CHAPEL OF REST
Mister Sneed crosses a room where a woman lies dead in her coffin and a man stands over her. The man's name is Redpath. Sneed lights a gas lamp. He walks to the mans side.
"Whoa. What is going on here?" Rengoku asks.
"I think you should ask what place is that and who are those twos?" Sabito said.
"That is the Chapel or more specially is the funeral home. The twos peoples you are watching is Mr Redpath, the young man, and Mr Sneed, the old man and the owner of the Chapel." The Historian reply.
"So who just recently died by the way?" Nezuko asks in concern.
SNEED: Sneed and Company offer their sincerest condolences, sir. In this most trying hour.
REDPATH: Grandmamma had a good innings, Mr. Sneed. She was so full of life. I can't believe she's gone.
"Oh. So he just lost his grandmother." Tanjiro said as he and Nezuko remember their deceased grandmother.
"Well, at least she have live old and died peacefully. I pray for her soul, Namu Amida Butsu." Giyomei said.
SNEED: Not gone, Mr. Redpath, sir. Merely sleeping. A short silence.
"Well, that a way to reassure their relative," The Historian said as the audience turn their eyes on him. "I mean, I have seen it a lot of times. At first, they thought that their family were just sleeping through everyone's words but when they know that they couldn't wake up anymore. They will just accept that they have gone already. I have seen a lot of it in my life and I bealive you have seen it as well."
After the host has said it, the audience has deep thoughts about it. For Shinobu, sometimes she wishes that her sister were just sleeping like the Historian have said but after she heard about it, she accepts that Kanae has gone but she was happy to be with her now in the cinema, the same goes for Giyuu and his friends.
For Kanao, she hates her parents because they brutality abused her and her brothers but she remembered her brothers has gone cold after they were beaten to death. She guesses that she could understand what the Historian and Mr. Sneed said.
For Tanjiro and Nezuko, sometimes they wish that it was a nightmare on that fateful night but they know that is real and they accept it as well.
For Tamayo, she is sad and thinks about her family might be still alive if she doesn't take Muzan's "offer". Like the Historian has said, her children might think that she was just asleep but they would be heartbroken when they realize she has gone but she would be happier if she gets to see her children grow up.
While the audience has the same thought like them, about what would happen if their family still alive, even they used to have the thought about they were just sleeping like the Historian and Mr. Sneed has said.
REDPATH: May I have a moment?
SNEED: Yes, of course. I shall be in the next room, should you require anything.
He leaves Redpath alone with his Grandmother. Redpath, with his head bowed in grief, does not notice the gas enter her dead body.
"Umm. Does anyone notice the strange blue air that just enter the old lady's body, which she is glowing now?" Muchiro asks as he points it out as the audience perks up at it.
And her eyes snap open, but that not a human's eyes, her eyes only have pupils while the rest is white.
"What the hell is going on here?!" Zenitsu scream as the audience widen their eyes as they first time witness the dead cames back to life. "How could the dead came back to life?!"
She suddenly grabs Redpath by the neck and throttles him. Mister Sneed bursts back into the room upon hearing the commotion.
SNEED: Oh, no. No
The old woman twists her grandson's neck around and he falls to the floof, dead.
Then, the audience widens their eyes in horror as they just saw Redpath's grandmother just killed her grandson. They wonder why Mrs. Pearce killed her grandson, especially for Tamayo and Shinobu.
Sneed tries to wrestle the lid back on the coffin.
SNEED (CONT'D): Gwyneth! Get down here now! We've got another one!
"Wait, did he just said "another one"?" Aoi asks.
"So that means it had happened before?" Genya added.
He is not strong enough to get the lid back on the coffin and the old woman kicks the side off.
EXT. SNEED AND COMPANY, STREET
Mrs. Pearce walks from the house, wailing with the face of a dead person.
Then, Tanjiro's squad, Kanao, Aoi, Kanae, Shinobu, Kanroji, Ubuyashiki's children, Sabito, and Makomo scream as they first time saw a dead person came back to life and wailing a haunted, disturbing scream as if they were ghosts. And of course, based on their instinct, some of them fainted while they hugged to comfort each other like Nezuko hugged Zenitsu and Ubuyashiki's children hugged their parents.
While for the rest of the Hashiras, Tamayo, Yushiro, Kagaya, and Amane they managed to hold up their scream/shouts, thanks to their years of experience fighting demons but this is something new as the first time saw a dead person came back to life as their eyes widen in horrors and shocked.
INT. TARDIS
Inside the TARDIS, it is mayhem. The whole ship is shaking and alarm is going off.
THE DOCTOR: Hold that one down!
ROSE: I'm HOLDING this one down!
THE DOCTOR: Well, hold them BOTH down!
ROSE: It's not going to work!
THE DOCTOR: Oi! I promised you a time machine and that's what you're getting. Now, you've seen the future, let's have a look at the past. 1860. How does 1860 sound?
ROSE: What happened in 1860?
THE DOCTOR: I don't know, let's find out. Hold on, here we go!
The TARDIS screeches through the time vortex.
"Woah. Where is that place?" Rengoku asks after the audience managed to calm themselves down after seeing that scenes.
"That is called the Time Vortex, also known as the Time and Space Vortex, the Space-Time Vortex, sometimes simply the Vortex, and occasionally the Bifrost." The Historian explains.
"Woah, cool and flamboyant. So what does it do by the way?" Uzui asks.
"It's the dimensional plane where time and space met, intersecting at an angle determined by non-Euclidean geometry..." The Historian is explaining until he was cut off by Tanjiro's question.
"What is a geometry?"
"Geometry is, with arithmetic, one of the oldest branches of mathematics. It is concerned with properties of space that are related with distance, shape, size, and relative position of figures, it was created by Euclid the Alexandria from Greece. Or in short version of how to build a brick buidings and road, just like the one you have saw in Tokyo."
"Oh, I see."
"And Non-Euclidean geometry is a geometry based on the denial of at least one of Euclid's axioms. Non-Euclidean geometry started with the work of Lobachevsky and developed by Bolyai, Gauss, Riemann. And now I don't know why I even answering that question since you guys don't know Non-Euclidean geometry at all."
As the Historian said, the audience realizes that none of them know what is Non-Euclidean geometry is, so they just either laugh or scratch their head in embarrassment or turn their head away to hide their embarrassment.
"Well at least we could learn something new." Shinobu said with a smile.
"Then could you and Tamayo could repeat what I just said?" The Historian said as they could remember a little bit about geometry since they mostly devoted to developed medicine and poison and not bothering with geometry mathematics, before they could reply, their host cut off. "If you can't explain then look at this test paper to see if you could answer it."
As he said, he pulls off two math sheets full of geometry and makes them look at it. And then they took the two math tests and look from up to bottom as their head was slightly being headaches due to they don't know how to solve it as they thought 'Seriously, this is a math test?! Just look at those strange pictures that makes us don't know how to answer it.' Then, the Historian took and put it back in his coat as he said.
"If you don't have any questions left, please return to the seats and let me continue." And Shinobu, Tamayo return to their seats with dizzy eyes as they still haven't recovered it after they saw what is Non-Euclidean geometry looks like. "So let continue, the medium through which our TARDIS travelled was described by one account as "infinite strands of Energy that crisscrossed all Space-Time". It existed within the 5th-dimension and of course it was an greatest invention and was built by our race so we could travel through time and space easily."
"Woah. When you said it fascinating but when the screen show how the Time Vortex look like, it's amazing and beautiful to see it." Amane said as she was interested in the Historian's lecture.
"And now when we look at it, we can both see it so beautiful and kinda felt dizzy when we saw those things go arounds." Kanroji said as the audience admit that they kinda felt dizzy when they saw the Time Vortex keep going around like a circle keeps circling around.
INT. SNEED'S KITCHEN
Mr. Sneed is dabbing at his forehead.
SNEED: Gwyneth! Where are you, girl? Gwyneth! (Gwyneth appears). Where've you been? I was shouting!
"I taken that young maiden is Gwyneth right?" Kagaya said.
"Yup. And believe me, you guys would likes her." The Historian reply as he grinnings.
GWYNETH: I've been in the stables, sir, bringing the ice for old Sampson.
SNEED: Well, get back in there and harness him up.
GWYNETH: Whatever for, sir?
SNEED: The stiffs are getting lively again. Mr. Redpath's grandmother, she's up and on her feet and out there somewhere, on the streets! We've got to find her!
GWYNETH: Mr. Sneed, for shame! How many more times? It's ungodly!
"Wait, so it happens a lot of times already?" Hinaki asks and the Historian nods.
"Now I'm surprise that his Chapel haven't out of businesses yet." Kanae said.
"Given it have happens a lot of times, I suprised as well, Nee-san." Shinobu added.
SNEED: Don't look at me like it's my fault! Now come on, hurry up! She was 86. She can't have got far.
"Umm. There's a huge differences between a human and a walking corpse, old man." Sabito added.
GWYNETH: What about Mr. Redpath? Did you deal with him?
SNEED: No. She did.
GWYNETH: That's awful, sir. I know it's not my place, and please, forgive me for talking out of turn, sir. But this is getting beyond, now. (Sneed nods). Something terrible is happening in this house, and we've got to get help.
"Don't worry Gwyneth-san. Help is on the way." Nezuko said as the audience remember the Doctor and Rose is on their way.
