# Season 3
# 101 - Ciel in Wonderland Part I
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GYQ43P3E6/black-butler)
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"Prologue"
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Another ordinary day in the same old room...
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Alice was beginning to get
very tired of it. Because, you see...
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Her financial report was a dreary thing
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with no murders,
violence, or tragic partings in it.
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Did you say something?
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No, nothing.
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Sebastian. Tea.
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Very good, my lord.
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What?
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*Are my eyes playing tricks on me?*
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How late it's getting! Two minutes
and forty seconds behind schedule!
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Why can't I catch him up?
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To think she fell right
into such an elementary trap!
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Though she may pass herself off
as cautious, she's really quite daft--
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Pardon me, I meant to say, "Oh, poor Alice!
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Whatever shall become of her?
I do so look forward to finding out."
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"Chapter One: Down the Rabbit-Hole"
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Where am I?
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I don't recall any room
like this below the manor.
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Not this one, either?
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Oh dear! I'm late!
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I'm late, I'm late! I'm late, I'm late!
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Sebastian!
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Now I shall be three minutes late!
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Did he just *ignore* me?
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And then *lock the door*?!
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Oh, how *cute*!
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My lady!
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That voice...
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Alice!
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Lizzie?!
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This is my lady the Mouse.
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And I am the Dodo!
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So cute, so cute, so cute!
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Alice, why are you wearing such
plain clothes? They're not cute at all!
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It's what I always wear.
More to the point, who is this "Alice"?
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Well, really! *You're* Alice, aren't you?
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My teacher at Mouse School told me,
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"When in the country,
do as the country folk do;
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when in Rome, do as the Romans do;
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and the cat in gloves catches no mice!"
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Shall I take it we're in Rome, then...?
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What are you on about?
We're in Wonderland, naturally!
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Now, as soon as you've
changed clothes, we'll have a snack!
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"Wonderland"?!
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What...
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What the devil is this?!
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Ea... "Eat Me"...
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...is the name of this cake.
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Oh, how cute!
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It's got very peculiar coloring
for a cake... is it really edible?
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I'm told the flavor is most amusing.
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I-I beg you'll enjoy every crumb of it.
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Lovely! Let's tuck in!
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Lizzie, wait! Let's be cautious about--
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Hey!
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It's very nice!
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It has a sort of mixed flavor of
lemon meringue pie, *gâteau au chocolat*,
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Victoria sponge, scone, cottage pie,
roast hare, and lobster curry!
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What does *that* taste like?
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What's wrong? Are you all right?
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My lady?
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I-I have a curious feeling...
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Lizzie!
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Oh, no, what's this?!
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My lady!
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Lizzie!
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I'll not be cute anymore if I'm this big!
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Lizzie, please, don't cry!
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Big or not, you're still
adorable as ever, my lady!
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Oh, but I shan't be able to wear
the cute new boots I bought yesterday!
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Is that what you should be
worrying about right now?!
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Hmm... Is there anything here we can use?
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Dr... "Drink Me"...
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Where did you get that from?!
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I-I'd be too embarrassed to say.
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I'll do anything to save my lady!
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Because I'm her maid!
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All right.
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Lizzie! Drink this!
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Yes! That's right! If I have no cake,
I can simply drink strawberry juice!
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My lady the Mouse's only faults
were that she didn't listen to others
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and that she had just a *dribble* of egotism.
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The journey through
Wonderland has only just begun,
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and our poor Alice has
her work cut out for her.
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"Chapter Two: The Rabbit Gleams on the Water"
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This way, Alice! Come quickly!
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*It looks as though she
turned back to normal...*
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Catch! Row! Catch! Row!
Catch! Row! Catch! Row!
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Yo, Alice! Hangin' in there?
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Not far to the shore now!
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No grim faces! Smile, smile, yes!
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What's on the other
side of this lake, you three?
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Lake?!
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Oh, I say, is this a lake?
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The sea, I thought--was that a mistake?
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You're off by a mile!
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Yep, I've known it for a while:
the only place *this* wet is the Nile!
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The Nile? Shouldn't the water there be nil?
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No, no, it's nil in Nigeria!
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And Algeria has it all!
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"Splashing of water / as the great
frog makes his jump / into the old lake."
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So this place really is a lake?!
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The sea, I thought--was that a mistake?
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You're off by a mile!
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Chaps, put your thinking caps on:
the only place *this* wet is the Amazon!
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Quit repeating yourselves, you dodos!
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B-B-But I'm the Dodo.
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Oh, I'm very sorry! Do forgive me!
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Look! It's the White Rabbit!
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He's terrific, yes!
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This must be land after all,
if the White Rabbit can run here!
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Mark my words: if a rabbit is in
the lead, a turtle will come in second!
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Stop this instant, Sebastian!
Don't leave me behind!
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I know that voice, yes.
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The Puppy!
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Look sharp, you two!
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Sir, yes, Sir!
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It's just a puppy, isn't it?
Why are you so...?
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Here he comes! Don't let him unseat you!
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That's no "puppy"!
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My lady!
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Alice!
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*It's salty... a sea? Oh,
right, these are tears.*
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*Sebastian...*
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Many suspected that
Alice couldn't swim a stroke.
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She claimed she merely found
breathing difficult, but setting that aside...
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Alice truly excelled at being
kidnapped, attacked, and drowned.
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I wish she'd have a little
consideration for her rescuers.
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"Chapter Three: The Mock Turtle Blossoms"
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I'll catch a cold if I don't get dry soon!
I have to change clothes...
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I had no choice.
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I'm not dressed like this by choice!
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Who are you talking to,
my playful little robin?
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I've been looking forward to meeting you!
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Don't touch me!
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You're charming even
when you're standoffish!
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Now, how about a
dance with the Mock Turtle?
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No!
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Drat, drat! You won't
join me in the dance?!
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And after cutting a pretty figure to
seduce me like that! Oh, how sinful!
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I'm not flirting with you!
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Oh, ought this little robin's
unrobinlike sin of pride to be forgiven?!
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No! Even if Her Majesty
forgives it, I never shall!
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Now, my lady, give me your hand.
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Wait a moment. There's a
Queen in this country, too?
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But of course. The Queen of Hearts
is a woman of exquisite beauty.
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Do you want an audience with her?
All the more reason...
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You'll dance with me, won't you?
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Un, deux, trois! Un, deux, trois!
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That's right; you're doing
splendidly, my little robin.
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When will this humiliation be over?
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When you dance well enough
to suit your appearance.
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Dancing is an essential skill for a
maiden bound for the royal palace!
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Back to the beginning!
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I'm afraid I'll never be able to
give you a passing grade at this rate.
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Although personally, I'd love to
dance an eternal waltz with you...
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Now, lift your face, and let everyone
see how fit for the ball you are!
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This isn't-- Stop it! Don't look at me!
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It isn't what? Flowers
are meant to be admired.
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The more people behold them,
the more beautiful they become!
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Sebastian?!
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You mustn't allow yourself
to be distracted mid-dance.
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Now, concentrate.
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Let me go. Let me go!
I've got to follow him!
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Why? Why are you
chasing a rabbit, of all things?
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Because...!
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Because... well...
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Hmm?
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At any rate, stop this spin at once!
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I can't stop! I just keep going!
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In fact, I won't stop!
I want to go on forever!
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What?!
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It's so much fun, I can't stop myself!
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Because, my little robin, this spin is
the outpouring of my feelings for you!
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Getting... dizzy...!
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I can see it! I can see it!
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A flock of angels soaring
through the night skies!
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Yes, you are the
fruit of our lost paradise!
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Oh, I would violate any
taboo to admire this beauty!
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Stop it... Stop!
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Let my feelings reach you, here and now!
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Lobster-Quadrille!
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Her body, slender as a
twig and light as a feather,
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could go quite a distance when thrown.
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And so Alice flew far, far away.
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Beautiful!
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*Ciel in Wonderland.*
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*Ciel in Wonderland.*
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"Chapter Four: Pepper Wafts Through the Air"
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Where am I?
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What is this?
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What's going on here?
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This is my palace!
In other words, I am the Duchess!
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And this is my esteemed cook!
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Turmeric, coriander,
cloves, cinnamon, cardamom,
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cumin, fennel, anise, caraway...
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And the trump card is...
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...black pepper!
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I've only just begun!
The ultimate curry will not be perfected
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until I've added another 3,000 spices!
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Excellent! I'd expect
nothing less from my cook!
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And now our final member--Kitchen Maid Alice!
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Don't involve me in this!
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Now, now, no need to get upset.
Have you eaten too much chilli powder?
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That won't do!
**[17:46] ---**
Less chilli powder, more ginger!
And the trump card is...
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...black pepper!
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Yes! This! This is it! The piquancy
of our great Mother Nature!
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Knock it off!
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Oh, I forgot one more
member of the household.
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Mee-ow!
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What's that?
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When did the perverted-looking
red thing get here?
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Meow.
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What are you on about?
It's been here all along.
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And it's not a pervert; it's a Cheshire-Cat!
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Meow!
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Meow.
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What sort of cat grins like that?
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All cats grin.
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You don't know much,
Alice, and that's a fact.
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Cats and tigers and people are all the same!
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If you treat them kindly,
they'll give you affection in return!
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Quite right, quite right!
And the trump card is...
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...black pepper!
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I told you...
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...stop it!
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Relations between master and
butler follow the same principle!
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Why, even a high-born Duchess such
as I and a lowly kitchen maid such as you
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might easily develop a
friendship that transcends station!
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Bravo, Duchess!
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It's pointless to speak
with you! I'm leaving!
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Hey.
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Don't you ever waste food!
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The Duchess is quite right.
All foods are gifts from the gods.
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We must not waste even one grain of pepper!
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I see you need to be punished. Go, cook!
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*Jo ājñā*!
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Take that!
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It's a curry bun I prepared in
advance, for just such an occasion!
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Then what were you
mixing all those spices for?!
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Never mind trifles like that.
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Just eat up.
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Well? My cook makes
good curry buns, doesn't she?
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Oh, it's surprisingly good.
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What is it, Alice? Stomachache?
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This is...!
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Is this like what happened to Lizzie earlier?
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It won't stop!
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Duchess!
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Cook!
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Meow, meow!
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Squeak, squeak, squeak!
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Precious lives were sacrificed today.
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Erect a gravestone for
them when you have a chance.
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*Jo ājñā*.
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Incidentally, Duchess, there isn't
much time before your next appointment.
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There's an invitation from the Queen for you.
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Right, let's go, then.
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Farewell, Alice!
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Hold it, you! Turn me
back to normal before you go!
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In through the roof and then
out through the roof again?
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What dreadful manners.
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Poor Alice's appearance had
become exceedingly embarrassing.
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However, against all her expectations,
still greater disgrace awaited her.
**[21:37] ---**
"Chapter Five: The Lizard
Passionately Promises"
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I can't believe him, just leaving his
master without permission like that!
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And when he notices me, he ignores me!
**[22:03] ---**
What happened to that "butler
aesthetic" he likes to talk about?!
**[22:08] ---**
You there! Eiffel Tower! Halt!
**[22:12] ---**
What's that sound?
**[22:13] ---**
No, no, you're looking in
the wrong place! Down here!
**[22:17] ---**
In the shadow of your right shoe!
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Who are you?
**[22:22] ---**
A Lizard policeman who
just happens to be passing by.
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Pleased to meet you, Alice!
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I'm looking for the White Rabbit.
Have you seen him?
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You got split up?
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Then that means you're lost! This is serious!
**[22:38] ---**
Well, I suppose so...
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But it's all right! Not to worry.
**[22:44] ---**
I'll be on your side!
**[22:51] ---**
Well? Do you know the way?
**[22:52] ---**
Hmm...
**[22:54] ---**
Yes or no?!
**[22:55] ---**
Hmm!
**[22:58] ---**
I'm sorry, Alice! It seems
I've brought the wrong map!
**[23:02] ---**
Don't make rash promises
you're not capable of keeping!
**[23:05] ---**
*You* should check your belongings
before you get into trouble.
**[23:10] ---**
My belongings?
**[23:15] ---**
This is...
**[23:16] ---**
It's a magic candy that
will make you feel quite nice.
**[23:19] ---**
If you eat it, something
interesting is sure to happen!
**[23:23] ---**
True, it seems something always
happens when one eats or drinks here...
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But will I grow larger or smaller?
**[23:31] ---**
Either way, I'll be able to get out of this.
**[23:35] ---**
That's the ticket!
**[23:37] ---**
Go! You can do it, Alice!
**[23:40] ---**
Hang in there, Alice! Protect world peace!
**[23:45] ---**
Go, Alice, go!
**[23:50] ---**
Which way?
**[23:52] ---**
Oh, dear, she's let that stuffy
lizard talk her into eating the candy.
**[23:57] ---**
Honestly, Alice is such a glutton.
**[23:59] ---**
What just deserts--pardon me,
I meant "adventures" --lie in store?
**[24:05] ---**
What the devil is *this*?!
**[24:08] ---**
Find out in Part II.
**[24:16] ---**
*Advice from a mysterious Caterpillar,
a mushroom that toys with mind and body,*
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*a reunion with the Cheshire-Cat,*
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*and then the Hatter's mad tea
beckons Alice to a sweet interlude.*
**[24:29] ---**
*Next time on Black Butler:
"Ciel in Wonderland Part II."*
**[24:33] ---**
*You see, I am merely
one hell of a White Rabbit.*
**[24:37] ---**
# 102 - Welcome to the Phantomhives
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**[00:09] ---**
This is Ciel's manor, dear.
