That long journey was finally coming to an end, London was ahead of us, stopping to think, it was my first time in a capital...who would have thought it would be when I reincarnated as an undertaker in another world.
London the capital of Victorian England, one of the most beautiful and well-designed places at that time, its clean streets, bustling with important people, huge carriages, rich and snobbish, the River Thames that separates the city in two blocks, the Big Ben clock , Buckingham Palace.
Sakegi: -Now I know why my mother came to this country so much... - Looking at the architecture of the buildings, squares and streets.
Howl: -The capital is still amazing, they will even inaugurate Big Bem. - Flying in the shape of an owl down the street.
Sandy: -Wow, what a big clock. – finding it all fantastic.
Sakegi: -Hey you dumb owl, why are you in normal form in the middle of the day? – looking at Howl.
Howl: -oh yeah, you still don't know... - flying ahead of him.
Sakegi: -I don't know what? – putting on the top hat.
Howl: -London is the place where the order was founded by King George I. - creating designs in the air with the twig. – this is where humans and spirit beings can coexist without any problem as everyone knows of their existence. – showing beings like werewolves and vampires walking as friends through the streets.
Sandy: -Speaking like that, it even appears that London is perfect. – looking at Howl.
Howl: -No, she has her issues with spirit beings like everywhere but the order was born here so the control is stricter and the royal knights are the elite of the city. - excited.
Sakegi: -Owl in the garbage is ok, where now? – picking up the bags.
Howl: -the initiation ceremony is only tomorrow. – looking at a building near the river.
Sakegi: -ceremony? – unhappy with that word.
Sandy: -Didn't you tell him? – getting close and Howl.
Sakegi: -You didn't tell me what? - looking at them chatting.
Howl: -It's just that...your admission here doesn't just arrive and enlist, there's a whole protocol and bureaucracy...you know how it is, right... - awkwardly.
Sakegi: -Not a chance, I won't participate in any frills from this time. – looking at Sandy. -besides you told her and not me? - riled up.
Howl: -that's why I didn't tell...I already knew about your reaction if I said we were going to come here to participate in this meeting. – flying up to Sandy's shoulder. -Once here there was no turning back.
Sakegi: -I'll kill you... - taking Howl and Sandy by the neck.
-I hope this behavior is not customary. – a tall man with well-combed black hair, wearing a jacket, pale skin and a face of few friends.
Howl: -Susususususususu.... - Looking wide-eyed at the man.
-I see you still have difficulty speaking in my presence, owl. – speaking slowly and calmly.
Sakegi: -Who are you? – his presence ruffled even the fur of the fury...
Howl: -S-supervisor...M-Crubs... - with the soul almost coming out of her mouth.
Crumbs: -at your disposal. – making the gesture of cordiality. -Follow me... - Walking into a carriage very different from the others. – take their things to the rooms in the official treatment room. – opening a spiritual artifact from which mid-level entities come out.
-Yes sir! – say the entities that take things and float around the city, the most normal thing in the world... there at least.
Crumbs: -Come on, I don't like to be kept waiting. – looking out.
Sakegi: -Okay. – entering with the others.
Once inside the carriage, she begins to walk the streets of London towards the official treatment room.
Sandy: -He scares me. – seeing the whole cultured man.
Crumbs: -Do you accept one? – lighting a cigar.
Sakegi: -No...I'm fine. – bothered by the smell.
Crumbs: -Well, without further ado...it looks like they had a pretty intense trip. – with crossed legs.
Howl: -It was a little more lively than we'd like... - Swallowing hard.
Crumbs: -according to their records, they find people eaters, sins and a succubus... - Looking at a travel book that he took from his jacket.
Sakegi: -yeah, we were very unlucky. – too uncomfortable with the situation they found themselves in.
Crumbs: -You know young agent...this Succubus...Violet Damone is the daughter of a very influential count in the capital...and he asked me to take care of you... - looking coldly at Sajegi who was stuck.
Sakegi: -huh? – not understanding why.
