“Master.. I will always stay by your side. Day and night, sugar and salt, living and dead, impure and pure.”

Young Ciel Phantomhive is known as "the Queen's Guard Dog," taking care of the many unsettling events that occur in Victorian England for Her Majesty. Aided by Sebastian Michaelis, his loyal butler with seemingly inhuman abilities, Ciel uses whatever means necessary to get the job done. But is there more to this black-clad butler than meets the eye? In Ciel's past lies a secret tragedy that envel...
“Master.. I will always stay by your side. Day and night, sugar and salt, living and dead, impure and pure.”
“However far I fall as long as there's so much as a thread left I will use it to climb. I'll take hold of it. I refuse to give up while I'm still human I can do that much. But every person must decide on his own whether to grab it.”
“I have a dream at last. The butterfly trapped in spiderweb has no wings. That butterfly is... me.”
“Death is like being born, but backwards. It only hurts for a little while, then a new life begins. A life with no sorrow, no pain, a glorious new beginning. A beginning that will last an eternity.”
“You give up your future, lose your dream, are stained with despair... yet at the same time, you shake off you past, fight reality, and never lose your nobility.”
“Love is a magnificent thing but, incidentally, it can also give birth to dreadful tragedy.”
“I prefer to have my nightmares with open eyes.”
“I ... humiliated as a pet ... my house was burnt, my family was killed. I was such a... powerless kid. Therefore, I returned to this place in order to make those people who put me through such fate taste the same humiliation. The successors of the generations killed three years prior would come to me as long as I am the head of the Phantomhive family that stands in their way. I'm waiting ...for them to come and try to kill me here.”
“We have no need for the past. All we need are the present and the future.”
“To hate something that you used to love is such a painful feeling.”
“Those bound by superficial rules who do not use their pawns to the utmost are fools.”
“Weak in order to love, strong in order to protect, both in order to stay at your side.”
“Poetry over philosophy. Embroidery rather than cooking. Dance instead of chess. Be an unknowing angel. Every girl born in the country of roses is raised by these three words.”
“Humans cannot reject temptation. When they are plunged into the depths of despair, likened to hell, they will hold on to anything that may help them escape from the situation they are in, even if it's merely a spider's thread, no matter what sort of humans they are.”
“If we are to die one day, wouldn't it be better to have no regrets?”
“If you stick to a "lie", it'll eventually become the "truth".”
“Only two kinds of people exist in this world, those who steal and those who are stolen from.”
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Black Butler follows Young Ciel Phantomhive is known as "the Queen's Guard Dog," taking care of the many unsettling events that occur in Victorian England for Her Majesty. Aided by Sebastian Michaelis, his loyal butler with seemingly inhuman abilities, Ciel uses whatever means necessary to get the job done.
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