hello ,i had this question, since I've read the manga ,like many times ,this got me thinking ,if undertaker managed to get the real ciel's dead body before it turn into ashes in fire and if he cared about * not losing * any other phantomhives ,then why didn't he save the twins before anything happens to them? was it this hard to find the place they were being kept in? if it was ,then how he managed to exactly find there when everything has been done and at last the place is being burnt? then all he does is saving a corpse
Undertaker uninformed
Ever since ch140 came out, with this information:
People have been asking this question… for nearly two years. I’ve received almost this exact ask before… or it has at least come up in a thread on my blog, at some point.
So, I went to my pinned post and clicked the Tagging Masterpost link. Then the chapter link that includes ch140. Brought up a bunch of posts, including this one and this one.
There’s still some confusion over the wording that Undertaker uses — exactly what he means by what he’s saying — but the consensus is that he was delayed in finding out where the twins had been taken… once he realized their remains were not at the manor, along with their parents… and he also might have had issues getting inside once he found them. I’ve previously (just recently, too) suggested he had to wait for the reapers to collect the cultists’ and other sacrificial children’s souls before he could enter to get real Ciel’s body.
Because they would have noticed him and tried to apprehend him. In the Weston arc, he even says he needs to leave before “bothersome” people show up, meaning the reapers who are now actively trying to capture him.
Even if that panel above is just talking about the obstacles of the revival process itself, I’m pretty sure he dealt with numerous obstacles finding out where the twins went and getting to them… whatever was left of them.
We have to remember that, as informed as he is, he’s only got so much access to the sort of information an active reaper would have. He doesn’t have the death lists anymore. Once the Phantomhives were attacked, even that Evil Noble network of informants would have fallen apart. What remained of it wouldn’t have trusted each other, particularly if it was largely turned against the Phantomhive family. They wouldn’t have been willing to tell Undertaker much, assuming they knew he was a strongly loyal backer of the Phantomhives. So, even the attack might have come as a shock to him; the fact it could happen without him knowing about it. The plans were well kept from him, suggesting it probably originated outside/above the level of the Evil Nobles. And any Evil Nobles involved before, during, and after the attack knew not to tell him anything.
For a good month there, Undertaker likely felt more in the dark than he ever had… since he’d been a mere human.
He was emotionally crushed and felt at an utter loss… from when he first found out about the attack and fire… until he finally figured out the twins were in that underground lair. But he still had to wait for an opportunity to get in and out again. To avoid both the other reapers and the demon. Because how do you carry off a body without exposing your presence? You wait until no one is watching anymore. By then, all he could do is collect real Ciel’s body before it burned.
How he finally figured out where to go? What he had to go through to get there and get in? I hope he explains it someday….