In response, Sebastian tells the group to wait outside while he tells his own joke.

Madame Red and Lau tell him jokes, but get no reaction. Undertaker states that in order to receive information, they must give him a good, strong laugh. Ciel declines and questions him on the murders. Undertaker greets them after emerging from a coffin and offers to take Ciel's measurement for one. Ciel, Sebastian, Ciel's aunt, Madame Red and her butler, Grell Sutcliff, and Ciel's business partner, Lau, arrive at Undertaker's shop. Undertaker reunites with Ciel in the current day in the Red Butler Arc, where he assists him in solving the Jack the Ripper murders. Undertaker's first meeting with Ciel and his associates. Undertaker later salvaged the area where the ritual occurred and took the dead twin's corpse. The twins were sold to a cult, during which one was sacrificed to a demon who rose and formed a contract with the remaining twin. However, one night, an unknown assailant broke into the manor and set it ablaze, kidnapping the twins and killing the rest of the Phantomhive family, including Vincent and his wife, Rachel. He was shown to be fond of Vincent's sons, Ciel and his twin brother. Undertaker was an informant to the wealthy Phantomhive family for many years, being a member of the Aristocrats of Evil alongside Ciel's father Vincent Phantomhive and other friends of his. Undertaker is voiced by Junichi Suwabe in the Japanese version and by John Swasey in the English dub. He is currently one of the primary antagonists of the manga/anime series Black Butler. He frequently acts as an informant to Ciel Phantomhive and his demon butler, Sebastian Michaelis before turning on them. The Undertaker (in Japanese: アンダーテイカー, Andāteikā) is an ex-Grim Reaper (Shinigami) and a funeral director who works within the underworld of Britain. ~ The Undertaker to Ciel Phantomhive, about the concept of death. You've never thought about it? There might be an interesting development lurking behind the ending credits. My self-created memories are nothing compared to these future memories. These are like a predictive map of the future.

They're fragmentary of course, but those fragments are the episodes. At the same time, they crave the future they were supposed to have. In their dying moments, humans review their past life.

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