5 - His Butler, Chance Encounter

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    This is no time to be playing chess.
[00:36] ---
    Working obsessively at
    it will lead to no good.
[00:40] ---
    Why not leave everything to Sebastian?
[00:42] ---
    He's just my chess piece.
[00:44] ---
    I'm the one who moves him
    by giving him orders.
[00:47] ---
    But he's not an ordinary chess piece.
[00:50] ---
    He can advance as many squares
    as he likes at once...
[00:53] ---
    Like this.
[00:56] ---
    That's against the rules!
[00:58] ---
    Yes, if this were a game, it would be.
[01:01] ---
    But rules have no meaning in this world.
[01:05] ---
    There are always knights who
    break the rules, and pawns who betray.
[01:10] ---
    If you let your guard down,
    before you know it...
[01:12] ---
    it's checkmate.
[01:31] ---
    Damn.
[01:48] ---
    "Black Butler"
[01:54] ---
    There is no color to our meeting;
    it blows through in monochrome
[02:01] ---
    I go where your cool fingers beckon me
[02:06] ---
    I am like troublesome ice after the melt
[02:13] ---
    You gently scoop me up to your
    mouth and play with my upper lip
[02:21] ---
    Still, I search for a form of love
[02:27] ---
    The dry eyes that shape the
    present rather than a distant time
[02:33] ---
    Want to end like this, cloaked
[02:39] ---
    But the night ignores that
    wish and brings morning
[02:46] ---
    With your gentle,
    passionate, and dastardly kiss
[02:53] ---
     Paint this final night
[02:56] ---
    The moon illuminates us
[03:11] ---
    "His Butler, Chance Encounter"
[03:17] ---
    You must've had other choices in life
[03:20] ---
    besides being the underworld's guard dog.
[03:22] ---
    My sister... Your mother must have
    wanted something else for you, too.
[03:27] ---
    And yet you returned to the underworld...
[03:32] ---
    Is it because you're trying to
    avenge your parents' murders?
[03:38] ---
    Revenge won't bring the dead back,
[03:40] ---
    and it certainly won't make them happy.
[03:44] ---
    But...
[03:45] ---
    I didn't come back to the house of
    Phantomhive for my predecessors' sakes.
[03:53] ---
    I did it for me.
[03:57] ---
    I just want to make the people
    who betrayed and defiled my family
[04:00] ---
    suffer the same humiliation
    and pain that I suffered.
[04:06] ---
    I still remember the day you were born.
[04:10] ---
    You were so tiny and so cute,
    I thought, "I have to protect him."
[04:17] ---
    I wasn't able to have a child,
[04:20] ---
    but I think of you as my own son.
[04:25] ---
    I wish you'd leave the under--
[04:27] ---
    Being here now is something I
    wanted, and something I chose.
[04:33] ---
    I don't regret it, and I
    can't let anyone spoil me.
[04:41] ---
    You don't have to escort me, Sebastian.
[04:43] ---
    But my lady...
[04:46] ---
    Please don't leave that boy's side.
[04:50] ---
    Make sure he doesn't stray
    from the path and get lost.
[04:55] ---
    Fear not. I shall stay by his
    side and protect him to the end.
[05:03] ---
    I've come for you, my lady.
[05:15] ---
    Well?
[05:17] ---
    No matter how many times I
    examine it, the result is the same.
[05:20] ---
    The viscount had nothing to
    do with yesterday's murder.
[05:23] ---
    Indeed. None of the humans
    inside his mansion could have done it.
[05:28] ---
    Quite... None of the humans there...
[05:32] ---
    Anyway, tomorrow we'll...
[05:36] ---
    Sebastian!
[05:37] ---
    Don't tell me you...?
[05:39] ---
    I've told you over and over: I do not lie.
[05:44] ---
    Involved in medicine, ties to
    secret societies or black magic,
[05:49] ---
    and no alibi for the nights
    before the bodies were found:
[05:53] ---
    The only human that fits those
    criteria is the Viscount Druitt.
[05:58] ---
    Was your investigation just a farce, then?!
[06:00] ---
    You see, I am merely one hell of a butler.
[06:03] ---
    I simply faithfully carry out my
    master's orders and instructions.
[06:11] ---
    With one order from you, I can
    become your pawn or your sword.
[06:16] ---
    Now, put the villain in check, Master.
[06:28] ---
    He'll show up if we
    stake out this place, right?
[06:30] ---
    Yes.
[06:31] ---
    It's true that the murdered
    prostitutes had other things in common
[06:35] ---
    besides having their organs removed.
[06:38] ---
    Beautiful, glossy black hair.
