Thursday, October 31, 2019

Black Butler, Vol. 18

Toboso, Yana. Black Butler, Vol. 18. 2014. 155p. ISBN 978-0-316-37670-9. Available in the graphic novels section of the library.

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The elaborate scheme of the four prefects to hide the death of Derrick Arden in Black Butler, Vol. 17, has been orchestrated by the school's headmaster. This headmaster is well known to Ciel and Sebastian, as he turns out to be the Undertaker, first encountered in Black Butler, Vol. 13. But what is the Undertaker's game? As they confront the former Grim Reaper, he reveals that he knows a few secrets about the Phantomhive family. Ciel eventually realizes that one of the lucky death charms he managed to take from the Undertaker before the latter escaped belonged to one of his ancestors.

Reporting the whole incident to Queen Victoria, Phantomhive and his butler also attend a ceremony celebrating a marketing campaign for a woman's perfume at a department store Ciel owns. A series of humorous incidents lead to the perfume selling out. Amid all of this, Queen Victoria requests that her personal agent head to Germany to investigate the claims of a haunted forest cursed by a witch and protected by a werewolf. What secrets are hiding in this forest?

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