Howl: -but she was stealing energy from several men in town. – taking the lead.
Crumbs: -We are aware of the current situation...but order cannot interfere with curses of that kind, does it guide? – taking the cigar out of his mouth.
Howl: -yes...but...
Crumbs: -Then being that, I will have to supervise a test with Sakegi Tomoya Vladis before accepting him as a member of the order, you understand, don't you? – looking at a logbook.
Howl -yes...of course. – lowering his head.
Crumbs: -For now, that was it...see you later... - Opening the carriage.
They covered half of the city in a few minutes of high tension and attacks.
Crumbs: -Have a good time. – getting off the carriage and getting into another one.
Sakegi: -What was that? – seeing him leave from there in another load with the entities he had just invoked.
Howl: -He was the one I wanted to avoid...Supervisor Crumbs Terible. - breaking out in a cold sweat.
Sandy: -but also with that name... - looking at Sakegi.
Howl: -His tests are usually infallible, few agents can pass. – trying to reason after that stress.
Sakegi: -I'm screwed, in every way possible...and all because of that damn succubus! - yelling.
Violet: -atchin! – Snorting.
Later he arrives, and soon after they finish tidying things up in his rooms, Sakegi continues to whine in the room he stayed in, there were several paintings and ornaments in it, as well as a mirror that went from the floor to the middle of the wall, about 2 meters.
Sakegi: -If I don't pass, dammit, I'll miss the chance to show that idiot that I'm a legitimate heir. – rolling over in bed.
Sandy: -If it wasn't for your perversion, I wouldn't be in this one. – sitting on the bed seeing him in that state.
Sakegi: -Now you brat...if you don't want to help, don't get in the way! – wrapped in the bed sheets.
Sandy: -I told you not to call me that! – kicking the rags where he was.
Sakegi: -That hurt, you... - Coming out from under the covers.
Sandy: -What? – creating a light in the hand.
Sakegi: -damn time you learned that... - irritated but sane.
Sandy: -If it weren't for that, I'd be dead over there in that "cabulous". – moving his hands.
Sakegi: -I'd find a way... - making a scene.
Sandy: -I know, I know... - shrugging.
Howl: -You two stop fighting...it's already tense enough...we have to try to fix this situation or Sakegi won't pass and we'll miss the funeral home that Eito fought so hard for.
Sandy: -Just now that I've found a place to live. - upset.
Sakegi: -Thanks Sandy for worrying about me. – looking at her. -but he gave me a hug, right?
Sandy: -It was in the heat of the moment. – giving him tongue.
Howl: -Oh shut up you guys... - screaming.
Crumbs: -apparently it wasn't a thing at the moment... - Arriving in the bedroom through the mirror on the wall.
Sakegi: -I was worth it... - Jumping out of bed.
Sandy: -What kind of monster is he? – going to close to Sakegi.
Howl: -Mister Crumbs, a thousand pardons. – bowing before him.
Crumbs: -It's time for the test, let's go into the mirror... - Going back through the mirror.
Howl: -Come on! – flying close to the mirror.
Sakegi: -Brat, go ahead. – kicking her lightly.
Sandy: -Me, why me? – looking at him.
Sakegi: -If this is the way to hell, you will be taken and I will not.
Sandy: -You idiot! – hitting Sakegi.
Howl: -Hurry up, or we'll be sent to hell even more for keeping him waiting.
Sakegi: -It's okay... - Going to the mirror. -Just pass, right... - Staring at the mirror.
Sandy: -Get going! – pushing Sakegi towards the mirror.
Sakegi: -Hey you...
Crossing the mirror that connects one place to others, these mirrors are called crossing mirror or infinite mirrors, basically they are portals created with spiritual energy and witchcraft of the then general lady of witches and Miss Madame Lilian Garden.
Sakegi: -...idiot! – seeing that he crossed to the other but was in a place full of rocks and alone. -go... it was bad. – hunting the others.
At the top of the place, Howl and Sandy are in a room with Crumbs.