SNEED: And we will! As soon as we get that dead old woman locked up and safe and sound. Now stop prevaricating girl, get the hearse ready. We're going body snatching.
EXT. STREET AND ALLEYWAY
The TARDIS materializes on a deserted street. Snow is falling.
INT. TARDIS
The controls are steaming and both the Doctor and Rose are lying on the floor laughing. They get up.
ROSE: Blimey!
THE DOCTOR: You're telling me! Are you alright?
ROSE: Yeah. I think so! Nothing broken... did we make it? Where are we?
THE DOCTOR (studying the screen): I did it! Give the man a medal. Earth, Naples, December 24th, 1860.
"Heh. 1860, Naples. Doctor, you're always full of suprised." The Historian chuckled at it.
"What with Napels in 1860?" Muichiro asks.
"1860 is the year when Giuseppe Garibaldi, an Italian nationalist revolutionary, have outmaneuvered by the experienced realist Cavour, yielded his territories to Cavour in the name of Italian unification. In 1861, Italy was declared a united nation-state under the Sardinian king Victor Emmanuel II. And Naples is the place where Garibaldi meet king Victor Emmanuel II about the unification of Italy."
The audience awed at such information until Tanjiro realizes.
"Wait, so he take her to meet the King?"
"Yep."
"On Christmas?"
"Yeah. And it gotta be a huge one."
"Whoa. I never know Doctor-san is such a gentelman to take her to meet the King." Kanroji said.
"But sadly, they are not in Italy, they are still in Britain."
"Oh, but where?" Kanroji said but the Historian kept silent.
ROSE: That's so weird... it's Christmas.
The Doctor gestures towards the door.
THE DOCTOR: All yours.
ROSE: But, it's like... think about it, though. Christmas. 1860. Happens once. Just once, and it's gone. It's finished. It'll never happen again. Except for you. (Studies him intently). You can go back and see days that are dead and gone and a hundred thousand sunsets ago... no wonder you never stay still...
"Yeah and like I have said, sometimes immortality is either a blessing or a curse." The Historian said. "But in this case, you can go and have all the times to celebrate Christmas since it will never end at all."
"Yeah. Sometimes I wish I could celebrate with my family." Tanjiro said in his sad tones as he remembers the presents he would have brought to give to his siblings but now they're all gone and he only has Nezuko by his side and he will protect and find a cure for her at any costs as well as Nezuko will be.
THE DOCTOR: Not a bad life.
ROSE: Better with two.
They grin at each other for a few moments. Then Rose slaps his bum and dashes towards the door.
ROSE (CONT'D): Come on then!
THE DOCTOR: Oi, oi, oi! Where do you think you're going?!
ROSE: 1860!
THE DOCTOR: Go out there dressed like that, you'll start a riot, Barbarella!
"What wrong with her clothes? It seem to be fine to me." Kanroji said.
"Well won't you want to go out there and dress up like that? Especially your breasts exposed which makes you look like a prostitute, woman." The Historian said as he points at Kanroji's unbuttoned uniform.
"Hey, that is not cool to speak to a woman, old man!" Iguro said as he doesn't like their host to point it out and make as he insults her as he holds Kanroji who is blushed hard for it.
"Say, what with her uniform that makes you said harsh word like that?" Shinobu said with a smile but she angry that she doesn't like his rudeness toward her good friend.
"Look, you forgot that is the 1860s and on that times is the near end of Edo era and the begin of Meiji era on your home, right? Most of that time the Western peoples haven't seen much the Asians peoples since they haven't gone to European yet. So they would found either it weird or slightly irritiated at your way of dressing. Look, I'm sorry to say this Kanroji-san, if you ever travel with me in Europe during before 20th century, where there is Christianity nations like Italy, Britain, France... with how you dress like that, you would recieve those prejudice eyes on your clothes. And like the Doctor have said, it would caused a riot."
After the audience heard what their host has said, they have deep thoughts about it until Kagaya said: "He is right, my children. It is the 19th century so there is still social prejudices, especially the womans on that time, so you better listen to what the Historian said, wouldn't you?"
"Yes, Oyakata-sama." The Hashiras said in sync.
"And based on how you speaking like a nobles and have etiquette and civility, I think you have learn a lot of about social meeting, isn't it?"
"Yep. Thanks to my studies at home and at the Academy. Though, there's a few reminder that I want to tells you guys. One, Inosuke, you should wear a shirt since the way you dressing look like a barbarian from the mountain."
"What did you say?!"
"You idiots, he's right. You should dress up more civilized man." Zenitsu berated.
"Two, I'm sorry to say this and have no offensive but if Shinazugawa and Himejima ever traveled with me, you should dress to be... less intimidate so that the Western peoples don't think you guys like thugs."
"What did you say?!" Sanemi angrily said.
"Sanemi-san! You should realize that he's right you know, you are very intimidate, especially with your scars." Kanae said as she tries to hold her blush under it
"Oh right, sorry." Sanemi said as he scratches his head.
"None taken, Historian-san. I have got used to it after all." Giyomei said as he remembers when he was imprisoned due to his large physical body that has scared the villagers after he fights a demon have killed his children.
"And three, you guys should put your swords and weapons in hidden place since the police would suspicious on you guys since in that time on European, civilians wasn't allowed to bring weapons yet, and it's different in your country. Well, except for America."
"Those are good advices, Historian-san. Remember this my children." Kagaya said as the Corps nods their head in agreements.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): There's a wardrobe through there. First left, second right, third on the left, go straight ahead, under the stairs, past the bins, it's the fifth door on your left. Hurry up!
Once again, the audience tilts their head in confusion at the Doctor's direction to the wardrobe.
"Uh. What did he just said?" Nezuko asks.
"I think the wardrobe is on the first left then second right then... go straight ahead?" Aoi said.
"No no. I think is first left then second right right then third on the right..." Tanjiro said
"No, Tanjiro-san. It's then third on the left, go straight ahead and go upstair..." Shinobu retort.
"Kochou. It's the first left, second right, third on the left, go straight ahead, under the stairs, past the bins, it's the fifth door on the left." Giyuu said as he memorizes the direction as the audience was shocked to hear that.
"Yeah. I think I will get lost in it." Yushiro said as he scratches his head and thinks inside the TARDIS must like a maze to find a room.
"Don't worry. I will give you guys a tour in my TARDIS." The Historian said.
Rose rushes off to get changed. The Doctor grins after her.
EXT. STREET
Sneed and Gwyneth are driving through the streets looking for the old woman.
SNEED: Not a sign. Where is she?
GWYNETH: She's vanished into the ether sir, where can she be?
Sneed stops the hearse and looks at Gwyneth.
"Um, what with the looks that he is giving to her?" Makomo asks.
SNEED: You tell me, girl.
GWYNETH: What do you mean?
SNEED: Gwyneth, you know full well.
GWYNETH: No, sir. I can't.
SNEED: Use the sight.
"Sight? What sight?" Kiriya asks as he knows about his father's foresight power while Kagaya and Amane have interested in Gwyneth.
GWYNETH: It's not right, sir.
SNEED: Find the old lady. Or you're dismissed.
Gwyneth looks anxious.
SNEED (CONT'D): Now, look inside, girl. Look deep. Where is she?
Gwyneth closes her eyes.
GWYNETH: She's lost, sir. She's so alone. Oh, my lord. So many strange things in her head.
"What the hell?! How can she do that?" Zenitsu asks as the audience was shocked to see what Gwyneth was doing.
'Gwyneth, what were you just do now?' Kagaya and Amane thought to themselves.
SNEED: But where?
GWYNETH: She's excited. About tonight. Before she passed on, she was going to see him.
SNEED: Who's "him"?
GWYNETH: A great man. All the way from London. The great, great man.
"Whoa. She must be excited to see that great man before she passed away." Aoi exclaims.
"Who is this great man that she wanted to see?" Nezuko added.
INT. DRESSING ROOM
There is a knocking at a door. An old man - Charles Dickens is kneading his forehead inside the room.
"So who is that old man I may ask?" Amane asks.
"His name is Charles John Huffam Dickens or known as Charles Dickens, was an English writer and social critic." The Historian reply.
"Carles John Muffam Chickens." Inosuke said as the audience did the anime fall while the Historian just choking after they heard Charles Dickens's new name that was given by Inosuke Hashibira due to his hoarse throat.
"You idiots! His name is Charles John Huffam Dickens, not that name you just said." Zenitsu berated.
"I'm just said his name, Monitsu, is Carles John Muffam Chickens or short is Carles Chickens."
"You only said it right on his middle name is John. And... you know what, forget about it." Zenitsu said as he gave up on Inosuke's stubbornness.
'Man. I bet the Doctor would get angry at it.' The Historian thought to himself before he decided to speak again. "Anyway, Charles Dickens is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era when he created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and stories such as Oliver Twists, The Christmas Carol, Bleak House, David Copperfield and a lot of it. Though have any of you have reads Charles Dickens's books before?"
After the Historian asks that question, the audience slightly sweat dropped since they haven't read any of Charles Dickens's books because Tanjiro's groups were from rural areas and the Corps only focus on training and slaying demons. But for a certain lady is.
