The sleeping ash. Black Butler various x reader

In the afternoon: The Butler, Shaken

*3rd pov*

"Aah. How sad it iiis... ...that laughter should vanish from this place." 

"Undertaker...!?" Ciel stares at him while Undertaker grins at him. The pieces of glass crash to the floor. "I knew he was suspicious." (Y/n) said. "He masked his presence most skillfully. His 'eyes' have always been hidden as well, so it escaped even my notice." Sebastian said. "Same here. He fooled me good." Grell said. "Mister Sutcliff, sir! Those eyes..." Ronald joins her. "Yes. That chartreuse phosphorescence, without a doubt, can only belong to..." Grell stares at Undertaker's green eyes. "...A Grim Reaper!" Grell announces.

"Hee! Hee! How nostalgiiic! It's been at least half a century since I was last called that." Undertaker smirks. "The Undertaker... ...is a grim reaper–!?" Ciel is shocked. "He is good looking with his eyes showing though I still find him attractive with his bangs." (Y/n) mutters. "Explain yourself, Undertaker!! You said I could control those corpses with this device!" Rian rushes to Undertaker. "Did IIII now, truly?" Undertaker wonders with a taunting tone. "!! So you tricked me... was it all a lie!? Even the part about sailing to America to popularize absolute salvation... everything!!?"

"Well, you seeee... I found it comical that you were earnestly attempting to resurrect the dead via medical science... You were just the man of talent for my purposes." Undertaker explains. "And what of our singular desire to bring the whole world into health and well-being through medicine...!?" Rian asks him. "That was your desire, riiight? Besides! You are not capable of bringing the dead back to life by the power of the medical knowledge in your grasp. And it all ceased to be medicine in the first place the moment you began to depend on my techniques. One who conducts procedures upon his patients that he himself does not understand can no longer call himself a physician." Undertaker gave him a reality check.

"H-How could this be...?" Rian drops to his knees. "You were a good lad, naively buying all I said without question." Undertaker pets Rian's head. "So you're saying that you masterminded the Aurora Society's experiments to resurrect the dead? Undertaker!" Ciel questions him. "That's a secret. ♡" Undertaker's finger hovers over his lips. "–Is what I'd like to say, but you have paid for information innumerable times over with that phoenix pose of yours, Earl. So tell you, I shall! Hee! Hee... 'Twas indeed I who produced these reanimated corpses." Undertaker answers. "To what end!?" Ciel questions. "Well, let's seeee. At first, it was probably... ...simple curiosity toward humans. Humans possess 'bodies of flesh' and 'souls'... if the two are present humans, as living beings, exist in this world and continue to log their 'cinematic records,' the memories of their lives. And when the bodies of flesh decay and Grim Reapers retrieve their souls, their cinematic records come to an end at that moment, and the living become the dead. Grim Reapers, going by their lists, extract human souls from bodies and bring cinematic records to their ends. Day after day. Indifferently. Matter-of-factly. However, one day, after I'd spent a long time as a Grim Reaper doing just that day in and day out, something occurred to me. What would happen if there was a sequel after those endings?" Undertaker explains.

"!?" Ronald, Grell, and (Y/n)'s eyes widened.

"What would happen to the bodies of flesh that had lost their souls and whose memories had come to an end if I added a continuation to those very memories? Souls alone are all Grim Reapers hunt, after all. The 'bodies' and the 'memories' in their brains still remain in this world." Undertaker explains more. "Come on... you're telling me you edited their cinematic records?" Grell stands up. "Hee! Hee! Well, now! Why not use your powers and have a look-see at their records for yourself?" Undertaker points at the corpses at the railing. Grell jumps up and slashes on two corpses to show their lives in the cinematic records to reveal at the end Undertaker with a stash, a suit, and a hat doing funny dances.