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17 - His Butler, Offering

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    Oh, now this is a nicely mangled corpse.
[00:23] ---
    Instead of covering up these wounds,
[00:25] ---
    maybe I should accentuate them
    with pink dye, like flower petals.
[00:30] ---
    Ah, what fun it is to be an undertaker!
[00:38] ---
    Now then, who do we have next?
[00:42] ---
    This corpse is a bit unsatisfying...
    no, very unsatisfying.
[00:46] ---
    He's got such a weak mouth
    for someone who didn't drown...
[00:54] ---
    What did you just say?!
[01:09] ---
    "Black Butler"
[01:13] ---
    Since then, I've actually
    come to like the night somewhat

[01:20] ---
    In a sea of dependence,
    I forget even to breathe

[01:25] ---
    When I'm right on the verge
    of losing my head over you

[01:28] ---
    You just leave me lukewarm
[01:32] ---
    The aesthetic of leave-taking
    despises a self-satisfied kiss

[01:40] ---
    Don't leave me alone, show me
    compassion, paint me with death

[01:46] ---
    In your room, all words slip away
[01:52] ---
    I want to end like this, cloaked
[01:58] ---
    But the night ignores that
    wish and brings morning

[02:05] ---
    With your gentle,
    passionate, and dastardly kiss

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

[22:56] ---
    The despair and the future
    which grew intimate in the dark

[23:06] ---
    With the secret you gave me as my guide
[23:13] ---
    I move through the blue night's stillness
[23:20] ---
    Lacrimosa, I want to love once again
[23:27] ---
    The dazzling world that
    crumbled and vanished in the distance

[23:35] ---
    I'll hide my dreams within my eyes
[23:42] ---
    Until the tears fall on my sullied heart
[24:04] ---
    Young master, you must not on
    any account look into the past.

[24:11] ---
    It's very sweet,
[24:12] ---
    and it has a nasty tendency
    to become addictive.

[24:15] ---
    You're so easily overwhelmed,
    I'm sure even one past trip

[24:19] ---
    will have you three sheets
    to the wind in no time.

[24:25] ---
    Next time on Black Butler:
    "His Butler, Transmitted."

[24:26] ---
    "Next Time" "His Butler, Transmitted"
[24:29] ---
    You see, I am merely one hell of a butler.