!
[09:31] ---
    Are you a red-blooded man or what?!
[09:34] ---
    Never mind!
[09:35] ---
    Let's go, Mey-Rin!
[09:36] ---
    Yes, Sir!
[09:37] ---
    Where's old man Tanaka?
[09:43] ---
    He's on board. Right, let's go, men!
[09:45] ---
    Yes, Sir!
[09:59] ---
    Well? What color is your blood?
[10:04] ---
    It looks as though we've
    developed a need to rush.
[10:12] ---
    Put on a first-rate show for me, Sebastian.
[10:17] ---
    Yes, my lord.
[10:34] ---
    --Angela...!
[10:36] ---
    --Angela...!
[10:37] ---
    --Angela...!
[10:38] ---
    --Angela...!
[10:38] ---
    --Angela...!
[10:40] ---
    Angela!
[10:43] ---
    Angela!
[10:48] ---
    Angela, where are you?
[10:52] ---
    What is it?!
[11:04] ---
    Wh-What are those?
[11:06] ---
    Another thrilling scene
    the very next morning!
[11:14] ---
    Say, isn't that ring...
[11:17] ---
    ...Lord Henry's?
[11:33] ---
    Who's that?
[11:46] ---
    That arm... It wasn't the demon
    hound who killed Lord Henry after all.
[11:51] ---
    So it was a human?
[11:54] ---
    Wh-What a thrilling lower body!
[11:57] ---
    Has he got some sort of
    grudge against Lord Henry?
[12:01] ---
    Could Angela have asked him to do it?
[12:06] ---
    Huh? Why should Angela do that?
[12:08] ---
    He's right!
[12:10] ---
    Finny!
[12:11] ---
    Angela has nothing to do with it!
    You shouldn't suspect people!
[12:15] ---
    Shh!
[12:35] ---
    What are you guys doin' dressed like that?
[12:37] ---
    We're all going to stand under the waterfall
    to ease the demon hound's wrath.
[12:42] ---
    The great demon hound's voice
    echoed in the air last night!
[12:46] ---
    He howled all night long.
[12:50] ---
    Howled?
[13:02] ---
    Hey, Finny, wait!
[13:05] ---
    All right, we'll do warm-up exercises here!
[13:08] ---
    One, two, three, four!
[13:28] ---
    Th-This voice...
[13:40] ---
    Hey, is that...
[13:47] ---
    It's the demon hound!
[14:00] ---
    That's...
[14:02] ---
    It's Angela's...!
[14:07] ---
    What is it?! Finny? Finny!
[14:11] ---
    Angela!
[14:15] ---
    Oh, hell! Let me borrow that thing!
[14:18] ---
    I'll show you what I can do.
[14:26] ---
    Huh?
[14:27] ---
    Why did you bring a party favor?!
[14:48] ---
    Dear me, you're quite good at "shake hands."
[14:54] ---
    Sebastian!
[14:57] ---
    Though you are a bit heavy.
[15:05] ---
    Come, this is no time to
    be romping around together!
[15:09] ---
    Young master!
[15:11] ---
    Of course not. I shall take
    care of everything at once.
[15:22] ---
    Smells irresistible, doesn't it?
[15:25] ---
    This is what you want, am I right?
[15:27] ---
    It's what dogs make a beeline for:
    Inukko, the treat you want every day.
[15:30] ---
    "Inukko"?
[15:37] ---
    Look out!
[15:39] ---
    The best way to tame a dog is to
    bend its will and force obedience...
[15:43] ---
    In other words,
[15:45] ---
    rewards and punishments!
[15:48] ---
    First, reward!
[15:59] ---
    U-Uh...
[16:01] ---
    Sebas...tian...?
[16:05] ---
    And then...
[16:08] ---
    ...punishment!
[16:13] ---
    Reward.
[16:14] ---
    Punishment!
[16:16] ---
    Reward.
[16:17] ---
    Punishment! Punishment!
[16:20] ---
    Punishment!
[16:26] ---
    This is even more of a show than I imagined.
[16:29] ---
    And finally... hugs!
[16:49] ---
    Sebastian!
[16:55] ---
    H-Hey!
[16:56] ---
    He's not coming out, no!
[17:01] ---
    What are you dawdling for?
    Get back here this instant!
[17:07] ---
    Very good, my lord.
[17:15] ---
    Hot!
[17:17] ---
    Hey, is this a hot spring?
[17:24] ---
    I say, where is Sebastian?
[17:27] ---
    What a resort needs is a tourist
    attraction to be its centerpiece.
[17:34] ---
    A way to luxuriate in abundant hot water
[17:36] ---
    and soothe the fatigue of everyday life.
[17:38] ---
    That is what we have here: a hot spring.
[17:46] ---
    Sebastian!
[17:55] ---
    A Phantomhive butler who
    can't strike on a hot spring or two
[18:00] ---
    isn't worth his salt.
[18:06] ---
    Another too-thrilling scene, yes!
[18:10] ---
    Pluto!
[18:11] ---
    "Pluto"?
[18:19] ---
    Good boy. Good boy.
[18:27] ---
    I found him last month.
[18:31] ---
    I love dogs, and he was so
    adorable I just had to feed him.
[18:38] ---
    "Adorable"?
[18:41] ---
    He has a bad habit of turning
    human when he gets too excited, but...
[18:45] ---
    Don't just brush it off as a "habit"!
[18:47] ---
    And so you kept him without telling anyone?
[18:50] ---
    Yes. Lord Barrymore was using
    the legend of the demon hound,
[18:56] ---
    but in truth he feared the
    hound more than anyone.
[19:00] ---
    When I thought of what might
    happen to him if my lord found him...
[19:05] ---
    I see I was too indulgent.
[19:08] ---
    I never thought the little fellow
    would hurt Lord Barrymore...
[19:12] ---
    Please! Would you be kind enough
[19:15] ---
    to keep him at your estate, my lord?
[19:20] ---
    K-Keep him at the estate?!
[19:22] ---
    At Sebastian's side,
[19:24] ---
    perhaps even Pluto could
    become a good, faithful dog!
[19:27] ---
    No, you see, I am merely
    one hell of a butler...
[19:31] ---
    Why not?
[19:35] ---
    Do you mean that, young master?
[19:38] ---
    Yes. It sounds amusing...
[19:42] ---
    in several ways.
[19:48] ---
    The great demon hound's curse is lifted!
[19:51] ---
    Thank goodness! Thank goodness!
[19:53] ---
    What's this about?
[19:56] ---
    My lord, there's a legend in this village
[20:00] ---
    that when the sins of our ancestors
    against dogs are fully atoned for,
[20:03] ---
    the land will weep tears of forgiveness.
[20:05] ---
    These are tears of blessing!
[20:12] ---
    This village had this hot
    spring all along, though.
[20:16] ---
    Well, no matter. We've accomplished our goal.
[20:20] ---
    Shouldn't you declare now that line
[20:23] ---
    you so clumsily let slip earlier?
[20:26] ---
    You do it.
[20:28] ---
    Case closed!
[20:36] ---
    It's perfect.
[20:38] ---
    This is the way they enjoy
    hot springs in Japan.
[20:42] ---
    They eat and drink while
    relaxing in the baths.
[20:52] ---
    Still...
[20:58] ---
    Hey! Bring that over there!
[21:01] ---
    Who'd like to buy one of these?
[21:04] ---
    That gloomy village has
    undergone quite a transformation.
[21:09] ---
    I imagine Her Majesty's
    worries have been dispelled.
[21:13] ---
    Though my worries seem likely to continue...
[21:23] ---
    Don't forget me, Pluto.
[21:29] ---
    Pluto! If you're going into
    town, put some clothes on!
[21:31] ---
    Don't just swing in the breeze!
[21:36] ---
    Er, Angela...
[21:40] ---
    Let's meet again, Finny.
[21:46] ---
    Well then, shall we be off?
[21:49] ---
    I'll certainly come to visit Pluto one day.
[21:53] ---
    I wish I could refuse.
[21:56] ---
    What?
[21:57] ---
    Not many people could tame a demon hound.
[22:02] ---
    You seem to have a talent for making
    lesser beings eat out of your hands.
[22:09] ---
    Let's go, Sebastian.
[22:19] ---
    See you, Angela!
[22:28] ---
    One day, certainly.
[24:04] ---
    Talbot's camera, eh?
[24:07] ---
    What a delightful toy you've got there.
[24:11] ---
    Shall I take your picture?
[24:14] ---
    Oh, young master, turn a
    little more to the right.
[24:18] ---
    After all, your profile seen
    diagonally from the left is...
[24:22] ---
    ...subtly regrettable.
[24:25] ---
    Next time on Black Butler:
    "His Butler, Phantom Image."
[24:26] ---
    "Next Time" "His Butler, Phantom Image"
[24:29] ---
    You see, I am merely one hell of a butler.

9 - His Butler, Phantom Image

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[00:34] ---
    "Black Butler"
[00:40] ---
    There is no color to our meeting;
    it blows through in monochrome
[00:47] ---
    I go where your cool fingers beckon me
[00:52] ---
    I am like troublesome ice after the melt
[00:59] ---
    You gently scoop me up to your
    mouth and play with my upper lip
[01:07] ---
    Still, I search for a form of love
[01:13] ---
    The dry eyes that shape the
    present rather than a distant time
[01:19] ---
    Want to end like this, cloaked
[01:25] ---
    But the night ignores that
    wish and brings morning
[01:32] ---
    With your gentle,
    passionate, and dastardly kiss
[01:39] ---
     Paint this final night
[01:42] ---
    The moon illuminates us
[01:57] ---
    "His Butler, Phantom Image"
[02:11] ---
    S-So, what did you want
    to speak with us about?
[02:16] ---
    I have a job I want you to do.
[02:19] ---
    J
[02:20] ---
    O
[02:20] ---
    B?!
[02:22] ---
    --Thank goodness!
[02:23] ---
    --Thank goodness! --Thank goodness!
[02:24] ---
    When he called us here I
    was so sure we were fired, yes!
[02:30] ---
    This is a camera said to have been
    in the famous Talbot's collection.
[02:34] ---
    It's got a story to it.
[02:35] ---
    It was missing for some time,
[02:38] ---
    but I heard it was coming up at
    auction and went to great pains to get it.
[02:41] ---
    Talbot...?
[02:47] ---
    William Henry Fox Talbot.
[02:50] ---
    He was an English scientist
SIGN    "William Henry Fox Talbot"
[02:52] ---
    and one of the inventors
    of photographic technology.
[02:55] ---
    There were queer rumors about
    the last camera he used.
[03:00] ---
    Legend has it that when you
    photograph someone with this camera,
[03:03] ---
    whomever he thinks of most fondly
    will appear in the picture...
[03:08] ---
    perhaps.
[03:11] ---
    Whomever he thinks of most fondly?!
[03:13] ---
    --Can such a clever camera really exist?
[03:14] ---
    --Oh, no, no!
[03:17] ---
    Shall we take a shot to test it out?
[03:20] ---
    Don't move. Exposure takes ten seconds.
[03:26] ---
    Wh-What's "exposure"?
[03:28] ---
    To put it plainly, it's
    copying an image of Finny.
[03:31] ---
    If you don't stay still for ten
    seconds, the image will blur
[03:33] ---
    and we won't get a good picture.
[03:35] ---
    8, 9, 10... done.
[03:41] ---
    It would have been all right to breathe.
[03:49] ---
    Wow! It's my little birdie!
[03:52] ---
    Huh? You have a birdie?
[03:55] ---
    It's so cute!
[03:58] ---
    I gave it food every day, and one
    day it started eating out of my hand!
[04:02] ---
    I was so happy I gave it a gentle pat, and...
[04:08] ---
    It stopped moving...
[04:10] ---
    Y-You mean...?
[04:17] ---
    Ah, I forgot. The only loved
    ones that the camera will show
[04:22] ---
    are otherworldly beings...
[04:25] ---
    in other words, the dead.
[04:27] ---
    Th-The dead?!
[04:28] ---
    Y-You mean...?!
[04:30] ---
    The photo contains the otherworldly
    being you remember most fondly:
[04:35] ---
    in other words, someone dead.
[04:40] ---
    Like anyone would believe such an
    occult story in the nineteenth century!
[04:45] ---
    Amazing, yes! What an outstanding camera!
[04:50] ---
    My poor little birdie!
[04:53] ---
    Take a picture of Sebastian with this camera.
[04:56] ---
    But don't let him notice.
[05:00] ---
    So you mean, like a candid photo?
[05:02] ---
    Yes.
[05:03] ---
    Wh-Who does Sebastian think
    of most fondly, yes?!
[05:07] ---
    I might want to see that.
[05:09] ---
    He's always gripin' about
    my artistic cookin'!
[05:14] ---
    He's as human as any of us!
[05:16] ---
    He must have a weakness or two!
[05:18] ---
    This is our chance!
[05:19] ---
    Yes!
[05:20] ---
    I trust you can do it?
[05:21] ---
    Yes, my lord!
[05:23] ---
    Oh, I've always wanted to do that!
[05:28] ---
    What on Earth will appear if we
    take a photo of him with this camera?
[05:33] ---
    This will be worth seeing.
[05:43] ---
    At this time of day,
    Sebastian will be...
[05:47] ---
    in the library.
[05:52] ---
    Stay still!
[05:54] ---
    W-We need ten seconds, yes.
[05:55] ---
    Ten seconds...
[06:01] ---
    He's fast!
[06:03] ---
    He's so fast I can't even see him, yes!
[06:05] ---
    Damn, he won't show up
    in the photo like this!
[06:09] ---
    Oh, he stopped.
[06:10] ---
    Brilliant! This is our chance!
[06:22] ---
    I forgot to take the picture.
[06:24] ---
    He's so wonderful, yes!
[06:26] ---
    Next...
[06:28] ---
    He puts each room in order.
[06:35] ---
    Prepare yourself!
[06:58] ---
    And now, administrative work in his office.
[07:10] ---
    Come in.
[07:12] ---
    Do you require something, my lord?
[07:14] ---
    It came undone.
[07:15] ---
    My lord?
[07:18] ---
    Very good, my lord.
[07:23] ---
    Sebastian's wonderful in profile, too!
[07:26] ---
    All right, stay right there!
[07:28] ---
    4, 5, 6...
[07:40] ---
    Let's let this room air out a bit.
[07:50] ---
    Why do we have to work so hard
    just to take one measly photograph?
[07:58] ---
    I have a job for you.
[08:00] ---
    Wh-What is it?
[08:02] ---
    That.
[08:06] ---
    The dog? What about him?
[08:08] ---
    We'll be receiving a guest in the afternoon.
[08:10] ---
    Please transfer that thing
    somewhere out of sight before he gets here.
[08:15] ---
    Where would that be?
[08:18] ---
    I'll leave it up to you.
[08:20] ---
    Hey, we've got plenty to
    do ourselves, you know.
[08:24] ---
    You can do it between your other tasks.
[08:27] ---
    Please take care of it
    before the guest arrives.
[08:34] ---
    Now I should be able to
    concentrate on my job for a while.
[08:39] ---
    Come here, Plu-Plu!
[08:52] ---
    Whee!
[09:06] ---
    W-Wow! So Plu can breathe fire, yes?!
[09:10] ---
    That's a demon hound for you.
[09:12] ---
    Wait, we don't have time for this!
[09:19] ---
    Honestly, what's taking them so long?
[09:22] ---
    Is something the matter?
[09:23] ---
    No, nothing. I'll take
    my supper in here today.
[09:28] ---
    Very good, my lord.
[09:57] ---
    Really, those three...
[10:00] ---
    Perhaps it would be better for
    them to just be eaten by a dog.
[10:08] ---
    Well, now.
[10:21] ---
    What a limber body...
[10:24] ---
    and such soft hands.
[10:28] ---
    Ah! Cats are lovely.
[10:41] ---
    Why must I always be interrupted like this?
[10:48] ---
    We're sorry, young master!
[10:50] ---
    B-But Baldo thought of a good plan, yes!
[10:53] ---
    I thought of it when I saw
    the dog breathe fire...
[10:56] ---
    Absolutely no flamethrowers.
[10:59] ---
    Sadness...
[11:01] ---
    Oh, my lord!
[11:03] ---
    M-Mr. Lau!
[11:04] ---
    What are you doing here?
[11:06] ---
    I heard you were up to something interesting.
[11:08] ---
    Go home.
[11:10] ---
    Don't be so cold. Why not
    try leaving this up to me?
[11:15] ---
    I've already laid the spider's web.
[11:19] ---
    The more he struggles, the more
    impossible it will be to escape.
[11:24] ---
    Up against me, no prey
    could ever stand a chance.
[11:31] ---
    Very well.
[11:32] ---
    However, failure will not
    be tolerated-- no matter what.
[11:37] ---
    Naturally. After all, if the
    Phantomhive name is sullied,
[11:42] ---
    I'll be booted out of this country.
[11:47] ---
    So, what are you up to?
[11:57] ---
    Welcome.
[11:59] ---
    I'm Paul Jones, the journalist
    from Brit Business.
[12:03] ---
    We've been expecting you, Mr. Jones.
[12:06] ---
    Right this way, please.
[12:14] ---
    All right, here we go.
[12:35] ---
    What is this?
[12:36] ---
    Hmm? How odd.
[12:39] ---
    I was sure even
    that butler would look at this...
[12:43] ---
    I was a fool for believing
    in you for even an instant.
[12:47] ---
    It's too soon to give up yet.
[13:03] ---
    No, not her! Where's...?
[13:08] ---
    Mr. Jones?
[13:09] ---
    O-Oh, quite!
[13:12] ---
    Hmm? How odd.
[13:16] ---
    What did I just waste my time on?
[13:24] ---
    This is Tanaka, Funtom
    Company's general director.
[13:31] ---
    Then I'll start right in on my questions.
[13:37] ---
    What could the earl be doing all by himself?
[13:40] ---
    Is he sulking?
[13:42] ---
    He said he wanted to think
    things over alone, yes.
[13:45] ---
    He's pretty serious about this.
[13:50] ---
    To stop him for ten seconds...
[13:55] ---
    This is the one technique
    I didn't want to use,
[13:58] ---
    but I see there's no help for it.
[14:05] ---
    Next, please tell me about Funtom's
    business strategy going forward.
[14:13] ---
    Huh?
[14:15] ---
    Our company currently focuses
    on toys and confections,
[14:19] ---
    but we plan to go into other areas as well.
[14:26] ---
    Huh?!
[14:33] ---
    Right now, our company...
[14:35] ---
    Y-Yes?!
[14:36] ---
    ...is carrying out plans to
    build outlets across Europe.
[14:39] ---
    First we'll open branches in Paris,
    Vienna, Berlin, Rome, Amsterdam, and Athens.
[14:44] ---
    We plan to expand into thirty
    countries
[14:46] ---
    in the next five years, including
    those in North America.
[14:50] ---
    We'll also build a confection factory
    in Provence in the south of France
[14:54] ---
    and a toy factory in Salzburg in Austria.
[14:56] ---
    We continue our efforts to
    provide an ample supply of goods.
[15:01] ---
    In addition, Funtom always strives to
    maintain or improve the quality of its brand.
SIGN    "Funtom Company"
[15:06] ---
    We would never sell expired goods
    or lie about where they were made.
[15:10] ---
    Only products which have passed
    numerous rigorous quality tests
[15:12] ---
    reach the market graced
    with the name "Funtom"!
[15:14] ---
    Also, our motto is "Customers First."
[15:17] ---
    We arrive on the scene
    immediately when called, product in hand,
[15:22] ---
    no matter how remote the location.
[15:24] ---
    We get perfect products swiftly to our
    customers with a perfect delivery system.
[15:28] ---
    That is the Phantomhive way!
[15:30] ---
    You see?
[15:33] ---
    That will be all!
[15:36] ---
    Th-Thank you.
[15:39] ---
    Before I go, I'd like to
    get a photo, if I may...
[15:42] ---
    A photo?
[15:43] ---
    I'd like you in the shot, too.
[15:45] ---
    I'm afraid I must decline.
[15:47] ---
    You see, I am merely one hell of a butler.
[15:54] ---
    Today I am serving Demon Hound
    Bean Cakes made in Houndsworth.
[16:00] ---
    Why this rot?
[16:02] ---
    Baldo and the others appear to have
    purchased quite a number of them.
[16:06] ---
    How did the interview go?
[16:08] ---
    I wish you could have seen
    Tananka's brilliant performance
[16:10] ---
    as company president.
[16:12] ---
    Good. After all, I can't take public action.
[16:16] ---
    Quite. Before he left, he
    also took a photograph.
[16:20] ---
    Photograph?
[16:21] ---
    Rumor has it that portrait photos
    have been all the rage lately.
[16:25] ---
    Oh?
[16:26] ---
    Why not try it yourself?
[16:30] ---
    Rubbish.
[16:42] ---
    It's almost time.
[16:51] ---
    Is this really all right?
[16:53] ---
    Yes.
[16:54] ---
    But...
[16:56] ---
    Just do it!
[16:57] ---
    Yes, my lord!
[17:15] ---
    Young master!
[18:07] ---
    You make a nice little tableau.
[18:10] ---
    You're late.
[18:11] ---
    My apologies. I was preparing supper.
[18:16] ---
    Tonight's main dish will
    be Canard à la Rouennaise.
[18:20] ---
    I see.
[18:23] ---
    You could have just told
    me to pose for a picture.
[18:26] ---
    What?
[18:27] ---
    If you had ordered me to,
    I would have done so at once.
[18:37] ---
    What are you talking about?
[18:44] ---
    We finally took it!
[18:46] ---
    This was a major job that took us all day!
[18:48] ---
    The young master is
    certainly impressive, yes!
[19:01] ---
    All right, it's starting to come out.
[19:08] ---
    Plu-Plu!
[19:14] ---
    Plu?
[19:26] ---
    Aren't you going to go look, my lord?
[19:45] ---
    Good boy.
[19:55] ---
    My lord certainly thought up an
    elaborate piece of mischief this time.
[20:01] ---
    Please sleep outside.
[20:13] ---
    Excuse me, my lord. It's
    time to prepare for bed.
[20:22] ---
    How untidy of you, falling
    asleep in a place like this.
[20:30] ---
    In any case...
[20:34] ---
    Once again, you've given me
    more work than necessary.
[20:50] ---
    Whoa.
[20:52] ---
    Sebastian's in the picture!
[20:54] ---
    So the young master
[20:56] ---
    thinks most f-fondly of Sebastian?!
[21:00] ---
    Is that how it is?
[21:02] ---
    They're good friends!
[21:04] ---
    The young master is my
    rival... What should I do?
[21:07] ---
    Hey, it's Plu-Plu!
[21:09] ---
    Huh?!
[21:10] ---
    Which means... hang on.
[21:13] ---
    Does this mean Plu is the one who
    thinks most fondly of Sebastian?
[21:18] ---
    Is that how it is?!
[21:19] ---
    Or is it the young master after all?!
[21:22] ---
    Which is it?!
[21:27] ---
    I'm honored.
[21:28] ---
    Be quiet.
[21:29] ---
    It's your own fault for
    sleeping in that unguarded way.
[21:33] ---
    Why, you...
[21:35] ---
    The image in the photograph
    is a mere illusion.
[21:39] ---
    But I suppose it is humanity's
    vain dream to preserve it,
[21:45] ---
    even if it is an illusion.
[21:58] ---
    Huh?
[21:59] ---
    Wait, I thought this
    camera only showed things
[22:03] ---
    like my birdie...
[22:08] ---
    Hmm? So why is Sebastian in the photo?
[22:12] ---
    Finny!
[22:28] ---
    Oh, well!
[24:04] ---
    The season for the frost fair
    on the Thames has arrived.
[24:09] ---
    My young master claims to
    be "inspecting the market,"
[24:11] ---
    but in truth he's having a grand old time.
[24:15] ---
    Watching his childish, innocent
    profile, it sucks at my heart...
[24:20] ---
    No, I mean tugs at my heart.
[24:25] ---
    Next time on Black Butler:
    "His Butler, On Ice."
[24:26] ---
    "Next Time" "His Butler, On Ice"
[24:29] ---
    You see, I am merely one hell of a butler.

10 - His Butler, on Ice

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[00:21] ---
    Shit! Don't let him get away!
[00:23] ---
    Does Tim even get how hard
    we worked to steal that thing?!
[00:42] ---
    It's mine now. I won't
    let anyone else have it.
[00:45] ---
    You are not suited to that ring.
[01:00] ---
    The Hope piece is searching
    for a worthy master, you see.
[01:14] ---
    He jumped!
[01:16] ---
    That damn fool...
[01:30] ---
    "Black Butler"
[01:36] ---
    Deai ni iro wa nakute monokuro fukinukeru
[01:42] ---
    Suzushii yubi temaneku mama ni
[01:48] ---
    Toketa ato no yakkai na
    koori mitai na watashi wo
[01:55] ---
    Yasashiku sukutte uwakuchibiru de asobu
[02:03] ---
    Soredemo hitotsu no ai no katachi wo sagasu
[02:08] ---
    Tooku yori mo ima wo musunda kareta hitomi wa
[02:15] ---
    Dekireba kono mama tsutsumarete owaritai
[02:21] ---
    Sono negai wa yoru wa munashiku
    asa wo tsurete kuru
[02:28] ---
    Yasashikute atsukute hikyou na kisu de
[02:35] ---
    Irodotte yo saigo no yoru
[02:38] ---
    Tsuki ga terashiteru
[02:53] ---
    "His Butler, On Ice"
[02:58] ---
    Ladies and gents, this hasn't
    happened in eighty years!
[03:01] ---
    You can't pass up this chance! Come on by!
[03:08] ---
    I see.
[03:10] ---
    "Frost fair" is an appropriate name.
[03:15] ---
    I'm told this is the first
    frost fair on this scale
[03:21] ---
    to be held on the frozen Thames
    at the foot of the London Bridge
[03:25] ---
    since the year 1814.
[03:31] ---
    Please wait, my lady!
[03:35] ---
    Paula, you'll crack the
    ice if you run so heavily.
[03:42] ---
    My lady! I'll be scolded for this.
[03:46] ---
    If your parents found out
    we were taking such a detour...
[03:49] ---
    But Harrods and Liberty
    were both utterly hopeless!
[03:55] ---
    I was joking when I said it would crack.
[03:59] ---
    My lady, it seems you've
    been searching for something...
[04:04] ---
    Would you tell me what?
[04:06] ---
    Well... Well, it's almost Ciel's birthday!
[04:10] ---
    I want him to be pleased with his present.
[04:13] ---
    No, I must please him with it!
[04:17] ---
    Oh, oh, oh! I could just eat you up!
[04:23] ---
    I understand, my lady.
[04:24] ---
    I, Paula, will do everything I can to help!
[04:29] ---
    Thank you, Paula.
[04:31] ---
    Well? What about that swine Tim?
[04:33] ---
    They found his body, but apparently
    he didn't have the ring on him.
[04:37] ---
    Then it's...
[04:39] ---
    Yes. The ring is in this river.
[04:43] ---
    Roll up, roll up!
[04:46] ---
    I'm sellin' these cheap enough
    to blow even Jack Frost away!
[04:49] ---
    Why not buy one for Christmas?
[04:51] ---
    What is it, my lord?
[04:52] ---
    Those are all inferior goods.
[04:55] ---
    If the river freezes again next year,
    Funtom could set up shop.
[05:00] ---
    For example, that's--
[05:02] ---
    Ah, hello there, my noble
    lad! You have a good eye.
[05:06] ---
    That's a fine piece from Funtom Workshop.
[05:08] ---
    In other words, from when
    the popular Funtom Company
[05:11] ---
    was still a craft studio!
[05:14] ---
    A blatant fake of one, you mean.
[05:17] ---
    The Funtom Arks are rare--
    only three sets were ever made,
[05:20] ---
    by an artist my predecessor patronized
    who used the finest technology.
[05:25] ---
    Since our mansion burned down,
    even we no longer have one.
[05:32] ---
    They certainly wouldn't turn up here.
[05:35] ---
    Noah's Ark...
[05:37] ---
    it's like this nation itself.
[05:40] ---
    What?
[05:41] ---
    A boat led by a single skipper.
[05:45] ---
    The only ones saved are a select few.
[05:49] ---
    It's an arrogant idea.
[05:53] ---
    You're...
[05:55] ---
    If a Scotland Yard inspector
    has time to frivol about here,
[05:59] ---
    I suppose there must be peace
    in London... for today.
[06:02] ---
    I'm not frivolling! I'm on duty!
[06:04] ---
    Oh, my. Well, then, Inspector,
[06:07] ---
    earn your wages in faithful
    service to Queen and country.
[06:11] ---
    Wait!
[06:12] ---
    I have some questions for you, Ciel!
[06:17] ---
    Pardon me, but as you can see my
    master is fragile--
[06:21] ---
    I mean, sensitive,
[06:23] ---
    so I'll have to ask you not to be so rough.
[06:37] ---
    Well? What's a detective from the
    Yard doing here, Inspector Abberline?
[06:44] ---
    This morning, a man's corpse
    was discovered underneath this ice.
[06:52] ---
    He was a member of a certain
    criminal organization.
[06:56] ---
    We're looking for his killer
    and for the ring he stole.
[06:59] ---
    There's a blue diamond set in the ring
[07:02] ---
    that's supposedly worth 2,000 quid.
[07:06] ---
    The diamond... the gemstone
    that gleams in eternal radiance.
[07:11] ---
    Legend has it that those
    bewitched by its sparkle
[07:14] ---
    are compelled to pursue
    it even when they know
[07:18] ---
    only destruction awaits.
[07:21] ---
    Why do you know about the Hope piece?!
[07:24] ---
    "The Hope piece"?
[07:26] ---
    Hmm? What's this? So there
    really is such a jewel!
[07:30] ---
    Oh, my...
[07:31] ---
    What?! But you just said--
[07:34] ---
    He was just blathering. Don't
    give him any attention.
[07:37] ---
    Never mind that, Lau,
    what are you doing here?
[07:40] ---
    I own this place.
[07:46] ---
    I see...
[07:49] ---
    Say, this "Hope" thing sounds
    interesting, my lord.
[07:54] ---
    Will you tell me more?
[07:56] ---
    You've never heard of the blue
    diamond that we call the Hope
[08:01] ---
    because it was a part of
    Henry Philip Hope's collection?
[08:05] ---
    Nope.
[08:06] ---
    Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette...
[08:09] ---
    It's known as a diabolical stone
[08:12] ---
    that's passed through the hands of
    many owners and driven all to ruin.
[08:17] ---
    Then, after being stolen yet again,
[08:20] ---
    the diamond was cut to disguise it,
[08:22] ---
    producing smaller pieces.
[08:25] ---
    They say two pieces of
    the Hope diamond exist.
[08:29] ---
    Is one of them what you're
    searching for, Abberline?
[08:33] ---
    Explosives were used on a
    carriage transporting evidence,
[08:37] ---
    and it was stolen.
[08:39] ---
    Interesting. Give me details.
    I'll lend you a hand in this.
[08:44] ---
    Naturally I won't force you.
[08:46] ---
    But if you refuse,
[08:48] ---
    your superior Sir Arthur might find
    himself in a very awkward position.
[08:54] ---
    My lady, aren't these wonderful?
[08:59] ---
    No, those aren't cute at all!
[09:02] ---
    Oh? I-Is that so, my lady?
[09:05] ---
    I think they are...
[09:07] ---
    Jingle, jingle!
[09:08] ---
    Paula, you don't understand at all!
[09:10] ---
    Never mind, I'll look by myself.
[09:11] ---
    "Dismay"
[09:14] ---
    Please wait, my lady!
[09:22] ---
    My lady!
[09:33] ---
    Is this really the place?
[09:35] ---
    Yes. He says he set up shop because
    lots of people freeze to death
[09:38] ---
    during the frost fair.
[09:40] ---
    My lord, don't tell me this shop is...
[09:47] ---
    You lot wait outside.
[09:49] ---
    You're lucky I let you accompany me at all.
[09:53] ---
    So foolhardy...
[09:54] ---
    It's one of the privileges of youth.
[09:59] ---
    So, what is this place?
[10:00] ---
    The Undertaker's funeral parlor!
[10:02] ---
    You met him during the Jack the Ripper case!
[10:04] ---
    Oh!
[10:06] ---
    Abberline should come crying
    for help any minute.
[10:08] ---
    Sebastian, prepare yourself.
[10:21] ---
    You're amazing! I tell you,
    you're in the wrong business!
[10:25] ---
    You could rule the world of comedy!
[10:29] ---
    What did you do?!
[10:30] ---
    I-I was just conversing normally.
[10:33] ---
    But out of nowhere he...
[10:37] ---
    Abberline, you're a man to be feared.
[10:43] ---
    It appears you are rather skilled, Inspector.
[10:46] ---
    I-I didn't...
[10:52] ---
    Tell me about the ring, Undertaker!
[10:56] ---
    We're told a frozen corpse you
    took care of this morning had it.
[10:59] ---
    It might be buried near
    where the body was found.
[11:03] ---
    As an upstanding citizen of London,
    I call on you to cooperate with us.
[11:09] ---
    I'm profoundly impressed, Inspector.
[11:13] ---
    I'll tell you all about it.
[11:16] ---
    The ring is...
[11:19] ---
    ...right there, see?
[11:26] ---
    It looks like the artisan
    happened to find the frozen ring
[11:30] ---
    and designed a sculpture to complement it.
[11:33] ---
    Collect it! Right now!
[11:34] ---
    Yes, Sir!
[11:36] ---
    What are you doing, you fiend?!
[11:42] ---
    That is the sacred lady
    bestowed on the victor.
[11:46] ---
    You mustn't touch her.
[11:48] ---
    "Shudder"
[11:50] ---
    Lord Druitt!
[12:06] ---
    Judging a contest?
[12:08] ---
    Why him?
[12:10] ---
    Wasn't he arrested by the
    Yard for human trafficking?
[12:14] ---
    He was released the other day.
[12:16] ---
    Money, eh?
[12:19] ---
    Excuse me, but Scotland Yard will
    be taking charge of this sculpture.
[12:23] ---
    Absolutely not! This frost fair
    is a festival for the citizens.
[12:26] ---
    Even Scotland Yard can't
    ride roughshod over it!
[12:31] ---
    Beauty is something to be admired.
[12:33] ---
    You mean to violate this noble lady?
[12:37] ---
    Hypocrite.
[12:39] ---
    If you insist on having her,
    offer something of suitable beauty.
[12:45] ---
    Just what I would expect from
    Lord Druitt, lover of art, beauty, and food!
[12:49] ---
    He's quite right! If you want this
    sculpture, win it in the contest!
[12:53] ---
    I see, there's merit in that.
[12:55] ---
    The ring belongs to the winner.
[12:57] ---
    I like the simplicity of it.
[13:00] ---
    I'll get that ring.
[13:03] ---
    That's stolen property!
[13:04] ---
    And key evidence in the serial
    kidnappings of young girls!
[13:10] ---
    Aha, I can see why the Yard would
    be searching so frantically for it.
[13:14] ---
    But it's the truth that each
    owner of the ring disappears!
[13:19] ---
    It really is a cursed stone, but you're--
[13:21] ---
    Cursed, eh?
[13:23] ---
    Then it suits me all the more.
[13:26] ---
    Come to think of it,
[13:27] ---
    I seem to recall your ring
    had a pretty blue stone.
[13:31] ---
    Yes.
[13:32] ---
    You should take care.
[13:34] ---
    Diamonds are hard.
[13:36] ---
    But because
    they are hard, they are brittle.
[13:39] ---
    If you go too far, you
    may be shattered as well.
[13:43] ---
    What of it?
[13:46] ---
    This body and this ring...
[13:50] ---
    ...have already been
    shattered and then reborn.
[13:53] ---
    I'm far past being afraid of shattering.
[13:58] ---
    Win the contest, Sebastian.
[14:00] ---
    Yes, my lord.
[14:05] ---
    Well, that's that. Fill out an entry form.
[14:08] ---
    Are you serious?!
[14:09] ---
    We're Irish.
[14:11] ---
    We won't lose to those English
    bastards when it comes to ice and snow!
[14:13] ---
    R-Right!
[14:15] ---
    And if worse comes to worst...
[14:21] ---
    I now open the frost fair's customary
    snow and ice sculpture contest!
[14:27] ---
    You have until 3:00!
[14:30] ---
    And now, please begin!
[14:35] ---
    My lady, there seems to be a
    lively event happening over there.
[14:41] ---
    Ciel...
[14:42] ---
    I hate this stupid ring!
[14:50] ---
    That ring was very important to my master.
[14:54] ---
    The heads of the Phantomhive family
    passed it down for generations.
[14:57] ---
    It was one-of-a-kind.
[15:01] ---
    I'm sorry, Ciel.
[15:03] ---
    I'm so sorry...
[15:05] ---
    But to make up for it, I'll
    find you a lovely present!
[15:18] ---
    Show me that!
[15:22] ---
    We'll now begin the judging!
[15:28] ---
    First, we have team Scotland
    Yard and Its Merry Men,
[15:32] ---
    with "The Guardian of London"!
[15:37] ---
    Your scores, please!
[15:38] ---
    One point, two points,
    one point, one point, zero points!
[15:41] ---
    That's five points total!
[15:44] ---
    Next we have an entry from team
    All China Dresses Should Be Minis...
[15:48] ---
    But I'm afraid
[15:52] ---
    that for various reasons
    I'm disqualifying it.
[15:57] ---
    Why?
[15:57] ---
    How could you think it was
    all right to exhibit that here?!
[16:01] ---
    I think hiding the bits like
    that makes it even more erotic...
[16:08] ---
    You can win, can't you Sebastian?
[16:10] ---
    Of course. You have ordered me to do it;
[16:14] ---
    I will not fail.
[16:16] ---
    And next, from team Queen's
    Puppy, "Noah's Ark"!
[16:25] ---
    What a grand scale it's on!
[16:28] ---
    This is true ice art!
[16:30] ---
    Most amazing! Let's see how many points--
[16:33] ---
    One moment, please.
[16:35] ---
    You haven't seen it all yet.
[16:47] ---
    Wow!
[16:48] ---
    It's like it's alive!
[16:50] ---
    I see! He deliberately made
    the seam of the roof weak
[16:53] ---
    so that it would melt
    over time and slip apart!
[16:58] ---
    The man who stood bravely against
    the relentless storm of God's wrath!
[17:03] ---
    His name: Noah!
[17:04] ---
    And the pairs of beasts he
    led rocked on the waves,
[17:08] ---
    waiting for their rebirth.
[17:11] ---
    Bravo, young man!
[17:14] ---
    I mark you as a skilled ice sculptor...
[17:17] ---
    No, Sir, I am merely one hell of a butler.
[17:22] ---
    We can't beat that, Boss.
[17:24] ---
    Damn... In that case...
[17:27] ---
    All right, let's have the scores!
[17:30] ---
    Hold it right there!
[17:31] ---
    Sorry, but this ring belongs to us.
[17:34] ---
    We're taking it back.
[17:36] ---
    What? Don't tell me you're--
[17:38] ---
    That's right!
[17:39] ---
    We're the team of bomber thieves
    that all of London is talking about.
[17:48] ---
    I'll count down from ten.
[17:50] ---
    If you don't want to die,
    get the hell out of here.
[17:55] ---
    Ten!
[17:57] ---
    Young master.
[17:57] ---
    Nine!
[17:58] ---
    My orders remain the same.
[18:01] ---
    Do it, Sebastian.
[18:03] ---
    Yes, my lord.
[18:05] ---
    Eight!
[18:06] ---
    What are you waiting for?!
    Hurry up and run, Ciel!
[18:09] ---
    Seven!
[18:10] ---
    You can run if you want to.
[18:12] ---
    Forget about me.
[18:13] ---
    --Six!
[18:13] ---
    --I can't do that!
[18:16] ---
    I joined the police to protect the citizens!
[18:18] ---
    Five!
[18:19] ---
    To protect everyone!
[18:22] ---
    --Four!
[18:22] ---
    --Fool.
[18:26] ---
    Stay away.
[18:29] ---
    Only three left.
[18:31] ---
    You sure you don't want
    to run, little nobleman?
[18:35] ---
    There's no need.
[18:36] ---
    Because, you see...
[18:43] ---
    What?!
[18:49] ---
    That's the mythical quadruple jump!
[18:51] ---
    A noble black swan flying
    through a silvery-white world!
[18:55] ---
    Lured by that devilish smile,
[18:57] ---
    the maiden is embraced by
    his wings in a flurry of ecstasy.
[19:07] ---
    Ten, ten, ten, ten, and ten!
[19:10] ---
    A perfect score!
[19:12] ---
    You bloody little...
[19:15] ---
    Get blown to smithereens!
[19:26] ---
    Damn that monster!
[19:38] ---
    Please, stop, Boss!
[19:40] ---
    Have you forgotten?!
[19:42] ---
    We're standing on ice!
[19:46] ---
    Sebastian!
[20:04] ---
    Ciel...
[20:06] ---
    As stubborn as ever.
[20:18] ---
    The ship sails on, leaving
    human despair behind!
[20:21] ---
    The ship sails on, along with
    the future of the world!
[20:25] ---
    Carrying the chosen pair's hope,
[20:27] ---
    the ship sails on toward a rapturous dream!
[20:31] ---
    It's Noah...
[20:33] ---
    It's truly Noah's Ark...
[20:35] ---
    A Biblical miracle has
    happened on the Thames!
[20:39] ---
    Your methods were very violent.
[20:42] ---
    I apologize, my lord.
[20:43] ---
    When baggage drags one
    down, it's best to toss it.
[20:50] ---
    The Hope piece will sleep at
    the bottom of the Thames...
[20:55] ---
    I suppose that end has its own charm.
[20:56] ---
    "London, be cursed"?
[20:59] ---
    If that's all it takes to
    destroy this city or this nation,
[21:03] ---
    they were never meant to survive.
[21:05] ---
    After all, the Phantomhives have always...
[21:09] ---
    Grab my hand!
[21:11] ---
    Sebastian, you said Noah was arrogant,
[21:15] ---
    but don't you think it's
    more arrogant and foolish
[21:18] ---
    to think you can save everyone--
    to want to do that?
[21:21] ---
    So it would seem.
[21:24] ---
    But an idiot of that sort every
    now and then might not be so bad.
[21:31] ---
    Just who are you, Ciel?
[21:39] ---
    My lady?
[21:42] ---
    Father said this was a "blatant fake"!
[21:45] ---
    It's so cruel!
[21:46] ---
    I thought... I thought I'd
    be able to please Ciel!
[21:50] ---
    My lady?
[21:52] ---
    Come, now, cheer up. Jingle, jingle!
[21:56] ---
    Leave me alone!
[22:04] ---
    Ciel, I'm so sorry.
[22:06] ---
    I wanted to give you a wonderful gift...
[22:17] ---
    So I thought to myself
[22:19] ---
    that the Hope piece has found a
    new keeper on its own, my master.
[24:04] ---
    The ring which flickers in the blue abyss
[24:07] ---
    is pledge of inescapable death.
[24:09] ---
    The hand organ begins to play a
    broken melody in its faltering tones.
[24:15] ---
    Listen well, my young master:
[24:17] ---
    you must not go along
    with any bad men--
[24:19] ---
    I mean, red men.*
[24:24] ---
    Next time on Black Butler:
    "His Butler, However You Please."
[24:26] ---
    "Next Time" "His Butler, However You Please"
[24:29] ---
    You see, I am merely one hell of a butler.

