# Season 1
# 1 - His Butler, Able
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**[00:11] ---**
If you once reject the Faith,
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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*?
**[00:28] ---**
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*
**[01:56] ---**
*With your gentle,
passionate, and dastardly kiss*
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*Paint this final night*
**[02:06] ---**
*The moon illuminates us*
**[02:37] ---**
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*.
**[03:00] ---**
What would you like?
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A scone.
**[03:03] ---**
After breakfast is a visit from Mr. Hugues,
**[03:05] ---**
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.
**[03:12] ---**
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.
**[03:25] ---**
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.
**[03:58] ---**
"His Butler, Able"
**[04:00] ---**
*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.
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Finny.
**[04:20] ---**
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?
**[04:31] ---**
Damn.
**[04:32] ---**
Tanaka...
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Well, you're all right as you are.
**[04:40] ---**
Everyone, if you have the
time to dawdle about here,
**[04:45] ---**
use it do your jobs!
**[04:49] ---**
Yes, Sir!
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Honestly...
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The silver is polished to a mirrorlike gloss,
**[05:16] ---**
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.
**[05:43] ---**
My goodness, calling for
me when I'm so busy...
**[05:46] ---**
Are guests comin'?
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This is our chance!
**[05:51] ---**
We won't let him keep lookin'
down on us like this!
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We'll provide above-and-beyond service
**[05:58] ---**
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.
**[06:27] ---**
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...*
**[07:27] ---**
*What shall I do?*
**[07:28] ---**
Calm down, all of you!
**[07:30] ---**
Now listen to me: take a page
from Tanaka's book and behave like--
**[07:38] ---**
Everyone, listen carefully to what
I'm about to say, and act immediately.
**[07:44] ---**
We'll manage with this.
**[07:58] ---**
My goodness...
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Welcome!
**[08:07] ---**
This is called a "stone garden."
It's traditional in Japan.
**[08:10] ---**
*Prodigioso*! Wonderful!
**[08:14] ---**
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.
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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!
**[09:15] ---**
We'd like to expand our
company and secure a labor force--
**[09:18] ---**
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
**[09:34] ---**
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.
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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?
**[11:11] ---**
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.
**[11:36] ---**
Dinner is served.
**[11:38] ---**
Ah, the dinner in the stone garden?
**[11:42] ---**
I've been eagerly awaiting it.
**[11:43] ---**
Then we'll finish playing later.
**[11:46] ---**
I'm not sure we need to finish it;
it's clear that I'll lose.
**[11:50] ---**
It's not my style to abandon
a game halfway through.
**[11:55] ---**
Child.
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I mean, the flexible heart of a
child is required of a craftsman.
**[12:03] ---**
That must be what made the
Phantomhives the nation's foremost toymakers.
**[12:08] ---**
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.
**[12:18] ---**
"Don"...?
**[12:21] ---**
"He Just Sliced and Layered It"
**[12:23] ---**
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!
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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!
**[13:10] ---**
Y-Yes, Sir!
**[13:12] ---**
Don't just stand there;
pour him a glass of wine.
**[13:15] ---**
R-Right! Yes!
**[13:17] ---**
Hey...
**[13:19] ---**
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
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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...
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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
**[18:56] ---**
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
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GYQ43P3E6/black-butler)
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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
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GYQ43P3E6/black-butler)
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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 na*ï*ve 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
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GYQ43P3E6/black-butler)
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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
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GYQ43P3E6/black-butler)
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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.
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It's cold... Agni, what is this?
**[00:18] ---**
It is called "snow," and falls in
England during the winter, my prince.
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Snow?
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England, eh? It's a beautiful place.
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"Black Butler"
**[00:46] ---**
*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*
**[01:05] ---**
*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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"His Butler, Freeloader"
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"This fellow is the child
of craziness and laziness.
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England is the blasphemous
country that has taken all,
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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?!
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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.
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Still, this mark...
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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?
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Most of the Indians who've
come here illegally
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hole up in the criminal
neighborhoods of the East End.
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The Yard still hasn't learned their
exact number or their route, has it?
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I can't allow Her Majesty to
continue suffering such indignity.
**[03:44] ---**
Let's go, Sebastian.
**[03:46] ---**
Yes, my lord.
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I believe the Indians use
this area as their base.
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Yes.
**[04:00] ---**
That hurt!
**[04:02] ---**
That hurt! I've cracked a rib!
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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!
