# 9 - Hollow Butler
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**[00:10] ---**
My fellows of the deep, beloved darkness...
**[00:14] ---**
Here, I have...
**[00:21] ---**
...Alois Trancy's soul.
**[00:26] ---**
And what am I doing with it?
**[00:32] ---**
Close!
**[00:36] ---**
Wide of the mark.
**[00:41] ---**
Hannah.
**[00:43] ---**
The décor has changed.
**[00:50] ---**
Right on the mark!
**[00:54] ---**
I've changed the manor's navy
color scheme to midnight blue.
**[00:59] ---**
A subtle difference that
only a select few will notice.
**[01:07] ---**
Though their souls may
be fundamentally different,
**[01:10] ---**
they have one thing in common:
the pasts that color them.
**[01:16] ---**
And that...
**[01:18] ---**
...is useful.
**[01:24] ---**
I see, so that's their move.
**[01:35] ---**
Can't you sleep, my lord?
**[01:38] ---**
Sebastian.
**[01:40] ---**
It's not that...
**[01:42] ---**
I suppose a killing doesn't
play out like one imagines.
**[01:49] ---**
I thought he'd die easily,
**[01:52] ---**
but it's quite difficult to kill like you,
**[01:54] ---**
without hesitation or honor.
**[01:57] ---**
I'll take that as a compliment.
**[02:05] ---**
I can't sleep. Tell me a story.
**[02:07] ---**
In that case...
**[02:10] ---**
I'll read you a message
from Her Majesty the Queen.
**[02:18] ---**
*Tell me that even if a
never-ending sorrow steals you away*
**[02:26] ---**
*Our two hearts will never grow apart*
**[02:33] ---**
"Black Butler II"
**[02:41] ---**
*I run up to you from
behind asking questions*
**[02:44] ---**
*The reason I never wavered,
no matter what the future looked like*
**[02:51] ---**
*Was because I didn't want to
forget what I believed in anymore*
**[02:57] ---**
*My habit of averting my eyes, my
vague answers, and my not-funny lies--*
**[03:05] ---**
*If you're not by my side,
their very meaning blurs*
**[03:12] ---**
*Even if a never-ending
sorrow steals you away*
**[03:20] ---**
*Don't forget the days when we
couldn't imagine a true "goodbye"*
**[03:28] ---**
*Tell me that even if a
never-ending sorrow steals you away*
**[03:36] ---**
*Our two hearts will never grow apart*
**[03:46] ---**
"Hollow Butler"
**[04:03] ---**
Recently there's been a spate
of eye-gouging in the London area.
**[04:10] ---**
Though the victims aren't all of the
same class, they are all young boys.
**[04:15] ---**
A perverse business.
**[04:20] ---**
You don't understand anything!
You're just being tricked by a demon!
**[04:26] ---**
You and I are the same!
**[04:30] ---**
What is it?
**[04:33] ---**
Nothing.
**[04:40] ---**
I dunno!
**[04:42] ---**
He just up an' stuck his
fingers into my eyes,
**[04:45] ---**
and everythin' went red.
**[04:47] ---**
Now I can't see nothin'. Nothin'...
**[04:50] ---**
What was the criminal like?
**[04:52] ---**
He was a kid.
**[04:54] ---**
About the same age as me,
but he looked plenty rich.
**[04:58] ---**
A kid?
**[04:59] ---**
That bloody bastard!
**[05:05] ---**
Sebastian.
**[05:06] ---**
Yes.
**[05:14] ---**
*A demon has devoted time and effort*
**[05:17] ---**
*to building up that soul stitch by stitch.*
**[05:20] ---**
*If I'm to steal it, it's only
proper that I do so respectfully,*
**[05:25] ---**
*stitch by stitch.*
**[05:29] ---**
We've obtained several
witness reports now.
**[05:32] ---**
They all point to a
boy dressed like a noble.
**[05:37] ---**
He mocks me.
**[05:39] ---**
My lord?
**[05:41] ---**
Look.
**[05:43] ---**
I'll draw a line between the
Phantomhive and Trancy estates.
**[05:46] ---**
Now, if I connect the
scenes of the crimes...
**[05:50] ---**
A spider web.
**[05:52] ---**
He's behind this.
**[05:54] ---**
It may be that his butler is
acting alone, young master.
