# 3 - His Butler, Plotting
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**[00:01] Student G**
Here they come.
**[00:02] Student G**
It's the Prefect 4!
**[00:04] Ciel**
Prefects?
**[00:06] McMillan**
Think of them as the heads
of the boarding houses.
**[00:09] Sebastian**
In other words, she's saying, "Investigate
why the Weston students have gone missing."
**[00:15] Ciel**
You will support me
without getting found out.
**[00:19] Ciel**
"Drudges"?
**[00:20] McMillan**
Maybe the best way to describe it is
they're like brothers, except only at school.
**[00:25] McMillan**
Oh, and the prefects' drudges
get special privileges!
**[00:29] McMillan**
I hear they even get to join the P4 at the
"midnight tea parties" held by the Head Master!
**[00:34] Maurice**
I'm Maurice Cole,
Prefect Redmond's drudge.
**[00:37] Maurice**
Today, everyone was talking
about the brilliant new student.
**[00:42] Maurice**
We'll expect you at four o'clock
**[00:44] Maurice**
at the swan gazebo.
**[00:47] Clayton**
You're two hours late!
What's the meaning of this?!
**[00:50] Ciel**
I-I was told four o'clock...
**[00:52] Maurice**
What? But I specifically said two o'clock.
**[00:57] Edward**
You betrayed not only my expectations,
but those of our seniors.
**[01:03] Edward**
Get out!
**[01:05] Ciel**
Damn it!
**[01:06] Ciel**
I want another pawn to place in his House.
**[01:10] Ciel**
It was Derrick's original House, after all...
**[01:13] Ciel**
Scarlet Fox is for people
of exceptionally high birth.
**[01:16] Ciel**
We'd need someone with enough status
and wealth to be guaranteed a place.
**[01:20] Ciel**
Curse it! Needs must when the devil drives.
**[01:36] McMillan**
Phantomhive, are you asleep?
**[01:40] Ciel**
No.
**[01:42] McMillan**
Can I come talk to you?
**[01:46] Ciel**
All right.
**[01:57] McMillan**
I'm sorry I can't stick up
for you here in school.
**[02:00] Ciel**
It's fine. I wouldn't expect you to.
We each have to make it through six years here.
**[02:05] McMillan**
Why did you do it, though?
Why stand up the P4?
**[02:12] Ciel**
It wasn't intentional.
**[02:15] Ciel**
I was told to come at four o'clock,
but they were expecting me at two.
**[02:19] McMillan**
What?!
**[02:21] Ciel**
Shhh!
**[02:24] McMillan**
But the other boys and I heard him
say four o'clock, too...
**[02:27] Ciel**
I'm sure.
**[02:29] Ciel**
But there's nothing to be done now.
**[02:32] McMillan**
I know—I'll vouch for you!
**[02:36] McMillan**
If I alone don't lend you enough credibility,
**[02:38] McMillan**
I'll ask some of the other lads, too.
**[02:40] McMillan**
We were all eavesdropping.
I'm sure it'll be fine.
**[02:44] McMillan**
After all, you did nothing wrong.
**[02:47] Ciel**
That would be a big help.
Thank you, McMillan.
**[02:53] McMillan**
It's nothing, really.
***SIGN*** What in the world?
***SIGN*** Oh, wow!
***SIGN*** Would you look at that!
**[04:45] Soma**
Ah, so this is "school"!
**[04:49] Soma**
It's quite large! Almost the same size
as my estate back home!
***SIGN*** I heard he's an Indian prince!
***SIGN*** I've never seen an elephant before!
***SIGN*** Amazing!
**[04:55] Ciel**
He certainly got into Red House easily.
**[04:58] Ciel**
An Indian royal's brand-name
and wealth are nothing to sneeze at.
**[05:02] Sebastian**
Though I must say I didn't
expect him to arrive on an elephant...
**[05:07] Soma**
Oi, Ciel! Here I am!