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Leave us everything you have.
**[04:14] ---**
We've been caught by very clichéd thugs.
**[04:17] ---**
What shall we do, young master?
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Hurry up and get rid of them.
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Certainly.
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Everybody in this place hates you Britishers!
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Are you hurt?
**[04:32] ---**
No.
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You little bastard!
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You drag us here and then
you toss us away like rubbish!
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You people trampled your
filth all over our homeland!
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Now *you* find out how
humiliating it is being looted!
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Wait.
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I'm looking for someone.
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Have you seen an Indian who looks like this?
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Who the hell are you?! Stay out of this!
**[04:57] ---**
Are you dueling?
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He has a *khansama* with him...
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Are you an English nobleman?
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What if I am?
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Then I will side with my countrymen.
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Agni!
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Yes?
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Defeat them.
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*Jo ājñā*.
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I shall brandish the right hand the
heavens bestowed on me for my master.
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He's fast.
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I've hit your vital points over and over.
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A normal person's arms would have
gone numb. Why can you still move?
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We were just walking down the street!
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Are Indians savages who will attack
any Englishman that wanders by?
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What?
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Did you fellows attack
Shorty here for no reason?
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That's no good. My countrymen
are in the wrong this time.
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Agni! Side with the kid.
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At once.
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I've finished, Prince Soma.
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Good.
**[06:17] ---**
Well, then. I'm looking for someone,
so I'll be on my way.
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Ta-ta.
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The streets of England
are too much like a maze!
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Let's turn left next.
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That was a waste of energy.
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One of those Indians might be the criminal.
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Let's wait for Sir Arthur to contact us.
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Young master.
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Welcome home!
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Yes!
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I'll never get any peace
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if I'm called to London
for every silly little thing.
**[06:47] ---**
My lord, you're really here!
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You're just dropping in unannounced?!
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How often have I told you to at
least send a note before you visit?!
**[06:57] ---**
Ah, I vaguely remember that.
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As we have a guest, why don't I serve tea?
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Might as well.
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I'd rather have chai than English tea.
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Might as well.
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Wh-Wha...?!
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Oh, I met them on a street corner.
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They said they wanted to see you.
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What are *you* doing here?!
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Why, we're acquaintances now.
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Have you forgotten already?
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"Acquaintances"?
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And I saved you, too.
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"Saved"? Excuse me?!
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In India, it's the common practice to
invite your savior home and entertain him.
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Is it the British way to kick
one's savior out into the cold?
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Just who are you, anyhow?!
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Me?
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I'm a prince.
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Prince?
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This is the 26th child of the king of Bengal,
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Prince Soma Asman Kadar.
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Thanks for hosting me here, Shorty.
**[07:55] ---**
Wow, you're a prince?!
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A-A prince!
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I've never seen a prince up close before!
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You may approach.
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What's that "Penkal" place like, yes?!
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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.
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Very good, my lord.
**[08:32] ---**
It's time to wake up, Lord Phantomhive.
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"Lord Phantomhive"?
**[08:38] ---**
*Namaste jī*, Lord Phantomhive.
**[08:40] ---**
Wh-Why are you in my room?!
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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.
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Come.
**[08:55] ---**
Pardon me.
**[08:57] ---**
My apologies, but my
master's schedule for the day
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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...
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I make the rules here.
**[09:19] ---**
Do you have a problem
with my teaching methods?
**[09:32] ---**
Yes, that's very good.
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What is *that*?
**[09:47] ---**
They seem to be praying,
but it's quite a surreal idol, isn't it?
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To me it merely looks
like the statue of a woman
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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?
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Kali is the wife of Shiva
and the goddess of power.
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Long ago, a demon rashly
challenged her to a fight.
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Naturally, she was victorious.
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However, afterwards her
destructive urges were not quelled,
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and she abandoned herself
to destruction and carnage.
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But then! To protect the earth,
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her husband Shiva threw himself at her feet!
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Treading on her husband with her unclean feet
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brought Kali back to her senses,
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and peace returned to the world.
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Kali is a great goddess who defeated
the demon after a desperate battle.
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As proof, she carries the demon's head.
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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!
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I told you, I'm busy!
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Honestly, when are you going to finish?
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I say, what are you doing?
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I say!
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Be quiet, you're distracting me!
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Britishers are so short-tempered.
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All right, fine!
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If you want my attention
that badly, I'll oblige!
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Then if I win, you'll go
out on the town with me.