**[05:58] ---**
So he survived? He's
persistent, I'll give him that.
**[06:03] ---**
Young master...
**[06:04] ---**
I see...
**[06:07] ---**
so he survived...
**[06:12] ---**
A butler answers his master's
questions reliably and truthfully.
**[06:17] ---**
Am I right?
**[06:18] ---**
Quite right.
**[06:20] ---**
You aren't hiding anything
from me about Alois, are you?
**[06:25] ---**
No, nothing about Alois.
**[06:27] ---**
Then my--
**[06:31] ---**
The spider butler?
**[06:33] ---**
No, this is...
**[06:39] ---**
Stay here, young master.
**[06:42] ---**
It smells.
**[06:43] ---**
Please bear with it for a bit.
**[06:45] ---**
You mustn't take one step out
of this box, do you understand?
**[06:54] ---**
*Ah, yes... First they lure us
out with orders from the Queen,*
**[06:59] ---**
*and then for their
next chess move, they use*
**[07:01] ---**
*the ones sure to act whenever
there's a soul-related problem.*
**[07:11] ---**
Grim Reapers.
**[07:24] ---**
Ugh!
**[07:26] ---**
Come on, give me a break...
**[07:31] ---**
It's totally busted...
**[07:34] ---**
I don't believe we've met.
**[07:36] ---**
Yeah, hi.
**[07:39] ---**
The next *diehard* grim
reaper is Ronald Knox!☆
**[07:46] ---**
Yeah, that's just so wrong.
**[07:49] ---**
Senior Sutcliff said
I needed a catch phrase,
**[07:53] ---**
so I had a girl from the General
Affairs department think one up...
**[07:56] ---**
Please don't worry about it.
**[07:58] ---**
Today that catch phrase
will end along with you.
**[08:02] ---**
I assume your bureau is acting
because of strange soul movements?
**[08:08] ---**
Perhaps the soul of a
deceased called Alois Trancy
**[08:12] ---**
has proven unrecoverable, for instance?
**[08:14] ---**
Indeed!
**[08:18] ---**
I might have known you'd be
involved, Sebastian Michaelis.
**[08:29] ---**
*It's this feeling again.*
**[08:32] ---**
*I was trapped someplace
like this for a long time...*
**[08:37] ---**
*I know I've forgotten something.*
**[08:40] ---**
*But I can't remember it.*
**[08:43] ---**
*Alois and Sebastian
know what it is; I can feel it.*
**[08:49] ---**
*Only I've forgotten.*
**[08:54] ---**
*What is this?!*
**[09:10] ---**
You and I are the same!
**[09:12] ---**
Sod off! I'm nothing like you, you vile--
**[09:17] ---**
You mustn't take one step out of this box.
**[09:22] ---**
Sod off...
**[09:26] ---**
Don't *you* order *me* around!
**[09:31] ---**
Kids should go play at home!
**[09:33] ---**
You're a kid too!
**[09:35] ---**
Yeah!
**[09:37] ---**
For crying out loud...
**[09:38] ---**
Thanks to Grell Sutcliff,
I have to work overtime again!
**[09:43] ---**
*I was right; Alois Trancy is dead.*
**[09:46] ---**
*Which means his goal is...*
**[09:48] ---**
*The spider's thread twining
around a snow-white soul...*
**[09:53] ---**
*Chain it to form one row, a second row...*
**[09:56] ---**
*...and after the turn, a third.*
**[10:02] ---**
*Where are you, Sebastian? I'm coming too!*
**[10:04] ---**
*I'll see everything with my own eyes!*
**[10:08] ---**
Alois...
**[10:18] ---**
*Your mocking never ends.*
**[10:20] ---**
Stop!
**[10:24] ---**
That's as far as you go, Alois Tran--
**[10:26] ---**
Found you, Alois Trancy!
**[10:30] ---**
Bloody nuisances...
**[10:32] ---**
You're from the Yard?
Go after him! He's getting aw--
**[10:37] ---**
Don't try to fight us, Alois Trancy!
**[10:40] ---**
You think I'm Alois?
Get it straight! He's right--
**[10:46] ---**
Take him in.
**[10:47] ---**
Let me go this instant!
**[10:50] ---**
Who are you people?!
**[10:55] ---**
You're from the Trancy estate...