11 - His Butler, However You Please

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[00:15] ---
    Why can't we celebrate?
[00:18] ---
    Tomorrow is...
[00:21] ---
    It's a special occasion,
[00:22] ---
    so I wish it could be flashy
    and lively and fun, yes...
[00:31] ---
    I'm here!
[00:34] ---
    Lady Elizabeth?!
[00:43] ---
    "Black Butler"
[00:49] ---
    There is no color to our meeting;
    it blows through in monochrome
[00:56] ---
    I go where your cool fingers beckon me
[01:01] ---
    I am like troublesome ice after the melt
[01:08] ---
    You gently scoop me up to your
    mouth and play with my upper lip
[01:16] ---
    Still, I search for a form of love
[01:22] ---
    The dry eyes that shape the
    present rather than a distant time
[01:28] ---
    Want to end like this, cloaked
[01:34] ---
    But the night ignores that
    wish and brings morning
[01:41] ---
    With your gentle,
    passionate, and dastardly kiss
[01:48] ---
     Paint this final night
[01:51] ---
    The moon illuminates us
[02:06] ---
    "His Butler, However You Please"
[02:14] ---
    Ciel!
[02:16] ---
    Lizzie?!
[02:22] ---
    Here, this is for you.
    Hurry up and open it, won't you?
[02:31] ---
    But I broke this! How...
[02:35] ---
    Oh, Sebastian repaired it.
[02:37] ---
    What? But it was chipped!
    And I don't see any cracks...
[02:41] ---
    Yes. A Phantomhive butler
    who can't do this much--
[02:44] ---
    ...isn't worth his salt.
[02:48] ---
    Quite, my lord.
[02:50] ---
    I see... Sebastian fixed it...
[02:54] ---
    My lady...
[02:56] ---
    What do you have in that box, Lady Elizabeth?
[02:59] ---
    Er, um, it's a secret!
[03:03] ---
    Didn't you just say you were giving it to me?
[03:08] ---
    That was a feint.
[03:10] ---
    "Feint"?
[03:11] ---
    No proper lady would try to win
    her gentleman with material things!
[03:15] ---
    That's disgraceful!
[03:17] ---
    Now, Paula, ring the bells!
[03:19] ---
    Y-Yes, my lady! Jingle, jingle!
[03:23] ---
    Well, then, good afternoon!
[03:28] ---
    So... what did Lizzie come here for?
[03:32] ---
    Tomorrow is your birthday.
[03:35] ---
    I imagine that's the reason.
[03:40] ---
    Well, young master?
[03:41] ---
    Why not hold a birthday party?
[03:44] ---
    After all, it seems there are
    others who wish to celebrate you, too.
[03:55] ---
    My birthday...
[04:07] ---
    Guess what? It's my birthday today!
[04:11] ---
    Honestly, now! I'm so sorry, Sir.
[04:15] ---
    Not at all. Your son is charming.
[04:18] ---
    Mother said she'll let me sleep
    in her bed tonight as a treat!
[04:23] ---
    She'll read me a book, too!
[04:25] ---
    And then--
[04:26] ---
    On my birthday...
[04:32] ---
    Father! Mother!
[04:35] ---
    Fath--
[04:41] ---
    My mother would let me sleep in her bed.
[04:45] ---
    My father would give me a present.
[04:48] ---
    We shall give you the
    mark of the noble beast.
[04:57] ---
    I had been eagerly looking forward to it...
[05:03] ---
    My birthday...
[05:10] ---
    Young master?
[05:11] ---
    This is nonsense. Bring tea to my room.
[05:15] ---
    Very good, my lord.
[05:30] ---
    Perhaps it's construction in the Underground?
[05:35] ---
    Look, my lady! Jingle, jingle!
[05:39] ---
    Paula.
[05:40] ---
    Yes? Jingle, jingle!
[05:42] ---
    You always seem so happy.
[05:45] ---
    I apologize, my lady!
[05:47] ---
    No, I'm not criticizing.
[05:49] ---
    You just seem so cheerful,
    with no cares in the world. I envy you.
[05:53] ---
    B-But you're usually...
[05:56] ---
    that is, I mean to say...
[05:59] ---
    At any rate, this traffic is
    really at a standstill, isn't it?
[06:02] ---
    What will we do if we're
    stuck until nightfall?
[06:22] ---
    But it could be fun, like camping, my lady--
[06:27] ---
    My lady?
[06:29] ---
    My lady!
[07:12] ---
    Welcome.
[07:18] ---
    E-Er...
[07:20] ---
    That ring...
[07:23] ---
    What a shame.
[07:25] ---
    It did not select you as its owner.
[07:32] ---
    However, your eyes...
[07:36] ---
    E-Er...
[07:38] ---
    Ciel is the only boy I...
[07:42] ---
    Your eyes have a very deep, sorrowful color.
[07:49] ---
    I can tell...
[07:51] ---
    You are very sad.
[08:03] ---
    I see, a birthday present...
[08:06] ---
    I wanted Ciel to be pleased!
[08:13] ---
    There are many things for sale here.
[08:16] ---
    They are all quite wonderful.
[08:38] ---
    I'll give you any one you like.
[08:42] ---
    You may choose any of them.
[08:44] ---
    But...
[08:46] ---
    Yes, I understand.
[08:48] ---
    These are all the same to you.
[08:53] ---
    So I think to myself:
[08:56] ---
    "Something different; a precious
    present for a precious person."
[09:01] ---
    The most suitable thing would be...
[09:09] ---
    You yourself.
[09:17] ---
    Elizabeth vanished?
[09:19] ---
    Yes. Her personal maid says she
    lost her on a street in Islington.
[09:24] ---
    We'll head there immediately.
[09:26] ---
    Good God, what is she thinking?
[09:28] ---
    First, please look at this.
[09:33] ---
    The kidnappings Scotland Yard
    is frantically investigating
[09:37] ---
    that only target young girls...
[09:40] ---
    The girls' bodies haven't been found,
    but they're most likely...
[09:45] ---
    The criminal sends a Hope piece
[09:47] ---
    to each victim in turn.
[09:50] ---
    A piece of the diamond said
    to bring ill luck to its owner...
[09:56] ---
    I never thought the treasure I lost out on
[09:58] ---
    would come up again in this connection.
[10:01] ---
    What now, my lord?
[10:04] ---
    We dispel Her Majesty's worries.
[10:06] ---
    That's our first priority...
[10:09] ---
    No matter what happens.
[10:15] ---
    Please excuse me.
[10:25] ---
    I apologize for keeping you waiting, Master.
[10:31] ---
    The next doll...
[10:35] ---
    ♪ Build it up with wax and stone,
    wax and stone, wax and stone. ♪
[10:41] ---
    ♪ Build it up with wax and
    stone, my fair lady. ♪
[10:47] ---
    Very good, Master.
[10:56] ---
    Young master?
[10:57] ---
    You open the carriage door.
[11:00] ---
    My lord?
[11:02] ---
    Question those who knew the victims
[11:06] ---
    and come up with a suspect list.
[11:09] ---
    Names, addresses. Then raid
    the scene of the crime.
[11:13] ---
    I'm sure three hours will be sufficient.
[11:18] ---
    While you're doing that,
    I'll take care of some trifling business.
[11:22] ---
    That's all there is to it.
[11:24] ---
    I see.
[11:26] ---
    Get on with it.
[11:28] ---
    Yes, my lord.
[11:42] ---
    It's pulsing! It's pulsing!
[11:51] ---
    My gorgeous man radar is pulsing!
[12:03] ---
    She said she lost Elizabeth
    somewhere around here...
[12:07] ---
    But why am I with him?!
[12:12] ---
    Take this, my lord. It should be of some use.
[12:18] ---
    For instance?
[12:19] ---
    If necessary, use it to distract
    the enemy while you run away.
[12:26] ---
    Well, no matter.
[12:28] ---
    You're a dog. You can at least
    distinguish scents, can't you?
[12:34] ---
    This is the ribbon from Lizzie's present.
[12:41] ---
    Why you... Do you intend
    to obey only Sebastian?!
[12:51] ---
    Don't start rutting here!
[12:55] ---
    Oh, my! A gentleman in rut?
    My heart's going pitter-patter!
[13:03] ---
    I am a hunter of love.
[13:06] ---
    My heart is ablaze seeing
    studly prey before me!
[13:10] ---
    Red with heat, sending sparks flying!
[13:14] ---
    Red...
[13:19] ---
    I spy a gorgeous man!
[13:34] ---
    You're...!
[13:35] ---
    I'm a more deadly efficient
    butler than I look!☆
[13:41] ---
    Though I am currently without a master...
[13:49] ---
    After the Madam Red incident
    I was temporarily demoted,
[13:53] ---
    and now I'm a lowly assistant.
[13:56] ---
    That brute Will told me he
    won't give me my old post back
[13:59] ---
    until I collect some truly troublesome souls!
[14:01] ---
    That rotten sadist!
[14:04] ---
    Though it's true that food tastes
    better when it's a little rotten...
[14:09] ---
    And those cold eyes do give me a thrill!
[14:13] ---
    But this boy's roughness is very nice, too.
[14:19] ---
    Dear me.
[14:20] ---
    Were you planning
    to avenge your beloved aunt?
[14:25] ---
    Shut up.
[14:26] ---
    I don't see Sebas-chan here.
    What can a little brat like you do?
[14:31] ---
    Shut up!
[14:35] ---
    Oh, is he your knight tonight?
[14:37] ---
    Why does this nipper get
    all the good-looking men?
[14:42] ---
    Ah, he's going to attack!
[14:44] ---
    At least be gentle!
[14:48] ---
    Hey... Well, I never!
[15:04] ---
    Lizzie!
[15:05] ---
    To-Die list, number 493:
[15:09] ---
    butler and puppeteer to
    the house of Mandalay,
[15:13] ---
    Drossel Keinz.
[15:29] ---
    This is...
[15:35] ---
    Lizzie!
[16:01] ---
    Lizzie is definitely in that mansion.
[16:05] ---
    Goodness, what a delightful estate.
[16:11] ---
    This man killed Madam Red.
[16:15] ---
    But right now...
[16:23] ---
    Grell. Protect me.
[16:25] ---
    What?
[16:26] ---
    I'll grant you any request.
[16:29] ---
    Don't be insulting.
[16:31] ---
    I'm not the sort
    of cheap girl you can just pay--
[16:33] ---
    I'll give you leave to do whatever
    you wish with Sebastian for a day.
[16:37] ---
    Hmm? Whatever I wish with Sebas-chan means...
[16:41] ---
    I can even kiss him?!
[16:43] ---
    Do as you like.
[16:45] ---
    W-With tongue?!
[16:47] ---
    Whatever you order him to do.
[16:50] ---
    Suddenly my Fired-Up Meter is
    maxed out! I'm deadly serious!☆
[16:57] ---
    ♪ Build it up with wax and stone,
    wax and stone, wax and stone. ♪
[17:03] ---
    ♪ Build it up with wax and
    stone, my fair lady. ♪
[17:24] ---
    All right, here we go!
[17:34] ---
    Oh, my. Doesn't that ring
    look awfully like yours?
[17:39] ---
    The Hope diamond?
[17:42] ---
    What is this doll?
[17:47] ---
    It couldn't be!
[17:57] ---
    Pluto!
[18:00] ---
    Y-You mongrel!
[18:08] ---
    Now, now. I wish you'd call the right name.
[18:14] ---
    Grell!
[18:16] ---
    Reapers have the tools to harvest souls.
[18:20] ---
    Yes! Death scythes!
[18:25] ---
    Those are... just scissors.
[18:28] ---
    I can't help it! Will took my
    custom death scythe away!
[18:33] ---
    I miss its vibrations so much!
[18:35] ---
    That's it! I'll chop you to bits!
[18:39] ---
    Wait! Don't kill her! She's no doll!
[18:42] ---
    Kiss in the heavens!
[18:55] ---
    Was it a doll after all?
[18:59] ---
    ♪ Wood and clay will wash away,
    wash away, wash away. ♪
[19:09] ---
    This doll was a failure.
[19:14] ---
    So I thought to myself:
[19:17] ---
    "I must make them much, much stronger."
[19:24] ---
    ♪ Build it up with iron and steel,
    iron and steel, iron and steel. ♪
[19:29] ---
    ♪ Build it up with iron
    and steel, my fair lady. ♪
[19:37] ---
    They're...
[19:39] ---
    Hmph! Anyone who stands in the
    way of Sebas-chan's and my love...
[19:44] ---
    Grell!
[19:45] ---
    ...gets this!
[19:52] ---
    Th-They're hard!
[19:55] ---
    Grell, this is an order.
[19:57] ---
    You and Pluto play with the dolls here...
[20:01] ---
    forever.
[20:02] ---
    Huh?
[20:08] ---
    You're going to leave me
    behind?! You're inhuman!
[20:11] ---
    A reaper is calling me that?!
[20:16] ---
    Kidnapped girls and dolls
    that look just like them.
[20:20] ---
    No, those dolls were the girls.
[20:23] ---
    So Elizabeth is...
[20:30] ---
    Ciel Phantomhive.
[20:36] ---
    You are very beautiful.
[20:39] ---
    I must make you into a worthy doll.
[20:44] ---
    Where is Elizabeth?
[20:46] ---
    Now, what shall I make you out of?
[20:49] ---
    Clay will wash away, yet iron
    is far too crude, I say.
[20:54] ---
    So I thought to myself:
[20:57] ---
    ♪ Build it up with silver and gold,
    silver and gold, silver and gold. ♪
[21:03] ---
    ♪ Build it up with silver
    and gold, my fair lady. ♪
[21:10] ---
    ♪ Build it up with silver and gold,
    silver and gold, silver and gold. ♪
[21:15] ---
    ♪ Build it up with silver
    and gold, my fair lady. ♪
[21:20] ---
    ♪ Build it up with silver and gold,
    silver and gold, silver and gold.♪
[21:25] ---
    ♪ Build it up with silver
    and gold, my fair lady. ♪
[21:30] ---
    ♪ Build it up with silver and gold... ♪
[21:44] ---
    Let me out of here!
[21:47] ---
    That day... my birthday...
[21:51] ---
    my life changed.
[21:57] ---
    I will never see a happy birthday again.
[22:06] ---
    However!
[22:09] ---
    Truly, nothing good ever
    happens on your birthday, does it?
[22:16] ---
    You lost your mansion, you lost your parents,
[22:19] ---
    and this time, will you lose Lady Elizabeth?
[22:25] ---
    Sebastian!
[24:04] ---
    His heart is manipulated
    by his horrible memories,
[24:07] ---
    just like a helpless puppet.
[24:10] ---
    Young master, I have no
    interest in such a feeble soul.
[24:15] ---
    Stand tall, look to the sky, and join me...
[24:21] ---
    London Bridge has fallen down!
[24:25] ---
    Next time on Black Butler:
    "His Butler, Forlorn."
[24:26] ---
    "Next Time" "His Butler, Forlorn"
[24:29] ---
    You see, I am merely one hell of a butler.

12 - His Butler, Forlorn

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[00:13] ---
    Ciel...
[00:22] ---
    He disappeared after the fire.
[00:42] ---
    And when he finally came
    back to his estate...
[00:48] ---
    ...he had stopped smiling.
[00:54] ---
    I love Ciel.
[01:00] ---
    I love his smile.
[01:03] ---
    But for some reason, we keep going
    around in circles, getting nowhere.
[01:10] ---
    How can I...
[01:12] ---
    ...see Ciel's smile again?
[01:20] ---
    Ciel...
[01:31] ---
    "Black Butler"
[01:37] ---
    Deai ni iro wa nakute monokuro fukinukeru
[01:44] ---
    Suzushii yubi temaneku mama ni
[01:49] ---
    Toketa ato no yakkai na
    koori mitai na watashi wo
[01:56] ---
    Yasashiku sukutte uwakuchibiru de asobu
[02:04] ---
    Soredemo hitotsu no ai no katachi wo sagasu
[02:10] ---
    Tooku yori mo ima wo musunda kareta hitomi wa
[02:16] ---
    Dekireba kono mama tsutsumarete owaritai
[02:22] ---
    Sono negai wa yoru wa munashiku
    asa wo tsurete kuru
[02:29] ---
    Yasashikute atsukute hikyou na kisu de
[02:36] ---
    Irodotte yo saigo no yoru
[02:39] ---
    Tsuki ga terashiteru
[02:54] ---
    "His Butler, Forlorn"
[03:00] ---
    You lost your mansion, you lost your parents,
[03:05] ---
    and this time, will you lose Lady Elizabeth?
[03:09] ---
    Sebastian!
[03:13] ---
    Take that back, Sebastian.
[03:15] ---
    Take what back?
[03:16] ---
    That jeer!
[03:18] ---
    Young master,
[03:19] ---
    you told me you would be taking
    care of some trifling business.
[03:23] ---
    Was that "business" to dotingly
    savor your wretched past
[03:28] ---
    and wallow in the pleasures of humiliation?
[03:33] ---
    Didn't you say at the frost fair
[03:36] ---
    that your body and your ring
[03:39] ---
    had already been shattered and reborn?
[03:43] ---
    That you were far past
    being afraid of shattering?
[03:47] ---
    That's right. Don't recite
    my words back to me.
[03:52] ---
    --♪ Build it up with iron and steel,
    iron and steel, iron and steel. ♪
[04:00] ---
    --♪ Build it up with iron
    and steel, my fair lady. ♪
[04:03] ---
    --Was Grell defeated?
[04:05] ---
    --I see, so he is controlling
    them with his tone?
[04:09] ---
    In that case...
[04:12] ---
    ♪ Iron and steel will bend and bow ♪
[04:16] ---
    ♪ Bend and bow, bend and bow. ♪
[04:20] ---
    ♪ Iron and steel will bend
    and bow, my fair lady. ♪
[04:26] ---
    ♪ Iron and steel will bend and bow,
    bend and bow, bend and bow. ♪
[04:32] ---
    ♪ Iron and steel will bend
    and bow, my fair lady. ♪
[04:40] ---
    Who are you calling a lady?
[04:43] ---
    Let us depart, young master.
[04:45] ---
    No.
[04:47] ---
    Ciel Phantomhive is my
    master's possession now.
[04:52] ---
    "Possession"? I am not a--
[04:54] ---
    The proof is the ring on your finger.
[04:58] ---
    I can tell.
[05:00] ---
    That Hope piece is a present my master sends
[05:05] ---
    to those who will be made into dolls.
[05:09] ---
    Your master?
[05:10] ---
    Ciel Phantomhive will become a doll.
[05:14] ---
    A doll made of silver and gold.
[05:19] ---
    ♪ Silver and gold will be stolen away,
    stolen away, stolen away. ♪
[05:37] ---
    He was stolen away...
[05:41] ---
    So I thought to myself:
[05:44] ---
    "Ciel Phantomhive will return."
[05:56] ---
    Goodness me.
[06:04] ---
    What about Lizzie?!
    You still haven't saved her?!
[06:08] ---
    I thought I ordered you
    to solve the kidnappings.
[06:12] ---
    Saving Lizzie, who fell victim
    to the kidnappings, is the first--
[06:16] ---
    An order is not the same as a contract.
[06:19] ---
    Just as you give first priority
    to orders from the Queen,
[06:23] ---
    I prioritize your life.
[06:29] ---
    I have devoted myself to your
    service and protection all this time.
[06:38] ---
    I couldn't stand for you
    to be stolen from me now.
[06:46] ---
    Young master?
[06:47] ---
    It would seem the ring is
    the mark of his next target.
[06:52] ---
    And I have two of them.
[06:54] ---
    Protecting me now will no
    doubt require some effort.
[07:01] ---
    Nevertheless, I shall...
[07:07] ---
    Pluto?
[07:08] ---
    I searched every corner of the mansion,
[07:11] ---
    but there was no sign of Lady Elizabeth.
[07:15] ---
    The only place left is that sealed-off tower.
[07:28] ---
    Hey, now! What's the matter with you?!
[07:33] ---
    You two are alive?
[07:37] ---
    Sebas-chan!
[07:43] ---
    Excuse me?!
[07:45] ---
    Wait, could that be... a demon hound?
[07:49] ---
    You just noticed?
[07:53] ---
    Oh la la! A passionate night
    with a beast! How immoral!
[07:59] ---
    You're so wanton.
[08:01] ---
    I've been waiting for you, Pluto.
[08:07] ---
    Once the seal of the
    underworld has been placed on a door,
[08:10] ---
    only a hellhound can open it.
[08:19] ---
    His collar is shining?
[08:21] ---
    So is the door.
[08:35] ---
    Too, too big!
[08:43] ---
    He did it again!
[08:44] ---
    It's all right.
[08:47] ---
    Let's have him guide us.
[09:38] ---
    Lizzie!
[09:45] ---
    Lizzie...
[09:47] ---
    Lizzie!
[09:52] ---
    It looks like we were a little too late.
[09:54] ---
    No...
[09:56] ---
    Lizzie! Lizzie!
[09:58] ---
    Lizzie!
[10:04] ---
    Hmm...?
[10:07] ---
    Lizzie...
[10:09] ---
    Thank goodness.
[10:11] ---
    The ring...
[10:17] ---
    So you were pleased...
[10:22] ---
    Ciel...
[10:29] ---
    Then this was her gift for you.
[10:33] ---
    But it's foolish. Why would you give me...
[10:39] ---
    Yes, why?
[10:43] ---
    Why does her body move
    independent of her will?
[10:49] ---
    And...
[10:52] ---
    Why does she hurt the one she loves?
[10:58] ---
    Elizabeth!
[11:02] ---
    No!
[11:06] ---
    No! No! No!
[11:11] ---
    Grell. You can see this too, can't you?
[11:14] ---
    I suppose. But I might chip my blades, so...
[11:21] ---
    Please.
[11:22] ---
    Oh, Sebas-chan! You're
    asking me for something?
[11:25] ---
    In that case, during the kiss,
    can there be... can there be tongue?!
[11:31] ---
    I haven't the faintest idea what you mean,
[11:33] ---
    but in fact, I can tie a cherry
    stem in a knot with my tongue.
[11:37] ---
    Oh, yes!
[11:42] ---
    It's unforgivable for a little girl like
    you to have a better blade than me.
[11:47] ---
    Stop, Grell!
[11:55] ---
    Elizabeth...
[12:00] ---
    It's a puppet string.
[12:05] ---
    This sharp cut only comes with
    a death scythe. Well, Sebas-chan?
[12:09] ---
    I'm amazing, aren't I?
    Compliment me, compliment me!
[12:13] ---
    Good for you. Not just anyone
    would run with scissors.
[12:16] ---
    Oh, I'm flattered to death!☆
[12:19] ---
    And the puppet string leads to...
[12:25] ---
    So I thought to myself:
[12:32] ---
    "What shall I use to make my new dolls?"
[12:36] ---
    Then I'll ask you this--
    what are you made of?
[12:41] ---
    Hmm? What am I...
[12:45] ---
    made of?
[12:47] ---
    Yes. You see,
[12:50] ---
    you don't seem to be made
    of very high-quality materials.
[12:54] ---
    So I thought to myself:
[12:57] ---
    "I know I must be human,
[13:00] ---
    and yet lately I often find
    termites crawling out of my ears."
[13:18] ---
    Grell.
[13:19] ---
    Ah, a loving collaboration,
    right, Sebas*-chan*?
[13:27] ---
    I sense none of the way or
    the style of a butler in you.
[13:39] ---
    I would never lose to a man without style.
[13:43] ---
    That's my Sebas-chan! So stylish!
[13:46] ---
    So he was a doll, too?
[13:48] ---
    Drossel Keinz. His soul was
    collected five years ago.
[13:53] ---
    But for some reason, we
    detected signs of survival.
[13:57] ---
    Someone must have fitted
    him with a makeshift soul.
[14:04] ---
    Ciel...
[14:06] ---
    Elizabeth! Let's go home.
[14:09] ---
    I want to... give you a birthday party...
[14:19] ---
    Yes... Please do.
[14:30] ---
    You can rest easy. It's all--
[14:33] ---
    It's not all over, it appears.
[14:36] ---
    So I thought to myself:
[14:41] ---
    "I will report to my master."
[14:48] ---
    What's wrong with him?
[14:50] ---
    He's all torn up and he still
    wants to serve his master?
[14:54] ---
    I can understand.
[14:56] ---
    You see, he's merely one hell of a butler.
[14:59] ---
    Mas...ter...
[15:16] ---
    Pluto!
[15:21] ---
    Why is he being so friendly?
[15:23] ---
    I'm very sorry.
[15:25] ---
    My butler is so incompetent,
    I'm unable to offer you hospitality.
[15:30] ---
    So you're behind this.
    Why would you make girls into dolls?
[15:35] ---
    Flowers, eras, and also people
[15:38] ---
    are only beautiful for finite moments.
[15:41] ---
    Dollmaking is noble work,
    preserving in this world
[15:47] ---
    the most beautiful and perfect of people.
[15:51] ---
    You've got awful taste!
    What's so perfect about immature little--
[15:55] ---
    Why are you after me?
[15:58] ---
    I won't be made into a doll
    and lovingly displayed somewhere!
[16:08] ---
    Know your place, boy.
[16:10] ---
    What?
[16:11] ---
    My butler's head is made of straw.
[16:15] ---
    I imagine he couldn't
    understand why I wanted you.
[16:20] ---
    Ciel Phantomhive, you were
    fated to die from your very birth.
[16:27] ---
    Your body is already unclean.
[16:35] ---
    Why do you know that?
[16:39] ---
    I cannot allow someone
    like you to exist in this world.
[16:46] ---
    Unclean, unnecessary, unfruitful...
[16:51] ---
    And therefore I tried to snuff you out.
[16:53] ---
    What?!
[16:54] ---
    Snuff out the unclean.
    The unnecessary, the unfruitful...
[17:00] ---
    Snuff him out! Snuff him out!
    Snuff him out! Snuff him out...!
[17:04] ---
    Don't play games with me!
[17:15] ---
    This is...
[17:34] ---
    Catch it, Sebastian!
[17:36] ---
    The person manipulating it
[17:40] ---
    is not here, my lord.
[17:42] ---
    I now notice that there were
    invisible strings all over the room.
[17:47] ---
    Not a very nice thing, I must say.
[17:56] ---
    Sebas-chan!
[18:00] ---
    Now for our passionate kiss!
[18:05] ---
    What shall we do, young master?
[18:08] ---
    Would you like me to avenge Madam Red now?
[18:11] ---
    F-Fine, I'll leave your lips for next time!
[18:15] ---
    Bye-bye! Smooch!
[18:18] ---
    Stop--
[18:19] ---
    No. Not today.
[18:24] ---
    I don't want the scent of blood to
    reach Elizabeth any more than it has.
[18:37] ---
    Well, now...
[18:39] ---
    It's his birthday today!
[18:42] ---
    That one certainly wouldn't
    be happy about a birthday.
[18:46] ---
    I-I'm sorry, Sir Arthur!
[18:48] ---
    I was looking into the Hope
    diamond, and I got sidetracked...
[18:52] ---
    You're not mistaken to investigate him.
[18:55] ---
    Huh?
[18:56] ---
    He gets special treatment--
[18:58] ---
    he can get information even the Yard can't.
[19:02] ---
    He wags his tail for the Queen
    and marks all territory as his.
[19:07] ---
    The Queen's damned guard dog...
[19:10] ---
    The Queen's...?
[19:20] ---
    Whoever he may be,
[19:23] ---
    can a child who doesn't like
    his birthday truly exist?
[19:34] ---
    Happy birthday, Ciel!
[19:39] ---
    Congratulations!
[19:41] ---
    Congratulations, Ciel.
[19:43] ---
    --Congratulations!
[19:43] ---
    --Congratulations, yes!
SIGN    "Christmas Pudding"
[19:47] ---
    I'll serve the pudding, then.
[19:52] ---
    What a bother. You could
    have cut it in the kitchen.
[20:02] ---
    This is...
[20:04] ---
    It's a Christmas pudding.
    The season is almost upon us, after all.
[20:08] ---
    If your portion contains a ring,
    you are guaranteed happiness.
[20:16] ---
    I'm so glad! He says you'll
    be able to find happiness, Ciel!
[20:20] ---
    I don't--
[20:21] ---
    Paula! Ring the bells!
[20:23] ---
    Yes, my lady!
[20:25] ---
    Jingle, jingle...!
[20:37] ---
    What's wrong with these people?
[20:42] ---
    You see, I wanted Ciel to smile.
[20:48] ---
    I wanted him to be happy... always...
[20:54] ---
    always...
[21:01] ---
    I know, my lady.
[21:08] ---
    To think the ring I cast away
    would come back again...
[21:12] ---
    Regardless of the circumstances,
    it was a gift for you from Lady Elizabeth.
[21:17] ---
    And I will protect you
    to the end, young master.
[21:24] ---
    More importantly, what about that mansion?
[21:28] ---
    It has been empty for quite a while,
    since its owner, the Earl of Mandalay,
[21:32] ---
    has been in a sanatorium for
    long-term convalescents.
[21:35] ---
    I suppose he has nothing
    to do with this, then.
[21:38] ---
    It would seem not.
[21:41] ---
    Then that marking...
[21:47] ---
    What's the matter, my lord?
[21:49] ---
    Nothing. I'm going to bed. I'm tired.
[21:54] ---
    Yes, my lord.
[22:01] ---
    Snuff out the unclean!
    Snuff out the unnecessary!
[22:05] ---
    Snuff out the unfruitful!
    Snuff out the unclean!
[22:09] ---
    Snuff out the unnecessary!
[22:11] ---
    Snuff out the unclean!
[22:13] ---
    --Snuff out the unclean!
[22:13] ---
    --Snuff out the unnecessary.
    Snuff out the unfruitful.
[22:20] ---
    Snuff out the unclean.
[22:30] ---
    Snuff him out.
[24:04] ---
    An odd sort of guest has come
    to us all the way from India.
[24:09] ---
    Prince Soma displays enough immaturity
    to put a certain someone to shame.
[24:14] ---
    He is personally attended by
    a competent butler named Agni.
[24:18] ---
    Young master,
[24:20] ---
    do you suppose this
    sort of pairing is "in" lately?
[24:25] ---
    Next time on Black Butler:
    "His Butler, Freeloader."
[24:26] ---
    "Next Time" "His Butler, Freeloader"
[24:29] ---
    You see, I am merely one hell of a butler.

