Max Headroom/Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler)

The Secret of Blipverts

Chapter One

Bryce frowned as he stepped onto the lift, It had been nearly six months since Blipverts had been officially discontinued. Since Edison's report had forced them off the air. Since then, he hadn't been able to do what he considered his real job.

Bryce hadn't really been Network 23's head of R&D since shortly before his sixteenth birthday. Not since the accident in the lab that had claimed his life. He wondered why nobody had noticed the changes in him. Surely they weren't all that unobservant. Or perhaps television had softened their brains. Whatever the case, he was way behind on his work. And Edison had sidetracked him too much already.

He looked at the list dispatch had sent him and frowned again as he noticed the third name from the top.

Murray McKenzie.

This was not going to be an easy collection. Despite their differences, Bryce had a grudging respect for the man. Not to mention he was the head of Edison's team and that almost made him Bryce's tertiary boss. And he had no scythe to collect him with, unless he requisitioned one from head office.

And that was why he was headed out. Not to get a burger at Zik Zak like he'd told Max, but to get far away enough from the Network to travel to the Reaper's Realm. He would have to explain the loss of his original deathscythe, but hopefully Spears would not chew him out too much.