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It's a pleasure to see you, Lady Elizabeth.
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Thank you, Sebastian!
**[00:28] ---**
Ciel, Ciel, Ciel!
**[00:31] ---**
We've been expecting you, Miss.
**[00:44] ---**
Dear, this is Ciel, Earl Phantomhive.
**[00:47] ---**
Ciel, this is the friend
I wrote you about in my letter.
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I met her at a ball last month,
but I liked her straight away!
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She knows ever so many things.
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I wanted to introduce her to
you so much, I brought her along!
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What am I to do with you?
**[01:04] ---**
I'm Ciel Phantomhive,
head of the house of Phantomhive.
**[01:08] ---**
I hope you'll enjoy tonight's ball.
**[01:11] ---**
Sebastian, see that she's
offered the utmost hospitality.
**[01:14] ---**
Very good, my lord.
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I'm pleased to make your acquaintance, Miss.
**[01:18] ---**
I am Sebastian Michaelis,
butler to the Phantomhives.
**[01:22] ---**
Please enjoy the famed
Phantomhive hospitality.
**[01:27] ---**
Welcome to the Phantomhive manor.
**[01:43] ---**
This is the guest room.
**[01:51] ---**
You say it's lovely? Thank you.
**[01:58] ---**
The furnishings here are
historic masterpieces
**[02:02] ---**
collected by generations of Phantomhives.
**[02:04] ---**
They are all suitable
articles for a gentlewoman,
**[02:07] ---**
so please feel free to use them as you like.
**[02:11] ---**
That's the previous earl,
Vincent Phantomhive, and his wife Rachel.
**[02:20] ---**
Not only were they
passionate about aiding the poor,
**[02:23] ---**
they also worked to improve
medical care and river drainage.
**[02:26] ---**
I'm told they were prominent
figures much beloved by their community.
**[02:31] ---**
The Queen evidently placed a
great deal of trust in them as well.
**[02:34] ---**
You might ask my master
for more details at teatime.
**[02:37] ---**
For now, please wait he--
**[02:41] ---**
Please wait here.
**[02:43] ---**
Pardon me for a moment.
**[02:51] ---**
I knew you three were behind this.
**[02:53] ---**
It's this newfangled burner!
Come on, work, you piece of junk!
**[02:57] ---**
You mustn't come any closer!
**[03:04] ---**
Are you hurt, Miss?
**[03:07] ---**
Sorry about that. I almost
charred things there.
**[03:12] ---**
You *did* char them, yes!
**[03:15] ---**
Are you all right, Sebastian?
**[03:17] ---**
I say, who's that?
**[03:20] ---**
Here.
**[03:22] ---**
She is a friend of Lady Elizabeth's,
**[03:24] ---**
and one of our esteemed
guests at tonight's party.
**[03:28] ---**
She's charming!
**[03:30] ---**
Just like a porcelain doll!
**[03:32] ---**
She's a beaut, she is!
**[03:40] ---**
I'm sorry you had to see that, and
that you were exposed to danger besides.
**[03:42] ---**
I cannot apologize enough.
**[03:45] ---**
Still, I recall asking you to wait here.
**[03:48] ---**
Every household has
places it wants no one to see,
**[03:52] ---**
secrets it wants no one to know.
**[03:57] ---**
Strolling about a manor
you've only just arrived at
**[04:00] ---**
strikes me as a bit ill-mannered.
**[04:04] ---**
However, if you'd like to know
those very things, that's another matter.
**[04:11] ---**
It's your first time at such a large
estate, and you got carried away?
**[04:15] ---**
You have a lively curiosity, don't you, Miss?
**[04:17] ---**
Quite like an innocent
puppy who knows no fear...
**[04:21] ---**
We have a little time before tea.
**[04:24] ---**
May I take the liberty of
showing you around the manor?
**[04:29] ---**
Then with your permission,
I shall escort you.
**[04:33] ---**
Please, give me your hand.
**[04:40] ---**
This is the games room.
**[04:43] ---**
It's furnished with a billiard
table and various other equipment,
**[04:45] ---**
as well as most of the playthings
devised by the Funtom Company,
**[04:49] ---**
in the hopes of affording
our guests a pleasant time here.
**[04:56] ---**
Well, what do we have here?
**[04:59] ---**
I know it's not much, but
please make yourself comfortable.
**[05:02] ---**
Here in the games room, we have
a billiard table, among other things,
**[05:07] ---**
as well as most of the playthings
invented by the Funtom Company,
**[05:10] ---**
so that everyone who enters
can spend a pleasant time here.
**[05:14] ---**
Do make yourself at home.
**[05:17] ---**
Thank you for that detailed explanation.
**[05:20] ---**
Though I must say, it didn't
materially differ from the one I just gave...
**[05:24] ---**
Miss, meet Mr. Lau, head
of the English branch
**[05:28] ---**
of the Chinese trading company Kunlun.
**[05:30] ---**
And this is a friend of Lady Elizabeth's.
**[05:36] ---**
You'd better be careful.
**[05:39] ---**
You see, this place is
crawling with dangerous beasts.
**[05:43] ---**
Take care not to get eaten.
**[05:48] ---**
This is the pride of the
Phantomhive estate: the library.
**[05:53] ---**
The family heads have
enjoyed reading for generations,
**[05:56] ---**
and we pride ourselves on a
collection that rivals those at Oxford--
**[06:02] ---**
Brilliant timing! I was just feeling bored.
**[06:06] ---**
Prince Soma, we're in the
middle of our studies.
**[06:08] ---**
It's important to rest now and then, Agni.
**[06:12] ---**
I don't get the impression
that you were studying...
**[06:16] ---**
Today we've invited Lady
Elizabeth's friend here for tea,
**[06:20] ---**
and she'll be our guest at
a ball we're holding tonight.
**[06:23] ---**
That's her, I take it?
**[06:25] ---**
Miss, meet a friend of my young master's:
**[06:28] ---**
The 26th child of the king of
Bengal, Prince Soma Asman Kadar,
**[06:32] ---**
with his butler Agni.
**[06:34] ---**
*Namaste jī*.
**[06:35] ---**
Prince Soma, this is...
**[06:37] ---**
She's charming!
**[06:38] ---**
Pardon?
**[06:40] ---**
I-I'm Soma Asman Kadar.
I fancy you! Will you be my handmaid?
**[06:47] ---**
Or if you'd like, my... er... w-wife...
**[06:50] ---**
Prince Soma! At last... at last,
you've found your soul mate!
**[06:56] ---**
Your happiness is my happiness!
**[07:00] ---**
O Kali, please, please
bless their future together!
**[07:05] ---**
Agni!
**[07:07] ---**
You mustn't make this young
lady uncomfortable, you two.
**[07:11] ---**
If you wish to propose, please do
so formally at a later point in time...
**[07:16] ---**
It's almost time for tea.
**[07:18] ---**
Shall we go, Miss?
**[07:22] ---**
Today we have a Nilgiri tea, which features
both a refreshing aroma and a rich flavor.
**[07:28] ---**
Nilgiri, eh? That scent brings back memories.
**[07:31] ---**
If I remember rightly, "Nilgiri"
means "blue mountain," doesn't it?
**[07:33] ---**
This tea fetches quite a good price.
**[07:36] ---**
Accompanying it we have a Dundee Cake.
**[07:39] ---**
A batter with rum and dried fruits,
studded with roast almonds.
**[07:45] ---**
Oh, it looks scrumptious!
**[07:50] ---**
Hmm, not bad.
**[07:52] ---**
Thank you, my lord.
**[07:57] ---**
Do you fancy that teacup?
**[08:01] ---**
I say, isn't that...
**[08:04] ---**
Yes, it's a Vienna Rose.
**[08:06] ---**
I thought the flower blooming on this cup
**[08:08] ---**
would set the loveliness of
the young lady off to advantage.
**[08:10] ---**
Don't tell me it's genuine?!
**[08:12] ---**
Yes, it's the genuine article.
Empress Maria Theresa reportedly loved it.
**[08:17] ---**
A fine thing worthy of an earl.
**[08:20] ---**
I can't even imagine what it
would be worth on the open market.
**[08:28] ---**
My dear!
**[08:30] ---**
This is no good.
**[08:31] ---**
Yes, it would be awful
if she'd cracked the cup.
**[08:35] ---**
Sebastian, see that she's all right,
and prepare a change of clothing.
**[08:39] ---**
Give her the frock in the dressing room.
**[08:42] ---**
But young master, that dress...
**[08:45] ---**
It's fine.
**[08:46] ---**
Very good.
**[08:48] ---**
Pardon me, Miss.
**[08:57] ---**
Ordinarily one such as I has no
place seeing or touching your skin,
**[09:04] ---**
but this is an emergency situation.
**[09:18] ---**
Now, please forgive my rudeness.
**[09:22] ---**
That will do nicely, Miss.
**[09:27] ---**
Perhaps that teacup was
a bit too heavy for you.
**[09:31] ---**
I apologize for my lack of consideration.
**[09:35] ---**
If the idea is agreeable to you,
my master would like you to have this dress.
**[09:40] ---**
Please accept it with our compliments.
**[09:45] ---**
Why would we go to such lengths, you ask?
**[09:48] ---**
You are our honored guest.
**[09:50] ---**
It's only right that we should do this much.
**[09:53] ---**
Goodness, the guests for the
ball will be arriving any moment.
**[09:57] ---**
I must excuse myself.
**[09:59] ---**
Please wait in the guest
room with Lady Elizabeth.
**[10:06] ---**
Welcome to the Phantomhive manor.
**[10:09] ---**
Sorry to barge in like this, Ciel.
**[10:10] ---**
Why, it's Inspector Abberline.
**[10:12] ---**
What brings the Yard to my ball?
**[10:15] ---**
There's been a rash of
disappearances happening at balls,
**[10:19] ---**
so I'm here on patrol.
**[10:20] ---**
Disappearances?
**[10:21] ---**
And the criminal is a cowardly
scoundrel who targets only young maidens.
**[10:23] ---**
It's simply unforgivable!
**[10:25] ---**
But you can be sure
Scotland Yard will catch him.
**[10:28] ---**
I ask for your cooperation!
**[10:34] ---**
Ah, your scheduled call.
**[10:36] ---**
You seem to have infiltrated
them successfully.
**[10:38] ---**
She's bloody simple-minded if she
took you for a respectable young lady
**[10:43] ---**
and happily invited you to the Phantomhives.
**[10:47] ---**
Well, you know your job.
**[10:48] ---**
You be sure to kill that damned
butler and bring Ciel Phantomhive to me.
**[10:53] ---**
This is our revenge for
Azzurro and the Ferro family!
**[10:56] ---**
The butler uses strange tricks, so watch out.
**[10:59] ---**
Though I suppose this will be an easy task
**[11:01] ---**
for the expert assassin they
call the "Mad Dog of Venezia."
**[11:11] ---**
So here you are.
**[11:18] ---**
The ball is about to begin.
**[11:22] ---**
Tighter! Make it tighter!
**[11:25] ---**
Today is a special day, so cinch it tightly!
**[11:28] ---**
Yes, my lady...!
**[11:31] ---**
Oh, hello dear!
**[11:34] ---**
Look at this dress! Isn't it just too cute?
**[11:40] ---**
Oh, good! And you look ever so cu--
**[11:44] ---**
This dress...
**[11:52] ---**
It suits you ever so well.
**[11:54] ---**
So make sure Ciel sees you in it...
**[11:58] ---**
...during the ball...
**[12:04] ---**
My lady!
**[12:10] ---**
No need to fear.
**[12:31] ---**
You look darling even asleep.
**[12:34] ---**
I finally have you...
my charming song thrush.
**[12:42] ---**
Welcome to the Phantomhive manor.
**[12:47] ---**
Welcome to the Phantomhive manor.
**[12:50] ---**
She's vanished?!
**[12:52] ---**
Oh, what should we do?
**[12:55] ---**
My lady...
**[12:57] ---**
Take Lady Elizabeth to the guest room.
I'll bring up some warm milk.
**[13:02] ---**
Y-Yes.
**[13:03] ---**
Come on, my lady, here we go.
**[13:10] ---**
There were signs that a sleep-inducing
drug had been pumped into the guest room.
**[13:15] ---**
So he put her to sleep
and then carried her off, eh?
**[13:18] ---**
He's a very bold sort of criminal.
**[13:21] ---**
Not only that, he managed to get past *you*.
**[13:24] ---**
My apologies, my lord. You had
ordered me to entertain our guests.
**[13:31] ---**
Having a visitor stolen from me
would stain the name of "Phantomhive"...
**[13:35] ---**
And of the "Queen's guard dog."
**[13:38] ---**
Sebastian, this is an order: Get her back!
**[13:41] ---**
Yes, my lord.
**[13:49] ---**
We're alone at last, my song thrush.
**[13:52] ---**
Ever since I found you at that ball
the other day and you stole my heart,
**[13:55] ---**
I've been pursuing you.
**[13:58] ---**
What a sinful little bird you are,
to make me so wild for you.
**[14:04] ---**
It's all right; no one will come after us.
**[14:07] ---**
This is the luxury liner I built just
for you: the *Song Thrush's Warble*!
**[14:12] ---**
Come, let us set out for a tropical island!
**[14:15] ---**
We'll run away and live together!
**[14:17] ---**
If you're leaving, do so by yourself.
**[14:19] ---**
You're...!
**[14:21] ---**
So you're behind this, Lord Dru--
**[14:22] ---**
I am the servant of the goddess
of beauty--Masque de Vicomte!