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*If* you can win.
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I wish you luck.
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Begin!
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You're mine!
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It bent?!
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Hitting someone's legs
with a foil has no effect.
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You're not fair! I don't know the rules!
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A fight is a fight. It's
your fault for not knowing.
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Your Highness, look out!
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L-Lord Phantomhive! I'm so sorry.
**[12:04] ---**
When I saw the prince losing,
my reflexes took over...
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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.
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B-But...!
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My, my.
**[12:20] ---**
Butler, it looks like
you'll have to avenge your master.
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For goodness' sake...
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This is what you get for provoking
a novice who doesn't know the rules.
**[12:32] ---**
However, as the Phantomhive butler,
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I cannot remain quiet when
someone harms my master.
**[12:41] ---**
And more importantly, we're a full
ten minutes behind schedule now.
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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!
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*Jo ājñā*.
**[13:05] ---**
Yes, my lord.
**[14:01] ---**
Good grief. The swords broke.
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So it's a draw.
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Your *khansama's* not bad, Ciel.
**[14:09] ---**
*A draw? Against Sebastian?!*
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Agni is the best warrior in my palace.
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I've never seen anyone fight
him on equal terms before!
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*He fought a demon on equal terms...*
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Sebastian, who is that man?
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Don't tell me he's another...
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*I'm a more deadly efficient
butler than I look!☆*
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No, he's a deadly human.☆
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I see... But with that much power...
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Yes. He could easily hang men upside-down.
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All right! Today I'll whip up my very best--
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I'll cook.
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You behave yourself.
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Excuse me?! I was going to make my special--
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Sebastian?
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I was wondering
if I could be of any service.
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You just relax and enjoy yourself.
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Two can work much faster than one.
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Please, ask me for anything.
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In that case, could you make a cottage pie
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and some gooseberry sauce
for tonight's main dish?
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Of course.
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Hey! Why are you letting
him cook but not the chef?!
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Hey, are you listening to me?!
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So much to do, so much to do...
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Chef? Mr. Chef?
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"Chef"? You mean me?!
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Yes.
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Chef...
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I'm not accustomed to English cooking.
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Might I ask for your help?
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S-Sure! Leave it to me!
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What's for supper?
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Perfect timing, young man!
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Would you help us prepare the evening meal?
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What? Me?
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But I don't know my own strength,
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so Sebastian says I can't
touch the kitchen stuff...
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So you're strong. Excellent!
**[16:14] ---**
We need to mash and
then puree these potatoes,
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but it's a lot of work.
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Even I might be able to do that!
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I want to! Please let me!
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Look out!
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Are you hurt, Miss Maid?
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No, no!
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Perhaps it would be best if you
took down the plates one at a time.
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Y-Yes, yes!
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How is it coming along, Agni?
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Thanks to everyone's help,
I believe it will be delicious.
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I'm amazed you got them to help.
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Everyone is born with their own talents.
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They have a path and a duty
revealed by the gods.
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We children of the Divine Mother
need only to follow her will
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and do our appointed tasks.
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You are a man of fine character.
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Not at all.
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I was a hopeless
fool before I met the prince.
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I owe him more than I can ever repay.
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I hurt people, blasphemed against the gods,
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committed crime upon crime.
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And the day finally came
for me to be punished.
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I had no particular attachment to this world.
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You there! I hear you're a wild
man as strong as a beast of prey.
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Interesting!
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As of now, the man you were is dead.
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It's time to be reborn with
a new name and a new life!
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I didn't even believe in the gods.
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I had forsaken everything, and yet...
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Do you understand, Agni?
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A god appeared before me!
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That day, I plainly saw the divine in him,
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in all its sublime radiance!
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Agni, your pot is boiling over.
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The prince is my sovereign and my god.
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He gave me new life; I want
to protect him with my life
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and make as many of his
wishes as I can come true.
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The actual gods are a bunch of
good-for-nothings, if you ask me.
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Pardon?
**[18:42] ---**
Oh, nothing.
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How long do you people intend to stay here?!
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We'll leave when our business is finished.
**[18:54] ---**
Come to think of it, you said you
were searching for someone, right?
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And why are *you* staying here too?
**[18:59] ---**
An interesting question.
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I'm looking for a woman.
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Her name is Mina.
**[19:05] ---**
She was a servant at my palace.
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Sebastian, does that
give you enough to find her?
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Even I can't do much with this...
