Hell yeah, Meirin. I love seeing the Phantomhive employees doing their secondary duties, it's a refreshing comparison to how incredibly inept they are as actual domestic servants.



Meanwhile, Ciel is being shoved further and further into the trauma of his past, eventually breaking so far that he disregards the one of the few tenents he lives by (following the Queen's orders). He has Sebastian "turn everything [here] to ash". And he does, in spectacularly attractive style (don't judge me).



It's very telling that Ciel believes that the deaths (he caused) of the missing children, whom he shared similar experiences with, were in line with a mercy killing. His trauma lies very shallowly beneath a thin veneer of aristocratic pride and duty.

And then we end the volume with an exceptionally creepy tailor?? Well, that happened.