# 18 - His Butler, Transmitted
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Ciel.
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Ciel.
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Ciel Phantomhive.
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This is your past.
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Some things shine brightly,
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and some are steeped in fathomless darkness.
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I see, so that's the past you choose.
**[00:49] ---**
Father!
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You're...
**[01:23] ---**
"Black Butler"
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*Are kara ikuraka yoru suki ni mo narimashita*
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*Izon no umi iki mo wasurete*
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*Muchuu no sono temae de*
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*Namanurusa dake wo nokoshite*
**[01:46] ---**
*Hikigiwa no bigaku tokuige na kisu kirau*
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*Hitori ni shinaide, mou sasshite ayamete*
**[02:00] ---**
*Dono kotoba mo kimi no
heya dewa surinukete iku no*
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*Dekireba kono mama tsutsumarete owaritai*
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*Sono negai wa yoru wa
munashiku asa wo tsurete kuru*
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*Yasashikute atsukute hikyou na kisu de*
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*Irodotte yo saigo no yoru*
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*Tsuki ga terashiteru*
**[02:44] ---**
"His Butler, Transmitted"
**[02:53] ---**
Where is the young master?
**[02:56] ---**
This is the Grim Reaper Library!
**[03:00] ---**
That's where the Cinematic Records are kept.
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Ah, it *is* you...
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I knew I smelled something unpleasant.
**[03:32] ---**
Will!
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To think a demon would have
the nerve to set foot in our territory...
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Will, wait! I'm looking for the
Doomsday Books on your orders!
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Honestly...
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A grim reaper, willingly
inviting such vermin here?
**[03:47] ---**
Grell Sutcliff, you appear
to want a further demotion.
**[03:52] ---**
Wh-What will it be this time?
**[03:56] ---**
Exterminating vermin is all well and good,
**[03:59] ---**
but are you sure you ought to let
your lice infestation go unchecked?
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An angel.
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Yes.
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It seems I'll be late getting home tonight.
**[04:31] ---**
You're awake, then?
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So it was you,
**[04:39] ---**
Angela Blanc?
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How did your past feel?
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Was it soft like burnished velvet?
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Or was it more like overwashed cotton's--
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Shut up! That hand...
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That... was my father's hand.
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You killed them, didn't you?
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Why? Why did you kill my parents?!
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What could you have possibly stood to gain--
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"Killed"? What a disturbing thing to say.
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Am I the only one who harmed your parents?
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Didn't your butler...
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No, didn't *you* kill them again?
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You were brilliant.
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I didn't expect you to stay sane
in the face of that distorted past.
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Why, you...
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You are thoroughly sullied.
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However, underneath the surface is
a glow it would be a shame to waste.
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Shall I change your unsightly,
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impure past for you?
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Angels have the ability to
tamper with Cinematic Records.
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They can change the past?
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I doubt even God could do that.
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They merely give you a false peace.
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Stuff it! *You're* the one who sullied me!
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Those who have had negative
enough experiences to break their souls
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wish for that past to be wiped out.
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However, it haunts them forever.
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It's all right, Ciel.
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There's no need to grieve our deaths.
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That's right, Ciel.
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We don't want to see you suffer.
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An angel's powers leave the past unchanged,
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instead manipulating your impression of it
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to make you think it wasn't
so negative after all.
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You lie...
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You lie! You were--
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In that moment, we saw light.
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A very rich, tranquil
light of loving-kindness.
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In death, your father and I
truly became one in body and spirit.
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Yes. And...
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Now that we've become one, Ciel...
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We can also embrace you, body and spirit.
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Ciel.
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Ciel.
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We love you.
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Father... Mother...
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Young master!
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His past is being rewritten.
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He's being purified, made
clean and white as snow.
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Purified?
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No one wants to harbor hatred.
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That holds true for him as well.
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Young master!
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How rash.
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If you forcibly stop her now,
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the child's past won't be
properly contained in him,
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and he will become less than human.
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Yes, he will become white as snow.
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Purified... my young master...?
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Come, Ciel.
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We bear no grudge against anyone.
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That's right. That's the ticket, Ciel.
