9 - His Butler, Having a Laugh
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[00:00] Blue House athletes
Hurrah for the second Sapphire Miracle!
[00:04] Ciel
I was just so happy Blue House won.
[00:07] Ciel
We proved that we have what it takes.
[00:13] Ciel
Your Majesty, I swear to present you
with the truth behind all this.
[00:20] Ciel
Salute Her Majesty the Queen!
[00:28] Cheslock
Leave it to Blue House!
[00:34] Bluewer
So bright my eyes are stinging.
[00:38] McMillan
Th-This is amazing!
[00:40] McMillan
You've been invited to a midnight tea party!
[00:44] Bluewer
Welcome, Phantomhive...
[00:47] P4
...to the midnight tea party.
[00:51] Ciel
That's Weston College's absolute
monarch, the Head Master.
[00:57] Ciel
It's clear they are all
covering something up.
[01:01] Ciel
It's about Derrick Arden and his friends.
[01:04] Ciel
I can't raise my glass until
I've had a chance to see them.
[01:08] Ciel
This is a boarding school where
every minute of the day is tightly regulated,
[01:11] Ciel
yet no less than five students
have gone missing.
[01:14] Ciel
These are patently
abnormal circumstances.
[01:17] Ciel
Head Master, let us call
on Scotland Yard for help.
[01:21] Agares
That won't be necessary.
[01:24] Agares
You see, they are here on school grounds.
[02:32] Sign
Black Butler
[02:32] Sign
Public School Arc
[03:22] Ciel
Derrick Arden?
[03:24] Ciel
He's all right?
But why the vanishing act, then?
[03:31] Cheslock
All that fuss, and he was
here the whole time?
[03:37] Greenhill
A-Arden? Are you really...
[03:42] Derrick
Hello. Ah, the scent of tea.
[03:55] Greenhill
Arden...
[04:00] Redmond
You knave!
[04:02] Redmond
How dare you!
[04:10] Ciel
Th-That wound...
[04:12] Ciel
It's the same one those corpses
on the Campania had.
[04:19] Ciel*
Come, Sebastian!
[04:26] Bluewer
Master Michaelis?
[04:27] Ciel
This is an order: capture Derrick!
[04:32] Sebastian
Yes, my lord.
[04:45] Sebastian
An English gentleman who exhibits
bad manners at a tea party
[04:51] Sebastian
isn't worth his salt.
[04:57] Greenhill
My arm...
[04:58] Edward
Greenhill!
[05:00] Sebastian
I'll treat you at once.
[05:03] Sebastian
He took quite a chunk out of you.
[05:06] Sebastian
Place your hand on top.
[05:08] Edward
R-Right.
[05:10] Harcourt
What is Master Michaelis doing here?
[05:13] Clayton
What the devil is going on?
[05:16] Agres
So his episodes are still violent, too.
[05:21] Sebastian
"Episodes"? May I ask what you mean?
[05:27] Ciel
Master Michaelis—or rather,
Sebastian—is my butler.
[05:32] Harcourt
Our teacher is a butler?!
[05:34] Cheslock
What?!
[05:35] Ciel
I entered this school with him
to investigate the disappearances.
[05:41] Ciel
This explains why Sebastian
couldn't track Derrick down, though.
[05:46] Ciel
He's been dead this whole time.
[05:49] Harcourt
Dead? What do you mean?
[05:53] Harcourt
He's right here, moving.
[05:55] Derrick
The scent of... tea...
[06:04] Ciel
And now, let's have
your explanation for all this...
[06:10] Ciel
Head Master.
[06:13] Clayton
Phantomhive, what are you—
[06:15] Edward
Clayton!
[06:16] Edward
Don't oppose Ciel—or rather,
the Earl Phantomhive.
[06:22] Cheslock
What's going on here, damn it?
[06:25] Ciel
I've seen humans
become like Derrick before.
[06:30] Ciel
What did you do to Derrick? Tell me!
[06:42] Greenhill
We...
[06:45] Greenhill
We only did it out of protectiveness.
[06:48] Sebastian
"Protectiveness"?
[06:49] Greenhill
Legend has it that Saint George,
the symbol of Weston,
[06:55] Greenhill
protected his country by defeating
the dragon that was menacing it.
[07:02] Bluewer
In other words, the only way to escape
a disaster is to eliminate the source.
