Moonlit Meetings (Kuroshitsuji/Black Butler) (Sebastian x Ciel)

Eighth Sighting

Moonlit Meetings:

Chapter 8:

"Used to are the keywords," Sebastian corrected. "Stop trying to distract me and answer the question."

Ash sighed. "The thief isn't after my valuables. He is after evidence."

"Of your crimes?"

Sebastian's interest was piqued. He had been trying to get evidence to arrest Ash for a long time. His former foster father avoided the question and asked one of his own.

"Am I correct in remembering that Arthur Wordsmith was the target before me?"

Sebastian nodded cautiously.

"All of the previous heist targets are linked in some way. If you find that link you will know everything," Ash answered cryptically.

Sebastian had tried finding a connection beforehand, but had failed to find anything definitive. Prior to Wordsmith, the targets were either wealthy or had a title. It seemed that he hadn't been thorough enough or Ash was being misleading.

"Do you know who the phantom thief is? If you know the motive then you should know his identity."

Ash smirked nastily. "We have never properly met. I saw him once playing in the garden 15 years ago- I had just killed his parents so I did not hang around to talk to him."

Sebastian was stunned into silence at how casually Ash had admitted he was a murderer. It wasn't that he didn't know his former adoptive father was a murderer; to hear it so boldly was a shock.

"Are you planning on killing him too at the heist?" he questioned, able to guess the answer anyway.

"Well, I left him alive assuming he wouldn't try anything, but now that he is breaking into my house- he will have to die."

There was no shock for Sebastian this time so he replied with no hesitation.

"Not on my watch."

He left his former home as suddenly as he had arrived and returned to his flat. He needed time to digest what he had been told and recover from the surprise of finding out that Ash was involved.

Now he had little inclination to arrest the phantom thief. Their interests were in line with each other. He wanted to arrest Ash and the phantom thief wanted evidence that Ash had killed his parents. He had only been interested in the phantom thief at the start because he wanted to be promoted to a higher position so he could investigate Ash without consequence.

If Alois Trancy was the phantom thief and Ciel was his accomplice and they were both interested in obtaining justice, they could all work together. That was if Trancy really was Black Phantom. He would have to make sure first.

Ash had given him a number of hints that added more to the scant amount of information he had about the thief.

His parents had been murdered by Ash 15 years ago. He would need to go through the Police database for double deaths that occurred 15 years ago. He paused as he remembered something from the previous day that now seemed so far away.

Ciel's cousin Lizzie Midford had said something to Ciel about it being 15 years since some deaths. He hadn't picked up the whole conversation so he wasn't sure about the context. The phantom thief could be friends with or related to Ciel. That would fit with Trancy being the phantom thief.

He recalled Ash's hint about the heists being connected. It had to be something to do with the past targets' affluence or titles. Ciel had said that Trancy wasn't rich and he didn't speak like he had ever had parents with a title. Perhaps he wasn't the thief.