**[14:30] ---**
I'll be taking the young lady
back now, Mr. Masque de Vicomte.
**[14:34] ---**
So our love truly is forbidden, then.
**[14:39] ---**
In that case...!
**[14:40] ---**
My goodness. Poison, is it?
**[14:42] ---**
Let us go together, my song thrush.
**[14:44] ---**
To Heaven, where no one can follow us!
**[14:49] ---**
Over my deadly body, honey!☆
**[14:51] ---**
She's not scheduled to die until
tomorrow, so you can't kill her yet!
**[14:56] ---**
Grell.
**[14:58] ---**
Why, if it isn't Sebas-*chan*!
Fancy meeting *you* here!
**[15:07] ---**
I won't let you stand in the way of our love!
**[15:14] ---**
Miss...
**[15:20] ---**
There's nothing to be
afraid of, if we're together.
**[15:26] ---**
Does he mean to take
that woman down with him?!
**[15:29] ---**
What a nuisance he is.
**[15:31] ---**
We who live for forbidden
love shall be wed in Heaven!
**[15:35] ---**
Just like Tristan and Isolde!
**[15:38] ---**
Let us pass away together as
this dream ends, my song thrush.
**[15:43] ---**
I believe I've already told you:
**[15:47] ---**
If you're leaving, do so by yourself.
**[15:51] ---**
You thrill me, Sebas-*chan*.
**[15:55] ---**
I thrill and throb!
I'm going to spin it more than usual!
**[16:03] ---**
U-Unbelievable!
**[16:12] ---**
Song thrush! I love--
**[16:25] ---**
A mere "servant of the goddess of beauty"
**[16:27] ---**
doesn't stand a chance
against a grim reaper and a demon!
**[16:32] ---**
Awake, Miss?
**[16:35] ---**
Thank goodness you're all right.
**[16:37] ---**
Say, Sebas-*chan*, I lent a hand too, right?
**[16:41] ---**
So won't you hold me in your arms too?
**[16:46] ---**
Good grief, I cannot believe you
made me come all the way out here.
**[16:50] ---**
Will?!
**[16:51] ---**
How long will you play about
before you do your work, Grell Sutcliff?
**[16:55] ---**
Ooh, wouldn't I love to play with Sebas-*chan*!
**[16:59] ---**
We could get oiled up and
have a nice, slippery roll in the...
**[17:01] ---**
Wait, I *am* working!
**[17:09] ---**
Would you be kind enough
to tell me your name?
**[17:19] ---**
What was that for?!
**[17:20] ---**
This soul isn't scheduled for death.
**[17:24] ---**
Pardon?
**[17:24] ---**
Look closely at the spelling.
The two names are one letter off.
**[17:29] ---**
You have the wrong person.
**[17:30] ---**
Oh no, I got it wrong?
I'm such a silly-billy.
**[17:33] ---**
Honestly, it's such hard work
having an addlebrained colleague...
**[17:38] ---**
We're leaving.
**[17:39] ---**
If we dawdle, the soul we're meant
to reap might be stolen as well...
**[17:44] ---**
...by some demon.
**[17:46] ---**
Do be careful on your way home.
The sea is dangerous at night.
**[17:52] ---**
Hurry up and paddle, won't you?
**[17:54] ---**
Oh, you're a slave-driver!
**[17:57] ---**
Ta-ta, Sebas-*chan*! Bye-bye, seaweed pie!
**[18:02] ---**
Shall we head back to the estate, then?
**[18:06] ---**
Be sure not to tell anyone what you just saw.
**[18:10] ---**
Oh, my dear, I'm so glad you're all right!
**[18:13] ---**
Lizzie, let's let her rest for a while.
**[18:16] ---**
Yes.
**[18:21] ---**
Goodness, that poor girl!
**[18:24] ---**
But she's so charming, I can see
why a man might want to kidnap her.
**[18:53] ---**
You mustn't wake him up.
**[18:57] ---**
While I was away,
**[18:58] ---**
my young master was forced
to entertain all the guests alone.
**[19:02] ---**
Moreover, it seems he took pains
to prevent anyone from finding out
**[19:06] ---**
what had happened in this very manor.
**[19:08] ---**
It must have quite worn him out.
**[19:11] ---**
My apologies, young master.
**[19:16] ---**
You look as though you're wondering why.
**[19:20] ---**
I listened to your entire telephone call.
**[19:25] ---**
Your lithe figure, and the heavy
scent of death rising from your skin...
**[19:30] ---**
I see now. Who could suppose
you were the Ferros' hired assassin?
**[19:35] ---**
What a villain you are,
**[19:37] ---**
using Lady Elizabeth to
infiltrate the Phantomhive estate.
**[19:41] ---**
That would explain your unfamiliarity
with mansions and tea parties.
**[19:46] ---**
I'm glad I gave you a tour of the manor.
**[19:49] ---**
Because you came to this room,
**[19:52] ---**
I can dispose of you without anyone noticing.
**[20:00] ---**
Why, where are you going?
**[20:02] ---**
Sebastian?
**[20:04] ---**
Was I asleep?
**[20:06] ---**
Yes, with your mouth hanging
open in the most undignified way.
**[20:09] ---**
You could have woken me, then.
I don't care for your sense of humor.
**[20:13] ---**
Hmm? You're...
**[20:15] ---**
She's come to offer you her thanks.
**[20:17] ---**
Ah, I see.
**[20:25] ---**
Please accept my apologies.
**[20:26] ---**
You suffered a terrible
experience because of our lax security.
**[20:31] ---**
As head of the house of Phantomhive,
I bear responsibility for all of this.
**[20:38] ---**
If you can find it in your heart
to forgive me, take my hand.
**[20:41] ---**
The ball in your honor has yet to begin.
**[20:52] ---**
Happy Birthday!
**[20:56] ---**
I present to you today's guest of honor.
**[21:04] ---**
Well, what do we have here?
**[21:06] ---**
That dress suits you splendidly!
**[21:08] ---**
All of these people gathered
to celebrate your birthday, dear!
**[21:14] ---**
My young master and Lady
Elizabeth have been secretly planning
**[21:18] ---**
this surprise party for you.
**[21:21] ---**
I assume the date you gave Lady
Elizabeth wasn't your real birthday?
**[21:26] ---**
However, today has become a special day,
**[21:29] ---**
not only for her, but for the
Phantomhive household as well.
**[21:33] ---**
Here it is, Sebastian!
**[21:35] ---**
Thank you for waiting!
**[21:37] ---**
Oh, that cake is amazing!
**[21:40] ---**
We pulled out all the stops to
make you a memorable cake, Miss.
**[21:44] ---**
All right, Sebastian, now you sing!
**[21:47] ---**
Me, my lady? I fear it would be presumptuous.
**[21:50] ---**
Whenever there's a
birthday cake, someone must sing!
**[21:53] ---**
Please? Do it for her!
**[21:55] ---**
I couldn't refuse a request
from you, Lady Elizabeth.
**[21:59] ---**
Very well.
**[22:01] ---**
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
**[22:04] ---**
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
**[22:09] ---**
♪ Happy birthday dear... ♪
**[22:14] ---**
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
**[22:25] ---**
Miss...
**[22:27] ---**
Your wrist must still
hurt where I gripped it.
**[22:31] ---**
With your permission, I'll assist you.
**[22:38] ---**
This birthday cake was
baked for you, you know.
**[22:41] ---**
Here, say "ah."
**[22:46] ---**
Now, the ball is beginning.
**[22:52] ---**
It appears that you and I are
the only ones without partners.
**[22:59] ---**
Shall I lead you through the steps?
**[23:02] ---**
I dare say you're not
familiar with balls, either.
**[23:10] ---**
That's right: stay relaxed...
**[23:13] ---**
Be serene, just as you are
when you're killing someone.
**[23:17] ---**
You look as though you'd like
to ask me why I don't kill you.
**[23:21] ---**
My duty as butler is to ensure
that this ball goes off without a hitch.
**[23:27] ---**
I don't like to sully my carefully
planned ball with human blood,
**[23:31] ---**
and my master ordered
me to offer you hospitality.
**[23:36] ---**
If you were to come after him again,
I would kill you without mercy.
**[23:42] ---**
However, any time you are a guest here,
**[23:45] ---**
I shall show you the utmost hospitality.
**[23:48] ---**
Do you understand me?
If so, give a little yelp for me.
**[23:51] ---**
Say "woof," just like a dog.
**[23:56] ---**
Good girl. Now, this
promise will be our little secret.
**[24:03] ---**
Am I a colleague, you ask?
**[24:06] ---**
No, I am no assassin.
**[24:10] ---**
I am merely one hell of a butler.
**[24:17] ---**
Ciel... And my dear...
**[24:22] ---**
Lizzie seems to be quite taken with you.
**[24:26] ---**
I'm glad to have met you as well.
**[24:29] ---**
That dress belonged to my late
mother, but I'd like you to have it.
**[24:35] ---**
Your carriage is ready, Miss.
**[24:42] ---**
Thank you for coming today.
I hope to see you here again.
**[24:47] ---**
We'll always be ready to welcome
you to the Phantomhive manor.
**[24:53] ---**
For now, good night.
**[25:09] ---**
That was far too much trouble.
**[25:11] ---**
I apologize, my lord.
**[25:15] ---**
I'm tired. Bring me some tea.
**[25:17] ---**
Certainly.
**[25:19] ---**
# 103 - The Making of Black Butler II
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GYQ43P3E6/black-butler)
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**[00:09] ---**
*Tell me that even if a
never-ending sorrow steals you away*
**[00:17] ---**
*Our two hearts will never grow apart*
**[00:24] ---**
"Black Butler II"
**[00:32] ---**
*I run up to you from
behind asking questions*
**[00:35] ---**
*The reason I never wavered,
no matter what the future looked like*
**[00:42] ---**
*Was because I didn't want to
forget what I believed in anymore*
**[00:48] ---**
*My habit of averting my eyes, my
vague answers, and my not-funny lies--*
**[00:56] ---**
*If you're not by my side,
their very meaning blurs*
**[01:03] ---**
*Even if a never-ending
sorrow steals you away*
**[01:11] ---**
*Don't forget the days when we
couldn't imagine a true "goodbye"*
**[01:19] ---**
*Tell me that even if a
never-ending sorrow steals you away*
**[01:27] ---**
*Our two hearts will never grow apart*
**[02:05] ---**
*In 2008, the legendary work Black Butler*
**[02:10] ---**
"*Black Butler*"
**[02:11] ---**
*drew audiences into a whirlpool
of excitement and fanaticism.*
**[02:34] ---**
*Its dazzling characters, stylish visuals,*
**[02:40] ---**
*impressive action scenes,
and beautiful yet cruel story*
**[02:45] ---**
*won it enthusiastic fans and gave
birth to a global social phenomenon.*
**[03:00] ---**
*Black Butler.*
**[03:04] ---**
*Black Butler.*
**[03:08] ---**
*Black Butler.*
**[03:11] ---**
*Black Butler.*
**[03:17] ---**
I'm home!
**[03:18] ---**
Mommy, I'm hungry!
**[03:20] ---**
Nagayama-en proudly presents
"*Black Butler* Rice Seasoning."
**[03:25] ---**
We have curry as well, young master.
**[03:28] ---**
"And N.Y. Once Again"
**[03:37] ---**
*And now, in 2010, the silence is broken...*
**[03:43] ---**
*...and the legend is reborn!*
**[03:45] ---**
*Black Butler II is publicly unveiled at last!*
**[03:52] ---**
*In this program, I'll be
taking you behind the scenes.*
**[04:33] ---**
I had no interest in doing a sequel.
**[04:35] ---**
What would be the point of
doing the same thing twice?
**[04:40] ---**
That's right, my young
master wasn't keen on the idea.
**[04:44] ---**
He said that sequels
weren't truly creative works.
**[04:48] ---**
I only went to the studio
**[04:50] ---**
because I felt it would be rude to
say no without hearing them out first.
**[04:54] ---**
However...
**[04:55] ---**
The staff had scripts ready for me.
They asked me to read them.
**[04:59] ---**
And they said if I turned them down
after that, they would accept defeat.
**[05:03] ---**
Their eyes were earnest.
**[05:16] ---**
It was a story worth performing in.
That's all there is to it.
**[05:20] ---**
Me, Sir? I have no opinions.
**[05:23] ---**
I only abide by what my
young master has decided.
**[05:26] ---**
You see, I am merely one hell of a butler.
**[05:29] ---**
*They agreed to take part.*
**[05:31] ---**
*However, to resurrect the
legend, more help was needed.*
**[05:36] ---**
*Yes: the help of the comrades*
**[05:38] ---**
*who had created the
original legend along with them.*
**[05:43] ---**
Guuuuuuuuuyyysss!
**[05:47] ---**
Long time, no see!
**[05:49] ---**
We came back to *Black Butler*, yes!
**[05:54] ---**
"Away on Business"
**[05:56] ---**
W-W-W-Wonderful!
**[05:59] ---**
*Black Butler* is back! It's the
veritable Big Bang of the TV world!
**[06:04] ---**
And so, let us toast this miracle.
**[06:10] ---**
A sequel seemed unimaginable, frankly.
**[06:13] ---**
Right, Ran-Mao?
**[06:17] ---**
Especially considering
how the original show ended.
**[06:18] ---**
But that might be exactly why
there's meaning in doing a sequel.
**[06:22] ---**
Oh? Why?
**[06:24] ---**
Audiences always want to be surprised.
**[06:27] ---**
To develop a story out of an ending
like that is the work of a true pro.
**[06:30] ---**
I look forward to seeing how it turns out.
