the diary of a young Pullip: September 2021

Sebastian: "Christian, I didn't hire you here to flirt with women in town. I brought you here to make sure Ciel does not kill me."

Christian: "Bro, relax. It's been, what, a year? I don't think the kid is gonna do anything at this point."

Sebastian: "You know research takes time! For all you know, Ciel and Kei have found the demon sword to kill me like-"

Christian: "Fine fine fine. I'll check your tea or some dumb shit like that from now on."

Sebastian: "I would think my own twin brother would care, but thank you. Please take this seriously."

Christian: "Whatever. You're just paranoid, dude."

Christian: "Speaking of chicks, I'm off to flirt with some. Later!"

Ryo: "I feel as though every time I come back from my trips, I somehow come back to family drama."

Sebastian: "Sir, my apologies. I'm sure you know my brother by now. What brings you here, professor?"

Ryo: "Keep my identity a secret, Sebastian. Anyway-"

Ryo: "This is Noriaki Kakyoin. He's my assistant and student at the college."

Noriaki: "Nice to meet you, Mr Michaelis."

Ryo: "Noriaki over here has some very important information that I need to tell Astre about."

Sebastian: "I see. Hopefully this is good news, considering things have been at a stand still for quite some time. I take it Mr Kakyoin shall be coming with you?"

Noriaki: "I was told by Professor Asuka to stay out here. There's some things he doesn't want me to know and frankly, I don't want to get involved in any more family drama right now. From what I've heard from students in class anyway."

Sebastian: "I see. My master is in his office, professor Asuka. As for you, Noriaki, there is a cherry pie just freshly baked."

Ryo: "I'll see myself there. Thank you."

Noriaki: "Oh thank you, I love cherries."

Astre: *sighs* "All these months and I feel like Ciel might just win."

Sebastian: "Sir, Professor Asuka has come to see you. He claims to have urgent information. I'll leave you both to chat, I shall be tending to Mr Kakyoin downstairs."

Ryo: "Hello again, Astre. Nice to see no secret siblings popping up now that I'm back from Egypt."

Ryo: "It's also surprising to see you actually experience puberty. I thought you might have had a medical issue if you stayed that small forever. Even your girlfriend looked taller than-"

Astre: "Did you just come here to talk about my growth spurt or actually give some information?"

Astre: "If you DO have information, this better be about the demon sword that Sebastian mentioned to me before."

Ryo: "Unfortunately, no. The status on that remains the same. However, I have information that could be very useful in changing your brother's mindset on this path to murder Sebastian."

Astre: "How do I know I can trust you on this?"

Ryo: "You've known me for years, haven't you? You can trust me, Astre. I'm loyal to your side of this family."

Astre: "Honestly? It doesn't even feel like I've known you for years. Sometimes it feels like you popped up out of nowhere like a Netflix show."

Ryo: "To start. Noriaki dealt with a vampire in Egypt who seemed obsessed with the concept of immortality, the human soul and the concept of a 'heaven'. For the sake of knowledge, I managed to convince Noriaki to hand over this vampire's rare book collection over to me."

Ryo: "As you currently know, your brother was sacrificed by a cult to summon a demon. As it so happens, he was revived by an unknown person and now vows to kill the demon who was summoned. This demon, being Sebastian. All for the noble cause of protecting you."

Astre: "Yes, Ryo. We know. Why do I feel like you're summing this up like it's been over a year since anyone heard about this?"

Ryo: "As it so happens, this vampire had particular books about the human soul. Useless to him but useful to this. From what I have read, the human soul is fragile and pure. From what these books have stated, a botched resurrection can only recover part of the soul. What this means for your brother is interesting."

Ryo: "Botched resurrections result in the revived person only capable of having one goal in mind. Think something like a basic robot with one temporary task. As you were likely his last thoughts, his only goal is protecting you as that's likely the last piece of his soul he clung to."

Astre: "Are you trying to say that my brother was poorly resurrected? Fine but can't we just get one of the dozens of demons in this town to do it? Honestly, all of this sounds like a deus ex machina."

Ryo: "Wait just a moment, Astre. You can't get a demon to do a resurrection. Demons don't have access to the afterlife, that's why they end up botched in the first place."

Ryo: "My current theory is that a demon may have, ironic as it may be, revived your brother."

Ryo: "It's extremely important you do find something else to resurrect the rest of your brother's soul. The lack of a full soul within Ciel is causing his mind to refuse to accept change, hence why he isn't processing anything properly and seems to be more aggressive by the day. If he succeeds and kills Sebastian. Not only are you out of a butler, your brother will also begin to shut down and corrupt what little soul he has in him. This will basically destroy your brother completely."

Ryo: "A demon's job is to eat souls. However, I can definitely recommend a Rozen Maiden or one of those singing androids around town to help you figure out how to retrieve the rest of his soul. Human-I mean...People, are open to change and acceptance. As soon as he has that, the goal to kill your butler will begin to fall apart."

Astre: "I can try, kind of hard when all the Rozen Maiden's want my butler dead. Especially Shinku. Still, your knowledge on demons is disturbing. For a human like me, you know way too much."

Ryo: "I'm a professor at fifteen for a reason, Astre. I just love learning."

Ryo: "Anyway, I'd start at least trying. The Rozen Maidens are living human dolls made from the soul of their creator. If anyone knows about retrieving and messing with a human soul, it'd have to be them."

Astre: "How do you expect me to do any of that!? Ryo, I just said. They. Hate. My. Butler. I'm not disguising myself as my sister again and I'm definitely not going to pretend to be Ciel for them. They're all stupid, but not that stupid."

Ryo: "Welll...There is angels. However, I'm sure you know as well as I do that angels are no good and do nothing but hurt others...From my research."

Ryo: "A reaper is also easy, but reaper sightings are incredibly rare these days. I mean, the last reapers I read about in books apparently quit to live a human life and had children."

Ryo: "I'm sure you'll figure it out. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about the supernatural to really help in this situation, so that's all I have."

Astre: "You literally just rambled about knowing everything about demons, angels, Rozen Maidens AND reapers. I know a witch, why don't I just get Ellen or something to do it? She swapped souls with some girl once."

Ryo: "As much as I'd love to recommend a powerful witch like Ellen, witches get their powers from demons. Using Ellen would just cause another botched attempt or worse."

Astre: "Adding witches to that list. You teach history, what the bloody hell do you need all this supernatural knowledge for?"

Ryo: "I'm just helping a friend. Your brother asked me to join his side and I declined for a reason. I'm loyal to your side of the family."

Astre: "He did...? You know I hate almost everyone, but at least I can talk to you for over ten minutes without wanting to scream. I just find it weird that you're so loyal when I've been mostly an ass to you."

Ryo: "I just enjoy yours and Cecilia's company. That's all."

Ryo: "Speaking of, I promised her that I'd show her pictures from Egypt. Thank you for your time and actually try to attempt this, I don't want to watch this family drama at a standstill for another year."

Astre: "Whatever. I guess I should thank you but I'll do that if your suggestion actually work."

Cecilia: *jumps into his arms* "Ryo! You're back from Egypt!"

Ryo: "Cecilia! I made a slideshow of all my pictures. Would you like to see them?"

Sebastian: "What did Professor Asuka have to say?"

Astre: "A demon messed up in reviving my brother so his goal to kill you his basically some last memory he has to protect me. It's messy and frankly stupid."