Bleh...
Chapter 10 Crimson
At the end of the 18th century, when the social season was about to be over.
There occurred serial murders that shook England. Where the murdered were all prostitutes, and when they were discovered, their bodies had already cut open, their ovaries taken. Due to the brutality on the these victims, this criminal was called: 'Jack the ripper.'
It was late at night in one of the many London's alleys. The streets were empty, possibly because of the fear or because of the cold.
"So cold..." The young earl half whispered as he shivered in his less noble clothing.
"Even if this is a poor area, and even if my normal clothes attract attention, the clothes you're wearing now are not enough." Sebastian added as he pulled up the collar of his coat higher.
"Hmm.. It seems like it is about to rain." Charlotte mentioned as she wondered up and down the street.
Ciel glared at her from a distance, "Charlotte, why exactly are you dressed up as a prostitute?"
Charlotte was wearing a dark red dress that showed of her shoulders and her left leg right up to her thigh.
She grimaced, "Ah! You noticed, these are the clothes I would wear daily before I meet you."
"I see." He mumbled, he looked around the corner at one of the doors at the end of the alley. "So the murderess next target is Mary Kelly, who lives in that room?"
"Yes." Charlotte agreed as she looked over Ciels shoulder.
"I've told you many times I haven't got it wrong." Sebastian replied back to his master irritatedly.
"Its true that apart from missing their internal organs, they also have 'something in common'. However, must that person really need to go around killing people? And also, I..." Ciel stopped with his speech.
"DID YOU TWO LISTEN TO ME?" Ciel screamed at his two servants.
Sebastian was holding onto a cat while Charlotte was petting and cuing at it.
"Ah, I am sorry." Sebastian apologized as he let the cat go.
Ciel huffed in anger as the cat trotted away.
"So those people over there could not have done it, correct?" Ciel got back on the subject.
"...yes." Both Charlotte and Sebastian agreed with their masters statement. "Humans are incapable of it." Sebastian finished of the thought.
-flash back-
Ciel was sat on his bed while Sebastian was standing in front of him grinning.
"Is that so.. You..." Ciel hissed through his teeth.
Sebastian chuckled "I never lied about each investigation result. I have been telling the truth from the very beginning." He spoke with his sly smile. "One who is knowledgeable in medicine and human anatomy, and has connections with a secret societies of black magic. And does not have an alibi on the day before the incident, it is true that the Viscount is the only person who fulfills all these requirements."
Ciel clutched one of the papers that fell on to his bed, "It is true that you did not lie to me, however... YOUR INVESTIGATION IS THIS A CHEAP JOKE!" He shouted as she held up the paper in front of his face and ripped it into two pieces.
"Because you made the order." Sebastian carried on grinning without a flinch.
Ciel scowled in anger at his butler. He threw the paper at Sebastian's head but missed as Sebastian simply moved his head to the right.
"Oh dear, are you taking it out on me?" Sebastian spoke calmly which made his master even angrier.
- end of flash back -
The blood curling scream traveled through the door.
Ciels pupils shrank, he ran towards the source of the scream. He opened the door just about to run inside, when he saw the pitiful sight. Blood, gore, everywhere. Charlotte darted to him, she clasped her hand over his eyes so he could so no more then she dragged him back away from the gory sight.
Ciel was panting in horror, his hands were shivering. He threw up on the floor as the sight over whelmed his mind, even a thew seconds was enough.
"That was rather over the top, its all over the floor." Sebastian spoke into the darkness where a figure began to emerge. "'Jack the ripper"... No. Grell Sutcliff
"N...NO! This is..." Grell started to chant, trying to cover up, "I heard the cries, and when i got here it was already..."
"Already... what?" Charlotte almost threw herself in anger at Grell, she hated such foolish lyres.
"We were always right outside the only route." Sebastian snapped at Grell. "Just how did you manage to get into the same room as the descend?"
"Do you still plan on preventing in the state you're in?" Charlotte hissed. "Isn't it enough Mr. Grell ... No, even 'Grell Sutcliff' must be fake, right?"
"Please stop the act, Mr 'Grell'." Sebastian asked politely, "I must say it's the first time i've encountered a 'human like you'."
Grells face slowly fell into shadows, he's lips curled up into a smile, it was sinister and would make anyone fall back a step.
He rises his head up, he's eyes were crimson, his teeth were razor sharp and angular.
"Heh." He half hissed in a high pitched voice, "Is that so-?"
He reached to the bow that kept his hair together and untied it letting his dark brown hair fall. "That is correct!" He took off his small round glasses and threw them on the ground behind him. "I'm and actress," He took out a comb out his jacket. He brushed through his hear letting the colour slowly drift down and revealing the crimson hair. "And a top rate one, at that!" He exclaimed.
"But arrant you the same 'Sebastian'?" He asked as he pulled on a pear of dark crimson gloves.
"This is the name young master gave me, I am 'Sebastian'... at the present." Sebastian replied with a sutler grimace on his face.