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You mustn't be led astray
by foolish negative emotions.
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Cast off all hatred.
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Hatred is uncleanness.
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What is it, Ciel?
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What's wrong?
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N-N-No...
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Ciel?
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I don't... want...
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What do you mean, Ciel?
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Even if you...
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never bore a grudge...
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That has nothing to do with my hatred!
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Ciel, how could you say that?
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I thought you loved us!
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I do love you, Mother.
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That's why it was so painful.
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It hurt!
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Hatred was all I had left.
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I'm asking you to let that go and--
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No!
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Ciel...
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If I let go of hatred,
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the self I've been since
that day wouldn't exist.
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That's not who I am!
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Ciel!
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Ciel...
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I won't lose it.
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I won't lose it.
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I won't lose this hatred!
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He's rewinding the Cinematic
Record by himself?!
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Young master!
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What a breakneck thing to do...
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Sebastian... I...
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You always exceed my expectations.
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You are truly worthy of being my soul...
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no, my young master.
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The horror of such an unclean heart!
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Depraved, stagnant, without light...
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I should never have shown you mercy.
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I shall purify you here and now.
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Then let's do this.
**[12:06] ---**
Disturbances in the library fall
under grim reaper jurisdiction.
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We'll join them, Grell Sutcliff.
**[12:13] ---**
Oh, yeah!
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Oh, we're a trinity! The door
opens on a passionate battle!
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Yes, yes, coming through.
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Let's see... Number eight... number eight...
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Undertaker!
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Hi!
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Hey! What are you doing here--?!
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Mind your tongue!
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This is the virtuoso who passed
judgment on the famous Robin Hood
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and sent Marie Antoinette to hell.
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He is the legendary grim reaper
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who makes the staunchest
of souls give up the ghost.
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Now hold on!
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He doesn't look anything like the
fellow in that sequence just now!
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How could this dreary old
man be a legendary grim reap--
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Make love to me.
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As you seem so busy, I'll start
my purification with that abbey.
**[13:13] ---**
Running away again?
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I shall show you all
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what happens to a world ruled by impurity.
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Wh-What is this?
**[13:30] ---**
An angelic seal.
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What should we do, now
that our leader is gone?
**[13:58] ---**
You don't have to feel sad.
**[14:01] ---**
Because the time has come for
the coffins to serve their purpose.
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A-An angel?!
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Yield everything to me.
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And give me your thoroughly
sullied Doomsday Books
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that will never record the future!
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It won't open!
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Good grief. It would seem we're trapped.
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This is...
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The Cinematic Record of
someone in that abbey.
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The abbey?
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I see.
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"An angel of massacre descends
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on the abbey on the outskirts of Preston."
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An angel of massacre?
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All you who have gathered
here are impure souls.
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Souls who lean on honeyed
words, who lean on God,
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who have given up writing
the future with their own hands.
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Snuff out the unfruitful.
Snuff out the unnecessary.
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Snuff out the unclean!
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Ah, yes, I see.
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Stop her.
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Dear me, an act of charity?
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Didn't you intend to eradicate
that abbey in any case?
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It's not that I want to help them.
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I don't want to let her
have her way. That's all.
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But what are we meant to
do about it? We're stuck here.
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No, we have an option.
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The ultimate reaper tool
which only the managerial class
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of the Grim Reaper Staffing
Association can use.
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We call it... the Death Bookmark.
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Bookmark?
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A pink placeholder.
**[16:20] ---**
If we use this to halt the story,
we can take a red pen to it.
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This woman's name is Matilda Simmons.
**[16:29] ---**
"She is purified in the
abbey by the angel Angela"--
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The sentence breaks off there.
**[16:37] ---**
So I put, "--But just then,
Sebastian Michaelis appears."
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Sebas-*chan*!
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That woman smells like a demon...
**[16:57] ---**
Yes.
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You see, she's been marked already.
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You!
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What a pious demon you are,
to wish to die at an angel's hands...
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...Sebastian Michaelis.
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Do you think a demon can compete
with an immaculate-winged angel?
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Wingless demons are chained to the earth...
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...for eternity.
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Oh, is that so?
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In that case, may you be
chained to the heavens.
