#kuro128

Hey Anon! I’m doing okay, thank you. :) I hope you too!

I think there are several possibilities for your answer: firstly, in ch107, maybe Seb was on time to stop Lizzie because he’s the one who made sure Lizzie would show up in the first place. 

So I don’t know if he planned the whole development (Sieglinde getting angry and going to Ciel) and expected Liz to walk in on Ciel being over Sieglinde…

but he was at least expecting her visit and probably her initial jealous reaction to Sieglinde.

In comparison, in ch128…

Soma was on one side of the door when Ciel peeked inside and that’s when Soma punched him, thinking Ciel was his attacker. 

Seb was on the other side of the door so he couldn’t intervene right away and I’m thinking it’s not impossible that he was also slightly surprised by what had happened to Agni so he had a slight delay:

Another possibility is that, maybe you’re right, and Seb considered that Soma’s punch was probably not on the same level as Lizzie high-kicking Ciel in the face. So letting Soma punch Ciel in the face was no biggie (he just got bruised) and he made him pass out because he didn’t want Soma to be more of a problem.

Lastly, if we’re considering it from a narrative point of view, Lizzie hitting Ciel over a misunderstanding wouldn’t have been fair, so Sensei didn’t let it happen further than for comic relief. Meanwhile Soma managing to hit our!Ciel (his best friend) in the face is probably supposed to tell us readers that his reaction is a big hint as to who attacked him (the twin), so it was important to let it happen.

I have an idea about the whole candy/ring think... I know that the full (and translated) chapter still has to be out, but it is almost sure that we are talking about the ring that Ciel (real!Ciel)  had swallowed during the month in the Cult. Now, I think that the use of the word “candy” for “ring” is a powerful hint, something unmistakable, in fact ,our!Ciel was beyond shock. I believe that in order to swallow the ring (which we know, it is not a little solitaire but a big ring), Ciel had to pretend it was something else (you know, something like “Ok, I can’t swallow this enormous thing” *because after all he was a ten-year-old child and his throat wasn’t the throat of an adult*) so perhaps he pretended that the ring was a candy (something like: “Look *insert-our!Ciel’s-name*, I eat this like it is a candy!”), and also, considering how much our!Ciel (and perhaps his twin) likes sweets, the choice of the candy is plausible. That is why the word “candy” was so shocking, because for our!Ciel it is the unbelievable but also unmistakable evidence that his brother is back... hence Sebastian’s reaction “I do not tell lies”... what if he asked him “You lied because he should be dead, according to the words you said at the time of our contract”. Because I think that Sebastian really ate real!Ciel’s soul (and that would open a scenario like real!Ciel wanting his soul back, being a BD) but considering that they still don’t know the truth behind real!Ciel’s “recovery” (John Brown? UT?), it is very natural for our!Ciel to accuse Sebastian (also, this could lead our!Ciel to temporarily act alone, perhaps because he is enraged at Sebastian, and going to confront his brother alone). Also, the word “tummy”... I am not English native speaker, so I am using Word Reference to read the shades of meaning and tummy is an endearment for “stomach”, and it sounds so much like a word used by children (same thing as candy, perhaps when the twins were children, they used or heard the word). I think the choice is very specific because saying “Who stole the ring from my stomach” would have been more predictable, but saying “Who stole the candy from my tummy” is more personal. Also, I don’t think that Sebastian was so tactful in taking the ring...