**[10:57] ---**
You're quite sure?
**[10:59] ---**
Yes. This is my master. Alois, Earl Trancy.
**[11:05] ---**
What?!
**[11:06] ---**
He appears extremely confused...
**[11:10] ---**
My lord was repeatedly
abused by his late father.
**[11:17] ---**
I'm sorry to say that it affected his mind.
**[11:22] ---**
He hates the mark carved into
his eye by the previous Earl Trancy,
**[11:27] ---**
and when he sees a boy who resembles him,
**[11:30] ---**
that hatred manifests itself.
**[11:33] ---**
And it tells him, "Gouge. Gouge."
**[11:41] ---**
He took my eye as well.
**[11:44] ---**
How dare you!
**[11:46] ---**
His eye is the best proof.
**[11:49] ---**
Take off the patch.
**[11:51] ---**
Stop it!
**[11:55] ---**
Y-You're wrong... It's a
sign of Sebastian's and my...
**[12:00] ---**
My master is a victim as well.
**[12:02] ---**
I beg you'll show him mercy.
**[12:05] ---**
Take him in!
**[12:07] ---**
Stop this! Let me go!
**[12:13] ---**
Sebastian!
**[12:21] ---**
All right!
**[12:24] ---**
Now, let's get this over with!
You can bet *I'm* not working overtime.
**[12:34] ---**
Even I'm at a disadvantage
against two reapers.
**[12:36] ---**
Ronald Knox, do you intend to fell
me with your death scythe as well?
**[12:42] ---**
Oh, did I cross the line?
**[12:44] ---**
Sorry, I'm at that mischievous age.
**[12:47] ---**
A grim reaper must judge
situations swiftly and accurately.
**[12:51] ---**
Are those spectacles just for show?
**[12:59] ---**
Sir, he's getting away.
**[13:00] ---**
My spectacles...
**[13:02] ---**
My spectacles... my spectacles!
**[13:05] ---**
Shouldn't we stop him before he's gone?
**[13:07] ---**
Failure to understand the
importance of a reaper's spectacles
**[13:11] ---**
is grounds for a pay cut!
**[13:15] ---**
Er... I don't even know where to begin.
**[13:21] ---**
Done.
**[13:23] ---**
Ciel Phantomhive...
**[13:26] ---**
I'll pierce your soft skin with my hook...
**[13:39] ---**
...and suck out your
delectable soul at my leisure.
**[14:03] ---**
Why don't you start
by telling me your name?
**[14:07] ---**
Ciel Phantomhive.
**[14:09] ---**
Really, treating a noble like this?
Have you the proper permission?
**[14:17] ---**
The Queen! Contact the Queen!
**[14:20] ---**
Yes, or even Sir Arthur!
**[14:22] ---**
All I've said can be easily--
**[14:27] ---**
He's quite far gone.
**[14:30] ---**
Give him the special treatment.
**[14:59] ---**
*Everything is receding...*
**[15:05] ---**
*Everything is...*
**[15:25] ---**
I apologize for not sending
someone to fetch you, Sebastian.
**[15:30] ---**
No need. Your invitation
was easy enough to understand.
**[15:34] ---**
This is the exact center of the
web you laid with these attacks.
**[15:46] ---**
I am... Ciel... Phantomhive...
**[15:52] ---**
The Queen's...
**[15:54] ---**
the Queen's...
**[15:56] ---**
guard dog.
**[15:58] ---**
I lost my... father and mother...
**[16:02] ---**
How did you lose them?
**[16:04] ---**
The mansion... burned...
**[16:06] ---**
Yes. It burned.
**[16:10] ---**
The village you grew up in burned.
**[16:12] ---**
I ran down the corridor...
**[16:15] ---**
Yes. You ran down the path
on the outskirts of the village.
**[16:31] ---**
You ran, and then you found...
**[16:35] ---**
I found... my dead father and mother...
**[16:40] ---**
Yes. You found your dead brother.
**[16:46] ---**
Brother?
**[16:48] ---**
You found him. And then what?
**[16:51] ---**
The old men took me...
**[16:55] ---**
Yes. The old man took you and...
**[17:06] ---**
Humiliated me...
**[17:09] ---**
The Earl Trancy did.
**[17:15] ---**
Tran...
**[17:19] ---**
cy...
