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Introduction

Pandora Hearts 24 + 1: Last Dance is the third and final of three official guide books for Jun Mochizuki's Pandora Hearts. It serves as a comprehensive guide for the story, characters, and universe of Pandora Hearts. It was released after the completion of the main manga series, Volume 24, and the material contained within is centered around the state of canon by the story's concluding arc. This spans from the content revealed in Retrace LXXV: Alone to Retrace CIV: Will, to even beyond.

The following is a generalized description of everything entailed within the guide book.

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Publisher's Summary[]

Happy Unbirthday!ただその言葉が聞きたくて―――。祝完結記念のメモリアルガイドブック望月淳×「PandoraHearts」を愛する皆様との共演!!

2014年に実施したキャラクター人気投票や名シーンの結果発表をはじめ、ファンからのQ&Aやコメントメッセージ、望月淳×皆川純子(TVアニメ「PandoraHearts」オズ=ベザリウス役)対談、望月淳×小林千鶴(TVアニメ「PandoraHearts」キャラクターデザイン)対談、豪華関係者からの愛ある寄稿、第3回パンドラハーチュ!BEST10、全3編・30ページ越えの特別外伝漫画など、同作品3冊目にして最後のファンブックも内容充実! 「PandoraHearts」のグランドフィナーレを、応援してくださった皆様と祝します!

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Pandora Hearchu Business Trip Edition!!!

Everyone—Oz, Alice, Gilbert, Break, Sharon, and Reim—are all having tea together. Gilbert and Alice are fighting as they always do, as an amused Sharon and a nervous Reim watch in the background. Oz and Break comment on the scene, that their bickering is always on the same topic: Gilbert's hair. Oz while eating a macaron adds that he likes Gilbert's hair and its soft texture. Break with three macarons balanced on his head counters that it's difficult to deal with when the weather is humid.

Oz suggests that he could stop the "seaweed head" comments by dying his hair blond, but Break vetoes that immediately for how similar it would make him to a certain rat he hates. Break declares that if it's about changing his hair, Gilbert should straighten it. An image of Gilbert with hair like a young maiden is conjured. Oz bursts into laughter and helplessly protests as Break cheekily argues how humidity would no longer be a problem. Oz gives a different proposal: Gilbert with a bowl cut that makes him look like a "young master," which makes Break start laughing. They continue giving different ideas on new haircuts that make each other choke on his own laughter, from a mohawk to a pompadour. Eventually they get fed up and decide that since it's too much trouble there's only one solution to go for—make Gilbert bald.

At this point they've both completely lost the point of the conversation and are just collapsing onto the table in overwhelming laughter together. Gilbert and Alice have stopped their fighting in confusion as they hear the laughter and Reim, who overheard the entire thing, just ushers the two away.

Retrospective Episode —Side Elliot—

A story from when Elliot was a young child, of the noble path Elliot had taken.

A very small and very serious Elliot takes over the narration, introducing his name, his position as the fourth son of the Nightray Dukedom, and his family members. His three older brother, Ernest, Claude, and Fred, his one older sister Vanessa, and finally: two older brothers not related by blood. Gilbert and Vincent.

Elliot's older brother affectionately ruffles his hair and tells him that the family does not recognize the adopted boys as true Nightrays, and advises Elliot to stay away from them. Elliot thinks this over and while watching his newly adopted brothers fidgets with curiosity. He wonders why he must stay away from them. Elliot is used to cohabitating with Vincent who had been part of the household for a while now, but the older remains a mystery due to how little of him Elliot has seen. Elliot sneakily peaks at Vincent, appearing to be waiting for something, from behind a corner. He had finally gotten used to Vincent being in the family when all of a sudden—another boy approaches Vincent. Gilbert had appeared.

