Chapter 2 – His Master, And the Missing
"Do you hear that?" The old baker's woman asks her husband.
"Is it possible not to?" Her husband answers.
Trying to get some sleep they were awoken by a noise from the kitchen downstairs. The old baker's woman gets up from the bed.
"I shall see what is causing the disturbance downstairs." She lights the candle at the side of her bed with a match in the drawer.
As she gets up to leave her husband grabs her arm and tells her that he shall come with her since their might be a robber in their bakery.
They walk down their creaky steps of their apartment opening the door into the hallway of the bakery.
They walk into the kitchen where pastries they had set out for the next day, missing. The wife stands by the door while the husband examines the empty trays. A shadow passes by the wife.
She screams after seeing a red beast pass her.
Morning again and Sebastian already had woken and dressed his young master. He heads to the kitchen to prepare his young masters breakfast.
"Huh?" Sebastian says.
The sugar was gone as well as the flour. It seems as if many ingredients had been stolen last night.
"Bard..." Sebastian suspects him or maybe one of those servants.
Sebastian was going to have to use leftovers to make his young masters breakfast or what they had left.
"Sebastian!" Mey-Rin calls from down the hall. "A letter!"
She runs with her laces untied. She trips over her own two feet with the letter flying in the air. Sebastian jumps up and grabs the letter landing on his feet. Mey-Rin on the other hand has her face in a vase.
"Oh it's a letter for the young master." He puts the letter in his pocket and returns to the kitchen to make his young masters breakfast.
The pink haired female had disappeared a few days ago and her words still bother Ciel. A newspaper sits besides Ciel and Sebastian brings out breakfast. The breakfast looked odd to Ciel. It didn't look very flavorful but Sebastian always made things work so worrying is not a problem. Sebastian sets up the food on the table.
"A letter, young master." He says while placing a tray in Ciel's face.
Ciel takes the letter from the tray; Sebastian also hands Ciel a butter knife. With the knife Ciel opens the letter from the queen.
Ciel reads it aloud, "Dear Phantomhive, Oh boy, it seems England has been shaken once again. Many young females have been found dead. No cause of disease, no injures nor bleeding. Many females have also gone missing. On the other hand there have been many robberies involving food."
Ciel sighs knowing he'll never be at peace. Ciel picks up the newspaper besides him. The front cover has a picture of a girl found dead lying in the grass. Her body seen worn out and stressed yet the girl smiled knowing she was at peace. Ciel began reading and he began to realize who he was going to have to visit. Sebastian better have a good joke up his sleeve. It was possible that someone could have drugged these girls up and killed them.
Ciel puts down the newspaper and begin eating. "Sebastian prepare a carriage we're going into town."
The Undertaker better give them useful information.
"Ugh! Lau why are you here?" Ciel growls.
Just before they left Lau and Ran-Mao crawled into the carriage. With Tanaka driving Sebastian sits with his young master in the cart.
"I had read the newspaper this morning and thought you would be on this case on the queen's request. It seems interesting." Lau says.
"The disappearing and dead girls are rather strange I cannot blame you for getting interested." Ciel says.
"Disappearing girls? I am talking about the food robbers. Our food was stolen last night as well." Lau says.
"Dead girls? I presume we are heading towards the Undertaker, correct?" Lau asks.
Ciel nods yes, very annoyed.
"Just like the Jack the Ripper case once we find out the list of victims we will find out what they have in common and make a suspect list." Ciel answers.
They stop in front of the Undertaker's shop. Sebastian opens the door for Ciel, Lau and Ran-Mao even though he would prefer not to do anything for Lau. They walk towards the Undertaker's parlor. Ciel stops and sees a girl with black hair in a light purple dress. She looks at him for a second then walks into the inn next to the parlor.
"Young lord is there something wrong?" Sebastian asks him. Ciel enters the parlor having an odd feeling about that girl.
Ciel exits the parlor along with Lau and Ran-Mao. They wait until they hear the Undertaker burst out laughing because Sebastian told the perfect joke. They enter the parlor again with the Undertaker finally calming down a bit.
"You kill me." He begins laughing again.
"Ahem." Ciel says.
"Ah, yes." The Undertaker begins.
"I presumed you are here on the food robbery case."
"Why would I come here for that?!" Ciel yells.
"I am here because young girls have been coming up dead or missing." Ciel addresses.
"Of course!" The Undertaker seems wildly fascinated in this case.
He brings out two coffins. In both coffins laid young girls, probably in their teens.
"The blonde is Cindy Campbell and the other is Joan Matrix." The Undertaker indentifies.
"Can I have a list of the other victims?"
The Undertaker has the list already and hands it to Ciel.
"About fifteen young girls dead." Lau says looking over Ciel's shoulder.
Three girls on the list are missing. Ciel rolls the list up and exits the parlor.
After Ciel's carriage drives off another being enters the parlor.
"Oh, Sayaka I see you came to visit." The Undertaker says.
"Sebastian." Ciel says.
"I need you to make a list of suspects." It seems so familiar to Ciel.
Like the Jack the Ripper case but this time he doesn't have an aunt to lose.
"Yes, my lord." Sebastian jumps out of the carriage.
"He is one strange butler." Lau comments.
When they arrive home Sebastian was waiting for them with a list of suspects.
"As expected!" Lau comments but the suspect list isn't that long.
"None of these girls have anything in common but there was a similarity between some of them."
"And what was that?" Lau asks
"Most of them met with Viscount of Druitt." Sebastian replies.
"So we have to go undercover and find out what he has done with the girls. We should send someone in." Ciel says.
A high noble woman had held a ball that anyone could go to. A carriage arrived with Lau and Ran-Mao with two other people.
"When I said we should send someone in I didn't mean me!" Ciel scowled dressed like a girl in a pink dress.
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