# 5 - His Butler, Chance Encounter
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**[00:31] ---**
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.*