Ciel Phantomhive is a young yet highly ranked lawyer known for famous cases he has argued for and won. When his boss Sebastian Michaelis is reaching his retirement, he decides to put Ciel to the test by putting him in the 'Trancy' case to defend a young, reckless boy in trial. Ciel is determined to defend the boy to get his promotion, but unfortunately, this boy is more annoying and hard to defend than Ciel thinks. Alois Trancy is the boy Ciel must defend, and at first Ciel thinks he is a complete mentally unstable nutjob. Alois told Ciel he didn't do the crimes, but would hand himself in anyway to save the stress; but Ciel is determined to find out the story behind the case. Unfortunately, Alois doesn't want to co-operate, making Ciel's job alot harder.