"Actually, I have read his books before." Tamayo said as the audience turn their eyes on her. "Well, during on my researches, I usually go to the library or a book store to searching medicals and chemistry books. While I was there, I felt interested in his books, the first one I read is "The Single Man", a first-person horror/mystery story, is about the narrator meets a railway signal-man who is plagued by paranormal occurrences. It have three parts, the first one is about after impulsively calling out to the signal-man, the narrator learns that the man is unsettled by something. The signal-man promises to confide in the narrator if he returns the next day. The second part isnthe next day, the signal-man explains that he has seen two apparitions, both of which have foreshadowed disaster. He has recently begun seeing a third apparition. The narrator departs and disturbed. And finally, on his way to visit the signal-man again the next day, the narrator is shocked to learn that the signal-man was killed by a passing train that morning."
After Tamayo said it, the audience felt sudden chills about "The Single Man" but at the same time, they were interested in Dicken's books. And Yushiro asks.
"Tamayo-sama, what do you think about the book?"
"At first, I not really interested but after the librarian suggest me to read it, I eventually interesting in his minds. And the story I like is "A Christmas Carol"."
"Well, fun facts is not only he is a writer and social critic but also is the man of science, a scientific enthusiast, and a key communicator of science in the Victorian age." The Historian said. "Believe me, you would really interested in Charles Dickens's scientific points of views."
As he said, the audience except for Inosuke who is scratching his head, felt interested in Charles Dickens, especially Tamayo and Shinobu since they are the women of science.
STAGE MANAGER: Mr. Dickens! Mr. Dickens! Excuse me, sir, Mr. Dickens, this is your call.
Mr. Dickens does not respond. The stage manager comes into the room.
"What's wrong with him?" Nezuko asks in concern.
STAGE MANAGER: Are you quite well, sir?
DICKENS: Splendid, splendid. Sorry.
"Is he having a stress or something?" Aoi added.
STAGE MANAGER: Time you were on, Sir.
DICKENS: Absolutely. I was just...brooding. (Stage manager throws him questioning look). Christmas Eve. Not the best of times to be alone.
"Yeah. Christmas Eve was supposed to be a holiday where family reunited and have fun with each other." Tanjiro said as he and Nezuko remember their fun and happy time with their family before they were brutally murdered and Nezuko had turned into a demon.
STAGE MANAGER: Did no one travel with you, sir? An old lady wife waiting out front?
DICKENS: I'm afraid not.
STAGE MANAGER (laughs): You can have mine if you want.
DICKENS: Oh, I wouldn't dare. I've been rather, let's say, clumsy, with family matters. By God, I'm too old to cause any more trouble.
"By the way, where is his family?" Tanjiro asks.
"He is having an emotional estrangement from his family." The Historian reply.
"But why is he have a problem with his family?" Kanae asks.
"Because he is always busy, he travels around the world, having autograph, and haven't spends his time with his family regularly. So he and his wife just have an arguments for it and of course, which lead to an emotional estrangement from his family."
"Dear God. Such a poor man." Amane said.
"Yes, he is such a poor old man." Gyomei said.
"So my best advice for you guys. Spends more times with your family and friends and rememeber to appreciate those time, because one day, you will regret for it. Just like me and the Doctor." The Historian whispered in the final sentence but thanks to Zenitsu's sharp hearing and Tanjiro's nose they can see that their host is sad, they think it would probably because he and the Doctor were alone.
While the audience has deep thought about the host's advice.
STAGE MANAGER: You speak as though it's all over, sir!
DICKENS: Oh, no, it's never over. On and on I go. The same old show.
They look at the poster announcing his show.
DICKENS: I'm like a ghost, condemned to repeat myself... (Stands) ... for all eternity.
STAGE MANAGER: It's never too late, sir. You could always think up some new turns.
DICKENS: No, I can't. Even my imagination grows stale. (Takes long swig of drink). I'm an old man. Perhaps I've thought everything I'll ever think. Still! The lure of the lime-light! As potent as a pipe what, eh? (Stage manager helps him change his jacket). On with the show.
"By the way, what shows he will shown it?" Genya asks.
"Oh, it's "A Christmas Carol" story." The Historian reply.
INT. TARDIS
In the TARDIS, the Doctor is doing some more unnecessary repair work. Rose swans in and he turns off his sonic screwdriver and looks at her in surprise.
Then, the audience was taken by surprise at Rose's beauties through her dress.
"Whoa, she look so beautiful and flamboyant!" Uzui comments
"Ara Ara~~~, she look so beatiful in her dress." Kanae said as she waves her hand.
"My god, she look so beautiful!" Kanroji squeezed at Rose's beauties.
"She is like an angel to me." Zenitsu said as his face was blushed.
THE DOCTOR: Blimey!
ROSE: Don't laugh!
THE DOCTOR: You look beautiful!
"Yeah, she is." Aoi comments
Rose stops laughing and smiles instead. There is a pause and the Doctor looks away awkwardly.
Then, the three certain girls smirk as they know what's going on as they observe the Doctor's behavior.
"Ara Ara~~~, Doctor-san, don't tell me that you started to in love with her, do you?" Kanae said in a teasing tone.
"Wow, I have never seen an 900 years old man in love with a 19 years old girl." Shinobu added.
"Well, you know what peoples have said, love has no age limit." Kanroji said.
"So, Historian-san, do you used to in love someone?" Shinobu started to teasing at him just for paid back of course.
"Okay. Number one, that is a personel question. And number two, no, I have never in love with someone, maybe because I prefer to be single." The Historian reply.
"Then that why nobody likes you. I bet the girls back at your school doesn't like you as well due to your rudeness and being serious at all time, just like Tomioka-san."
Then the Hashiras and the others, except for Giyuu was frowned by it, laughed at Shinobu's statements about the Historian being disliked by girls that lead him to be single while the Historian just raises his eyebrows.
"Well yeah. Then do you have a crush on someone yet, Kochou?"After he said it, the audience went silent for it as Shinobu tries to retort it.
"Well... what's the differences between crush and love?" Shinobu said as she tries to hide her blush.
"Kochou, it's the same thing, a crush was a feeling of love or romance towards another individual. This was quite a powerful force. As the Doctor expounded, "Never underestimate a crush." And what he means is that when you have a crush on someone, you will falls for it and I bet you, your sister, Kanroji and everyone in the room have a crush on the person you love." After he said it with a smirk on his face then some girls face from the audience, who have a crush on someone their love, immediately red like a tomato as they said.
"We don't have a crush with someone."
"Nah. Your face are clearly showing it, just face it, you guys are in love with someone, isn't it?" The Historian with a teasing tone as the girls went silently after that as each person has to admit themselves that they have a crush. Shinobu has a crush on Giyuu, Kanae has a crush on Sanemi, Mitsuri on Obanai, Aoi on Inosuke, and Nezuko on Zenitsu. And Giyuu smirks at it as Sabito whispered to him.
"He just really did roasted Kochou, right?"
"I know."
"Whoa, I have never seen someone managed to roast back on Kochou-san. That was pretty flamboyant." Uzui said.
"Yeah. How did you do that?" Obanai curiously asks.
"If you ever have immortality and live over 2000 years old, you will have much experiences like I am." The audience nods their heads in agreement with it. "And besides, the Doctor used to have a crush on someone."
"Who is it?" Tanjiro asks.
"Let just say, the Doctor have a crush on a very special person to him." The Historian said as he remembers back at the Academy, the Doctor used to have a crush on his best friend.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): ...considering.
He turns on his screwdriver again.
ROSE: Considering what?
THE DOCTOR: That you're human!
"I bet the Doctor would compliment you girls as well since you guys are beautiful to him." The Historian said.
"Yeah... I guess." Shinobu chuckled at it.
"Despite I'm a demon but I would take that as a compliment." Tamayo smilely said while Yushiro have to admit himself that he very admire Tamayo's beauties and intelligence.
ROSE (amused): I think that's a compliment... Aren't you going to change?
THE DOCTOR: I've changed my jumper! Come on!
He jumps out of the space beneath the controls.
ROSE: You, stay there! You've done this before. This is mine!
She hurries towards the door and opens it.
EXT. STREET AND ALLEYWAY
Rose looks out onto the 1860 street. She makes one footprint in the untouched snow then withdraws her foot again. Then she steps out altogether. The Doctor follows her.
THE DOCTOR: Ready for this?
She smiles and he offers her his arm. She takes it.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): Here we go. History!
They walk off together.
And then the audience smiles at that scenes, this show that the Doctor and Rose started to walk together like a couple. And they would remember their times they hang out with each other but they always wish that they could be couples like the Doctor and Rose. But for Tamayo, she remembers her time with her husband before they get married, she wishes the best for the couples is showing on the screens.
INT. THEATRE
The curtains open for Dickens' show. The audience applauds. The dead old woman is sitting slap bang in the middle of them.
"Huh, this is strange. Why the audience doesn't found any weird on her?" Rengoku asks.
"Well, they probably don't care or just seeing her tired that makes her look like a lifeless person which is literally for this case. Though, I think I have saw a lot of peoples get tired enough that makes them look like a zombie, and before you asks what is a zombie, is a short term for walking corpses like her." The Historian explains what is a zombie as the audience nods their head in understanding. "But, I pretty sure you guys have saw a lot of this cases already, especially your training regimen."
Then, the Hashiras and Ubuyashiki's family remember their training sessions with their comrades and tsugukos, and dear god, it was like a hell to the rookies. And of course, they would say a lot of rookies were tired, their energy being drained out by the training regimen enough that makes them look like a zombie.
"Good point." Obanai said with his hand gestures.
"And I gotta admit, I kinda like the word "zombie"." Muichiro said as he thinks about he should use it in his training with the rookies.