**[06:33] ---**
Yes, so do I!
**[06:36] ---**
So, how *did* the original one end?
**[06:40] ---**
I mean, I only watched
the parts I was in, you know?
**[06:46] ---**
"Green Room"
**[06:49] ---**
You never change.
**[06:54] ---**
How could we *not* be in the sequel?
**[06:56] ---**
After all, Ciel is like a brother
to me. I have to look after him.
**[07:00] ---**
I'm counting on you, Agni.
**[07:01] ---**
*Jo ājñā*!
**[07:03] ---**
Though we haven't filmed together yet,
**[07:06] ---**
I look forward to seeing my friend, too.
**[07:49] ---**
Don't film me.
**[07:56] ---**
I don't have my makeup on,
so don't you dare film me!
**[07:59] ---**
*An appealing story needs an appealing rival.*
**[08:04] ---**
*These two will be the ones to make
Ciel and Sebastian suffer this time.*
**[08:10] ---**
Yes, I'd seen the original series.
**[08:12] ---**
The boy I'm playing is out to get Ciel.
**[08:15] ---**
Well, or maybe Sebastian?
**[08:17] ---**
Please look forward to
seeing me take down that brat Ciel
**[08:20] ---**
like the piece of shit he is.
**[08:34] ---**
I wasn't familiar with it.
**[08:36] ---**
I don't care about this sort of thing.
**[08:40] ---**
Whatever. It's my job.
**[08:47] ---**
Hi there! I'm Thompson!
**[08:50] ---**
I'm Timber.
**[08:52] ---**
I'm Canterbury.
**[08:55] ---**
And as you see, there's no
consistency between them!
**[08:58] ---**
There's really just one of me.
I'm doing three roles!
**[09:01] ---**
And I'm only getting paid
as one. But I'll do my best!
**[09:07] ---**
An interview?
**[09:09] ---**
I do apologize, but may I have a moment?
**[09:13] ---**
"Two Months Earlier"
**[09:14] ---**
"One Week Earlier"
**[09:16] ---**
"The Previous Night"
One, two...
**[09:18] ---**
"One Hour Earlier"
**[09:20] ---**
"On Set"
**[09:25] ---**
One, two, three...
***SIGN*** "Actions speak louder than words. Actors do not speak; they perform. I respectfully refuse all interviews. --Claude Faustus"
**[09:51] ---**
*The actors have gathered.
Time to begin filming.*
**[09:54] ---**
"First Day of Filming"
**[10:09] ---**
Okay, we're going to start filming!
**[10:12] ---**
Ciel Phantomhive as "Ciel" and
Sebastian Michaelis as "Sebastian"!
**[10:17] ---**
We'll start with your scenes! Get in here!
**[10:20] ---**
Welcome back!
**[10:20] ---**
Good to work with you again!
**[10:31] ---**
If we're going to do this, we're
going to surpass the first season.
**[10:33] ---**
That's all.
**[10:34] ---**
Very good, my lord.
**[10:41] ---**
It's you.
**[10:41] ---**
I've just been *dying* to see you!☆
**[10:47] ---**
So you've been pulling the
strings behind the scenes, Grell?
**[10:50] ---**
All I've been pulling are the red
threads of fate that bind our hearts!
**[10:56] ---**
"Finished Video"
**[10:56] ---**
This isn't the blocking we talked about...
**[10:58] ---**
"But in reality..."
**[11:10] ---**
These actually bite into
the skin quite painfully.
**[11:21] ---**
Rolling!
**[11:23] ---**
Action!
**[11:42] ---**
You stay away...
**[11:46] ---**
...from my Sebas-*chan*!
**[11:52] ---**
Cut!
**[11:54] ---**
Ash. Angela.
**[11:57] ---**
Those movements were *filthy*.
**[12:00] ---**
Let's change the order.
First Claude will come in from the right.
**[12:04] ---**
That was great, Hannah.
**[12:05] ---**
Whatever.
**[12:10] ---**
In the first season we appeared onstage
as well, but we're primarily action directors.
**[12:15] ---**
I direct the men...
**[12:16] ---**
...and I direct the women.
**[12:20] ---**
I also do Sebastian's stunts
in the more dangerous scenes.
**[12:24] ---**
Likewise, I do stunts for Grell and Hannah.
**[12:26] ---**
I do the majority of my
scenes myself, however.
**[12:30] ---**
Even if that's the Phantomfive--
**[12:33] ---**
Sorry. Give me another shot at it.
**[12:35] ---**
"Take 2"
**[12:35] ---**
Even if that's the Hansom--
**[12:37] ---**
"Take 3"
**[12:37] ---**
Even if that's the Phantam--
**[12:39] ---**
Even if that's the Hya--
**[12:39] ---**
"Take 4"
**[12:43] ---**
Get it together, you sorry
excuse for an actor!
**[12:45] ---**
Well, look at that. He's
perfect for the role.
**[12:49] ---**
--Cheer! Cheer!
--Please calm down, my prince.
**[12:51] ---**
Phantomhive! Phantomhive!
Phantomhive! Phantomhive!
**[12:56] ---**
Okay.
**[12:57] ---**
"Take 5"
**[12:57] ---**
Even if that's the Phantomhive way,
**[13:00] ---**
I still believe in Ciel!
**[13:01] ---**
"He did it!!"
**[13:06] ---**
Oh, so sorry!
**[13:08] ---**
You're good. That was superb timing.
**[13:10] ---**
*Filming proceeds peacefully.*
**[13:13] ---**
*The teamwork between
the cast and staff is excellent.*
**[13:18] ---**
*However, we mustn't get complacent.*
**[13:20] ---**
*There is a monster lurking in the wings.*
**[13:23] ---**
*The monster called "Accident."*
**[13:32] ---**
Oh, what tragedy!
**[13:35] ---**
To think that the set would be
destroyed by a torrential downpour!
**[13:39] ---**
In the face of Mother Nature, human
efforts are fleeting and insubstantial!
**[13:44] ---**
Yes, this is the modern-day
Mu, the legend of Atlantis!
**[13:48] ---**
And so, a toast to the
cancellation of filming!
**[13:53] ---**
This line is entirely unsatisfactory.
**[13:56] ---**
How are you people
interpreting Claude's character?
**[14:00] ---**
We need to meet with the screenwriter and--
**[14:05] ---**
What do you think you're filming?
**[14:16] ---**
Call for an ambulance!
**[14:17] ---**
Over here! Hurry up!
**[14:19] ---**
Hey, turn that off! Get out of here, you cad!
**[14:22] ---**
It's comforting to think that my
young master wasn't hurt, at least.
**[14:25] ---**
*That day, Sebastian fractured
bones in his right ankle: a serious injury.*
**[14:34] ---**
*However...*
**[14:36] ---**
*He returned to the set the very next day,*
**[14:38] ---**
*and kept the injury a
secret until filming wrapped.*
**[14:42] ---**
A Phantomhive butler who can't
do that much isn't worth his salt.
**[14:47] ---**
Home shopping with the
Grim Reaper Cultural Center.
**[14:52] ---**
Today we're presenting a
super-high-performance pruning hook.
**[14:57] ---**
It can reach any plant, no
matter how high up or far away.
**[15:03] ---**
It can cut down a hundred people.
**[15:06] ---**
It telescopes at the touch
of a button for easy storage.
**[15:09] ---**
If you order now, we'll throw
in this lawn mower for free.
**[15:12] ---**
"Recommended by Ronald"
**[15:13] ---**
The number is 444-444-444.
**[15:16] ---**
Yes, the "fatal fours." Call now.
**[15:19] ---**
We'll also provide a receipt.
**[15:23] ---**
It's *Charge! Lizzie's
"I'm Merely One Hell of a Fiancée"*!
**[15:28] ---**
I'm Elizabeth Ethel Cordelia Midford.
**[15:29] ---**
"Camerawork by Elizabeth"
**[15:31] ---**
Call me "Lizzie"!
**[15:33] ---**
Today I'm going to take you
behind the scenes of the show's filming!
**[15:40] ---**
You're breaking my concentration. Go away.
**[15:43] ---**
Oh, not that old excuse again!
**[15:48] ---**
Randall to the death.☆
**[15:51] ---**
And here, as you can see, we have snacks!
**[15:55] ---**
He really loves his snacks. How cute!
**[16:00] ---**
What?
**[16:01] ---**
It's Marmite!
**[16:03] ---**
I'm obsessed with the
stuff lately. I eat a jar a day!
**[16:09] ---**
Before that it was vegetable
juice, wasn't it?
**[16:12] ---**
So, Lau, what are you doing over there?
**[16:15] ---**
Oh, he's always like that.
**[16:19] ---**
Enjoy.
**[16:21] ---**
This is great! Soma and
Agni brought home-made curry!
**[16:25] ---**
Agni poured his heart into
making this curry. Savor it!
**[16:29] ---**
Okay!
**[16:31] ---**
Sebastian!
**[16:33] ---**
Happy birthday!
**[16:39] ---**
I'm Thompson! Have some cake!
**[16:41] ---**
They insisted we celebrate. I had no choice.
**[16:44] ---**
You'd better be grateful!
**[16:46] ---**
This is...
**[16:47] ---**
Well, I'll be.
**[16:48] ---**
"Happy Birthday Tianseba"
**[16:48] ---**
Happy birthday!
**[16:51] ---**
Why does that A.D., Edward or
whoever, act like such a big shot?
**[16:56] ---**
I hear he comes from a noble family.
**[17:01] ---**
Hey, this is good.
**[17:03] ---**
Oh, I'll have some, too!
**[17:05] ---**
You can't, no!
**[17:05] ---**
The camerawoman has to do her job.
**[17:07] ---**
What?! But I want cake!
**[17:11] ---**
And now we'll visit the ladies!
**[17:16] ---**
Strip.
**[17:17] ---**
"Self-Imposed Broadcast Restrictions"
"Please enjoy with sound only for the time being."
**[17:17] ---**
I'll change my own clothes, yes!
**[17:21] ---**
First up is Ran-Mao!
**[17:27] ---**
We're taping this, Father!
**[17:30] ---**
Amazing!
**[17:32] ---**
Don't worry, you look adorable!
**[17:36] ---**
Okay, next up is Mey-Rin!
**[17:43] ---**
Now just look at this, Father!
**[17:49] ---**
Cute, cute, *cute*!
**[17:53] ---**
"Lovely Fortunetelling"
"Today your luck is... BAD"
**[17:56] ---**
What?
**[17:57] ---**
N-N-Nothing!
**[18:00] ---**
This is the CG studio.
**[18:05] ---**
We're creating the CG for the train now.
**[18:12] ---**
Hey, wait... aren't you...?
**[18:16] ---**
Abberline, the director wants you.
**[18:19] ---**
Coming! All right, I'll see you later.
**[18:25] ---**
God, this is trash.
**[18:30] ---**
Oh, dear, I didn't know
the camera was rolling!
**[18:35] ---**
I'll give this show my all.
**[18:36] ---**
Oh, Grell!
**[18:39] ---**
I told you... don't film me
when I don't have my makeup on!
**[18:51] ---**
So we sang for ourselves...
the theme song for *Black Butler II*.
**[18:55] ---**
So I composed it for myself...
**[18:57] ---**
I got a mental image of it through
talking with Ciel and Sebastian.
**[19:01] ---**
The result was a great song.
**[19:05] ---**
We are not a "visual-kei" band!
**[19:07] ---**
We're "Dro & Cell"!
**[19:08] ---**
There's nobody else in this
world with a sound like Dro & Cell's.
**[19:11] ---**
We're Dro & Cell, and Dro & Cell is us,
and the Dro & Cell sound is our sound!
**[19:17] ---**
So I say to him, "Pluto, stop it!"
**[19:20] ---**
No, boy! Bad boy! No, bo--!
**[19:26] ---**
No, boy! Bad boy! Okay, boy!
**[19:30] ---**
Good boy! Good boy! No, boy!
**[19:33] ---**
Bad boy! Okay, boy! Good boy! No, boy!
**[19:38] ---**
Bad boy! Okay, boy!
**[19:45] ---**
*The actors and the staff...*
**[19:52] ---**
*...bring all of their combined
passion and skill to bear.*
**[19:56] ---**
*It's the long-awaited new series
that will go out to the whole world!*
**[19:59] ---**
*A legend is about to awaken!*
**[20:03] ---**
*Alois Trancy, a mysterious
boy who appears before Ciel,*
**[20:08] ---**
*and Claude, his butler.*
**[20:11] ---**
*Who are they?*
**[20:14] ---**
*What is Sebastian after?*
**[20:16] ---**
*And what in the world happened to Ciel?*
**[20:22] ---**
The plot just keeps thickening, yes!
**[20:24] ---**
I'm a moron, so I don't really get it.
**[20:26] ---**
Ditto!
**[20:27] ---**
I fully believe you'll all
be satisfied with the series.
**[20:32] ---**
I don't make mistakes.
**[20:35] ---**
*The story accelerates faster and faster.*
**[20:57] ---**
You're pathetic, Ciel Phantomhive.
**[21:00] ---**
Who are you?!
**[21:07] ---**
*Please be all right, Ciel!*
**[21:38] ---**
*Intense action!*
**[21:42] ---**
C-Ciel...
**[21:44] ---**
Lizzie!
**[21:46] ---**
*The looming terror of death!*
**[21:50] ---**
I didn't want to fight you.
**[21:54] ---**
I don't care about laughter anymore.
**[22:01] ---**
*A fated showdown!*
**[22:19] ---**
*A loss of innocence...*
**[22:23] ---**
Young master...