Sandy: -Where's Sakegi? – looking around.
Crumbs: -down there... - pointing down.
Howl: -an arena? – flying to the edge of the site.
Crumbs: -yes... - bringing in a spiritual object. -Hello, Sakegi.
Sakegi: - Crumbs? – hearing a voice sound.
Crumbs: -you are in an arena, and until the test is over, you will not be able to leave it under any circumstances, with that said, I will explain your test. - a pause. –its test consists of surviving an everyday situation of agents, the confrontation of entities.
Sakegi: -less bad...I've already faced one of the strong ones... - remembering the man-eater.
Migahios: -but you will have to identify and deal with the situation in the best possible way...do you have any doubts? - waiting.
Sakegi: -sim...
Crumbs: -I see not, the test starts now. – snapping his fingers.
Sakegi: -Hey! - riled up. –damn supervisor… – looking around. -It's okay... I can do it. – picking up his cane and adjusting his top hat.
Howl: -Sakegi... - looking at the arena... -what kind of entity is it? – looking at Crumbs.
Crumbs: -Have you ever heard of a sinkhole? – with a cold look.
Sakegi: -Very well, I'm prepared. - Feeling something breathed in front of him. -What is it? – is paralyzed when he feels the breath.
Howl: -You don't have one of those, do you? – worried about something.
Crumbs: -You've known me for so long...do you really think not? – with a smile on his face.
Sakegi: -I have to move... - Putting a foot back.
Howl: - Crumbs...you might just be crazy! - yelling.
Sandy: -Howl? – astonished upon seeing Howl for the first time saying something like that to the supervisor.
Crumbs: -look at how you talk to me, you insolent bird. – with a piercing look at them.
The creature then attacks with a tail slash towards Sakegi who involuntarily puts his arm out in front of him when he senses the movement.
Sandy: -What's going on? – distressed.
Howl: -This isn't a test, it's a death sentence, Sakegi won't stand a chance. – looking at Sandy.
Sandy: -What? – looking at Sakegi.
Howl: -the sinkhole...is a creature also called Kumei-teku, the head-eating monster...
The camouflaged creature has two blade-shaped tails, 4 hearing aids, a mouth that opens in two vertical parts, its color can vary from light gray to moss green depending on the head it feeds on, very rare in nature as they were hunted in Tudor times, to be used in beheadings and to dismantle as many heads as they had in stakes at that time, but there are many in captivity, and in possessions of important people like Migalhos.
Sakegi: -oooo! – with his arm bleeding after a bone shaped like a fin came out and blocked the crossbow blow, but Sakegi was on the ground with the impact of the blow. -what was that! – trying to understand what happened.
Crumbs: -who knew...he defended the first blow using a bone from his own body, but using this without the specter puts the user at a disadvantage. – analyzing the fight.
Sakegi: -What was that, where did this attack come from? - trying to think while crawling.
Howl: -The only way to get around their mortal presence is by staying still, they don't see very well, so they use their hearing...no way...Sakegi! – knocking on the glass that separates them from the arena.
Sakegi: -What are you doing with that dumb owl? - looking up.
Sandy: -Sakegi! – knocking on the glass together.
Sakegi: -they know something...damn it, Crumbs... - gets up and runs with a bloody arm and a huge bone sticking out. -Where did that come from? Was she invisible? – panting. –but why didn't you attack me later? Feeling that she got away from him right after the blow… – looked up. -There's something wrong with that... - Trying to find a place among the rocks to hide. - sensing that something was going his way. -ooo! – dodges in the last second of the blow that came from behind and ended up destroying a stone in front of him in several pieces. -That was close... - with a light cut on the side of the abdomen.
Howl: -We have to help him somehow...Sandy...can you send a butterfly to him? – in front of her.
Sandy: -Maybe... - distressed. -I'll try. – if concentrated.
Howl: -We have to warn him on her way of hunting. – panting.
Crumbs: -Very well...looks like you've done your homework, spirit guide. – having tea at 4.