**[05:11] Ciel**
*That fool!*
**[05:12] Ciel**
*I* explicitly *told him in my letter
to pretend we aren't acquainted.*
**[05:15] Soma**
I was surprised to receive a letter from you!
**[05:19] Soma**
If you'd told me you didn't want to come
here alone, I'd have come with you!
**[05:23] Soma**
Ciel! Oi, are you listening?
**[05:37] Soma**
We're both here, so let's go together!
**[05:40] Ciel**
Sod off! And put me down this instant!
**[05:43] Ciel**
Ah, I *knew* I shouldn't have called you here!
**[05:45] Sebastian**
Good morning.
**[05:46] Student**
Good morning.
**[05:49] Soma**
You're not as glum as I was expecting.
**[05:52] Soma**
Agni wanted to come along,
which got rough.
**[05:54] Soma**
Apparently, these "public schools"
don't allow us to bring servants.
**[05:57] Ciel**
Not generally, no.
**[05:59] (Flashback) Agni**
My prince!
**[06:03] Ciel**
Soma, there's a reason I called you here.
**[06:07] Soma**
Oh? What is it?
**[06:09] Ciel**
Well, you see, I had a row with a boy in your
boarding house. His name is Maurice Cole.
**[06:16] Soma**
Oh?
**[06:17] Ciel**
As you know, I don't have many friends.
**[06:22] Ciel**
So I don't really know how
to get back in his good books.
**[06:26] Ciel**
I'd like you to help me—
**[06:31] Soma**
Very well!
**[06:32] Soma**
I shall lend you a hand,
my naturally gloomy and timid friend!
**[06:35] Ciel**
You're exaggerating what I said.
**[06:37] Soma**
So inside, you *do* really care.
**[06:39] Soma**
Why don't we start off with
a curry supper, just the three of us?
**[06:42] Ciel**
That won't be possible.
**[06:44] Soma**
Why not?
**[06:46] Ciel**
Evidently, I've made him so angry,
he doesn't want to see my face.
**[06:50] Ciel**
That's why I'd like to get to know him better
before conversing with him again.
**[06:54] Ciel**
I'd like you to observe him carefully
and tell me about him.
**[06:58] Ciel**
Particularly about what he's like
when he's in Red House, where I can't go.
**[07:02] Ciel**
The tiniest detail could be important.
**[07:04] Ciel**
But tell no one.
**[07:10] Soma**
Understood. I'll tell no one.
**[07:12] Soma**
You can trust me,
your best friend, with this task.
**[07:16] Ciel**
Right... of course...
**[07:21] Soma**
Oi, you there. Be friends with Ciel.
**[07:26] Maurice**
Pardon?
**[07:28] Maurice**
He made the prefects look like fools.
**[07:32] Maurice**
As one of their drudges,
it wouldn't do for me to forgive that.
**[07:38] Soma**
Hey, are you *sure* you can't?
**[07:43] Soma**
Hey, he's got some good points!
**[07:46] Soma**
Hey, I'm sure you two can talk this out.
**[07:50] Soma**
Hey!
**[07:51] Soma**
Hey!
**[07:54] Soma**
Hey, come on.
**[07:56] Soma**
Hey, come on. I'm talking to you!
**[08:03] Maurice**
What is the *matter* with you?!
**[08:05] Maurice**
Stop following me around!
**[08:10] Soma**
He's a little like Ciel.
**[08:19] Soma**
Right, I'm bored! I'll go visit Ciel!
**[08:32] Soma**
O-kay! Go, elephant!
**[08:35] Soma**
What's that?
**[08:38] Soma**
This is the wrong way!
**[08:46] Maurice**
It's quiet at last.
**[08:51] Maurice**
Th-This can't be...
**[09:04] Redmond**
Five Ys for Kadar.
**[09:07] Redmond**
And no elephants in Weston from now on.
**[09:09] Soma**
Sorry.
**[09:10] Maurice**
Make a *proper* apology!
**[09:13] Redmond**
What a pickle.