[06:40] ---
    But why should he have to kill them?
[06:44] ---
    Sinfully lovable.
[06:46] ---
    And I--
[06:48] ---
    So soft... Yes, so soft...
[06:51] ---
    --So soft...
[06:52] ---
    --Listen when I'm talking to you!
[06:54] ---
    I apologize. She's a rare beauty.
[06:57] ---
    So soft...
[07:01] ---
    No one could have gotten past us...
[07:03] ---
    Let's go.
[07:18] ---
    No!
[07:33] ---
    That's quite a mess you made,
    Jack the Ripper...
[07:40] ---
    ...or should I say, Grell Sutcliff?
[07:43] ---
    Y-You have it all wrong!
[07:46] ---
    I heard the scream and ran
    over here, but she was already...
[07:50] ---
    I think you can stop playing
    innocent in that body, Grell.
[07:55] ---
    This is the first time I've met
    someone like you in the human world.
[07:59] ---
    You performed the role of
[08:03] ---
    "harmless incompetent butler" quite adeptly.
[08:08] ---
    Adeptly?
[08:13] ---
    Do you think so?
[08:16] ---
    That's right.
[08:18] ---
    I'm an actress, honey.
[08:21] ---
    And I'm absolutely first-rate.
[08:25] ---
    But you're not "Sebastian" either, are you?
[08:30] ---
    That's the name I received from
    my young master, so yes, I am...
[08:34] ---
    ...at the moment.
[08:35] ---
    My, so you're a "faithful dog" character.
[08:38] ---
    Though for a fine-looking man
    like you, that's fabulous too.
[08:40] ---
    Well then, Sebastian...
[08:43] ---
    No, Sebas-chan...
    let me re-introduce myself.
[08:46] ---
    I am Grell Sutcliff, butler to the Burnetts.
[08:50] ---
    I'm sure we two butlers
    can get along marvelously.
[08:54] ---
    Ah, I finally get to meet
    you in my true form!
[08:58] ---
    I'd never seen a demon
    playing a butler before,
[09:01] ---
    so I was so surprised when I first saw you!
[09:03] ---
    That's my line.
[09:05] ---
    I never imagined someone
    like you would play a butler.
[09:08] ---
    Someone who stands
    neutral between man and God...
[09:13] ---
    ...a grim reaper.
[09:16] ---
    Why would a divine being such
    as yourself bother to play a butler?
[09:19] ---
    Good question. Perhaps I should
    say I fell in love with a certain woman.
[09:25] ---
    And that woman would be?
[09:27] ---
    You don't need to ask, do you?
[09:40] ---
    Madam...
[09:42] ---
    I didn't calculate on anyone
    being able to see Grell for what he is.
[09:48] ---
    Naturally you were on the
    initial suspect list.
[09:51] ---
    But your alibi was perfect.
[09:55] ---
    You suspected even your own aunt?
[09:57] ---
    If you had the potential to be Jack,
    any blood relation was irrelevant.
[10:02] ---
    None of the humans on the suspect list
    could have committed all the murders.
[10:07] ---
    But if one had an inhuman accomplice,
    that would change everything.
[10:12] ---
    If he could enter the room in
    an instant without our noticing,
[10:17] ---
    he could also instantaneously get
    from the viscount's to the East End.
[10:22] ---
    You two are the only ones
    who could be Jack the Ripper...
[10:25] ---
    ...Madam Red and Grell Sutcliff.
[10:30] ---
    Jack the Ripper's victims
    had other things in common.
[10:34] ---
    They all underwent a certain
    surgery at London Central Hospital,
[10:38] ---
    where you work.
[10:40] ---
    The only patient on the list
    who hadn't yet been killed
[10:44] ---
    was Mary Kelly, who lived in that flat.
[10:47] ---
    I thought you'd show up here
    if I kept an eye on the place.
[10:53] ---
    I couldn't save her, though...
[10:56] ---
    This is unfortunate, my
    beloved nephew Ciel...
[11:00] ---
    If you hadn't figured it out,
    we could have played chess together again.
[11:05] ---
    But...
[11:07] ---
    I won't give anything up this time!
[11:17] ---
    Wh-What is that thing?!
[11:21] ---
    Grim reapers possess
    tools for harvesting souls.
[11:24] ---
    That is a reaper's sickle.
[11:26] ---
    "Sickle" is such a dull
    name; don't call it that!
[11:29] ---
    Not after I've customized it
    to my personal specifications!
[11:32] ---
    This is a "death scythe" only I can wield,
[11:34] ---
    and it can hack any being to pieces!