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Grell Sutcliff!
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A brand-new death scythe!
**[17:53] ---**
Yes!
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Wash it and return it when we're done here.
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You're so mean.
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"William T. Spears and Grell Sutcliff
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appear before Matilda as
she watches the battle."
**[18:08] ---**
That's a handy tool.
**[18:10] ---**
Yes, though limited.
**[18:13] ---**
This is an entertaining little diversion.
**[18:15] ---**
Let's treat ourselves to
a game of darts, shall we?
**[18:20] ---**
Hmm, I missed.
**[18:24] ---**
Now, where shall I hit her next?
**[18:26] ---**
I want to play too!
**[18:29] ---**
You have perverse tastes.
**[18:51] ---**
What?
**[18:53] ---**
Does she mean to destroy
herself along with us?
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Snuff out the unclean.
Snuff out the unnecessary.
**[18:59] ---**
Boys, the ceiling is falling!
**[19:02] ---**
You are free to run if you like.
**[19:06] ---**
A-All right!
**[19:13] ---**
We'll retreat as well, Grell Sutcliff.
**[19:17] ---**
Well, really! Never mind overtime pay,
I'd like to request a day off.
**[19:54] ---**
*Is it over?*
**[19:57] ---**
*The one who plunged me into
bottomless darkness...*
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*I don't even know why she did it.*
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A promise is a promise. Take it.
**[20:39] ---**
Why, Sebastian?! Why aren't
you taking my soul?!
**[20:43] ---**
She must be dead! Or...
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Do you mean there's someone else...?
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I'll be serving you a while
longer, young master.
**[21:06] ---**
By the way, why were you in the library?
**[21:09] ---**
I thought you'd retired from active service.
**[21:11] ---**
Well, you see, he reminded me of something.
**[21:16] ---**
There were some Cinematic
Records I'd neglected to return.
**[21:22] ---**
Oh, please.
**[21:23] ---**
Come to think of it, two of
the books I had checked out
**[21:28] ---**
were about the Earl and Countess Phantomhive.
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Their true Cinematic Records,
with no alterations by angels...
**[21:37] ---**
Do you want to know what they said?
**[21:42] ---**
No, I don't.
**[21:46] ---**
Let's be off, Sebastian.
**[21:48] ---**
Certainly.
**[21:55] ---**
Interesting.
**[21:58] ---**
Are you sure that was wise, my lord?
**[22:00] ---**
If you read the books,
you would know who to take revenge on.
**[22:05] ---**
It's fine.
**[22:06] ---**
Feeling sentimental?
**[22:07] ---**
That's not it.
**[22:09] ---**
It's only...
**[22:12] ---**
*The thought of being touched by that again...*
**[22:18] ---**
It's not my custom to
repeatedly disgrace the dead.
**[22:49] ---**
*Kurayami no naka de
mutsumiau zetsubou to mirai wo*
**[22:56] ---**
*Kanashimi wo abaku
tsukiakari tsumetaku terashiteta*
**[23:06] ---**
*Kimi no kureta himitsu wo shirube ni*
**[23:13] ---**
*Aoi yoru no shizukesa wo yuku*
**[23:20] ---**
*Lacrimosa tooku kudakete kieta*
**[23:27] ---**
*Mabushii sekai wo mou ichido ai shitai*
**[23:35] ---**
*Hitomi no naka ni yume wo kakushite*
**[23:42] ---**
*Yogoreta kokoro ni namida ga ochite kuru made*
**[24:04] ---**
*Of late, my young master seems quite friendly*
**[24:07] ---**
*with Inspector Abberline.*
**[24:09] ---**
*Making a new friend is a
wonderful thing, but...*
**[24:13] ---**
*I advise you not to get too deeply involved.*
**[24:16] ---**
*Hmm, I would think little things like
sharing your sweets should be fine.*
**[24:21] ---**
*Lick, lick. Lick, lick...*
**[24:25] ---**
*Next time on Black Butler:
"His Butler, Imprisoned."*
**[24:26] ---**
"Next Time" "His Butler, Imprisoned"
**[24:29] ---**
*You see, I am merely one hell of a butler.*