Translation Ducky made: “Ciel could have survived.” BABY, NO, YOU SHOULDN’T BE OK WITH “it’d be fine if Ciel sacrificed me!” I’m not ok. My god. Though I’m a little peeved the flashbacks are continuing, I wholeheartedly agree that this deserved a chapter to itself. (But seriously Yana, we get it now.) We just need the contract, the ring and action of Seb killing the cultists, right? (Where u @ Elizabeth.) I feel like it’ll take a lot of curves to avoid OC’s name. The lack in the flashback
Hi Anon! No worries though, you’re free to have a different opinion about our!Ciel’s name, and it’s not because I personally think we won’t learn about his true identity in this arc (if at all) that I’m right or anything, as always. :3
I can totally understand people being annoyed with him not being “called” in the flashbacks (or in future chapters), but personally I’d rather have him only referred to as “Ciel” in the story, so I’m not particularly bothered by that, haha.
To address the rest of your asks:
what’s left of the flashback?
I think it’s likely that next month will be the last chapter because there shouldn’t be much left to cover + it will be the last chapter of volume 27, so in my opinion next chapter will cover until this moment:
Ciel will be taking the ring from his brother’s belly
Seb will annihilate everyone else
Ciel will ask Seb to burn it all to the ground (his brother’s body included?)
“I name you after my dog”
Ciel will be going home to Tanaka and find out that the whole house burnt down for a reason yet explained.
Ciel will possibly meet Ann and get Vincent’s other ring back from her
Ending the flashback on our!Ciel facing his dead family would be very moving and symbolic, that’s why I think Sensei could stop it there. And if so, then April’s chapter will have us back in present time and might be a recap chapter (like ch121).
However, Sensei may also decide to continue with the flashback for a little while longer into vol28 and possibly take us until Ciel officially became “Earl Phantomhive”, which means that we could address the following moments…
Ciel finding out/being explained about the Watchdog duty (this is when I’m hoping Frances or Tanaka might explain stuff about the family but I’m probably dreaming since it’s not really the point of that flashback),
Ciel meeting Elizabeth (or more generally the Midfords) again,
Ciel meeting his father’s Evil Nobles (Dee, Klaus, UT, Pitt…) as the new Earl Phantomhive.
Overall I think it depends on if the whole point of the flashback is to show why our!Ciel took on his brother’s identity, or if it’s also to explain all of his initial motivations when he became “Earl Phantomhive” (if so we’ll be joining up with Seb’s record).
I guess we’ll have to see next month, no can do. :3
About Lizzie “instantly” switching side
I hope we agree there that, presented like that, it would be bad writing if such a thing were to happen xD without mentioning that it’d make Lizzie incredibly shallow as a character (something that the Campania arc debunked completely).
In the first place, as I explained before, I’m not exactly sure what to make of Lizzie’s role in this arc and because of the awkward pacing in Kuro, Sensei tends to have me on the fence with this kind of theories.
So, currently, my personal take is that Lizzie is hopefully not taking a side despite how confusing the situation must be for her, it’s just that…
real!Ciel possibly currently needs her more than our!Ciel does (or so she thinks).
That’s why, when this balance inverts, because our!Ciel will very possibly break down when confronting his brother, she will most likely decide to support him instead (as always, just my opinion though).
What Lizzie knows or doesn’t know isn’t clear at this point. We don’t even know for sure why she is so sad, but (and that’s the difference with Soma) Lizzie had her suspicions about Ciel hiding something before this arc rolled in, so my personal take is that her crying has more to do with…
the twin being involved in something extremely fishy than “omG I fEll in loVe wiTH the wrong CIel”.
Besides, wouldn’t you agree that, since our!Ciel’s issues are partially expressed through thinking he disappointed his family because “the best twin” died instead of him…
…Lizzie’s role isn’t to “switch back to his side”, but rather to reassure him that he shouldn’t have had to become his brother for her sake or anyone else’s in the first place ?
So the concept of Lizzie taking a side, although it’s one I considered for a long time during this arc, is really irking me nowadays and that’s why I hope Lizzie’s sadness isn’t about our!Ciel lying but rather about the whole arc itself.
Sorryyyyy for rambling! I hope it makes sense? :3 Please have a nice day Anon!