Sandy: -Spiritual Control: Spirit Call! – with his hands shining.
Crumbs: -This is really interesting... - Looking at the girl's hands to shine.
Sakegi keeps trying to dodge the blows that are getting faster and stronger... as he moves.
Sakegi: -think...think...what kind of entity is this? - Trying to remember something I've already read in Eitor's books... - Huh? – seeing a point of light pass through your body. -Is that... Sandy?
The butterfly starts to make movements in the air as if it wanted to draw words in the air...
Sakegi: -she's writing something... - trying to fish for the letters. –death…right…sink? – Dodges another blow from the entity. –this one went closer than before…damn I don't have time to read this…Sandy…Howl…what do you want to tell me? – running to the other side of the arena.
Sandy: -It's not working, the butterfly takes time to do what I ask from such a great distance.
Sakegi: -at this rate I'll die in a single blow... - panting.
The creature then attacks Sakegi with two syrup slashes at the same time, one of which hits Sakegi's arm bone and the other destroys the rock he was on, causing a small cave-in.
Sandy: -Sakegi! – watching everything collapse.
Howl: -...!
Crumbs: -um.
Sakegi: -Is that? – seeing a hand hold the stone that would crush him. –Sandy?
Several of Sandy's butterflies come together and form a hand that manages to protect Sakegi.
Howl: -Sandy? – looking at the girl who was crying.
Sandy: -How did I do it? – amazed at his new skill.
Howl: -I don't know but try to create a face with them!
Sandy: -Got it... - concentrates and creates his face in front of Sakegi. -Sakegi...
Sakegi: -Sandy? How do you... - Seeing her face formed with the butterflies.
Sandy: -shut up and listen, this thing is a Kumei-teku, a head-eating sinkhole...he can't see straight so he uses his hearing to hunt you down...you have to stay... -fading away. -That's not... - kneeling after using that.
Migalhos: "-who would have thought... that one of them still existed out there". - He thought.
Howl: -Sakegi...I hope you understand. - holding Sandy who was weak.
Sakegi: -Kumei-teku... I don't like the direction of this game. – uncomfortable with that name.
Howl: -...!
Sandy: -Really he...idiot! – irritated after having done something unthinkable to warn him.
Sakegi: -Very well...if it's a sinkhole...I mean it disappears...it doesn't become invisible directly...if I'm not wrong... that time it was in front of me and didn't attack me because he didn't see me...but the moment I took a step back...he attacked.
Howl: -did he understand all this? In just seconds.
Sandy: -The idiot has his moments apparently.
Sakegi: -Now that I know it's not a ghost entity...I can use that. – creating circles around the location. –Bones of the trade: forest of bones!
Using some of what he has spiritual energy, Sakegi creates a forest of bones around the place in order to hit the creature that was at some point so he could know where it was and use the remaining energy on the creature the moment it showed itself to attacks it.
Sink: -aaaaa! – being hit. -ooooo! – appearing in its original form.
Sakegi: -I found you. – preparing the final blow. -I'm an undertaker, you ridiculous creature! Craft Bones: Bone Spear!
Crumbs: -As if it were that easy. - smiling.
The creature disappears and reappears in an instant in front of Sakegi, dodging the blow and opens its mouth in a way to frighten him with a loud growl, its two tails were ready to be used, it was the end of Sakegi and for him that moment was passing slowly in front of him.
Howl: - Crumbs...you have to stop!
Sandy: -Please...he'll die!
Crumbs: -this is the punishment for harassing the count's daughter.
Howl: -You don't understand...that woman used a black summon to knock me out.
Crumbs: -Impossible. – Looking at Howl.
Howl: -I only came back because Sandy used the spiritual pollen, see. – Showing the black feathers where the creature's arm touched him that night.
Crumbs: -I don't think so...so - looking at the sinkhole about to kill Sakegi.
A loud noise hits the place one second, the next second something is casting a shadow over Sakegi and the sinkhole.
