Black Butler XV continues the "Weston College" arc, where Ciel and Sebastian go undercover as a student and a dormmaster, respectively, to investigate unexplained disappearances from the distinguished public school. It's a fun story, replete with tradition, rules, bullying, discipline, and all sorts of things you'd see in a public school in Victorian-Era England. There are four dormitories ruled by four prefects, and they report directly to the headmaster, who is nowhere to be seen. Ciel is posing as an ordinary student, and Sebastian is posing as a house-master.
This is a funny, easy-to-read volume. At Weston College, Ciel connives to become a "fag" of a prominent upperclassman, so you know that the homoerotic jokes will be on the rise. There have been a few sporadically throughout the series, but with boys aged 13 to 18 living together, you know there have to be more.
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