Grell placed a pair of glasses with crimson frame. They were held on by a chain with black beads and two small skulls on each side. "Oh, the role of a faithful dog! Even though a handsome man as a loyal dog is also rather nice~ Then allow me to reintroduce myself, Sebastian no... little Sebast." He purred as he brush back his crimson hair. "I am the butler of the Barnett family, Grell Sutcliff." He announced with a large smile on his face.
"We're both butlers so hello~" Grell blown an air kiss to Sebastian.
Sebastian froze in disgust of what he just witnessed.
Charlotte's eye twitched, "Golly gosh, Sebastian, what kind of things do you do to men?" She whispered in horror.
"Ah, I can finally appear before you in my real form! Because isn't it embarrassing to appear before a handsome guy without makeup?" Grell purred. "It was my first time seeing a demon as a butler, so I was very surprised at first! This... arent you the same?"
"I've lived long enough, I've never heard of 'that kind of person' becoming a butler." Sebastian began to speak in his more calm and casual voice, "You, who should have stayed neutral between God and humans... death god. On the other hand, you are more or less a 'god', why did you choose to become a butler?" He wondered.
"Dont say it like that!" Grell exclaimed , "Oh right... I've been captivated by a woman."
Thoughts started to fall through Charlottes mind, ending up at the same stop each time. "That woman is...?"
"You dont really have to ask do you?" Another figure started to emerge from the shadows of the gory door way.
Cuels hands clenched as he heard the voice.
"Ciel..." Madam red purred. It was her, everything fitted together now. Every piece of the jigsaw.
"Madam red..." Ciel pushed off Charlottes hand of his face.
"My calculations were wrong... who would have thought the person to uncover Grell's real identity would be someone by your side, Ciel..." Madam reds voice trailed off into the night.
"As long as there is a possibility, I dont care whether the person is a blood relative or a friend." Ciel replied coldly. "In the list of suspects, any 'human' could not have done it. The same foes for you, of course. But, if the co-criminal was 'not human' then that is different matter. To be able to access Mary's room without us noticing, you should have the ability to go to the murder scene from the Viscounts place, right? The ones able to be 'Jack the ripper', would be the both of you. Madam red, also, Grell Sutcliff! The victims of Jack the ripper, apart from being prostitutes and being left with no ovaries, there was also another thing they had in common, they were all your patients at the Central Hospital you work at. All of them underwent a 'certain surgery'. The patient list setting out the order they'd undergo their operations, are here." Ciel slipped out a piece of paper out of his pocket and showed it to madam red, it was the list of the names of the prostitutes there were murdered with her own hands, "The order in which the victims died correspond exactly to the patients operation list. The only name left on this list was Mary Kelly's. I thought if i waited here, she would appear. However I... could not save her..." His dimming glare drifted away from madam red.
"How unfortunate, Sebastian. My cute nephew... my... sisters son..." She looked down at Ciel with sorrow in her eyes, "If you hadnt discovered this, we could have still played chess together..." She took a deep sigh, "IM NOT GOING TO GO EASY ON YOU ANYMORE!" She screamed at Ciel with anger and rage all mixed together.
Ciel stood back in shock as he heard, a sound, a roar.
Grell ran towards Ciel, he was holding a large blade, it was chain saw, roaring and ready to cut through any thing on its way.
Charlotte grabbed Ciel, pressing him closer to herself, just like a mother protecting a child.
Sebastian clasped the blade between his hands not letting it go any further towards his master.
Grell managed to pull out the chain saw from Sebastian's hands.
"W-what is that...?" Ciel exclaimed still full of horror just by listening to the sound.
"In order to capture souls, all death gods have their own tool. Its name is.. death god's scythe." Grell exclaimed as he held up his scythe with pride.
Charlotte stepped up with a mother soothed smile, "Hmm... Oh dear Grell, you and you're scythe, such trouble some things."
Grell chuckled in delight, "A regular scythe is so old fashioned, dont you think? The on I'm using was specially made to order. This 'death god's scythe' I'm using will play a debut with the souls late moments!" He exclaimed along with the roar's of the chain saw. "This is a tool used by the gods able to slice through anything! Oh, little Sebas, I do love red the most, hair, clothes, lipstick, i love them all to be red. That's why i love using fresh blood to do make for those ugly women, the more flamboyant a woman is, the more she's as beautiful as a poisonous flower. A cool man who uses the colour of wild roses up would definitly be beautiful, little Sebas... I want to make you use the beautiful rose colour and tear your body up to its deepest core, little Sebasdefinitely~"
"Death gods should quietly capture the souls that are about to depart from this world, butlers are supposed to follow their masters like a shadow." Sebastian spoke calmly, "The violate these two principles like you have, makes me to throw up."
Grell huffed from listening to Sebastians words, "Hey, I really tried my best as a butler to serve my master!" He exclaimed, "I even worked without my makeup or dressing up!"
"How shocking..." Sebastian spoke sarcastically, "And you still call yourself a butler?"
Grell grimaced with his shark like teeth. "Even if I'm like this I'm still the butler of DEATH!"
Ciel took of the eye patch revealing his right eye, " Sebastian, Charlotte. in the name of Her majesty and my own wretched name, i command you to capture them!" Ciel commanded his servants.
"Yes my lord." They spoke in sync.