Comforting Darkness

Chapter 47: The Tutor, Operation Phantom5

"W-Wait... Hold on a second, my lord. Wh-what do you mean you will do exactly what the Sphere Music Hall does?" Selina felt really at a loss, this boy always managed to do that to her.

The young evil aristocrat smiled, absolutely justifying the nickname. "You yourself said that boy bands in your era are created aiming to capture the attention of the female audience mostly, and what the Music Hall presents, more or less, follows the same logic, right?" Selina nodded. "Well then, we will produce and sell to people exactly the same thing; we will create a new Victorian boy band which might not shackle people's hearts as the S4 did, but will give them a choice and with Sebastian's talents and your future insights might even become greater than the original material. That is one of the basic principles of trade; if someone else created something original before you did... then you can only improve the original idea and resell it to people as something totally new and make them believe so! That is the mentality of the masses... is it not?" He smirked glancing at his demon butler, who in return smiled back with a look that again Selina could identify as that of a prideful father to his son.

Truth is that at the moment, the boy looked once again like a young demon, excited for devising ways of teasing humans. Yes, if Selina did not know better, she would swear Sebastian had planted his seed in Rachel's Phantomhive belly and she gave birth to this little spawn! Strangely enough, she could not feel abhorred or terrified by the little creature or the idea of a devil spawn. An image of herself holding such a baby in her arms and the knowledge that it was Sebastian's flashed in her mind for a second and... she blushed!!

"What the hell, girl? It's not going to happen, like never, so pull yourself together and focus!!" She reprimanded herself and slapped the side of her head, twice!

"Mrs. Selina, are you alright?" Her master's voice pulled her out of her thoughts. She lifted her eyes to him, and both he and demon were watching her with question in their wide eyes. "Even if you object in this course of action, you are obliged to follow my orders as my servant. Is that not one of the reasons you were sent here?" The boy asked her in a very smug manner.

"Y-Yes, my lord. I-I have no objection in following your plan; it actually is very logical to fight them with their own weapons... It's just that I am concerned for the future. Boy bands are not supposed to exist that early and what they have done might have already affected the balance of... time!"

He raised his hand in a reassuring gesture. "I understand and I am not that arrogant to desire to disrupt the flow of time. We will use this technique only for a short time, just to decrease the inflow of people enough for them to act rashly and make a mistake."

"And after we expose them to the public, people's wrath will be so great that they will want to forget everything about Sphere Music Hall and their shows!" Sebastian added very confident and excited.

Selina once again had lost the battle against these two. Christ, what a pair... and how much she loved them both and enjoyed being a part of their team! She sighed admitting her defeat and sat in an armchair in front of Ciel's desk.

"All right, young master. So how are we going to go about it?" She asked staring at him.

"I will leave the details to you two, I am sure you will figure everything out. What I want from you, Mrs Selina, is to tell me again the possible roles the members of boy bands can assume, so that I will be sure of whom to choose." His eye was sparkling, which meant he already had some candidates in mind.

"Hmm... the most usual were the strong handsome man, gentle but also a little forceful and bad boy when it came to the girl he supposedly liked; the baby face that was quite naughty underneath; the sexy nerd... umm, I mean the intellectual man that could also be very attractive; the melancho-"