We don't have any free rooms.
**[09:17] Redmond**
Do you want to stay in mine for a while?
**[09:19] Maurice**
Really?
**[09:20] Soma**
No, use my bed.
**[09:23] Maurice**
Excuse me? Why would I
want to sleep in *your*—
**[09:27] Soma**
I'm a man with a sense of responsibility.
**[09:29] Redmond**
I commend your attitude, Kadar.
**[09:32] Redmond**
I'll leave you to it.
**[09:33] Maurice**
Wait... Redmond?
**[09:36] Soma**
Right, I'll lead the way!
**[09:44] Soma**
Use this bed.
**[10:04] Soma**
What's he up to this late at night?
**[10:14] Soma**
Post room?
**[10:23] Soma**
He's...
**[10:28] Sebastian**
Welcome, Prince Soma.
**[10:31] Sebastian**
My young master awaits you inside.
**[10:33] Soma**
I-I thought servants
were forbidden on campus!
**[10:36] Ciel**
Circumstances forced our hand.
**[10:39] Sebastian**
Your Highness, may I ask that you keep
the fact that I am his servant a secret?
**[10:45] Sebastian**
If you were to let it slip...
**[10:47] Soma**
No, I won't tell! I swear!
**[10:51] Ciel**
Well? Have you learnt anything?
**[10:53] Soma**
Yes. In fact...
**[10:56] Soma**
He snuck off to the post room last night,
**[10:58] Soma**
and delivered cards
to other Red House boys.
**[11:02] Soma**
And a whole lot of them, too!
**[11:04] Sebastian**
Cards?
**[11:05] Soma**
He should just talk to people directly.
**[11:08] Sebastian**
Evidence finally seems obtainable.
**[11:10] Ciel**
Now it's just a matter of
how to "reconcile" with him.
**[11:15] Soma**
Oh! One more thing...
**[11:21] Sebastian**
Young master.
**[11:23] Ciel**
Yes. That was the final piece of the puzzle.
**[11:26] Ciel**
We owe that to you. Thank you.
**[11:33] Soma**
Ta-ta! Come to me again
if you need another favour!
**[11:38] Ciel**
Time for a council of war, Sebastian.
**[11:42] Sebastian**
Very good.
**[11:44] Ciel**
We'll settle this tomorrow.
**[11:52] Maurice**
Well? What do you want?
**[11:54] Maurice**
Why did you call me *here*?
I have to be at the swan gazebo.
**[12:00] Ciel**
I won't take up too much of your time.
**[12:02] Ciel**
There's just something
I'd like to confirm with you.
**[12:06] Ciel**
Cole, you seem to have made a mistake when
you gave me the message about my invitation.
**[12:13] Maurice**
You're still saying that?
You shouldn't blame others for your failings.
**[12:18] Ciel**
A kind friend of mine asked
our classmates what they heard.
**[12:21] Ciel**
As the prettiest boy in Weston,
you always have an audience.
**[12:25] Ciel**
A full 18 students testified that
you mistakenly said "four o'clock."
**[12:31] Ciel**
Well, perhaps "mistakenly"
isn't the right word.
**[12:36] Ciel**
It was on purpose, after all.
**[12:38] Maurice**
Pah! You overstretch with your accusations.
**[12:41] Ciel**
All right, then how do you explain
Joanne Harcourt and the four other boys?
**[12:45] Maurice**
What?
**[12:47] (Flashback) Harcourt**
Cole said he gave me an invitation
to the swan gazebo, but I never got one.
**[12:56] Ciel**
The students the prefects
invited to the swan gazebo.
**[12:59] Ciel**
All the ones who broke their appointments
cite issues with your messages as the cause.
**[13:06] Ciel**
For someone in your position as
a prefect's drudge to tarnish the weak
**[13:10] Ciel**
is more than unsporting and underhanded.
It's the behaviour of a compulsive liar.
**[13:15] Ciel**
And on top of that, you even have others
do the drudge-work for your prefect.
