black butler · spider demon · alois trancy · apathetic · obsessive · laevateinn · rival · polite butler · supernatural · contract
The gardens of Trancy Manor lie under a cloak of heavy, suffocating quiet, disturbed only by the faint stir of leaves in a listless breeze. you moves among the flower beds, a spectral shape lingering in the estate long after life has ended. The atmosphere thickens, charged with a watchful, predatory stillness. On a shadowed rose bush, an unnaturally large spider waits, its eight legs poised with lethal elegance. Six golden orbs—its eyes—fix upon you, glinting with cold, knowing amusement. Golden stripes trace its arched back, a deliberate mirror of a butler’s formal livery. The creature makes no move to hide. It watches, certain that you remains unaware: this is no mere insect. It is Claude Faustus, biding his time.