"And it really sound catchphrase! "Zombie"." Rengoku enthusiastically said.
"I can't wait to said it to those rookies." Uzui said.
"Um. So does that means when we came back to our world that you guys would calling us "zombies" as we training so hard?" Zenitsu asks as Tanjiro and Inosuke worried about it.
"Don't worry about it, I'm would make sure that Kanao and Aoi would go easy on you guys." Shinobu said with a smile as Kanao and Aoi nod their heads.
"Define "easy"! Though, Kanao, could you please go easy on them?" The Historian said as Kanao get her coin and flip it up highly until it falls on her hand, and it shows heads as she nods her head but to her surprise, she can saw the Historian was frowned and showing disgusted despite he mainly focuses on the screens so no one could saw him except for her.
'Everytime peoples asking me what should I do, I usually flipping my coins to decided but they never being bothered by it. But, why did he was frowned and shown disgusted? Wait, he doesn't like what I was doing?' Kanao thought to herself as she wondering why the host doesn't like her to decide by using a coin.
"Ara Ara~~~, it seem like she will going easy on you Tanjiro, Zenitsu, and Inosuke-san." Shinobu said but the triple was worried about the training.
EXT. CARDIFF SQUARE
The Doctor and Rose walk down the street, observing everything. Rose in amazement, the Doctor with his usual grin on his face. He walks in another direction and Rose follows. There are carol singers in the background.
The audience was amazed like Rose, the first time seeing an old city from the 19th century, especially in a festival like Christmas Eve. The Historian grins as he said: "Make sure you brought your dates on a special occasion like this."
Then the girls who have a crush immediately blush and said: "Shut up!" and of course, the audience and the host laugh at it.
"But I gotta admit the city look nice." Shinobu said as she looks over to Giyuu, thinking that if she and Giyuu could be a couple to go around a beautiful city like that.
"Look at them, darling." Amane said as she whispers to her husband as they chuckled with each other. "They are starting to felt love with each other, isn't that beautiful, dear?"
"Yes, it very is beatiful but let just stay quiet for a moment and enjoy the city and the festival." Kagaya calmly said as they leans toward each others, enjoying the moments.
EXT. CARDIFF SQUARE
Sneed and Gwyneth arrive at the theatre.
GWYNETH: She's in there, sir, I'm certain of it.
"It still got me confusing is how the fuck does she know where the old lady is." Sanemi said.
"Father, do you think it have to do something with her sight like Mr. Sneed have said?" Nichika asks.
"The answer will be shown on the screen, child." The Historian said.
"He's right, my daughter. The answer is lies on there." Kagaya said as Nichika nods her head.
They alight from the hearse.
EXT. CARDIFF SQUARE
Not far away, the Doctor is buying a newspaper. He unfolds it and scans it.
THE DOCTOR: I got the flight a bit wrong.
ROSE: I don't care.
THE DOCTOR: It's not 1860, it's 1869.
"Oh, it's 1869." Aoi comments.
ROSE: I don't care!
THE DOCTOR: And it's not Naples.
"You were right, Historian-san. They are still in Britain." Kanroji said.
ROSE: I don't care.
THE DOCTOR: It's Cardiff.
ROSE (pauses): Right...
"What wrong with Cardiff that makes Rose suddens mood drop?" Genya curiously asks.
"Well, Cardiff is the capital city of Wales and is officially known as the City and County of Cardiff. It is the United Kingdom's eleventh-largest city, the main commercial centre of Wales. And the reasons that makes Rose suddens mood drop because from London to Cardiff, it only takes two to three hours to there by train and cars, and it's only 212 km." The Historian explains.
"Oh, I see. So she is just disappointed that the city she was in, is not far from her home, right?" Rengoku enthusiastically said.
"Yep. And another fun facts is that city is well-known for anomalies and unexplained disappearances cases on history."
"Wait, disappearances cases like missing peoples?" Tanjiro asks and the Historian nods.
"Anomalies like somewhat familiar to to our cases in Japan?" Kanroji said.
"Uh huh."
"Well, anomalies and disappearances or not, Inosuke-sama would like to go there and find out by myself. It's a challenges!" Inosuke prideful said as the audience sweat drops at his over-confident.
"Uh. You should know that the police would arrest you for disturbing the peace and will throw you into an asylum, right?" The Historian said with a worried tone.
"What is an asylum?" Inosuke asks as the audience does the anime fall again as they thought.
'Dear God. This boy needs some help here.'
INT. THEATRE
Dickens is talking to a rapt audience.
DICKENS: Now, it is a fact, that there was nothing particular about the knocker on the door of this house. But let any man explain to me if he can, how it happened, that Scrooge, having his key in the lock of the door, saw in the knocker, without it's undergoing any intermediate process of change, not a knocker - but Marley's face. (Audience gasp).
Then the audience felt sudden chills on their backs as they focusing hearing Dickens's story but they gotta admit he is a good storyteller enough that make them fascinated.
"Woah. He's not only the greatest writer and a scientist but he also very good at telling story as well." Kanroji said.
"Say, what is the story that he is telling about?" Nezuko asks.
"I believe that is "A Christmas Carol" story, is about the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man." Tamayo explains.
"Whoa. What a nice story it is." Kanae said.
"Yeah. And I remembers this is the part when Scrooge was visisting by Marley and..." Tamayo was about to explain more until the Historian cuts her off.
"Hey hey hey. No spoilers. After the episode, maybe we will listening to the story and for now we will just keep watching."
DICKENS: Marley's face! It looked at Scrooge as Marley used to look. It looked like...
The gas is escaping from the old woman. Dickens, seeing as how he is the only one facing the audience, is the only one to notice.
"Like that?!" Zenitsu yelled as he points it out.
"And what with the strange gas that she is exhaling?" Muichiro added.
DICKENS (CONT'D): Oh, my lord! It looked... like that! (Points a trembling finger at the old woman). What phantasmagoria is this?
The woman has risen in her seat. She lets out a long, loud wail. The audience scream and trample each other in their hurry to get away.
Then once again, Tanjiro's squad, Kanao, Aoi, Kanae, Shinobu, Kanroji, Ubuyashiki's children, Sabito, and Makomo scream as they couldn't get used to the wailing haunted scream as they are hugging with each other. While the rest is trying their best to calm themselves and not trying to screams.
EXT. CARDIFF SQUARE
The Doctor and Rose hear the screaming. The Doctor grins.
THE DOCTOR: That's more like it!
He tosses the newspaper over his shoulder and runs in the direction of the screaming. Rose follows.
"It's investigating time." The Historian grinnings.
INT. THEATRE
Dickens is desperately trying to get his audience to sit down again.
DICKENS: Stay in your seats, I beg you. It is a lantern show, it's trickery.
"Yeah. I don't think anyone would bye that, Mr. Dickens." Muichiro saids.
Sneed and Gwyneth are struggling against the crowds to enter.
GWYNETH: There she is, sir!
SNEED: I can see that!
The gas zooms around the room.
SNEED (CONT'D): The whole bloomin' world can see that!
"Yeah, no shit, you genius!" Obanai comments.
The Doctor and Rose enter. They watch the gas zoom around.
THE DOCTOR: Fantastic.
The last of the gas leaves the old woman's mouth and she slumps back in the chair, just a dead body once more.
And the audience let out a sigh of relief as they glad that the commotion was over.
"Phew. I really glad that it is over." Kanae said.
"Ain't it the truth, Kanae-nee san?" Shinobu said as they lean together for comfort as Giyuu and Sanemi have one thought.
'Cute. So cute!'
"Though, then what about the audience who have witness the whole scenes?" Yushiro said as he points out the obvious. "I mean, that scenes would be on the newspapers."
"Well, like Dickens have said, it is just a lantern show or it's trickery, so I think the audience will believe that." The Historian said.
The Doctor approaches Mr. Dickens.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): Did you see where it came from?
DICKENS: Ah. The wag reveals himself, does he? I trust you're satisfied, sir!
The Doctor looks slightly taken aback.
"What's with his attitude? He just trying to help." Aoi pouted.
"Well, Aoi-san, he really have just been stressed today so I think that he just want to relax and enjoy the show. He probably think that the Doctor have ruined it." Shinobu said.
ROSE: Oi! Leave her alone!
Sneed and Gwyneth are making off with the old woman's body.
ROSE (CONT'D): Doctor, I'll get 'em!
THE DOCTOR: Be careful! (Jumps onto stage). Did it say anything? Could it speak? I'm The Doctor, by the way.
DICKENS: Doctor? You look more like a navy.
THE DOCTOR (indignantly): What's wrong with this jumper?
"Man, sometimes I wondering what with the peoples keep judging on how am I dressing." The Historian said while he folded his arms.
"Your clothes look fine, Historian-san," Kanroji said.
"Thank you. But I'm talking about my previous clothes."
"Oh."
EXT. CARDIFF SQUARE
Gwyneth and Sneed have successfully loaded the body into the back of the hearse. Rose catches up with them.
ROSE: What're you doing?!
GWYNETH: Oh, it's such a tragedy, miss. Don't worry yourself, me and the master will deal with it. (Tries to bar Rose from seeing inside the hearse) . The fact is, this poor lady's been taken with the brain fever and we have to get her to the infirmary.
"Well, I can agree with her since I have deal a lot of this cases." Tamayo said.
"Wait, so you have been treating with human?" Kanroji was shocked to asks.
