#undertaker | darkspellmaster (2024)

That’s all it is: real!Ciel is using his pawns against his brother’s in a real lively chess game. I’m a bit iffy as to what the twin ultimately wants, but let’s save that for later.

It’s a chess game and our!Ciel stepped right up to it in ch129 when he came back to the manor…

and he definitely had a late start because of the shock and confusion when realizing that his older brother is back and Lord Sirius, the blue star of the blue sect, but…

I’m sure he’ll manage to recover. :) Because Ciel has people he can use against his brother too.

Without already mentioning that Abberline and probably Edward will end up on his side (Ed because he already accused Ciel wrongly in the Weston arc and came to regret it + he and Ciel investigated most of the arc together), Violet, Sieglinde and even Soma have several ways to yell bullsh*t about our!Ciel being the mastermind behind the sect:

• For Violet, it’s a question of motivation and wanting to pay Ciel back for helping him several times + saving his life in ch125.
• For Soma, he’ll first need to hear about our!Ciel having a twin brother to connect the dots and realize that his friend didn’t kill Agni
• and for Sieglinde, it’s just about friendship, considering all that Ciel did for her in the past and how she’s the one who analyzed the blood samples for him.

Obviously Lizzie knows on the truth on this matter too, she knows who the real Lord Sirius is, but her heart is being held hostage by real!Ciel’s side right now so she’s a major pawn to use against our!Ciel for the moment,

but it could change because her love for our!Ciel makes her a wild card.

The servants will side with our!Ciel, who is their master, out of devotion, but they have no idea as to what’s really going on unfortunately. Except for Tanaka, who probably saw it coming (’how’ is still the question) but who’s as tied as Lizzie I’d say, seeing how sad he also looks.

So yep: chess game. Brother vs brother, Seb vs UT, Grell and Othello probably being confused af and Mama Midford hopefully still missing for a reason (maybe Alexis telling her what happened will trigger something?). Can’t wait :))

Heyyyyy, you know who else is missing and could be considered a chess pawn for our!Ciel’s side? Lau. And Ran Mao additionally, I guess.

Not that Lau showed up in the arc so far, so the probability that he’ll play a role isn’t that high obviously, but still,Sensei said before that, even though Lau is busy running his own business while following the Watchdog’s rules, he’s mostly“interested in our!Ciel”.

Undying Seb doesn’t seem to faze or interest him so much, so he’s…

…hanging around our!Ciel mostly for his own enjoyment of things.

So I’d say he’d (knowingly) rather play the part of the pawn to our!Ciel’s side of the chess game over real!Ciel’s anyday (if real!Ciel is to become the Watchdog for a short time after our!Ciel’s arrest), because he always bets on our!Ciel to provide him with a lot of amusem*nt.

Ran Mao will follow Lau, but she too seems to like Ciel a lot anyway…

…so that’s two more people that our!Ciel could use wisely against his brother.

In fact, friendly reminder that Lau is the most mysterious character of the whole cast as of right now (and that’s really saying something), so having our!Ciel owing him could be rather interesting for a future arc focusing more on Lau. :))

And one last thing, about missing characters…

Frances Midford, irrelevant to this arc?I don’t think so. :D

Since real!Ciel is the one who started this chess game rather strongly, the odds that our!Ciel will overcome his brother at the end are even better considering what Frances taught our!Ciel (a tactic he used for the last 4 years for his revenge actually).

I’m in for this type of games, guys. It’s gonna get wilder. :))

Are we forgetting The other peices? The two Charles, John Brown and the Queen. You honestly think she’ll sit by as this is going on and screwing with her watch dog?

And one price that can help Lizzy is Paula.

And we haven’t seem the other Lords yet. Nor the killer.

@darkspellmaster​I was keeping this for another post but since you added on: I agree with you this arc is far from being over.

However, I think Ciel is def going to be arrested and the Queen won’t be of any help. The Double Charles were probably told about the dead lords from the Parliament as of ch126, but are they truly supposed to believe Ciel is innocent?

After all, they know as first-hand witnesses what he’s ready to do to solve a case, with the example of the circus arc, so this doesn’t sound helpful.

I’d love to make a more detailed post on this after Monday but, basically, this arc sounds a lot like the end of “Kuro the manga Part 1” as in, our!Ciel is facing all that he ever did wrong in Kuro.

• Lying about his identity? His bro is coming back.
• Pushing Liz and Soma away from him? Now they’re hurt and doubting him and so he’s hurt too.
• Using Ed for murder? The Weston arc had gotten them closer but now Ed may need some time to truly be sure he’s innocent.
• Needing the Double Charles’ testimony? As I said, after the circus arc, he can’t count on them.
• Needing the Queen’s help? Well, he already messed up 3 times in a year (curry arc, circus arc and green witch arc) so after ch108, it’s not certain the Queen would care to help, especially since she’s also very interested in Bizarre dolls.

It goes on and on and on. :) Honestly, the only people truly on our!Ciel’s side at the moment are Sebastian (because of the contract) and maybe Tanaka and Frances, if they both knew about him lying about his identity beforehand. And also maybe Lau because he never knew the twin and seeks entertainment from Ciel, but like, that makes the list very small for now. xD

Everyone else is shaken by the news and the accusations about our!Ciel being the Blue Sect’s mastermind are adding to the confusion and doubts surrounding him. That’s what Seb meant by“well played”.

Anyway, since this arc is about confrontation, I think it is eventually supposed to end on our!Ciel learning to rely on the characters besides Sebastian who will accept to believe in him (I made a list in the first post).For now, the situation is confusing so he has trouble gathering his pawns for the counterattack, but ultimately most characters are bound to turn away from the twin because he’s a nutcase the ones who cared about “Ciel Phantomhive” since the start of Kurosh*tsuji care about who our!Ciel truly is.

So ultimately it’s all about what UT said in ch35:

Because it’s literally what’shappening and maybe that’s actually why UT made sure the arc would unfold that way. He doesn’t want Ciel to lose his soul to Seb, that much at least seems clear, so this arc could be one way to make sure it doesn’t happen as @frederickabberline​ explained here, or so UT thinks.

That’s what I refer to as a possible “end of part 1” for the manga: once we’ll be done with this arc, once Ciel realizes he’s supposed to be living for himself, surrounded by people who care about the real him (and not because he assumed his bro’s identity), then we’ll move on to the whole problematic surrounding the contract and whether or not our!Ciel eventually wants to break away from it.

Just my opinion as always, but I hope it helps :)

Always good to hear your opinion, :).

Oh, one other thing that probably will come into play, the other former evil nobleman.