[11:38] ---
    I've behaved myself so well
    lately, I'm out of shape now!
[11:42] ---
    I want to get some real
    exercise for a change...
[11:44] ---
    ...with you.
[11:47] ---
    Could I ask you not to say such
    repugnant things? I am on duty.
[11:51] ---
    How stoic you are! Yet another
    thing that makes you irresistible!
[11:57] ---
    You see, I love the color red.
[12:00] ---
    Red is my favorite color for
    hair, and clothes, and lipstick.
[12:04] ---
    So I paint those ugly women
    with pretty, pretty red blood.
[12:10] ---
    Sebas-chan, I'll make you even
    finer-looking than you already are.
[12:14] ---
    I'm really going to tear you up inside...
[12:19] ---
    And make you red like
    beautifully-scattered rose petals.
[12:21] ---
    A grim reaper quietly
    harvests the souls of the dying.
[12:26] ---
    A butler subserviently
    follows his master like a shadow.
[12:31] ---
    Your vulgarity violates
    the aesthetics of both,
[12:34] ---
    and quite frankly, I find it sickening.
[12:38] ---
    Oh, Sebas-chan, you wound me.
[12:40] ---
    I'm a more deadly efficient
    butler than I look!☆
[12:48] ---
    In my own black name and
    that of the Queen, I order you:
[12:53] ---
    put an end to them!
[12:55] ---
    Yes, my lord.
[13:12] ---
    Ah, yes! Run more!
[13:14] ---
    We'll play tag, Sebas-chan!
[13:32] ---
    Now, now, if you don't
    escape fast you'll get cut.
[13:37] ---
    It's so much more stimulating
    when it hurts a little, isn't it?
[13:41] ---
    We've now become a guard dog and his prey.
[13:46] ---
    If it's hunt or be hunted...
[13:49] ---
    There's only one choice!
[13:55] ---
    You're a doctor! Why do this?!
[13:57] ---
    A kid like you would never
    understand even if I told him!
[14:05] ---
    You...
[14:08] ---
    You...
[14:12] ---
    You should never have been born!
[14:20] ---
    Sister...
[14:22] ---
    Young master!
[14:25] ---
    Stop, Sebastian!
[14:27] ---
    Don't kill her!
[14:39] ---
    Sebastian...
[14:42] ---
    Oh, Sebas-chan, you've got backbone.
[14:46] ---
    To think you'd sacrifice
    an arm to go save that kid...
[14:50] ---
    But how poorly you compare, Madam!
[14:54] ---
    Hurry up and kill the brat!
[15:07] ---
    I loved my sister...
[15:09] ---
    I loved him...
[15:12] ---
    I loved their...
[15:17] ---
    I can't.
[15:20] ---
    I can't do it after all. I can't kill him.
[15:24] ---
    You're saying that now?
    You've sliced so many women to bits!
[15:29] ---
    If you don't erase him, he'll erase you!
[15:32] ---
    Madam...
[15:33] ---
    But...
[15:35] ---
    But...
[15:37] ---
    This boy is my--
[15:42] ---
    I'm disappointed in you, Madam Red!
[15:46] ---
    I have no interest in you if
    you're just another woman!
[15:57] ---
    This is...
[15:58] ---
    Our job as grim reapers is to
    replay and examine the memories
[16:01] ---
    of those on the To-Die list
    distributed by the Powers that Be.
[16:04] ---
    We determine what kind of person
    they were, what kind of life they lived,
[16:10] ---
    whether they should be
    killed or left alive...
[16:14] ---
    In other words, you make
    their life flash before their eyes.
[16:16] ---
    Ugh, don't call it something so dull!
[16:17] ---
    This is the grim reaper's
    true ability: dramatic pain.
[16:22] ---
    This is the Cinematic Record!
[16:29] ---
    Rachel, Angelina, come
    greet Lord Phantomhive.
[16:37] ---
    I hated the red hair I
    inherited from my father.
[16:40] ---
    Your red hair is very beautiful, An.
[16:44] ---
    The color of spider lilies
    blazing in the fields...
[16:46] ---
    Red suits you well.
[16:49] ---
    I came to love my red hair.
[16:52] ---
    I came to love the color red.
[16:55] ---
    I came to love you.
[16:57] ---
    An, I have wonderful news!
[17:02] ---
    You...
[17:05] ---
    I hated red again.
[17:08] ---
    But... I couldn't bring myself to hate you.
[17:15] ---
    I married a man I met at a soirée.
[17:19] ---
    I wonder if it's a boy or a girl?!
[17:22] ---
    Men are so impatient.
    There's no way to tell that yet.