"Yeah." Tamayo said while she raises her eyebrows.
"But should you eat human and drink blood rather than treat them?" Shinobu skeptically asks.
"Hey! Don't disrespect Tamayo-sama!" Yushiro angrily said.
"Yushiro! Calm down, they have the rights to be doubt on us since we are demons." Tamayo scolds Yushiro.
"Sorry, Tamayo-sama."
"For your question, Kochou. I'm used to eat humans in the past but when I managed to get away from him, I have break his curses so his influence will no longer affects on me. But I still need human blood to survive but I only buy from the clinic and drank them and I haven't eat humans since I have break his curse. And the same goes for Yushiro." Tamayo explains as the Hashiras and the Slayers, except for Tanjiro and Nezuko, were shocked to hear about it until the Historian coughing as he gets their attention.
"She is right. Despite she have break his curses but she still need human blood to survive but the past is the past, what she had did is doesn't matter. The important things is that she and Yushiro will be a useful allies for the battle."
"He is right, my children." Kagaya said as he agrees with the host.
"Well, I could give you another chance. What do you guys think?" Shinobu asks her fellow Hashiras.
"Yeah/Uh huh/Yup/Whatever."
"Well, at least my dream came true that there are some good demon out there and would co-exist with human." Kanae comments as she feeling that her dream may be coming true.
"But..." Obanai was about to speak until the Historian cut him off and whispered to him that just let Kanae have a moment and don't ruin it and he shut his mouth up.
"Though," The Historian spoke up again as he needs to advise them something really important. "I'm suggest that Tamayo and Shinobu should tries to get rid of Muzan's blood cell in Nezuko's body. Despite that she have resists him but he can still used her as a tracking device to find your Slayer Corps location. So tried to do your best to get rid of his blood cell, ok?"
"Yes, Historian-sama." The audience said.
"And please don't called me that. It makes me sound like an old man."
"Well, technically that you're over 2000 years old so it makes sense if you are the oldest one here." Shinobu said.
"Make sense."
Rose pushes Gwyneth aside and feels the old woman's forehead.
ROSE: She's cold... She's dead! My God, what did you do to her?
Sneed approaches her silently from behind and clamps a tissue full of a drug, probably chloroform, to her mouth. She struggles for a few seconds and then goes limp.
The audience was shocked at Mr. Sneed's sudden acts of kidnapping Rose.
GWYNETH (shocked): What did you do that for?
SNEED: She's seen too much. Get her in the hearse!
Gwyneth bends down to pick up Rose's legs.
"Why did he do that for?" Nezuko asks.
"Maybe he is only care about his businesses," Giyuu coldly said as the audience turn their heads on him. "Think about it, Gwyneth have said that those cases have happened a lot of times and they seemly don't want to let anyone know about it since it will ruins his businesses while the customers' safety are not guaranteed just like Mr. Redpath's case."
Then the audience realizes that what Giyuu said is true as Shinobu said.
"Ara Ara~~~, Tomioka-san, I never know you are that smart."
"I maybe an airhead like you said but that doesn't mean I'm not dumb, Kochou."
'Then why don't you ever realized about my feelings to you?' Shinobu thought to herself.
"But still, that man is have no honor!" Rengoku smiley said as the Hashiras nods their head in agreement.
INT. THEATRE
The blue gas is still zooming around inside. It dives into one of the gas lamps and disappears.
THE DOCTOR: Gas! It's made of gas!
"Gas? What is a gas?" Tanjiro asks as the Historian was about to explain but Zenitsu cuts him off.
"The gas which the Doctor is talking about is the gas lighting, is one of the production of artificial light from combustion of a gaseous fuel such as hydrogen, coal gas or natural gas. Nowaday, in our country, the peoples in the city are using electricity since gas are known as poison to our human body." Zenitsu explains
"Oh, I see. So that how the city was lighting up." Tanjiro said as he and Nezuko understand it.
"Though, so that means those creatures are made of gas?" Nezuko asks.
"Yeah, they are. But how they become would be explains later." The Historian reply.
EXT. CARDIFF SQUARE
By the time the Doctor comes down the steps of the theatre, Gwyneth has just finished pushing Rose's head out of sight into the hearse. She slams the door shut.
THE DOCTOR: Rose!
He runs towards the hearse.
DICKENS: You're not escaping me, sir! What do you know about that hobgoblin, hm?
The hearse drives away. The Doctor stares after it.
DICKENS: Projection on glass, I suppose. Who put you up to it?
THE DOCTOR: Yeah, mate. Not now, thanks.
The Doctor spots a coach and runs towards it, shouting to the driver.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): Oi, you! Follow that hearse!
"It's an emergency!" Sabito exclaims.
"Follow that hearse!." Makomo added.
He jumps into the coach.
DICKENS: You can't do that, sir!
THE DOCTOR: Why not?
"Yeah. Why not?! It's an emergency!" Inosuke said.
DICKENS: Why not?! I'll give you a very good reason why not! This is my coach!
"Oh. But it's still an emergency and we would like to borrow your coach!"
THE DOCTOR: Well, get in then! (Pulls Dickens in. To the driver-). Move!
The coach rumbles off.
DRIVER: Everything in order, Mr. Dickens?
DICKENS: No! It is not!
THE DOCTOR: What did he say?
DICKENS: Let me say this first. I'm not without a sense of humor...
THE DOCTOR: Dickens?
DICKENS: Yes.
THE DOCTOR: Charles Dickens?
DICKENS: Yes.
THE DOCTOR: THE Charles Dickens?
DRIVER: Shall I remove the gentleman, sir?
THE DOCTOR: Charles Dickens! You're brilliant, you are! Completely 100% brilliant! I've read 'em all! Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, and what's the other one, the one with the ghost?
DICKENS: A Christmas Carol?
THE DOCTOR No, no, no, the one with the trains... The Signal Man, that's it, terrifying! (Dickens looks pleased). The best short story is ever written! You're a genius!
Then the audience was taken surprised at the Doctor's admiration for Charles Dickens, they never thought an alien would love their culture as the Historian said.
"Me and the Doctor always admire your humans and Earth's history and culture so it will be not a surprised if the Doctor interest in yours."
"Wow. The two aliens likes us." Kanroji said.
"Yeah, you can say that we view you home as our secondary home after we left Gallifrey."
DRIVER: You want me to get rid of him, sir?
DICKENS: Er, no, I think he can stay.
THE DOCTOR: Honestly, Charles, can I call you Charles? I'm such a big fan.
"A fan?" Tanjiro confusingly asks.
"What is he talking about?" Sabito added
DICKENS: ...what? A what?
THE DOCTOR: Fan! Number One Fan, that's me.
DICKENS: How exactly are you a fan? In what way do you resemble a means of keeping oneself cool?
"Exactly like we just said."
THE DOCTOR: No, it means "Fanatic", devoted to. Mind you, I've gotta say, that American bit in Martin Chuzzlewit, what was that about?! Was that just padding or what? I mean, it's rubbish, that bit.
"Oh so that a fan."
DICKENS (disgruntled): I thought you said you were my fan.
"What is "Martin Chuzzlewit" that the Doctor was just talking about?" Kanae curiously asks.
"The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, commonly known as Martin Chuzzlewit, is a novel by Charles Dickens, considered the last of his picaresque novels. It was originally serialised between 1842 and 1844. While he was writing it, Dickens told a friend that he thought it was his best work, but it was one of his least popular novels. So when the Doctor spoke about it, he taken that as an offensive."
THE DOCTOR: Ah, well, if you can't take criticism... go on, do the death of Little Nell, it cracks me up.
"Hahaha. Yeah, the death of Little Nell makes me sad. I know how he is feelings, he is just teasing Dickens since Little Nell have made a lot of peoples sad about her fate." The Historian chuckled and sadly said.
"Who is Little Nell?" Tanjiro asks as he smells the sadness around the host.
"Little Nell, or known as Nell Trent, is a fictional character in the 1841 novel The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens. The novel's main character, she is portrayed as infallibly good and virginal," As the Historian said he shows a picture of Little Nell from his coat to the audience, they were taken shocked and saw how Nell Trent was cute and innocent she is, especially for Zenitsu. "An orphan, she leads her grandfather on their journey to save them from misery but gradually becomes weaker throughout the journey, and although she finds a home with the help of a schoolmaster, she sickens and dies before her friends in London find her. Her death has been described as "the apotheosis of Victorian sentimentality."
Then, the audience gasped and was shocked more about the death of Little Nell but they wondering, what caused Nell and her grandfather into an adventure journey.
"But what caused them into their own adventure?" Aoi asks as her tears started to leaks out.
The Historian looks down and sadly told them as he paused the screens: "Her grandfather, who love her and want his Little Nell to be happy and out of poverty, and have attempts to provide Nell with a good inheritance through gambling at cards. He keeps his nocturnal games a secret, but borrows heavily from the evil Daniel Quilp, a malicious, grotesquely deformed, hunchbacked dwarf moneylender with a ghastly smile," As he said he pulled out a picture of Daniel Quilip, the audience could see how disgust he is through his appearances and his smile, that makes Shinobu felt angry at that man as he just reminds her about Kanae's killer. "In the end, Nell's grandfather gambles away what little money they have, and Quilp seizes the opportunity to take possession of the shop and evict Nell and her grandfather. Her grandfather suffers a breakdown that leaves him bereft of his wits, and Nell takes him away to the Midlands of England, to live as beggars."