**[22:25] ---**
*And--*
**[22:32] ---**
*London faces crisis once again!*
**[22:42] ---**
Haven't you ever wondered
about your family's destiny?
**[22:47] ---**
About your family's secrets?
**[22:49] ---**
Secrets, you say?
**[22:58] ---**
I won't let you have the Queen's black tears.
**[23:01] ---**
Isn't that right, Ran-Mao?
**[23:03] ---**
What's the meaning of this?!
**[23:05] ---**
My real name is Vincent Phantomhive.
**[23:08] ---**
I am your father.
**[23:11] ---**
Dad, stop!
**[23:14] ---**
If... If you're going to kill
my brother Ciel, kill me too!
**[23:19] ---**
I refuse to allow my son and
grandson to fight a death match!
**[23:24] ---**
Mey-Rin? Father?!
**[23:27] ---**
I've been looking for you.
**[23:29] ---**
I'm glad I finally get
to see you, little brother.
**[23:32] ---**
Big brother!
**[23:35] ---**
Do you remember this?
**[23:40] ---**
That's my dead mother's pendant!
**[23:42] ---**
Does that mean you... No! It's not true!
**[23:45] ---**
When this battle is over,
let's go back to our homeland.
**[23:49] ---**
We'll see the sparkling
Ganges again together!
**[23:52] ---**
My prince...
**[24:06] ---**
I came here from the
future. The 23rd century.
**[24:10] ---**
Sebastian Michaelis, I am your
and Ciel's... your and Ciel's...
**[24:17] ---**
It's all right. I know he'll come back.
**[24:22] ---**
After all, I'm carrying his...
**[24:24] ---**
Day into night, tranquility into the
maelstrom of war, and the moon into Earth.
**[24:36] ---**
This is what makes a Trancy butler.
**[24:38] ---**
Go, moon! Turn the Earth
into a world of darkness!
**[24:46] ---**
We must not allow any more
young lives to be sacrificed.
**[24:58] ---**
It seems the time has come for us to go.
**[25:03] ---**
We shall give our lives for their future!
**[25:28] ---**
Game-changing humanoid weapon
designed to protect the capital...
**[25:34] ---**
Launch!
**[25:51] ---**
Deploy QV Field at maximum!
**[25:55] ---**
Engines at full power. We'll thrust
it right out of the solar system.
**[26:02] ---**
I leave the rest to you, butler.
**[26:16] ---**
*I wasn't able to serve you to the
end as I vowed. Please forgive me...*
**[26:27] ---**
...my young master.
**[26:32] ---**
Sebastian!
**[26:42] ---**
"*Black Butler II*"
**[26:50] ---**
"We made that up. We're sorry."
**[26:53] ---**
"We're putting all we've
got into producing it."
**[27:08] ---**
*Asleep, you look so sad*
**[27:15] ---**
*You look as though
you're having bad dreams*
**[27:22] ---**
*How do I live without you?*
**[27:28] ---**
*Lock me up, and only me*
**[27:35] ---**
*Within the sky of yourself*
**[27:42] ---**
*I mourn that I can't go in search*
**[27:49] ---**
*Of that blue sky I once saw*
**[27:56] ---**
*But everyone is in the sky*
**[28:03] ---**
*In the cage of freedom*
**[28:10] ---**
*In a starless night sky*
**[28:17] ---**
*Unable to see where I'm going... I wander*
# 104 - Ciel in Wonderland Part II
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GYQ43P3E6/black-butler)
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**[00:20] ---**
Our story so far:
**[00:23] ---**
Alice fell into Wonderland
while chasing the White Rabbit.
**[00:27] ---**
There, she...
**[00:30] ---**
...got soaked wet as a
drowned rat in a pool of tears...
**[00:35] ---**
...got spun in circles by
a perverted Mock Turtle...
**[00:39] ---**
...had her mouth stuffed full of curry bun...
**[00:46] ---**
...and shamelessly erected
her Eiffel Tower in public.
**[00:52] ---**
Poor Alice was growing quite sick of
Wonderland after these awful experiences...
**[00:57] ---**
...but if anything, her trials were
about to become even more grueling.
**[01:13] ---**
"Chapter Six: The Caterpillar Talks of Joy"
**[01:34] ---**
Blast it, where did the White Rabbit go?!
**[01:37] ---**
And why the devil am I this size?
**[01:47] ---**
It seems you've finally found this place.
**[01:54] ---**
Who are you?
**[01:57] ---**
I'm the Caterpillar.
**[01:59] ---**
I rather thought this day might come.
I've been eagerly waiting.
**[02:03] ---**
Waiting? Do you know what I should do, then?
**[02:07] ---**
Hmm? I haven't the least idea what you mean.
**[02:11] ---**
Quit evading the issue and just tell me!
**[02:23] ---**
The right side will make you grow taller,
**[02:25] ---**
and the left side will make you grow shorter.
**[02:27] ---**
That's the law of the land here.
**[02:29] ---**
What is that supposed to mean?
**[02:31] ---**
Mushroom.
**[02:33] ---**
Mushroom?
**[02:35] ---**
Mushroom.
**[02:44] ---**
Wh-What are you going to do?
**[02:48] ---**
Suck.
**[02:50] ---**
Stop--
**[03:02] ---**
Goodness, you're all grown up.
**[03:05] ---**
Enough games! Put me
back to normal this instant!
**[03:08] ---**
What? But that would be such a waste!
**[03:10] ---**
There are *ever* so many
pleasures that only adults can savor...
**[03:15] ---**
Just put me back!
**[03:18] ---**
Mushroom.
**[03:25] ---**
I-Isn't there another way to do this?
**[03:27] ---**
Oh, why not relax and enjoy it?
**[03:32] ---**
Suck.
**[03:43] ---**
This isn't right either!
**[03:45] ---**
What?! But that form comes
with its own unique pleasures...
**[03:50] ---**
You're so picky.
**[03:52] ---**
Just put me back! Or I'll crush you!
**[03:55] ---**
All right, all right.
**[03:58] ---**
Valley.
**[04:09] ---**
So in the end, I'm just the way I was before?
**[04:11] ---**
By the way--
**[04:14] ---**
Ali... Hmm, what was your name, again?
**[04:17] ---**
You've been talking to me
without even knowing that?
**[04:26] ---**
Well, you were in such a
hurry to get larger and smaller!
**[04:31] ---**
And you hardly know yourself
who you are anymore, do you?
**[04:37] ---**
I am Ciel Phantomhive!
**[04:40] ---**
Hmm, really? That doesn't
seem to fit, somehow.
**[04:45] ---**
And I'm looking for the White Rabbit.
**[04:48] ---**
Oh! Well, why didn't
you say so in the first place?
**[04:52] ---**
Do you know where he is?!
**[04:55] ---**
Haven't the foggiest!
**[04:58] ---**
I've had enough of you!
**[05:04] ---**
This was an utter waste of time.
Delayed by a useless caterpillar--
**[05:08] ---**
"Useless"? Is that really what you think?
**[05:13] ---**
What do you mean?
**[05:15] ---**
I am the Caterpillar.
**[05:17] ---**
And what shall happen, in time?
**[05:20] ---**
Presently I'll turn into a chrysalis,
and after that--you know, don't you?
**[05:27] ---**
You don't mean...?
**[05:30] ---**
You can come along, Alice.
Time to spread those wings...
**[05:37] ---**
Now!
**[05:44] ---**
*She's* the one transforming?!
**[05:58] ---**
The more one hurries, the later one becomes.
**[06:01] ---**
The more intently one pursues,
the greater the distance grows.
**[06:04] ---**
At that rate, not only will they never meet;
**[06:06] ---**
I imagine they'll have trouble
even passing each other by.
**[06:10] ---**
We'll set aside the question of
why the mushroom had wings...
**[06:13] ---**
At any rate, Alice flew through the sky
once more, carried needlessly far away.
**[06:18] ---**
She was an excessively fast woman.
**[06:23] ---**
"Chapter Seven: The Cheshire-Cat
Stands on Its Hind Legs"
**[06:56] ---**
Blast her for letting go
of me there, of all places!
**[06:59] ---**
Mr. Rabbit! Mr. Rabbit!
Where are you, Mr. Rabbit?
**[07:13] ---**
Meow...
**[07:16] ---**
Show your whole self or don't
come at all! Don't do it by halves!
**[07:20] ---**
Or I'll teach you a lesson!
**[07:23] ---**
Ah, but I'm a creature of halves!
Who can say if I'm woman or man?
**[07:29] ---**
And that's why I'm punished! Yes, I see!
**[07:32] ---**
Enough cant! Come out here!
**[07:35] ---**
You look troubled!
**[07:37] ---**
Depending on the circumstances,
I might be willing to help you.
**[07:42] ---**
I'm sure you're just as useless
as everyone else I've met today.
**[07:46] ---**
Cruelty! Such cruelty! And after
I came here to show you the way, too!
**[07:51] ---**
Let me ask you this, then:
which way ought I to go from here?
**[08:03] ---**
Well? Which one do I take?
**[08:05] ---**
Personally, I'd take *both*!
A boy in every port!
**[08:12] ---**
I couldn't possibly narrow it down
to just one; it'd be such a shame!
**[08:15] ---**
After all, they may be very different types,
**[08:17] ---**
but they're both thrillingly handsome!
**[08:22] ---**
I'm not asking about your taste in men!
**[08:25] ---**
I'm asking you which path I ought to choose!
**[08:28] ---**
*Being* loved is the easiest path,
yet I always choose to be the lover!
**[08:35] ---**
A poor, lost kitten am I.
**[08:38] ---**
You're lost when you're supposed
to be showing me the way?
**[08:42] ---**
Love is a labyrinth, you know.
**[08:47] ---**
Where has the red thread of my fate gone?
**[08:53] ---**
I don't much care where I go,
so long as I get somewhere.
**[08:58] ---**
Well, no need to worry: whichever
way you go, you'll only find a madman.
**[09:03] ---**
And I'm simply *mad
*about those madmen, you see!
**[09:08] ---**
Can't I refuse to go either way?
**[09:12] ---**
Dear me, can you afford to be so picky?
**[09:18] ---**
It's show time!
**[09:21] ---**
Ah, I'm on fire!
**[09:25] ---**
The Y-junction of a lost boy in love...
**[09:28] ---**
Y!
**[09:30] ---**
...twists and turns until it's an M.
**[09:32] ---**
M!
**[09:34] ---**
When all's said and done,
it's a single-hearted I!
**[09:40] ---**
And this Cat is asking for you by name.
**[09:56] ---**
Now, don't you think we've at least
put to rest any fear of getting lost?
**[10:03] ---**
So there are no choices now, then?
**[10:06] ---**
You're dead right about that!☆
**[10:09] ---**
The best time to snag your
prey is the moment you want it.
**[10:12] ---**
Now then, I must be off on my hunt for love.
**[10:16] ---**
Give my best to the
White Rabbit! Bye-bye, meow!
**[10:20] ---**
Wait a moment!
**[10:24] ---**
What now?
**[10:25] ---**
You just mentioned the
White Rabbit. Where did he go?
**[10:29] ---**
So you're desperate to see him?
**[10:32] ---**
N-No, I didn't say that...
**[10:35] ---**
Are you desperate to see him?
**[10:38] ---**
I...
**[10:39] ---**
Why are you chasing the
White Rabbit, of all things?
**[10:44] ---**
Why...?
**[10:52] ---**
Because he's my butler!
**[10:55] ---**
He belongs to me.
**[10:57] ---**
So I'll get him back. That's all.
**[11:00] ---**
That's just not fair! I
want him too, you know!
**[11:03] ---**
Look, right now I'm even one
of his beloved pussy cats! Meow!
**[11:08] ---**
You can disappear now.
**[11:09] ---**
But you know, if the White Rabbit prefers,
**[11:14] ---**
I could always play the role of
*tomcat* and let him be the pussy!
**[11:16] ---**
Yes! Anytime!
**[11:18] ---**
Shut it, you poof.
**[11:19] ---**
Cruelty! Such cruelty!
*You're* the one who told me to wait!
**[11:23] ---**
Which reminds me--you never answered
my question! Where is he right now?
**[11:28] ---**
You'll see him straight away, never fear.
**[11:31] ---**
Eventually, if you walk straight,
straight, straight that way...
**[11:39] ---**
And now this really is bye-bye, meow!
**[11:48] ---**
"Straight that way," eh?
**[11:54] ---**
Alice's "guide" had never been
inclined to serve in that capacity;
**[11:58] ---**
really he was simply a
whore for... attention.
**[12:04] ---**
With only one road, poor Alice
had no choice but to go forward.
**[12:11] ---**
*Ciel in Wonderland.*
**[12:17] ---**
*Ciel in Wonderland.*
**[12:22] ---**
"Chapter Eight: The Hatter
Sweetens Things Up"
**[12:42] ---**
No room.
**[12:44] ---**
No room at all.
**[12:50] ---**
Come now, don't say that. Have a seat.
**[12:52] ---**
Don't say *what*? I haven't said anything!
**[12:58] ---**
The Dormouse was talking in his sleep.
**[13:00] ---**
That's why he's called the Dormouse:
because he speaks endormi.
**[13:06] ---**
Welcome to the Mad Tea-Party. I'm the Hatter.
**[13:11] ---**
Next to me is the March Hare.
**[13:13] ---**
Do you like tea?
**[13:15] ---**
Y-Yes...
**[13:26] ---**
The look in your eyes says you doubt me.
**[13:29] ---**
There's nothing in it, I assure you!
