3 - Wench Butler

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    Thank you.
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    I wonder if they'll come out well?
[00:17] ---
    Not to worry!
[00:18] ---
    A likeness of my lovely wife
    couldn't help but be lovely!
[00:25] ---
    I'm so happy!
[00:29] ---
    The rondo ends in death throes!
[00:39] ---
    Regret gives off the scent of flames!
[00:46] ---
    E-Ellen!
[00:51] ---
    Ellen!
[01:00] ---
    Ellen!
[01:09] ---
    Ellen...!
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    There we are, there we are, there we are!
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    Death in all its fiery finery!☆
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    Tell me that even if a
    never-ending sorrow steals you away
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    Our two hearts will never grow apart
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    "Black Butler II"
[01:47] ---
    I run up to you from
    behind asking questions
[01:50] ---
    The reason I never wavered,
    no matter what the future looked like
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    Was because I didn't want to
    forget what I believed in anymore
[02:03] ---
    My habit of averting my eyes, my
    vague answers, and my not-funny lies--
[02:11] ---
    If you're not by my side,
    their very meaning blurs
[02:18] ---
    Even if a never-ending
    sorrow steals you away
[02:26] ---
    Don't forget the days when we
    couldn't imagine a true "goodbye"
[02:34] ---
    Tell me that even if a
    never-ending sorrow steals you away
[02:42] ---
    Our two hearts will never grow apart
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    Today's afternoon tea is a
    green tea from the Kangra Valley
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    with a gooseberry and elderflower jelly.
[03:01] ---
    Well, it'll do.
[03:03] ---
    I'm glad you find it satisfactory, my lord.
[03:05] ---
    I'm afraid there's work
    to do when you're finished.
[03:07] ---
    What?
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    People being burned alive?
[03:17] ---
    Ah, yes, the rash of
    crimes that has swept London.
[03:20] ---
    I'm told there was another victim last night?
[03:22] ---
    Yes.
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    Her Majesty grieves at the thought
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    of her subjects trembling in fear each night.
[03:31] ---
    What's the matter, my lord?
[03:35] ---
    "Faced with a recurrence
    of these unsavory incidents,
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    I shall once again leave
    the matter in the hands
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    of the 'dog' and the 'spider.'"
[03:42] ---
    What might that mean?
[03:45] ---
    Has this same sort of
    thing happened before?
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    And who is this "spider"?
[03:52] ---
    Who knows?
[03:54] ---
    Or more precisely, I don't know.
[04:03] ---
    There's no use sitting here wondering.
[04:05] ---
    We dispel Her Majesty's worries.
    That's our first priority.
[04:09] ---
    We're setting out for London.
[04:11] ---
    Very good, my lord.
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    And don't let Madam Red
    get wind of what we're doing.
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    This is the sort of thing she enjoys.
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    I don't want her poking her nose in.
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    I don't believe we'll have any trouble there.
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    "Wench Butler"
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    A part of the house of Phantomhive's
    past that I don't know about...
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    It's only natural.
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    After all, you were forced
    to assume the earldom
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    before your father had
    passed everything down to you.
[04:48] ---
    Still, I couldn't have asked
    for a better opportunity.
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    If I, the new family head, resolve
    an incident my father was involved in,
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    rumor will spread through
    the criminal underworld...
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    And they are sure to make a move.
[05:06] ---
    You intend to use yourself as bait, my lord?
[05:13] ---
    All those who hurt my
    pride, who brought it low...
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    I'm going to drag them out
    into the open and make them pay.
[05:21] ---
    I'll stop at nothing.
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    And if they're already dead?
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    You have to ask?
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    I'll tear the truth out of their
    rotten flesh with my own hands.
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    That's all there is to it.
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    That's my master.
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    Do you think people have it right?
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    The victims took too much to
    drink and spontaneously combusted?
[05:45] ---
    Gossip is nothing to go by!
    Find some concrete evidence!
[05:48] ---
    Yes, Sir, of course, Sir!
[05:50] ---
    Come on, boys!
[05:50] ---
    Yes, Sir!
[05:54] ---
    It looks like you're having
    some trouble, Sir Arthur.
[05:59] ---
    Ciel Phantomhive!
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    Let's hear about the investigation.
[06:07] ---
    No progress worth mentioning.
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    What makes this
    different than past incidents?
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    There have been similar
    crimes before, haven't there?
[06:18] ---
    Then you knew.
[06:20] ---
    Aha. You just confirmed it.
[06:24] ---
    Show me the old case file.
[06:26] ---
    There's nothing left of it.