**[13:20] Maurice**
Hm? Your meaning escapes me.
**[13:24] Ciel**
You haven't done a single thing
that Redmond has asked of you.
**[13:27] Ciel**
You did not organise any data, did not
iron his things, did not shine his shoes...
**[13:31] Ciel**
You did not even make his tea treats.
**[13:34] Ciel**
All of your "talents" are a sham!
**[13:38] Maurice**
You've got quite the imagination.
**[13:40] Maurice**
How dare you accuse me without proof?
**[13:42] Ciel**
Oh, but I do have proof.
**[13:48] Maurice**
Th-That's...
**[13:50] Ciel**
Surely you recognize it?
**[13:51] Ciel**
It's one of the cards you send your hangers-on,
asking them to do your work.
**[13:56] Ciel**
Here we have the data-organising one.
**[13:59] Ciel**
Here's the ironing one.
**[14:01] Ciel**
Here's the shoe-shining one.
**[14:02] Ciel**
And here's one you sent the cook
asking for baked goods.
**[14:07] Ciel**
Would you like to see more? I have plenty.
**[14:10] Ciel**
They're all written and dated
in your own handwriting.
**[14:15] Maurice**
I *explicitly* told them to destroy those!
**[14:17] Ciel**
Oh, they were destroyed all right.
**[14:20] Ciel**
Fortunately, the rubbish
hadn't been collected yet.
**[14:23] Ciel**
You should know that
it was quite difficult for us
**[14:27] Ciel**
to find these bits of torn cards in the
mountains of rubbish produced by Weston.
**[14:34] Ciel**
Not to mention how much work
it took us to patch them together
**[14:37] Ciel**
after they'd been torn up so finely.
**[14:41] Ciel**
I wonder what Redmond
would think if he knew...
**[14:46] Ciel**
Aren't you ashamed of yourself
as a Weston College student?
**[14:52] Ciel**
I'm willing to excuse your deceit of *us*.
**[14:58] Ciel**
But you should tell Redmond the truth.
**[15:03] Ciel**
You two have a brotherly trust, don't you?
**[15:10] Maurice**
You're right. I'll tell him everything.
**[15:16] Maurice**
Is that what you expect me to say? Get real!
**[15:29] Maurice**
Don't tell me you're dumb enough
to think I'd come here unprepared.
**[15:38] Maurice**
There. Proof destroyed.
**[15:41] Maurice**
Poor you, after going
to such trouble to find it.
**[15:45] Maurice**
Who do you think you are,
you little nuisance?
**[15:49] Maurice**
A little favour from your seniors
has given you a big head.
**[15:53] Maurice**
Using others is a talent in its own right.
**[15:56] Maurice**
I'm making effective use of
otherwise unexceptional people.
**[16:01] Maurice**
Me, the most beautiful Weston student.
**[16:04] Maurice**
Whether or not a boy becomes
a prefect here sways the rest of his life.
**[16:09] Maurice**
Do you have any idea how much
I've toadied up to the prefects here?
**[16:14] Maurice**
An earl like you wouldn't understand what
it's like to be a younger son, forever untitled.
**[16:20] Ciel**
I don't see the value in
a victory won with false power!
**[16:25] Maurice**
Playing the goody-goody, huh?
**[16:28] Maurice**
That infuriates me!
**[16:29] Maurice**
I'm the one who'll be the
next prefect of Red House!
**[16:33] Maurice**
I'm the one Redmond treats the best!
**[16:36] Maurice**
And I'm the most beautiful!
**[16:40] Ciel**
What are you do—
**[16:43] Maurice**
You were an idiot to pick
a meeting-place that is so out of the way.
**[16:48] Maurice**
No one will come to help you.
**[16:50] Maurice**
Now, let's take a little photograph.
**[16:54] Maurice**
One that might embarrass you to death.
**[17:01] Maurice**
Do it, boys.
**[17:09] Ciel**
Please, stop!
