APPLICATIONS -- 2010; 001

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earl ciel phantomhive ♚ 3/?

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Almost two years later, the series begins. Towards the beginning of the series, they do little but take care of very trivial matters pertaining to Ciel's relationships, the Phantomhive house, the Funtom Company and some of the Queen's smaller orders, such as finding and disposing of a rat amongst the ranks, but their first real situation quickly arrives - the Queen wishes for Ciel to investigate the mysterious murders taking place in London and catch the criminal known as Jack the Ripper. At first, they believe that the Viscount Druitt was responsible, and Ciel pretends to be a young girl to infiltrate his party, only to be kidnapped and almost sold in an underground auction; as always Sebastian comes to his rescue with ease, and they discover shortly after that the case was not solved, and Jack the Ripper is still at large. It doesn't take long for Sebastian to drop Ciel a hint after his investigation of all possible suspects, and Ciel catches on quickly.

Despite that they're waiting at the scene of the crime before it happens, Ciel and Sebastian fail to save the next prostitute before she is murdered - but they uncover the culprit in the act: Ciel's aunt, "Madam Red", and her butler Grell. Grell reveals himself to actually be a Death God, and he and Sebastian fight while Ciel confronts his aunt. She almost kills Ciel, but in the end finds herself unable to strike down her own family member, and Grell kills her out of digust. The fight ends, obviously, in the favour of Ciel and Sebastian, and Grell is dragged away by another of his own kind. With the case solved and the Queen's mind put at ease, Ciel overcomes the loss of his closest relative and washes his hands of the matter. Life goes on as usual for a short while after, just in time for Ciel's 13th birthday, and then the plot picks back up again.

A number of English noblemen who have recently returned from England are being attacked and publicly humiliated, and because it involves the Royal Family, the Queen asks Ciel to investigate. Prince Soma and his butler Agni, recently arrived from India, meet Ciel around this time and invite themselves into his house. However, they soon find that Agni is acting strangely and leaving the house at odd hours; through tailing him, they find that he is associated with the Anglo Indian attacks under the command of another. It turns out that this is in order for the man to win the Royal Warrant, but Ciel decides that he would like to have it instead and enters Sebastian into a curry contest to win it. Naturally, they win, receive the Royal Warrant, and both Prince Soma and Agni decide to stay in England - they originally plan to stay with Ciel, but he gets rid of them by requesting that they look after his townhouse in London. The Queen, who had been the final judge in the curry content, gives Ciel his next mission - to investigate a circus and the fact that children have been going missing every time the circus passes through a town.

Sebastian and Ciel successfully infiltrate the circus, posing as two newcomer performers, and while searching for the missing children they encounter the Death God who had dragged away Grell, William T. Spears, which alerts them that although they can't seem to find the children, there's definitely something wrong with the circus. They try to take their perfect opportunity to sneak around and investigate during a performance, but Sebastian is called on to take part in the circus act, leaving Ciel to go in alone. He finds photographs with an old man and children, but nothing incriminating - however, once he moves on to the next tent, he finds a letter from "Tom, the piper's son". Ciel opens the letter, and across the top it reads CIEL PHANTOMHIVE, followed by his exact birthdate, but he doesn't have time to look around any longer because the performance is over and the troupe is returning. He almost gets caught, but Doll (who is actually the room-mate who was assigned to him, Freckles) hides him and helps him run - unfortunately, once they've made it back to Sebastian, Ciel has a very violent asthma attack and ends up bedridden; he orders Sebastian to continue the investigation alone until he can sneak out too, the next morning.