[06:29] ---
    What?
[06:29] ---
    And even if there were something,
    I couldn't show it to you.
[06:34] ---
    There aren't any records left?
[06:37] ---
    Scotland Yard will find out
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    who did it, why, and what
    it has to do with the old case.
[06:43] ---
    You're not needed here!
[06:46] ---
    I hope you're right. Let's go, Sebastian!
[06:55] ---
    Those round, artless eyes so
    innocent of the filth of this world...
[06:58] ---
    That adorable yet somehow noble tail...
[07:01] ---
    Those pale-pink, soft paws...
[07:09] ---
    Chief Inspector! We didn't
    find any notable evidence.
[07:15] ---
    My apologies, young master.
    They were just such charming kittens.
[07:20] ---
    Let's go, kitten fiend.
[07:25] ---
    Who was that?
[07:26] ---
    The Queen's guard dog
    has come back to London.
[07:32] ---
    "Queen's guard dog"?
[07:34] ---
    You mean he's...?
[07:36] ---
    What shall we do now, my lord?
[07:40] ---
    If the Yard's no help,
    we only have one choice.
[07:48] ---
    "Well, that's Great Britain
    for you... Wait, what the heck?!"
[07:55] ---
    "I'm through with you!"
[07:58] ---
    Thank you very much.
[08:00] ---
    That was brilliant.
[08:01] ---
    I never dreamed I'd see such perfect
    manzai-style comedy in England!
[08:10] ---
    He just stood there talking to himself.
[08:13] ---
    You showed me something truly special!
[08:15] ---
    I'll have to keep my end of the bargain.
[08:21] ---
    I asked to see a corpse
    from the arson case!
[08:23] ---
    Yes...
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    and this is it, my lord.
[08:29] ---
    I scraped up what was left
    of the victim on the scene.
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    The fire burned so hot,
    it only left ashes behind.
[08:51] ---
    Young master.
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    I'm Turner, the photographer.
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    I'm terribly sorry for your loss.
[09:05] ---
    I've brought the last
    picture taken of your wife.
[09:09] ---
    She was so lovely...
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    My condolences, Sir.
[09:19] ---
    She was truly beautiful, wasn't she?
[09:38] ---
    Pardon me.
[09:42] ---
    The substance found in the ashes
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    matched the sample we
    collected from the photographers.
[09:48] ---
    It's magnesium oxide,
[09:50] ---
    a substance often left behind
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    after magnesium-based flash
    powder is ignited during photography.
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    Photography, eh?
[09:58] ---
    I was able to obtain information
    on import products from Mr. Lau.
[10:02] ---
    Well, aren't you the sharp little butler?
[10:05] ---
    Yes, a magnesium shipment arrived
    in the Docklands just the other day.
[10:10] ---
    It was bound for...
    a London portrait studio.
[10:14] ---
    They're certainly stocking up,
    buying a whole ship's worth like that.
[10:21] ---
    So, what are you two investigating?
[10:24] ---
    That's more than they'd
    need for simple flash powder.
[10:28] ---
    Quite. And the victims also
    had something in common...
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    All the women who were ignited
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    had recently had wedding photos taken...
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    ...at Turner's studio.
[10:48] ---
    Let's go! That couple knows
    what's really been happening.
[10:54] ---
    Certainly.
[10:59] ---
    Wh-What are you doing?
[11:02] ---
    You look hideous.
[11:06] ---
    All because I married you,
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    I despaired of ever feeling burning passion
[11:12] ---
    or womanly happiness!
[11:15] ---
    I'm done taking portraits of happy women!
[11:23] ---
    Now it's my turn to be happy!
[11:38] ---
    She's...!
[11:39] ---
    Mrs. Turner from the portrait studio, yes.
[11:41] ---
    Happiness! Where is my happiness?
[11:46] ---
    Young master!
[11:50] ---
    So that camera is
    her ignition device, eh?
[11:52] ---
    Capture her, Sebastian!
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    Yes, my lord.
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    Red... I've seen that red before...!
[12:22] ---
    It's you.
[12:24] ---
    I've just been dying to see you!☆
[12:39] ---
    So you've been pulling the
    strings behind the scenes, Grell?
[12:44] ---
    All I've been pulling are the red
    threads of fate that bind our hearts!
[12:52] ---
    Oh, how could you?!
    Don't be rough with me!
[12:55] ---
    You came at me first.
[12:58] ---
    But all I did was take a little
    swipe at you out of excitement!
[13:01] ---
    I was only following
    that old pig, like you!
[13:05] ---
    You too?