13 - His Butler, Freeloader

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[00:12] ---
    Gorgeous.
[00:14] ---
    It's cold... Agni, what is this?
[00:18] ---
    It is called "snow," and falls in
    England during the winter, my prince.
[00:22] ---
    Snow?
[00:25] ---
    England, eh? It's a beautiful place.
[00:40] ---
    "Black Butler"
[00:46] ---
    There is no color to our meeting;
    it blows through in monochrome
[00:53] ---
    I go where your cool fingers beckon me
[00:58] ---
    I am like troublesome ice after the melt
[01:05] ---
    You gently scoop me up to your
    mouth and play with my upper lip
[01:13] ---
    Still, I search for a form of love
[01:19] ---
    The dry eyes that shape the
    present rather than a distant time
[01:25] ---
    Want to end like this, cloaked
[01:31] ---
    But the night ignores that
    wish and brings morning
[01:38] ---
    With your gentle,
    passionate, and dastardly kiss
[01:45] ---
     Paint this final night
[01:48] ---
    The moon illuminates us
[02:03] ---
    "His Butler, Freeloader"
[02:08] ---
    "This fellow is the child
    of craziness and laziness.
[02:13] ---
    England is the blasphemous
    country that has taken all,
[02:15] ---
    and forced on us,
    in arrogant ways, its rotten culture.
[02:18] ---
    Retribution should befall the fools
    of the country that the hellcat rules."
[02:23] ---
    This is the twentieth one!
[02:25] ---
    You still can't catch this
    criminal, Abberline?!
[02:29] ---
    I-I apologize, Sir Arthur.
[02:31] ---
    And we couldn't catch Jack the Ripper,
[02:34] ---
    so the brat got all the credit...!
[02:37] ---
    "Brat"? Do you mean Ciel Phantomhive?
[02:41] ---
    I can't help but get the feeling
    that he carries some awful burden.
[02:47] ---
    And he's still just a child...
[02:50] ---
    A child?
[02:52] ---
    So all the victims had just
    come home from India, then?
[02:55] ---
    Ciel?!
[02:57] ---
    No one seems to have died yet.
[03:01] ---
    "The child of craziness and laziness"...
[03:04] ---
    He does have a way with words.
[03:07] ---
    I agree that our country
    would be rather improved
[03:10] ---
    if all these nouveaux riches
    fresh back from India disappeared.
[03:13] ---
    Still, this mark...
[03:16] ---
    He's mocking the Queen and all Englishmen!
[03:20] ---
    He must be Indian!
[03:22] ---
    Ah, so that's why I was called in?
[03:27] ---
    Most of the Indians who've
    come here illegally
[03:29] ---
    hole up in the criminal
    neighborhoods of the East End.
[03:32] ---
    The Yard still hasn't learned their
    exact number or their route, has it?
[03:39] ---
    I can't allow Her Majesty to
    continue suffering such indignity.
[03:44] ---
    Let's go, Sebastian.
[03:46] ---
    Yes, my lord.
[03:54] ---
    I believe the Indians use
    this area as their base.
[03:58] ---
    Yes.
[04:00] ---
    That hurt!
[04:02] ---
    That hurt! I've cracked a rib!
[04:05] ---
    I'm done for! I might die!
[04:07] ---
    Hey, what's wrong?!
[04:08] ---
    That's awful! He needs
    to compensate you for that!
[04:11] ---
    Leave us everything you have.
[04:14] ---
    We've been caught by very clichéd thugs.
[04:17] ---
    What shall we do, young master?
[04:19] ---
    Hurry up and get rid of them.
[04:21] ---
    Certainly.
[04:22] ---
    Everybody in this place hates you Britishers!
[04:30] ---
    Are you hurt?
[04:32] ---
    No.
[04:33] ---
    You little bastard!
[04:35] ---
    You drag us here and then
    you toss us away like rubbish!
[04:39] ---
    You people trampled your
    filth all over our homeland!
[04:43] ---
    Now you find out how
    humiliating it is being looted!
[04:45] ---
    Wait.
[04:47] ---
    I'm looking for someone.
[04:49] ---
    Have you seen an Indian who looks like this?
[04:55] ---
    Who the hell are you?! Stay out of this!
[04:57] ---
    Are you dueling?
[05:01] ---
    He has a khansama with him...
    
[05:04] ---
    Are you an English nobleman?
[05:06] ---
    What if I am?
[05:07] ---
    Then I will side with my countrymen.
[05:11] ---
    Agni!
[05:12] ---
    Yes?
[05:13] ---
    Defeat them.
[05:15] ---
    Jo ājñā.
[05:16] ---
    I shall brandish the right hand the
    heavens bestowed on me for my master.
[05:37] ---
    He's fast.
[05:40] ---
    I've hit your vital points over and over.
[05:43] ---
    A normal person's arms would have
    gone numb. Why can you still move?
[05:47] ---
    We were just walking down the street!
[05:51] ---
    Are Indians savages who will attack
    any Englishman that wanders by?
[05:55] ---
    What?
[05:56] ---
    Did you fellows attack
    Shorty here for no reason?
[06:01] ---
    That's no good. My countrymen
    are in the wrong this time.
[06:05] ---
    Agni! Side with the kid.
[06:08] ---
    At once.
[06:13] ---
    I've finished, Prince Soma.
[06:15] ---
    Good.
[06:17] ---
    Well, then. I'm looking for someone,
    so I'll be on my way.
[06:21] ---
    Ta-ta.
[06:23] ---
    The streets of England
    are too much like a maze!
[06:26] ---
    Let's turn left next.
[06:30] ---
    That was a waste of energy.
[06:32] ---
    One of those Indians might be the criminal.
[06:36] ---
    Let's wait for Sir Arthur to contact us.
[06:39] ---
    Young master.
[06:40] ---
    Welcome home!
[06:42] ---
    Yes!
[06:42] ---
    I'll never get any peace
[06:44] ---
    if I'm called to London
    for every silly little thing.
[06:47] ---
    My lord, you're really here!
[06:51] ---
    You're just dropping in unannounced?!
[06:52] ---
    How often have I told you to at
    least send a note before you visit?!
[06:57] ---
    Ah, I vaguely remember that.
[06:58] ---
    As we have a guest, why don't I serve tea?
[07:03] ---
    Might as well.
[07:04] ---
    I'd rather have chai than English tea.
[07:06] ---
    Might as well.
[07:11] ---
    Wh-Wha...?!
[07:12] ---
    Oh, I met them on a street corner.
[07:15] ---
    They said they wanted to see you.
[07:16] ---
    What are you doing here?!
[07:18] ---
    Why, we're acquaintances now.
[07:21] ---
    Have you forgotten already?
[07:23] ---
    "Acquaintances"?
[07:24] ---
    And I saved you, too.
[07:26] ---
    "Saved"? Excuse me?!
[07:28] ---
    In India, it's the common practice to
    invite your savior home and entertain him.
[07:33] ---
    Is it the British way to kick
    one's savior out into the cold?
[07:38] ---
    Just who are you, anyhow?!
[07:41] ---
    Me?
[07:42] ---
    I'm a prince.
[07:44] ---
    Prince?
[07:45] ---
    This is the 26th child of the king of Bengal,
[07:50] ---
    Prince Soma Asman Kadar.
[07:52] ---
    Thanks for hosting me here, Shorty.
[07:55] ---
    Wow, you're a prince?!
[07:57] ---
    A-A prince!
[07:59] ---
    I've never seen a prince up close before!
[08:02] ---
    You may approach.
[08:05] ---
    What's that "Penkal" place like, yes?!
[08:08] ---
    It's a holy land blessed by the
    goddess Kali and the Ganges River.
[08:13] ---
    So you brought the other
    servants with you this time?
[08:16] ---
    Yes. Our guard dog is watching the mansion.
[08:19] ---
    Ah, that should be all right, then.
[08:24] ---
    Sebastian, don't let them out of your sight.
[08:28] ---
    Very good, my lord.
[08:32] ---
    It's time to wake up, Lord Phantomhive.
[08:35] ---
    "Lord Phantomhive"?
[08:38] ---
    Namaste jī, Lord Phantomhive.
[08:40] ---
    Wh-Why are you in my room?!
[08:43] ---
    We're going out, Shorty. Show us around town.
[08:46] ---
    Why should I?!
[08:48] ---
    And my name isn't "Shorty"! It's "Ciel"!
[08:51] ---
    All right, Ciel, I order you
    to show me around town.
[08:54] ---
    Come.
[08:55] ---
    Pardon me.
[08:57] ---
    My apologies, but my
    master's schedule for the day
[09:00] ---
    is filled with study and work.
[09:05] ---
    I shall be your tutor while
    we are in London, my lord.
[09:12] ---
    Bach's Chaconne?
[09:14] ---
    I can't play something this difficult...
[09:17] ---
    I make the rules here.
[09:19] ---
    Do you have a problem
    with my teaching methods?
[09:32] ---
    Yes, that's very good.
[09:42] ---
    What is that?
[09:47] ---
    They seem to be praying,
    but it's quite a surreal idol, isn't it?
[09:52] ---
    To me it merely looks
    like the statue of a woman
[09:56] ---
    carrying a severed head,
    wearing a necklace of severed heads,
[10:00] ---
    and dancing madly on top
    of a man's stomach...
[10:02] ---
    She is Kali, a goddess of our Hindu faith.
[10:06] ---
    A goddess of India?
[10:08] ---
    Kali is the wife of Shiva
    and the goddess of power.
[10:13] ---
    Long ago, a demon rashly
    challenged her to a fight.
[10:18] ---
    Naturally, she was victorious.
[10:21] ---
    However, afterwards her
    destructive urges were not quelled,
[10:25] ---
    and she abandoned herself
    to destruction and carnage.
[10:28] ---
    But then! To protect the earth,
[10:30] ---
    her husband Shiva threw himself at her feet!
[10:36] ---
    Treading on her husband with her unclean feet
[10:38] ---
    brought Kali back to her senses,
[10:40] ---
    and peace returned to the world.
[10:43] ---
    Kali is a great goddess who defeated
    the demon after a desperate battle.
[10:48] ---
    As proof, she carries the demon's head.
[10:51] ---
    There you have it.
[10:53] ---
    Hmm, I wasn't aware of anyone so strong.
[10:55] ---
    I'll have to take care if I travel to India.
[10:58] ---
    Now, then. Since we're done praying,
    it's time to go out!
[11:02] ---
    I told you, I'm busy!
[11:06] ---
    Honestly, when are you going to finish?
[11:10] ---
    I say, what are you doing?
[11:12] ---
    I say!
[11:14] ---
    Be quiet, you're distracting me!
[11:16] ---
    Britishers are so short-tempered.
[11:20] ---
    All right, fine!
[11:21] ---
    If you want my attention
    that badly, I'll oblige!
[11:26] ---
    Then if I win, you'll go
    out on the town with me.
[11:29] ---
    If you can win.
[11:30] ---
    I wish you luck.
[11:34] ---
    Begin!
[11:37] ---
    You're mine!
[11:40] ---
    It bent?!
[11:42] ---
    Hitting someone's legs
    with a foil has no effect.
[11:45] ---
    You're not fair! I don't know the rules!
[11:48] ---
    A fight is a fight. It's
    your fault for not knowing.
[11:52] ---
    Your Highness, look out!
[12:00] ---
    L-Lord Phantomhive! I'm so sorry.
[12:04] ---
    When I saw the prince losing,
    my reflexes took over...
[12:08] ---
    Good job protecting your
    master, Agni. I commend you.
[12:12] ---
    Agni is my khansama. He belongs to me.
[12:15] ---
    In other words, I win.
[12:17] ---
    B-But...!
[12:18] ---
    My, my.
[12:20] ---
    Butler, it looks like
    you'll have to avenge your master.
[12:26] ---
    For goodness' sake...
[12:28] ---
    This is what you get for provoking
    a novice who doesn't know the rules.
[12:32] ---
    However, as the Phantomhive butler,
[12:36] ---
    I cannot remain quiet when
    someone harms my master.
[12:41] ---
    And more importantly, we're a full
    ten minutes behind schedule now.
[12:43] ---
    That's what you really care about, isn't it?
[12:46] ---
    Interesting. All right, I'll allow a duel.
[12:50] ---
    Agni, in the name of Kali,
    make sure you don't lose.
[12:55] ---
    Sebastian, this is an
    order: shut that brat up!
[13:04] ---
    Jo ājñā.
[13:05] ---
    Yes, my lord.
[14:01] ---
    Good grief. The swords broke.
[14:03] ---
    So it's a draw.
[14:06] ---
    Your khansama's not bad, Ciel.
[14:09] ---
    A draw? Against Sebastian?!
[14:13] ---
    Agni is the best warrior in my palace.
[14:16] ---
    I've never seen anyone fight
    him on equal terms before!
[14:20] ---
    He fought a demon on equal terms...
[14:26] ---
    Sebastian, who is that man?
[14:30] ---
    Don't tell me he's another...
[14:31] ---
    I'm a more deadly efficient
    butler than I look!☆
[14:32] ---
    No, he's a deadly human.☆
[14:36] ---
    I see... But with that much power...
[14:40] ---
    Yes. He could easily hang men upside-down.
[14:46] ---
    All right! Today I'll whip up my very best--
[14:50] ---
    I'll cook.
[14:52] ---
    You behave yourself.
[14:55] ---
    Excuse me?! I was going to make my special--
[14:59] ---
    Sebastian?
[15:01] ---
    I was wondering
    if I could be of any service.
[15:04] ---
    You just relax and enjoy yourself.
[15:07] ---
    Two can work much faster than one.
[15:10] ---
    Please, ask me for anything.
[15:12] ---
    In that case, could you make a cottage pie
[15:14] ---
    and some gooseberry sauce
    for tonight's main dish?
[15:18] ---
    Of course.
[15:19] ---
    Hey! Why are you letting
    him cook but not the chef?!
[15:23] ---
    Hey, are you listening to me?!
[15:24] ---
    So much to do, so much to do...
[15:35] ---
    Chef? Mr. Chef?
[15:38] ---
    "Chef"? You mean me?!
[15:41] ---
    Yes.
[15:43] ---
    Chef...
[15:45] ---
    I'm not accustomed to English cooking.
[15:48] ---
    Might I ask for your help?
[15:50] ---
    S-Sure! Leave it to me!
[15:57] ---
    What's for supper?
[15:59] ---
    Perfect timing, young man!
[16:02] ---
    Would you help us prepare the evening meal?
[16:04] ---
    What? Me?
[16:06] ---
    But I don't know my own strength,
[16:09] ---
    so Sebastian says I can't
    touch the kitchen stuff...
[16:12] ---
    So you're strong. Excellent!
[16:14] ---
    We need to mash and
    then puree these potatoes,
[16:17] ---
    but it's a lot of work.
[16:19] ---
    Even I might be able to do that!
[16:22] ---
    I want to! Please let me!
[16:30] ---
    Look out!
[16:33] ---
    Are you hurt, Miss Maid?
[16:35] ---
    No, no!
[16:37] ---
    Perhaps it would be best if you
    took down the plates one at a time.
[16:42] ---
    Y-Yes, yes!
[16:44] ---
    How is it coming along, Agni?
[16:54] ---
    Thanks to everyone's help,
    I believe it will be delicious.
[17:01] ---
    I'm amazed you got them to help.
[17:05] ---
    Everyone is born with their own talents.
[17:09] ---
    They have a path and a duty
    revealed by the gods.
[17:12] ---
    We children of the Divine Mother
    need only to follow her will
[17:15] ---
    and do our appointed tasks.
[17:17] ---
    You are a man of fine character.
[17:20] ---
    Not at all.
[17:21] ---
    I was a hopeless
    fool before I met the prince.
[17:27] ---
    I owe him more than I can ever repay.
[17:30] ---
    I hurt people, blasphemed against the gods,
[17:34] ---
    committed crime upon crime.
[17:36] ---
    And the day finally came
    for me to be punished.
[17:42] ---
    I had no particular attachment to this world.
[17:45] ---
    You there! I hear you're a wild
    man as strong as a beast of prey.
[17:49] ---
    Interesting!
[17:57] ---
    As of now, the man you were is dead.
[18:00] ---
    It's time to be reborn with
    a new name and a new life!
[18:03] ---
    I didn't even believe in the gods.
[18:06] ---
    I had forsaken everything, and yet...
[18:08] ---
    Do you understand, Agni?
[18:11] ---
    A god appeared before me!
[18:14] ---
    That day, I plainly saw the divine in him,
[18:17] ---
    in all its sublime radiance!
[18:21] ---
    Agni, your pot is boiling over.
[18:23] ---
    The prince is my sovereign and my god.
[18:26] ---
    He gave me new life; I want
    to protect him with my life
[18:30] ---
    and make as many of his
    wishes as I can come true.
[18:36] ---
    The actual gods are a bunch of
    good-for-nothings, if you ask me.
[18:41] ---
    Pardon?
[18:42] ---
    Oh, nothing.
[18:49] ---
    How long do you people intend to stay here?!
[18:52] ---
    We'll leave when our business is finished.
[18:54] ---
    Come to think of it, you said you
    were searching for someone, right?
[18:57] ---
    And why are you staying here too?
[18:59] ---
    An interesting question.
[19:01] ---
    I'm looking for a woman.
[19:03] ---
    Her name is Mina.
[19:05] ---
    She was a servant at my palace.
[19:07] ---
    Sebastian, does that
    give you enough to find her?
[19:11] ---
    Even I can't do much with this...
[19:14] ---
    I'll try my best.
[19:15] ---
    And? What is she doing in England?
[19:18] ---
    Mina was my attendant...
[19:21] ---
    more or less my nursemaid.
[19:23] ---
    She'd been with me ever
    since I could remember.
[19:26] ---
    My father and mother
    never even looked my way.
[19:30] ---
    I was always alone in the palace...
[19:32] ---
    But Mina always stayed at my side.
[19:36] ---
    But... a British nobleman with his eye on her
[19:40] ---
    kidnapped her and took her
    to England while I was away!
[19:44] ---
    In other words, you came
    here to get this woman back?
[19:48] ---
    Yes. I'll get her back and bring
    her home with me, no matter what!
[19:51] ---
    That's a lot of fuss over one servant.
[19:54] ---
    No, it's not!
[19:57] ---
    Can you even comprehend my
    despair at being separated from her?!
[20:00] ---
    Can you imagine how much I--
[20:02] ---
    No, I can't.
[20:03] ---
    The kind of trifling despair
    something like that could inspire?
[20:09] ---
    I can't understand it, and I don't care to.
[20:16] ---
    Some things no amount
    of struggling will get back.
[20:20] ---
    And some despair can't ever be escaped.
[20:24] ---
    Maybe you can't understand that, though.
[20:30] ---
    But... But still, I don't want this!
[20:34] ---
    I don't want to be alone in that palace!
[20:37] ---
    No amount of struggling will get it back.
[20:50] ---
    Even you must know how to play Old Maid.
[20:56] ---
    I'm finished for today.
[20:59] ---
    I'll play with you until bedtime.
[21:03] ---
    Ciel...
[21:04] ---
    It's not to make you happy.
[21:07] ---
    I'm just keeping you
    company because I'm bored.
[21:13] ---
    Sorry, but I have plans.
[21:17] ---
    Unlike you, I'm a busy man.
[21:19] ---
    Agni! We're going out.
[21:21] ---
    Yes, Your Highness.
[21:28] ---
    If you don't go to bed early,
    you'll never get taller, Shorty!
[21:32] ---
    Ta-ta!
[21:38] ---
    Oh, there you are. Say, my lord...
[21:42] ---
    What?!
[21:44] ---
    No clues today either, eh?
[21:46] ---
    Let's go looking again tomorrow.
[21:52] ---
    So they're back.
[21:53] ---
    I have to say those two are very suspicious.
[21:56] ---
    Well, yes, but I don't see how
    they'd benefit from those crimes.
[22:01] ---
    They don't seem to bear much
    of a grudge over colonial rule.
[22:06] ---
    And if they are doing it,
[22:08] ---
    would they waltz right by me on
    their way to commit the crimes?
[22:12] ---
    It's like begging me to suspect them.
[22:14] ---
    True. Then maybe they really
    are just looking for someone?
[22:19] ---
    It's still too soon to say.
[22:28] ---
    I knew he'd make a move.
[24:05] ---
    The true face of Agni that no one knows...
[24:08] ---
    A deer?
[24:10] ---
    No matter what reasons he may have,
[24:12] ---
    hiding things from his master
    disqualifies him as a butler.
[24:15] ---
    There's nothing hidden behind my face.
[24:19] ---
    If you like, you can peel it off and see.
[24:22] ---
    Here we go-- peel!
[24:24] ---
    Next time on Black Butler:
    "His Butler, Supremely Talented."
[24:26] ---
    "Next time" "His Butler, Supremely Talented."

14 - His Butler, Supremely Talented

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[00:12] ---
    He's on the move, young master.
[00:14] ---
    All right. Let's follow him.
[00:16] ---
    Take me with you!
[00:18] ---
    You...?!
[00:19] ---
    I've known all along that Agni
    was going out after I went to bed.
[00:23] ---
    I want to know what he's doing!
[00:36] ---
    "Black Butler"
[00:42] ---
    Since then, I've actually
    come to like the night somewhat
[00:49] ---
    In a sea of dependence,
    I forget even to breathe
[00:54] ---
    When I'm right on the verge
    of losing my head over you
[00:57] ---
    You just leave me lukewarm
[01:01] ---
    The aesthetic of leave-taking
    despises a self-satisfied kiss
[01:09] ---
    Don't leave me alone, show me
    compassion, paint me with death
[01:15] ---
    In your room, all words slip away
[01:21] ---
    I want to end like this, cloaked
[01:27] ---
    But the night ignores
    that wish and brings morning
[01:34] ---
    With your gentle,
    passionate, and dastardly kiss
[01:41] ---
    Paint this final night
[01:44] ---
    The moon illuminates us
[01:59] ---
    "His Butler, Supremely Talented"
[02:05] ---
    Who lives here?
[02:07] ---
    This is Harold West Jeb's estate.
[02:10] ---
    He handles a wide range of
    import goods from India.
[02:13] ---
    He also owns stores, a
    coffeehouse, and the like.
[02:16] ---
    I've met him once.
[02:18] ---
    He's disgustingly obsessed with status.
[02:21] ---
    People at his coffeehouse were
    trussed and hung upside-down,
[02:26] ---
    but since Mr. West, its representative,
    happened to be away,
[02:30] ---
    he escaped unharmed.
[02:32] ---
    Happened to be away, eh?
[02:35] ---
    Shall we have a look?
[02:37] ---
    Very good, my lord.
[02:49] ---
    Why not have a Scotch and relax?
[02:53] ---
    It's top-notch Scotch
    from Justerini & Brooks,
[02:56] ---
    holders of the Royal Warrant.
[03:00] ---
    Our plans so far have been perfect.
[03:04] ---
    You've done well for me, Agni.
[03:07] ---
    You don't have to string up any more people.
[03:09] ---
    We've crushed all of my major rivals.
[03:14] ---
    With this godly right hand,
[03:16] ---
    the Royal Warrant is as good as mine.
[03:20] ---
    Royal Warrant?
[03:23] ---
    So that's what this is about.
[03:24] ---
    And if I carry out this
    plan as promised, Mina will...?
[03:29] ---
    Mina?!
[03:31] ---
    Who are you?!
[03:32] ---
    Prince Soma!
[03:35] ---
    They'll recognize us.
[03:38] ---
    Let's watch and wait.
[03:40] ---
    Agni! You've known where Mina was?!
[03:44] ---
    Oh, so that's your master?
[03:49] ---
    You must be the one who took Mina away!
[03:52] ---
    Agni! Defeat him!
[03:57] ---
    Agni, what are you waiting for?
[04:00] ---
    We'll take that stupid prince
    and withdraw for now.
[04:04] ---
    But West will recognize the two of you.
[04:07] ---
    Please, leave it to me.
[04:08] ---
    Agni, hit him to make him shut up.
[04:12] ---
    What?!
[04:17] ---
    Agni.
[04:24] ---
    Agni!
[04:31] ---
    "Deer"
[04:33] ---
    --"A deer?"
[04:33] ---
    --A deer?
[04:36] ---
    Wh-Who the devil is this deer man?!
[04:40] ---
    I am a deer who has come
    to take this prince home.
[04:45] ---
    H-He might be an enemy spy!
[04:47] ---
    Agni!
[04:49] ---
    No, I am merely one hell of a deer--
[04:51] ---
    Kill him!
[04:53] ---
    You don't mind if your
    promise goes to waste?!
[04:56] ---
    Do it!
[05:03] ---
    I have only one god...
[05:05] ---
    only one master.
[05:08] ---
    I vowed to myself that I'd only
    brandish this fist for my god's sake.
[05:12] ---
    For the crime of betraying that god...
[05:15] ---
    Please forgive me!
[05:16] ---
    Agni, don't tell me you're...?
[05:30] ---
    The crystal glasses I bought at Thomas Goode!
[05:32] ---
    My Royal Worcester centerpiece!
[05:34] ---
    --My Tiffany stained glass!
[05:36] ---
    --It looks like trouble in there.
[05:40] ---
    Let's make our escape.
[05:42] ---
    Hey! We'll attract attention
    if this commotion keeps up!
[05:45] ---
    Take him and get out of here!
[05:48] ---
    Certainly.
[05:59] ---
    That man was superhuman.
[06:03] ---
    It's Samadhi, a state
    of mental concentration.
[06:07] ---
    When he gets like that, no one can touch him.
[06:09] ---
    "Samadhi"?
[06:10] ---
    I imagine it's a type of trance.
[06:13] ---
    He's producing superhuman power
[06:17] ---
    through his absolute faith in his master.
[06:20] ---
    It's the power of faith, born from
    believing in and loving someone.
[06:24] ---
    A power we can never have.
[06:27] ---
    Then why would he betray me?
[06:30] ---
    Why do the people close to me always leave?!
[06:36] ---
    Why, you...
[06:39] ---
    Why? Why?!
[06:45] ---
    Oh, just look at the
    Haviland tea set I ordered
[06:50] ---
    thinking it would suit my lord...
[06:52] ---
    It would seem I must retrain him a little.
[07:10] ---
    How rude!
[07:11] ---
    Which of us is the rude one?
[07:13] ---
    This is England, and the residence
    of the Earl Phantomhive.
[07:17] ---
    You have no right to give me any orders here.
[07:22] ---
    You're just an ordinary brat.
[07:25] ---
    You're a helpless child who
    can't do anything without Agni.
[07:29] ---
    And even he, your pillar of strength,
    has betrayed you.
[07:32] ---
    You're right. I have nothing now.
[07:36] ---
    I've lost everything.
[07:40] ---
    Lost? What a tiresome
    persecution mania you have.
[07:44] ---
    You didn't "lose" anything.
[07:47] ---
    You never had anything to
    begin with, isn't that right?
[07:50] ---
    What?
[07:53] ---
    The status you got from your parents.
[07:55] ---
    The castle you got from your parents.
[07:57] ---
    The servant you got from your parents.
[08:00] ---
    You've never owned a single
    thing in your life.
[08:05] ---
    Am I right?
[08:06] ---
    You're wrong...
[08:08] ---
    The truth is, some part
    of you knew about Agni.
[08:12] ---
    But you didn't even have the
    courage to find out on your own.
[08:15] ---
    You're wrong...
[08:17] ---
    You're wrong! You're wrong! You're wrong!
[08:25] ---
    You know I'm not wrong.
[08:27] ---
    Posing as the tragic hero
[08:29] ---
    now that you've been forced to see reality?
[08:32] ---
    You're truly a hopeless brat.
[08:37] ---
    They all promised they'd
    stay with me forever...
[08:39] ---
    That was lip service, obviously.
[08:42] ---
    They wouldn't serve someone
    they got nothing from in return.
[08:46] ---
    In the slums, even a
    three-year-old would know that.
[08:49] ---
    No one actually loved you.
[08:53] ---
    That's enough of that.
[08:55] ---
    Young master?
[08:56] ---
    Maybe I would've been the same way,
[09:00] ---
    if it hadn't been for that month.
[09:05] ---
    "That month"?
[09:07] ---
    My family was killed,
    my home was burned down,
[09:11] ---
    and I suffered humiliation
    worse than you'd inflict on a beast.
[09:15] ---
    I was helpless. A child.
[09:18] ---
    But I came back here,
[09:20] ---
    to make the people who did all that
    to me suffer the same humiliation.
[09:25] ---
    If the Phantomhives
[09:27] ---
    are a nuisance
    to those who killed my parents,
[09:33] ---
    then if I stay the family head,
    they'll eventually come after me.
[09:38] ---
    I'm waiting for them to come here to kill me.
[09:43] ---
    Why would you go that far?
[09:46] ---
    What good would melancholy and grief do me?
[09:50] ---
    Even a dead person can
    stand still and do nothing.
[09:53] ---
    But I'm alive and standing on my own power.
[09:57] ---
    If I'm going to die someday,
    I might as well do it without regrets.
[10:01] ---
    I won't use high-sounding
    words like "revenge."
[10:04] ---
    This is all just to please me.
[10:06] ---
    It's a game to see whether I win or they win.
[10:11] ---
    Even if I'm plunged to the depths of despair,
[10:15] ---
    if there's a spider's thread
    there that I can crawl up,
[10:18] ---
    I'll take hold of it without giving up.
[10:21] ---
    We humans have the strength for that.
[10:26] ---
    It's up to each person whether
    they grab the thread or not, though.
[10:30] ---
    Enough idle talk.
[10:32] ---
    Sebastian, I need to talk to you about West.
[10:35] ---
    Come.
[10:36] ---
    Of course.
[10:39] ---
    It's up to each person whether
    they grab it or not...
[10:43] ---
    Ciel!
[10:45] ---
    I'm seventeen, but compared to
    you I'm so stupid and ignorant!
[10:50] ---
    I've just let myself be spoiled by
    the easy life my parents gave me...
[10:55] ---
    I knew Agni was worrying about something,
[10:57] ---
    yet I didn't even ask him about it!
[11:00] ---
    But I want to know now.
[11:02] ---
    I want to see them both in person
    and find out for sure why they left me!
[11:06] ---
    So please! Let me come with you!
[11:09] ---
    No.
[11:09] ---
    "Ruthless"
[11:11] ---
    I don't want to chaperone
    a simpleton like you.
[11:15] ---
    Still, it's not as though the
    drawing room door has a lock.
[11:21] ---
    Ciel!
[11:24] ---
    I'm sorry I vented by
    breaking the cups earlier.
[11:28] ---
    Please forgive me.
[11:31] ---
    I-I'm sorry to you too...
[11:34] ---
    Don't mention it. I find you interesting.
[11:39] ---
    I didn't predict that West
    would be after a Royal Warrant.
[11:42] ---
    Though it is something a man
    obsessed with status would think of...
[11:46] ---
    What is a Royal Warrant?
[11:50] ---
    It's when the royal family officially
    endorses their favorite shops.
[11:54] ---
    The Royal Warrant holders
    are purveyors to the Crown.
[11:58] ---
    One week from now, a curry
    exhibition will be held
[12:03] ---
    as part of the festivities
    at the Crystal Palace.
[12:06] ---
    Curry?
[12:07] ---
    Yes. I'm told that Her Majesty,
    a celebrated lover of curry,
[12:11] ---
    will be in attendance.
[12:13] ---
    It's just a rumor.
[12:15] ---
    Ever since her husband Prince Albert died,
[12:19] ---
    she almost never appears in public.
[12:21] ---
    What's the connection between
    the curry exhibition and the crimes?
[12:25] ---
    Curry is the main attraction
    at West's coffeehouse.
[12:29] ---
    If he gets a Royal Warrant for his curry,
    his sales are certain to go up.
[12:34] ---
    In other words, he was using
    Agni to commit those crimes
[12:38] ---
    in order to crush his
    rivals in the curry show.
[12:42] ---
    Those insults to England were
    written to make us think
[12:46] ---
    it was done by an Indian with
    a grudge against the British.
[12:51] ---
    He used Mina
[12:53] ---
    to make Agni do his dirty work, I imagine...
[12:58] ---
    For the sake of his god.
[13:02] ---
    Your people worship Kali, the
    goddess who sticks out her tongue.
[13:06] ---
    And Agni, the man who drew this, worships...
[13:10] ---
    He did it all for you.
[13:12] ---
    I suppose he poured all his prayer
    and apology into those letters.
[13:15] ---
    Even after leaving you,
[13:18] ---
    Agni believes in you and lives for you.
[13:22] ---
    You have a fine butler.
[13:25] ---
    Agni!
[13:27] ---
    Well, what a happy ending!
[13:30] ---
    All right, our work here is done.
[13:33] ---
    Now we can leave the rest to the Yard...
[13:35] ---
    Wait! Then what will happen to Agni and Mina?
[13:39] ---
    Who knows?
[13:40] ---
    We've established the criminal
    underworld isn't behind this.
[13:43] ---
    It has nothing to do with us.
[13:46] ---
    I know this is my problem.
[13:50] ---
    I'll try to think of a
    way to solve it myself.
[13:53] ---
    Excellent attitude.
[13:54] ---
    I suppose I'll do my duty as well, then.
[13:58] ---
    I was called to London in the
    winter because of these silly crimes.
[14:02] ---
    Don't you think I deserve a
    little something for that?
[14:07] ---
    Fortunately, thanks to West,
[14:10] ---
    the famous curry places won't
    be able to enter the competition.
[14:15] ---
    So if our company enters
    and wins against West,
[14:20] ---
    the Royal Warrant is ours.
[14:24] ---
    I'd just been thinking of
    expanding the business into foodstuffs.
[14:28] ---
    If I start by winning a
    Warrant in the curry show,
[14:32] ---
    it's sure to generate buzz.
[14:34] ---
    But you only have a week.
[14:36] ---
    Can you get your curry experts
    and equipment in time?
[14:40] ---
    I don't need those.
[14:42] ---
    Do I, Sebastian?
[14:47] ---
    A Phantomhive butler who can't
    do that much isn't worth his salt.
[14:52] ---
    I promise you I will get
    a Royal Warrant for--
[14:54] ---
    That's impossible.
[14:55] ---
    There's no way you could win.
[14:57] ---
    They have Agni!
[15:00] ---
    He has the godly right hand of Kali!
[15:16] ---
    Yes, Agni is a remarkable fighter,
[15:19] ---
    but this isn't a combat sport;
    it's a cooking competition.
[15:23] ---
    That's my point.
[15:24] ---
    You don't know Agni's true power.
[15:28] ---
    You don't know true curry!
[15:30] ---
    "True curry"?
[15:36] ---
    The key to curry is the mixture of spices.
[15:38] ---
    The possibilities are infinite.
[15:40] ---
    Choosing the best combination among
    them is an extremely difficult task.
[15:45] ---
    It's like trying to find one
    truth in a vast universe.
[15:48] ---
    But Agni can do it.
[15:51] ---
    He creates worlds out of nothingness.
[15:53] ---
    His power is on the same plane as the gods'.
[15:55] ---
    That's why the people have called him...
[15:59] ---
    ...the Godly Right Hand of Kali!
[16:03] ---
    I've never tasted a curry
    more delicious than Agni's.
[16:07] ---
    I see. So his is the curry of Kali!
[16:14] ---
    You heard the man.
[16:18] ---
    Goodness gracious, he
    sounds like a challenge.
[16:24] ---
    D-Did you make all these yourself?!
[16:27] ---
    Yes.
[16:28] ---
    You're the only one who knows Agni's curry.
[16:31] ---
    I'd like your help to
    make a more divine curry
[16:35] ---
    as soon as possible.
[16:39] ---
    A-All right.
[16:40] ---
    If my eating curry will be useful,
    I'll eat as much as you please!
[16:45] ---
    Thank you.
[16:46] ---
    This is for Mina and Agni!
[16:51] ---
    Thanks to you, every last
    rival has withdrawn.
[16:55] ---
    The only ones left are third-rate
    brands I've never heard of
[16:59] ---
    and a toy company popular with kids.
[17:03] ---
    Funtom Company? Could the prince be...?
[17:06] ---
    Don't worry. No one could
    defeat your godly right hand.
[17:12] ---
    My prince...
[17:15] ---
    Pardon me.
SIGN    "Gâteau au Chocolat"
[17:18] ---
    I've made gâteau au
    chocolat for today's tea.
[17:21] ---
    Get the sabre I wear to
    audiences with Her Majesty.
[17:25] ---
    You insist she won't come,
    but you dress up anyway.
[17:28] ---
    The Queen's guard dog is as
    well-trained as one would wish.
[17:31] ---
    Have you managed to make a
    curry better than Agni's?
[17:34] ---
    No,
SIGN    "Collapse"
[17:35] ---
    according to the prince,
    something is still lacking.
[17:39] ---
    Then you haven't got the
    time to be baking cakes.
[17:43] ---
    Get back to the kitchen.
[17:45] ---
    Very good, my lord.
[17:46] ---
    I'm not in the mood for chocolate right now.
[17:49] ---
    Drop it in the curry or something.
[17:51] ---
    Yes, my lord.
[18:00] ---
    Until that day, I didn't believe in gods.
[18:05] ---
    I was born into the highest caste,
[18:07] ---
    the Brahmins who serve the gods,
[18:10] ---
    but seeing the greed and
    snobbery of my father,
[18:13] ---
    I couldn't bring myself to believe.
[18:16] ---
    And all the crimes I committed led me to...
[18:23] ---
    As of now, the man you were is dead.
[18:26] ---
    It's time to be reborn with
    a new name and a new life!
[18:30] ---
    He made me see that the
    divine was within him.
[18:34] ---
    Do you understand, Agni?
[18:38] ---
    I vowed I'd only brandish
    this fist for my god's sake...
[18:56] ---
    Is this outfit in worn deference
    to the Queen as well, my lord?
[18:59] ---
    Never mind the unnecessary chitchat.
[19:01] ---
    I take it you really can beat Agni?
[19:04] ---
    Of course.
[19:06] ---
    I swear on the name Phantomhive
[19:08] ---
    that I shall win a Royal Warrant.
[19:20] ---
    Well then, I have preparations
    to make, so I'll excuse myself.
[19:26] ---
    --See you later!
[19:26] ---
    --Get the job done! Heh, heh!
[19:35] ---
    Sebastian!
[19:43] ---
    Mina!
[19:46] ---
    Prince Soma...?
[19:49] ---
    Mina!
[19:50] ---
    Thank goodness! Agni got you back!
[19:54] ---
    You don't need to worry now.
    Let's go back to the palace together!
[19:58] ---
    Your Highness?
[20:01] ---
    What are you, stupid?
[20:04] ---
    Go home with you? Don't make me laugh!
[20:07] ---
    Why the devil should I go back there?
[20:10] ---
    I went to all this trouble to escape India.
[20:13] ---
    Some people can play all day and never
    work just because they were born royal.
[20:17] ---
    But I have to be a servant
    until I die because of my caste!
[20:22] ---
    I don't want to live my whole
    life chained by the caste system!
[20:25] ---
    Then you... wanted to go with West...?
[20:29] ---
    Yes!
[20:30] ---
    A lowly servant, or a rich man's wife!
[20:33] ---
    Even a child would know which one is better!
[20:35] ---
    And I've had enough of taking
    care of you, you spoiled brat!
[20:40] ---
    I promised not to tell you,
    but seeing your face...
[20:45] ---
    You're old enough to know the truth.
[20:52] ---
    Mina promised me that she'd act
    like her old self in front of the prince
[20:56] ---
    if I would obey West's orders.
[21:01] ---
    If my innocent prince found
    out how Mina really feels...
[21:04] ---
    So that's what this was about.
[21:06] ---
    So I can't lose!
[21:11] ---
    What a coincidence. I feel the same way.
[21:21] ---
    I can't win with the flavor I have now.
[21:23] ---
    Something is missing! Something is...
[21:28] ---
    You seem troubled.
[21:31] ---
    Please use this, if you like.
[21:41] ---
    This is...
[21:47] ---
    Thank you for waiting, everyone!
[21:49] ---
    It's time for the Curry Festival,
    put on by The Best of London Curry!
[21:56] ---
    Look, it's him again.
[21:59] ---
    Attention-seeker.
[22:03] ---
    Prince Soma, can't you stand
    to even see my face anymore?
[22:09] ---
    No, no, I have to focus on
    the competition right now.
[22:13] ---
    And now, let the cooking be--
[22:16] ---
    What is it?
[22:18] ---
    This is...
[22:27] ---
    Her Majesty!
[22:49] ---
    The moonlight that reveals
    sorrow was coldly illuminating
[22:56] ---
    The despair and the future
    which grew intimate in the dark
[23:06] ---
    With the secret you gave me as my guide
[23:13] ---
    I move through the blue night's stillness
[23:20] ---
    Lacrimosa, I want to love once again
[23:27] ---
    The dazzling world that
    crumbled and vanished in the distance
[23:35] ---
    I'll hide my dreams within my eyes
[23:42] ---
    Until the tears fall on my sullied heart
[24:04] ---
    Spice is nice!
[24:09] ---
    Please, never mind me. I
    was just talking to myself.
[24:13] ---
    A Phantomhive butler who can't
    make curry isn't worth his cumin.
[24:19] ---
    Even apples and honey curry favor with me.
[24:25] ---
    Next time on Black Butler:
    "His Butler, Competing."
[24:26] ---
    "Next Time" "His Butler, Competing"
[24:29] ---
    You see, I am merely one hell of a butler.