[07:08] Bluewer
We merely did as he taught us.
[07:11] Redmond
That's why we...
[07:17] P4
...had to...
[07:27] P4
...kill Derrick.
[07:37] (Flashback) Violet
He's not breathing.
[07:40] (Flashback) Greenhill
It... It's all my fault. What have I done?
[07:46] (Flashback) Redmond
Breathe, Greenhill. This is for the best.
[07:50] (Flashback) Redmond
Actually, this was the only option.
[07:54] (Flashback) Bluewer
Yes. But what now? Greenhill will be accused
of a crime if we don't do something.
[08:00] (Flashback) Redmond
I have an idea. Will you trust me
to take care of this?
[08:08] (Flashback) Redmond
He says he'll make haste here tomorrow.
[08:13] (Flashback) Violet
Good.
[08:15] (Flashback) Bluewer
We'll be all right.
[08:17] (Flashback) Redmond
It'll all go off without a hitch.
[08:36] (Flashback) Stoker
Hullo! So you're the
Viscount Druitt's nephew?
[08:40] (Flashback) Stoker
Your facial features are
as healthy as your social status!
[08:45] (Flashback) Stoker
Phoenix!
[08:47] (Flashback) Stoker
My name is Ryan Stoker.
[08:49] (Flashback) Stoker
For public purposes,
I'm the director of Karnstein Hospital.
[08:53] (Flashback) Redmond
H-Hello.
[08:55] (Flashback) Stoker
And over there is my research partner.
[09:04] Ciel
D-Don't tell me...
[09:10] Redmond
So we signed a contract with...
[09:14] Redmond
...him.
[09:16] Sebastian
I see.
[09:17] Sebastian
This ties all the strands together.
[09:21] Sebastian
Derrick Arden, a student
whose body and soul both vanished.
[09:26] Sebastian
The Head Master,
a man able to escape my pursuit.
[09:31] Sebastian
The Aurora Society,
secret pursuers of human reanimation.
[09:38] Sebastian
All the little "happenings"
that seemed trifling at the time.
[09:42] Sebastian
A certain someone wove them
into this bizarre and complicated affair.
[09:47] Sebastian
It's you, isn't it?
[09:51] Redmond
The Head Master had nothing to do with it!
We prefects did it on our own—
[09:55] Sebastian
I didn't say the Head Master was behind it.
[09:59] Sebastian
Well? Shall we both drop this charade...
[10:03] Sebastian
and stop playing "educator"?
[10:10] Undertaker
Well, drat.
[10:13] Undertaker
It's rather a shame. I quite liked this job.
[10:17] Undertaker
Watching your exertions from the
grand tier has been most entertaining.
[10:23] Undertaker
They've provided me with prime laughter.
[10:34] Ciel
You're...
[10:40] Ciel
Undertaker!
[10:47] Ciel
Undertaker.
[10:49] Ciel
This man is an ordinary undertaker by trade,
[10:52] Ciel
and one of the Phantomhive family
connections I inherited from my predecessor
[10:56] Ciel
in the "Queen's guard dog" role.
[10:59] Ciel
He used to be a useful, if slightly
troublesome, informant of mine.
[11:06] (Flashback) Undertaker
Welcome, my lord.
[11:09] (Flashback) Undertaker
Is today the day you'll condescend
to enter one of my special coffins?
[11:13] (Flashback) Undertaker
Come on, my lord, give me prime laughter!
[11:17] (Flashback) Undertaker
Do that, and I'll tell you anything.
[11:20] (Flashback) Sebastian
I see there's no help for it.
[11:25] (Flashback) Undertaker
I'll tell you anything.
[11:30] (Flashback) Ciel
I knew she wouldn't be saved.
[11:32] (Flashback) Ciel
I knew, and I let her die.
[11:35] (Flashback) Ciel
My own flesh and blood...
[11:36] (Flashback) Undertaker
Are you having regrets?
[11:38] (Flashback) Ciel
No.
[11:39] (Flashback) Ciel
This is my family's lot in life.
[11:42] (Flashback) Undertaker
That ring is like a dog collar.
[11:45] (Flashback) Undertaker
It connects you to the Queen
by the chains of "fate."
[11:49] (Flashback) Undertaker
I pray you're never hung by that collar.
[11:56] (Flashback) Sebastian
They evidently have a secret greeting.
[11:59] (Flashback) Ciel
What's the greeting?
