Ciel's POV

I arrived at the crime scene where Mr. Abberline was milling around. The front window of the shop had been busted open.

"Sebastian, make a list of possible suspects," I ordered before walking over to Mr. Abberline. "What was stolen?"

"I was told to wait for you and Zero to come and tell you both at the same time," He replied.

"You may begin, I had a little unexpected business to wrap up. I apologize for my lateness," A voice spoke from behind me. Two boys stood there, both looking to be 18. One wore a school boy's uniform who had shaggy black hair and violet eyes and the other wore a butler's uniform with black hair also and red eyes, just like Sebastian. So this is this 'Zero'.

"You must be Zero," I glanced over the two them. The butler gave me a small smirk.

"Indeed, you may call me Lelouch for now," The one in the uniform spoke with a small bow. "It is an honor to meet the Queen's guard dog."

I narrowed my eyes at him, something was off. I turned back towards Inspector Abberline, "What are the details?"

"He has been stealing items of some value for a while, but he never steals the same type of item twice. The locations are relatively random, and there are no clues to go on to solve it. Scotland Yard is still working on it," He finished.

"My lord, I have complied the list that you requested," I simply held out my hand for the list Sebastian gave me after appeared out of no where.
"You are late," I snapped.

"I had to do a little bit of digging to find what you requested, my lord," He bowed.

"So this is your butler," Lelouch looked over Sebastian before giving a small nod of approval. I looked over to Lelouch's yet unnamed butler before seeing his eyes flask pink for a second. There is no doubt. He is a demon. I wonder where Lelouch's contract mark is.

"His name is Sebastian, he has served me faithfully," I tried to prompt Lelouch to give a name to his servant.

"This is Lucas, he has been with me for years, ever since my parent's death. . ." So he was just like me, there is no doubt that Lucas is a demon. I glanced over to Sebastian to see him making the same conclusions that I had.

"I assume this list that Sebastian is talking about is a list of suspects," Lelouch concluded.

"Yes, there are only a few people who it could be," I looked over the list, immediately crossing out some suspects who couldn't be the thief.

"Who do you have it narrowed down to?" Lelouch prompted.

"Am I going to be doing all the solving? It could only be Evan Hestas, he has a motive, a unstable alibi, and the means to commit this type of crime," Sebastian had written down possible motives, alibis, and resources that the suspects had in their control.

"We already checked his house," Abberline stated. "There was no sign that anything stolen was ever in there."

Lelouch had a small smirk on his face, along with Lucas.

"What are you smirking at?" I snapped.

"I just had a thought, any of the people on the list could the thief, they could have had an accomplice so that they would have had an alibi," Lelouch reasoned.

"I don't think that any one of them had an accomplice," I stated.

"Why not?" Lelouch raised his eyebrow.

"Because there would have been no pay off, all of these people would have kept the money for themselves."

"If one owed a large amount of debt and was given the promise that that debt could be cleared if you stole a number of objects, most people would have done it."

I don't like him.

"That is true," I narrowed my eyes, Lelouch is too slippery for my tastes. I have to say, he is too much like me.

"Shall I make another list of suspects?" Sebastian asked, clearly enjoying this.

"There is no need. Search Miles Jamestown's house. You will find the stolen items and a very suspicious man. Arrest him for theft, murder, and conspiracy. A crime ring found out his previous crimes and threatened to sell him out to the Yard. In return, he is doing their dirty work. The crime ring can be found at the run down warehouse on the outskirts of town. Two birds with one stone," I smirked to Lelouch to find him smirking back at me.

"Ten minutes for a small crime with a hint or two in the right direction, that's a bit of a let down. Sir. Abberline, the Queen's personal guard has already taken care of Miles and his thefts. Don't bother going to the house, It will just be a waste of your time, Lucas, come," Lelouch started walking away.

"What do you mean?" Abberline asked the question I was trying to figure out in my head.

"The queen wanted to test your deductive skills to see if you were loosing your touch. I must say that I was a little bit let down, but that's me. It was nice meeting you Ciel Phantomhive and Sebastian Michaelis, I hope we meet sometime in the future. We must be going," Lelouch and Lucas disappeared around a corner, leaving Sebastian, Abberline, and myself stunned.

"Sebastian, find everything that you can dig up on a Lelouch."

"Yes my lord."