15 - His Butler, Competing

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[00:18] ---
    My word!
[00:19] ---
    Her Majesty Queen Victoria,
    mother of England,
[00:23] ---
    has favored us with her honored presence!
[00:29] ---
    It's Her Majesty...
[00:31] ---
    I can't believe she really came!
[00:33] ---
    She seems to have lost
    quite a bit of weight...
[00:37] ---
    ♪ God save our gracious Queen ♪
[00:41] ---
    ♪ Long live our noble Queen ♪
[00:46] ---
    ♪ God save the Queen! ♪
[00:51] ---
    ♪ Send her victorious ♪
[00:56] ---
    ♪ Happy and glorious ♪
[01:00] ---
    ♪ Long to reign over us ♪
[01:05] ---
    ♪ God save the Queen! ♪
[01:18] ---
    Her Majesty bids me tell you,
[01:20] ---
    "I apologize for my inability
    to appear before you for so long.
[01:24] ---
    However, I am now in such perfect health
[01:27] ---
    that I may even enjoy curry again.
[01:29] ---
    My late husband Albert was
    very fond of curry as well.
[01:34] ---
    I look forward to examining
    the fruits of your labors."
[01:40] ---
    And with that, allez cuisine!
[01:51] ---
    "Black Butler"
[01:57] ---
    Since then, I've actually
    come to like the night somewhat
[02:04] ---
    In a sea of dependence,
    I forget even to breathe
[02:09] ---
    When I'm right on the verge
    of losing my head over you
[02:12] ---
    You just leave me lukewarm
[02:16] ---
    The aesthetic of leave-taking
    despises a self-satisfied kiss
[02:24] ---
    Don't leave me alone, show me
    compassion, paint me with death
[02:30] ---
    In your room, all words slip away
[02:36] ---
    I want to end like this, cloaked
[02:42] ---
    But the night ignores that
    wish and brings morning
[02:49] ---
    With your gentle,
    passionate, and dastardly kiss
[02:56] ---
    Paint this final night
[02:59] ---
    The moon illuminates us
[03:14] ---
    "His Butler, Competing"
[03:24] ---
    So it's started?
[03:29] ---
    What are you, stupid?
[03:33] ---
    Prince Soma, my god...
[03:38] ---
    I'll use my power for your sake!
[03:44] ---
    By Jove! That Indian's right hand
    is like an independent creature!
[03:48] ---
    And what a lovely smell!
[03:51] ---
    This is the Godly Right Hand of Kali!
[03:54] ---
    I should win handily--
[03:59] ---
    Funtom is amazing, too!
[04:01] ---
    And the smell is just as good!
[04:03] ---
    That blasted butler...
[04:06] ---
    I say, what is he doing?!
[04:10] ---
    Don't tell me that's...
[04:13] ---
    ...chocolate?!
[04:15] ---
    Chocolate in curry?
[04:16] ---
    What is he thinking?
[04:18] ---
    Revolting!
[04:21] ---
    Just what I'd expect from
    Funtom, the confectionery!
[04:23] ---
    What unconventional publicity!
[04:27] ---
    No, that's a legitimate seasoning.
[04:32] ---
    The blend of cacao, oil, milk, and
    sugar provides aroma and bitterness,
[04:36] ---
    and gives it a mellow, full-bodied flavor!
[04:42] ---
    Where did an Englishman
    like you get such an idea?
[04:47] ---
    My master ordered me to do it.
[04:51] ---
    Drop it in the curry or something.
[04:53] ---
    I carry out my master's orders,
[04:55] ---
    no matter how unreasonable they may be.
[04:59] ---
    You see, I am merely one hell of a butler.
[05:03] ---
    It's all in the phrasing, eh?
[05:05] ---
    Was that supposed to be sarcasm?
[05:15] ---
    What a bond between master and servant...
[05:21] ---
    Your Highness, I see you
    truly won't forgive me.
[05:25] ---
    But that's precisely why I must not lose!
[05:30] ---
    What's that?!
[05:32] ---
    A blue lobster?
[05:34] ---
    Homard bleu!
[05:36] ---
    It's the legendary blue
    lobster said to only exist
[05:39] ---
    in the clear seas of Brittany!
[05:41] ---
    Encased in a shell whose
    brilliance rivals even Chartres Blue,
[05:45] ---
    it is like a beautiful lady in a blue dress!
[05:49] ---
    And the body beneath that dress
[05:51] ---
    is known to mesmerize people
    with its fine and delicate sweetness!
[05:55] ---
    Did you see that? Mine is
    truly the choicest brand of curry!
[05:59] ---
    Cheap, unorthodox flavorings pose no threat!
[06:03] ---
    Sebastian, I shall devote
    everything I have to defeating you!
[06:19] ---
    Your time is up!
[06:21] ---
    And now for the judging.
[06:23] ---
    First we have Parson Tubb
    & Company's beef curry!
[06:27] ---
    The beef is cut thickly
    and portioned generously.
[06:31] ---
    Quite a sumptuous recipe.
[06:33] ---
    However, this dull flavor and aroma...
[06:37] ---
    The idea of a professional chef
    using curry powder is outrageous!
[06:44] ---
    I take it Dhol & Company
    blends its own spices?
[06:47] ---
    Y-Yes, my lord!
[06:49] ---
    Hmm... There's one particularly
    magnificent scent...
[06:55] ---
    Still, it's unbalanced overall,
[06:58] ---
    so that nice scent is standing out too much.
[07:00] ---
    Well, we'll give them credit for effort.
[07:03] ---
    Next up is Chef Agni from
    Harold West & Company!
[07:06] ---
    This is my curry.
[07:09] ---
    A thali of seven types of
    curry with blue lobster.
[07:13] ---
    What vivid colors!
[07:17] ---
    S-Splendid! A tender and chewy texture,
[07:20] ---
    and a delicate sweetness
    that spreads on the tongue!
[07:23] ---
    And seven different curries,
[07:25] ---
    all of them beautifully
    complementing the lobster!
[07:29] ---
    This is a beauteous woman I met at a ball!
[07:34] ---
    The seven jewels adorning
    your refined, exquisite form!
[07:38] ---
    The gold brooch in the shape of a dove!
[07:40] ---
    The sapphire and pearl bracelet!
[07:42] ---
    The garnet choker!
[07:43] ---
    The cameo!
[07:45] ---
    And on your finger, the
    diamond and emerald ring!
[07:49] ---
    They all accentuate your natural beauty!
[07:52] ---
    You... stole my heart!
[07:58] ---
    Such high praise!
[08:00] ---
    Is victory assured?!
[08:03] ---
    Or can our final contestant
    garner even higher praise?!
[08:07] ---
    This is Funtom Company!
[08:13] ---
    This is my curry.
[08:16] ---
    I-It's...!
[08:22] ---
    What are you playing at?!
[08:27] ---
    H-He fried it!
[08:29] ---
    What are you doing, Sebastian?!
[08:31] ---
    Are you trying to make doughnuts?!
[08:34] ---
    They're finished. This
    is Funtom Company curry.
[08:38] ---
    I see no curry!
[08:40] ---
    Wait!
[08:41] ---
    It's...
[08:46] ---
    What?!
[08:47] ---
    There's curry on the inside...
[08:50] ---
    What?!
[08:52] ---
    This is the curry Funtom is proud to present.
[08:55] ---
    We call it... the "curry bun"!
[08:59] ---
    C-Curry bun?!
[09:06] ---
    Great Scott...
[09:08] ---
    It's wonderful!
[09:10] ---
    The crunchy-yet-fluffy fried bread
    covering and the juicy curry inside
[09:13] ---
    give this magnificent gradations of texture!
[09:16] ---
    What's most impressive
[09:18] ---
    is this structure which locks
    in the curry's scent and flavor!
[09:21] ---
    The moment I cut it open,
    everything blossoms forth!
[09:27] ---
    This is a lovely young
    maiden I met at a soirée!
[09:31] ---
    By day, you're a playful
    robin childishly twittering!
[09:35] ---
    But when night falls, you let
    me glimpse your true face,
[09:38] ---
    and I see a lady in her own right!
[09:41] ---
    I... want to hold you in my arms!
[09:50] ---
    More high praise!
[09:52] ---
    Is the outcome of this battle in doubt?!
[09:55] ---
    Sebastian, are you...
[10:03] ---
    We'll now leave our judges
    time to deliberate.
[10:06] ---
    In the meantime, feel free
    to try any curry you like!
[10:16] ---
    I notice Her Majesty didn't eat.
[10:19] ---
    She's not going to examine the recipes?
[10:21] ---
    I imagine she avoided it to spare her health.
[10:24] ---
    But it's possible she'll sample
    the ones she finds interesting.
[10:28] ---
    And that would change
    the judges' impressions.
[10:32] ---
    It's up to the Queen who
    gets the Royal Warrant.
[10:50] ---
    My company's curry is far
    and away the most popular!
[10:54] ---
    Don't let your guard down.
    They also seem to fancy Sebastian's.
[11:02] ---
    No need to be concerned.
[11:05] ---
    Right, darling?
[11:09] ---
    Mina! What are you doing here?!
[11:11] ---
    What if His Highness sees you?!
[11:13] ---
    He's already seen me.
[11:15] ---
    Already? Don't tell me you...
[11:24] ---
    Agni...
[11:26] ---
    You knew about Mina,
    so you tried to keep us from meeting.
[11:31] ---
    What's the meaning of this?
[11:33] ---
    Your butler is fighting, and you
    run away and refuse to watch?
[11:38] ---
    That's not it. I've been
    thinking over what I've done.
[11:41] ---
    I didn't know anything.
[11:43] ---
    No, I didn't try to know anything.
[11:46] ---
    Not how Mina felt, or how Agni felt.
[11:51] ---
    If you understand that,
    why are you just standing here?
[11:56] ---
    You ought to think about
[11:57] ---
    what a master owes to a
    butler who's fought for him.
[12:02] ---
    Ciel...
[12:06] ---
    Oh, there he is! Your Highness!
[12:09] ---
    The curry sampling has started already, yes!
[12:12] ---
    If you don't hurry, you'll miss it!
[12:14] ---
    Here.
[12:18] ---
    That's good!
[12:20] ---
    Your khansama's curry buns taste so kind.
[12:28] ---
    How could you?!
[12:30] ---
    The prince cared so much for you,
    and you seemed to truly enjoy yourself!
[12:35] ---
    You would never understand.
[12:38] ---
    Not you-- a Brahmin who gave up
    all his privilege to be some khansama!
[12:42] ---
    What did I do all this for, then?
[12:46] ---
    Why should I care?
[12:50] ---
    That's right, I'm going
    to move up in the world.
[12:53] ---
    I'll use men, and anything else I have to.
[13:11] ---
    Sebastian, chef of Funtom Company.
[13:13] ---
    Her Majesty desires a curry bun.
[13:16] ---
    Would you be so kind as to bring one here?
[13:23] ---
    Please accept this, Your Majesty.
[13:38] ---
    Her Majesty bids me tell you,
    "You were considerate enough
[13:42] ---
    to make this easy for even a child
    to eat, requiring no knife or fork.
[13:45] ---
    Treating all equally, rich
    and poor, adult and child,
[13:50] ---
    it embodies the ideal I strive for:
    a kind and noble country."
[13:54] ---
    Her Majesty is deeply moved
    by your kind attitude
[13:59] ---
    in treasuring our children... our future.
[14:01] ---
    Don't make me laugh!
[14:03] ---
    How you flatter yourselves!
[14:06] ---
    Equality? The future?
[14:08] ---
    The queen of a wealthy country like
    this who's never done any hard work
[14:11] ---
    has no place saying that!
[14:14] ---
    Mina, stop!
[14:16] ---
    You're in front of Her Majesty!
[14:18] ---
    Out of my way!
[14:21] ---
    Restrain her!
[14:23] ---
    Shut your trap! The important
    thing about curry is how spicy it is!
[14:32] ---
    Her legs move with such grace...
[14:34] ---
    her hips tilt invitingly!
[14:36] ---
    She is the goddess Kali personified!
[14:48] ---
    The Queen!
[14:56] ---
    I smell it... I smell it!
[14:58] ---
    Hatred and greed!
[15:01] ---
    The stench of the impure!
[15:03] ---
    Snuff out the unclean!
[15:11] ---
    Do you intend to play the asura
    mowed down by Kali, my lord?
[15:15] ---
    It's a demon's job to be
    the severed head Kali carries.
[15:21] ---
    Sebastian, disprove the legends.
[15:24] ---
    Stop Kali!
[15:26] ---
    Yes, my lord.
[15:29] ---
    What happened?
[15:30] ---
    A-An Indian woman suddenly went berserk!
[15:34] ---
    What?
[15:39] ---
    This is...
[15:44] ---
    You're skilled.
[15:46] ---
    I can see why you're called the
    goddess who mows down demons.
[15:49] ---
    Mina...
[15:50] ---
    My prince!
[15:51] ---
    Agni...
[15:52] ---
    I am... I am a French chef!
[15:56] ---
    I'm not good with spicy foods!
[15:59] ---
    Pardon me.
[16:00] ---
    Agni, what happened here?
[16:03] ---
    I'm not sure.
[16:05] ---
    Mina and some of the audience
    ate that curry and suddenly...
[16:14] ---
    Kali Ma!
[16:16] ---
    My father told me about it once.
[16:18] ---
    It's a forbidden spice which reacts
    to the darkness in human hearts,
[16:22] ---
    to greed and uncleanness, and
    turns people into fiends.
[16:28] ---
    Mina... I never knew your
    heart was so wounded!
[16:33] ---
    It's not your fault, my prince.
[16:35] ---
    If she was possessed by the evil spice...
[16:38] ---
    I know.
[16:40] ---
    Don't finish that sentence.
[16:42] ---
    I've always blamed others for everything:
[16:45] ---
    my loneliness, Mina leaving...
[16:49] ---
    Of course no one would love a brat like that.
[16:52] ---
    But you stayed by my side
    even when I didn't deserve it.
[16:58] ---
    I'm sorry for not realizing
    the truth until now.
[17:02] ---
    Will you still be my khansama?
[17:06] ---
    Your Highness...
[17:11] ---
    Stop Mina, Agni!
[17:14] ---
    Jo ājñā!
[17:17] ---
    Have I ever felt this full of emotion before?
[17:21] ---
    I have just become one with my god!
[17:29] ---
    I shall assist you!
[17:31] ---
    Ah, I see you've powered up even more.
[17:34] ---
    Did something happen?
[17:36] ---
    Yes! Right now... I am invincible!
[17:41] ---
    I'll leave the two on the right to you, then.
[17:44] ---
    Understood!
[17:50] ---
    You have a fine butler.
[17:52] ---
    It seems my services won't be needed.
[17:56] ---
    But don't you think it's a bit odd?
[17:59] ---
    If this is all due to a spice,
[18:01] ---
    why are only certain people affected?
[18:04] ---
    If the prince is right, I would think
    far more people would go berserk.
[18:09] ---
    After all, in this world there is
    no one with a truly pure heart,
[18:12] ---
    no one who is perfect...
[18:26] ---
    Wait, Mina!
[18:28] ---
    You fool!
[18:30] ---
    This is the only way to calm Kali!
[18:33] ---
    Come at me, Mina!
[18:38] ---
    Prince Soma!
[18:41] ---
    Mina, forgive me!
[18:46] ---
    Sebastian, the curry buns!
[18:49] ---
    Feed them your curry buns!
[18:51] ---
    Certainly.
[18:54] ---
    Kind curry made by a demon...
[18:57] ---
    An utterly vile joke. How very like him.
[19:02] ---
    But if he chose to put kindness into them,
[19:06] ---
    its power should be absolute.
[19:10] ---
    Eat this!
[19:20] ---
    What's happening?!
[19:25] ---
    M-Mina?
[19:27] ---
    Soma... I was right.
[19:29] ---
    You're horrible...
[19:35] ---
    Her Majesty bids me tell you,
[19:38] ---
    "These curry buns full of kindness
[19:40] ---
    defeated the demon spice and even
    healed those who had become devils.
[19:44] ---
    The winner of the Royal Warrant is decided."
[19:57] ---
    How will they be handled?
[19:59] ---
    I do not believe they will be treated badly.
[20:02] ---
    Lord Phantomhive, I congratulate
    you on your remarkable work today
[20:06] ---
    and on obtaining a Royal Warrant.
[20:10] ---
    Her Majesty has expressed her gratitude.
[20:14] ---
    She bids me tell you,
    "I apologize for causing you trouble.
[20:18] ---
    I have been watching your work closely.
[20:20] ---
    I am in the light, and you are in the shadow.
[20:24] ---
    Though our positions are different,
    I trust we wish for the same thing."
[20:27] ---
    Please continue to aid Her Majesty.
[20:32] ---
    Yes.
[20:35] ---
    Goodbye, then.
[20:40] ---
    Thank you, Ciel.
[20:43] ---
    If I had never met you,
    I'd still be an ignorant, selfish brat.
[20:50] ---
    Starting today, I'll learn many things
[20:53] ---
    and tour all England-- no, all the world,
[20:56] ---
    until I become a man second to none!
[20:59] ---
    Sebastian, your household
    has taught us many things.
[21:05] ---
    I don't know how to thank you.
[21:08] ---
    Please, raise your head.
[21:10] ---
    I merely fought for my own reasons.
[21:13] ---
    There is nothing you need to thank me for.
[21:16] ---
    The gods you believe in, Kali and Shiva,
[21:19] ---
    were able to realize their mistakes
    through their mutual pain.
[21:22] ---
    Just like the two of you now.
[21:24] ---
    And you know what they
    say: "No pain, no gain."
[21:30] ---
    I'm ashamed to have to relearn
    my country's teachings
[21:34] ---
    from an Englishman...
[21:37] ---
    Nationality is irrelevant.
[21:39] ---
    All places, all times,
    are essentially the same.
[21:43] ---
    And so is human nature.
[21:46] ---
    Yes. Just as the evening
    sun over the Ganges River
[21:50] ---
    and the evening sun over the
    Thames are equally beautiful.
[22:05] ---
    Mina! Mina!
[22:08] ---
    Mina!
[22:09] ---
    Let me go!
[22:13] ---
    I'm very glad I came to England.
[22:15] ---
    --My prince and I both met ideal friends.
[22:16] ---
    --Mina...
[22:20] ---
    "Friends"...?
[22:23] ---
    You're the first person to ever
    say something like that to me.
[22:28] ---
    Stop it! You're getting my clothes wet!
[22:49] ---
    The moonlight that reveals
    sorrow was coldly illuminating
[22:56] ---
    The despair and the future
    which grew intimate in the dark
[23:06] ---
    With the secret you gave me as my guide
[23:13] ---
    I move through the blue night's stillness
[23:20] ---
    Lacrimosa, I want to love once again
[23:27] ---
    The dazzling world that
    crumbled and vanished in the distance
[23:35] ---
    I'll hide my dreams within my eyes
[23:42] ---
    Until the tears fall on my sullied heart
[24:04] ---
    Are you certain, young master?
[24:07] ---
    You don't mind my waiting on other masters?
[24:11] ---
    Are you able to change your own clothes?
[24:14] ---
    Don't forget to brush your back teeth.
[24:17] ---
    Oh, yes, and you must not on
    any account throw a tantrum
[24:22] ---
    if you can't get to the commode at night.
[24:25] ---
    Next time on Black Butler: "His Butler,
    In an Isolated Castle."
[24:26] ---
    "Next Time" "His Butler,
    In an Isolated Castle"
[24:29] ---
    You see, I am merely one hell of a butler.

16 - His Butler, in an Isolated Castle

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[00:21] ---
    It's time to wake up, young master.
[00:24] ---
    That is not how you should refer to me.
[00:27] ---
    My apologies...
[00:30] ---
    ...Your Majesty.
[00:45] ---
    "Black Butler"
[00:51] ---
    Are kara ikuraka yoru suki ni mo narimashita
[00:58] ---
    Izon no umi iki mo wasurete
[01:03] ---
    Muchuu no sono temae de
[01:06] ---
    Namanurusa dake wo nokoshite
[01:10] ---
    Hikigiwa no bigaku tokuige na kisu kirau
[01:18] ---
    Hitori ni shinaide, mou sasshite ayamete
[01:24] ---
    Dono kotoba mo kimi no
    heya dewa surinukete iku no
[01:30] ---
    Dekireba kono mama tsutsumarete owaritai
[01:36] ---
    Sono negai wa yoru wa
    munashiku asa wo tsurete kuru
[01:43] ---
    Yasashikute atsukute hikyou na kisu de
[01:50] ---
    Irodotte yo saigo no yoru
[01:53] ---
    Tsuki ga terashiteru
[02:08] ---
    "His Butler, In an Isolated Castle"
[02:14] ---
    Ludlow Castle?
[02:16] ---
    As I recall, we're remodeling
    it into a hotel.
[02:21] ---
    This is a petition from the builders.
[02:24] ---
    They want to halt construction
    and dissolve the contract.
[02:44] ---
    What pathetic contractors!
[02:49] ---
    Canceling construction
    because they're afraid of ghosts?!
[02:52] ---
    There's no such thing...
[02:56] ---
    Is something the matter?
[02:58] ---
    Nothing. Let's wrap this
    up quickly and go home.
[03:02] ---
    Certainly.
[03:10] ---
    I've seen this painting before...
[03:11] ---
    A replica?
[03:21] ---
    Who gave you lot permission to enter?
[03:25] ---
    Sebastian, why is there a
    traveling minstrel squatting here?
[03:28] ---
    You dare insult me?
[03:35] ---
    I am Edward V, King of England.
[03:41] ---
    What's going on here?
[03:43] ---
    It would seem the ghost is real.
[03:47] ---
    Approximately 400 years ago,
[03:49] ---
    Edward V, on the verge of his coronation,
[03:53] ---
    was confined in the Tower of London
    with his younger brother Richard.
[03:56] ---
    Legend has it that the two
    were eventually murdered
[03:59] ---
    by relatives who wanted to seize the throne.
[04:02] ---
    This castle is where the
    brothers spent their youth.
[04:06] ---
    I'd venture to guess that
    their souls have returned here.
[04:11] ---
    It's true he was the King,
    if only for a few months.
[04:14] ---
    Well, that's that.
[04:17] ---
    Very good, my lord.
[04:18] ---
    What are you whispering about?
[04:21] ---
    Your Majesty, I present The Right
    Honorable Ciel, Earl Phantomhive.
[04:30] ---
    Please forgive my rudeness, Your Majesty.
[04:32] ---
    I was not aware you were here.
[04:36] ---
    Very well, then, I forgive you.
    After all, I don't get many guests.
[04:39] ---
    I am not a guest, Sire.
[04:42] ---
    My company now owns this castle.
[04:45] ---
    You're its new caretaker, then?
[04:47] ---
    Not quite.
[04:48] ---
    Allow me to speak plainly:
    I'd like you to vacate this castle.
[04:53] ---
    You're telling the king and his brother,
[04:55] ---
    who have lived here for
    400 years, to clear out?
[04:58] ---
    You will be compensated, naturally.
[05:01] ---
    I shall pay every regard
    to your wishes, Sire.
[05:04] ---
    May we discuss how we can
    come to an agreement?
[05:11] ---
    Hmm, it appears my brother
    has taken a liking to your servant.
[05:15] ---
    This is Sebastian Michaelis, my butler.
[05:20] ---
    Our days would be so much fun
    if we had a butler, wouldn't they?
[05:23] ---
    Yes, he seems to be a very unusual butler,
[05:26] ---
    so I imagine it would be interesting.
[05:35] ---
    If I win, that butler will be mine.
[05:37] ---
    If you win, you may do what
    you like with the castle.
[05:41] ---
    I do hope you won't regret this.
[05:45] ---
    Let's have a fair game.
    Otherwise it won't be any fun.
[05:50] ---
    I agree.
[05:58] ---
    I'll hold you to your promise.
[06:03] ---
    Of course.
[06:13] ---
    Hmm, that's checkmate.
[06:17] ---
    Your Majesty!
[06:18] ---
    Were you lying when you said we'd play fair?!
[06:21] ---
    What did you just say?
[06:23] ---
    Your Majesty...
[06:24] ---
    I never lie. I hate lies!
[06:29] ---
    This is my chess piece.
[06:31] ---
    I merely use my powers to
    the utmost. That's not unfair!
[06:36] ---
    May it please Your Majesty...
[06:39] ---
    I give the butler leave to speak.
[06:41] ---
    I believe my master has
    forgotten his own creed.
[06:45] ---
    What?!
[06:46] ---
    My master is of the opinion that
[06:48] ---
    those bound by superficial rules who
    do not use their pawns to the utmost
[06:53] ---
    are fools.
[06:57] ---
    In that case, there's no problem, is there?
[07:00] ---
    All right, Richard.
[07:08] ---
    This is an order: devote yourself
    entirely to their satisfaction.
[07:14] ---
    Are you certain?
[07:15] ---
    I have no choice. I'm the one who lost.
[07:18] ---
    Yes, my lord.
[07:20] ---
    That's settled, then.
[07:22] ---
    A butler like this won't die so easily.
[07:25] ---
    He should serve us for many years to come.
[07:27] ---
    I shall do my best.
[07:28] ---
    Phantomhive, I want to continue playing.
[07:31] ---
    I'll receive you as a guest.
[07:34] ---
    I am honored, Sire.
[07:38] ---
    Now that you belong to us,
[07:40] ---
    start by getting rid of that
    horrid tailcoat. You look like a crow.
[07:59] ---
    Say, I wonder what this is?
[08:01] ---
    Indian tea leaves discovered
    at the turn of the century...
[08:06] ---
    ...Your Royal Highness.
[08:11] ---
    He even irons the shoelaces. Why is that?
[08:18] ---
    This is the proper way to treat
    the footwear of a man of noble birth.
[08:21] ---
    Hmm, I've never worried about it before...
[08:25] ---
    I mean, I never go outside.
[08:33] ---
    Do you wish to change clothes before supper?
[08:37] ---
    Yes.
[08:38] ---
    Then may I hold on to that for you?
[08:40] ---
    No!
[08:41] ---
    You can't change clothes
    with your hands full.
[08:45] ---
    This is really, really
    important to me. Right?
[08:49] ---
    Who might it be?
[08:51] ---
    Not telling!
[08:52] ---
    I see.
[09:00] ---
    Do you want to know?
[09:01] ---
    Will you tell me?
[09:03] ---
    No!
[09:04] ---
    I see.
[09:06] ---
    If I gave it to you, he would be sad. Right?
[09:12] ---
    I see...
[09:19] ---
    "In 1483, two princes
    disappeared from the Tower of London.
[09:25] ---
    Almost 200 years later, the remains
    of two children were discovered.
[09:30] ---
    Were they the princes? Who--"
[09:32] ---
    "Who killed them?"
[09:34] ---
    If you want to find out,
    you'll have to start asking the dead.
[09:39] ---
    I'm afraid I can't answer you.
[09:41] ---
    Your Majesty?
[09:45] ---
    I don't remember anything
    from the day I was killed.
[09:48] ---
    One day I just woke up in this castle, dead.
[09:52] ---
    Your Majesty is very kind.
[09:54] ---
    What?
[09:55] ---
    I would never be able to
    forget who disgraced me.
[10:02] ---
    But it's been 400 years.
[10:04] ---
    Our killer is long dead,
    and our protectors too.
[10:10] ---
    I can't even remember how I felt anymore.
[10:14] ---
    Time eases the pain.
[10:17] ---
    But I don't want time to heal me.
[10:20] ---
    You're strong, Phantomhive.
[10:26] ---
    What is it?
[10:27] ---
    I believe dinner is ready.
[10:29] ---
    Oh, I see.
[10:31] ---
    Time passes quite quickly
    while I'm talking with you.
[10:39] ---
    You don't have to stand on ceremony.
[10:42] ---
    Thank you, Sire.
[10:47] ---
    This is roast hare with red
    currant jelly and local leeks.
[10:52] ---
    It's a bunny!
[10:55] ---
    Did you get anything out of him?
[10:58] ---
    Hey, Sebastian!
[10:59] ---
    I must ask our guest to
    please mind his manners.
[11:02] ---
    It's common courtesy
[11:03] ---
    to make pleasant conversation
    with the diner next to you.
[11:06] ---
    Next to me?!
[11:07] ---
    How can I make pleasant
    conversation with someone so far away?!
[11:12] ---
    I wonder what our guest is
    making such a fuss about.
[11:15] ---
    I simply asked if my butler
    was behaving politely!
[11:19] ---
    But Sebastian is our butler.
[11:22] ---
    Oh, that's right.
[11:26] ---
    Your claret.
[11:30] ---
    Well then, to our new
    friend and our new butler!
[11:34] ---
    Cheers!
[11:35] ---
    What's the matter, Phantomhive?
[11:37] ---
    Nothing at all.
[11:46] ---
    Sebastian...?
[12:10] ---
    Goodness gracious, can't you
    even tie your own shoelaces?
[12:14] ---
    Sebastian!
[12:15] ---
    What about the princes?
[12:17] ---
    I'm sure you didn't come
    here just to laugh at me.
[12:20] ---
    You make quite a fetching picture
[12:22] ---
    being thoroughly bested by
    one thin little shoelace...
[12:28] ---
    Shut your gob!
[12:29] ---
    I'm here because I was
    instructed to take care of our guest.
[12:33] ---
    Good night, then.
[12:53] ---
    These books are fake.
[12:55] ---
    A secret passage, then?
[12:57] ---
    Pardon me.
[12:59] ---
    What do you want?
[13:05] ---
    I say, Sebastian!
[13:07] ---
    Yes?
[13:09] ---
    You wish to go inside, correct?
[13:11] ---
    I haven't given you an order.
    Why are you acting on your own?
[13:15] ---
    I've told you over and over,
    I'm the one who chooses--
[13:16] ---
    It's good service.
[13:19] ---
    The trick to satisfying a
    guest is to always think ahead.
[13:25] ---
    A royal butler who can't do
    this much isn't worth his salt.
[13:29] ---
    Don't make me kill you.
[13:31] ---
    Then you don't want me to open the door?
[13:34] ---
    Open it.
[13:35] ---
    Certainly.
[13:59] ---
    What is this?!
[14:07] ---
    A crypt, it would seem.
[14:12] ---
    Please be careful.
[14:14] ---
    No human has set foot
    in here for a long time.
[14:17] ---
    Your Majesty, what is this place?
[14:19] ---
    It was originally a dungeon.
[14:22] ---
    Criminals the Church refused
    to bury were thrown in here
[14:27] ---
    and eventually forgotten.
[14:29] ---
    Their souls have been
    forgotten even by the grim reapers.
[14:32] ---
    The path to heaven is closed to them.
[14:39] ---
    Once on the spur of the moment,
    I made something to remember them by.
[14:45] ---
    I'll introduce you. This is my father.
[14:48] ---
    The king is my father, and
    my mother is the queen.
[14:51] ---
    Perhaps my choices were
    conventional and boring?
[14:54] ---
    That rook is Earl Rivers,
    and my uncle is a bishop.
[14:57] ---
    It's a reunion of my family's bones.
[15:01] ---
    One of the knights is missing...
[15:04] ---
    That spot is for Richard.
[15:06] ---
    Can't you find him, Sire?
[15:07] ---
    That's not it. His bones are here.
[15:10] ---
    I got the bones that came
    from the Tower 200 years ago.
[15:14] ---
    But Richard took hold of
    the skull and won't let it go.
[15:17] ---
    You see, Phantomhive, all I
    want is to send my brother on.
[15:23] ---
    To be with God, where there
    is no pain or suffering.
[15:28] ---
    To heaven?
[15:32] ---
    Yes. That wish will come
    true if I complete this set.
[15:36] ---
    In other words,
[15:37] ---
    if you get that skull,
    you'll be satisfied?
[15:41] ---
    You wish to have it, correct?
[15:44] ---
    No matter what you have to sacrifice.
[15:45] ---
    That's right.
[15:46] ---
    If I do that, I know...
[15:48] ---
    Sebastian.
[15:49] ---
    Yes?
[15:50] ---
    This is an order: go get that skull.
[15:53] ---
    Yes, my lord.
[15:55] ---
    And take the chessboard to the hall!
[15:57] ---
    Very good.
[15:58] ---
    What do you intend to do?
[16:01] ---
    I shall grant your wish, Sire...
[16:05] ---
    Using the easiest possible method.
[16:08] ---
    Stop it!
[16:10] ---
    Put me down! Sebastian!
[16:13] ---
    Please excuse me, Prince Richard.
[16:17] ---
    How boring. I was hoping to see
    a fight between demon and ghost.
[16:22] ---
    Let me go, Sebastian!
[16:24] ---
    Brother! Brother!
[16:26] ---
    Richard!
[16:27] ---
    Can't you two be a little gentler?!
[16:30] ---
    What I can't understand
[16:32] ---
    is that you let this little
    problem go on for 200 years.
[16:36] ---
    But I don't want to make my brother cry!
[16:41] ---
    No!
[16:42] ---
    Richard!
[16:43] ---
    Look, you got what you wanted.
[16:46] ---
    No! No, you can't do that!
[16:48] ---
    My brother will... My brother will...!
[16:51] ---
    As King, I order you to release Richard!
[16:56] ---
    Brother!
[17:04] ---
    My apologies, Sire.
[17:06] ---
    But I must say, for a King
    you seem quite powerless.
[17:10] ---
    No!
[17:11] ---
    Richard!
[17:23] ---
    Stop it!
[17:27] ---
    I told you to stop it, Phantomhive.
[17:29] ---
    You wished to have it, no
    matter what the sacrifice.
[17:34] ---
    If you take that back now,
[17:36] ---
    it's no better than the lies you hate.
[17:41] ---
    Sebastian, heed my orders!
[17:43] ---
    You belong to us now!
[17:45] ---
    Unfortunately, Sire...
[17:47] ---
    I am bound to the Earl
    Phantomhive by contract.
[17:52] ---
    I served the two of you
    because it was my job.
[17:56] ---
    All I have done is faithfully carry
    out the orders of my true master.
[18:02] ---
    You... You have betrayed us too?
[18:06] ---
    I am not two-faced.
[18:08] ---
    I have always belonged entirely to my master.
[18:13] ---
    Now then, if we're to send
    you both to this "heaven" place,
[18:17] ---
    I suppose I have to be the chief mourner.
[18:19] ---
    No! My brother! My brother...!
[18:22] ---
    It's all right, Richard.
    I'll always be with you.
[18:27] ---
    Now this will all be over.
[18:29] ---
    Funeral rites, or...?
[18:47] ---
    Why? Why isn't anything happening?
[18:52] ---
    You didn't want to tell His Majesty
    about this, did you Prince Richard?
[18:56] ---
    No. I knew he would be sad...
[19:04] ---
    Brother, I'm sorry for lying to you.
[19:08] ---
    Lying?
[19:10] ---
    You lied to me, Richard?
[19:11] ---
    Brother, that skull...
[19:15] ---
    It's not yours or mine.
    It belonged to some other poor soul.
[19:20] ---
    But... That can't be...
[19:23] ---
    You've forgotten...
[19:27] ---
    that our bones don't exist anymore.
[19:31] ---
    They haven't since that day...
[19:34] ---
    You're right... since that day...
[19:37] ---
    That nice guard said "good
    night" just like always.
[19:41] ---
    But he was the one who let the assassin in.
[19:44] ---
    He said "You're safe here,
    because I'll protect you," but...
[19:50] ---
    That's what made me hate lies.
[19:55] ---
    First me, then my younger brother.
[19:58] ---
    I saw it, from the body
    that could no longer move.
[20:01] ---
    I'm sorry, Richard.
[20:03] ---
    You must have been so frightened.
[20:06] ---
    But Brother, the truth is,
[20:08] ---
    the scariest part was when I
    thought I'd never see you again.
[20:15] ---
    Our bodies were chopped to
    pieces and thrown into the Thames.
[20:20] ---
    The fish picked away at us,
    we were buried in the mud,
[20:23] ---
    and then there were no
    flesh or bones anymore.
[20:26] ---
    That's right! Richard, how
    could I ever have forgotten
[20:31] ---
    that night I failed to protect you?!
[20:33] ---
    No, don't cry!
[20:36] ---
    Phantomhive, you were right.
[20:39] ---
    The hatred and sorrow have
    been inside me all this time!
[20:43] ---
    Time eases the pain.
[20:45] ---
    But I don't want time to heal me.
[20:49] ---
    You may think you've
    escaped the pain and forgotten it,
[20:52] ---
    but all you have is stagnation.
[20:54] ---
    You can't move forward.
[20:57] ---
    Oh... So even as I hated lies so much,
[21:01] ---
    I was the one lying to myself?
[21:06] ---
    Brother, you're glowing!
[21:08] ---
    What's...?
[21:09] ---
    The funeral goods are mere tools.
[21:13] ---
    It wasn't bones or ceremonies
    that had the power
[21:16] ---
    to release your wandering souls...
[21:26] ---
    I am in your debt, Phantomhive.
[21:29] ---
    I wish you a long and healthy life.
[21:31] ---
    I didn't do much.
[21:34] ---
    Oh, and you don't need
    to fear for the castle.
[21:37] ---
    I'll leave it just as it is.
[21:39] ---
    I'm relieved to hear it.
[21:42] ---
    Goodbye, Sebastian. Thank you.
[21:46] ---
    Take care, Your Highness.
[22:01] ---
    Well, the nuisances are gone at last.
[22:05] ---
    We're going to make up for
    lost time! Work, work, work!
[22:08] ---
    You got it!
[22:10] ---
    You liar.
[22:19] ---
    All hatred and sorrow are yours.
[22:24] ---
    All you need to do is turn it
    into strength
[22:27] ---
    and keep walking.
[22:49] ---
    Kurayami no naka de
    mutsumiau zetsubou to mirai wo
[22:56] ---
    Kanashimi wo abaku
    tsukiakari tsumetaku terashiteta
[23:06] ---
    Kimi no kureta himitsu wo shirube ni
[23:13] ---
    Aoi yoru no shizukesa wo yuku
[23:20] ---
    Lacrimosa tooku kudakete kieta
[23:27] ---
    Mabushii sekai wo mou ichido ai shitai
[23:35] ---
    Hitomi no naka ni yume wo kakushite
[23:42] ---
    Yogoreta kokoro ni namida ga ochite kuru made
[24:04] ---
    Next week's Black Butler
[24:06] ---
    includes scenes you may not
    wish to watch with your family.
[24:11] ---
    It could create a bit of an awkward
    atmosphere in your drawing room.
[24:14] ---
    If this should happen, I believe a
    coughing fit could be very effective.
[24:18] ---
    I highly recommend it.
[24:24] ---
    Next time on Black Butler:
    "His Butler, Offering."
[24:26] ---
    "Next Time" "His Butler, Offering"
[24:28] ---
    You see, I am merely one hell of a butler.