Vincent and Gilbert stand together and speak, Gilbert telling his younger brother he didn't have to wait for him as he only wishes to go to the library. Vincent tells his elder brother that he doesn't want to be separated from Gilbert for even a moment, that he specifically doesn't want Gilbert to stay alone while in that house. Meanwhile Elliot continuing to spy watches them, noticing the way Vincent's single eye matches Gilbert's pair, a golden color completely unlike any of the other Nightrays. Vincent calls out to the spying Elliot and puts on a threatening air, asking what a "little bug" like him is looking at. Gilbert sweats nervously behind him. Elliot pales and remembers his older siblings' advice to stay away from them, and screams that he isn't looking at them. Elliot continues to scream this until he's run around the corner and out of sight. Gilbert and Vincent stare after him, stunned speechless.

Elliot runs down the hall, his heart racing with anticipation. Eventually he finds whom he's looking for in the hall: Vanessa, who greets her little brother warmly. He tells her of his encounter with his adopted siblings, making her growl in anger after hearing what Vincent called Elliot. While Vanessa is cursing those two under her breath, an eager Elliot asks her why he has to stay away from them. Vanessa blinks in surprise, then answers him: just because. She reiterates that he stay away from them no matter what because being around them will be bad for him, and a good boy like Elliot should listen to the words of his elder siblings. Elliot absorbs this as she ruffles his head and realizes that his elder siblngs dislike their adopted siblings. He reasons that if getting close to them is a "bad thing," doing so will make him a "bad boy."

One day Elliot is walking through the Nightray garden with his bag and a toy sword in hand. As he rounds the corner, he finds Gilbert sitting on a bench reading a letter. Elliot immediately goes on a defensive, bristling hostilely like a cat, to which Gilbert wryly comments that he isn't going to eat him or anything. Then Gilbert notices something: a book from a certain very familiar children's book series sticking out of his little bag. He comments on it, and Elliot pulling out the book with stars lighting up his eyes asks if he knows the Holy Knight series, clearly excited about his favorite book. Gilbert gives a small nostalgic smile, remembering days far past of a master who loved that book as well and a life he's left behind.

Gilbert begins crying. Elliot stares, stunned.

Vincent appears out of nowhere and drags Elliot away by the hand. Gilbert stares nervously as they walk away, Elliot protesting at the rough treatment and Vincent not paying any mind. Vincent takes Elliot to a stone overhang a distance away and slams him against the wall. He snaps at Elliot for making Gilbert cry the moment Vincent is looking away from them, and Elliot denies doing anything that Gilbert began to cry out of nowhere. Elliot yells at Vincent to leave him alone, that he isn't even supposed to get close to them. Vincent's expression tightens. He asks for clarification and Elliot says his older brothers and sister told him to stay away from them. Vincent asks why. Elliot continues that being around them is supposed to be bad for him. Vincent once again asks why. Elliot, eyes spinning in his panic, stutters that the two of them are bad guys. Vincent, voice colder than anything he's ever heard before, repeats himself one last time: why? Elliot can't answer.

Vincent smirks at his speechless expression. It's just as he thought, that they never even gave him a proper and explicit reason why, and yet Elliot simply follows their commands without question nor further thought. Vincent scornfully calls him a puppet. Elliot tries to protest but Vincent simply bulldozes past him. He recalls the terrible days of their childhood and he and Gilbert endured together, the endless abuse hurled at them from people who had no true reason to hate them aside from Vincent's single red eye. All that senseless violence they had to suffer through simply because they were told to hate them, simply because they wanted to feel the power of condemning them, and never a soul attempting to understand them as fellow human beings. Vincent punches the wall next to Elliot's head. His red eye in particular twists in rage and pain as he growls that he hates people like Elliot. Vincent storms away.

Elliot stays standing in place and asserts to himself that he is not scared, though he clearly is doing everything he can to hold back tears. Then Gilbert runs up to Elliot. He hands the boy the book for Holy Knight and his little toy sword which he had dropped earlier during their encounter. Elliot gapes as he is given his things back, and Gilbert affectionately ruffles his head. Gilbert apologizes for startling him by crying out of nowhere and gives him a warm and kind smile. Elliot immediately bursts into sobbing wails. All he can think is that for a supposed "bad guy" he has to stay away from, Gilbert's hand was very gentle and comforting. That night Elliot is tucked snugly into bed, and he reflects on the words Vincent had growled at him in both anger and pain. That he had no reason to think of them as bad guys, that he didn't even attempt to understand them, and Elliot realizes he was right. Elliot begins sinking into his slumber and wonders if it's alright to ask that question, "Why?"