[13:07] ---
    You know this freak?
[13:10] ---
    He's a grim reaper,
    who reaps the souls of the dead.
[13:15] ---
    Grim reaper? So there
    are others like you?
[13:22] ---
    I imagine he's here to reap the
    souls of the arson victims, my lord.
[13:27] ---
    But no more work for me now
    that you're here, Sebas-chan!
[13:33] ---
    From now on, it's just
    our little amorous adventure.
[13:38] ---
    --Oh! Fool with me! Fool
    with me! Fool with me!
[13:38] ---
    --We don't have time to fool
    about with him! Come on!
[13:41] ---
    At once.
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    Ah ah ah!
[13:45] ---
    Sebas-chan, if you want me in
    your arms, leap through these flames!
[13:50] ---
    Excuse me.
[13:53] ---
    Sebas-chan, wait!
[13:57] ---
    Evacuate the citizens upwind!
[13:59] ---
    Yes, Sir!
[14:01] ---
    This town always burns so well.
[14:11] ---
    There she is.
[14:17] ---
    Oh dear, did you let her get away?
[14:21] ---
    Shouldn't you be working, Grell?
[14:24] ---
    I am a hunter of love, and I'm on your trail.
[14:27] ---
    That's my job, darling.
[14:30] ---
    And, of course, I only
    have one soul to reap.
[14:34] ---
    One?
[14:36] ---
    Hmm... Margaret Turner,
    five past midnight.
[14:40] ---
    "After an indiscriminate killing spree,
[14:42] ---
    she burns herself to death as well."
[14:45] ---
    According to the soul ledger,
[14:47] ---
    this is the only soul I'm meant to reap.
[14:52] ---
    What about everyone
    who's died in these fires?
[14:54] ---
    When she burns people to death,
[14:56] ---
    their souls are burned away with them!
[15:09] ---
    Where did she go?
[15:15] ---
    She means to burn everything?
[15:27] ---
    May you all find happiness!
[15:34] ---
    That's enough of that!
[15:36] ---
    So you've come to
    interfere with my happiness, too?
[15:40] ---
    Did you really think you
    could find happiness after this?
[15:44] ---
    Of course! He told me so!
[15:54] ---
    Young master!
[15:56] ---
    When did the old sow get up there?
[16:03] ---
    A little brat like you would
    never understand how rotten it was
[16:06] ---
    to be married off to a man I didn't love!
[16:12] ---
    I want to feel a burning
    passion for a splendid man!
[16:16] ---
    And I'll fry anyone who gets in my way!
[16:24] ---
    You're pathetic.
[16:27] ---
    If you're going to moan about it, fight!
    If it bothers you, get moving!
[16:31] ---
    Just wallowing in your rotten luck
    like that makes you worse than a pig!
[16:35] ---
    You give up your future, lose your
    dreams, are stained with despair...
[16:40] ---
    Yet at the same time you
    shake off your past, fight reality,
[16:43] ---
    and never lose your nobility.
[16:45] ---
    That's it, young master.
    That's the soul I want to eat...
[16:49] ---
    Pig... pig, pig...
[16:52] ---
    You just called me a pig, didn't you?!
[16:58] ---
    Now then, I must hurry.
[17:01] ---
    I believe you said the lady will
    burn herself to death at five past.
[17:05] ---
    Wait, now, what are you playing at?
[17:07] ---
    My young master
    ordered me to capture her.
[17:11] ---
    You're too late, love.
[17:13] ---
    A Phantomhive butler who can't
    do this much isn't worth his salt.
[17:20] ---
    Shall we, Grell?
[17:22] ---
    Hmm? Why me?!
[17:25] ---
    My surly master must make
    a very unsatisfying model.
[17:30] ---
    I'd thought you would make a
    marvelous subject for a photo, but...
[17:35] ---
    Well, let me just show
    you a few sexy shots of me!
[17:43] ---
    I'll roast anyone who
    calls me a pig, boy or man!
[17:53] ---
    How long do you intend to fool around?
[17:56] ---
    Come, Sebastian!
[17:58] ---
    Yes, my lord.
[18:00] ---
    Talking to yourself now?
[18:10] ---
    What the devil...?
[18:12] ---
    My butler, and a freak.
[18:15] ---
    I'm a more deadly
    efficient reaper than I look!☆
[18:21] ---
    Stay out of this!
[18:27] ---
    Why? Why won't you burn?!
[18:38] ---
    Using a grim reaper as bait?
[18:41] ---
    You fiend.
[18:49] ---
    Now listen here!
