ʙʟᴀᴄᴋ ʙᴜᴛʟᴇʀ: Book of Mystery

11.1 "How could I?"

When the social season drew to a close, England was shaken by a series of murders. The victims were women of easy virtue, their bodies mutilated with some of their internal organs removed. For his heinous brutality, the killer earned the nickname — Jack the Ripper.

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Is it really happening now... Are they leaving? Is Madam going to die soon? Is this... the end of the first arc in the manga? And will I be left without the person who treated me so well?

By the end of the case, I will lose someone who has become important to me. Will I hate Grell when I see him wearing Madam's coat, and what did Ciel feel throughout the entire manga?       

«Earl...» Ciel turned around. His heart clenched at the realization of what was about to happen. I sincerely felt sorry for the boy because of his fate, because he would have to lose another close person.       

Why is everything happening to him? And most importantly, why was I sent here? To watch and empathize, while feeling pain for him with all my heart?       

«Dress warmly,» I worried about him, at least he should dress warmly, it's raining outside and he will freeze.

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In the middle of the night, in a dark alley, the earl and the butler were undercover, waiting for the real criminal to appear.       

«Cold...» said the boy, trembling, at that moment he remembered the words of his guest, unfortunately, he did not listen to her. He did not find it necessary to heed her advice.       

«Оf course, in these slums your usual suit will arouse suspicion, but you are too lightly dressed, aren't you? And it seems it's starting to rain,» the boy's butler began to take off his coat.       

«We can't attract attention, I don't need your coat,» Ciel refused the warm clothing. «Will the criminal definitely appear here?» he asked.       

«Probably, yes, there's only one door and no other way out.»

«So the next victim lives in this room?..» Ciel peeked out from behind the wall at an ordinary old wooden door.       

«I have told you many times that there can be no mistake, we two are already attracting a lot of attention.»

«Besides the fact that all the victims had their wombs removed, they had something else in common, but where does the killer's bloodlust come from? Besides, I...» The earl fell silent, distracted by Sebastian, who was petting a cat.       

The count began to remember the entire conversation yesterday before going to bed, he remembered how a girl came to him, warning him about something, but before he had time to think of anything, a scream was heard on the street. Cry of pain.

«What?! But no one came in! Forward» — they ran to the door, Ciel opened it...

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«The rain is coming..." I touched the window, it was cold.

"I wonder how they are doing?"

Jack the Ripper's last victim was Mary Callie. Even in our world, she was the last... One day I was curious about this person, in my world I read that she was almost turned inside out. An abomination...

I... I chickened out and didn't go, I didn't want to see this picture, even if it hadn't seemed to me. I would be a hindrance to Ciel and Sebastian.