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