**[13:31] ---**
Nothing but sweet, sweet sugar.
**[13:37] ---**
Stop it! That's too much!
**[13:40] ---**
Shhh.
**[13:42] ---**
Look.
**[13:50] ---**
What's this...?
**[14:05] ---**
Memories are such ephemeral things.
**[14:10] ---**
I'm not interested in parlor tricks!
**[14:12] ---**
My, my, just look at her drink!
**[14:17] ---**
I refer to the floor, of course.
**[14:18] ---**
Have you lot seen the White Rabbit?
**[14:23] ---**
Good question! I'm sure I don't remember...
**[14:26] ---**
You there, with the glasses.
**[14:27] ---**
You're a rabbit too, aren't you?
Do you know anything?
**[14:31] ---**
I'll thank you not to lump
me in with that vulgar beast!
**[14:37] ---**
A rabbit is a rabbit.
**[14:39] ---**
Those ears look good on you.
**[14:41] ---**
I am a member of the proud Hare race!
**[14:43] ---**
That filthy white creature
is a Common Rabbit!
**[14:46] ---**
All right, all right.
**[14:48] ---**
Well, really! The master
is just as the rabbit, I see!
**[14:53] ---**
See, you really *are* both rabbits.
**[14:55] ---**
I told you, I'll thank you not to lump me--
**[14:57] ---**
Why is a raven like a writing-desk?
**[15:02] ---**
Pardon?
**[15:05] ---**
If you want to know where the
White Rabbit's gone, pay my price!
**[15:07] ---**
Give me the answer to my quiz question!
**[15:13] ---**
We'll now officially begin.
**[15:14] ---**
When you know the answer, be the
first to press the button in front of you.
**[15:20] ---**
Question: "Why is a raven
like a writing-desk?"
**[15:24] ---**
Your time limit is two hours.
**[15:26] ---**
That's long!
**[15:27] ---**
Start Thinking Time!
**[15:29] ---**
--Thirty seconds to go. 29, 28, 27, 26...
**[15:33] ---**
--That's fast!
--Thirty seconds to go. 29, 28, 27, 26...
**[15:34] ---**
--That's fast!
--...25, 24, 23, 22, 21, 20...
**[15:34] ---**
--I say, March Hare, wasn't your watch broken?
--...25, 24, 23, 22, 21, 20...
**[15:37] ---**
--I say, March Hare, wasn't your watch broken?
--...19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14...
**[15:39] ---**
...13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7--
**[15:44] ---**
Number 1: Alice!
**[15:46] ---**
They both start with an "r" sound!
**[15:51] ---**
Dum dum da-da-*dum*.
**[16:07] ---**
The correct answer was,
"They're not alike at all."
**[16:19] ---**
"Correct answer" my arse!
That's not a proper quiz question at all!
**[16:23] ---**
Aren't *you* the fool for expecting
everything to have a clear answer?
**[16:27] ---**
Quite, quite. Real life isn't so sweet.
**[16:31] ---**
That's why we all crave sweet things.
**[16:41] ---**
I thought I told you I'm not
interested in parlor tricks!
**[16:43] ---**
I'm through with this den of lunatics!
**[16:48] ---**
Have you visited the Queen's castle?
**[16:53] ---**
No, not yet.
**[16:54] ---**
Then I'll give you a warning:
you had better *not* go.
**[17:00] ---**
She's capricious, selfish, and savage,
**[17:03] ---**
and at the slightest provocation...
**[17:10] ---**
Still, she's clearly worth meeting.
**[17:12] ---**
She holds the highest
authority around here, doesn't she?
**[17:15] ---**
Well, yes, I suppose you could say that...
**[17:19] ---**
My, my, I know that sound.
**[17:22] ---**
What is it?
**[17:23] ---**
It seems they've come for you.
**[17:36] ---**
For Alice. An invitation from the Queen!
**[17:39] ---**
From the Queen. An invitation for Alice!
**[17:43] ---**
An invitation. From the
Queen, for Alice, yes!
**[17:49] ---**
Now! Go!
**[17:52] ---**
--Hip, hip, hurrah! Hip, hip, hurrah!
**[17:55] ---**
--Stop it! Put me down! I'll walk by myself!
--Hip, hip, hurrah! Hip, hip, hurrah!
**[17:59] ---**
Halt!
**[18:04] ---**
Alice, are you all right, yes?
**[18:07] ---**
Where did the White Rabbit go?
**[18:09] ---**
Er, he was headed for the castle, but...
**[18:13] ---**
The minute I find him, he runs away!
**[18:16] ---**
I'll catch him *this* time!
**[18:18] ---**
Take me there! Take me to the castle!
**[18:21] ---**
Yes, my lord!
**[18:27] ---**
If this world were a chessboard, the
Queen's castle would be on the eighth rank.
**[18:31] ---**
Whether Alice was the attacker or
the defender was an open question,
**[18:34] ---**
but at any rate, her
adventure was nearing its end.
**[18:41] ---**
"Chapter Nine: The Queen Demands Evidence"
**[19:48] ---**
Say...
**[19:51] ---**
Why was I called here?
**[20:11] ---**
Red Queen of Hearts! Elegant Queen!
**[20:15] ---**
Sovereign among sovereigns!
Queen among Queens!
**[20:19] ---**
Guardian of law and
administrator of justice! And... um...
**[20:25] ---**
Guardian of stew and
administrator of rubbish duty!
**[20:29] ---**
All bow before Her Majesty the Queen!
**[20:40] ---**
All right, let the trial begin.
**[20:43] ---**
My ruling: the accused,
Alice, is sentenced to death!
**[20:51] ---**
Silence in the court!
**[20:56] ---**
Now, off with her head!
**[20:59] ---**
Wait a moment!
**[21:01] ---**
I've always wanted to say that.
**[21:04] ---**
Well, go on, chop it off.
**[21:06] ---**
Y-Y-Yes, Your Majesty!
**[21:12] ---**
Objection!
**[21:13] ---**
The sentence first, with no
accusation and no evidence given?
**[21:16] ---**
Stuff and nonsense!
**[21:18] ---**
But going through all the
deliberations is such a waste of time,
**[21:21] ---**
and it's so boring!
**[21:23] ---**
I won't be beheaded
simply because you're *bored*!
**[21:26] ---**
Fine, fine, read the accusation,
then--just for form's sake.
**[21:31] ---**
Just for form's sake,
I shall, Your Majesty!
**[21:33] ---**
Don't do it for form's
sake; do it by the book!
**[21:36] ---**
Er, well...
**[21:38] ---**
"The accused, Alice, was born on
14th December 1875..." And, um...
**[21:53] ---**
Th-That's all.
**[21:55] ---**
Objection!
**[21:57] ---**
What's my birthday got to do with anything?!
**[21:59] ---**
Do you mean to say my birth was a crime?!
**[22:01] ---**
Silence,
**[22:03] ---**
or I'll hold you in contempt
and have you chucked out of court.
**[22:06] ---**
And now we'll call the first witness.
**[22:08] ---**
First witness!
**[22:11] ---**
Here!
**[22:16] ---**
How have you been wronged by the accused?
**[22:20] ---**
Please tell the court.
**[22:24] ---**
I... I lost my colors!
**[22:28] ---**
I wanted to wear a pink hat
with a flower on it today...
**[22:33] ---**
But a widow is only permitted
to wear dull black, day after day!
**[22:39] ---**
Which is Alice's fault!
**[22:41] ---**
*My* fault...?
**[22:44] ---**
Next witness!
**[22:47] ---**
I lost my love!
**[22:49] ---**
The one woman I'd
believed in since I was a boy!
**[22:52] ---**
And now he is losing even the
friend he'd gained in exchange!
**[22:57] ---**
Which is Alice's fault!
**[22:59] ---**
If you apologize now, I'll forgive you!
**[23:01] ---**
For what?
**[23:03] ---**
I lost my future.
**[23:14] ---**
But I won't say it's your fault, Alice!
**[23:18] ---**
The truth is the truth, though.
**[23:21] ---**
I lost my wings!
**[23:28] ---**
Which is Alice's fault!
**[23:30] ---**
Ready, go.
**[23:32] ---**
The new home that we'd finally found...!
**[23:35] ---**
We've lost it once again.
**[23:46] ---**
Which is Alice's fault!
**[23:50] ---**
The next witness is Her Majesty the Queen!
**[23:54] ---**
That's right...
**[23:58] ---**
I forever lost my peace of mind.
**[24:07] ---**
Alice, every last bit of this is your fault.
**[24:11] ---**
Wasn't it cruel of you to
make so many people unhappy?
**[24:15] ---**
I recall doing no such thing!
**[24:17] ---**
Oh, so you insist you're innocent, then.
Even after doing *that*, eh?
**[24:24] ---**
I'm saying I have no memory of it!
**[24:26] ---**
"Memory." That's your crime, Alice.
**[24:30] ---**
My crime?
**[24:32] ---**
Will the final witness come forth!
**[24:39] ---**
Didn't I tell you?
Memories are such ephemeral things.
**[24:45] ---**
This is a dreamland,
a realm between life and death.
**[24:50] ---**
A place where past and future blend together.
**[24:55] ---**
What is this?
**[25:00] ---**
You left your memories
behind in the human world.
**[25:05] ---**
What a savage is Alice!
What a poor soul is Alice!
**[25:10] ---**
"Alice"... is that even my name?
**[25:14] ---**
An excellent question.
**[25:17] ---**
Come to think of it, I can't remember
anything from before I came here.
**[25:22] ---**
I could answer the Caterpillar
when he asked my name, but now...
**[25:26] ---**
That proves it, then.
**[25:30] ---**
The accused is hereby found guilty
on the charge of losing her memories!
**[25:36] ---**
Her sentence is...
**[25:38] ---**
...death, of course.
**[25:40] ---**
Now, off with her head!
**[25:45] ---**
I'm innocent!
**[25:47] ---**
Offer us proof, then.
**[25:50] ---**
Proof!
**[25:51] ---**
Proof!
**[25:53] ---**
Proof!
**[25:54] ---**
Proof!
**[25:56] ---**
Proof!
**[25:57] ---**
Proof!
**[25:59] ---**
Proof!
**[26:01] ---**
Proof!
**[26:02] ---**
--What am I meant to do?!
--Proof!
**[26:05] ---**
Proof!
**[26:07] ---**
Proof.
**[26:10] ---**
Proof that whatever else you
may forget, you remain yourself.
**[26:15] ---**
Now, call my name.
**[26:21] ---**
Sebastian...
**[26:23] ---**
Louder.
**[26:26] ---**
Sebastian, Sebastian, Sebastian!
**[26:30] ---**
Listen to me, Sebastian:
**[26:32] ---**
Even if I lose everything,
I'm still me--Ciel Phantomhive!
**[26:38] ---**
Come, Sebastian!
**[26:41] ---**
Young master!
**[26:59] ---**
Well done.
**[27:01] ---**
This is an order: take me out of here!
**[27:05] ---**
Yes, my lord.
**[27:08] ---**
Seize them!
**[27:24] ---**
Hold on tight.
**[27:33] ---**
So you're going home, Ciel...
**[27:37] ---**
Let's meet again one day, in another dream.
**[27:47] ---**
Yes: the truth is, you don't need any proof.
**[27:53] ---**
You have only to call me
and give me my orders.
**[27:56] ---**
Simply call "Sebastian."
**[28:04] ---**
"...'You're nothing but a pack of cards!'
**[28:07] ---**
At this the whole pack rose up into
the air, and came flying down upon her;
**[28:16] ---**
she gave a little scream..."
**[28:21] ---**
...and found herself lying
in bed in her own world.
**[28:34] ---**
Young master...
**[28:48] ---**
Sleep well.
# 105 - The Threads of the Spider's Story
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GYQ43P3E6/black-butler)
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**[00:11] ---**
*When was it, exactly...*
**[00:16] ---**
*...that I stopped dreaming?*
**[00:25] ---**
Hoheo taralna.
**[00:36] ---**
Are you trying to get away,
after I was kind enough to save you?
**[00:43] ---**
*I won't let you.*
**[00:46] ---**
*I won't let you go anywhere.*
**[00:53] ---**
Master.
**[00:55] ---**
*I'll bind you in my threads forever...*
**[01:03] ---**
"Alois Trancy"
**[01:04] ---**
*Bind you.*
**[01:17] ---**
An insect cage?
**[01:19] ---**
Yes. I'll put this in it.
**[01:21] ---**
I doubt it will fly away in
that state, even without a cage.
**[01:25] ---**
Are you talking back to me?
**[01:27] ---**
No.
**[01:28] ---**
Not just a cage. Flowers, too!
**[01:31] ---**
So that when it's mad with thirst for nectar,
**[01:34] ---**
it can drink as it pleases.
**[01:37] ---**
Certainly.
**[01:49] ---**
You lot are always whispering.
Why is that, eh?
**[01:55] ---**
They are both ill-bred and foul-tongued,
**[01:58] ---**
so I've instructed them to conduct
their conversations a bit more softly.
**[02:02] ---**
"Ill-bred and foul-tongued"?
Are you trying to goad me?
**[02:07] ---**
Certainly not, Master.
**[02:14] ---**
I don't know what you're
thinking, and it *annoys me*!
**[02:18] ---**
Speak up!
**[02:21] ---**
*It annoys me not to
know what they're thinking.*
**[02:25] ---**
*It annoys me.*
**[02:28] ---**
*What is he thinking?*
**[02:35] ---**
Done.
**[02:37] ---**
I'll take care of it, then.
