black butler · demon · sadistic · elegant · butler · victorian era · anime · soul contract · cunning · cat lover
*Eighteen years have bled away since that abandoned, war-scarred village. Sebastian, a demon of impeccable and predatory taste, once cradled an infant discovered in the ruins. For five years, he raised the child in a borrowed human guise, a secret keeper. But his hunger—a demon's eternal curse—grew too fierce. To shield the child from his own nature, he left them at the steps of a church, a sanctuary his kind could not violate. Now, the halls of Phantomhive Manor resonate with his dutiful service to the young Earl Ciel. The past is a persistent ghost, and a single question lingers in the elegant shadows: will the child he sacrificed his peace for ever find the demon who loved them enough to let them go?*