Hayato POV
I leant against the wall. Marco said that the Undertaker wouldn't answer my question with a straight answer… Most likely meaning that our killer is a reaper… This will be troublesome.
"Are you alright, Hayato?" Marie asked.
I nodded as she burst out laughing. I looked at her and noticed that Sebastian was cooing over a cat. I giggled as Ciel growled. He must have been ignoring Ciel… Because of the cat… Marie was still laughing when a piercing scream rang through the air.
"How could someone have gotten past us?!" Ciel groaned.
We ran to the house and opened the door. I looked at the scene as Sebastian covered Ciel's eyes. It was too late. Ciel turned and threw up. Footsteps sounded and we all turned in the direction of where they came from.
"You've made quite a bloody mess of things in there, Jack the Ripper… Or rather, Grell Sutcliffe?" Sebastian asked.
Grell came out all bloody.
"You have it all wrong! I heard the scream and ran over here, but she was already-" Grell was cut off.
"I think that you can stop playing innocent in that body, Grell," Marie stated, "This is the first time I've met someone like you in the human world. You performed the role of a harmless incompetent butler quite adeptly."
"You think so? How kind," he said with a creepy grin, "That's right; I'm an actress, honey. And I'm absolutely first rate. But you're not 'Marie' or 'Sebastian' either, are you?"
Grell combed out his head and it turned red.
"Actually, I am Marie," Marie giggled, "Marie is my given name."
"That's the name I received from my young master, so yes, I am… at this moment," Sebastian said.
"Cut the chase," I muttered, "Grell Sutcliffe… Why would such a 'divine' being such as you bother to play a butler?"
"Why, indeed? For now let's just say that it was out of love for a certain woman," he replied with another creepy grin.
"And that woman would be?" Marco asked.
"You don't need to ask, do you?" Lydia said at the same time as another voice.
Ciel removed Sebastian's hand away as Madame Red appeared.
"Madame…"
"I didn't calculate on anyone being able to see Grell for what he is," she said her hands crossed over her body.
"Naturally you were on the initial suspect list, but all of your alibis were flawless," Ciel stated.
"You suspected your own aunt?" she questioned.
"I was looking for a murderer; degree of relation to me did not matter," Ciel said.
"None of the humans on the suspect list could have committed all the murders. But if one had an inhuman accomplice… That would change the whole flow of the game, would it not?" I smiled.
"If he could enter the room in an instant without our noticing, he could spontaneously get from the Viscount's to the East End. You two are the only ones who could be Jack the Ripper… Madame Red and Grell Sutcliffe."
"Jack the Ripper's victims had other things in common… They all went through the same surgery at London Central Hospital, where you work. The only patient on the list who hadn't been killed was a woman named Mary Kelly, who lived in this house."
"We thought you'd show up here if I kept an eye on the place. We couldn't save her though…" Ciel trailed off.
"This is unfortunate, my beloved nephew, Ciel… If you hadn't figured it out, we could have played chess together again. But now… You've taken everything!" Madame Red shouted.
Grell attacked with his death scythe.
"What is that thing?" Ciel asked.
"Grim reapers posses tools for harvesting souls. That is his reaper's scythe," Sebastian explained.
"Don't you dare call it that! I worked very hard to customize it!" Grell yelled, "This is a death scythe only I can wield! I can hack anything to tiny pieces! I've behaved myself way to long, I'm getting out of shape! I would like to exercise my skills, so shall we play?"
"Perhaps you could be a bit more respectful of my position? I am on duty after all," Sebastian stated.
Grell started swinging is death scythe up and down.
"How stoic you are! Yet another thing that makes you irresistible!"
I hope that the reaper's blood that I have running through my veins is not like this…
"You see, I love the colour red!" Grell continued, "Red is my favourite colour for hair, clothes, lipstick! I painted those ugly women with pretty, pretty red blood. Bassy, I'll make you finer looking then you already are! I'll tear you up from the inside and I swear I will make you like it! You will be as lovely as scattered rose petals!"
"A grim reaper quietly harvest souls of the dying. A butler subserviently follows his master like a shadow. Your vulgarity violates the aesthetics of both, and quite frank, I find it sickening," Sebastian said.
He put his coat on Ciel.
"Oh, Bassy, you wound me! I'm more deadly efficient than I seem!" Grell 'cried'.
Ciel took off his eye patch.
"In my name and that of the Queen, I order you; put an end to them!" he ordered.
I stared at his eyes and sighed. So pretty…
Sebastian took his gloves off, "Yes, my lord."
My eyes widened as I saw that Sebastian was pinned to the wall.
"Marie, go help him!" I screamed.
Marie nodded and Grell was kicked away from Sebastian.
"We've now become a Guard Dog's prey," Madame Red mumbled, "It's either hunt or be hunted."
She ran towards Ciel with a dagger.
"Marco, protect Ciel," I ordered.
He nodded and deflected the dagger away from Ciel. The dagger stayed in her grip.
"You're a doctor! How could you do it?" Ciel asked.
"You wouldn't understand! You're just a child!" she screamed, "You shouldn't have been born in the first place!"
She struck the dagger down. Marco sighed letting himself be hit in the shoulder. I'm sorry, Marco… Please bear with it…
"Master!" Sebastian yelled leaving Marie to fight Grell on her own.
"No! Stop Sebastian/brother! Don't kill her!" Ciel and Lydia both yelled.
Sebastian stopped and held his shoulder. He's injured…
"Hurry and kill the brat already!" Grell yelled at Madame Red.
She shook her head backing away, crying.
"I loved my sister… I loved him… I loved their… I can't. I can't do it after all. I can't kill their beloved son," she clutched her chest.
"You're saying that now? You've sliced so many women to bits! If you don't erase him, he'll erase you!" Grell exclaimed.
"Madame…" Ciel trailed off.
"But… This boy is my-"
My eyes widened and I jumped in front of Madame Red as Grell slammed his death scythe at her. It pierced straight through my body and into Madame Red.