Crumbs: -SI-LÊN-CIO! – screaming loudly close to the creature and thus making it stand still the way it was.
Sandy: -...!
Howl: -..!
Sakegi: -It's powerful! – with his hands over his ears. -It made me all shit... - seeing the beast's tails almost touching his face.
Sandy: -Has he stopped?
Howl: -Oh what a relief! - passing out.
Sakegi: -What happened here? – trying to understand the situation.
Crumbs: -I used my office silence to stop kumei-teku. – making the beast leave the attack and stay tame by his side.
Sakegi: -Silence of office? – scaring with such power.
Howl: -That's right there. - arrives flying holding Sandy after being woken by her.
Sandy: -Sakegi! – hugging him.
Howl: - Crumbs can control beasts using the high pitch of his voice...that's why he always speaks calmly and quietly.
Crumbs: -that damn doctor...discovered that?
Howl: -Don't underestimate a Vladis.
Crumbs: -Very well...you passed the test.
Sakegi: -what an idea, this thing was a higher level!
Crumbs: -a level zero entity, one of the most dangerous as demons.
Sakegi: -And you talk like that?
Crumbs: -Don't expect a request for forgiveness from me...I did what I thought was right.
Sandy: -You almost killed him!
Sakegi: -Sandy? Thanks.
Sandy: -I didn't do it because I like you... I just did it because you pay the bills anyway.
Sakegi: -It could only be...
Crumbs: -It's almost time for the general meeting...go home to prepare. – a pigeon brings a small mirror. –Spiritual artifact...infinite mirror!
Sakegi: -That was really cool...
After passing through the mirror, Migalhos strokes the head of the sink that was quiet, it didn't even seem like something mortal.
Crumbs: -Looks like we have a lot to discover... - Looks up. -what is to come...
After a while it is time for the naming ceremony of the order in the crystal palace.
Sakegi: -Damn...it's huge here...that brat would love to see it...
Howl: -but unfortunately it's only for order members...
Sandy: -Idiots... - pouting at his bedroom window.
Sakegi: -I'll bring her a souvenir when I get back... - Entering the main hall.
Howl: -Look at this...they're all here...agents, supervisors and even members of the high court...the heads behind the order.
Bartô: -look if they're not my friends. – putting his arm around Sakegi's neck.
Sakegi: -What was taking another spanking? – looking at him crookedly.
Howg: -I remind me you were the one being beaten up. - smiling.
Howl: -brother...
Howg: -goofy...
Bartô: -We are not here to fight. – hitting his chest.
Sakegi -what is it? Have we become friends now?
Bartô: -Not by far...but we are in a headquarters of the order, so let's keep up appearances...
Sakegi: -rich snob... - speaking in a low voice.
Bartô: -Didn't I tell you? – taking his arm. -I'm a commoner just like you. – getting more freight from them.
Sakegi: -Why is he here? – he asked Howl.
Howl: -he's a rookie too, after being denied by Eitor he went to another house...
Sakegi: -I got it. – looking at Bartô to mingle with the others.
-Hello everyone, great to have you here tonight. - speaking all pompous putting a pocket watch in his pants pocket.
Sakegi: -I know this one...
Howl: -Yes...it's Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, the current manager of the Order of Undertakers.
Albert dressed like the other gentlemen because he was the one who decided what would be the clothes, using a gold cane and a black top hat, the rest mixed between white and black.
Albert: -let's start, oops - dropping something, but a hawk catches it and takes it to him again.
Howl: -He may be a bit of an eccentric and clumsy guy, but he is one of the most powerful and skillful Saxons of the whole order...he was even the one who created most of the laws of spiritual ministry and the classes around agents.
Sakegi: -I get it...but come here because only me and the starched boy over there have owls, the rest have hawks and hawks...there's even a peacock...
Albert: -Now we will start announcing newbies. – speaking in the background.
Howl: -Some time ago we had problems with sparrows here in the palace, so spirit birds were used to eliminate them and after that they were used as guides which was formerly the work of pigeons and owls.