The next day comes and Gilbert and Vincent are walking down the hall of the Nightray estate together. After a moment of silence, Vincent dryly comments that he's following them again. Elliot peeks at them from around the corner like he's done so many times before. Vincent irritably mutters how obvious he's being ats well and Gilbert agrees. But then he gives a small laugh and comments how cute it is. Vincent stares at his brother, such a genuine smile on the other's face. Vincent calls out to Elliot, who stiffens as he is caught. Vincent asks him to come out alongside them if he's so curious. Elliot does so but very slowly, walking step by lumbering step until he's standing in front of them.

Smugly Vincent asks about his orders to stay away from the two of them. Elliot does not deny this and confirms it outright, but he adds that his elder siblings won't give him a proper reason why he should. And so he's decided, he will witness with his own two eyes just how bad they are. And once he does he will punish them with his own two hands as well. Gilbert and Vincent stare at him in surprise. Then they both turn their heads away to hide their snickering. Vincent tells him to suit himself. And thus, Vincent and Gilbert have found themselves a new adorable little brother.

Two extra pages are included. The first displays Oz, Alice, and Gilbert playing with an adorable child Elliot while the grown teenager Elliot embarrassedly protests behind them; this is paired with a note from Mochizuki stating she wished to include such a scene in Volume 11 to show that despite being raised by the Nightray family, Elliot has grown up to experience moments where he realized the principles his family followed weren't always correct. The second displays a small scene that takes place after, of Ernest and Vanessa both sobbing in grief that their baby brother will become bad-mannered if he continues to stay around such an idiot, while Gilbert to the side protests appalled.

Post-fin Episode —Side Leo—

Leo narrates as he recalls the many impactful phases of his life, set around the context of his relationship with the piano. The first time he had even touched one was after the death of his mother and his being transferred to the House of Fianna. He didn't understand why he felt so happy and satisfied to feel the keys underneath his fingers. The adults around him praised his natural musical talent, but even back then he could recognize that wasn't exactly what it was. Rather it was more like... the silhouettes of two certain people whose role he shared appeared in his mind... like a distant memory of someone within him teaching him how to play.

After that, Leo met Elliot. And as they grew closer and closer, the two of them reached a point where they could play a song together perfectly in step, always on the same page with one another as they sat side-by-side with a melody blooming beneath their shared fingers. But then. Elliot died and left Leo all on his lonesome, the seat beside him at the piano empty and cold. And even more time passed, even more events happened to bring him to the present where he has lost his left hand entirely. He can no longer play like he used to before. Leo ghosts his right hand above the piano, his left side so painfully empty in every possible way that he cannot bring himself to touch the keys.

Vincent appears to his left. His left hand falls into place where Leo's once was. Leo looks to him in surprise, hand stiffening with his sudden appearance. Vincent simply tells him to keep going and keep his eyes on the sheet music. Leo, flushed with surprise, does so, and they begin to play. Music flourishes from the shared playing of their left and right hands, Vincent and Leo together playing and falling into step with one another just like a proper duo. It is the first time in a long while that Leo has been able to play again, has been able to even entertain the idea of playing again after losing so much, both of himself and much more. He cannot help the joy lighting up his face as the sensation of the music resonating from his hands finally returns to him.

By the song's end, Leo still in shock asks with surprise that Vincent can actually play. Vincent amends only slightly, because what he knows was received from Elliot having taught him. Leo's eyes are wide with amazement, still reeling from the overwhelming sensation of finally playing the piano once again. Vincent continues that he cannot play as well as Elliot once had, but he would love for the two of them to play together once again as master and valet. There is a moment of silence between them.

Leo calls Vincent awful. Vincent blinks in surprise. Leo shoves a finger in his face and loudly criticizes every single mistake and shortcoming from that single play session, that Vincent's playing was horribly clumsy from the way the song was off-beat and misplayed. Vincent nonchalantly comments that he's rusty for how long it's been since he's properly touched an instrument, but Leo just snaps for no excuses. If they are to play together then Vincent needs to practice more, get better at playing. And then...