[17:27] ---
    It all came in a different
    form from what I'd truly wanted,
[17:31] ---
    but still, this time I would...
[17:36] ---
    That runaway carriage just
    hit someone! Call a doctor!
[17:40] ---
    It's slipping away...
[17:44] ---
    Your husband died instantaneously.
[17:46] ---
    And to save your life,
[17:49] ---
    we were forced to remove your uterus,
    along with the child inside.
[17:54] ---
    --When an internal organ ruptures like that--
[17:55] ---
    --Everything is slipping away from me...
[18:01] ---
    The people I love...
[18:04] ---
    The people I surely would
    have been able to love...
[18:10] ---
    The stain spreads...
[18:13] ---
    The stain spreads over everything...
[18:15] ---
    dying it that hated color red.
[18:23] ---
    My sister was able to die
    with the one she loved.
[18:27] ---
    I wish my feelings had been
    buried in the ground along with her.
[18:36] ---
    A kid would only get in the way.
[18:39] ---
    I don't know who the father is,
[18:41] ---
    and I can't take customers with a kid in tow.
[18:44] ---
    I lost everything.
[18:48] ---
    That woman had what I wanted...
    what I can never have again...
[18:55] ---
    And she threw it all away
    without a second thought.
[18:59] ---
    I'll stain her...
[19:03] ---
    Oh, you're that woman from--
[19:06] ---
    What are you doing?!
[19:08] ---
    St-Stop!
[19:11] ---
    I'll stain everything red with my own hands.
[19:18] ---
    Goodness me, you really went to town on her.
[19:26] ---
    A blood-red grim reaper smiled at me.
[19:31] ---
    A few months later, my missing
    nephew suddenly came back.
[19:36] ---
    Ciel!
[19:38] ---
    Bringing with him a butler all in black...
[19:43] ---
    So you're safe.
[19:46] ---
    I got just one thing back.
[19:48] ---
    Thank goodness you're safe, at least...
[19:53] ---
    Let me get a good look at your face.
[19:55] ---
    The son of the man I adored
    and my elder sister.
[20:02] ---
    This boy came back, so why not him.
[20:07] ---
    Why wasn't I the one to marry him?
[20:11] ---
    This time I won't let anything
    be taken from me.
[20:13] ---
    I won't give anything up.
[20:15] ---
    I won't give anything up!
[20:31] ---
    I loved you when you were dyed
    crimson with your victims' blood,
[20:35] ---
    Madam Red.
[20:39] ---
    I'm disappointed you turned
    out to be such a trite woman!
[20:43] ---
    You don't have what it takes to wear red.
[20:46] ---
    Your cheap little melodrama ends now.
[20:50] ---
    Farewell, Madam.
[21:02] ---
    What are you doing, Sebastian?
[21:06] ---
    I told you to put an end to Jack the Ripper.
[21:09] ---
    It's not over yet.
[21:13] ---
    Don't dawdle. Hurry up
    and kill the other one!
[21:18] ---
    Very good, my lord.
[21:21] ---
    I was going to be nice and
    let you go, but if you insist,
[21:27] ---
    I'll send you both to heaven!
[21:31] ---
    Heaven?
[21:36] ---
    Heaven and I are strangers.
[21:44] ---
    You just went after a lady's face!
    You're a fiend!
[21:48] ---
    Of course. You see, I am
    merely one hell of a butler.
[21:53] ---
    Do you think a demon can beat a divine being?
[21:56] ---
    An interesting question.
[21:58] ---
    However, if my young master
    tells me to win, I shall win.
[22:02] ---
    You're quite keen on that
    puny little brat. I'm jealous.
[22:08] ---
    Even demons cease to exist if I
    reap them with my death scythe.
[22:12] ---
    Aren't you afraid?
[22:14] ---
    Not in the least.
[22:16] ---
    I belong to my master body and soul,
[22:20] ---
    even down to the last hair on my head.
[22:23] ---
    As long as the contract is
    in effect, I follow his orders.
[22:28] ---
    That's the butler aesthetic, you see.
[24:04] ---
    The red spider lilies blazing in the fields
[24:07] ---
    eventually turn brown, wither, and die.
[24:11] ---
    Yes, everything follows
    the deadly laws of nature.☆
[24:16] ---
    Please excuse me.
[24:18] ---
    I do not wish to be any
    further infected by his vulgarity.
[24:21] ---
    I will have to get deadly on him right away.
[24:25] ---
    Next time on Black Butler:
    "His Butler, At the Funeral."
[24:26] ---
    "Next Time" "His Butler, At the Funeral"
[24:29] ---
    You see, I am merely one hell of a butler.