Then the audience gasped when they heard about it.
"He can't do that?!" Kanroji said.
"He can. That how it works, if you borrow a lot of money from a loan shark and not paying them, they would asks the law to seize their debtor's properties," As he said as the audience felt sympathy and bad toward Nell and her grandfather. "Convinced that the old man has stored up a large and prosperous fortune for Nell, her wastrel older brother, Frederick Trent, convinces the good-natured but easily led Dick Swiveller, an idle and vacant lad, to help him track Nell down, so that Swiveller can marry Nell and share her supposed inheritance with Frederick."
Then, the audience gasped again as they heard Dick Swiveller wants to marry Nell so that he can have her brother's fortune. Fair enough, they think that he is a greedy man.
"To this end, they join forces with Quilp, who knows full well that there is no fortune, but sadistically chooses to 'help' them to enjoy the misery it will inflict on all concerned."
Then again, the audience gasped as they couldn't believe how low and despicable Quilp is, who enjoy the misery from both sides.
"My God, he is such a monster." Kanae said as she cries.
"That bastard/ That son of a bitch/That fucker!" Obanai, Sanemi, and Genya curses.
"That son of a bitch, how dare he could hurt a sweet girl like Nell Trent like that? First he kicks them out of their shop and now he tries to ruins their life! If I was there, I would like give that short man a taste of his own medicine!" Zenitsu rants as he very much likes that girl and very hates Quilp as well as Nezuko, Tanjiro, and Inosuke.
"Quilp begins to try to track Nell down, but the fugitives are not easily discovered. To keep Dick Swiveller under his eye, Quilp arranges for him to be taken as a clerk by Quilp's lawyer, Mr. Brass, who is a corrupt attorney who affects feeling for his clients, whom he then cheats. At the Brass firm, Dick befriends the mistreated maidservant and nicknames her 'the Marchioness'. Nell, having fallen in with a number of characters, some villainous and some kind, succeeds in leading her grandfather to safety in a far-off village named Tong from Shropshire, but this comes at a considerable cost to Nell's health. Meanwhile, Kit, who is an honest boy and Nell's only friend," And the host shows the audience a picture of a young boy named Kit. "Having lost his job at the curiosity shop, has found new employment with the kind Mr and Mrs Garland. Here he is contacted by a mysterious 'single gentleman' who is looking for news of Nell and her grandfather. The 'single gentleman' and Kit's mother go after them unsuccessfully, and encounter Quilp, who is also hunting for the runaways. Quilp forms a grudge against Kit and has him framed as a thief. Kit is sentenced to transportation, is an punishment for convicted criminals to be transported to the colonies to serve their prison sentences, or in another word, a free and cheap labor."
Then the audience gasped again as they couldn't believe that Quilp would go too far to framed a kid to escape a prison life.
"How despicable and dishonor man he is!" Rengoku said with an angry tone.
"Such a poor child. He is Nell's only friend and want to help her but he got framed by that wicked man." Gyomei cryingly said but his tone was angry and furious at Quilp's act. But he remembers that he was also imprisoned due to misunderstanding but Kit was just a kid, he didn't do anything wrong but yet he was still going to prison.
"I can't believe there such a person exist like that in real life." Shinobu angrily said.
"Me too, Kochou." Giyuu agrees with her.
"That man, Daniel Quilp, is such a monster who would hurt an innocent child and enjoy other peoples misery." Kagaya angrily said as his wife and children were angry at Quilp.
"If he was here on our time, he would be a perfect candiate for Muzan to recruit him." Muichiro points it out as he thinks that if that man was here, he would be a perfect demon for Muzan.
"Then I will cut his head off!" Sanemi said as the Hashiras agrees with his statement.
"However, Dick Swiveller proves Kit's innocence with the help of his friend the Marchioness, after he realizes his mistakes and become a key helpmate bridges for Nell. While Quilp is hunted down and dies trying to escape his pursuers."
And the audience felt no sympathy or felt bad for Quilp as they thought "Good riddance." But they were glad that Dick has helped and get Kit out of prison and continues to find Nell.
"At the same time, a coincidence leads Mr Garland to knowledge of Nell's whereabouts, and he, Kit, and the single gentleman, who turns out to be the younger brother of Nell's grandfather, go to find her. Sadly, by the time they arrive, Nell has died as a result of her arduous journey. Her grandfather, already mentally infirm, refuses to admit she is dead and sits every day by her grave waiting for her to come back until, a few months later, he dies himself." And the Historian shows them two pictures, one is Nell on her deathbed while the other one showing Nell's grandfather sitting and crying at her graves.
Then, the audiences felt sad and crying, except for Kanao, at the tragic life and death of Nell Trent and her grandfather as the Historian continues to said while he shed tears.
"Very sad, isn't it? Nell Trent is just like Kanae Kochou, from a beautiful and virtuous young girl, to dies in sickness without everyone besides her."
"You right, Historian-san," Shinobu said while she is crying. "She is just like Kanae Nee-san." Then she hugged her sister as both of them were crying at the sad death of Little Nell.
'Little Nell makes me remember so much about my Nee-san, about how kindness she was.' Giyuu thought to himself while he was being comforted by Sabito and Makomo, who is also sad for the story.
'What is this strange liquid that is trying to come out from my eyes?' Kanao thought to herself as she felt a tear is forming in her eyes. 'Why I am feel so sad about that girl, who is too much like Kanae Nee-san?' Kanao thought while her tears falling on her cheeks without even her notices while Tanjiro, the only one who notices her.
'I can sense the sadness from her. But when Historian-san tell us that story, it was so sad.' Tanjiro thought as he admits that was a sad story.
"My God. Such a poor little girl." Amane said while she is crying as well as her children.
"Though, I remember Charles Dickens describes the death of Nell:
She was dead. No sleep so beautiful and calm, so free from trace of pain, so fair to look upon. She seemed a creature fresh from the hand of God, and waiting for the breath of life; not one who had lived and suffered death. Her couch was dressed with here and there some winter berries and green leaves gathered in a spot she had been used to favor. "When I die, put near me something that has loved the light, and had the sky above it always." Those were her words.
She was dead. Dear, gentle, patient, noble Nell was dead. Her little bird - a poor slight thing the pressure of a finger would have crushed - was stirring nimbly in its cage; and the strong heart of its child-mistress was mute and motionless forever. Where were the traces of her early cares, her sufferings, and fatigues? All gone. Sorrow was dead indeed in her, but peace and perfect happiness were born; imaged in her tranquil beauty and profound repose." The Historian tells them while he is still sad about Nell's death, which reminds him about his previous companions.
While the audiences they are crying in tears and sniffed as they heard about the death of Nell, while Kanao tries to wipe her tears as she thought.
'I haven't felt so sad and grief about someone death after Kanae Nee-san died.'
'It was so sad and tragic. It makes me remember Nee-san's death on her deathbed, it's the same like Nell's death. No sleep so beautiful and calm, so free from trace of pain, so fair to look upon just like when I saw her last breath, it is the same that had happened to her.' Shinobu's thoughts while she was crying so hard at Nell's death that was similar to Kanae's death except that there is no one besides Nell when she's dead.
'She is so much like me, a beautiful and virtuous young girl like me but her death was so tragic and sad since there is no one besides her. I remember when I was about to died, at least Shinobu was staying besides me. And when my heart beats stopped, like what Charles Dickens have describes, peace and perfect happiness were born, imaged in the tranquil beauty and profound repose. It makes me felt really peaceful but despite that, it still break my hearts when I leave my two sisters and the girls at the Butterfly Estate.' Kanae thought to herself while she was crying and hugging Shinobu as both of them were hugging each other.
"What a sad and tragedy story it is. I'm pray for her soul to be rest in peace in the after life. Namu Amida Butsu." Giyomei said while he is crying.
'I wonder if I hadn't took that bastard's "offer", would I have died due to sickness in peacefully like her?' Tamayo thought as she thinks that if she wasn't that naive on that day, her family would be still alive and she can die peacefully like Nell was while she is crying after she heard the story of Nell. As for Yushiro, he also felt sad and sympathy for Nell since her sickness and her deathbed remind him as well. But he was lucky that he was given a chance by Lady Tamayo.
"Such a poor child. Dying on her bed without anyone besides her, it was such a sad and tragic story it is." Kagaya said in a sad tone as he and his family were crying.
"Why Dickens could let a beautiful and kind girl like Nell dies like that?" Zenitsu said as he was crying and hugging Nezuko for comfort as she was crying as well.
"This wouldn't have happened in the first place if that monster hadn't ruined their life." Kanroji angrily said.
"Yeah/Yup/Yep/That's right!" Everyone yelled as they couldn't forgive how greedy and despicable Quilp is.
"The world is cruel, yet is so beautiful if we observe closely." The Historian quietly said.
After a few moments later, the audience managed to calm down and continue to watch the episode.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): No, sorry, come on, faster!
The driver urges the horses on.
DICKENS: Who exactly IS in that hearse?
THE DOCTOR: My friend. She's only nineteen, and it's my fault. She's in my care, and now she's in danger.
DICKENS: Why are we wasting my time talking about dry old books? This is much more important. Driver! Be swift! The chase is on!
DRIER: Yes, sir!
THE DOCTOR (delighted): Thatta boy, Charlie!
DICKENS: Nobody calls me Charlie.
THE DOCTOR: The ladies do.