Leo, face red with embarrassment as he clutches the sheet music to his chest, says that with those stipulations fulfilled they'll have no reason to not play together once again. Vincent stares in shock. Then he smiles, wide and smug and clearly holding back laughter. Delighted he laughs that Leo despite everything truly does love him. Leo growls that he will kill him. This just makes Vincent happier and he delights in the contempt and disgust being thrown at him, and he begs his master to give him more—Vincent coughs in pain as Leo punches him in the gut.

An extra page is included. Vincent is on his knees proclaiming with glee for his master to give him everything he's got. Leo, frustrated beyond words, growls in absolute fury but does not move an inch, and Vincent just delights in that as well. Watching this scene from afar, Lottie asks for an explanation as to what they are doing. Sharon who has been watching them recently for her amusement happily does so. Leo loves to punch and smack Vincent around whenever he deserves it but has grown to learn that Vincent gets satisfaction from that and thus forcibly holds himself back to deprive Vincent of that pleasure. Vincent however gains just as much from watching Leo writhe in the pain of having to contain his frustrations rather than vent them outwards, which makes Leo even more frustrated, which makes Vincent even more amused. It is a continuous cycle that never seems to end between the two of them. Lottie, absolutely baffled, says "What?"

Post-fin Episode —Side Reim—

Reim remembers. When he first came to the Rainsworth Dukedom and had barely turned eleven years old, that was when he met Sharon. He still remembers it vividly to this day.

Approximately three months after the "Tale" was saved and Oz and Alice departed from the world. Reim is walking about in the hallways of the Barma estate with his arms full of documents, and from the side two people screaming his name come running in. Gilbert and Lottie race in together, the former panicked and the latter ecstatic, and in unison they ask the same question. Did Reim really propose marriage to Sharon? Reim does not miss a beat: yes. Lottie shrieks in excitement as the man marvels at how fast news travel. Gilbert though anxiously asks for the follow up, for what answer he received from her. Reim answers just as fast and nonchalantly: she said no. Gilbert and Lottie shout in shock. Reim asks them to be quiet as Rufus is resting in the other room.

Some time later, the trio have retreated to another room to have tea together with their conversation. Once seated, Lottie cuts straight to the point and asks why Reim asked such a question so suddenly. Despite being asked why Reim cannot find an exact answer. Rather, he recalls with slight embarrassment that he had gotten caught up in the emotions of the moment that he shared with her and just suddenly blurted it out. Gilbert nervously corrects that they're asking why specifically Sharon. Lottie, as no-nonsense as when she entered the room, asks directly if he does so out of a perceived duty he owes to the late Break. And coldly she criticizes that if his reason for choosing Sharon is to attempt to fill in the role that Break has left vacant with his death, then she can only call such a thing "boring."

Reim honestly answers that he'd be lying if he declared that his reason has absolutely no sentiment like that within it. He elaborates however that he cannot really put into words what Sharon means to him. Since their past together from when they first met as children and were united by the strange man who fell half-dead into their lives, he has always considered Sharon to be very precious to him. He knows that, though it will take time, Sharon will eventually push past the grief of Break's loss and come out stronger and happier than ever in this future they have fought for. And Reim wants to be there by her side and support her through every single step as she makes that journey. With those earnest feelings within him, Reim had asked her to marry him.

Gilbert stares in shock at the heartfelt answer he has received. Lottie is much the same, outwardly marveling with stars lighting up her eyes at how romantic it is. Gilbert watching her nervously notes how similar her "switched on" romance-obsessed expression is identical to Sharon's. Lottie peppily announces her full support for them and cheers him on in his further attempts. Gilbert tries to dissuade her that her words at this point are just going to be salt in the wound of Reim's rejection. However, Reim claims it doesn't bother him. Lottie, in the process of throttling a pale Gilbert, pauses as she watches Reim.

