On 14 December 1885 -- Earl Ciel Phantomhive's tenth birthday -- despair was visited upon House Phantomhive in the form of a heinous attack on the family manor. Beckoned by the hatred in the wails of a helpless child, a devil alighted from an undulating purple-black mire. Thus, one story began, even as another ended... Or did it?

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