DICKENS: How do you know that?
THE DOCTOR: I told you... I'm your Number One...
DICKENS: Number One Fan, yes...
Then the audience just laughs at the comedic duo.
INT. CHAPEL OF REST
Gwyneth and Sneed have one end each of Rose.
GWYNETH: The poor girl's still alive, sir! What're we going to do with her?
They settle her down on a table that is evidently used for dead bodies.
SNEED: I don't know! I didn't plan any of this, did I. Isn't my fault if the dead won't stay dead.
GWYNETH: Then whose fault is it, sir? Why is this happening to us?
They leave the room, shutting and locking Rose in. A gas lamp flickers.
"I think maybe you should asks them." Uzui said as the audience worried about Rose's safety.
INT. SNEED AND COMPANY, HALLWAY
SNEED: I did the Bishop a favour, once. Made his nephew look like a cherub. Even though he'd been a fortnight in the weir. Perhaps he'll do us an exorcism on the cheap.
There is a knock on the door. They both look up, alarmed.
SNEED (CONT'D): Say I'm not in. Tell them we're closed. Just...just get rid of them.
INT. CHAPEL OF REST
Rose wakes up. She looks slightly out of sorts, and does not notice when the gas from the lamps fills the corpse of Redpath. He sits up suddenly.
"Holy shit, is that Mr. Redpath?" Genya said as they saw Mr. Redpath raise from the dead.
INT. SNEED AND COMPANY, HALLWAY
Dickens knocks on the door again and Gywneth opens it.
GWYNETH: I'm sorry, sir, we're closed.
DICKENS: Nonsense! Since when did an undertaker keep office hours? The dead don't die on schedule. I demand to see your master.
GWYNETH: He's not in, sir.
She makes to shut the door, but Dickens forces it open again.
DICKENS (angrily): Don't lie to me, child!
GWYNETH: I'm awfully sorry, Mr. Dickens, but the mater's indisposed.
Behind her, a gas lamp flares up.
THE DOCTOR: Having trouble with your gas?
DICKENS: What the Shakespeare is going on?
"Yeah, I agree with you Chickens. What the fuck is going on here?" Inosuke said as the audience sigh in disappointment at Inosuke called Dickens' name wrong again.
INT. CHAPEL OF REST
Rose suddenly notices the corpse behind her. She jumps in alarm as he starts making zombie noises at her.
"Man, even that noise gave me a sudden creeps." Kanroji exclaim.
"Is that how a zombie makes noises?" Makomo asks.
"Yep, like I told you. They look like a person who very bloody tired." The Historian reply.
ROSE: Are you all right? You're kidding me, yeah? You're just kidding.
He climbs out of the coffin.
ROSE (CONT'D): You are, you're kidding me, aren't ya?
"They're not joking at all, Rose!" Hinaki yelles as she hugged her twin sister.
He takes staggering steps towards her.
ROSE (CONT'D): Okay, not kidding.
She runs to the door and tries to open it.
INT. SNEED AND COMPANY, HALLWAY
The Doctor forces his way in and presses his ear to the wall.
GWYNETH: You're not allowed inside, sir!
THE DOCTOR: There's something inside the walls.
"Hurry up, Doctor-san! You must saves her!" Nezuko yelled.
INT. CHAPEL OF REST
Rose backs against the door. The old woman's body rises from the other coffin and Rose gaps.
"Well, fuck me. Today is not a good day, isn't it?" Sanemi said as he worried about Rose's safety.
INT. SNEED AND COMPANY, HALLWAY
THE DOCTOR: The gas pipes. Something's living inside the gas.
INT. CHAPEL OF REST
Rose lobs a vase at Redpath. It does nothing but cause him to stumble slightly. Rose rattles the handle frantically.
ROSE: Let me out! Open the door!
INT. SNEED AND COMPANY, HALLWAY
Gwyneth, the Doctor and Dickens hear her. Gwyneth closes her eyes in dismay.
THE DOCTOR: That's her.
He runs off to her rescue. Dickens's follows.
INT. CHAPEL OF REST
ROSE: Please, let me out!
Both corpses are walking towards her.
INT. SNEED AND COMPANY, CORRIDOR
The Doctor charges past Sneed.
SNEED: This is my house!
"Sorry old man. You have no rights to tell them about it!" Sabito exclaims.
Dickens charges past him too. He shakes his finger at Gwyneth as she runs after them.
SNEED (CONT'D): I told you!
"Well, she didn't put any efforts on stopping them from barge in, you morons!" Obanai said.
INT. CHAPEL OF REST
Rose is still hammering on the door as the corpses get closer and closer.
ROSE: Let me out! Somebody, open the door! Open the door!
Redpath clasps a hand over her mouth, muffling her scream. At that moment, the Doctor kicks the door in.
THE DOCTOR: I think this is my dance.
He releases Rose from Redpath's grip.
Then the audience let out a sigh of relief that Rose have being saved in time.
DICKENS: It's a prank? It must be. We're under some mesmeric influence.
"At this points, I don't think it's a prank, Mr. Dickens." Muichiro said.
THE DOCTOR: No, we're not. The dead are walking. (Grins down at the panting Rose). Hi!
ROSE: Hi! Who's your friend?
THE DOCTOR: Charles Dickens.
ROSE: Oh. Okay.
THE DOCTOR (to the corpses): My name's the Doctor. Who are you, then? What do you want?
REDPATH: We're failing. Open the rift, we're dying. Trapped in this form, cannot sustain, help us.
Both Redpath and his grandmother raise their heads to the ceiling. The blue gas leaves them with a wailing sound and both corpses fall to the floor.
"Well, that was something." Aoi said.
"And omnious too." Nezuko added.
"Though, what is the rift that they were just talking about?" Zenitsu said as he felt scared but interested in the rift.
INT. SNEED'S PARLOUR
Gwyneth is pouring them all tea while Rose is having a go at Sneed.
ROSE: First of all you drug me, then you kidnap me, and don't think I didn't feel your hands having a quick wander, you dirty old man.
The Doctor sniggers.
"Pfft, hahahahaha. Man, I know that I should takes that as an offensive but consider this situation. I would let that go." The Historian laughs at Rose calling Sneed a dirty old man while she forgets that the Doctor is an old man as well. And then, Shinobu has an idea as she grinning at the Historian as she spokes.
"Well, technically, you're over 2000 years old so that makes you is an old man here." Shinobu said while she trying to hold her laughs.
"Yes, I'm an old man but you forgot those two at there." The Historian said as he points at Tamayo and Yushiro.
"Nah. I'm thinking they are still young here. Said, Tamayo is 500 years old right?" Tamayo nods. "And Yushiro is must be more than 100 years old, isn't it?" Yushiro nods. "So that means that they are the young one here, just like us, while you're an old man now."
Then the audience laughs at Shinobu's statements about the Historian being an old man here while the host just groaning but happy that she have managed to lighten up the mood after they heard about "The Old Curiosity Shop" book.
"I'm think it best to say that from now on, we should call our host is the old man." Rengoku said.
"Hahahaha. An flamboyant old man." Uzui laughs.
"Whatever." Muichiro said with his casual tone.
"Ne ne, Historian-san. Why don't you feel so upset about me calling you an old man." Shinobu giggled as she managed to get revenge on him.
"I'm upset, yes. But at least, you make me happy." The Historian said while the audience was confused at his reaction.
"Eh? What do you mean by that?" Shinobu confusingly said.
"Well, from my point of view, you making me remembers my childhood as I remember those teasing and annoyance from my friends but thanks to you, I'm remember that time. So let just say, you're a one heck of a jokester that makes peoples laugh and happy, shorty." The Historian said while he holds his mouth from laughing at that last statement while Shinobu just being blushed in embarrassment as he called her a jokester and shorty.
"Just... shut up! You... rude old man!" Shinobu stuttered while she hides her face in Kanae's chest while the latter just giggled at it.
'Man, she is so cute when she mad.' Giyuu thoughts while he whispered to Sabito and Makomo about Shinobu's other failed attempts to roasted the host.
'I can smell his happiness and a little bit of sadness around him. Maybe his childhood was happy when he have friends.' Tanjiro thought as he smiles.
"Historian-san, you sure have a strong sense of humor, isn't it?" Amane asks as she and her family were just laughing at Shinobu and the Historian's small battle.
"Well. What can I said, I am a great uncle after all." The Historian smilingly said.
"Then your family must be lucky to have an uncle like you." Nezuko added.
"Yeah."
'There is it again, his sadness at everytime he mention about his family. He must really care and love for them.' Tanjiro thoughts.
'I wonder, what is feels like if I have an uncle like him? He is just so funny.' Kanao thought to herself as she also couldn't hold her laugh at the Historian counter Shinobu through words while she thought about her old family, she doesn't remember if she has relatives.
SNEED: I won't be spoken to like this!
ROSE: Then you stuck me in a room full of zombies! And if that ain't enough, you swan off! And leave me to die! So come on, talk!
SNEED: It's not my fault, it's this house! It always had a reputation. Haunted.
"Really, then why did you even choose this place as a funeral home?" Sabito sarcastically asks.
SNEED (CONT'D): But I never had much bother until a few months back. And then the stiffs...
Dickens looks mildly offended.
SNEED: ...the er, dear departed started getting restless.
"Oooh, someone get scared." Kanae teasingly said.
DICKENS: Tommyrot.
