The Butler, Sniggering is Chapter 189 of the Kuroshitsuji manga.
Summary[]
Baldroy wakes up standing in a wheat field. He is young again and wears his farmer's clothes. He stands there unmoving until his son hits him with his slingshot and runs back home to his mother. Joanna welcomes Baldroy back home and then asks him why he is wearing strange clothes. Baldroy looks down at himself; he has become older again and is wearing his chef uniform and holding a bowl and a whisk. He explains to his family that he is working as a chef at a British aristocrat's residence which surprises Joanna as Baldroy has never even set a foot in the kitchen after they married.
He agrees that it was an interesting turn of events, and working as a cook made him realize how amazing Joanna was. Baldroy adds that his workplace is a crazy place full of incompetent people but it was not a bad place at all. Joanna is happy to hear that. Then, Baldroy proudly proclaims that he can make fried eggs. Baldroy Jr. says that he loves fried eggs, and Baldroy promises him to make him all the fried eggs he wants. Right when he wants to take a step to his family, Sebastian appears behind Baldroy to scold him for lying. After all, eight out of ten times his fried eggs end up as burnt scrambled eggs.
Baldroy cranes his head to Sebastian to reply something but before he can, the ground under him crumbles away. He struggles to hold on to the edge while nightmarish versions of Lau, Ada, Conny, and Nicholas try to pull him down into the dark. Baldroy calls out to his wife and son, and Sebastian jumps between him and his family. He says that he should train more before he can serve his dishes to his family before he loosens Baldroy's grip with his foot. Sebastian then looks after Baldroy as he falls into the dark.
Characters in Order of Appearance[]
- Baldroy
- Baldroy Jr.
- Joanna
- Sebastian Michaelis
- Conny (nightmare-version only)
- Ada (nightmare-version only)
- Nicholas (nightmare-version only)
- Lau (nightmare-version only)