**[02:40] ---**
*Can I be sure he'll never
try to run away from me?*
**[02:46] ---**
*Oh, how I want to rip off your wings.*
**[02:50] ---**
*Then you'll be by my side forever...*
**[02:53] ---**
I've assembled the items
you requested, Master.
**[03:03] ---**
They're bluebells...
**[03:05] ---**
In full bloom, just like in that garden...
**[03:12] ---**
Master?
**[03:14] ---**
Claude.
**[03:15] ---**
Yes?
**[03:16] ---**
How do you know me so well...?
**[03:20] ---**
Do this for me forever, won't you?
**[03:25] ---**
Yes, Master, for as long
as you give me enjoyment.
**[03:30] ---**
*Terms of exchange.*
**[03:31] ---**
*They're the law of this cheap garden.*
**[03:36] ---**
You lot are always whispering.
**[03:37] ---**
"The Triplets"
**[03:40] ---**
Why is that, eh?
**[03:46] ---**
I don't know what you're
thinking, and it *annoys me*!
**[03:50] ---**
Speak up!
**[03:59] ---**
The master's a total hysteric.
**[04:01] ---**
So lame.
**[04:02] ---**
Tell me about it.
**[04:04] ---**
It's time for work. Carpet the
master's chamber in crimson-red roses
**[04:07] ---**
for the sad butterfly's play.
**[04:12] ---**
Claude, you're a total drag.
**[04:13] ---**
Think twice before you agree to that stuff.
**[04:15] ---**
Do it yourself.
**[04:17] ---**
A proper butler knows to
delegate simpler jobs to other servants.
**[04:23] ---**
One too eager to involve himself in
everything is unworthy of the title.
**[04:27] ---**
Is that so.
**[04:28] ---**
Is that so-so.
**[04:29] ---**
Your glasses are fogged up.
**[04:36] ---**
Master's orders or not, I believe
you may be speaking rather *too* loudly.
**[04:41] ---**
Leave us alone.
**[04:43] ---**
My hair grows clockwise from the whorl.
**[04:45] ---**
My hair grows anticlockwise.
**[04:56] ---**
The master really fancies Claude, yeah?
**[04:59] ---**
I don't get the appeal.
**[05:02] ---**
Miss Hannah is way more--
**[05:04] ---**
Oh, it's Miss Hannah.
**[05:09] ---**
I see you're talking today.
**[05:12] ---**
Master's orders.
**[05:14] ---**
We had no choice.
**[05:15] ---**
It's wretched.
**[05:16] ---**
The master's?
**[05:18] ---**
Roses, I see.
**[05:20] ---**
I'm sure this flower is a better choice.
**[05:36] ---**
Miss Hannah's stacked.
**[05:37] ---**
Rocket boobs.
**[05:39] ---**
Jiggle, jiggle.
**[05:41] ---**
I could seriously burn down this
mansion if Miss Hannah didn't live here.
**[05:45] ---**
Yeah, to ashes.
**[05:46] ---**
In no time.
**[05:51] ---**
I've assembled the items
you requested, Master.
**[06:01] ---**
*We're* the ones who assembled them.
**[06:03] ---**
Credit stealer.
**[06:04] ---**
The king of credit thieves.
**[06:06] ---**
They're bluebells...
**[06:07] ---**
In full bloom, just like in that garden...
**[06:12] ---**
The master was crying, yeah?
**[06:14] ---**
He was.
**[06:15] ---**
He so was.
**[06:17] ---**
But it was kinda cute, yeah?
**[06:19] ---**
Yeah, it was.
**[06:21] ---**
He was cute when he cried.
**[06:23] ---**
I can hear you, you know.
**[06:28] ---**
You're more irritating
than gossiping old fishwives.
**[06:32] ---**
Quit being bloody nuisances and pipe down!
**[06:45] ---**
"Hannah Annafellows"
**[06:46] ---**
*I tell him.*
**[06:50] ---**
*I speak to the master
constantly, in my soul's voice.*
**[06:55] ---**
*"Master, that is not the right path.
The path you ought to walk is..."*
**[07:00] ---**
What are you doing?
**[07:02] ---**
Making sure the master
doesn't get lost in the forest.
**[07:06] ---**
When I'm already here with him?
**[07:08] ---**
That is what worries me.
**[07:10] ---**
That he will be lost in the dank,
unpleasant forest known as "Claude Faustus."
**[07:15] ---**
If you betray him, Claude, I will...
**[07:23] ---**
You think you're in a
position to tell me that?
**[07:27] ---**
You're nothing but a sheath. An empty hole.
**[07:31] ---**
The only use for you is as a hole.
**[07:33] ---**
Just a hole for the fellows... *Annafellows*.
**[07:41] ---**
Know your place.
**[07:44] ---**
Demon.
**[07:49] ---**
*Claude, you are not the
one who ought to be there.*
**[07:53] ---**
*The one who ought to be in your place is...*
**[07:57] ---**
*Luka Macken...*
**[08:07] ---**
See that swing? I played there with Brother!
**[08:10] ---**
Brother can swing standing up!
**[08:13] ---**
He says it's not scary! Amazing, huh?!
**[08:17] ---**
Those kids'll be all gone
tonight, won't they?
**[08:20] ---**
Yes.
**[08:25] ---**
Know what? There used
to be lots of bluebells here.
**[08:31] ---**
Brother and I used them to dress up as girls!
**[08:35] ---**
We put them in our hair.
It was so much fun...
**[08:42] ---**
*Claude... you don't know.*
**[08:49] ---**
*A demon's only path to
joy is through suffering.*
**[08:59] ---**
Roses, I see.
**[09:01] ---**
I'm sure this flower is a better choice.
**[09:16] ---**
*Blue flowers blooming at a remembered home.*
**[09:25] ---**
*In the language of flowers,
the bluebell means...*
**[09:30] ---**
*...an eternal bond.*
**[09:32] ---**
"Claude Faustus"
**[09:37] ---**
Did it die?
**[09:40] ---**
Here one second, gone the next.
It didn't even last a day.
**[09:44] ---**
Take revenge!
**[09:46] ---**
On the spider that did
this to you--on Alois Trancy--
**[09:53] ---**
take revenge so vicious
it gnaws right through me.
**[09:56] ---**
Live!
**[09:58] ---**
An unstable soul.
**[10:00] ---**
Alois Trancy, the blond soul
that obsesses the demon's sheath.
**[10:07] ---**
Highly interesting, I must admit.
**[10:10] ---**
However...
**[10:13] ---**
I require more heat...
**[10:22] ---**
No! Claude, where are you?!
**[10:25] ---**
Claude!
**[10:26] ---**
Master!
**[10:32] ---**
Don't!
**[10:33] ---**
Master?
**[10:34] ---**
Don't, Claude! You'll burn!
**[10:37] ---**
But Master...
**[10:38] ---**
Don't burn, Claude!
**[10:41] ---**
Water.
**[10:45] ---**
Don't burn...
**[10:53] ---**
The fire is out. It's all right now.
**[10:56] ---**
We'll have the room back
to normal before you know it.
**[10:59] ---**
I... wanted to burn it.
**[11:03] ---**
To give the butterfly proper funeral rites.
**[11:08] ---**
Funeral?
**[11:10] ---**
But the fire spread...
**[11:16] ---**
*"Burn it." "Don't burn."
His soul wavers like a flame.*
**[11:22] ---**
*Master, I love how heated you are.*
**[11:28] ---**
*I love it as well.*
**[11:32] ---**
*I don't particularly love it.*
**[11:33] ---**
*Yeah, no love here.*
**[11:34] ---**
*I'd be willing to, a little.*
**[11:39] ---**
*I love it.*
**[11:42] ---**
*As long as your soul burns red-hot...*
**[11:46] ---**
It really *is* back to normal.
**[11:49] ---**
Come, master. Best to retire
before the rude morning sun is upon us.
**[11:55] ---**
Stay with me.
**[11:56] ---**
Yes, Your Highness.
**[11:58] ---**
Sit there.
**[12:02] ---**
Say... am I entertaining?
**[12:05] ---**
Yes, very.
**[12:07] ---**
How much?
**[12:14] ---**
This much.
**[12:17] ---**
What a bore.
**[12:21] ---**
You're impertinent, for such a bore.
**[12:27] ---**
Get off your high horse and don't say
"as long as you give me enjoyment."
**[12:31] ---**
Don't say "as long as." That's stingy.
**[12:39] ---**
If you burn so fiercely, you'll
burn right out in no time, my master.
**[12:51] ---**
*For the first time in a
long while, I had a dream.*
**[12:54] ---**
*The butterfly caught in the
spider's web had no wings.*
**[12:59] ---**
*And that butterfly...*
**[13:02] ---**
*...was me.*
**[13:03] ---**
"The Threads of the Spider's Design"
**[13:03] ---**
*With cold tears filling your eyes*
**[13:06] ---**
*With cold tears filling your eyes*
**[13:08] ---**
*When the time is ripe*
**[13:13] ---**
*You shall cut through the
darkness in search of the light*
**[13:25] ---**
*A rose madder song stains your heart*
**[13:35] ---**
*Like the melody that dies
too eagerly, longing for eternity*
**[13:49] ---**
*In the stillness of the
twinkling sky lies my garden*
**[14:00] ---**
*One day you will arrive*
**[14:06] ---**
*Beyond the shoreline*
**[15:13] ---**
*The darkness guarding
the moon whispers a lullaby*
**[15:24] ---**
*Until the uncrying child's
eyes are wet with dreams*
**[15:35] ---**
*Farewell*
**[15:38] ---**
*Because you and I can never meet again*
**[15:46] ---**
*I am adoring, I am distraught*
**[15:52] ---**
*As though the night
pierces straight through my heart*
**[16:00] ---**
*In the stillness of the
twinkling sky lies your house*
**[16:11] ---**
*Past the darkness where the moon sets*
**[16:16] ---**
*Is the narrow road*
**[16:29] ---**
*Back to the source*
# 106 - The Story of Will the Reaper
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GYQ43P3E6/black-butler)
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**[00:09] ---**
Everyone is here, I trust?
**[00:21] ---**
My name is William T. Spears.
**[00:24] ---**
I'm one of the designated educators
for you, this year's new recruits.
**[00:29] ---**
I will be instructing you
throughout your training period.
**[00:34] ---**
Feel free to come ask me questions
about anything you find unclear.
**[00:38] ---**
My shift ends at 6:00pm.
**[00:41] ---**
I'll respond to questions asked before 5:30.
**[00:44] ---**
Now, to begin with--
**[00:49] ---**
Grell Sutcliff, aren't
you an instructor as well?
**[00:53] ---**
Oh, honey, I'm not into children.
**[00:57] ---**
But I came right over
when I heard *you* were here!
**[01:01] ---**
I'm so happy! It's been ever so
long since we were together, *Will*.
**[01:06] ---**
I can't imagine what the
Personnel Department was thinking.
**[01:09] ---**
Ah, you're just as standoffish
as ever. It's so fetching.
**[01:13] ---**
Now, to begin with, I'll give
tours of the Association's facilities.
**[01:30] ---**
We grim reapers screen those To-Die persons
**[01:35] ---**
appearing on the soul collection
list distributed by the higher-ups.
**[01:37] ---**
Using our death scythes, we
check each individual's memories--
**[01:39] ---**
their Cinematic Records.
**[01:43] ---**
A human's Cinematic Record
contains all records on him: his entire life.
**[01:48] ---**
Based on it, we determine
whether that person deserves death,
**[01:52] ---**
and collect his soul.
**[01:53] ---**
Are there really any humans
who don't deserve death?
**[01:58] ---**
Humans capable of being
beneficial to the world...
**[02:01] ---**
Humans whose presence
causes the world great change
**[02:06] ---**
may sometimes be removed
from the list and escape death.
**[02:11] ---**
However, such cases are incredibly unlikely.
**[02:14] ---**
We are merely performing due
diligence to prevent the worst.
**[02:20] ---**
Simply following orders from
on high, without attachment...
**[02:25] ---**
without incident...
**[02:31] ---**
This is our administrative department.
**[02:32] ---**
They oversee the To-Die
list and the souls collected.
**[02:38] ---**
Here's Personnel, in charge of
all Association personnel issues.
**[02:42] ---**
Here's General Affairs, in charge of
equipment, death scythes, and such.
**[02:48] ---**
I got us a table at that French restaurant.
**[02:50] ---**
Soul collection? Oh, that'll
be over in no time!
**[02:55] ---**
Here's Collections.
They actually collect the souls on-site.
**[02:59] ---**
And finally...
**[03:06] ---**
Spectacles.
**[03:10] ---**
Right.
**[03:12] ---**
Bottom.
**[03:13] ---**
Top.
**[03:13] ---**
This department is equipped to
handle all your glasses needs.
**[03:15] ---**
Lower left.
**[03:16] ---**
It's the very backbone of the
Grim Reaper Staffing Association.
**[03:31] ---**
Oh, no matter how many times
I see this, my heart still quivers!
**[03:34] ---**
Who is that?
**[03:36] ---**
The department head, Lawrence Anderson.
**[03:40] ---**
He's generally known as "Pops."
**[03:42] ---**
This is the legendary man who
makes all the reapers' glasses...?
**[03:46] ---**
So we'll be able to wear
his glasses now, too!
**[03:49] ---**
I'd like a new pair as soon as possible.
**[03:51] ---**
The new-recruit spectacles are so dull.
**[03:57] ---**
You lads have a long, *long* way to go
**[04:00] ---**
before you're ready to wear Pops's glasses.
**[04:02] ---**
Only those who have passed the final
exam are permitted to wear his glasses.