[12:00] (Flashback) Sebastian
It's...
[12:02] (Flashback) Ciel/Sebastian
Phoenix!
[12:05] (Flashback) Druitt
I shall show you an undead army
bowing down before me!
[12:10] (Flashback) Druitt
Huh?
[12:11] (Flashback) Druitt
Non!
[12:21] (Flashback) Undertaker
It's been a long time
since I laughed this much.
[12:25] (Flashback) Undertaker
How sad that the laughter
should leave this place.
[12:33] (Flashback) Grell
That yellow-green phosphorescence
can only mean...
[12:36] (Flashback) Grell
...a grim reaper!
[12:38] (Flashback) Ciel
The Undertaker is a grim reaper?
[12:41] (Flashback) Undertaker
Well, shall I hunt you now?
[12:54] (Flashback) Undertaker
My lord, I'll let you hold
on to that for a while.
[12:57] (Flashback) Undertaker
Take good care of it, won't you?
It's my treasure.
[13:02] (Flashback) Ciel
Wait, Undertaker!
[13:03] (Flashback) Undertaker
Until we meet again, my lord.
[13:17] Undertaker
Hello, my lord.
[13:19] Undertaker
You seem well after your misadventure
getting tossed into a winter sea.
[13:24] Undertaker
I was worried.
[13:27] Undertaker
Good to see you again.
[13:29] Ciel
Fine words coming from the one
who caused that misadventure!
[13:34] Sebastian
I wondered where you had ended up
after shuttering your business.
[13:37] Sebastian
To think you'd taken up a job at a school.
[13:41] Undertaker
I'm only a supply teacher.
[13:44] Sebastian
Good grief. Our "find the runaway"
assignment has certainly taken a turn.
[13:50] Sebastian
The four of you murdered Derrick, then asked
the Aurora Society to bring him back to life.
[13:58] Sebastian
What was it you wanted to protect so badly?
[14:07] Bluewer
He...
[14:09] Bluewer
Derrick Arden mustn't be allowed
to exist at our school.
[14:14] Ciel
What do you mean?
[14:17] Bluewer
I mean...
[14:34] (Flashback) Agares
I will now announce this year's prefects.
[14:38] (Flashback) Agares
For Scarlet Fox House, Edgar Redmond.
[14:44] (Flashback) Agares
For Sapphire Owl House, Lawrence Bluewer.
[14:49] (Flashback) Agares
For Green Lion House, Herman Greenhill.
[14:54] (Flashback) Agares
For Violet Wolf House, Gregory Violet.
[15:15] (Flashback) Redmond
We four...
[15:17] (Flashback) Bluewer
...as prefects of this historic institution...
[15:20] (Flashback) Greenhill
...vow to govern the student body with pride...
[15:24] (Flashback) Violet
...henceforth.
[15:34] (Flashback) Redmond
We've done it! We've done it at last!
[15:57] (Flashback) Greenhill
H-Here we go.
[16:00] (Flashback) Redmond
Right.
[16:15] (Flashback) Greenhill
After five years here,
we've successfully made prefect.
[16:21] (Flashback) Redmond
Yes.
[16:25] (Flashback) Redmond
Lawrence?
[16:29] (Flashback) Bluewer
I'm sorry.
[16:36] (Flashback) Bluewer
I don't have the words.
[16:50] (Flashback) Redmond
Bullying?
[16:51] (Flashback) Greenhill
Yes. We got an anonymous note.
[16:55] (Flashback) Greenhill
It asked us to keep a more vigilant eye out.
[16:58] (Flashback) Bluewer
Rule No. 5: "All students must
be equal before the Head Master."
[17:04] (Flashback) Derrick
We can't let this stand.
Please, let me do some patrols!
[17:09] (Flashback) Redmond
Excellent initiative, Derrick.
I'll leave it to you.
[17:12] (Flashback) Derrick
Right.
[17:20] (Flashback) Bluewer
He's a reliable support.
[17:22] (Flashback) Greenhill
Captain of his local cricket team.
[17:25] (Flashback) Violet
His needlework is at professional level.
[17:28] (Flashback) Bluewer
His reports are always highly regarded, too.
[17:30] (Flashback) Redmond
And he has keen poetic sensibilities.
[17:34] Bluewer
A cheerful duke's son,
fairly brimming with talent.
