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