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I'll try my best.
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And? What is she doing in England?
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Mina was my attendant...
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more or less my nursemaid.
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She'd been with me ever
since I could remember.
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My father and mother
never even looked my way.
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I was always alone in the palace...
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But Mina always stayed at my side.
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But... a British nobleman with his eye on her
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kidnapped her and took her
to England while I was away!
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In other words, you came
here to get this woman back?
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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.
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No, it's not!
**[19:57] ---**
Can you even comprehend my
despair at being separated from her?!
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Can you imagine how much I--
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No, I can't.
**[20:03] ---**
The kind of trifling despair
something like *that* could inspire?
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I can't understand it, and I don't care to.
**[20:16] ---**
Some things no amount
of struggling will get back.
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And some despair can't ever be escaped.
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Maybe you can't understand that, though.
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But... But still, I don't want this!
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I don't want to be alone in that palace!
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*No amount of struggling will get it back.*
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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...
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It's not to make you happy.
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I'm just keeping you
company because I'm bored.
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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!
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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
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GYQ43P3E6/black-butler)
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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] ---**
*everyone*has 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
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GYQ43P3E6/black-butler)
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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
**[12:27] ---**
encounters him as a ghost!
**[12:32] ---**
O Father, what may this mean,
that thou appearest before me so?
**[12:41] ---**
I see, my vile uncle Claudius
**[12:44] ---**
hath killed thee by pouring
poison in thy ear?
**[12:52] ---**
Yes, I see.
**[12:55] ---**
Thou bid'st me take revenge in thy place.
**[13:00] ---**
But of course, Father!
**[13:03] ---**
He can understand that?
**[13:05] ---**
Tanaka is a magnificent actor who
can convey it all with his aura, yes!
**[13:08] ---**
More importantly, why am I a stagehand?!
I don't accept this!
**[13:13] ---**
It's because you're eating curry.
**[13:15] ---**
Father... Thy hatred hath survived
**[13:20] ---**
the very fires of hell.
**[13:24] ---**
Here and now I swear I shall avenge you!
**[13:30] ---**
What an enthusiastic performance!
**[13:33] ---**
Damn it, man, move that
light further to the right!
**[13:35] ---**
I ask you, why am I a stagehand?!
**[13:38] ---**
I tell you, because you're eating curry.
**[13:41] ---**
Now, how is the audience reacting?
**[13:50] ---**
It seems Hamlet is too
difficult for children to understand.
**[13:54] ---**
In order to deceive his uncle,
**[13:57] ---**
Hamlet pretends to be
disappointed in his love for Ophelia,
**[14:01] ---**
the daughter of the king's
chief counsel, and go mad!
**[14:06] ---**
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,
**[14:19] ---**
I see thou art quite handsome!
**[14:22] ---**
Never mind that Hamlet, I fancy *you*, Father!
**[14:27] ---**
Such a honeyed scent
doth forbidden love have!
**[14:35] ---**
What depravity!
**[14:37] ---**
Only Brahmā could be forgiven
such acts between father and daughter!
**[14:43] ---**
But...
**[14:45] ---**
What with one thing
and another, Ophelia died!
**[14:49] ---**
No! It's not Ophelia's death scene... yet...
**[14:55] ---**
Agents who die in the
field receive no burial!
**[14:58] ---**
Let's toss her in the river!
**[15:05] ---**
Father...
**[15:08] ---**
--♪ Seaweed. Oh how I love it... ♪
**[15:18] ---**
--Goodness, she seems to be a hit.
**[15:21] ---**
--Seaweed!
**[15:23] ---**
--Hey, it's seaweed!
**[15:25] ---**
--It sounds like she's popular
with the tadpoles, yes.
**[15:29] ---**
--I don't get kids.
**[15:32] ---**
Now that the ice is broken,
**[15:34] ---**
the young master's big scene is here at last.
**[15:41] ---**
To be, or not to be:
**[15:47] ---**
That is the question.
**[15:49] ---**
My uncle is a cunning man.
**[15:53] ---**
Even if I'm able to carry out my revenge,
**[15:56] ---**
I shan't escape alive.
**[15:58] ---**
And... the truth is...
**[16:06] ---**
*I don't want* to die.
**[16:12] ---**
Quit being a coward, Hamlet!
**[16:15] ---**
Drive out that foolish,
stunted soul of thine this instant!
**[16:22] ---**
My vow is a bloody one.
