23 - His Butler, Up in Flames

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    This is the second fire
    we've had since I began
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    serving the Phantomhives.
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    All I can do is document
    the story of this mansion.
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    That is my role. However...
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    I suppose that is over now.
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    Strong wind today, eh?
[00:49] ---
    Aye, and it ain't natural
    how warm it is either.
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    We may see rough waters tonight.
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    I hope we get to London soon...
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    Found you, my lord.
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    Undertaker?!
[01:22] ---
    See, that fussy bloke Will captured me...
[01:27] ---
    Apparently he'll be shorthanded
    in the London area,
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    so he roped me into this by
    promising to waive my library fines.
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    The London area?
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    Yes, we have to collect a great
    many souls in London tonight.
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    Look at that!
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    What is it?!
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    Ah, so it's begun.
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    They certainly put on quite the show!
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    I must be on my way.
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    Wait!
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    Why did you come here?
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    You and I have a lot of history together.
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    So I thought I'd give you fair warning:
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    My lord, in just a little while...
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    ...you will die.
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    "Black Butler"
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    Since then, I've actually
    come to like the night somewhat
[02:49] ---
    In a sea of dependence,
    I forget even to breathe
[02:54] ---
    When I'm right on the verge
    of losing my head over you
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    You just leave me lukewarm
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    The aesthetic of leave-taking
    despises a self-satisfied kiss
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    Don't leave me alone, show me
    compassion, paint me with death
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    In your room, all words slip away
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    I want to end like this, cloaked
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    But the night ignores that
    wish and brings morning
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    With your gentle,
    passionate, and dastardly kiss
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    Paint this final night
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    The moon illuminates us
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    "His Butler, Up in Flames"
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    What do you mean...?
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    No!
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    You will die.
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    Sebastian isn't with me anymore.
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    Which means the death awaiting me will be...
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    ...in vain.
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    The hatred and pain are burning out.
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    Everything is burning away.
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    Burning away...
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    It hurts, doesn't it?
    You're suffering, aren't you?
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    Sorry, but I can't finish you off.
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    Oh, how busy I am...
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    Oh, how revolting that is.
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    Your Majesty, the salvation of the
    land through holy flame has begun.
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    I see...
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    Isn't it wonderful to finally greet
    the England of the next century,
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    the proud and unpolluted
    country we aimed for?
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    What's the matter, Your Majesty?
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    Ever since we returned from Paris,
    you've seemed to be in poor health.
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    Ash, look.
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    It hurts.
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    It hurts.
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    Forgive this intrusion.
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    It's begun to fester and rot.
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    I shall perform a cleansing for you.
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    No!
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    Leave his body as it is.
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    Leave it as it was that day.
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    But Your Majesty...
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    He doesn't need cleansing.
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    He's magnificent just as he is.
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    Do something for him, Ash. Help my--
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    I smell it.
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    You... are unclean.
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    She may be the Queen,
    but in the end she is only human.
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    How foolish... And how sad.
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    All the tears of this corrupt land
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    stem from the moment humans
    were divided into male and female.
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    No matter how much mercy we show,
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    in the end humans can never be good enough.
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    Humans can never...
[07:08] ---
    ♪ Albert is falling down,
    falling down, falling down. ♪
[07:17] ---
    ♪ Albert is falling
    down, my dear darling. ♪
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    I'm going to die.
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    On this ship? Or...?
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    What are you doing?!
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    We can't go back to London like this.
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    We'll have to hang about
    these waters for a while and--
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    What?! We're almost there!
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    Fine. I'll get on that
    ship. Get me a rowboat!
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    For one little boy?
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    Now, if you had money,
    that would be another story...
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    Don't play games with me!
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    I have to get back to London or--
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    Or what?
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    I didn't finish off the Queen.
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    No, I couldn't finish her off.
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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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    I won't lose it.
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    I won't lose this hatred!
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    If I let go of hatred, I don't exist.
[08:41] ---
    Then... Then...
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    Who am I now?
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    Look, kid, I'm busy, so
    how about you get-- Huh?
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    Wh-What's wrong with you?!
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    Take this.
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    W-Wow! Look at that shine!
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    It's a blue diamond.
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    You don't see one of these every day.
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    Hey, what's a kid like you
    doing with something like this?!
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    Just give me a rowboat!
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    Look, here he comes!
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    Are you a Frenchman?!
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    Take off your clothes!
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    Let go! What are you doing?!
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    You bloody French started this fire!
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    You're trying to start a war with England!
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    Your beloved Queen is
    trying to plunge Europe--
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    no, the world-- into war.
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    Hold on, that's--
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    It's another frog!
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    Stop it! Stop it!
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    What's happening?
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    What is this...?
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    --Hey!
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    --Give me that!
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    Is this hell?
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    There he is.
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    So the boy is back in
    London. Most impressive!
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    Well, what do you think of the view?
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    Look out!
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    What's the matter with you, yes?!
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    Y-Young master!
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    What are you doing here?!
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    I apologize, my lord, yes!
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    It's my job to protect the mansion,
    yes, but... but... I...
[11:38] ---
    Calm down. I'm not criticizing you.
    Please, tell me why you're here.
[11:43] ---
    It's Plu-Plu!
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    Pluto?
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    Any comments?
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    Compared to the Great Fire of London in 1666,
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    this blaze seems very slow-spreading.
[11:57] ---
    You're right.
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    Once uncleanliness and vice take hold,
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    it's extremely difficult
    to do away with them.
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    However, when this fire
    burns everything away,
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    the long-awaited door
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    will appear on the clean land!
[12:17] ---
    I shall open the door to the new century.
[12:22] ---
    Checkmate is fast approaching.