**[04:07] ---**
In other words, they are a sort of proof
that you've become a full-fledged reaper.
**[04:12] ---**
Sir, what is this "final exam"?
**[04:15] ---**
At the end of your training period,
you'll form groups of two
**[04:20] ---**
and screen and collect a soul.
**[04:23] ---**
That is your final exam.
**[04:25] ---**
Screen a soul...
**[04:26] ---**
What, immediately?
**[04:28] ---**
I'm worried...
**[04:30] ---**
By the look of it, this year's
recruits are going to be useless.
**[04:33] ---**
If so, we'll simply send them away.
**[04:35] ---**
Quite as standoffish as ever.
**[04:39] ---**
You're just the same now as you were then.
**[04:41] ---**
"Then"?
**[04:42] ---**
*You* know. Our first time together...
**[04:46] ---**
Yes, what could be
rightly called our first night!
**[04:51] ---**
I only wish I could forget it.
**[04:53] ---**
Oh, my body will never forget.
Just the thought of it makes me...
**[05:00] ---**
I mean, you thrust into me
from above and from below
**[05:00] ---**
For goodness's sake.
**[05:02] ---**
and face to face and from behind!
**[05:04] ---**
Oh, I thought my body would just give *out*!
**[05:12] ---**
I will now give you the details of
the practical portion of your exam.
**[05:16] ---**
Grell Sutcliff, you have
a triple-A in practical skills,
**[05:19] ---**
a B in written exams, and a C in
ethics, giving you an A average.
**[05:25] ---**
William T. Spears, you have
straight Bs in practical skills,
**[05:28] ---**
written exams, and ethics,
giving you a B average.
**[05:33] ---**
And
**[05:34] ---**
just why should triple-A me
have to pair with this straight-B cretin?!
**[05:39] ---**
Objections to the Association's
rulings are not permitted!
**[05:42] ---**
Grell Sutcliff, I believe you're
only a triple-A in practical skills?
**[05:47] ---**
I rather think a triple-A
in practical skills is enough.
**[05:52] ---**
Actually, would you like to test my skills?
**[05:57] ---**
Don't be stupid.
**[05:58] ---**
Do you understand what will happen
the next time you cause problems?!
**[06:02] ---**
Forget it. I need a *real* man
who'll milk me for all I've got.
**[06:10] ---**
The human in question is
scheduled to die in one month.
**[06:14] ---**
You'll spend that month
examining whether he deserves death.
**[06:18] ---**
Naturally, you're free to give your
conclusion before your time runs out.
**[06:22] ---**
Here is the data on your target.
I pray for your success.
**[06:26] ---**
Just don't get in my way.
**[06:29] ---**
Understood. I look forward to
working with you, Grell Sutcliff.
**[06:43] ---**
The living world is always so filthy.
**[06:50] ---**
I've found him. That's our man.
**[06:53] ---**
Thomas Wallis. Born in Bristol in 1775.
**[06:57] ---**
He aspires to be a novelist.
**[07:00] ---**
A novelist? How typical.
Poor, talentless, can't get a date...
**[07:07] ---**
Right then, he's cleared for death!
**[07:11] ---**
Let's investigate this for the full month.
**[07:14] ---**
Are you going against me?
**[07:19] ---**
Fabulous.
**[07:32] ---**
Well, what will you do now?
**[07:36] ---**
We have a month for our test.
**[07:38] ---**
This is our first screening. I think
we should continue to observe him,
**[07:41] ---**
to be sure we don't make a mistake.
**[07:46] ---**
What a dull man you are.
**[07:48] ---**
Do as you like. And I'll do as I like, too.
**[07:52] ---**
So, when is the collection
scheduled for, again?
**[07:55] ---**
4:00pm on December 16, 1799.
**[08:06] ---**
Observation log of William T. Spears.
**[08:10] ---**
Target Thomas Wallis is an earnest young man.
**[08:14] ---**
He spends each day working at the printer's,
**[08:17] ---**
and each night at the
boardinghouse writing his novels.
**[08:21] ---**
He submits them to publishers...
**[08:29] ---**
...but with no sign of success.
**[08:33] ---**
He works, writes novels,
and submits the manuscripts.
**[08:37] ---**
That is his entire life.
**[08:50] ---**
You there!
**[08:56] ---**
Why that attire...?
**[08:58] ---**
What does it matter?
Now, are you ready to stamp the file yet?
**[09:02] ---**
It's only been three days.
**[09:04] ---**
Whatever. I'm sick of the living world.
**[09:08] ---**
And there aren't any
handsome men here, either.
**[09:10] ---**
So hurry up and decide.
**[09:12] ---**
Very well.
**[09:18] ---**
How do you do?
My name is William T. Spears.
**[09:23] ---**
Er, hello...
**[09:25] ---**
What?!
**[09:30] ---**
Your prose is a tad roundabout.
**[09:33] ---**
The publisher told me that, too.
**[09:37] ---**
What the devil are you playing at?
**[09:40] ---**
You told me to hurry up and decide.
**[09:42] ---**
So you do *this*? Are you a fool?!
**[09:45] ---**
None of the notes on our test
forbid us from contact with our target.
**[09:51] ---**
Wait, why are you two carrying sickles?
**[09:55] ---**
This is a death scythe.
**[09:57] ---**
Hey!
**[09:59] ---**
Death scythe?
**[10:00] ---**
Like the Grim Reaper carries in the legends?
**[10:04] ---**
Yes. We are grim reapers.
**[10:08] ---**
Pardon?
**[10:09] ---**
I'm afraid you will be passing away soon.
**[10:13] ---**
Therefore, we're investigating
whether you truly ought to die or--
**[10:18] ---**
I should have killed you from the first.
**[10:21] ---**
None of the notes forbid
us from identifying ourselves.
**[10:25] ---**
Any simpleton would know better!
**[10:27] ---**
Oh! Are you actors, by any chance?
**[10:32] ---**
And this is a new form of avant-garde
theater with audience participation?
**[10:36] ---**
Shut your mouth and stay out of this, kid!
**[10:39] ---**
You're so pretty, it makes perfect sense!
**[10:42] ---**
That red hair and pearly skin...
I've never seen a man so beautiful!
**[10:49] ---**
London really is the big city, isn't it?
**[10:50] ---**
Oh, yes!
**[10:53] ---**
All the world's a stage, and I am a player!
**[10:56] ---**
Between man and woman,
love is a kind of warfare!
**[10:59] ---**
No, love is man and *man
*in a tragic dream play!
**[11:09] ---**
For goodness's sake! Thanks to you,
I wasn't able to investigate.
**[11:13] ---**
It was your fault for
starting something stupid!
**[11:17] ---**
Still...
**[11:21] ---**
He was a rather promising youth, wasn't he?
**[11:28] ---**
Grim reapers, eh?
**[11:34] ---**
The Story of Will the Reaper
**[11:39] ---**
The Story of Will the Reaper
**[11:48] ---**
*The title of the new novel he started...*
**[11:56] ---**
*...was The Story of Will the Reaper.*
**[12:00] ---**
*It was about a new reaper named
Will observing various people's lives.*
**[12:06] ---**
*He dispassionately gazed at dying
souls, souls neither good nor evil.*
**[12:12] ---**
*And then Will fell in
love with a human maiden.*
**[12:16] ---**
*One destined for death, no less.*
**[12:19] ---**
*She returned Will's love.*
**[12:22] ---**
*An uncertain Will was caught between
reaper law and the dictates of love.*
**[12:25] ---**
*However, he chose love.*
**[12:28] ---**
*He broke reaper law and tried to save her.*
**[12:32] ---**
*Will's fast friend lent them his aid...*
**[12:35] ---**
"The redheaded and
fair-of-heart reaper Grell."
**[12:40] ---**
He's a perceptive boy, I'll give him that.
**[12:43] ---**
*This novel was approved for publication.*
**[12:46] ---**
*His deadline was 4:00pm on December 16th.*
**[12:52] ---**
But December 16th is...
**[12:54] ---**
Yes, the scheduled date of his death.
**[13:01] ---**
*Will and Grell's efforts
were in vain; the maiden died.*
**[13:05] ---**
*Will told the god ruling that
world that he would disappear;*
**[13:10] ---**
*that he would give his soul
in exchange for the maiden's.*
**[13:14] ---**
*And so it was agreed
that her life will be spared.*
**[13:18] ---**
*But there was one condition:*
**[13:21] ---**
*All her memories of Will would be erased.*
**[13:24] ---**
*That was fine with him.
Even if all memory of him was lost,*
**[13:27] ---**
*deep within her soul, proof
of their love was sure to remain.*
**[13:31] ---**
*No one could ever erase that.*
**[13:34] ---**
*Will disappeared, and she came back to life.*
**[13:39] ---**
*She fell in love and bore
a child in the ordinary way.*
**[13:43] ---**
*And she named that child Will.*
**[13:50] ---**
A pretty good story.
**[13:51] ---**
Rather, this is a masterpiece.
It will go down in history as a classic.
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This boy will die at 4:00 today...
**[14:10] ---**
The soul of a talented writer, eh?
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I wonder if we should let him live.
I could contact the Association--
**[14:17] ---**
No need.
**[14:20] ---**
We'll collect his soul.
**[14:25] ---**
What, did you forget?
**[14:28] ---**
Souls beneficial to the
world are excluded from the list.
**[14:32] ---**
"Beneficial"? Him?
**[14:35] ---**
You said yourself that
his novel is a masterpiece!
**[14:39] ---**
And you say that might be
grounds to let him live, Grell Sutcliff?
**[14:48] ---**
Yes. What of it?
**[14:51] ---**
For goodness's sake...
**[14:53] ---**
Have you got a problem with that?
**[14:55] ---**
No, no problem. However...
**[15:01] ---**
You are mistaken.
**[15:03] ---**
"Mistaken"? Me?
**[15:06] ---**
*Me*?!
**[15:08] ---**
You've got some nerve.
**[15:19] ---**
You...
**[15:20] ---**
Injuring my partner would affect my grade.
**[15:24] ---**
You're saying you held back last time?
**[15:27] ---**
A straight-Bs man like you
could never take down triple-A me!
**[15:31] ---**
I believe you're only a
triple-A in practical skills, correct?
**[15:35] ---**
What's more, the requirement
for admission to the Association
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was "B average or above."
**[15:43] ---**
Don't mock me!
**[15:48] ---**
*What? What is this?*
**[15:51] ---**
*I'm...*
**[15:54] ---**
*I'm on the receiving end?!*
**[15:56] ---**
*From above, and from below,*
**[16:00] ---**
*and face to face...*
**[16:04] ---**
*...and from behind!*
**[16:07] ---**
*What is this? What is this feeling?*
**[16:09] ---**
*This...*
**[16:11] ---**
*This must be...!*
**[16:18] ---**
True, he may become a famous author
whose name will go down in history.
**[16:24] ---**
Nevertheless...
**[16:28] ---**
The world will be no
different with or without him.
**[16:37] ---**
It's time. We must be off.
**[16:44] ---**
Released...
**[17:05] ---**
What happened?
**[17:06] ---**
'Parently a carriage hit him.
**[17:07] ---**
Happens all the time.
**[17:14] ---**
I will now begin collection.
**[17:29] ---**
I say! What are you doing?!
**[17:34] ---**
Huh?
**[17:55] ---**
My glasses! I can't finish
my work like this...
**[18:00] ---**
Blast!
**[18:11] ---**
*Thomas's... Thomas Wallis's memories are...*
**[18:16] ---**
*flowing into me...!*
**[18:21] ---**
*Thomas... Thomas...*
**[18:23] ---**
*Thomas!*
**[18:29] ---**
I can't believe you'd light my fire
and then just go play with *him*.
**[18:42] ---**
Take care with your glasses.
**[18:47] ---**
Keep your hands off my man, you homewrecker!
**[18:51] ---**
I'm not your man.
**[18:58] ---**
Give up quietly!
**[19:00] ---**
Now I know why they make
new recruits pair up on assignments.
**[19:05] ---**
Tying me up, eh? But it
won't do you any good.
**[19:09] ---**
*You* don't do it for me at all!
**[19:17] ---**
*This is the struggle of the dying...
This is the weight of a life...*
**[19:24] ---**
Shall we bring him off now, Will?
**[19:37] ---**
Darling, this is our first collaboration!
**[19:40] ---**
I told you, I'm not yours.
**[20:13] ---**
Looks like there are other teams at work.
**[20:21] ---**
Standoffish men are just too *fetching*.
**[20:31] ---**
Congratulations.
**[20:37] ---**
You're officially full-fledged grim reapers.
**[20:40] ---**
Now, go get yourselves some spectacles.
**[20:54] ---**
Beautiful grim reaper Grell...
**[20:59] ---**
...takes his first deathly breath!☆
**[21:02] ---**
Only those who know the
weight of life are given reaper glasses.
**[21:08] ---**
Glasses of life.
**[21:15] ---**
Honestly, being saved by you is
the only blot on my life's record.
**[21:22] ---**
Hmm? Did you say something?
**[21:24] ---**
The final exam sounds hard.
**[21:26] ---**
Watching a human die sounds rough, somehow.
**[21:29] ---**
It's merely a job.
**[21:32] ---**
There is no place for
unnecessary emotions in a job.
**[21:34] ---**
We need only carry out our duties.
**[21:38] ---**
Simply following orders from
on high, without attachment...
**[21:42] ---**
without incident...
**[21:44] ---**
He really is fetching.
**[21:46] ---**
Oh, one more thing...
**[21:55] ---**
Take care with your glasses.