**[17:24] ---**
Yes.
**[17:35] ---**
The sheath that holds a demon's sword...
**[17:44] ---**
Why would someone so
powerful be obeying Claude?
**[17:49] ---**
Claude...
**[17:56] ---**
We have a contract.
Even if he's taken from me,
**[18:00] ---**
he is still my young master.
**[18:02] ---**
None of you can ever
so much as taste his soul.
**[18:07] ---**
Navy and... midnight blue...
**[18:11] ---**
Two very similar memories...
**[18:15] ---**
True, none of us can
so much as taste him.
**[18:20] ---**
Not while he's still
entirely your young master.
**[18:25] ---**
I made a contract with Sebastian.
**[18:30] ---**
Someone made a contract with Sebastian,
**[18:34] ---**
and he started a fire.
**[18:36] ---**
A fire...
**[18:38] ---**
Yes. Sebastian made a contract
with your younger brother Luka,
**[18:43] ---**
and burned your village to the ground.
**[18:45] ---**
Luka... village...?
**[18:48] ---**
Yes.
**[18:49] ---**
Sebastian Michaelis entered
into a contract with Luka,
**[18:54] ---**
and you lost your only living relative.
**[19:02] ---**
Relative...
**[19:24] ---**
Young master!
**[19:32] ---**
Young master...
**[19:33] ---**
Don't touch me!
**[19:37] ---**
Young master.
**[19:41] ---**
So *you* were the one
who killed my parents,
**[19:45] ---**
Sebastian Michaelis?!
**[19:51] ---**
I didn't predict you mixing their memories.
**[19:55] ---**
A ploy that would cloud the
soul's taste never occurred to me.
**[20:01] ---**
He's soaked through...
**[20:03] ---**
Did you dip him in a medicine to confuse him?
**[20:09] ---**
Should I answer that, Master?
**[20:14] ---**
No need.
**[20:24] ---**
I know.
**[20:34] ---**
This is an order: get out of my sight!
**[20:46] ---**
To a butler, the master's
orders are absolute.
**[21:06] ---**
Master.
**[21:08] ---**
I'm... tired...
**[21:10] ---**
Of course.
**[21:11] ---**
I want to sleep...
**[21:19] ---**
Yes, Your Highness.
**[21:25] ---**
I took a shamefully long
time to prepare dinner.
**[21:31] ---**
And now look what's happened.
**[21:39] ---**
Delaying dinner is
absolutely not allowed.
**[21:42] ---**
However, first...
**[21:44] ---**
As butler to the Phantomhives,
**[21:48] ---**
I must clear away the spider webs.
**[21:51] ---**
That's plain.
**[22:00] ---**
*Asleep, you look so sad*
**[22:07] ---**
*You look as though
you're having bad dreams*
**[22:14] ---**
*How do I live without you?*
**[22:20] ---**
*Lock me up, and only me*
**[22:27] ---**
*Within the sky of yourself*
**[22:34] ---**
*I mourn that I can't go in search*
**[22:41] ---**
*Of that blue sky I once saw*
**[22:48] ---**
*But everyone is in the sky*
**[22:55] ---**
*In the cage of freedom*
**[23:02] ---**
*In a starless night sky*
**[23:09] ---**
*Unable to see where I'm going... I wander*
**[23:23] ---**
Welcome home.
**[23:34] ---**
Golden into navy,
**[23:37] ---**
navy into midnight blue, and...
**[23:41] ---**
Alois Trancy into Ciel Phantomhive.
**[23:45] ---**
That's what makes one hell of a butler.
**[23:51] ---**
Draw him a hot bath.
**[23:53] ---**
Of course.
**[23:54] ---**
He'll catch cold like this.
Hot water will warm up our master--
**[23:58] ---**
--no, our *young* master--
**[24:01] ---**
--all the faster.
**[24:04] ---**
*In the end, the target for revenge
that Ciel Phantomhive sought*
**[24:08] ---**
*was Sebastian Michaelis.*
**[24:11] ---**
*I see. That's rather amusing, really.*
**[24:22] ---**
*Next time: "Zero Butler."*
**[24:25] ---**
*A Phantomhive butler...*
**[24:26] ---**
"Next Episode: Zero Butler"
**[24:28] ---**
*A PHANTOMHIVE BUTLER...!*