17 - His Butler, Offering

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[00:18] ---
    Oh, now this is a nicely mangled corpse.
[00:23] ---
    Instead of covering up these wounds,
[00:25] ---
    maybe I should accentuate them
    with pink dye, like flower petals.
[00:30] ---
    Ah, what fun it is to be an undertaker!
[00:38] ---
    Now then, who do we have next?
[00:42] ---
    This corpse is a bit unsatisfying...
    no, very unsatisfying.
[00:46] ---
    He's got such a weak mouth
    for someone who didn't drown...
[00:54] ---
    What did you just say?!
[01:09] ---
    "Black Butler"
[01:13] ---
    Since then, I've actually
    come to like the night somewhat
[01:20] ---
    In a sea of dependence,
    I forget even to breathe
[01:25] ---
    When I'm right on the verge
    of losing my head over you
[01:28] ---
    You just leave me lukewarm
[01:32] ---
    The aesthetic of leave-taking
    despises a self-satisfied kiss
[01:40] ---
    Don't leave me alone, show me
    compassion, paint me with death
[01:46] ---
    In your room, all words slip away
[01:52] ---
    I want to end like this, cloaked
[01:58] ---
    But the night ignores that
    wish and brings morning
[02:05] ---
    With your gentle,
    passionate, and dastardly kiss
[02:12] ---
    Paint this final night
[02:15] ---
    The moon illuminates us
[02:30] ---
    "His Butler, Offering"
[02:42] ---
    This morning you have a dance
    lesson with Mrs. Bright,
[02:46] ---
    and this afternoon Lord Wensler,
    who has an import-export business...
[02:50] ---
    Are you listening, young master?
[02:52] ---
    I told you, I'm sick of dancing.
[02:55] ---
    I'm not cut out for it.
[02:57] ---
    You are too modest.
[02:58] ---
    Your dancing soothes the
    hearts of those who watch.
[03:02] ---
    You mean it makes them laugh.
[03:07] ---
    I would never say such a thing.
[03:16] ---
    Look, Tanaka, there are
    three upright tea stalks!
[03:20] ---
    It promises to be a good day!
[03:24] ---
    You're...
[03:27] ---
    ...Her Majesty's butler?!
[03:30] ---
    Ah, Lord Phantomhive.
    I apologize for this embarrassing display.
[03:35] ---
    Why is the Queen's butler
    drinking tea in my mansion?
[03:39] ---
    You didn't know, young master?
[03:42] ---
    Ash has been the one
[03:45] ---
    delivering Her Majesty's
    orders all this time.
[03:49] ---
    That's no job for a butler...
[03:51] ---
    A butler who can't...
[03:54] ---
    ...use Her Majesty's naptime to check the
    Doomsday Book for those requesting an audience,
[03:57] ---
    come straight to deliver an
    envelope to Lord Phantomhive,
[03:59] ---
    and stop for an elegant tea with
    Tanaka while he's at it isn't worth his salt.
[04:04] ---
    Somehow I doubt the tea bit
    is really a requirement.
[04:10] ---
    Might I ask what brings you here today?
[04:14] ---
    Ah, yes.
[04:17] ---
    Outside of Preston there's a Catholic abbey
[04:21] ---
    that was burned down during the
    Reformation, and is no longer in use.
[04:25] ---
    A cult espousing deviant
    doctrines is gathering there.
[04:34] ---
    We have heard that its leader has
    the Doomsday Books of all followers.
[04:40] ---
    You mean the land registers,
[04:42] ---
    where their livestock and
    property are recorded?
[04:44] ---
    But why would he want to know that?
[04:48] ---
    No, the Doomsday Books they revere
[04:52] ---
    are of a different sort.
[04:56] ---
    They are registers required when you stand
[05:00] ---
    before the Lord in heaven on
    Doomsday... the Day of Judgment.
[05:04] ---
    All your sins and good works
    are supposedly recorded there.
[05:15] ---
    The occult again?
[05:17] ---
    There are rumors that they plan
    to revolt against the government.
[05:23] ---
    Her Majesty laments that
    the people of Preston
[05:27] ---
    are quaking in fear of these heretics.
[05:31] ---
    And? Are you telling me to disperse them,
[05:36] ---
    or to eradicate them?
[05:40] ---
    We leave that decision to you.
[05:45] ---
    Very well.
[05:50] ---
    Pluto?
[06:02] ---
    Who is that?
[06:04] ---
    Just a servant.
[06:06] ---
    I see. He seems amusing.
[06:15] ---
    Well, what now?
SIGN    "Victoria Sponge Cake"
[06:18] ---
    According to Ash, the
    abbey is heavily guarded.
[06:24] ---
    So it would be difficult to
    go in through the front door...
[06:28] ---
    Incidentally, he also mentioned
    that a large number of coffins
[06:31] ---
    have been delivered there in recent days.
[06:37] ---
    Coffins?
[06:44] ---
    I'm coming in!
[06:47] ---
    Welcome.
[06:49] ---
    I have a favor to ask, Undertaker.
[06:52] ---
    In that case...
[06:56] ---
    Give me prime romance!
[07:03] ---
    Grell?!
[07:05] ---
    Hello, my lord.
[07:08] ---
    Undertaker?
[07:11] ---
    The bounder told me he wasn't
    afraid of grim reapers,
[07:14] ---
    so I buried him in salt.
[07:16] ---
    Oh, I just love the sensation
[07:19] ---
    of all the moisture in my
    body leeching out of my skin!
[07:23] ---
    A dangerous game.
[07:25] ---
    What are you doing here?!
[07:27] ---
    Will's having me do a bit of investigating.
[07:30] ---
    But there was just no information,
[07:33] ---
    and I got hungry and sleepy...
[07:36] ---
    So I took a nap in a flowerbed,
[07:39] ---
    and woke up to find myself here.
[07:42] ---
    Perhaps I shouldn't have
    stopped breathing while I slept?
[07:46] ---
    I was waiting for a prince to come
    wake me with a kiss (with tongue)!
[07:51] ---
    What are you investigating?
[07:52] ---
    Oh, we've had some Cinematic
    Records stolen lately.
[08:00] ---
    Cinematic Records?
[08:02] ---
    Not something a kid needs to know about.
[08:04] ---
    They're reels of film containing
    all memories of a person's life.
[08:08] ---
    Grim reapers extract them
    from those on the To-Die list,
[08:11] ---
    replay them, and decide whether
    they will live or die.
[08:13] ---
    Just so we're clear, you humans
    can only see them when you die.
[08:19] ---
    Are Records the sort of
    things that can be "stolen"?
[08:23] ---
    Mmm... They're stored in the
    library when we're not using them.
[08:28] ---
    The full pasts of all people now living--
[08:30] ---
    in other words, of everyone on the
    To-Die list: all the crimes, everything...
[08:35] ---
    ...in the form of books.
[08:39] ---
    So they're books made in
    preparation for Doomsday.
[08:43] ---
    That rings a bell, doesn't it?
[08:46] ---
    Undertaker, there's something
    I want your help with.
[08:51] ---
    Then give me prime laughter...
[08:55] ---
    On second thought, I'll do
    this one free of charge.
[09:06] ---
    I've come to deliver the coffin you ordered.
[09:11] ---
    Coffin, Sir?
[09:13] ---
    No one informed me of this...
[09:16] ---
    I have the order right here...
[09:18] ---
    Hmm, where did I put it?
[09:21] ---
    Here? No, here?
[09:28] ---
    All right. Please come in, then.
[09:31] ---
    And you, as well.
[09:35] ---
    Well, I'll be off, then.
[09:38] ---
    I've finished what I came to do.
[09:42] ---
    I see. Thank you.
[09:45] ---
    May your soul be cleansed.
[09:53] ---
    I thought it was supposed
    to be difficult to get in here.
[09:57] ---
    Yes, I was under that impression...
[10:07] ---
    Perfect smiles.
[10:10] ---
    Shouldn't that be educational for you,
    since you've forgotten how?
[10:14] ---
    Don't be dull.
[10:16] ---
    Those smiles are fake.
[10:45] ---
    Young master?
[10:48] ---
    Good evening!
[10:49] ---
    Good evening!
[10:51] ---
    Another wonderful day today, wasn't it?
[10:53] ---
    Well, aren't you cute?
[10:56] ---
    I don't really do kids, though.
[10:59] ---
    Hello, unclean one!
    You're impure through and through, I see.
[11:04] ---
    What?!
[11:05] ---
    Hmm? What's the matter, unclean one?
[11:07] ---
    Are you ill?
[11:09] ---
    You little brat! Who are
    you calling "unclean"?!
[11:13] ---
    Wah! An unclean one touched me!
[11:15] ---
    We need to be cleansed!
[11:17] ---
    Get back here!
[11:19] ---
    Another unclean one!
[11:26] ---
    Everyone over a certain
    age is called "unclean."
[11:33] ---
    I see from your clothing
    that you're a new convert.
[11:36] ---
    Don't worry. If you study
    the teachings of our leader,
[11:40] ---
    your body will be cleansed.
[11:42] ---
    I say! Is this place--
[11:45] ---
    Unclean? A funny thing to say.
[11:48] ---
    I can't believe a beautiful
    lady like yourself is impure.
[11:57] ---
    I don't know anything about your sect yet.
[12:01] ---
    Would you mind telling me?
[12:04] ---
    All right... But then why did you come here?
[12:11] ---
    A bug.
[12:17] ---
    You'll tell me, won't you?
[12:22] ---
    --Oh, stop, you'll make me impure!
[12:25] ---
    --Whatever... do you... mean?
[12:30] ---
    I didn't know he used this approach.
[12:34] ---
    I'll put that wench on the To-Die list!
[12:38] ---
    Hey.
[12:38] ---
    Oh, I can see the gates of heaven!
[12:44] ---
    It just smells wrong.
[12:47] ---
    What?!
[12:50] ---
    The Doomsday Books of those who
    have lived a long time are impure.
[12:54] ---
    Our leader cleanses the unclean passages.
[13:00] ---
    And we're told not only the past,
[13:04] ---
    but the future is recorded there.
[13:07] ---
    The future, eh?
[13:10] ---
    Yes. But only the chosen children
[13:13] ---
    of the heavenly choir can be told it.
[13:17] ---
    The heavenly choir?
[13:19] ---
    What, do they sing hymns?
[13:21] ---
    I believe "sing" may not be the right word...
[13:27] ---
    But I hear beautiful voices
    from our leader's bedchamber...
[13:33] ---
    If only young boys are chosen
    for the heavenly choir,
[13:37] ---
    that means you are the only one
    who can get close to their leader.
[13:42] ---
    Rubbish!
[13:43] ---
    I could easily get into
    the heavenly choir!☆
[13:48] ---
    Well? How do I look?
[13:50] ---
    Wah! You'll make me impure!
[13:53] ---
    Why, you...
[13:59] ---
    Oh, it's time for our
    leader's cleansing ceremony.
[14:04] ---
    Cleansing?
[14:07] ---
    I was right; it smells.
[14:15] ---
    What is it?
[14:17] ---
    Oh, I just smelled a rotten apple
[14:21] ---
    fallen from a tree, that's all.
[15:02] ---
    Here, tonight, the sinful
    unclean shall be made pure.
[15:20] ---
    Are those Cinematic Records?
[15:25] ---
    Too far away to tell.
[15:28] ---
    I shall read the Doomsday Books
    of these impure, lost children.
[15:33] ---
    Jill Peasant.
[15:34] ---
    The second daughter of a farmer,
    she conceived a child at fifteen.
[15:39] ---
    Thomas Atkins.
[15:41] ---
    No especially evil deeds,
[15:43] ---
    but he has spent his life meaninglessly.
[15:45] ---
    That is a grave sin.
[15:57] ---
    I say!
[16:15] ---
    This is...
[16:17] ---
    Snuff out the unworthy.
    Snuff out the unnecessary.
[16:20] ---
    Snuff out the unfruitful.
    Snuff out the unclean!
[16:39] ---
    Now nothing unclean exists on this dais.
[16:44] ---
    They are our brother and
    sister, made pure as snow!
[16:51] ---
    Leader! Leader!
[16:54] ---
    What a blessing!
[17:07] ---
    Something's off.
[17:09] ---
    Those books weren't Cinematic Records.
[17:14] ---
    Then he doesn't have the
    power to see the past?
[17:20] ---
    Ah, you're still here!
[17:23] ---
    The heavens have smiled upon you!
[17:28] ---
    St-Stop! I'll do it myself!
[17:31] ---
    Nonsense. You've been chosen
    for the heavenly choir,
[17:35] ---
    so we must cleanse you from head to toe!
[17:37] ---
    Oh, such unblemished skin!
[17:40] ---
    D-Don't touch me!
[17:41] ---
    Don't worry, we've already been cleansed.
[17:45] ---
    That's not the issue!
[17:47] ---
    Pardon me. I'll take care of the rest.
[17:49] ---
    We can't allow that. You're still unclean...
[17:53] ---
    Am I impure?
[17:56] ---
    Maybe you're not...
[17:58] ---
    Certainly not!
[18:01] ---
    You're getting carried away today.
[18:04] ---
    No, my lord, I simply wish to
    make sure everything goes smoothly.
[18:08] ---
    I have no intention of
    exposing you to danger.
[18:14] ---
    I never thought I'd hear you say that.
[18:18] ---
    Even if the Doomsday Books
    in that ceremony were fakes,
[18:23] ---
    it doesn't change the fact that
    they have some sort of power.
[18:28] ---
    Unclean...
[18:31] ---
    The doll called me that.
[18:34] ---
    And there's this...
[18:38] ---
    This mark that cast me into hell
[18:41] ---
    is my only spider's thread right now.
[18:46] ---
    Do you truly believe that grasping
    it will let you crawl out of hell?
[18:52] ---
    No, I'm not crawling up.
[18:55] ---
    I'll grasp it and use it to drag
    them down
[18:59] ---
    into the hell I suffer.
[19:03] ---
    I expect nothing less from my master.
[19:05] ---
    There's only one thing you
    should be saying to me now.
[19:10] ---
    "Yes, my lord."
[19:25] ---
    We've brought him.
[19:28] ---
    Leave us.
[19:36] ---
    You look divine, Ciel.
[19:40] ---
    Come this way.
[19:49] ---
    I am honored that you have chosen me.
[19:58] ---
    I'll read you a book.
[20:01] ---
    Sir, what is a "Doomsday Book"?
[20:06] ---
    I'll read to you... until you fall asleep.
[20:12] ---
    Tonight is a treat.
[20:16] ---
    Mother said she'll let me sleep
    in her bed tonight as a treat!
[20:21] ---
    She'll read me a book, too!
[20:23] ---
    And then--
[20:25] ---
    I'll read to you until you fall asleep.
[20:29] ---
    Tonight's a treat, since it's your birthday.
[20:38] ---
    What...?
[20:46] ---
    His hand...
[20:49] ---
    Cleanse yourself.
[20:52] ---
    Cleanse yourself of the sins
    you have committed here and now.
[21:02] ---
    That's right. It can't be!
[21:07] ---
    Sebastian, this is an order!
[21:10] ---
    Kill him!
[21:12] ---
    Yes, my lord.
[21:31] ---
    I thought that was you, Angela.
[21:36] ---
    H-Hey! What's an angel doing in this realm?!
[21:41] ---
    Young master!
[21:44] ---
    Look! That's a real Cinematic Record!
[21:51] ---
    Grell, your death scythe!
[21:53] ---
    Give me some time! I'm working on it!
[21:56] ---
    What are those?
[21:58] ---
    I can't help it! Will took my
    last set of scythes away, too!
[22:04] ---
    I shall show you all the light
    and darkness of your past.
[22:13] ---
    Young master!
[22:16] ---
    I cut it!
[22:19] ---
    Here we go.
[22:49] ---
    The moonlight that reveals
    sorrow was coldly illuminating
[22:56] ---
    The despair and the future
    which grew intimate in the dark
[23:06] ---
    With the secret you gave me as my guide
[23:13] ---
    I move through the blue night's stillness
[23:20] ---
    Lacrimosa, I want to love once again
[23:27] ---
    The dazzling world that
    crumbled and vanished in the distance
[23:35] ---
    I'll hide my dreams within my eyes
[23:42] ---
    Until the tears fall on my sullied heart
[24:04] ---
    Young master, you must not on
    any account look into the past.
[24:11] ---
    It's very sweet,
[24:12] ---
    and it has a nasty tendency
    to become addictive.
[24:15] ---
    You're so easily overwhelmed,
    I'm sure even one past trip
[24:19] ---
    will have you three sheets
    to the wind in no time.
[24:25] ---
    Next time on Black Butler:
    "His Butler, Transmitted."
[24:26] ---
    "Next Time" "His Butler, Transmitted"
[24:29] ---
    You see, I am merely one hell of a butler.

18 - His Butler, Transmitted

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[00:08] ---
    Ciel.
[00:10] ---
    Ciel.
[00:13] ---
    Ciel Phantomhive.
[00:22] ---
    This is your past.
[00:26] ---
    Some things shine brightly,
[00:29] ---
    and some are steeped in fathomless darkness.
[00:36] ---
    I see, so that's the past you choose.
[00:49] ---
    Father!
[00:55] ---
    You're...
[01:23] ---
    "Black Butler"
[01:27] ---
    Are kara ikuraka yoru suki ni mo narimashita
[01:34] ---
    Izon no umi iki mo wasurete
[01:39] ---
    Muchuu no sono temae de
[01:42] ---
    Namanurusa dake wo nokoshite
[01:46] ---
    Hikigiwa no bigaku tokuige na kisu kirau
[01:54] ---
    Hitori ni shinaide, mou sasshite ayamete
[02:00] ---
    Dono kotoba mo kimi no
    heya dewa surinukete iku no
[02:06] ---
    Dekireba kono mama tsutsumarete owaritai
[02:12] ---
    Sono negai wa yoru wa
    munashiku asa wo tsurete kuru
[02:19] ---
    Yasashikute atsukute hikyou na kisu de
[02:26] ---
    Irodotte yo saigo no yoru
[02:29] ---
    Tsuki ga terashiteru
[02:44] ---
    "His Butler, Transmitted"
[02:53] ---
    Where is the young master?
[02:56] ---
    This is the Grim Reaper Library!
[03:00] ---
    That's where the Cinematic Records are kept.
[03:27] ---
    Ah, it is you...
[03:30] ---
    I knew I smelled something unpleasant.
[03:32] ---
    Will!
[03:33] ---
    To think a demon would have
    the nerve to set foot in our territory...
[03:36] ---
    Will, wait! I'm looking for the
    Doomsday Books on your orders!
[03:40] ---
    Honestly...
[03:41] ---
    A grim reaper, willingly
    inviting such vermin here?
[03:47] ---
    Grell Sutcliff, you appear
    to want a further demotion.
[03:52] ---
    Wh-What will it be this time?
[03:56] ---
    Exterminating vermin is all well and good,
[03:59] ---
    but are you sure you ought to let
    your lice infestation go unchecked?
[04:05] ---
    An angel.
[04:06] ---
    Yes.
[04:07] ---
    It seems I'll be late getting home tonight.
[04:31] ---
    You're awake, then?
[04:36] ---
    So it was you,
[04:39] ---
    Angela Blanc?
[04:41] ---
    How did your past feel?
[04:44] ---
    Was it soft like burnished velvet?
[04:47] ---
    Or was it more like overwashed cotton's--
[04:49] ---
    Shut up! That hand...
[04:55] ---
    That... was my father's hand.
[05:01] ---
    You killed them, didn't you?
[05:03] ---
    Why? Why did you kill my parents?!
[05:07] ---
    What could you have possibly stood to gain--
[05:09] ---
    "Killed"? What a disturbing thing to say.
[05:11] ---
    Am I the only one who harmed your parents?
[05:18] ---
    Didn't your butler...
[05:20] ---
    No, didn't you kill them again?
[05:37] ---
    You were brilliant.
[05:39] ---
    I didn't expect you to stay sane
    in the face of that distorted past.
[05:44] ---
    Why, you...
[05:46] ---
    You are thoroughly sullied.
[05:51] ---
    However, underneath the surface is
    a glow it would be a shame to waste.
[05:59] ---
    Shall I change your unsightly,
[06:04] ---
    impure past for you?
[06:09] ---
    Angels have the ability to
    tamper with Cinematic Records.
[06:14] ---
    They can change the past?
[06:16] ---
    I doubt even God could do that.
[06:19] ---
    They merely give you a false peace.
[06:24] ---
    Stuff it! You're the one who sullied me!
[06:30] ---
    Those who have had negative
    enough experiences to break their souls
[06:34] ---
    wish for that past to be wiped out.
[06:38] ---
    However, it haunts them forever.
[06:53] ---
    It's all right, Ciel.
[07:09] ---
    There's no need to grieve our deaths.
[07:13] ---
    That's right, Ciel.
[07:15] ---
    We don't want to see you suffer.
[07:21] ---
    An angel's powers leave the past unchanged,
[07:24] ---
    instead manipulating your impression of it
[07:27] ---
    to make you think it wasn't
    so negative after all.
[07:30] ---
    You lie...
[07:33] ---
    You lie! You were--
[07:35] ---
    In that moment, we saw light.
[07:40] ---
    A very rich, tranquil
    light of loving-kindness.
[07:44] ---
    In death, your father and I
    truly became one in body and spirit.
[07:49] ---
    Yes. And...
[07:52] ---
    Now that we've become one, Ciel...
[07:57] ---
    We can also embrace you, body and spirit.
[08:05] ---
    Ciel.
[08:06] ---
    Ciel.
[08:08] ---
    We love you.
[08:10] ---
    Father... Mother...
[08:22] ---
    Young master!
[08:28] ---
    His past is being rewritten.
[08:32] ---
    He's being purified, made
    clean and white as snow.
[08:36] ---
    Purified?
[08:37] ---
    No one wants to harbor hatred.
[08:42] ---
    That holds true for him as well.
[08:44] ---
    Young master!
[08:45] ---
    How rash.
[08:47] ---
    If you forcibly stop her now,
[08:49] ---
    the child's past won't be
    properly contained in him,
[08:52] ---
    and he will become less than human.
[08:57] ---
    Yes, he will become white as snow.
[09:00] ---
    Purified... my young master...?
[09:13] ---
    Come, Ciel.
[09:17] ---
    We bear no grudge against anyone.
[09:21] ---
    That's right. That's the ticket, Ciel.
[09:25] ---
    You mustn't be led astray
    by foolish negative emotions.
[09:29] ---
    Cast off all hatred.
[09:31] ---
    Hatred is uncleanness.
[09:37] ---
    What is it, Ciel?
[09:39] ---
    What's wrong?
[09:41] ---
    N-N-No...
[09:45] ---
    Ciel?
[09:46] ---
    I don't... want...
[09:49] ---
    What do you mean, Ciel?
[09:51] ---
    Even if you...
[09:56] ---
    never bore a grudge...
[10:01] ---
    That has nothing to do with my hatred!
[10:04] ---
    Ciel, how could you say that?
[10:07] ---
    I thought you loved us!
[10:11] ---
    I do love you, Mother.
[10:15] ---
    That's why it was so painful.
[10:18] ---
    It hurt!
[10:21] ---
    Hatred was all I had left.
[10:25] ---
    I'm asking you to let that go and--
[10:26] ---
    No!
[10:27] ---
    Ciel...
[10:29] ---
    If I let go of hatred,
[10:31] ---
    the self I've been since
    that day wouldn't exist.
[10:36] ---
    That's not who I am!
[10:37] ---
    Ciel!
[10:58] ---
    Ciel...
[11:00] ---
    I won't lose it.
[11:05] ---
    I won't lose it.
[11:08] ---
    I won't lose this hatred!
[11:20] ---
    He's rewinding the Cinematic
    Record by himself?!
[11:25] ---
    Young master!
[11:31] ---
    What a breakneck thing to do...
[11:35] ---
    Sebastian... I...
[11:38] ---
    You always exceed my expectations.
[11:43] ---
    You are truly worthy of being my soul...
[11:45] ---
    no, my young master.
[11:51] ---
    The horror of such an unclean heart!
[11:54] ---
    Depraved, stagnant, without light...
[11:57] ---
    I should never have shown you mercy.
[12:00] ---
    I shall purify you here and now.
[12:04] ---
    Then let's do this.
[12:06] ---
    Disturbances in the library fall
    under grim reaper jurisdiction.
[12:10] ---
    We'll join them, Grell Sutcliff.
[12:13] ---
    Oh, yeah!
[12:17] ---
    Oh, we're a trinity! The door
    opens on a passionate battle!
[12:22] ---
    Yes, yes, coming through.
[12:27] ---
    Let's see... Number eight... number eight...
[12:32] ---
    Undertaker!
[12:34] ---
    Hi!
[12:35] ---
    Hey! What are you doing here--?!
[12:39] ---
    Mind your tongue!
[12:41] ---
    This is the virtuoso who passed
    judgment on the famous Robin Hood
[12:44] ---
    and sent Marie Antoinette to hell.
[12:47] ---
    He is the legendary grim reaper
[12:50] ---
    who makes the staunchest
    of souls give up the ghost.
[12:52] ---
    Now hold on!
[12:54] ---
    He doesn't look anything like the
    fellow in that sequence just now!
[12:57] ---
    How could this dreary old
    man be a legendary grim reap--
[13:03] ---
    Make love to me.
[13:07] ---
    As you seem so busy, I'll start
    my purification with that abbey.
[13:13] ---
    Running away again?
[13:15] ---
    I shall show you all
[13:17] ---
    what happens to a world ruled by impurity.
[13:27] ---
    Wh-What is this?
[13:30] ---
    An angelic seal.
[13:53] ---
    What should we do, now
    that our leader is gone?
[13:58] ---
    You don't have to feel sad.
[14:01] ---
    Because the time has come for
    the coffins to serve their purpose.
[14:08] ---
    A-An angel?!
[14:14] ---
    Yield everything to me.
[14:17] ---
    And give me your thoroughly
    sullied Doomsday Books
[14:23] ---
    that will never record the future!
[14:29] ---
    It won't open!
[14:30] ---
    Good grief. It would seem we're trapped.
[14:43] ---
    This is...
[14:45] ---
    The Cinematic Record of
    someone in that abbey.
[14:49] ---
    The abbey?
[14:51] ---
    I see.
[14:53] ---
    "An angel of massacre descends
[14:55] ---
    on the abbey on the outskirts of Preston."
[14:58] ---
    An angel of massacre?
[15:01] ---
    All you who have gathered
    here are impure souls.
[15:06] ---
    Souls who lean on honeyed
    words, who lean on God,
[15:10] ---
    who have given up writing
    the future with their own hands.
[15:15] ---
    Snuff out the unfruitful.
    Snuff out the unnecessary.
[15:20] ---
    Snuff out the unclean!
[15:23] ---
    Ah, yes, I see.
[15:26] ---
    Stop her.
[15:28] ---
    Dear me, an act of charity?
[15:31] ---
    Didn't you intend to eradicate
    that abbey in any case?
[15:35] ---
    It's not that I want to help them.
[15:37] ---
    I don't want to let her
    have her way. That's all.
[15:42] ---
    But what are we meant to
    do about it? We're stuck here.
[15:47] ---
    No, we have an option.
[15:49] ---
    The ultimate reaper tool
    which only the managerial class
[15:53] ---
    of the Grim Reaper Staffing
    Association can use.
[15:57] ---
    We call it... the Death Bookmark.
[16:01] ---
    Bookmark?
[16:05] ---
    A pink placeholder.
[16:20] ---
    If we use this to halt the story,
    we can take a red pen to it.
[16:25] ---
    This woman's name is Matilda Simmons.
[16:29] ---
    "She is purified in the
    abbey by the angel Angela"--
[16:34] ---
    The sentence breaks off there.
[16:37] ---
    So I put, "--But just then,
    Sebastian Michaelis appears."
[16:44] ---
    Sebas-chan!
[16:54] ---
    That woman smells like a demon...
[16:57] ---
    Yes.
[16:59] ---
    You see, she's been marked already.
[17:03] ---
    You!
[17:04] ---
    What a pious demon you are,
    to wish to die at an angel's hands...
[17:10] ---
    ...Sebastian Michaelis.
[17:19] ---
    Do you think a demon can compete
    with an immaculate-winged angel?
[17:24] ---
    Wingless demons are chained to the earth...
[17:28] ---
    ...for eternity.
[17:29] ---
    Oh, is that so?
[17:33] ---
    In that case, may you be
    chained to the heavens.
[17:40] ---
    Grell Sutcliff!
[17:44] ---
    A brand-new death scythe!
[17:53] ---
    Yes!
[17:54] ---
    Wash it and return it when we're done here.
[17:57] ---
    You're so mean.
[17:59] ---
    "William T. Spears and Grell Sutcliff
[18:03] ---
    appear before Matilda as
    she watches the battle."
[18:08] ---
    That's a handy tool.
[18:10] ---
    Yes, though limited.
[18:13] ---
    This is an entertaining little diversion.
[18:15] ---
    Let's treat ourselves to
    a game of darts, shall we?
[18:20] ---
    Hmm, I missed.
[18:24] ---
    Now, where shall I hit her next?
[18:26] ---
    I want to play too!
[18:29] ---
    You have perverse tastes.
[18:51] ---
    What?
[18:53] ---
    Does she mean to destroy
    herself along with us?
[18:55] ---
    Snuff out the unclean.
    Snuff out the unnecessary.
[18:59] ---
    Boys, the ceiling is falling!
[19:02] ---
    You are free to run if you like.
[19:06] ---
    A-All right!
[19:13] ---
    We'll retreat as well, Grell Sutcliff.
[19:17] ---
    Well, really! Never mind overtime pay,
    I'd like to request a day off.
[19:54] ---
    Is it over?
[19:57] ---
    The one who plunged me into
    bottomless darkness...
[20:01] ---
    I don't even know why she did it.
[20:07] ---
    A promise is a promise. Take it.
[20:39] ---
    Why, Sebastian?! Why aren't
    you taking my soul?!
[20:43] ---
    She must be dead! Or...
[20:49] ---
    Do you mean there's someone else...?
[20:54] ---
    I'll be serving you a while
    longer, young master.
[21:06] ---
    By the way, why were you in the library?
[21:09] ---
    I thought you'd retired from active service.
[21:11] ---
    Well, you see, he reminded me of something.
[21:16] ---
    There were some Cinematic
    Records I'd neglected to return.
[21:22] ---
    Oh, please.
[21:23] ---
    Come to think of it, two of
    the books I had checked out
[21:28] ---
    were about the Earl and Countess Phantomhive.
[21:32] ---
    Their true Cinematic Records,
    with no alterations by angels...
[21:37] ---
    Do you want to know what they said?
[21:42] ---
    No, I don't.
[21:46] ---
    Let's be off, Sebastian.
[21:48] ---
    Certainly.
[21:55] ---
    Interesting.
[21:58] ---
    Are you sure that was wise, my lord?
[22:00] ---
    If you read the books,
    you would know who to take revenge on.
[22:05] ---
    It's fine.
[22:06] ---
    Feeling sentimental?
[22:07] ---
    That's not it.
[22:09] ---
    It's only...
[22:12] ---
    The thought of being touched by that again...
[22:18] ---
    It's not my custom to
    repeatedly disgrace the dead.
[22:49] ---
    Kurayami no naka de
    mutsumiau zetsubou to mirai wo
[22:56] ---
    Kanashimi wo abaku
    tsukiakari tsumetaku terashiteta
[23:06] ---
    Kimi no kureta himitsu wo shirube ni
[23:13] ---
    Aoi yoru no shizukesa wo yuku
[23:20] ---
    Lacrimosa tooku kudakete kieta
[23:27] ---
    Mabushii sekai wo mou ichido ai shitai
[23:35] ---
    Hitomi no naka ni yume wo kakushite
[23:42] ---
    Yogoreta kokoro ni namida ga ochite kuru made
[24:04] ---
    Of late, my young master seems quite friendly
[24:07] ---
    with Inspector Abberline.
[24:09] ---
    Making a new friend is a
    wonderful thing, but...
[24:13] ---
    I advise you not to get too deeply involved.
[24:16] ---
    Hmm, I would think little things like
    sharing your sweets should be fine.
[24:21] ---
    Lick, lick. Lick, lick...
[24:25] ---
    Next time on Black Butler:
    "His Butler, Imprisoned."
[24:26] ---
    "Next Time" "His Butler, Imprisoned"
[24:29] ---
    You see, I am merely one hell of a butler.