Sakegi: -Okay, but the peacock?
Howl: -That's another...
Albert: - and lastly, the seventh rookie of the Vladis family, Sakegi Tomoya Vladis!
Everyone turns their gaze to Sakegi, who stands still.
Sakegi: -Hi guys... - Embarrassed.
-so he wants a Vladis...
-It doesn't seem like a big deal...
-filthy commoner.
Sakegi: -Wow, they're so kind. – feeling the displeasure of others.
Albert: -I must remind everyone that our commitment to spiritual events remains the same, the order was created by George I and shaped by the following 3 Georges to be the force that balances the spiritual and human worlds, thus I conclude our ceremony giving new agents a round of applause.
After a brief round of applause, the members split and begin to exit the crystal palace through infinite mirrors.
Sakegi: -look they came through mirrors? – looking at how much he had.
Bartô: -Of course you idiot, what did you come from? – looking at him.
Sakegi: -de trem...
Bartô: -but at the funeral home there's a mirror, why didn't they use it?
Sakegi: -Howl!
Howl: -I kind of forgot...
Howg: -as always a goof.
Sakegi: -You dumb owl...how do you do that...we've been through so much...we could have avoided...even this brat. – in the room, finished straightening things up.
Sandy: -Hey! – arms crossed.
Howl: -It's what the doctor didn't use...and kind of stayed in the corner...
Sandy: -for an owl...you're a bit dumb...you know... - trying on a necklace Sakegi brought.
Howl: -You don't need to humiliate either... - Sad.
Sakegi: -It's okay...what matters is that we're all fine... - relieved. -That night I realized how important our work is. - smiling. -I hope we can be at peace for a while
Sandy: -and together! – hugging Howl and Sakegi. –like a family!
Sakegi: -It's like a family... - He recovers that he had never had affection from his mother or older sister, but in that world he had found his family. -Hey let's go home before Migalhos changes his mind and this time the espresso!
All enter the mirror and cross home in the funeral solemn soul, your departure is our joy.
Sandy: -but what kind of dead smell is that? – putting his hand to his nose.
Sakegi: -It's a funeral home, what did you want? – putting the bags on the floor.
Sandy: -Not even to put on a perfume? - coughing
Sakegi: -but also howl, what a place to leave the mirror, right in the morgue. – lighting a lamp.
Howl: -I asked the Eds to put it away I didn't know they put it here. – dusting the feathers.
Eds: -boss! – happy for their master's return.
Sandy: -What are these things? – horrified.
Sakegi: -They are harmless hunchbacks...help here. – looking at them all covered in soap.
Howl: -Do all the work you mean...
Sakegi: -Whatever...I'll go upstairs...and sleep peacefully, at least for one night. – going up to the first floor.
Howl: -Come on Sandy...I'll show you your room. – going up to the second floor.
Sandy: -Okay! – excited.
After fixing a room, the only room on the first floor that still had space, since of the 4, one was by Sakegi, another by Howl and another was locked with a B in the lock, there was only one more left.
Sakegi: -left mimir - throwing himself on the bed. -How good is my bed.
Madame: -I'm glad you liked it, I fixed it with all the affection for you - sitting in an armchair in the bedroom.
Sakegi: -Oh no, you don't... - looking at the witch in her room. -Tulip!
Madame: -I see that something is different about you... someone tried to play with my toy. – approaching him. -Who was the bitch?
Sakegi: -It was just what I needed... - seeing the witch climb on top of him in order to examine. -Get out...you old woman!
Usually at 10 pm Sakegi went to his room to sleep, but after getting rid of Tulipa he fell asleep at 11 pm and something different happened, he hadn't had dreams in that world until then.
-You can run...you can even hide...but you wouldn't escape me, ahahhahahahah! – an evil laugh amidst the smoke.
-Help... - Someone with cat eyes whispers.
Sakegi: -oooo! – wakes up in a cold sweat after having a nightmare. -That's... - A tingling in the left arm.