There’s one part of this chapter and actually the last chapter that’s been bothering me. We know that our!Ciel was the one who called Sebastian, because Sebastian talks about a loud cry that called him.
Our!Ciel was also the one who had turned his back on God. After all, there’s actually one woman in the cult who’s actually praying for forgiveness.
So, it was definitely our!Ciel, yet Sebastian says something odd the first time he appears.
He asks who summoned him in the pursuit of pleasure, wealth, calamity, and tragedy. This doesn’t sound like our!Ciel in the least. He cried out in anguish. In fact, that sounds more like some of the others in the cult.
(Excuse the sloppy editing.)
So, why did Sebastian talk about pursuing pleasure, wealth, calamity, and tragedy?
I think they are two possibilities. One is that is what people usually call upon demons for, so this is what Sebastian expected. He only knew that he had been called on by a loud cry and by someone who had turned their back on God. He simply assumed that whoever summoned him would want such things – and it does fit with much of the cult. This could be even a bit of what Sebastian typically said upon being summoned – like a practiced speech.
But there is still a second possibility. Many of us have discussed at length Sebastian’s manipulation of our!Ciel in the way he convinced the kid that he was the one who sacrificed his brother. If not an out and out lie, it seems a tenuous connection at best. Even if our!Ciel did call him, he had no intention of offering his brother’s soul. He hadn’t been willing to pay that price.
What if Sebastian was including our!Ciel as being part of the cult?
He was combining their actions and their wants along with our!Ciel’s turning his back on God and his loud, anguished cry. It’s odd because our!Ciel was only the cult’s victim, but it appears that Sebastian may have lumped them all together – perhaps for his own convenience.
After all, Sebastian has been shown to be curious about people. While he’s good a manipulating, he’s ignorant at times to the way humans really think and feel. He has said they often surprise him. In truth, he may not understand our!Ciel’s motives in the least. He might have thought our!Ciel was like the members of the cult even if he was a prisoner and not a member. Honestly, it’s hard to say.
Either way, either Sebastian simply assumed that anyone who summons a demon wants pleasure, wealth, and tragedy or he was lumping our!Ciel’s cry with the intentions of the cult.
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