19 - His Butler, Imprisoned

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[00:16] ---
    Can you believe it?
[00:18] ---
    They say there was a time long ago
    when people could bathe in this river.
[00:23] ---
    Though now it might as
    well be a rubbish heap,
[00:25] ---
    since all the filth of
    London gets poured into it.
[00:29] ---
    Mr. Havock, look!
[00:33] ---
    Oh, that's the Cutty Sark.
[00:36] ---
    They say she was built
[00:39] ---
    to carry new tea from China for the nobility.
[00:43] ---
    Is she faster than a steamship?
[00:45] ---
    According to the sailors, as long as
    there's a wind, she's faster than anything.
[00:51] ---
    The Cutty Sark...
[00:53] ---
    It's the name of that witch.
[00:57] ---
    If you stare at her too long,
    she'll have you by the tail.
[01:01] ---
    Could she take me to a faraway country?
[01:05] ---
    Who knows? I hear that canal in
    Egypt put her out of the tea races.
[01:15] ---
    The age of the old ships is passing.
[01:18] ---
    A new age is beginning.
[01:29] ---
    Cutty Sark...?
[01:37] ---
    What's wrong?
[01:51] ---
    "Black Butler"
[01:55] ---
    Since then, I've actually
    come to like the night somewhat
[02:02] ---
    In a sea of dependence,
    I forget even to breathe
[02:07] ---
    When I'm right on the verge
    of losing my head over you
[02:10] ---
    You just leave me lukewarm
[02:14] ---
    The aesthetic of leave-taking
    despises a self-satisfied kiss
[02:22] ---
    Don't leave me alone, show me
    compassion, paint me with death
[02:28] ---
    In your room, all words slip away
[02:34] ---
    I want to end like this, cloaked
[02:40] ---
    But the night ignores that
    wish and brings morning
[02:47] ---
    With your gentle,
    passionate, and dastardly kiss
[02:54] ---
    Paint this final night
[02:57] ---
    The moon illuminates us
[03:12] ---
    "His Butler, Imprisoned"
[03:21] ---
    It seems no one from this
    area recognizes him.
[03:25] ---
    I see.
[03:26] ---
    It must have been a robbery.
[03:28] ---
    I imagine he was murdered
    elsewhere and his body dumped.
[03:33] ---
    The victim was killed with
    one well-placed blow.
[03:37] ---
    That's rather neat work for a common thief...
[03:40] ---
    Then it was probably Mafia infighting.
[03:43] ---
    The Italians, or the Chinese...
[03:46] ---
    The word is that there's a queer
    new drug on the market, after all.
[03:51] ---
    In any case, we'll have to
    begin by identifying him.
[03:54] ---
    That won't be necessary.
[03:56] ---
    His name is John Stanley.
    Here are his particulars.
[04:03] ---
    For you.
[04:06] ---
    Just what are you playing at?
[04:08] ---
    It's our civic duty to
    provide information to the police.
[04:11] ---
    Isn't that what you always say?
[04:14] ---
    Spare me the playacting.
[04:16] ---
    What are you after? Just say it.
[04:20] ---
    All right, Sir Arthur, I shall.
[04:24] ---
    I want you to show me this man's belongings.
[04:27] ---
    Actually, he didn't have anything on him.
[04:30] ---
    There wasn't even any proof of identity.
[04:35] ---
    In that case, I'm happy I could
    be of service, Inspector Abberline.
[04:41] ---
    Let's go, Sebastian.
[04:42] ---
    Very good.
[04:44] ---
    That brat...
[04:46] ---
    Why would Her Majesty
    keep trusting a child like that?
[04:50] ---
    The "Queen's guard dog"...
[04:56] ---
    What's the matter, my lord?
[04:58] ---
    You seem even more cynical than usual.
[05:02] ---
    Who could look pleasant at a time like this?
[05:05] ---
    You are too modest, my lord.
[05:07] ---
    Your face looks quite pleasant to me.
[05:11] ---
    I'm simply at a bit of a loss.
[05:13] ---
    We don't have enough information.
[05:18] ---
    A man's body washed up at
    Regent's Canal Dock this morning.
[05:22] ---
    His name was John Stanley.
[05:24] ---
    He was in the merchant ship business.
[05:27] ---
    And?
[05:30] ---
    He was operating in the underworld
    on secret orders from Her Majesty.
[05:35] ---
    Just like you, Lord Phantomhive.
[05:39] ---
    Her Majesty bids me tell you,
[05:41] ---
    "I'd like you to find something
    he carried on his person
[05:46] ---
    and destroy it."
[05:49] ---
    Not find the killer?
[05:52] ---
    Correct. The Queen desires
    you to dispose of his belongings.
[05:56] ---
    That is all.
[05:58] ---
    And? What is this object?
[06:02] ---
    That's a secret.
[06:04] ---
    Then there's no way for me to find it.
[06:11] ---
    It's something Her Majesty
    hesitates to discuss even with you,
[06:17] ---
    the loyal dog she trusts above all others.
[06:23] ---
    Make sure curiosity doesn't
    drive you to examine its contents.
[06:29] ---
    The first thing we need is
    a better view of the situation.
[06:32] ---
    Meaning...?
[06:34] ---
    We need to know why Stanley was killed.
[06:38] ---
    Was he just in the wrong
    place at the wrong time, or...
[06:42] ---
    ...was he killed because of his mission?
[06:46] ---
    Then how shall we go about
    searching for witnesses, my lord?
[06:51] ---
    Leave it to the Yard. The best
    person to ask about Rome is a Roman.
[06:56] ---
    The murder happened in his territory.
[07:05] ---
    What a foul smell.
[07:09] ---
    It seems you've finally
    found this place, my lord.
[07:14] ---
    It's strange that we should
    face each other like this.
[07:19] ---
    But you know, I rather
    thought this day might come.
[07:24] ---
    What day?!
[07:26] ---
    Welcome, my lord! Long time no see.
[07:30] ---
    I'm not interested in pleasantries.
[07:32] ---
    I have a question for you, Lau.
[07:35] ---
    You're so impatient.
[07:38] ---
    You coming all the way to a den
    like this to see me can only mean...
[07:44] ---
    ...one thing.
[07:46] ---
    So you've heard?
[07:48] ---
    Just what I'd expect from
    the head of the English branch
[07:51] ---
    of the Chinese trading company Kunlun...
[07:53] ---
    Or rather, from an officer of
    the Shanghai Mafia's Green Gang.
[07:58] ---
    I don't much fancy being called that.
[08:01] ---
    It's so stiff and formal.
[08:03] ---
    Right, Ran-Mao?
[08:05] ---
    I left you in charge of this area.
[08:09] ---
    I assume you're aware of
    all the neighborhood disputes.
[08:13] ---
    Naturally. I've done just as you ordered.
[08:17] ---
    That's the protection fee I pay so
    you let me do business in England.
[08:22] ---
    Well, then.
[08:23] ---
    More importantly, my lord,
    I have a question for you, too.
[08:27] ---
    What are you talking about?
[08:30] ---
    Why, you!
[08:32] ---
    So you were just talking
    through your hat... again.
[08:36] ---
    At any rate, shall we go upstairs?
[08:39] ---
    It's a bit stuffy in here.
[08:41] ---
    I told you before: get out
    of this business while you can.
[08:46] ---
    "One night, Zhuang Zhou
    dreamt he was a butterfly.
[08:50] ---
    He was a happily fluttering butterfly."
[08:53] ---
    There are people in this world, my lord,
[08:56] ---
    who find reality too painful to live through.
[09:00] ---
    I'm selling those people dreams.
[09:06] ---
    For you, I'd do anything to help,
[09:10] ---
    but I'm afraid I've never seen that man.
[09:13] ---
    Now, never mind that.
    How are you and Maria getting along?
[09:18] ---
    Well, Ma'am, the truth is...
[09:24] ---
    Goodness me! Congratulations, my boy!
[09:27] ---
    So, you've been doing a bit
    of slap-and-tickle, eh?
[09:29] ---
    But won't there be a scandal?
    You are a police inspector, after all...
[09:34] ---
    You'd best get married right away.
[09:37] ---
    I've already proposed.
[09:38] ---
    What did she say?!
[09:40] ---
    Wonderful! I'm so happy for you.
[09:44] ---
    You'll finally have a family,
    after all those years as an orphan!
[09:49] ---
    And that's why I want to make London safer.
[09:54] ---
    I want it to be a city where
    children can safely be children.
[09:59] ---
    All right, my boy.
[10:01] ---
    If anything happens, I'll
    be sure to let you know.
[10:05] ---
    I'm counting on you, Ma'am.
[10:08] ---
    Well, nowadays all the gang fights
    in this area
[10:15] ---
    have been over drugs.
[10:17] ---
    Recently someone's been
    spreading a new product around.
[10:21] ---
    Frankly, it's an inconvenience for me, too.
[10:24] ---
    A new product?
[10:25] ---
    Yes.
[10:26] ---
    Everyone says it's cheaper, lighter,
    and more effective than opium.
[10:31] ---
    It's known as "Lady Blanc."
[10:33] ---
    "Lady Blanc"? A white woman?
[10:40] ---
    Is something wrong?
[10:41] ---
    No...
[10:43] ---
    What was the name of the man they
    found at Regent's Canal Dock, again?
[10:48] ---
    John Stanley, though that's
    most likely an alias.
[10:54] ---
    He doesn't look familiar.
[10:56] ---
    I believe I'd recognize just
    about any drug dealer around, but...
[11:00] ---
    What about you, Ran-Mao?
[11:03] ---
    There you have it.
[11:05] ---
    I'm looking for something
    this man is supposed to have had.
[11:09] ---
    "Something"?
[11:10] ---
    Yes. It's possible he was killed for it.
[11:15] ---
    Therefore, there's something
    I'd like you to do.
[11:18] ---
    What, my lord?
[11:20] ---
    I want you to spread a rumor
[11:22] ---
    that I got something valuable
[11:26] ---
    from the dead man at the dock.
[11:28] ---
    Nothing simpler. But might I ask why?
[11:32] ---
    If that rumor spreads, the person
    who killed him and stole this object
[11:38] ---
    should fear it wasn't the
    genuine article,
[11:41] ---
    and come after me.
[11:44] ---
    I see, you mean to use yourself as bait.
[11:48] ---
    They don't call you the Queen's
    loyal guard dog for nothing.
[11:53] ---
    Say, my lord, I've been wanting to ask you...
[11:57] ---
    How can you be so loyal to her?
[12:00] ---
    She just asks you for the unreasonable.
[12:04] ---
    You wouldn't understand.
[12:06] ---
    You left your country
[12:08] ---
    to travel the world,
    never putting down roots.
[12:12] ---
    You've got me there.
[12:19] ---
    Now then, Cáo, will you do me a favor
[12:23] ---
    and spread the rumor the Earl wanted?
[12:26] ---
    Tell everyone that he got a
    certain document from the dead man.
[12:30] ---
    A document?
[12:32] ---
    My lord, this may turn out to be
[12:37] ---
    the greatest of all the games
    we've been involved in.
[12:56] ---
    Hello there, my good boy.
[12:58] ---
    Huh?
[13:01] ---
    Mr. Havock told me you
    were collecting rubbish
[13:05] ---
    at Regent's Canal Dock this morning.
[13:08] ---
    Y-Yes...
[13:09] ---
    Then would you mind telling me
[13:12] ---
    about this "witch" you saw... Cutty Sark?
[13:29] ---
    Oof!
[13:31] ---
    These, please, yes!
[13:34] ---
    Say, Mey-Rin, you serve at the
    Phantomhive estate, don't you?
[13:39] ---
    Yes, yes...
[13:41] ---
    Would you give me some?
[13:43] ---
    Some what?
[13:45] ---
    A "white woman"...
[13:47] ---
    Sebastian, do you think that
    woman is involved in this case, too?
[13:53] ---
    You're like a lost puppy
    right now, aren't you?
[13:58] ---
    I am merely one hell of a good pawn.
[14:01] ---
    Isn't it rather absurd for a
    player to ask a pawn his opinion?
[14:07] ---
    I'm still here.
[14:09] ---
    Which means that my wish
    hasn't been fulfilled.
[14:13] ---
    Quite right, my lord.
[14:15] ---
    And as a man of the Phantomhive line,
[14:20] ---
    I will play the guard
    dog again on her orders,
[14:24] ---
    like so many of my ancestors before me.
[14:27] ---
    Yes, it's just how it's always been.
[14:30] ---
    Nothing is different.
[14:32] ---
    And yet...
[14:37] ---
    B-Bad dog, no!
[14:39] ---
    Get off her, you stupid mutt!
[14:41] ---
    You mustn't do that, Plu-Plu!
[14:44] ---
    I told you to get off her!
[14:46] ---
    Sebastian, do something
    about that stupid dog.
[14:49] ---
    Certainly.
[14:51] ---
    Kennel, Pluto.
[14:59] ---
    What was that all about?
[15:02] ---
    Maybe he's rutting?
[15:04] ---
    R-Rutting?!
[15:05] ---
    He seemed extremely interested
    in Mey-Rin's pocket.
[15:10] ---
    M-My pocket?
[15:16] ---
    Hey, that's one of Funtom's sweets.
[15:19] ---
    Someone gave it to me, yes.
[15:21] ---
    It's the rage all over London!
[15:23] ---
    I hear it's sold out almost everywhere, yes!
[15:26] ---
    But when we said we'd never heard of it,
[15:28] ---
    a nice lady gave us some so we could try it!
[15:33] ---
    She said even adults fancied
    it. Amazing, isn't it?
[15:36] ---
    It's supposed to make you feel all wonderful!
[15:39] ---
    She says it's addictive, yes!
[15:41] ---
    Huh, let's have a look.
[15:43] ---
    Wait!
[15:48] ---
    My lord, this sweet was not
    produced by our company.
[15:53] ---
    What?
[15:55] ---
    This wrapper is genuine,
[15:57] ---
    but our quality control is not so lax
[16:01] ---
    as to permit a shipment
    of something so unshapely.
[16:05] ---
    This is...
[16:10] ---
    His time ran out!
[16:18] ---
    This is a narcotic.
[16:20] ---
    I believe it's a form of morphine,
    derived from the opium poppy
[16:23] ---
    and then even further refined.
[16:26] ---
    Presumably it's the new
    drug Mr. Lau spoke of.
[16:29] ---
    Lady Blanc...
[16:32] ---
    A visitor? For me?
[16:36] ---
    Hey, you! What right do
    you have to sit there?!
[16:40] ---
    That's my seat!
[16:42] ---
    The chair of the
    Commissioner of Scotland Yard!
[16:46] ---
    It's quite comfortable, isn't it...
[16:49] ---
    ...Sir Arthur?
[16:50] ---
    Y-You're...!
[16:53] ---
    I bring a message from
    Her Majesty, Sir Arthur Randall.
[17:00] ---
    Take me to the sweets factory,
    and be quick about it!
[17:05] ---
    Damn and blast! Why have
    our products become drugs?!
[17:10] ---
    And those secret orders from Her Majesty...
[17:13] ---
    How is this connected to
    the dead man at the docks?
[17:17] ---
    We're missing a vital piece of the puzzle!
[17:23] ---
    I say, Ran-Mao...
[17:25] ---
    Which do you think is worse:
[17:27] ---
    never waking from your dreams,
[17:30] ---
    or never being able to dream?
[17:33] ---
    Still, all things that seem eternal,
    whether dreams or realities,
[17:39] ---
    one day end, don't they?
[17:44] ---
    Shì dà gē.
[17:47] ---
    Surrender yourselves quietly!
[17:56] ---
    Halt!
[18:06] ---
    You're a reckless man.
[18:08] ---
    You do realize that if I were
    anyone else, you would be dead?
[18:11] ---
    I did this because of who you are, Sebastian.
[18:20] ---
    What's all this, Sebastian?
[18:22] ---
    Ciel, Earl Phantomhive,
[18:25] ---
    I am detaining you for suspected
    violation of the Pharmacy Act!
[18:30] ---
    Young master.
[18:34] ---
    My, my. You, detain me?
[18:37] ---
    The Earl Phantomhive?
[18:41] ---
    You, a mere untitled police inspector?
[18:45] ---
    That's right, Ciel.
[18:47] ---
    You're suspected of conspiring
    with that Chinese fellow, Lau,
[18:51] ---
    to sell a new form of narcotic.
[18:54] ---
    With Lau?
[18:55] ---
    Ha! Ludicrous.
[18:57] ---
    He's nothing but one of my pawns.
[19:00] ---
    And Randall knew full well
    that he was running an opium den.
[19:06] ---
    If that's a problem, you can just arrest him.
[19:10] ---
    Lau knows he operates his
    opium business at his own risk.
[19:14] ---
    There's a Funtom warehouse
    in the Docklands, am I right?
[19:17] ---
    Yes.
[19:18] ---
    A large store of opium was
    just discovered there.
[19:25] ---
    Far too great an amount of it
    for you to claim recreational use,
[19:29] ---
    sitting there with Funtom's sweet wrappers.
[19:32] ---
    And Lau?
[19:34] ---
    He fled.
[19:36] ---
    The police team who went to arrest
    him suffered a good many casualties.
[19:39] ---
    That's as good as an admission of guilt.
[19:41] ---
    What shall we do, young master?
[19:45] ---
    Should I let them take me in, or...?
[19:49] ---
    Sebastian, I order you to--
[19:51] ---
    Shut your mouth, brat!
[19:54] ---
    Abberline, I told you to separate
    him from the butler straight away.
[19:59] ---
    Randall...
[20:01] ---
    I trust you understand what
    it means to point a gun at me.
[20:05] ---
    If you want to resist, by all means, do.
[20:09] ---
    But that will be the end of
    the sullied Phantomhive crest.
[20:14] ---
    What?!
[20:16] ---
    I've just received a direct
    order from Her Majesty the Queen.
[20:21] ---
    Only the criminal would know
[20:25] ---
    that what Her Majesty seeks is a document.
[20:27] ---
    Therefore,
[20:29] ---
    please arrest Lord Phantomhive and Lau.
[20:34] ---
    There's no need to worry;
[20:37] ---
    we'll construct a suitable pretext.
[20:39] ---
    A-And what shall I do after I arrest him?
[20:44] ---
    In the name of the Queen,
[20:47] ---
    I hereby suspend all the
    Earl Phantomhive's authority
[20:50] ---
    until these suspicions are laid to rest!
[20:53] ---
    If you defy me, you shall be
    stripped
[20:55] ---
    of your noble title on the
    charge of high treason.
[20:59] ---
    Furthermore, Lau, the head of
    the English branch of Kunlun,
[21:02] ---
    who is deeply involved in opium smuggling,
[21:04] ---
    shall pay for his crimes with his death.
[21:10] ---
    Ciel Phantomhive,
[21:12] ---
    will you agree to confess
    to Lau's whereabouts
[21:16] ---
    or to the whereabouts of the Queen's letter?
[21:19] ---
    I'm afraid not.
[21:22] ---
    A letter? So that's the missing piece!
[21:27] ---
    I should very much like to push you on that,
[21:30] ---
    but unfortunately Her Majesty forbids it.
[21:34] ---
    I suppose I'll ask your butler instead.
[22:00] ---
    Offer no resistance.
[22:02] ---
    When the time is right, I will call for you.
[22:05] ---
    And then we will teach them
[22:08] ---
    what becomes of those
    who humiliate me.
[22:12] ---
    Have you got that, Sebastian?
[22:15] ---
    Yes, my lord.
[22:49] ---
    The moonlight that reveals
    sorrow was coldly illuminating
[22:56] ---
    The despair and the future
    which grew intimate in the dark
[23:06] ---
    With the secret you gave me as my guide
[23:13] ---
    I move through the blue night's stillness
[23:20] ---
    Lacrimosa, I want to love once again
[23:27] ---
    The dazzling world that
    crumbled and vanished in the distance
[23:35] ---
    I'll hide my dreams within my eyes
[23:42] ---
    Until the tears fall on my sullied heart
[24:04] ---
    You intend to torture me?
[24:07] ---
    Impossible, I'm afraid.
[24:08] ---
    The only time I feel pain is
    when I dance with my master,
[24:11] ---
    who has made no progress
    whatsoever in that art.
[24:15] ---
    A whipping or two, compared to
    that feeling of abysmal futility?
[24:21] ---
    Bring it on!
[24:25] ---
    Next time on Black Butler:
    "His Butler, Escaping."
[24:26] ---
    "Next Time" "His Butler, Escaping"
[24:29] ---
    You see, I am merely one hell of a butler.

20 - His Butler, Escaping

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[00:12] ---
    "One night, Zhuang Zhou
    dreamt he was a butterfly.
[00:17] ---
    He was a happily fluttering butterfly.
[00:20] ---
    It was so much fun. He could
    fly wherever he wanted.
[00:25] ---
    And he had no thought of being Zhou.
[00:30] ---
    But suddenly he woke up,
[00:33] ---
    and was startled to find
    that he was now Zhou.
[00:36] ---
    He couldn't decide: Was he Zhou
    who'd just dreamt he was a butterfly...
[00:40] ---
    or a butterfly now dreaming he was Zhou?
[00:47] ---
    Between being Zhou and a butterfly,
    surely there must be some distinction...
[00:53] ---
    This is what we call the
    transformation of things."
[00:59] ---
    I know, I'm simply too-too.
[01:14] ---
    "Black Butler"
[01:18] ---
    Are kara ikuraka yoru suki ni mo narimashita
[01:25] ---
    Izon no umi iki mo wasurete
[01:30] ---
    Muchuu no sono temae de
[01:33] ---
    Namanurusa dake wo nokoshite
[01:37] ---
    Hikigiwa no bigaku tokuige na kisu kirau
[01:45] ---
    Hitori ni shinaide, mou sasshite ayamete
[01:51] ---
    Dono kotoba mo kimi no
    heya dewa surinukete iku no
[01:57] ---
    Dekireba kono mama tsutsumarete owaritai
[02:03] ---
    Sono negai wa yoru wa
    munashiku asa wo tsurete kuru
[02:10] ---
    Yasashikute atsukute hikyou na kisu de
[02:17] ---
    Irodotte yo saigo no yoru
[02:20] ---
    Tsuki ga terashiteru
[02:35] ---
    "His Butler, Escaping"
[02:42] ---
    He's lovely!
[02:44] ---
    If you're going to confess,
    you'd best do it soon, Sebastian.
[02:50] ---
    Very well, then, I confess:
[02:53] ---
    I was responsible for the outbreak
    of the Black Death in Europe.
[02:57] ---
    What?
[02:58] ---
    As I recall, it was during
    the reign of Edward III.
[03:02] ---
    Don't try to make fools of us!
[03:04] ---
    That was a full five hundred years ago!
[03:08] ---
    Give him as much pain as you like!
[03:11] ---
    Yessir.
[03:12] ---
    Oh, good.
[03:15] ---
    If you'd confessed,
    I would've missed out on my fun!
[03:20] ---
    Oh, those eyes! Should I
    pierce them, or cut them out?
[03:24] ---
    Or I could burn them!
[03:27] ---
    No, no, I'll save the best part for last.
[03:30] ---
    First, let's hear a nice
    scream from you, you pretty thing.
[03:42] ---
    Your tea is ready.
[03:53] ---
    Ciel?
[04:04] ---
    I once had a job unloading
    tea clippers at the docks.
[04:09] ---
    But you're an inspector...
[04:12] ---
    I was raised in the East End.
[04:14] ---
    I had no parents or siblings.
[04:16] ---
    I did whatever work I had to, to survive.
[04:19] ---
    You've certainly risen up in the world, then.
[04:23] ---
    I say, Ciel...
[04:25] ---
    You really don't have anything
    to do with the drugs, do you?
[04:30] ---
    Or the Queen's letter, either.
[04:32] ---
    You're finally starting your interrogation?
[04:34] ---
    No, the Commissioner only
    told me to confine you here.
[04:39] ---
    Then don't involve yourself.
[04:41] ---
    This game is between me and
    whoever is pulling the strings.
[04:45] ---
    You just follow your superior's orders,
    like the pawn you are.
[04:49] ---
    That's the secret to long life and promotion.
[04:51] ---
    Ciel...
[04:55] ---
    If you're going to give the
    Ferro family your territory,
[04:58] ---
    we'll be glad to accept it,
[05:02] ---
    but I thought you worked
    for that little mutt.
[05:05] ---
    I hear he's been captured.
[05:08] ---
    Should you really run away without him?
[05:11] ---
    The butterfly drinks nectar from the flower,
[05:13] ---
    and the flower spreads its pollen
    by giving nectar to the butterfly.
[05:17] ---
    And should the flower be
    plucked for the beauty of its bloom,
[05:23] ---
    would the butterfly mourn it?
[05:25] ---
    It would simply find a new flower, eh?
[05:29] ---
    There are flowerbeds all over this world.
[05:32] ---
    And wasn't that your doing?
[05:34] ---
    And Stanley was your doing,
    so it's a pot-and-kettle situation.
[05:39] ---
    You're quite right, Signor Corraro.
[05:42] ---
    Have a nice voyage, Lau-dàren.
[05:48] ---
    Well, Ran-Mao, now we'll finally say goodbye
[05:53] ---
    to these days of peace and boredom.
[05:59] ---
    Liar.
[06:18] ---
    A tea clipper, eh?
[06:25] ---
    Tea, opium, and a Chinese man...
[06:30] ---
    That's an unpleasant coincidence.
[06:32] ---
    It's like the Opium Wars all over again.
[06:49] ---
    You make a pretty picture
    like this, Sebastian.
[06:52] ---
    So this is how far you'll go
    in your loyalty to your master.
[06:57] ---
    Those are the terms of
    the contract between us.
[07:24] ---
    Where are you going, Ciel?
[07:27] ---
    I'm tired of this confinement.
[07:29] ---
    I just thought I'd take a little walk.
[07:32] ---
    What do you think you can
    accomplish on your own?
[07:36] ---
    Do not underestimate the Phantomhives.
[07:39] ---
    How many years do you think
    we've held sway in the underworld?
[07:45] ---
    There are still plenty of pawns in my grasp.
[07:48] ---
    You mean the lot you've
    been trying to contact for days?
[07:52] ---
    None have them have
    reached out a hand to you, though.
[07:57] ---
    Am I wrong, Ciel?
[07:59] ---
    The boy must be gnashing his teeth right now,
[08:03] ---
    since he's been shown his own powerlessness.
[08:06] ---
    Yes, I imagine so.
[08:08] ---
    Fear and profit are the only
    ties that bind in the underworld.
[08:14] ---
    You don't have either right now.
[08:17] ---
    That won't stop me.
[08:19] ---
    That wouldn't stop him. Even if...
[08:23] ---
    Even if all my pawns are stolen,
[08:25] ---
    and the king is my only
    piece left on the board...
[08:29] ---
    He will never pull out of the game.
[08:32] ---
    That's my master's nature.
[08:35] ---
    Why not start acting like a demon,
    and be faithful to your own desires?
[08:39] ---
    This is harder on you than you admit.
[08:41] ---
    You haven't eaten any humans,
    any human souls, in quite some time.
[08:46] ---
    And now you're heavily injured to boot.
[08:49] ---
    You must be ravenous.
[08:53] ---
    Shall we make a deal, Sebastian?
[08:55] ---
    The true Doomsday will come in due time.
[08:59] ---
    When that happens, I'll let you
    have as many souls as you like.
[09:02] ---
    So give up that boy.
[09:05] ---
    No, thank you.
[09:07] ---
    I'm tired of simply gobbling
    everything I can lay my hands on.
[09:13] ---
    My young master is the only one I want.
[09:17] ---
    I desire nothing else.
[09:21] ---
    I see. Then I'm afraid our
    negotiations have broken down.
[09:29] ---
    O unclean one, o tainted
    one, o defiled one...
[09:35] ---
    Perish! Be cleansed!
[09:38] ---
    The pain you feel is a blessing from God!
[09:42] ---
    Ah, this pain is a sublime spice.
[09:46] ---
    Blood is what you offer up
    for the expiation of sin!
[09:48] ---
    Blood is the ultimate sauce.
[09:50] ---
    The cursed soul must be purged with flame!
[09:57] ---
    Bless that solitary, defiled soul...
[10:04] ---
    If I can't rely on anyone's
    help, that's fine.
[10:10] ---
    I've always been alone.
[10:12] ---
    It's the fate of all born into
    the cursed house of Phantomhive.
[10:16] ---
    You could never understand, Abberline.
[10:20] ---
    Isn't that why your parents were killed?
[10:24] ---
    I read about it in your file.
[10:26] ---
    And I heard the story
    from Commissioner Randall.
[10:28] ---
    I know your past,
[10:30] ---
    and I know you're
    the Queen's guard dog,
[10:32] ---
    who runs the criminal underworld.
[10:35] ---
    And?
[10:36] ---
    I believe our conversation is over.
[10:38] ---
    In which case...
[10:39] ---
    Why do you try to fight alone?!
[10:41] ---
    Why don't you ask anyone for help?!
[10:42] ---
    I don't need anyone on my side.
[10:45] ---
    I'm the one playing the game.
    All I need are pawns!
[10:49] ---
    I'll be on your side!
[10:56] ---
    Yes. I'll be on your side, Ciel.
[11:02] ---
    Abberline...
[11:14] ---
    You're a fool.
[11:16] ---
    If anyone finds out,
    you'll lose more than your job.
[11:20] ---
    I'm getting married.
[11:23] ---
    What does that have to do with it?!
[11:25] ---
    And I'll become a father not long after.
[11:29] ---
    So I want to make this a good country,
    for my child's sake as well.
[11:34] ---
    A country that can get along
    without the "Queen's guard dog."
[11:38] ---
    You know, I think the
    times are about to change.
[11:42] ---
    Like the tea clippers that
    have finished their duty.
[11:44] ---
    Are you serious?
[11:46] ---
    Of course. What changes the
    world is people's faith
[11:49] ---
    that tomorrow will be better,
    that they can make it better.
[11:54] ---
    Who the devil are you?
[11:57] ---
    Fred Abberline.
[11:59] ---
    A detective.
[12:00] ---
    Abby!
[12:02] ---
    Ma'am!
[12:03] ---
    I've found someone who
    says they saw the murder!
[12:09] ---
    A Chinese girl?
[12:11] ---
    Yeah, she was so pretty I
    thought she was Cutty Sark at first.
[12:16] ---
    A Chinese girl? Could it be...
[12:19] ---
    Did you tell anyone about this?
[12:21] ---
    I told Havock and a white-haired man.
[12:26] ---
    He was so dapper-looking!
[12:27] ---
    When I told him about her, he
    said I was a good, pure-hearted boy,
[12:32] ---
    and he gave me this!
[12:35] ---
    Give me that!
[12:37] ---
    Do you work for the Ferros?
    I'll get you your money later,
[12:41] ---
    so please, for God's sake!
[12:43] ---
    Hey.
[12:45] ---
    Tell me everything.
[12:54] ---
    So, now I rule the entire East End.
[13:03] ---
    Bloody hell!
[13:04] ---
    Boss! Boss!
[13:09] ---
    Corraro, are you the one
[13:12] ---
    who spread around drugs
    disguised as my sweets?
[13:15] ---
    I haven't the faintest--
[13:17] ---
    Children are very impatient.
[13:19] ---
    Yes, it was me.
[13:21] ---
    And were you responsible for Stanley, too?
[13:24] ---
    No, that was Lau!
[13:28] ---
    Stanley was one of our sponsors.
[13:31] ---
    We acted on his request,
[13:33] ---
    but the fool made a move on Lau,
[13:37] ---
    and Lau's pet tigress killed him.
[13:40] ---
    Come to think of it, Lau
    told me he was running
[13:43] ---
    because it was all over for the Phantomhives.
[13:48] ---
    Sounds like he got something
    valuable off Stanley, but...
[13:52] ---
    Lau, you...
[13:57] ---
    Ciel!
[14:01] ---
    I heard you'd stoop to *anything
    *to get your way, Phantomhive.
[14:06] ---
    This is the best you can do?
[14:08] ---
    True, this isn't like me.
[14:12] ---
    Ciel?
[14:13] ---
    That's right, there are
    no rules in this world.
[14:17] ---
    And if there are, then I'm
    the one who makes them.
[14:21] ---
    In my name and the defiled
    name of my family, I order you:
[14:25] ---
    Come, Sebastian!
[14:29] ---
    At last.
[14:42] ---
    Do it!
[14:54] ---
    You're late.
[14:56] ---
    You made me wait quite a
    while as well, young master.
[15:00] ---
    It seems that soft-hearted
    dupe temporarily infected me.
[15:04] ---
    But that's all over.
[15:06] ---
    Sebastian, go after Lau.
[15:08] ---
    I have no use for pawns
    that defy their players!
[15:11] ---
    You're certain, young master?
[15:13] ---
    You won't be able to take back that order.
[15:17] ---
    I remove anyone who stands in my way...
[15:22] ---
    even family and friends.
[15:24] ---
    Yes, my lord.
[15:26] ---
    Ciel!
[15:28] ---
    Keep your distance from
    me, or you'll get killed.
[15:33] ---
    I work in the shadows, and
    you work in the light.
[15:36] ---
    We walk opposite paths, Abberline.
[15:44] ---
    What's that?!
[15:53] ---
    Fire!
[16:03] ---
    Ah, you're finally here.
[16:07] ---
    This is why I'm so fond of you, my lord.
[16:15] ---
    Go, Sebastian!
[16:17] ---
    Very good.
[16:41] ---
    I'll take care of her.
[16:43] ---
    All right.
[16:45] ---
    I kill my brother's enemies.
[16:48] ---
    Then I shall battle you.
[17:05] ---
    It seems you've finally
    found this place, my lord.
[17:09] ---
    It's strange that we should
    face each other like this.
[17:13] ---
    But you know, I rather
    thought this day might come.
[17:18] ---
    You're right, Lau.
[17:20] ---
    Ah, yes, what you're looking
    for is on that shelf.
[17:24] ---
    What do you suppose is
    written there, my lord?
[17:29] ---
    It's diplomatic correspondence proposing
    a military alliance with Germany and Italy.
[17:34] ---
    Your beloved Queen is
    trying to plunge Europe--
[17:37] ---
    no, the world-- into war.
[17:41] ---
    She'll trigger it by invading
    France through opium,
[17:45] ---
    or rather, through Lady Blanc.
[17:47] ---
    Yes, just as your country once
    invaded mine through opium.
[17:55] ---
    Will you still be her guard dog?
[17:58] ---
    Is that why you betrayed me?
[18:02] ---
    No, not at all.
[18:04] ---
    Then why?!
[18:06] ---
    I was your pawn.
[18:08] ---
    The only tie that bound us was profit.
[18:11] ---
    But you see, my lord,
[18:14] ---
    I've been a bit bored.
[18:17] ---
    I was bored with being your pawn,
    so I wanted to play a little game
[18:22] ---
    with our lives on the line.
[18:33] ---
    Your small body houses magnificent power.
[18:37] ---
    However, you're only human.
[18:39] ---
    Why not stop now?
[18:42] ---
    No.
[18:44] ---
    Sebastian!
[18:46] ---
    To think you've pushed Ran-Mao this far...
[18:49] ---
    I see I was right all along:
[18:52] ---
    you're not human, are you?
[18:55] ---
    Believe what you like.
[18:57] ---
    You see, I am merely one hell of a butler.
[19:01] ---
    Interesting. Very interesting, my lord.
[19:04] ---
    Can a world so interesting truly be reality?
[19:09] ---
    Sometimes I think perhaps I've been dreaming
[19:14] ---
    ever since that day.
[19:16] ---
    "He couldn't decide: Was he Zhou
    who'd just dreamt he was a butterfly...
[19:23] ---
    ...or a butterfly now dreaming he was Zhou?"
[19:26] ---
    Sebastian!
[19:28] ---
    I won't let you.
[19:41] ---
    Abber...line...
[19:43] ---
    Ciel...
[19:46] ---
    You're in my way, Inspector.
[20:09] ---
    Magnificent, my lord.
[20:12] ---
    That's just the virtue...
    or rather, the vice...
[20:16] ---
    Lau, you...!
[20:18] ---
    This ship is finished.
[20:20] ---
    You've won the game, my lord.
[20:23] ---
    Apparently I don't have what
    it takes to be a player.
[20:36] ---
    Come, Ran-Mao, let's see
    the rest of the dream.
[20:40] ---
    This entire world is a butterfly's dream.
[20:57] ---
    Hang on, Abberline!
[20:59] ---
    Hang on!
[21:01] ---
    Ciel...
[21:05] ---
    I'm glad you're all right.
[21:09] ---
    I was like you...
[21:11] ---
    when I lost all my family...
[21:15] ---
    I thought I'd never have one again.
[21:18] ---
    I thought I could never get them back...
[21:21] ---
    But I was wrong.
[21:24] ---
    You can get them back.
[21:26] ---
    You're wrong! I--
[21:28] ---
    You have a chance...
[21:32] ---
    to get a future for yourself again...
[21:37] ---
    You mustn't... forget that...
[21:43] ---
    There's no future for me.
[21:46] ---
    I exchanged my future for...
[21:50] ---
    Young master.
[21:53] ---
    You failed, Sebastian.
[21:56] ---
    My life was in danger, but
    you didn't move a muscle.
[22:02] ---
    You were perfectly safe, my lord.
[22:05] ---
    You didn't get hurt, did you?
[22:08] ---
    I could tell that you wouldn't.
[22:11] ---
    That Mr. Abberline would shield you from--
[22:17] ---
    Abberline...
[22:21] ---
    You damn fool.
[22:27] ---
    Yes. What a fool.
[22:49] ---
    Kurayami no naka de
    mutsumiau zetsubou to mirai wo
[22:56] ---
    Kanashimi wo abaku
    tsukiakari tsumetaku terashiteta
[23:06] ---
    Kimi no kureta himitsu wo shirube ni
[23:13] ---
    Aoi yoru no shizukesa wo yuku
[23:20] ---
    Lacrimosa tooku kudakete kieta
[23:27] ---
    Mabushii sekai wo mou ichido ai shitai
[23:35] ---
    Hitomi no naka ni yume wo kakushite
[23:42] ---
    Yogoreta kokoro ni namida ga ochite kuru made
[24:04] ---
    Goodness, you say you want
    to know about my past?
[24:07] ---
    It's not a very interesting story,
    but if you insist...
[24:11] ---
    I served another master
    before my current young master.
[24:15] ---
    That master was-- oh, dear!
[24:17] ---
    That's all for today. Visit
    our website to hear more.
[24:20] ---
    Not really; I've just always
    wanted to say that. Please excuse me.
[24:25] ---
    Next time on Black Butler:
    "His Butler, Engaging Servants."
[24:26] ---
    "Next Time" "His Butler, Engaging Servants"
[24:29] ---
    You see, I am merely one hell of a butler.

