Undead Murder Farce (アンデッドガール・マーダーファルス)

The Banquet

Episode Eight

Hey, Blue Hair. Let's call a truce.

We should deal with that pompous insurance guy first.

Great idea. Do you have a plan?

You get to play the decoy.

I'll set up an ambush on the second floor.

The precious diamond is drenched in saliva.

I must disinfect it.

Yeah, no one said you're taking that just yet...

So why does your advisory security department hate monsters so much?

There are those like Fatima who do this out of a sense of justice,

but it's not like we actually enjoy dealing with you lot.

It sure seems like you do to me!

I'd never touch any of you if I could help it.

Oh, I knew someone like you.

A real neat freak type. Total penny-pincher.

Every time they went out, they'd stare at the ground,

and go on about bugs, garbage, and filth.

They just wouldn't shut up. I didn't know what to do with them.

Until one day, that person...

got shat on by a bird.

Did that do it?

Not sure what people would think about Lupin committing murder.

Don't you worry. That won't be enough to kill him.

I know he's here.

Why can't I hear where he is?

Why?

Because I'm the Phantom of the Opera.

Ever since I was sixteen,

I lived at the Opera House.

I built a secret home by the underground lake twenty-three floors below the surface.

I learned about vocalization and acoustics.

It's impossible to defeat me in the realm of sound.

That's really not going to help you in here.

My, how ill-mannered you are.

I see no reason to mind my manners with an enemy.

Tachikage.

Matsushima.

Are those pure silver bullets?

This is over.

Actually, your punishment is just about to begin.

What did you...

What did I do? Actually, it was you.

Your hand decided to kiss my lips, remember?

I have a unique venom.

If you touch it,

the venom makes you feel numb and hot as you fall under my spell.

I love blood from girls like you.

But I just had dinner a moment ago... I'll just have to make you my dessert.

Holmes!

Well, that's no good.

There's nothing magical about killing someone with a gun.

Watson, do you have any more spare bullets?

I'm completely out, too. Do you have a plan?

I'll use baritsu.

Let's have a little chat, Mister Goatee.

You caught my eye as well.

Why do you lot want the Penultimate Night?

They say it's the key to finding werewolves.

Finding werewolves? For what purpose?

Our organization is still expanding, you see.

We're looking for more recruits.

More importantly...

Why is the rest of you below the neck missing?

It was stolen recently, you see. I'm looking for it now.

Oh! Actually, we might have it...

What?

All magic requires something in exchange.

That's elementary, my dear Aleister.

Of course, you have the antidote.

But...

What just happened?

It's been a while, Professor Moriarty.

I haven't seen you since Reichenbach Falls, Holmes.

Erik!

What the hell are you doing here?

I could ask you the same question.

Fatima, how could you let a mere phantom get your arm?

I-I'm terribly sorry! Are you all right, Reynold?

Your head seems to be split open.

I'm perfectly fine!

Let's take care of the trash and retrieve the diamond.

The diamond?

Well, this has turned into an even bigger mess.

Found it.

Fatima!

Right!

Fa—

Well, now...

We're going to leave now.

But the diamond...

There's no way we're going to get it back from that monster.

Let's go!

I didn't think you were still alive.

I'm personally surprised that the young lady there is still alive...

even if she is an immortal monster.

To think I'd run into the person I was looking for in a place like this...

Do you have history with this man, as well?

He happened to run off with my body about a year ago.

I just now found out that his name was Moriarty...

But it all makes sense now...

Including that initial belonging to a man, presumed dead,

who headed up a now-extinct criminal organization.

I see. You investigated me using my cane.

But you have no means of moving on your own.

Unfortunately for you, I have—

Two assistants.

Judging from the state of that birdcage,

the one who carries you is rather careless,

and the other is meticulous.

One of your surviving attendants, perhaps.

The one who carries you must be a rather talented hired man.

Where is my body right now?

Within my possession.

But I'm afraid I can't return it. It's a very important sample, you see.

So you're the leader of the organization Aleister was talking about.

Why have you come back after eight years?

Are you trying to rebuild your criminal organization?

This time by collecting monsters?

I figured out how to improve it.

I casually took on an apprentice, but he gave me inspiration.

An apprentice?

A young British man with curly flaxen hair.

He said that he wanted a strong body

and wanted his body to be combined with a monster's.

He also asked how one conducts a transplant surgery.

A human artificially bestowed with the powers of a monster...

If it could be done, their usefulness would know no bounds.

So, I agreed.

And who is this young man?

I'm sure you've all heard of him.

He's the man who pulled off the perfect crime in Whitechapel eleven years ago.

You don't mean...

Jack the Ripper.

Gorgeous gem, isn't it? They say it's artificial, though.

It's beautiful because it's artificial.

I'm the fearsome Oni Slayer. The name's Tsugaru Shinuchi.

And you are?

My current comrades call me Jack.

I do hope you'll take it easy on me!

Oh?

That was close.

Did you use her heart?

Well, it happened to be handy, so...

You've got an interesting mind.

Have I met you before?

I can't say. I'm quite the dunce, so I might have forgotten.

We had our eyes on two monsters: the oni and the Immortal.

They're both from Japan.

Giving a human the powers of both the oni and the Immortal...

It would create a being that possessed brains,

brawn, and regenerative abilities all in one.

Jack and I headed to Japan.