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    What will you do, young master?
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    The tranquilizers aren't working!
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    Plu-Plu...
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    Did we really do the right
    thing, chasing Pluto here?
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    We were hired to protect the mansion.
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    If we can't do anything anyway...
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    The mansion isn't the only
    thing I want to protect.
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    I want to protect the smiles in it,
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    and the time we spend in it too!
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    For us to have that,
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    everyonehas to be there. Even Plu-Plu!
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    Young master!
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    Mey-Rin, why the hell did you
    bring the young master here?!
[13:41] ---
    He insisted, yes!
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    Pluto!
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    You battled me for your master's sake.
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    Who could have predicted that
    you'd be standing here with me now,
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    watching his tragedy play out?
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    I do not act without an order from my master.
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    And at the moment, there is
    no master I'm meant to obey.
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    I've thought to myself:
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    I wouldn't mind joining forces with you
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    to rule the reborn world
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    that will dwell in this clean land.
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    Aren't I a wellspring of the
    very uncleanliness you detest?
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    When you examine them closely,
    all things emit their own intense light.
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    Morning and night, man and
    woman, light and darkness.
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    If those things are
    well-burnished and made one,
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    they return to their primal forms,
    beloved of my Father.
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    You want me to be one of those vulgar
    patchwork dolls you're so fond of?
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    No.
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    If you wish it...
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    ...I can embrace you as a woman.
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    What are you doing?
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    W-Well... We wanted Plu-Plu to turn
    back to how he was... We're sorry!
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    But I'm out of tranquilizers.
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    Are you kidding me?
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    You have real bullets, don't you?!
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    Are you telling us to shoot
    Plu-Plu, young master?
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    Look at his eyes.
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    His mind is gone.
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    That's not the Pluto you
    know. He's just a beast.
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    A beast...
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    You three know full well how wretched it is
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    to have your pride stolen,
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    to live without even a clear purpose!
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    This is an order:
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    Baldo, Mey-Rin, Finny...
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    kill that demon hound with your own hands!
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    Yes, sir!
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    He's all that I might expect from
    someone who would employ a demon.
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    Unfeeling and ruthless;
    a soul beyond redemption.
[16:39] ---
    You should really join--
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    I see.
[16:47] ---
    So fate always casts angels and
    demons on opposite sides after all,
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    no matter how many years may pass.
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    Go!
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    Yes. All I can do is rush there.
[17:14] ---
    If I'm going to die...
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    I want to die with the soul he craves!
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    That's what I can do to
    regain my own pride...
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    I am Ciel, Earl Phantomhive.
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    I request an audience with the Queen to...
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    Time has stopped. Is this a trap?
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    No time to worry about that!
[18:16] ---
    The Queen...
[18:30] ---
    What is it?!
[18:30] ---
    We have an intruder!
[18:32] ---
    Who are you?!
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    The Queen...!
[18:37] ---
    The Queen's been murdered!
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    Who did it?!
[18:40] ---
    Who did this?!
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    What is his name?!
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    I am Ciel, Earl Phantomhive!
[18:53] ---
    Phantomhive? So the Queen's
    guard dog has turned against her?
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    I've cast off that name.
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    And I'm not the one who killed Her Majesty.
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    Do you think you can talk
    your way out of this?!
[19:05] ---
    No, probably not.
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    But I can't come to a stop here!
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    My blood...
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    You can never pass through
    the gates of heaven.
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    Do you wish to make a contract?
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    My death...
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    My soul...
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    No way.
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    I... won't end here!
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    I see you're awake, young master.
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    Fire!
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    Sebastian...
[20:22] ---
    You're quite right, young master.
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    You won't end here.
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    I humbly apologize for
    taking unauthorized leave.
[20:43] ---
    What were you doing?
[20:45] ---
    Oh, I was preparing for the Last Supper.
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    Sweet, hot, and occasionally tart.
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    Using a variety of spices
    to mature the flavor...
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    Thanks to you, I believe
    I'll be able to enjoy
[21:04] ---
    the ultimate soul... the ultimate supper.
[21:09] ---
    This is an order:
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    Take me to that angel of massacre!
[21:13] ---
    Certainly.
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    He's not human...
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    You're right.
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    I am merely one hell of a butler.
[21:50] ---
    The moonlight that reveals
    sorrow was coldly illuminating
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    The despair and the future
    which grew intimate in the dark
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    With the secret you gave me as my guide
[22:14] ---
    I move through the blue night's stillness
[22:21] ---
    Lacrimosa, I want to love once again
[22:28] ---
    The dazzling world that
    crumbled and vanished in the distance
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    I'll hide my dreams within my eyes
[22:43] ---
    Until the tears fall on my sullied heart
[23:08] ---
    They...
[23:09] ---
    If the servants fight seriously,
[23:11] ---
    I would say their odds against
    Pluto are about even.
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    Either way,
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    before much longer
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    I'll get to see the loser again in hell.
[23:48] ---
    It's gathering to me...
[23:49] ---
    The despair of the unclean
    ultimately turns to divine hope!
[23:57] ---
    It feels... wonderful.
[24:04] ---
    I've waited a long time, my young master.
[24:06] ---
    Whenever I combed your fine, soft hair
[24:10] ---
    or did up your shirt buttons one by one,
[24:13] ---
    I always felt a burning surge of emotion.
[24:17] ---
    And now this moment has
    come at last, hasn't it?
[24:21] ---
    Now, then...
[24:23] ---
    Time to eat!
[24:25] ---
    Next time on Black Butler:
    "His Butler, Fluent."
[24:26] ---
    "Next Time" "His Butler, Fluent"
[24:29] ---
    You see, I am merely one hell of a butler.