Black Butler (黒執事)

O werewolves, witness the Ultimate Spell!

Don't look so glum. I'm proud of these feet.

I'm happy to have completed one of my duties as Emerald Witch today.

Everyone is proud of you.

Oh, I know! I'll leave the forest and study lots of new things!

Then I can help the village—

You mustn't!

What?

We've arranged to give you what you want the most.

To see the outside world.

What do you think?

B-But the village laws say...

Ah, I see.

Danke, Freund. Tschüß.

I-I'll go with you.

I want to know more!

Well, Fräulein Sullivan?

The outside world is full of surprises, wouldn't you agree?

The "werewolves" are really mere humans in costumes.

And the "miasma" is really...

...a chemical weapon made in this factory. It's a toxic gas.

N-No...

Take pride! You have created the most powerful toxic gas in history!

And that's right. Such a breakthrough chemical weapon deserves a name.

"SuLIN." I shall name it "sulin" gas!

The emergency signal?

Young mistress!

Black Butler

Emerald Witch Arc

What I spent all that time creating wasn't magic?

It was toxic gas?

I thought I was protecting the villagers.

But I was creating a weapon? Something whose only purpose is to kill?

Everyone has been deceiving me all this time?

Tell me that's not true, Elder!

Why are you crying, Sieglinde?

It's precisely because the fine mind you were born with

was given the optimal environment in which to immerse itself in research

that you were able to create the ultimate chemical weapon.

What is there to feel sad about? You've changed history.

You're the living incarnation of the dear one I lost that day.

What?

So dry your tears,

my beloved daughter.

Daughter?

You see, 13 years ago, I participated in a certain military project.

The project involved a gas so dangerous

that for 20 long years it was considered impossible to mass-produce.

Its objective was to utilize this "mustard gas," as it is commonly called, to make weapons.

This is...

Before long, a brilliant scientist created a safe method of synthesizing it.

To our scientific success!

Prost!

Thank you.

I should be thanking you. It's an honour to work with you.

Everything was going so well.

But then...

One day, there was an accident at the gas manufacturing plant.

He passed away.

How is Herr Doktor?

And I became unrecognizable.

His mind was one of our nation's greatest treasures.

A great loss to our country.

The project will stagnate without him.

We were heartbroken.

But...

His genes took root inside me...

...and began to grow anew.

The child's talent blossomed immediately.

She was a fluent reader by the age of three.

Ma'am, the young mistress...

What about her?

She understood how to synthesize mustard gas.

You did this?

In that moment, I knew. My beloved had returned. His mind had returned to me!

I negotiated with the government at once and launched a new project.

To wit...

A project to develop the ultimate weapon by cultivating a genius.

The necessary conditions for raising a scientific genius

were an environment conducive to immersion in study and sustained motivation.

First, we had to remove the noise that interferes with genius: ethics and common sense.

Also, amusements, merrymaking, and worldly pleasures.

To isolate her from all of these, we had to eliminate all traces of worldly life.

We created the village for that purpose.

And so that she would voluntarily remain in this environment,

we constructed an addictive Weltanschauung.

Someone special to be: the Emerald Witch.

A duty: to protect the villagers from werewolves.

And so, Wolfsschlucht, the "Wolf's Valley," came into being.

Yes, it's because you were here that you were able to devote yourself to study,

and develop a new weapon in less than ten years.

The project succeeded, Sieglinde!

Young mistress!

How dare you?

You were deceiving me, too.

You liar!

To make your weapon,

you crushed your daughter's feet and threatened her with "duty."

Is that how a parent should act?

Children aren't their parents' tools.

Sieglinde!

Stop!

Don't! What if you hit a gas canister?

After them!

Cut off their exit!

Sebastian, the rest is up to you.

Yes, my lord.

Young mistress...

Wolf! What's the matter?

Hilde! The English have the young mistress!

What?

And she found out about everything.

They should be in Area A23 now. I'm going after them!

Lieutenant!

First Lieutenant Wolfram Gelzer, I trust you haven't forgotten.

The duty of the Emerald Witch's butler

is to dispose of the Emerald Witch if an emergency necessitates it.

Ja!

It's gotten noisy, yes.

Won't be long, then.

So it's begun.