**[16:28] ---**
There's no turning back now!
**[16:38] ---**
Now let me be off, before the
blazing sun in my blood rises.
**[16:47] ---**
Hey!
**[16:48] ---**
The young master is amazing!
**[16:52] ---**
Yes, very true-to-life.
**[17:00] ---**
Oh, that fury that makes
his slender limbs tremble!
**[17:03] ---**
That burning rage is like an aloof ruby!
**[17:08] ---**
Oh, dear. Pardon me.
**[17:12] ---**
Well, well. That performance
resonated even with the children.
**[17:17] ---**
Now, then...
**[17:20] ---**
I'm on.
**[17:23] ---**
Hamlet and Ophelia's brother
Laertes must cross blades
**[17:28] ---**
in a fencing match arranged by the king!
**[17:41] ---**
But the tip of Laertes's sword
is coated with a poison
**[17:44] ---**
that will kill a man after just
the faintest scratch of his blade!
**[17:50] ---**
I-I'm scared...
**[17:53] ---**
Thou art Ophelia's brother, then?
**[17:56] ---**
I have heard thy skill is great!
**[17:59] ---**
I have heard the same of thine.
**[18:01] ---**
I hope thou shalt go easy on me.
**[18:05] ---**
Now, I think that's enough chat!
**[18:09] ---**
We'll have a ten-point match.
**[18:11] ---**
And now...
**[18:14] ---**
let the match be--
**[18:15] ---**
Hamlet, no!
**[18:17] ---**
That old guy's sword is poisoned!
**[18:22] ---**
"Old guy"?
**[18:23] ---**
Yeah, they lied when they
said this was a fencing match!
**[18:27] ---**
They're trying to kill you, Hamlet!
**[18:29] ---**
You should stop! You should
stop trying to get revenge, okay?
**[18:33] ---**
I don't want any stupid revenge!
**[18:35] ---**
Don't die, Hamlet!
**[18:37] ---**
"Don't die"...
**[18:39] ---**
Young master! Your line, your line!
**[18:43] ---**
My line?
**[18:48] ---**
Oh, it's hopeless!
**[18:50] ---**
You there! Draw the curtains!
**[18:51] ---**
R-Right, yes! Er...
**[18:54] ---**
No, wait.
**[18:56] ---**
How dare thee let thy eyes wander?
**[19:06] ---**
The farce is over. I'll tell thee the truth.
**[19:10] ---**
My beloved sister's sweet life was ended
**[19:15] ---**
because of her involvement with thee!
**[19:17] ---**
Wait! This isn't in the script!
**[19:20] ---**
I shall win my revenge by slaying thee!
**[19:24] ---**
My beloved Ophelia...
**[19:26] ---**
♪ Stop the fighting! ♪
**[19:29] ---**
♪ Don't you fight over me! ♪
**[19:34] ---**
What the devil is he doing?!
**[19:36] ---**
When did he get a gondola?!
**[19:37] ---**
It's not fair to take the
spotlight all for yourself!
**[19:39] ---**
I'm going to go out there and--
**[19:40] ---**
Wait! If you go out there now--
**[19:43] ---**
Not fair! Not fair!
**[19:45] ---**
Ophelia?! I thought you were dead!
**[19:48] ---**
When my dear brother's
love rained down upon me,
**[19:51] ---**
the flower of life bloomed
anew with deadly haste!☆
**[19:56] ---**
Oh, dear brother! You are truly the one for--
**[20:05] ---**
Ouchies!
**[20:08] ---**
So *this* is where you've been dallying,
**[20:12] ---**
Grell Sutcliff.
**[20:13] ---**
Will!
**[20:15] ---**
This is an outrage.
Not only have you deserted your post,
**[20:18] ---**
you're actually putting on a
charity play with a loathsome demon.
**[20:20] ---**
Ah, now three men are fighting over me!
**[20:25] ---**
Stop, stop, stop! No fighting!
**[20:28] ---**
You just leave everything to me,
Ramakrishna, avatar of the sun!
**[20:33] ---**
Prince Soma!
**[20:35] ---**
Ophelia came back to life!
**[20:37] ---**
Go get him, Rama-whatsit!
**[20:42] ---**
This is a mess! What a foolish--
**[20:45] ---**
Yes, it is foolish.
**[20:48] ---**
Revenge is foolish.
**[20:50] ---**
All it offers is confusion
and a brief fever of excitement.