21 - His Butler, Engaging Servants

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[00:21] ---
    You don't need to know the
    names of your targets.
[00:25] ---
    There's only one thing for you to do.
[00:30] ---
    This thing's in the way.
[00:39] ---
    This is the only way for you to live
    with those abominable eyes of yours
[00:42] ---
    that can pick out even
    the most distant of prey.
[00:47] ---
    Isn't that so?
[01:02] ---
    There's only one thing for you to do.
[01:07] ---
    You have incredible eyes.
[01:10] ---
    I'd like to offer you a position.
[01:13] ---
    Room and board would be included.
[01:22] ---
    No experience necessary.
[01:25] ---
    I'll teach you everything you need to know.
[01:33] ---
    What position?
[01:40] ---
    I've engaged a maid.
[01:43] ---
    Right this way.
[02:04] ---
    I've never worn a skirt before.
[02:13] ---
    A gift from the young master.
[02:16] ---
    "Young master"?
[02:40] ---
    "Black Butler"
[02:44] ---
    Since then, I've actually
    come to like the night somewhat
[02:50] ---
    In a sea of dependence,
    I forget even to breathe
[02:56] ---
    When I'm right on the verge
    of losing my head over you
[02:59] ---
    You just leave me lukewarm
[03:03] ---
    The aesthetic of leave-taking
    despises a self-satisfied kiss
[03:11] ---
    Don't leave me alone, show me
    compassion, paint me with death
[03:17] ---
    In your room, all words slip away
[03:23] ---
    I want to end like this, cloaked
[03:29] ---
    But the night ignores that
    wish and brings morning
[03:36] ---
    With your gentle,
    passionate, and dastardly kiss
[03:43] ---
    Paint this final night
[03:46] ---
    The moon illuminates us
[04:01] ---
    "His Butler, Engaging Servants"
[04:17] ---
    --Good morning, young master!
[04:17] ---
    --Good morning, young master, yes!
[04:20] ---
    Good morning...
[04:23] ---
    Young master?
[04:24] ---
    H-He's in poor spirits, yes!
[04:26] ---
    You're right.
[04:27] ---
    Ah, you can tell?
[04:30] ---
    Sure. At first glance he
    looks the same as usual,
[04:34] ---
    but we can see the difference.
[04:39] ---
    Let's give his spirits a boost!
[04:43] ---
    G-Good idea, yes!
[04:44] ---
    We'll have a party!
[04:46] ---
    Party!
[04:47] ---
    Equanimity.
[04:52] ---
    "Equanimity"
[04:55] ---
    "Equanimity"?
[04:56] ---
    You mean like, keepin'
    yourself on an even keel?
[04:58] ---
    In other words, we help
    him relax just as usual!
[05:02] ---
    A-All right, yes!
[05:04] ---
    I'll polish this mansion
    into the ideal living space!
[05:07] ---
    The time has finally come to
    show off my special recipes.
[05:10] ---
    I'll make all the trees outside
    look really excellent, then!
[05:13] ---
    Let's go!
[05:14] ---
    Right!
[05:17] ---
    "Ho, ho, ho"
[05:23] ---
    Cut that out, Plu-Plu!
[05:28] ---
    You're sure full of energy!
[05:36] ---
    Don't eat them, Plu-Plu!
[05:44] ---
    Sorry, little birdies.
[05:46] ---
    Sorry to you too, Plu-Plu.
[05:50] ---
    Before I came here, the
    birds were my only friends.
[05:55] ---
    But since I came to this mansion,
    I've been able to go outside every day.
[05:59] ---
    It's so much fun!
[06:02] ---
    Young master...
[06:05] ---
    I wonder what this place was
    like before we got here?
[06:16] ---
    Plu-Plu?
[06:22] ---
    I imagine this year's
    Exposition will be a grand affair,
[06:25] ---
    since it's the 100th anniversary
    of the French Revolution.
[06:28] ---
    I hear they're building a mammoth
    tower in Paris for the World's Fair.
[06:33] ---
    As I recall, it's called the Eiffel Tower.
[06:36] ---
    Quite.
[06:37] ---
    Doesn't it remind you of the Tower of Babel,
[06:40] ---
    when the people incurred God's wrath
    trying to build a tower to the heavens?
[06:45] ---
    Quite.
[06:46] ---
    According to Ash,
[06:48] ---
    Her Majesty will be secretly
    traveling to Paris to see it.
[06:52] ---
    Quite.
[06:54] ---
    Will Earl Grey tea suit you today, my lord?
[06:57] ---
    Quite.
[06:59] ---
    Once upon a time, there lived
    an old man and an old woman.
[07:04] ---
    What are you on about?
[07:06] ---
    Ah, so you could hear me.
[07:10] ---
    Naturally.
[07:15] ---
    Has there been any word from Her Majesty
[07:16] ---
    about the incident the other day?
[07:20] ---
    None, my lord.
[07:22] ---
    I see. That's all right, then.
[07:29] ---
    I'll make it clean, yes!
[07:31] ---
    I'll make it sparkling, yes!
[07:34] ---
    Mey-Rin.
[07:36] ---
    Sebastian!
[07:39] ---
    What are you doing?
[07:40] ---
    Wh-What a silly question!
    I'm polishing the railing--
[07:47] ---
    I mistook the shoe polish for the wax, yes!
[07:54] ---
    Are you sure you don't need new glasses?
[07:58] ---
    Isn't it about time you replaced--
[08:00] ---
    N-No, no! These were a precious
    gift from the young master, yes!
[08:07] ---
    At any rate, please clean this off quickly.
[08:12] ---
    Y-Yes, yes!
[08:18] ---
    I'll take this opportunity to prepare lun--
[08:27] ---
    Baldo!
[08:29] ---
    I've told you a thousand times that
    dynamite is not a cooking utensil.
[08:34] ---
    I thought it'd be faster this way...
[08:38] ---
    There's plenty of time. Why
    would you need to hurry?
[08:42] ---
    In my head I know that, but...
[08:46] ---
    Before I came here, I'd never
    taken my time makin' food.
[08:51] ---
    I always end up rushin' and messin' it up.
[08:55] ---
    Problem is, I've just never
    gotten used to how "peace" feels.
[09:04] ---
    I'll prepare lunch.
[09:07] ---
    You clean up here, please.
[09:10] ---
    Dammit! Fine!
[09:18] ---
    I believe our conversation
    is over. In which case...
[09:21] ---
    Why do you try to fight alone?!
[09:23] ---
    Why don't you ask anyone for help?!
[09:25] ---
    I don't need anyone on my side.
[09:27] ---
    I'm the one playing the
    game. All I need are pawns!
[09:32] ---
    I'll be on your side!
[09:35] ---
    What was the matter with him?
[09:39] ---
    The mansion before we got here?
[09:42] ---
    Right.
[09:43] ---
    The only one who'd know that would be Tanaka.
[09:51] ---
    It's no use. Askin' him is a waste of time.
[09:53] ---
    Th-There's one more person, yes!
[10:01] ---
    The old Phantomhive home?
[10:04] ---
    Yes, my lady. What was it
    like here before we came?
[10:10] ---
    Well...
[10:12] ---
    Ciel's father and mother and
    Aunt An were always smiling,
[10:18] ---
    and Ciel was, too.
[10:21] ---
    The Phantomhive home was full of smiles.
[10:24] ---
    --That's it!
[10:24] ---
    --That's it, yes!
[10:27] ---
    Yay!
[10:30] ---
    We'll fill this mansion full of smiles!
[10:33] ---
    I-If we do that, the young master
    should recover his spirits, yes!
[10:38] ---
    That sounds marvelous!
[10:42] ---
    Who can smile when nothing's funny?!
[10:47] ---
    This is for the young master, yes!
[10:49] ---
    Smile, Baldo!
[10:50] ---
    Ow ow ow!
[10:52] ---
    Fine! Fine!
[10:55] ---
    I'll help, too!
[11:14] ---
    What's happening?!
[11:25] ---
    What's the meaning of this?
[11:29] ---
    There's some time left before dinner.
[11:31] ---
    Please relax inside until
    it's time, Lady Elizabeth.
[11:34] ---
    What's going on, Sebastian?
[11:36] ---
    L-Lady Elizabeth!
[11:42] ---
    Smile, right?
[11:48] ---
    This way, please.
[11:53] ---
    I leave it to the three of you.
[12:03] ---
    Now, then...
[12:30] ---
    Good day, Ciel!
[12:35] ---
    Elizabeth! When did you get here?
[12:38] ---
    Send over a footman with word next time!
[12:40] ---
    Why should I send a footman
    every time I want to see my fiancé?
[12:43] ---
    Teach me to play chess!
[12:46] ---
    Chess?
[12:47] ---
    Yes. A lady who can't play
    chess isn't worth her salt!
[12:51] ---
    Or so my mother told me...
[12:53] ---
    But I'm having a hard time learning.
[12:56] ---
    And Paula's hopeless at it.
[12:59] ---
    You're the only one I can ask, Ciel!
[13:02] ---
    Please?
[13:06] ---
    Pardon me.
[13:08] ---
    Sebastian.
[13:10] ---
    My lord?
[13:11] ---
    Get us a chessboard.
[13:13] ---
    Yes, my lord.
[13:30] ---
    There are sixty-four squares
    on this chessboard.
[13:33] ---
    You move your color's pieces one at a time,
[13:36] ---
    and checkmate your opponent's
    king before he gets yours.
[13:45] ---
    Just what are you trying to do?!
[13:48] ---
    Oh, but isn't it lovely?
[13:58] ---
    What?
[13:59] ---
    Well, it's been such a long time
    since we played together like this.
[14:06] ---
    Here we go.
[14:07] ---
    All right!
[14:28] ---
    What's wrong?
[14:30] ---
    It's nothing.
[14:47] ---
    I told you so!
[14:50] ---
    This is a weak point in their defenses.
[14:52] ---
    We'll break right through it
    and penetrate their territory!
[14:55] ---
    Wait! That's a trap!
[14:57] ---
    What's the matter, Sergeant? Turning coward?
[15:01] ---
    No! I'm sayin' there are
    other ways to do this!
[15:04] ---
    Enough! This plan is final!
[15:24] ---
    I told you so.
[15:27] ---
    My, such chaos...
[15:31] ---
    Even a grim reaper would
    be unequal to this task.
[15:34] ---
    You have superb combat abilities
[15:37] ---
    and an animal instinct that
    lets you evade any trap.
[15:40] ---
    I find you quite promising.
[15:43] ---
    Are you an ally or an enemy?
[15:48] ---
    Neither.
[15:50] ---
    You see, I am merely one hell of a butler.
[15:57] ---
    Hey! You're gonna die if you don't
    go home and treat that wound quick!
[16:13] ---
    That little cur is going to pay.
[16:18] ---
    And once he's gone, it'll be
    easy to do business in this country.
[16:23] ---
    I hear villainous nobles
    aren't needed anymore.
[16:48] ---
    We'll protect this estate, yes.
[16:54] ---
    Smile, yes! Smiles are what
    will cheer up the young master!
[17:03] ---
    Ow! Hot hot hot!
[17:05] ---
    Help!
[17:07] ---
    Hmm... Knight, rook, pawn, bishop.
[17:14] ---
    Is that right?
[17:15] ---
    Yes.
[17:17] ---
    I learned them!
[18:05] ---
    Stop!
[18:07] ---
    --Let me go!
[18:07] ---
    --This will give him power
    beyond humanity's limits!
[18:37] ---
    You're not hurt from me bumping into you?
[18:40] ---
    You have incredible strength.
[18:42] ---
    I'd like to offer you a position.
[18:44] ---
    You'll receive regular wages plus
    incentive pay, and twice-yearly bonuses.
[18:48] ---
    I don't need any of that.
[18:51] ---
    I just...
[18:58] ---
    I want to go outside!
[19:06] ---
    It's so beautiful...
[19:19] ---
    Whoopsy-daisy!
[19:21] ---
    Take that!
[19:30] ---
    Let's see... That's the king, isn't it?
[19:33] ---
    That's right.
[19:34] ---
    And this is the queen. Oh, chess is so cute!
[19:41] ---
    Your beloved Queen is
    trying to plunge Europe--
[19:44] ---
    no, the world-- into war.
[19:48] ---
    She'll trigger it by invading
    France through opium,
[19:52] ---
    or rather, through Lady Blanc.
[19:55] ---
    Yes, just as your country once
    invaded mine through opium.
[20:02] ---
    Will you still be her guard dog?
[20:07] ---
    Yes. I'll be on your side, Ciel.
[20:12] ---
    You have a chance...
[20:16] ---
    to get a future for yourself again...
[20:21] ---
    You mustn't... forget that...
[20:31] ---
    What are the servants of this house?!
[20:36] ---
    Phantomhive servants who can't
    do this much aren't worth their salt!
[20:49] ---
    Young master, Lady Elizabeth,
[20:51] ---
    I must excuse myself.
[20:54] ---
    I have dinner preparations to make.
[20:56] ---
    Fine.
[20:56] ---
    Thank you, Sebastian.
[21:00] ---
    Let's stop here for today.
[21:02] ---
    All right.
[21:06] ---
    Thank you all as always for your hard work.
[21:20] ---
    Paris, eh?
[21:30] ---
    The true Doomsday will come in due time.
[21:47] ---
    You had more leisure time today
    than you've had in a while, my lord.
[21:50] ---
    I trust you were able to
    fret to your satisfaction?
[21:52] ---
    I am not fretting.
[22:06] ---
    You all look wretched. Go
    change your clothes at once.
[22:09] ---
    Yes, my lord!
[22:23] ---
    Today's main dish is filet
    de boeuf à la Parisienne:
[22:29] ---
    Parisian-style grilled filet of beef.
[22:49] ---
    The moonlight that reveals
    sorrow was coldly illuminating
[22:56] ---
    The despair and the future
    which grew intimate in the dark
[23:06] ---
    With the secret you gave me as my guide
[23:13] ---
    I move through the blue night's stillness
[23:20] ---
    Lacrimosa, I want to love once again
[23:27] ---
    The dazzling world that
    crumbled and vanished in the distance
[23:35] ---
    I'll hide my dreams within my eyes
[23:42] ---
    Until the tears fall on my sullied heart
[24:04] ---
    Young master, you've had
    to bear far too much pain.
[24:07] ---
    Even with such a frail body
    and such small talons,
[24:11] ---
    you kept defying fate.
[24:14] ---
    Good boy, good boy.
[24:16] ---
    But right now you're weak and fragile...
[24:20] ---
    An unwashed gobshite not even worth killing.
[24:25] ---
    Next time on Black Butler:
    "His Butler, Dissolution."
[24:26] ---
    "Next Time" "His Butler, Dissolution"
[24:29] ---
    You see, I am merely one hell of a butler.

22 - His Butler, Dissolution

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[00:20] ---
    Maria! Maria, are you there?
[00:27] ---
    Ms. Luida...
[00:29] ---
    Here's some beef shank stew.
[00:31] ---
    I accidentally made too much.
[00:33] ---
    I do hope you'll have some.
[00:35] ---
    But where did these all come from?
[00:47] ---
    That's a baby's rattle!
[00:50] ---
    Who could have given them to you?
[01:06] ---
    Finny, carry this stuff!
[01:08] ---
    Sure!
[01:09] ---
    Let's see... The young
    master's underclothes...
[01:12] ---
    Tanaka.
[01:14] ---
    How is it coming along?
[01:16] ---
    My lord, it's all been carried
    out according to your orders.
[01:20] ---
    Young master,
[01:22] ---
    I've reserved our lodgings.
[01:26] ---
    I see.
[01:31] ---
    I say, young master, where
    are you going on this trip?
[01:36] ---
    You've been packing all this
    time without even knowing that?!
[01:41] ---
    Paris.
[01:52] ---
    "Black Butler"
[01:56] ---
    Are kara ikuraka yoru suki ni mo narimashita
[02:03] ---
    Izon no umi iki mo wasurete
[02:08] ---
    Muchuu no sono temae de
[02:11] ---
    Namanurusa dake wo nokoshite
[02:15] ---
    Hikigiwa no bigaku tokuige na kisu kirau
[02:23] ---
    Hitori ni shinaide, mou sasshite ayamete
[02:29] ---
    Dono kotoba mo kimi no
    heya dewa surinukete iku no
[02:35] ---
    Dekireba kono mama tsutsumarete owaritai
[02:41] ---
    Sono negai wa yoru wa
    munashiku asa wo tsurete kuru
[02:48] ---
    Yasashikute atsukute hikyou na kisu de
[02:55] ---
    Irodotte yo saigo no yoru
[02:58] ---
    Tsuki ga terashiteru
[03:13] ---
    "His Butler, Dissolution"
[03:22] ---
    Her Majesty arrived in Paris three days ago,
[03:25] ---
    and should be viewing the Exposition now.
[03:29] ---
    I'm sure the hotel will
    be heavily guarded, so...
[03:34] ---
    Young master?
[03:37] ---
    What?
[03:38] ---
    Your mind is somewhere else, isn't it?
[03:42] ---
    Lau said the Queen was "trying to
    plunge Europe--
[03:46] ---
    no, the world-- into war."
[03:50] ---
    Is that why you desire an audience with her?
[03:53] ---
    No.
[03:55] ---
    Was your heart moved by
    Abberline's death, then?
[04:00] ---
    No. This is because they were all my pawns.
[04:04] ---
    Keep your distance from
    me, or you'll get killed.
[04:08] ---
    But that pawn ignored my orders
[04:12] ---
    and just kept sticking his nose in.
[04:14] ---
    The same goes for Lau.
[04:17] ---
    Without a grasp of your pawns' motives
    and strategies, you can't play the game.
[04:22] ---
    That's all.
[04:29] ---
    The Champ de Mars is home
    to the Palace of Fine Arts
[04:32] ---
    and a crowd of national pavilions,
[04:34] ---
    with the Eiffel Tower designated
    as the Exposition entranceway.
[04:38] ---
    There's the Machinery Hall,
    a mammoth work of iron and glass
[04:40] ---
    representing the pinnacle
    of modern technology.
[04:44] ---
    At the Trocadéro Palace is
    a horticultural exhibition.
[04:47] ---
    At the secondary site, the Esplanade
    des Invalides, there's a colonial exhibition.
[04:52] ---
    It features a reproduction
    of the ruins at Angkor,
[04:55] ---
    folk dancing, and a Negro village.
[05:00] ---
    For something a bit different,
[05:02] ---
    I understand Buffalo Bill's Wild
    West Show is here from the States.
[05:09] ---
    We don't see an Expo every day, my lord.
[05:11] ---
    Shall we look around a bit more?
[05:14] ---
    It should give you ideas for new products.
[05:17] ---
    Are you sure?
[05:18] ---
    Yes, they say there's a stuffed
    angel at the Palace of Wonders!
[05:22] ---
    Now that I must see!
[05:24] ---
    A stuffed angel?
[05:32] ---
    What, it's just a monkey?
[05:34] ---
    What a bore.
[05:35] ---
    Let's be on our way.
[05:47] ---
    What is this?!
[05:52] ---
    This is--
[05:53] ---
    Calm yourself, young master.
[05:55] ---
    But...
[05:56] ---
    You've lived in the darkness.
[05:59] ---
    A little dimness shouldn't
    put you out in the least.
[06:04] ---
    Please, evacuate and leave this place to me.
[06:12] ---
    It's no hardship to run through the darkness.
[06:17] ---
    My soul has been running
    through the darkness all this time.
[06:22] ---
    Ciel...
[06:23] ---
    Ciel...
[06:25] ---
    Ever since that day...
[06:29] ---
    I've been running in the dark... the dark...
[06:47] ---
    It's so bright.
[06:49] ---
    Is this really my world?
[07:23] ---
    Goodness gracious, you're in a hurry.
[07:30] ---
    You're...!
[07:31] ---
    Ciel.
[07:33] ---
    It's been a long time.
[07:35] ---
    Your Majesty!
[07:50] ---
    Look at the view from up here.
[07:54] ---
    As she faces the next century,
[07:56] ---
    Europe is on the verge of change.
[07:59] ---
    However...
[08:01] ---
    There's a stain over there.
[08:05] ---
    There's stagnation over there.
[08:09] ---
    There's uncleanliness right here.
[08:12] ---
    The entire slate must be wiped clean.
[08:17] ---
    There can be no creation without destruction.
[08:20] ---
    In order for the new century to be pure,
[08:23] ---
    I cleansed the house that has taken
    on all that is negative in our nation:
[08:28] ---
    the house of Phantomhive.
[08:40] ---
    Such poor taste.
[08:49] ---
    This is...
[08:53] ---
    ♪ London Bridge is falling down,
    falling down, falling down. ♪
[09:00] ---
    --♪ London Bridge is falling
    down, my fair lady. ♪
[09:01] ---
    --She's here.
[09:04] ---
    --The one I searched for...!
[09:15] ---
    Might I ask you something?
[09:18] ---
    What is it?
[09:19] ---
    You didn't just kill them;
    you made it beastly. Why?
[09:24] ---
    Mind your language, Ciel.
[09:28] ---
    I cleansed them.
[09:29] ---
    That's what you call "cleansing"?
    Demeaning the dead?!
[09:33] ---
    Demeaning?
[09:35] ---
    That's right!
[09:36] ---
    Demeaning...?
[09:38] ---
    I merely wanted to pay what
    tribute I could to the Phantomhives
[09:44] ---
    after they showed me such loyalty...
[09:46] ---
    What?!
[10:00] ---
    Surprised? She's all but
    aglow with youth, isn't she?
[10:05] ---
    Ash!
[10:08] ---
    The loss of her beloved husband
[10:12] ---
    ended Her Majesty's days of happiness.
[10:15] ---
    In her grief over his death,
[10:18] ---
    she once tried to end her own life.
[10:28] ---
    I joined his body with her own,
[10:34] ---
    so that she might live with
    the man she loved forever.
[10:41] ---
    His body...?
[10:43] ---
    I can tell that my husband
    is pleased with my work.
[10:49] ---
    His body twinges inside me.
[10:54] ---
    Twinge... twinge...
[10:57] ---
    It's the throbbing of life.
[10:59] ---
    The joy of truly becoming
    one with the one you love...
[11:04] ---
    I felt that if I gave the
    Phantomhives that same joy,
[11:08] ---
    it would not be a ghastly death at all.
[11:15] ---
    The Queen and her husband firmly intend
[11:19] ---
    to guide England to a world of perfect light.
[11:21] ---
    That aim has purged them
    of their own impurities,
[11:25] ---
    transforming Her Majesty
[11:29] ---
    into the chaste girl you see before you.
[11:33] ---
    What a lofty aim!
[11:36] ---
    She is a worthy master for an angel.
[11:38] ---
    Angel? Don't tell me you're--
[11:41] ---
    Ash, at least let Ciel fall to your blade.
[11:48] ---
    Ash's blade is a thing of beauty.
[11:52] ---
    It goes forth as the brightness
    of the new century.
[11:56] ---
    I shall draw my sword
    against the beauty of thy wisdom,
[11:59] ---
    and I shall punish the beast within thee.
[12:02] ---
    I shall bring thee down to the pit.
[12:06] ---
    May an immaculate heaven greet thee,
[12:10] ---
    Ciel Phantomhive.
[12:20] ---
    Your precious sword is
    meaningless if you can't land a blow.
[12:26] ---
    This may be the end, my young master.
[12:31] ---
    Your orders?
[12:36] ---
    Ciel...
[12:38] ---
    Kill Ash.
[12:42] ---
    Will that be all, my lord?
[12:46] ---
    Kill the Queen!
[12:49] ---
    Ciel!
[12:50] ---
    Very good.
[13:03] ---
    How dreadful!
[13:04] ---
    Ciel, please, stop him!
[13:07] ---
    Ciel!
[13:13] ---
    --What's that?
[13:14] ---
    --Watch out!
[13:14] ---
    --Run!
[13:20] ---
    Sebastian, stop!
[13:23] ---
    Why?
[13:24] ---
    We've attracted attention.
[13:26] ---
    At this rate, the commotion
    will only get bigger.
[13:29] ---
    Why should we bother about them, my lord?
[13:32] ---
    They're only humans.
[13:34] ---
    No! We're withdrawing!
[13:43] ---
    Angel wings...
[14:11] ---
    Why did you stop me?
[14:14] ---
    I told you: we would have
    attracted too much attention. That's all.
[14:19] ---
    I see.
[14:21] ---
    What are you trying to say?!
[14:23] ---
    You told me that what you wanted
[14:25] ---
    was vengeance against the
    ones who dragged you into hell.
[14:30] ---
    Did the vow you swore that day mean nothing?
[14:35] ---
    You have summoned me here.
[14:38] ---
    That can never be changed, and
    nothing sacrificed can be regained.
[14:45] ---
    Now choose.
[14:47] ---
    This is an order.
[14:54] ---
    Kill them!
[15:00] ---
    I will become your sword,
    and carry out your revenge.
[15:04] ---
    In exchange...
[15:06] ---
    If you want my soul, you're welcome to it.
[15:10] ---
    You have no doubts?
[15:12] ---
    Don't be tedious!
[15:15] ---
    I thought you had no doubts that day.
[15:20] ---
    Will you still swear loyalty to the Queen,
    even after learning the truth?
[15:25] ---
    I never felt any loyalty
    to her to begin with.
[15:28] ---
    I just acted as the head of the Phantomhives.
[15:33] ---
    You've decided you value your soul, then?
[15:36] ---
    What would I want with my soul?!
[15:38] ---
    You're being tedious. What do you--
[15:47] ---
    You seem tired, my lord.
[15:49] ---
    Please, return to the hotel and rest.
[15:56] ---
    What a foul capital.
[16:03] ---
    Ever since that day, even buttoning
    my shirts has been your duty.
[16:08] ---
    I didn't think a demon
    could ever play a butler,
[16:12] ---
    but you carried it off splendidly.
[16:15] ---
    A Phantomhive butler who
    can't do this much...
[16:20] ---
    That's enough talk for tonight.
[16:22] ---
    You should go to sleep, young master.
[16:31] ---
    Forget everything and have pleasant dreams.
[16:52] ---
    Ciel. Ciel.
[16:57] ---
    You have a chance to get a
    future for yourself again.
[17:03] ---
    To get...?
[17:08] ---
    Give up your title of "Queen's guard dog,"
[17:11] ---
    give up the hatred you've
    held for so long...
[17:14] ---
    and get it back...
[17:24] ---
    Sebastian...?
[17:28] ---
    Sebastian!
[17:29] ---
    Sebastian, where are you?
    Where is the morning...
[17:31] ---
    Can't you hear me?
[17:41] ---
    Sebastian!
[17:43] ---
    I'm Phantomhive. Room 702.
[17:46] ---
    Do you know where my man went?
[17:48] ---
    One moment please, my lord.
[18:01] ---
    The mark wasn't gone.
[18:04] ---
    But...
[18:05] ---
    Forget everything and have pleasant dreams.
[18:10] ---
    He would never wish for my pleasure.
[18:14] ---
    And "forget everything"?
[18:18] ---
    That was... a farewell.
[18:24] ---
    I can certainly get back to London on my own.
[18:33] ---
    Take me to the Port of Calais.
[18:36] ---
    Excuse me? Is that any
    way to ask a favor, kid?
[18:42] ---
    How much do you want?
[18:54] ---
    Here we are.
[18:55] ---
    What? I said the Port of Calais!
[18:58] ---
    Sorry, but I live in the opposite direction.
[19:02] ---
    --Down you go...
[19:03] ---
    --Let me down!
[19:05] ---
    You should eventually hit
    the Port of Boulogne-sur-Mer
[19:09] ---
    if you go that way and make a few turns.
[19:13] ---
    Get back here and do what I
    paid you for, you bounder!
[19:48] ---
    A room for the night.
[19:50] ---
    How will you pay?
[19:52] ---
    I can't right now, but I'll send
    you the money from London later.
[19:59] ---
    Don't get fresh with me!
[20:01] ---
    Just who do you think I am?!
[20:02] ---
    I'm Ciel Phantomhive!
    Everyone knows that name!
[20:06] ---
    Haven't you ever heard
    of the Funtom Company?!
[20:09] ---
    Look at this ring!
[20:10] ---
    The family heads have passed
    it down for generations!
[20:13] ---
    You can pay with that, then.
[20:16] ---
    I'll put you up here in
    exchange for the ring.
[20:19] ---
    That gem's not bad.
[20:21] ---
    Shall I throw in breakfast, too?
[20:23] ---
    What?!
[20:27] ---
    You've got a lot of gall for
    someone who runs a fleabag hotel!
[20:40] ---
    I'm hungry.
[20:46] ---
    It's cold. Come here.
[20:55] ---
    Now even you're trying to make a fool of me?!
[20:59] ---
    Stop!
[21:10] ---
    I was this close to the port...?
[21:15] ---
    But I wandered everywhere,
[21:20] ---
    unable to find it.
[21:23] ---
    When it was right here all along...
[22:00] ---
    --Oh no, no!
[22:02] ---
    --Water! Water! Water! Get some water!
[22:04] ---
    Right!
[22:49] ---
    Kurayami no naka de
    mutsumiau zetsubou to mirai wo
[22:56] ---
    Kanashimi wo abaku
    tsukiakari tsumetaku terashiteta
[23:06] ---
    Kimi no kureta himitsu wo shirube ni
[23:13] ---
    Aoi yoru no shizukesa wo yuku
[23:20] ---
    Lacrimosa tooku kudakete kieta
[23:27] ---
    Mabushii sekai wo mou ichido ai shitai
[23:35] ---
    Hitomi no naka ni yume wo kakushite
[23:42] ---
    Yogoreta kokoro ni namida ga ochite kuru made
[24:04] ---
    The cry of a soulless beast echoes
    through the burning streets of London.
[24:08] ---
    And I no longer have a master.
[24:11] ---
    Would you by any chance
    like to sign a contract with me?
[24:16] ---
    Don't worry; it will only hurt for a moment.
[24:19] ---
    I shall humbly plunge you
[24:21] ---
    into a deep, fathomless, soothing darkness.
[24:25] ---
    Next time on Black Butler:
    "His Butler, Up in Flames."
[24:26] ---
    "Next Time" "His Butler, Up in Flames"
[24:29] ---
    You see, I am merely one hell... of a demon.

23 - His Butler, Up in Flames

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[00:12] ---
    This is the second fire
    we've had since I began
[00:16] ---
    serving the Phantomhives.
[00:17] ---
    All I can do is document
    the story of this mansion.
[00:23] ---
    That is my role. However...
[00:27] ---
    I suppose that is over now.
[00:47] ---
    Strong wind today, eh?
[00:49] ---
    Aye, and it ain't natural
    how warm it is either.
[00:52] ---
    We may see rough waters tonight.
[00:54] ---
    I hope we get to London soon...
[01:06] ---
    Found you, my lord.
[01:08] ---
    Undertaker?!
[01:22] ---
    See, that fussy bloke Will captured me...
[01:27] ---
    Apparently he'll be shorthanded
    in the London area,
[01:30] ---
    so he roped me into this by
    promising to waive my library fines.
[01:34] ---
    The London area?
[01:36] ---
    Yes, we have to collect a great
    many souls in London tonight.
[01:43] ---
    Look at that!
[01:44] ---
    What is it?!
[01:45] ---
    Ah, so it's begun.
[02:00] ---
    They certainly put on quite the show!
[02:04] ---
    I must be on my way.
[02:08] ---
    Wait!
[02:09] ---
    Why did you come here?
[02:12] ---
    You and I have a lot of history together.
[02:15] ---
    So I thought I'd give you fair warning:
[02:21] ---
    My lord, in just a little while...
[02:26] ---
    ...you will die.
[02:38] ---
    "Black Butler"
[02:42] ---
    Since then, I've actually
    come to like the night somewhat
[02:49] ---
    In a sea of dependence,
    I forget even to breathe
[02:54] ---
    When I'm right on the verge
    of losing my head over you
[02:57] ---
    You just leave me lukewarm
[03:01] ---
    The aesthetic of leave-taking
    despises a self-satisfied kiss
[03:09] ---
    Don't leave me alone, show me
    compassion, paint me with death
[03:15] ---
    In your room, all words slip away
[03:21] ---
    I want to end like this, cloaked
[03:27] ---
    But the night ignores that
    wish and brings morning
[03:34] ---
    With your gentle,
    passionate, and dastardly kiss
[03:41] ---
    Paint this final night
[03:44] ---
    The moon illuminates us
[03:59] ---
    "His Butler, Up in Flames"
[04:06] ---
    What do you mean...?
[04:08] ---
    No!
[04:16] ---
    You will die.
[04:19] ---
    Sebastian isn't with me anymore.
[04:23] ---
    Which means the death awaiting me will be...
[04:27] ---
    ...in vain.
[04:33] ---
    The hatred and pain are burning out.
[04:38] ---
    Everything is burning away.
[04:42] ---
    Burning away...
[04:54] ---
    It hurts, doesn't it?
    You're suffering, aren't you?
[04:57] ---
    Sorry, but I can't finish you off.
[05:09] ---
    Oh, how busy I am...
[05:13] ---
    Oh, how revolting that is.
[05:18] ---
    Your Majesty, the salvation of the
    land through holy flame has begun.
[05:23] ---
    I see...
[05:26] ---
    Isn't it wonderful to finally greet
    the England of the next century,
[05:30] ---
    the proud and unpolluted
    country we aimed for?
[05:34] ---
    What's the matter, Your Majesty?
[05:36] ---
    Ever since we returned from Paris,
    you've seemed to be in poor health.
[05:40] ---
    Ash, look.
[05:43] ---
    It hurts.
[05:53] ---
    It hurts.
[05:54] ---
    Forgive this intrusion.
[06:00] ---
    It's begun to fester and rot.
[06:06] ---
    I shall perform a cleansing for you.
[06:09] ---
    No!
[06:10] ---
    Leave his body as it is.
[06:14] ---
    Leave it as it was that day.
[06:16] ---
    But Your Majesty...
[06:17] ---
    He doesn't need cleansing.
[06:20] ---
    He's magnificent just as he is.
[06:22] ---
    Do something for him, Ash. Help my--
[06:25] ---
    I smell it.
[06:31] ---
    You... are unclean.
[06:42] ---
    She may be the Queen,
    but in the end she is only human.
[06:45] ---
    How foolish... And how sad.
[06:49] ---
    All the tears of this corrupt land
[06:53] ---
    stem from the moment humans
    were divided into male and female.
[06:58] ---
    No matter how much mercy we show,
[07:00] ---
    in the end humans can never be good enough.
[07:06] ---
    Humans can never...
[07:08] ---
    ♪ Albert is falling down,
    falling down, falling down. ♪
[07:17] ---
    ♪ Albert is falling
    down, my dear darling. ♪
[07:30] ---
    I'm going to die.
[07:33] ---
    On this ship? Or...?
[07:44] ---
    What are you doing?!
[07:45] ---
    We can't go back to London like this.
[07:48] ---
    We'll have to hang about
    these waters for a while and--
[07:50] ---
    What?! We're almost there!
[07:55] ---
    Fine. I'll get on that
    ship. Get me a rowboat!
[07:59] ---
    For one little boy?
[08:00] ---
    Now, if you had money,
    that would be another story...
[08:03] ---
    Don't play games with me!
[08:05] ---
    I have to get back to London or--
[08:07] ---
    Or what?
[08:13] ---
    I didn't finish off the Queen.
[08:17] ---
    No, I couldn't finish her off.
[08:20] ---
    If I let go of hatred,
[08:22] ---
    the self I've been since
    that day wouldn't exist.
[08:26] ---
    That's not who I am!
[08:28] ---
    Ciel!
[08:30] ---
    I won't lose it.
[08:33] ---
    I won't lose this hatred!
[08:37] ---
    If I let go of hatred, I don't exist.
[08:41] ---
    Then... Then...
[08:45] ---
    Who am I now?
[08:47] ---
    Look, kid, I'm busy, so
    how about you get-- Huh?
[08:56] ---
    Wh-What's wrong with you?!
[09:00] ---
    Take this.
[09:03] ---
    W-Wow! Look at that shine!
[09:06] ---
    It's a blue diamond.
[09:07] ---
    You don't see one of these every day.
[09:10] ---
    Hey, what's a kid like you
    doing with something like this?!
[09:13] ---
    Just give me a rowboat!
[09:25] ---
    Look, here he comes!
[09:27] ---
    Are you a Frenchman?!
[09:29] ---
    Take off your clothes!
[09:30] ---
    Let go! What are you doing?!
[09:32] ---
    You bloody French started this fire!
[09:36] ---
    You're trying to start a war with England!
[09:40] ---
    Your beloved Queen is
    trying to plunge Europe--
[09:43] ---
    no, the world-- into war.
[09:48] ---
    Hold on, that's--
[09:51] ---
    It's another frog!
[09:53] ---
    Stop it! Stop it!
[10:01] ---
    What's happening?
[10:11] ---
    What is this...?
[10:17] ---
    --Hey!
[10:17] ---
    --Give me that!
[10:33] ---
    Is this hell?
[10:52] ---
    There he is.
[10:54] ---
    So the boy is back in
    London. Most impressive!
[11:00] ---
    Well, what do you think of the view?
[11:14] ---
    Look out!
[11:21] ---
    What's the matter with you, yes?!
[11:25] ---
    Y-Young master!
[11:27] ---
    What are you doing here?!
[11:31] ---
    I apologize, my lord, yes!
[11:33] ---
    It's my job to protect the mansion,
    yes, but... but... I...
[11:38] ---
    Calm down. I'm not criticizing you.
    Please, tell me why you're here.
[11:43] ---
    It's Plu-Plu!
[11:45] ---
    Pluto?
[11:46] ---
    Any comments?
[11:50] ---
    Compared to the Great Fire of London in 1666,
[11:54] ---
    this blaze seems very slow-spreading.
[11:57] ---
    You're right.
[11:59] ---
    Once uncleanliness and vice take hold,
[12:02] ---
    it's extremely difficult
    to do away with them.
[12:06] ---
    However, when this fire
    burns everything away,
[12:10] ---
    the long-awaited door
[12:12] ---
    will appear on the clean land!
[12:17] ---
    I shall open the door to the new century.
[12:22] ---
    Checkmate is fast approaching.
[12:27] ---
    What will you do, young master?
[12:59] ---
    The tranquilizers aren't working!
[13:01] ---
    Plu-Plu...
[13:02] ---
    Did we really do the right
    thing, chasing Pluto here?
[13:06] ---
    We were hired to protect the mansion.
[13:11] ---
    If we can't do anything anyway...
[13:13] ---
    The mansion isn't the only
    thing I want to protect.
[13:17] ---
    I want to protect the smiles in it,
[13:21] ---
    and the time we spend in it too!
[13:25] ---
    For us to have that,
[13:27] ---
    everyonehas to be there. Even Plu-Plu!
[13:35] ---
    Young master!
[13:38] ---
    Mey-Rin, why the hell did you
    bring the young master here?!
[13:41] ---
    He insisted, yes!
[13:45] ---
    Pluto!
[13:52] ---
    You battled me for your master's sake.
[13:56] ---
    Who could have predicted that
    you'd be standing here with me now,
[13:59] ---
    watching his tragedy play out?
[14:02] ---
    I do not act without an order from my master.
[14:06] ---
    And at the moment, there is
    no master I'm meant to obey.
[14:14] ---
    I've thought to myself:
[14:17] ---
    I wouldn't mind joining forces with you
[14:20] ---
    to rule the reborn world
[14:23] ---
    that will dwell in this clean land.
[14:27] ---
    Aren't I a wellspring of the
    very uncleanliness you detest?
[14:32] ---
    When you examine them closely,
    all things emit their own intense light.
[14:37] ---
    Morning and night, man and
    woman, light and darkness.
[14:42] ---
    If those things are
    well-burnished and made one,
[14:46] ---
    they return to their primal forms,
    beloved of my Father.
[14:50] ---
    You want me to be one of those vulgar
    patchwork dolls you're so fond of?
[14:55] ---
    No.
[14:59] ---
    If you wish it...
[15:04] ---
    ...I can embrace you as a woman.
[15:15] ---
    What are you doing?
[15:17] ---
    W-Well... We wanted Plu-Plu to turn
    back to how he was... We're sorry!
[15:22] ---
    But I'm out of tranquilizers.
[15:24] ---
    Are you kidding me?
[15:26] ---
    You have real bullets, don't you?!
[15:32] ---
    Are you telling us to shoot
    Plu-Plu, young master?
[15:34] ---
    Look at his eyes.
[15:36] ---
    His mind is gone.
[15:40] ---
    That's not the Pluto you
    know. He's just a beast.
[15:44] ---
    A beast...
[15:46] ---
    You three know full well how wretched it is
[15:48] ---
    to have your pride stolen,
[15:53] ---
    to live without even a clear purpose!
[15:58] ---
    This is an order:
[15:59] ---
    Baldo, Mey-Rin, Finny...
[16:01] ---
    kill that demon hound with your own hands!
[16:11] ---
    Yes, sir!
[16:30] ---
    He's all that I might expect from
    someone who would employ a demon.
[16:34] ---
    Unfeeling and ruthless;
    a soul beyond redemption.
[16:39] ---
    You should really join--
[16:45] ---
    I see.
[16:47] ---
    So fate always casts angels and
    demons on opposite sides after all,
[16:51] ---
    no matter how many years may pass.
[17:07] ---
    Go!
[17:11] ---
    Yes. All I can do is rush there.
[17:14] ---
    If I'm going to die...
[17:16] ---
    I want to die with the soul he craves!
[17:19] ---
    That's what I can do to
    regain my own pride...
[17:32] ---
    I am Ciel, Earl Phantomhive.
[17:36] ---
    I request an audience with the Queen to...
[17:55] ---
    Time has stopped. Is this a trap?
[18:00] ---
    No time to worry about that!
[18:16] ---
    The Queen...
[18:30] ---
    What is it?!
[18:30] ---
    We have an intruder!
[18:32] ---
    Who are you?!
[18:35] ---
    The Queen...!
[18:37] ---
    The Queen's been murdered!
[18:39] ---
    Who did it?!
[18:40] ---
    Who did this?!
[18:41] ---
    What is his name?!
[18:48] ---
    I am Ciel, Earl Phantomhive!
[18:53] ---
    Phantomhive? So the Queen's
    guard dog has turned against her?
[18:57] ---
    I've cast off that name.
[19:00] ---
    And I'm not the one who killed Her Majesty.
[19:03] ---
    Do you think you can talk
    your way out of this?!
[19:05] ---
    No, probably not.
[19:09] ---
    But I can't come to a stop here!
[19:18] ---
    My blood...
[19:20] ---
    You can never pass through
    the gates of heaven.
[19:25] ---
    Do you wish to make a contract?
[19:28] ---
    My death...
[19:31] ---
    My soul...
[19:40] ---
    No way.
[19:51] ---
    I... won't end here!
[19:56] ---
    I see you're awake, young master.
[20:03] ---
    Fire!
[20:19] ---
    Sebastian...
[20:22] ---
    You're quite right, young master.
[20:25] ---
    You won't end here.
[20:38] ---
    I humbly apologize for
    taking unauthorized leave.
[20:43] ---
    What were you doing?
[20:45] ---
    Oh, I was preparing for the Last Supper.
[20:50] ---
    Sweet, hot, and occasionally tart.
[20:54] ---
    Using a variety of spices
    to mature the flavor...
[21:01] ---
    Thanks to you, I believe
    I'll be able to enjoy
[21:04] ---
    the ultimate soul... the ultimate supper.
[21:09] ---
    This is an order:
[21:10] ---
    Take me to that angel of massacre!
[21:13] ---
    Certainly.
[21:23] ---
    He's not human...
[21:28] ---
    You're right.
[21:29] ---
    I am merely one hell of a butler.
[21:50] ---
    The moonlight that reveals
    sorrow was coldly illuminating
[21:57] ---
    The despair and the future
    which grew intimate in the dark
[22:07] ---
    With the secret you gave me as my guide
[22:14] ---
    I move through the blue night's stillness
[22:21] ---
    Lacrimosa, I want to love once again
[22:28] ---
    The dazzling world that
    crumbled and vanished in the distance
[22:36] ---
    I'll hide my dreams within my eyes
[22:43] ---
    Until the tears fall on my sullied heart
[23:08] ---
    They...
[23:09] ---
    If the servants fight seriously,
[23:11] ---
    I would say their odds against
    Pluto are about even.
[23:16] ---
    Either way,
[23:19] ---
    before much longer
[23:21] ---
    I'll get to see the loser again in hell.
[23:48] ---
    It's gathering to me...
[23:49] ---
    The despair of the unclean
    ultimately turns to divine hope!
[23:57] ---
    It feels... wonderful.
[24:04] ---
    I've waited a long time, my young master.
[24:06] ---
    Whenever I combed your fine, soft hair
[24:10] ---
    or did up your shirt buttons one by one,
[24:13] ---
    I always felt a burning surge of emotion.
[24:17] ---
    And now this moment has
    come at last, hasn't it?
[24:21] ---
    Now, then...
[24:23] ---
    Time to eat!
[24:25] ---
    Next time on Black Butler:
    "His Butler, Fluent."
[24:26] ---
    "Next Time" "His Butler, Fluent"
[24:29] ---
    You see, I am merely one hell of a butler.