**[17:12] Edward & Greenhill**
What the hell are you boys doing?!
**[17:24] Greenhill**
I vowed never to use violence again. You'll pay
heavily for making me break that vow, Cole.
**[17:30] Maurice**
I-I'm begging you, Greenhill.
Don't tell Redmond that I—
**[17:35] Bluewer**
You don't want to beg for *our* silence?
**[17:38] Maurice**
Bluewer? Violet?
**[17:41] Maurice**
Wh-What are you doing here?
**[17:43] Ciel**
It would be odd of them
*not* to come running
**[17:46] Ciel**
after hearing the brilliant and talented
Maurice Cole was committing violence.
**[17:51] Maurice**
But the swan gazebo is so far from here.
They couldn't have heard my voice—
**[17:55] Ciel**
Cole.
**[17:57] Ciel**
Sound is transmitted by vibration,
not by volume.
**[18:02] Ciel**
No matter how great the distance,
**[18:04] Ciel**
a sound can theoretically be heard
anywhere its vibrations reach.
**[18:07] Ciel**
For example, if you connect thin,
flat surfaces using pins and thread,
**[18:11] Ciel**
which are good at transmitting vibrations,
**[18:14] Ciel**
you can create a mechanism for
transmitting sound across distance.
**[18:19] Ciel**
It works...
**[18:21] Ciel**
...just like this.
**[18:26] Maurice**
It can't be...
**[18:28] Maurice**
It can't be...
**[18:30] Maurice**
It can't be...
**[18:31] Maurice**
It can't be!
**[18:33] Maurice**
It can't be!
**[18:39] Redmond**
I heard everything.
**[18:43] Maurice**
R-Redmond...
**[18:48] Redmond**
I never thought *you* would betray me as well.
**[18:51] Redmond**
I'm ashamed of how poor
a judge of character I am.
**[18:55] Maurice**
I-It's not—
**[18:56] Redmond**
I don't want to hear excuses.
**[18:59] Redmond**
I'm disappointed in you, Cole!
**[19:02] Redmond**
I hereby revoke our brotherly relationship!
**[19:17] Ciel**
Cole.
**[19:20] Ciel**
I'm sure you can regain others' trust
if you show them your true self from now on.
**[19:27] Maurice**
Phantomhive...
**[19:31] Ciel**
That's why...
**[19:34] Ciel**
I've distributed photos
of the true you across campus.
**[19:48] Ciel**
I think you should be proud.
**[19:52] Ciel**
Your makeup skills are first-rate.
**[19:58] Edward**
Ciel.
**[20:05] Edward**
I apologize for my unjust accusations.
**[20:08] Edward**
Please forgive me.
**[20:09] Ciel**
Regardless of the reason, I *was* late.
**[20:13] Edward**
You don't owe me an apology, Edward.
**[20:15] Greenhill**
I must say, I'm impressed by your gumption.
**[20:20] Greenhill**
No wonder Midford respects you.
**[20:22] Violet**
You're very interesting.
**[20:26] Bluewer**
You acted very bravely, Phantomhive.
**[20:31] Ciel**
*He smiled...*
**[20:33] Ciel**
Th-Thank you.
**[20:35] Ciel**
When I learnt I wasn't the only one to suffer,
I got so passionate about it...
**[20:42] Ciel**
I've never been one to let
rum behaviour go unchallenged.
**[20:46] Greenhill**
Following tradition, telling the truth,
and being of pure and noble character:
**[20:51] Greenhill**
that's what makes you a true Weston man.
**[21:14] Clayton**
Never breaking trust
and always remaining humble,
**[21:18] Clayton**
while I remain in this holy academic nest,
**[21:21] Clayton**
I will build a relationship
of mutual betterment with you.
**[21:24] Clayton**
I swear it before St. George.
**[21:28] Clayton**
I ask you to be my drudge,
**[21:32] Clayton**
Ciel Phantomhive.
**[21:43] Ciel**
I humbly accept.