**[20:55] ---**
When the curtains close on
this pipe dream, nothing is left.
**[21:01] ---**
Isn't that right, my lord Hamlet?
**[21:04] ---**
Seba-- I mean, I never
thought I'd hear you say...
**[21:07] ---**
Quite so!
**[21:09] ---**
Revenge is utterly meaningless!
**[21:12] ---**
Ramakrishna, avatar of
the sun, guarantees it!
**[21:16] ---**
H-Hey!
**[21:18] ---**
A demon's master who
can't ad-lib isn't worth his salt.
**[21:25] ---**
Hamlet...
**[21:30] ---**
That's right.
**[21:35] ---**
I'll forget about revenge and live on!
**[21:39] ---**
I will live as long as Nature allows me to!
**[21:50] ---**
Magnificent!
**[21:52] ---**
This is the true Hamlet
**[21:54] ---**
which transcends a mere revenge play!
**[21:57] ---**
I long to wrap this pitiable yet dignified
Hamlet in the bacon of my arms!
**[22:01] ---**
Ham, ham-ham, I'll be your eggs, Ham...!
**[22:16] ---**
*Thank you.*
**[22:19] ---**
*All the world's a stage,*
**[22:23] ---**
*and all the men and women merely players.*
**[22:28] ---**
*We meet and begin our drama.*
**[22:32] ---**
*And sooner or later, the curtain closes.*
**[22:37] ---**
*Thank you. Thank you.*
**[22:42] ---**
*Thank you.*
**[23:04] ---**
*The moonlight that reveals
sorrow was coldly illuminating*
**[23:11] ---**
*The despair and the future
which grew intimate in the dark*
**[23:21] ---**
*With the secret you gave me as my guide*
**[23:28] ---**
*I move through the blue night's stillness*
**[23:35] ---**
*Lacrimosa, I want to love once again*
**[23:42] ---**
*The dazzling world that
crumbled and vanished in the distance*
**[23:50] ---**
*I'll hide my dreams within my eyes*
**[23:57] ---**
*Until the tears fall on my sullied heart*
**[24:20] ---**
That was fun!
**[24:22] ---**
Hamlet was so dashing!
**[24:28] ---**
A smashing performance, and it
was all thanks to you, Ran-Mao!
**[24:31] ---**
Seaweed.
**[24:32] ---**
Hmm? Where'd Ophelia go?
**[24:35] ---**
That chap with the side part
took her off somewhere.
**[24:37] ---**
Beat her black and blue first, too!
**[24:44] ---**
You seem out of sorts for someone
whose Hamlet was such a success.
**[24:50] ---**
I'll have you know I don't
seriously intend to forget revenge.
**[24:55] ---**
I know, my lord.
**[24:57] ---**
In the end, stories enacted on the
stage are naught but pipe dreams.
**[25:01] ---**
And after all, it would be quite
an inconvenience for me if you were
**[25:04] ---**
to forget about revenge.
**[25:07] ---**
Ciel!
**[25:11] ---**
Now we're going to celebrate
with a party at your manor!
**[25:14] ---**
What? But...
**[25:16] ---**
I made a trip home during the intermission
**[25:18] ---**
and prepared all the
ingredients for the feast.
**[25:21] ---**
You see, I am merely one hell of a butler.
**[25:31] ---**
*I'll forget about revenge and live on...*
**[25:44] ---**
"Next Episode Preview"
**[25:48] ---**
"Tanaka Sushi"
**[25:50] ---**
Hang in there, Papa!
**[25:53] ---**
Sorry, but I'm a fishmonger,
not a gossipmonger.
**[25:58] ---**
Why don't you get the hell out of my town?
**[26:01] ---**
It's only a matter of time
before Tanaka Sushi goes under.
**[26:05] ---**
What, you've brought in outside talent?
***SIGN*** "Nutrition Education"
**[26:08] ---**
How amusing.
**[26:09] ---**
Let's see what he's got.
**[26:11] ---**
Take this! Freshly caught and still floppin'!
**[26:14] ---**
What I roll are human hearts.
**[26:18] ---**
Say your prayers, Tanaka lackey!
**[26:22] ---**
Mr. Bastian...
**[26:25] ---**
"Tanaka Sushi"
**[26:33] ---**
"New Series: Black Sushi Chef"
**[26:37] ---**
Perhaps black fingernails
are a no-no after all?
**[26:39] ---**
"Look forward to it!"