[17:40] Bluewer
Derrick Arden's light shone brightly.
[17:44] Bluewer
And so we never noticed...
[17:51] Bluewer
...the profound shadow his light created.
[18:03] (Flashback) Redmond
Going out after Lock Up
is against school rules.
[18:06] (Flashback) Redmond
And you were drinking?!
[18:08] (Flashback) Derrick
Disrupting school discipline is a stain
on both Weston and your own family name!
[18:12] (Flashback) Student
I-I'm sorry.
[18:16] (Flashback) Redmond
You get three Ys.
Have them to me by next week.
[18:20] (Flashback) Student
Right.
[18:27] (Flashback) Redmond
Say, have you made any progress
on the bullying investigation?
[18:32] (Flashback) Derrick
The fact is, I can't find
anything unusual going on.
[18:36] (Flashback) Derrick
Anonymous notes are often fake.
[18:39] (Flashback) Redmond
I see.
[18:42] (Flashback) Derrick
There were two notes today.
[18:46] (Flashback) Derrick
One asks for a larger water ration
to wash our faces in the morning.
[18:49] (Flashback) Derrick
The other one...
[18:50] (Flashback) Derrick
What? "A Poem for the Prefects"?
[18:57] (Flashback) Derrick
"At the shore of an uncorrupted Lake
[19:00] (Flashback) Derrick
the mighty Thor did stand,
torch at his side, and bend his ear
[19:04] (Flashback) Derrick
to the tune which the gracious disciple
did play on his misshapen pearl Lyre.
[19:09] (Flashback) Derrick
But a mischievous Pixie appeared
and cast his torch into the water—
[19:14] (Flashback) Derrick
and so the torch's flame went out
whilst the Lake brimmed over with stars.
[19:20] (Flashback) Derrick
In time this inspired the legend of
a beauteous Lake that healed men's hearts;
[19:25] (Flashback) Derrick
and yet the god, robbed of his Light,
could only wander in darkness."
[19:32] (Flashback) Derrick
A poem for the prefects, eh?
You four are truly objects of admiration.
[19:42] (Flashback) Violet
What's with the sudden summons?
[19:46] (Flashback) Violet
I'm sleepy.
[19:47] (Flashback) Redmond
That poem was a message for us.
[19:52] (Flashback) Redmond
Thor, the name of the god of thunder,
is the root of the word "Thursday."
[19:58] (Flashback) Redmond
The "gracious disciple" bit
refers to John the Apostle,
[20:01] (Flashback) Redmond
whose Hebrew name, Johanan,
means "God is gracious."
[20:05] (Flashback) Redmond
"Misshapen pearl Lyre"
is probably code for Baroque music,
[20:10] (Flashback) Redmond
a context in which Johanan or Johann
logically points to Johann Sebastian Bach.
[20:16] (Flashback) Redmond
There's a bust of Bach in the music room.
[20:20] (Flashback) Redmond
I think "the torch's flame went out"
is a reference to lights-out time.
[20:26] (Flashback) Redmond
That poem had a time and
place skilfully woven into it.
[20:32] (Flashback) Redmond
What's more, it was specifically
addressed to us, the prefects.
[20:40] (Flashback) Greenhill
You're claiming it was a request for us
[20:43] (Flashback) Greenhill
to come to the music room
on Thursday at lights-out?
[20:48] (Flashback) Redmond
Yes. It's an intricately written poem intended
to convey something to just the four of us.
[20:55] (Flashback) Redmond
It would be a brilliant work of art
on its poetic merits alone, though.
[21:00] (Flashback) Bluewer
I must say, I'm impressed you
discerned its true meaning.
[21:05] (Flashback) Redmond
It'll probably be easier for you
to see it in the lamplight.
[21:10] (Flashback) Redmond
At first glance,
it looks like it's all in black ink,
[21:13] (Flashback) Redmond
but look closely and the important words
are written in a dark blue.
[21:17] (Flashback) Redmond
Given that clue, anyone well-educated
in poetry would pick up on the message.
[21:22] (Flashback) Redmond
The one thing I don't understand, though,
is that "robbed of his Light" bit at the end.
[21:29] (Flashback) Student A
Come on, stand up!
[21:34] (Flashback) Redmond
What are you doing in here?!
[21:47] (Flashback) Redmond
D-Derrick?
[21:57] Redmond
That's right. "Robbed of his Light" meant...