[18:50] ---
    We ladies ripen and redden and
    sweeten each time you photograph us!
[18:55] ---
    That's right! Just like a
    bright-red, succulent fruit!
[18:59] ---
    It's pouring--no, it's gushing out of me!
[19:02] ---
    Just welling up out of every pore!
[19:06] ---
    Yes, right now I am
    the Queen of the Fruits!
[19:10] ---
    The Mangosteen of Reapers!
[19:13] ---
    Indeed, I can hardly resist biting you.
[19:18] ---
    Please! Please!
[19:20] ---
    You're late.
[19:21] ---
    My apologies, my lord.
[19:23] ---
    I told you: burn!
[19:28] ---
    Impossible...
[19:29] ---
    This is the least I would
    do on my master's orders.
[19:34] ---
    Wh-Who are you people?!
[19:39] ---
    I am merely one hell of a butler.
[19:42] ---
    I'm one mangosteen of a reaper!☆
[19:45] ---
    Now tell us everything.
[19:50] ---
    He told me what to do!
[19:53] ---
    He told me if I did this,
[19:57] ---
    splendid men would fall in love with me!
[20:00] ---
    "He"?
[20:03] ---
    The one with the golden eyes!
[20:07] ---
    I can't believe it!
    Her soul is burning too!
[20:12] ---
    Burning passion! Happiness!
[20:16] ---
    Wait! I still have ques--
[20:18] ---
    Young master!
[20:21] ---
    Are you hurt, young master?
[20:23] ---
    I'm fine.
[20:27] ---
    This can't be!
[20:29] ---
    How could the soul I'm
    to collect just burn up?!
[20:32] ---
    This can't happen! It's just not right!
[20:37] ---
    I have to report to Will,
    so I'll make this the last one.
[20:43] ---
    Next time let's sit for a lovers'
    portrait in the night, Sebas-chan!
[20:46] ---
    Toodle-oo!
[20:50] ---
    Young master, you ordered
    me to capture her, but...
[20:57] ---
    So everything burned to ash...
[21:01] ---
    I'll inform Her Majesty
    that these murders
[21:04] ---
    were the work of a
    woman crazed with greed.
[21:08] ---
    I see that humans are
    capable of doing quite a bit
[21:11] ---
    out of a longing for love.
[21:14] ---
    What a ridiculous waste.
[21:16] ---
    All this for a silly shapeless,
    meaningless thing like "love"...
[21:21] ---
    Laughable, isn't it?
[21:22] ---
    Very.
[21:25] ---
    But not everything has burned away.
[21:29] ---
    Investigate this "spider."
[21:31] ---
    It may have made a move during this case.
[21:37] ---
    At once.
[21:46] ---
    Asleep, you look so sad
[21:53] ---
    You look as though
    you're having bad dreams
[22:00] ---
    How do I live without you?
[22:05] ---
    Lock me up, and only me
[22:13] ---
    Within the sky of yourself
[22:20] ---
    I mourn that I can't go in search
[22:26] ---
    Of that blue sky I once saw
[22:34] ---
    But everyone is in the sky
[22:41] ---
    In the cage of freedom
[22:48] ---
    In a starless night sky
[22:55] ---
    Unable to see where I'm going... I wander
[23:10] ---
    Young master.
[23:13] ---
    Young master.
[23:18] ---
    Pardon me for disturbing you.
[23:21] ---
    Did you find out something?
[23:23] ---
    I found a book that seemed relevant
    in the stacks at the British Museum.
[23:28] ---
    It's true that during the
    previous live burnings,
[23:32] ---
    in addition to the Phantomhives
    acting as the Queen's executive organ,
[23:36] ---
    there was another noble family at
    work which specialized in cleanup.
[23:40] ---
    "Specialized in cleanup"?
[23:42] ---
    So that's why there were
    no records left at the Yard.
[23:46] ---
    The family head passed
    away three years ago,
[23:49] ---
    but as I understand it,
    his son has now taken over.
[23:52] ---
    They are known as the Earls Trancy.
[23:55] ---
    The Earls Trancy?
[24:04] ---
    By order of the Queen,
[24:06] ---
    we find ourselves on quite
    the perilous train journey.
[24:10] ---
    It seems the time has come for me
    to display the unbelievable rigidity
[24:14] ---
    of that secret part of me I've
    trained into monumental hardness.
[24:22] ---
    Next time: " Terrorist Butler."
[24:25] ---
    A Phantomhive butler
[24:28] ---
    who doesn't sew his own motion
    sickness bags isn't worth his salt.
[24:28] ---
    "Next Time: Terrorist Butler"