24 - His Butler, Fluent

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[00:13] ---
    This will joggle you for
    a moment, young master.
[00:18] ---
    "His Butler, Fluent"
[00:34] ---
    Where are we going?
[00:36] ---
    Here in England there are several
    bridges named "Devil's Bridge,"
[00:39] ---
    so called because legend has
    it they were made by demons.
[00:43] ---
    In contrast, the Tower
    Bridge is a holy bridge
[00:46] ---
    which I surmise that the angel
    instructed Her Majesty to build.
[01:00] ---
    Human sacrifices?
[01:03] ---
    This is meant to be a "holy bridge"?
[01:06] ---
    Taken too far, saintliness
    is far beastlier than evil.
[01:12] ---
    Please wait here, young master.
[01:15] ---
    I'm coming along!
[01:17] ---
    Let me put this plainly:
    you would drag me down.
[01:20] ---
    I see. In other words, you're no
    match for him if you're fettered down.
[01:26] ---
    Very well, then.
[01:27] ---
    You shall have a prime view, my lord.
[01:40] ---
    They're burning down...
[01:42] ---
    Her Majesty's dream, and the human world.
[01:46] ---
    Ah, at last, the great and
    notable day of our Father cometh!
[01:51] ---
    The signs shall be blood,
    and fire, and vapour of smoke.
[01:56] ---
    Isn't that right, demon?
[02:01] ---
    Why did you kill the Queen too?
[02:04] ---
    Her clouded fish-eyes.
[02:06] ---
    Fish-eyes?
[02:08] ---
    Her eyes should have been
    fixed on the future,
[02:10] ---
    but they were held captive by the past,
    and they dulled and rotted.
[02:13] ---
    There was nothing for me
    to do but cleanse her.
[02:18] ---
    This seat is a bit uncomfortable,
[02:20] ---
    but I believe it has the
    best view in the house.
[02:23] ---
    I agree.
[02:24] ---
    Your orders, my lord?
[02:30] ---
    Kill him...
[02:32] ---
    Kill the angel!
[02:37] ---
    Yes, my lord.
[02:39] ---
    When this bridge is completed,
[02:42] ---
    it will seal eastern London
    from uncleanliness.
[02:46] ---
    As an angel, I have no choice but to purge
[02:50] ---
    any demons who alight upon this gate.
[02:54] ---
    Purge them into pure-white beings:
[02:57] ---
    without stain, without heart, without life.
[03:15] ---
    Sebastian!
[03:22] ---
    Oh, I keep reaping and reaping,
    and it's just no good!
[03:26] ---
    Hmm, I suppose wasted
    effort is the privilege of youth.
[03:31] ---
    What do you mean "wasted"?!
[03:33] ---
    This black stuff is made of the joys,
[03:37] ---
    agonies, and jealousies of the dead.
[03:39] ---
    Yes, what you'd call their hearts.
[03:42] ---
    Once the heart has slipped out of a soul,
[03:46] ---
    it can hardly be called a soul anymore.
[03:49] ---
    I doubt they can be stored
    in the reapers' library.
[03:52] ---
    Why should a heart matter?
[03:58] ---
    Hey, it's blank!
[04:06] ---
    This mist...
[04:08] ---
    Yes, it feels wonderful.
[04:12] ---
    This feels wonderful...
[04:14] ---
    They're so warm and clammy;
[04:16] ---
    nicer to the touch than the finest furs.
[04:20] ---
    An angel clothed in uncleanliness?
[04:23] ---
    How the mighty have fallen.
[04:25] ---
    The pleasures of uncleanliness are
    unpleasant and unbearable to me.
[04:29] ---
    However...
[04:32] ---
    The despair of uncleanliness gives me power.
[04:52] ---
    I grow stronger and stronger.
[04:55] ---
    Oh, what to do?
[04:58] ---
    I still...
[05:00] ---
    ...haven't given up on you, you know.
[05:04] ---
    I don't go in for women
    who fornicate with dogs.
[05:08] ---
    If you won't embrace me, a woman...
[05:13] ---
    I will stay in this man's form, as the Sun...
[05:21] ---
    ...and sink my shaft into
    you all the way to the hilt.
[05:27] ---
    Your taste really couldn't get any worse.
[05:35] ---
    The Final Judgment approaches.
[05:38] ---
    Hear me, demon: your chest
    shall be the sheath to my sword.
[05:43] ---
    Take it into yourself!
[05:51] ---
    Sebastian!
[05:54] ---
    Someone's plundering souls, hmm?
[05:57] ---
    Will!
[05:57] ---
    It's unforgivable for anyone to
    impinge on the reapers' interests.
[06:02] ---
    Just this once, I'll take on unpaid overtime.
[06:08] ---
    Grell Sutcliff.
[06:11] ---
    Woo-hoo! I'm in a deadly good mood!
[06:15] ---
    I'd like each of you to take
    out a good number of them.
[06:18] ---
    We'll write off the afterparty
    as a business expense.
[06:25] ---
    Demon, this pain is a blessing.
[06:30] ---
    Supreme pleasure...
[06:33] ---
    the zenith can only be enjoyed
    by first enduring searing pain.
[06:37] ---
    I see.
[06:46] ---
    Sebastian!
[06:50] ---
    Oh, young master...
[06:54] ---
    That's right-- the enemy's
    only lost its queen.
[06:58] ---
    The game isn't over yet.
[07:00] ---
    Until I hear the final call...
[07:05] ---
    How dare you take your eyes off me
    in the midst of our glorious battle?!
[07:08] ---
    You spoil my mood.
[07:39] ---
    Those blasted reapers dare to interfere
[07:41] ---
    with this noble and hallowed ceremony?!
[07:45] ---
    What a pity.
[07:47] ---
    It doesn't look as though we'll
    be able to greet this "zenith."
[07:51] ---
    Shall I make my counterattack?
[07:55] ---
    I'd hoped to have more fun with you,
    but there's no help for it...
[08:17] ---
    The demon hound!
[08:19] ---
    They did it.
[08:24] ---
    Useless...
[08:27] ---
    Useless... Useless...
[08:31] ---
    Useless...
[08:33] ---
    They're all useless!
[08:35] ---
    Young master!
[08:36] ---
    Taste the flames of hell!
[08:53] ---
    Sebastian...
[08:57] ---
    Young master, I'd like to ask a favor.
[09:03] ---
    Please close your eyes.
[09:05] ---
    Sebastian...?
[09:07] ---
    I am a butler.
[09:09] ---
    I cannot damage my master's
    impression of me by looking unsightly.
[09:14] ---
    Please don't open your eyes until I say to.
[09:21] ---
    All right.
[09:32] ---
    Now I can show you my true self.
[09:41] ---
    My unsightly, disgusting,
[09:45] ---
    repulsive...
[09:48] ---
    ...true form.
[09:55] ---
    A-A demon...
[10:23] ---
    Young master, can you survive long
    enough for me to count down from ten?
[10:28] ---
    Yes!
[10:30] ---
    Then here we go.
[10:32] ---
    Ten!
[10:34] ---
    Nine!
[10:35] ---
    Revolting!
[10:37] ---
    Eight!
[10:38] ---
    Unclean, unfruitful...
[10:39] ---
    Seven!
[10:40] ---
    Unnecessary, unfertile!
[10:42] ---
    Six!
[10:43] ---
    Unprofitable! Unlawful!
[10:45] ---
    Five!
[10:49] ---
    Four!
[10:51] ---
    Three!
[10:53] ---
    Filth! Filth, filth, filth, filth...!
[10:56] ---
    Two!
[11:01] ---
    One.
[11:29] ---
    It's over, young master.
[12:19] ---
    You're a liar, my lord.
[12:23] ---
    You promised me you'd
    live until I got to zero.
[12:28] ---
    I lied.
[12:31] ---
    I won't let you die yet.
[12:34] ---
    That's right... you don't lie.
[12:39] ---
    There's something I want to ask you.
[12:44] ---
    Yes, my lord?
[12:46] ---
    Who are you right now?
[12:48] ---
    What a silly question.
[12:50] ---
    When I stand before you,
[12:52] ---
    I am ever and always one hell of a butler.
[13:03] ---
    So a genuine angel completes it...
[13:07] ---
    It truly is a holy gate.
[13:31] ---
    Hey, bring that over there!
[13:33] ---
    Everyone form a queue! There's
    still more water left!
[13:37] ---
    Here, everybody gets two.
[13:40] ---
    What is it?
[13:41] ---
    Curry bread. You don't have
    to stand still to eat it,
[13:46] ---
    and most of all, it's a balm to the soul.
[13:48] ---
    Eat up, and smile!
[13:51] ---
    Right! Thanks!
[13:56] ---
    And yet, perhaps this was God's way
[14:00] ---
    of testing our spirits.
[14:05] ---
    We stood firm in the face of disaster,
[14:07] ---
    and used our very sorrows
    as fuel to rise up again.
[14:11] ---
    As we greet the new century,
    a new British Empire is being born!
[14:21] ---
    A false Queen standing
    in the ashes of London...
[14:26] ---
    Commissioner?
[14:27] ---
    There's no difference between real
    and fake if enough people believe.
[14:33] ---
    That's what he didn't understand.
[14:37] ---
    We're going.
[14:38] ---
    Yes, Sir!
[14:44] ---
    My lady!
[14:46] ---
    Paula.
[14:47] ---
    They say the fires in London have died down.
[14:50] ---
    We can go back home now!
[14:53] ---
    And the footman I sent to Ciel's mansion?
[14:57] ---
    I'm sorry, my lady. He still hasn't...
[15:01] ---
    I see.
[15:03] ---
    What pretty flowers!
[15:07] ---
    Yes, they're so blue,
[15:09] ---
    they made me think of Ciel's ring...
[15:13] ---
    The ring?
[15:17] ---
    If you'll allow me one...
[15:23] ---
    Here!
[15:32] ---
    Let's make another one, my lady.
[15:35] ---
    But...
[15:36] ---
    Another one, or two, or
    three! After all, look!
[15:39] ---
    See how many flowers there are?
[15:43] ---
    We'll make as many rings as it takes.
[15:47] ---
    As many as it takes...
[16:07] ---
    You're awake, young master?
[16:12] ---
    Where are we?
[16:15] ---
    Do you want to know?
[16:16] ---
    That's why I asked.
[16:19] ---
    No, on second thought...
[16:24] ---
    I have a feeling I don't need to know.
[16:28] ---
    I seem to have slept for quite a while.
[16:33] ---
    What's this?
[16:35] ---
    Your Cinematic Record.
    Apparently it's drifted all the way here.
[16:41] ---
    I see. So this is...
[16:46] ---
    the life I've lived.
[16:49] ---
    I'm...
[16:51] ---
    dead now.
[16:54] ---
    Not yet, my lord.
[16:56] ---
    I will be delivering your death presently.
[17:00] ---
    I'll take full responsibility for you
    until the end... as your loyal butler.
[17:08] ---
    Elizabeth is sure to cry like a baby...
[17:12] ---
    Yes. Lady Elizabeth's love
    for you runs very deep.
[17:17] ---
    She was a sobbing mess
    when Madam Red died, too.
[17:23] ---
    That's because she cried your tears and hers,
[17:26] ---
    since you were being mulish.
[17:29] ---
    Are those three dead?
[17:33] ---
    I couldn't say, my lord. The last I saw them,
    they appeared to be breathing.
[17:37] ---
    Well, they are uncommonly stubborn, at least.
[17:42] ---
    And Pluto?
[17:44] ---
    Shall I collect his bones
    later and bury them?
[17:47] ---
    His bones?
[17:51] ---
    No. What meaning could bones have?
[17:55] ---
    Everything is...
[17:57] ---
    Everything is what?
[17:59] ---
    Never mind... I imagine
    it's still a bit too soon
[18:05] ---
    to speak of everything.
[18:10] ---
    What is this light?
[18:12] ---
    The feelings held for you by the
    people who've passed through your life.
[18:19] ---
    Feelings for me, eh?
[18:24] ---
    They're very pretty.
[18:25] ---
    Pretty?
[18:27] ---
    Yes.
[18:28] ---
    Parting with everyone doesn't make
    me feel any loneliness or sadness.
[18:32] ---
    But I do think these are pretty.
[18:40] ---
    What's this?
[18:42] ---
    Something I brought to keep you
    occupied on the long journey, my lord.
[18:47] ---
    It's a diary Tanaka left behind
    before fleeing the mansion.
[18:51] ---
    Tanaka?
[18:54] ---
    The truth that I can tell
    you, young master...
[19:00] ---
    That can't be!
[19:02] ---
    Her Majesty is about
[19:05] ---
    to obliterate the Earl
    Phantomhive... that is, me.
[19:08] ---
    My lord...
[19:10] ---
    I bear no grudge against her.
[19:13] ---
    This is just the tide of the times.
[19:16] ---
    But I'd like you to keep
    it a secret from Ciel.
[19:21] ---
    Even if I'm killed, he should
    remain loyal to the Queen.
[19:26] ---
    But my lord...
[19:29] ---
    Hatred achieves nothing.
[19:36] ---
    So that angel wasn't entirely off the mark
[19:40] ---
    with the fraud she showed me.
[19:43] ---
    What now, young master?
[19:46] ---
    Nothing. All my targets for revenge are gone.
[19:51] ---
    And...
[19:54] ---
    Even I'm gone now.
[20:02] ---
    A ring?
[20:04] ---
    A blue one. Allow me...
[20:14] ---
    That has to be difficult with only one hand.
[20:19] ---
    I wanted to be a perfect
    butler to the last...
[20:23] ---
    But it seems that wasn't to be.
[20:26] ---
    This is nothing.
[20:29] ---
    That suits you very well, young master.
[20:33] ---
    I am Ciel Phantomhive.
[20:37] ---
    Yes... just Ciel Phantomhive.
[21:10] ---
    Here, young master.
[21:12] ---
    So this is where it ends?
[21:15] ---
    Yes.
[21:17] ---
    That bird is eyeing me.
[21:19] ---
    Yes.
[21:21] ---
    After you've taken my
    soul, give it what's left.
[21:25] ---
    You're as kind as ever, young master.
[21:29] ---
    Will it hurt?
[21:31] ---
    It will, a bit.
[21:34] ---
    I will make it as gentle as I can, though.
[21:36] ---
    No, go ahead and be brutal.
[21:41] ---
    Etch the pain deep into my
    soul as proof that I lived.
[21:51] ---
    Yes, my lord.
[22:35] ---
    Now then, young master...
[22:54] ---
    Kurayami no naka de
    mutsumiau zetsubou to mirai wo
[23:01] ---
    Kanashimi wo abaku
    tsukiakari tsumetaku terashiteta
[23:11] ---
    Kimi no kureta himitsu wo shirube ni
[23:18] ---
    Aoi yoru no shizukesa wo yuku
[23:25] ---
    Lacrimosa tooku kudakete kieta
[23:32] ---
    Mabushii sekai wo mou ichido ai shitai
[23:40] ---
    Hitomi no naka ni yume wo kakushite
[23:47] ---
    Yogoreta kokoro ni namida ga ochite kuru made

25 - His Butler, Performer

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[00:12] ---
    "On the night of the third
    anniversary of Funtom's founding,
[00:15] ---
    they'll be presenting a free
    play for orphaned children.
[00:18] ---
    The show will be Hamlet."
[00:22] ---
    I see we're getting a fair bit of press.
[00:25] ---
    I didn't anticipate you
    doing charity work like this.
[00:27] ---
    I admire your philanthropic spirit,
    young master.
[00:31] ---
    Philanthropic?
[00:33] ---
    These days love breeds money.
[00:37] ---
    People will say
    "Funtom gives orphaned children love."
[00:41] ---
    We can use that to our advantage--
[00:45] ---
    Love for the poor orphans!
    Oh, it brings tears to my eyes!
[00:50] ---
    Our young master must know
[00:53] ---
    how they feel because he lost his own father!
[00:58] ---
    Are you lot even listening to me?!
[01:03] ---
    Just what I'd expect from our
    young master--
[01:05] ---
    or rather, from a child.
[01:10] ---
    Hamlet, hmm?
[01:15] ---
    After Prince Hamlet's father,
    the king, is murdered,
[01:20] ---
    Hamlet vows to avenge him
    even at the cost of his own life.
[01:23] ---
    The play might as well have
    been written for you, young master.
[01:28] ---
    It just happened to be in the
    repertoire of the troupe I hired.
[01:31] ---
    I don't care about the plo--
[01:33] ---
    Y-Young master!
[01:35] ---
    What? An accident?
[01:37] ---
    Yes, my lord. The ship carrying
    the actors ran into some trouble,
[01:41] ---
    and they won't arrive in
    London until next week, no!
[01:47] ---
    The show is in three days!
[01:49] ---
    Do you know how much advertising I've done?!
[01:52] ---
    The press will be all over us that day.
[01:55] ---
    We can't possibly reschedule.
[01:59] ---
    What shall we do, my lord?
[02:03] ---
    We have no choice.
[02:05] ---
    Sebastian, this is an order:
[02:07] ---
    Make the show a success-- make it
    worthy of the Phantomhive name.
[02:13] ---
    Yes, my lord.
[02:24] ---
    "Black Butler"
[02:28] ---
    Since then, I've actually
    come to like the night somewhat
[02:35] ---
    In a sea of dependence,
    I forget even to breathe
[02:40] ---
    When I'm right on the verge
    of losing my head over you
[02:44] ---
    You just leave me lukewarm
[02:48] ---
    The aesthetic of leave-taking
    despises a self-satisfied kiss
[02:55] ---
    Don't leave me alone, show me
    compassion, paint me with death
[03:01] ---
    In your room, all words slip away
[03:08] ---
    I want to end like this, cloaked
[03:14] ---
    But the night ignores
    that wish and brings morning
[03:21] ---
    With your gentle,
    passionate, and dastardly kiss
[03:27] ---
    Paint this final night
[03:31] ---
    The moon illuminates us
[03:45] ---
    "His Butler, Performer"
[03:51] ---
    Well, Ran-Mao, what part do you want to play?
[03:54] ---
    Seaweed.
[03:56] ---
    If I'm going to be in a play,
    naturally I'll be Ramakrishna!
[04:00] ---
    Oh, Prince Soma, I just
    know you'll be sublime!
[04:03] ---
    I want to be a princess!
[04:07] ---
    And wear a poofy skirt with three petticoats!
[04:12] ---
    If we're going all-out,
    perhaps I should put on four or five.
[04:16] ---
    What? You, a princess?
[04:19] ---
    That wouldn't be cute at all!
[04:21] ---
    Seaweed, an Indian, and two princesses?
[04:25] ---
    I told you, this is Hamlet!
[04:28] ---
    Sebastian! Why all these amateurs?
[04:31] ---
    Are you putting on a school play?!
[04:33] ---
    In its proper form, a charity play
[04:37] ---
    is something staged at home
    by the master of the house.
[04:40] ---
    It's not something you pay
    a theatrical troupe to do.
[04:44] ---
    Moreover, I believe this particular group...
[04:49] ---
    ...will tolerate a bit of harsh direction.
[04:57] ---
    Naturally, you'll be
    performing as well, young master.
[05:01] ---
    I'm sure you understand
[05:03] ---
    what the best response is to this crisis.
[05:08] ---
    After all, you're an adult, aren't you?
[05:12] ---
    "Vocal Exercises"
[05:19] ---
    It's time to begin.
[05:21] ---
    We'll start with vocal exercises.
[05:39] ---
    No hanky-panky.
[05:41] ---
    Go!
[05:46] ---
    Yes! Yes! Yes!
[05:50] ---
    No curry.
[05:51] ---
    It's very good.
[05:52] ---
    There's plenty to go around, if you'd like--
[05:55] ---
    No, thank you.
[05:58] ---
    Next, performance training.
[06:00] ---
    "Performance Training"
[06:04] ---
    "To be, or not to be: that is the question."
[06:10] ---
    Young master, put more heart into it.
[06:13] ---
    --"T-To be, or not to be--"
[06:16] ---
    --That's a dead certainty!
    Not to be, of course!☆
[06:23] ---
    What pathetically dull acting!
[06:26] ---
    Do us all a favor and drop dead
    this instant, you hideous Hamlet!
[06:30] ---
    Grell! What are you doing here?
[06:32] ---
    Who's that? I have the strangest
    feeling I've seen him before...
[06:37] ---
    You have no heart. No heart!
[06:40] ---
    You're not conveying
    Hamlet's tortured anguish!
[06:43] ---
    You have to make it echo through the theater!
[06:45] ---
    Come on, do it like this.
[06:49] ---
    "To be, or not to be: that is the question."
[06:55] ---
    No!
[06:56] ---
    ♪ That's no question at all! ♪
[07:02] ---
    ♪ Not at all! ♪
[07:04] ---
    ♪ When I met you, it changed me! ♪
[07:08] ---
    ♪ The important thing is love! ♪
[07:15] ---
    No, I unquestionably recommend death to you.
[07:19] ---
    I see that love stands always
    but a step away from death!
[07:23] ---
    Oh, Sebas-chan, my excitement increases!
[07:29] ---
    Still, this melodramatic, dubious acting...
[07:34] ---
    It may be worth making use of
    for a limited period of time.
[07:38] ---
    At any rate, none of you have
    a sufficient sense of urgency.
[07:41] ---
    Put more into this.
[07:43] ---
    I told you, no curry!
[07:45] ---
    It's very good.
[07:46] ---
    Seaweed.
[07:48] ---
    Here.
[07:50] ---
    See? Pink hats really are the best kind!
[07:54] ---
    Sebastian?
[08:01] ---
    Hamlet.
[08:04] ---
    The lack of even the faintest
    ray of hope in its plot
[08:07] ---
    prompts people to group it with
    Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth
[08:11] ---
    as one of Shakespeare's
    four greatest tragedies.
[08:16] ---
    In order for you to
    truly understand Hamlet,
[08:19] ---
    I'll first give you a taste
    of the Phantomhive tragedy.
[08:32] ---
    S-Sebas-chan, how terrifying you are!
[09:10] ---
    Oh, look, the viscount!
[09:20] ---
    The house is packed!
[09:22] ---
    Woo-hoo! Now I'm gettin' worked up!
[09:29] ---
    Ah, now I'm really
    showing my stuff as an actress.
[09:34] ---
    Ugh, this costume isn't cute at all!
[09:42] ---
    Where is the young master?
[09:43] ---
    E-Er, I think he went to the W.C., yes...
[09:51] ---
    So here you are.
[09:55] ---
    It's a bit too late to say you
    don't like the part, young master.
[10:00] ---
    A young prince who loses his
    father and burns for revenge...
[10:05] ---
    You deliberately gave me this part.
[10:11] ---
    Not only do you have no acting experience,
[10:13] ---
    you also lack the dexterity
    to button your own shirts.
[10:18] ---
    I felt casting you in a part
    too different from yourself
[10:21] ---
    would be hard on you, my lord.
[10:23] ---
    What?!
[10:24] ---
    What's the harm in it?
[10:28] ---
    Let's make this a prelude to
    the bloody revenge coming.
[10:35] ---
    Young master, are you all ready?
[10:39] ---
    The curtain is finally
    rising on this tale of revenge.
[11:01] ---
    An adult's holiday.
[11:05] ---
    Pluto knows there are certain tastes
    only a connoisseur can appreciate.
[11:12] ---
    Crunchy and bracing!
[11:15] ---
    Headlong doggie!
[11:19] ---
    Inukko: a Funtom Company product.
[11:27] ---
    The previous king of Denmark has died,
[11:31] ---
    and his younger brother
    Claudius has been crowned king!
[11:36] ---
    The late king's wife, whom
    he'd loved unconditionally,
[11:41] ---
    has become the bride of the new ruler!
[11:46] ---
    Oh, I'm ever so sad that my brother died,
[11:50] ---
    but since we're still alive,
    we must enjoy ourselves!
[11:55] ---
    I quite agree.
[11:57] ---
    Slip...
[11:59] ---
    Oh, you're perfect!
[12:02] ---
    Such stiff ribs!
[12:06] ---
    Tickle, tickle, tickle...
[12:11] ---
    I know I said I wanted laughter,
    but a direct attack like this is cheating!
[12:17] ---
    Tickle, tickle, tickle!
[12:24] ---
    The late king's son Hamlet
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    encounters him as a ghost!
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    O Father, what may this mean,
    that thou appearest before me so?
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    I see, my vile uncle Claudius
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    hath killed thee by pouring
    poison in thy ear?
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    Yes, I see.
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    Thou bid'st me take revenge in thy place.
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    But of course, Father!
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    He can understand that?
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    Tanaka is a magnificent actor who
    can convey it all with his aura, yes!
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    More importantly, why am I a stagehand?!
    I don't accept this!
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    It's because you're eating curry.
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    Father... Thy hatred hath survived
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    the very fires of hell.
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    Here and now I swear I shall avenge you!
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    What an enthusiastic performance!
[13:33] ---
    Damn it, man, move that
    light further to the right!
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    I ask you, why am I a stagehand?!
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    I tell you, because you're eating curry.
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    Now, how is the audience reacting?
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    It seems Hamlet is too
    difficult for children to understand.
[13:54] ---
    In order to deceive his uncle,
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    Hamlet pretends to be
    disappointed in his love for Ophelia,
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    the daughter of the king's
    chief counsel, and go mad!
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    Ah, what a sinful woman I am!
[14:13] ---
    Ophelia, there you are!
[14:15] ---
    Father! Hmm, now that
    I get a better look at thee,
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    I see thou art quite handsome!
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    Never mind that Hamlet, I fancy you, Father!
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    Such a honeyed scent
    doth forbidden love have!
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    What depravity!
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    Only Brahmā could be forgiven
    such acts between father and daughter!
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    But...
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    What with one thing
    and another, Ophelia died!
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    No! It's not Ophelia's death scene... yet...
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    Agents who die in the
    field receive no burial!
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    Let's toss her in the river!
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    Father...
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    --♪ Seaweed. Oh how I love it... ♪
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    --Goodness, she seems to be a hit.
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    --Seaweed!
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    --Hey, it's seaweed!
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    --It sounds like she's popular
    with the tadpoles, yes.
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    --I don't get kids.
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    Now that the ice is broken,
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    the young master's big scene is here at last.
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    To be, or not to be:
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    That is the question.
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    My uncle is a cunning man.
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    Even if I'm able to carry out my revenge,
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    I shan't escape alive.
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    And... the truth is...
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    I don't want to die.
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    Quit being a coward, Hamlet!
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    Drive out that foolish,
    stunted soul of thine this instant!
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    My vow is a bloody one.
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    There's no turning back now!
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    Now let me be off, before the
    blazing sun in my blood rises.
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    Hey!
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    The young master is amazing!
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    Yes, very true-to-life.
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    Oh, that fury that makes
    his slender limbs tremble!
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    That burning rage is like an aloof ruby!
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    Oh, dear. Pardon me.
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    Well, well. That performance
    resonated even with the children.
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    Now, then...
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    I'm on.
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    Hamlet and Ophelia's brother
    Laertes must cross blades
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    in a fencing match arranged by the king!
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    But the tip of Laertes's sword
    is coated with a poison
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    that will kill a man after just
    the faintest scratch of his blade!
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    I-I'm scared...
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    Thou art Ophelia's brother, then?
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    I have heard thy skill is great!
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    I have heard the same of thine.
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    I hope thou shalt go easy on me.
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    Now, I think that's enough chat!
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    We'll have a ten-point match.
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    And now...
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    let the match be--
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    Hamlet, no!
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    That old guy's sword is poisoned!
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    "Old guy"?
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    Yeah, they lied when they
    said this was a fencing match!
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    They're trying to kill you, Hamlet!
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    You should stop! You should
    stop trying to get revenge, okay?
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    I don't want any stupid revenge!
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    Don't die, Hamlet!
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    "Don't die"...
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    Young master! Your line, your line!
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    My line?
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    Oh, it's hopeless!
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    You there! Draw the curtains!
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    R-Right, yes! Er...
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    No, wait.
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    How dare thee let thy eyes wander?
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    The farce is over. I'll tell thee the truth.
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    My beloved sister's sweet life was ended
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    because of her involvement with thee!
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    Wait! This isn't in the script!
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    I shall win my revenge by slaying thee!
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    My beloved Ophelia...
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    ♪ Stop the fighting! ♪
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    ♪ Don't you fight over me! ♪
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    What the devil is he doing?!
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    When did he get a gondola?!
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    It's not fair to take the
    spotlight all for yourself!
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    I'm going to go out there and--
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    Wait! If you go out there now--
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    Not fair! Not fair!
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    Ophelia?! I thought you were dead!
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    When my dear brother's
    love rained down upon me,
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    the flower of life bloomed
    anew with deadly haste!☆
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    Oh, dear brother! You are truly the one for--
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    Ouchies!
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    So this is where you've been dallying,
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    Grell Sutcliff.
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    Will!
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    This is an outrage.
    Not only have you deserted your post,
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    you're actually putting on a
    charity play with a loathsome demon.
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    Ah, now three men are fighting over me!
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    Stop, stop, stop! No fighting!
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    You just leave everything to me,
    Ramakrishna, avatar of the sun!
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    Prince Soma!
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    Ophelia came back to life!
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    Go get him, Rama-whatsit!
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    This is a mess! What a foolish--
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    Yes, it is foolish.
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    Revenge is foolish.
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    All it offers is confusion
    and a brief fever of excitement.
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    When the curtains close on
    this pipe dream, nothing is left.
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    Isn't that right, my lord Hamlet?
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    Seba-- I mean, I never
    thought I'd hear you say...
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    Quite so!
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    Revenge is utterly meaningless!
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    Ramakrishna, avatar of
    the sun, guarantees it!
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    H-Hey!
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    A demon's master who
    can't ad-lib isn't worth his salt.
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    Hamlet...
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    That's right.
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    I'll forget about revenge and live on!
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    I will live as long as Nature allows me to!
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    Magnificent!
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    This is the true Hamlet
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    which transcends a mere revenge play!
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    I long to wrap this pitiable yet dignified
    Hamlet in the bacon of my arms!
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    Ham, ham-ham, I'll be your eggs, Ham...!
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    Thank you.
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    All the world's a stage,
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    and all the men and women merely players.
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    We meet and begin our drama.
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    And sooner or later, the curtain closes.
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    Thank you. Thank you.
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    Thank you.
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    The moonlight that reveals
    sorrow was coldly illuminating
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    The despair and the future
    which grew intimate in the dark
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    With the secret you gave me as my guide
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    I move through the blue night's stillness
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    Lacrimosa, I want to love once again
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    The dazzling world that
    crumbled and vanished in the distance
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    I'll hide my dreams within my eyes
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    Until the tears fall on my sullied heart
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    That was fun!
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    Hamlet was so dashing!
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    A smashing performance, and it
    was all thanks to you, Ran-Mao!
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    Seaweed.
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    Hmm? Where'd Ophelia go?
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    That chap with the side part
    took her off somewhere.
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    Beat her black and blue first, too!
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    You seem out of sorts for someone
    whose Hamlet was such a success.
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    I'll have you know I don't
    seriously intend to forget revenge.
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    I know, my lord.
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    In the end, stories enacted on the
    stage are naught but pipe dreams.
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    And after all, it would be quite
    an inconvenience for me if you were
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    to forget about revenge.
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    Ciel!
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    Now we're going to celebrate
    with a party at your manor!
[25:14] ---
    What? But...
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    I made a trip home during the intermission
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    and prepared all the
    ingredients for the feast.
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    You see, I am merely one hell of a butler.
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    I'll forget about revenge and live on...
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    "Next Episode Preview"
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    "Tanaka Sushi"
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    Hang in there, Papa!
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    Sorry, but I'm a fishmonger,
    not a gossipmonger.
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    Why don't you get the hell out of my town?
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    It's only a matter of time
    before Tanaka Sushi goes under.
[26:05] ---
    What, you've brought in outside talent?
SIGN    "Nutrition Education"
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    How amusing.
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    Let's see what he's got.
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    Take this! Freshly caught and still floppin'!
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    What I roll are human hearts.
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    Say your prayers, Tanaka lackey!
[26:22] ---
    Mr. Bastian...
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    "Tanaka Sushi"
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    "New Series: Black Sushi Chef"
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    Perhaps black fingernails
    are a no-no after all?
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    "Look forward to it!"