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Why weren't there any Grim Reapers in the Phantomhive Manor Murders arc?

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Since there were people who actually died, why didn't any Grim Reapers show up? You'd think since it's the Phantomhive Manor, Grelle would've jumped at the chance to go there and bug Sebastian.

Does anyone have any theories about this?

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u/Nobody5464 avatar

reapers don’t get to choose their missions. Most likely a reaper who didn’t want to interfere got assigned the mission and just hid the whole time. Only 2 people died so once Phelps was dead the reaper could leave. They’d only have to be there 1 night

It was actually three people who died in the Murder House Arc, they removed Woodley's death in the Book of Murder OVAs.

I never understood why they did that

Well he was going to be put to death anyway, and given the shenanigans involved in his arrest, they just went extra-judiciary on him. The death penalty was standard for murder in the British Empire, unless the murderer was mentally ill.

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Woodley dies after the arc is over. Inside the carriage far from the manor.

Did he?

Oh yeah! He was killed when it was technically the Campania arc already

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Oh yeah, I forgot they can't choose their missions 🤔 That makes a lot of sense, thank you!

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u/Unique-Car-6075 avatar

Yeah, they where probably there we just didn't see them, I'd be nice if yana left a little hint tho, like just the end of a piece of clothing sticking out behind a wall in the backround or sm

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i never even noticed that!! but now that i think about it, the story is told from arthur's point of view, so it likely has to do with that and how he doesnt know of their existence