"Um. What is a "tommyrot"? Is this guy name Tommy but he's rot?" Inouske asks.
"No. From that time, tommyrot means nonsense or utterfoolishness." The Historian reply.
"Huh, I kinda like that words. Tommyrot." Rengoku enthusiastically said.
SNEED: You witnessed it! Can't keep the beggars down, sir! They walk. And it's the queerest thing that they hang on to scraps...
Gwyneth gives the Doctor his tea.
GWYNETH: Two sugars, sir, just how you like it.
The Doctor looks at her retreating back curiously.
"Hm, there is something strange here, don't you think?" The Historian said while he is sipping his tea.
"Yeah, there is something strange here. Where do you get that tea cup?" Inosuke asks.
"You forgot this room can provide any food and drinks right? Hey you guys should tries some British teas, it's good." As the Historian said as the audience gets their teacup and when they drank it up, they gotta admit it's good. "My favorite tea is lemon tea with three cup of sugar."
"The tea cup is good. Though, I think I understand what you're trying to say is, Historian-san?" Tamayo said as the audience turn their attention toward her.
"What do you mean, Tamayo-sama?" Yushiro asks.
"I figured what he is tries to said. When he said his favorite tea, he have let us know about what kind of favorite tea he prefer is. But for the Doctor, his favorite tea have two sugars right?" The Historian nods. "Then how is Gwyneth suppose to know his favorite tea despite she didn't even asks him for it?" As Tamayo said as she and the audience are widening their eyes in realization.
"Holy shit. Who the hell is she?" Genya asks.
"And most importantly, does it have to do with the sight that she and Mr. Sneed have talked about?" Kiriya added.
And then the audience turns their heads at the host as he tries to explain without spoiling too much: "Gwyneth is just a normal servant girl who had clairvoyant abilities."
"Clairvoyant abilities?" Muichiro asks while he raises his eyebrows.
"Simple version, Gwyneth is a telepath who could read people's minds, that how she know the Doctor's favorite tea is."
"Oh. Wait, she can read people mind?!" Kanroji yelled.
"Yep."
"And that how she know the whereabout of Mrs. Pearce?" Obanai said in a surprised tone.
"Uh huh."
"Woah, what a great superpower she have." Rengoku said.
"Yeah, that was a flamboyant superpower." Uzui exclaims.
"Dear, what do you think about her?" Amane asks her husband.
"I'm think that the servant girl is something elses that we haven't think about it." Kagaya calmly said as he starts to interest in her.
SNEED: One old fella who used to be a sexton almost walked into his own memorial service! Just like the old lady going to your performance, sir! Just as she planned.
DICKENS: Morbid fancy.
THE DOCTOR: Oh, Charles, you were there.
DICKENS: I saw nothing but an illusion.
"Why does he keeps denying about it?" Nezuko asks as she believe what she just saw and it's not an illusion.
"Well, you wouldn't believe what magician have done on their time enough to make the audience thinks it's magic." The Historian said.
THE DOCTOR: If you're going to deny it, don't waste my time. Just shut up.
Dickens is stunned.
"Well, that was rude." Shinobu said.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D) (to Sneed): What about the gas?
SNEED: That's new, sir, never seen anything like that.
THE DOCTOR: Means it's getting stronger, the rift's getting wider and something's sneaking through.
ROSE: What's the rift?
THE DOCTOR: A weak point in time and space. The connection between this place and another. That's the cause of ghost stories, most of the time.
"Hey, Historian-san. What is the rift that the Doctor was just talked about?" Aoi asks.
"The Time rifts, also known as temporal rifts, were weaknesses in space and time through which people or objects could pass from one location and time to another. The Doctor once explained that "rift" wasn't quite the same word, and that a rift per sec was a fracture running through a four-dimensional area of space-time or simple, the Time Vortex. Certain rifts could transport living or non-living matter through space and time from one end to another. The exit points of a rift could change their temporal coordinates, or move through space but not time, while other exit points could move through both space and time. An exit point could be anchored and could also emit time storms, which is a method of time/space transportation that could be experienced in many forms." The Historian explains.
"Woah. That a lot of informartions." Shinobu said as she and Tamayo write everything down.
"Wait, so those anomolies and the missing peoples were caused by the rift as well?" Rengoku asks as the Historian nods.
"Oh, so that what caused the ghost stories that we usually heard." Kanroji said.
"Yeah that, and a lot of legends and mythicals stories as well. But for Kanae, Sabito and Makomo, they are really ghosts, they from the other side which I also couldn't go there as well. But because of that, I very love and interested in your planet, since it always full of mystery and questions should be solved."
"Yes, I agree with you, Historian-san. This planet is always full of mystery." Kagaya said as the audience was awed at such information.
"But wait, why is our planet have time rift?" Shinobu asks as the Historian stiffened up at that question.
"It is the war, isn't it?" Tanjiro asks as he can sense the smell from him.
"Not just your planet but many various places as well. But I don't want to talk about it now, okay?" The Historian reply.
"Okay, we understand." Tanjiro reply.
"But..." Shinobu tried to say but Giyuu cut her off as he said.
"Kochou. Let just leave him alone for a moments ok?" Giyuu said as Shinobu pouted but accept it.
SNEED (with revelation): That's how I got the house so cheap.
"Seriously, that how peoples sell it?" Zenitsu said.
Dickens sneaks un-noticed from the room.
"What is he up to now?" Kanae questions as the audience interested in what Dickens is doing now.
SNEED: Stories going back generations. Echoes in the dark. Queer songs in the air and this feeling like a... shadow. Passing over your soul. Mind you, truth be told, it's been good for business. Just what people expect from a gloomy old trade like mine.
"Well, I can't denied it since that how business works." The Historian reply.
"Yeah. A shady old man with an haunted house. That definetely would attracted a lot of peoples." Uzui sarcastically said.
INT. SNEED AND COMPANY, CORRIDOR
Dickens, wandering the corridors alone, examines the gas lamps.
DICKENS: Impossible.
INT. CHAPEL OF REST
Dickens goes back into the room where Rose was locked up and takes the lid off Redpath's coffin, where Redpath is lying peacefully, his arms crossed across his chest. He waves his hands in front of his face, shakes him a bit, and fumbles around underneath the coffin, all the time oblivious to the Doctor watching him with his arms folded in the doorway.
THE DOCTOR: Checking for strings?
DICKENS: Wires, perhaps? There must be some mechanism behind this fraud!
The Doctor unfolds his arms and walks over to Dickens.
THE DOCTOR: Oh, come on, Charles. All right. I shouldn't have told you to shut up. (Places a hand on Dickens' shoulder). I'm sorry. But you've got one of the best minds in the world. You saw those gas creatures.
"Well, at least he have apologized for his rudeness." Aoi said.
DICKENS: I cannot accept that.
"Well, I can't blame him. After all, he is a scientist, he rather follow logics than believe those kind of things." The Historian said.
"But he have saw it. He should believe it right?" Tanjiro said.
"Well, how would he react when he saw your Breathing Techniques and Demon power?" As the host said as the audience fell silent. "I mean, he wouldn't believe how human lungs have capabilities to do those forms that he would consider as magic or demon that was supposed to be in hell, suddenly walk on the surface of the planet. He would go mad for it."
THE DOCTOR: And what does the human body do when it decomposes? It breaks down and produces gas. Perfect home for these gas things, they can slip inside and use it as a vehicle. Just like your driver and his coach.
"Well, another fun fact for the human body is that they have phosphorus inside their body, so when they die it would release the gas that makes you guys thought is wisps but it's gas. So it makes sense if those things possessed the human body."
DICKENS: Stop it! Can it be that I have the world entirely wrong?
THE DOCTOR: Not wrong. There's just more to learn.
"Don't think too narrowly, open your mind then you would learn a lot of from it and used it in your own advantages." The Historian said as the audience interested in his words.
DICKENS: I've always railed against the fantasies. Oh, I loved an illusion as much as the next man, revelled in them, that's what they were. Illusions!
"Yeah, that was his childhood. I bet anyone in here have seen a lot of magicians performs illusions before." The Historian said as some of them remember the festivals they have come across during their mission.
DICKENS: The real world is something else. I dedicated myself to that. Injustices. Great social causes. I hoped that I was a force for good. Now you tell me that the real world is a realm of spectres and jack o' lanterns. In which case - have I wasted my brief span here, Doctor? Has it all been for nothing?
"He is sad and disappointed." Tanjiro said.
"Yeah, he is." The Historian reply. "Now I'm wondering what would happens if he saw the Demon Slayers and the Demon himself."
"I think that he will break his minds for it." Giyuu said.
"But why did he think like that?" Nezuko asks.
"Because he believe in science and like he have said he have dedicated himself to everything. But as he realized that everything is far more beyond than him, he would realized how a fool he is." The Historian said as the audience uncertainly that if he was right. "But like the Doctor have said he is not wrong, there's just more to learn. It's okay if you admit that the world is have so much to learn. Just don't think too narrowly and open your mind, just because you know everything that doesn't mean you know all of them. You just have to learn and open your minds. That is my advices to your Breathing Techniques and Blood Demon Art."
"He is right my children. The world we were lived is have so much things to learn, we just have to open our minds for it." Kagaya said as everyone agrees with him.
*Author Note: This chapter will be the longest one in my story. I hope you will appreciate and like the first part of the episode "The Unquiet Dead". Just remembers to comments on your thoughts about it and favorites and follow my story.