Reim suddenly takes the posture of a serious and calculating tactician in the middle of planning out his army's moves for a war, every single thought and step he makes deliberated like an attack. A rejection was in his range of expectations and he has known for a long time that wooing Sharon will be a long war of attrition that he must fight. He has already formulated a fully drawn-out plan of attack, the first step of which he is currently in to make Sharon view Reim as a true object of romantic love. He has already meticulously mapped out the next 50% of his ultimate plan and thought of every possible branching scenario in order to be able to respond to every single one with a win that can make her fall for him in an instant. Reim calculates in his head and declares, with true excited delight, that he will be working hard to guarantee a "yes" in the next five years, and he prays they'll be cheering him on.

Lottie and Gilbert gape with pale faces at this. They mutter to each other that sometimes, Reim really truly scares them. Meanwhile Reim, oblivious to this, goes to open the window and stare outside into the fresh air and clear skies. He reminisces to his childhood, to his first meeting with Sharon at only eleven years old. Shelly had introduced Reim to her shy little daughter, peeking out from behind the skirt of her mother's dress, and a young Reim had stared at this new adorable friend of his with a growing realization: that this may be what could be called "love." The memories continue: a young Reim approaching a little Sharon with a bouquet of flowers he personally made. That young Sharon answering him with a rejection that she wished to be her big brother Break's bride in the future. A heartbroken little Reim going to angrily beat at a confused Break's back. Break knocking Reim to the floor in irritation when he'd had enough. The three of them growing together, turning from a disgraced knight, a shy little girl, and a naïve newly made valet to a loyal and hardworking man, a confident young woman, and a weird old man. And through it all the precious friendship between the three of them staying as strong as ever until the end.

Reim smiles as the light of the sun warms his face. Wistfully and wryly, he promises to himself that the third time he asks her will be the charm.

Elsewhere, Sharon sneezes all of a sudden, to which Lily asks if she has a cold coming on. Sharon on her end does not remember these past events at all.

Trivia[]

  • The guide book 24 + 1: Last Dance was first announced in the magazine release of Retrace CII: The Nursery.

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Characters

Main: AliceGilbert NightrayOz Vessalius
Vessalius: Ada VessaliusAda's CatsJack VessaliusMrs. KateOscar VessaliusRachel CecileSara VessaliusXai Vessalius
Nightray: Bernard NightrayBernice NightrayClaude NightrayEchoElliot NightrayErnest NightrayFred NightrayHansLeoMrs. FinnRaymond NightrayVanessa NightrayVincent Nightray
Rainsworth: EmilySharon RainsworthShelly RainsworthSheryl RainsworthXerxes Break
Barma: Arthur BarmaCalum LunettesGrunerMiranda BarmaReim LunettesRufus Barma
Baskervilles: CeliaDugFangGlen BaskervilleGlen Baskerville (♀)JuryLacieLeviLilyLottieNoiseOswald
Abyss: The Core of the AbyssThe Intention of the Abyss
Other: Flower GirlThe GeneralHarris WatsonHeadhunterIsla YuraJyantaMariePhillipe WestRytasTurnerWilliam West
Chains: AlbusB-RabbitBandersnatchCardsCheshireThe CookDemiosDodoDormouseDuldeeDuldumEquusFawnFlower Girl's ChainGrimGryphonHedgehog ChainsHumpty DumptyThe Intention's DollsJabberwockLacie's ChainLarsLeonMad BabyMad HatterMarch HareOwlRavenRocking-Horse-FlySnap-Dragon-FlyTove
Caucus Race: Dahlia GarlandGarland ButlerGeraldGreat MotherJosephineMarcelMia

Nobility Barma DukedomBaskerville ClanNightray DukedomRainsworth DukedomSinclair FamilyVessalius DukedomWest Family
Terminology Species & Factions: Black Winged ChainsChainsContractorsIsla Yura's CultPandora

Objects: Arthur Barma's Memoirs"Chains"Doors to the AbyssJack Vessalius' Pocket WatchKeys to the DoorsSilent Clock TowerStone Seals
Events: Coming-of-Age CeremonySuccession CeremoniesTragedy of Sablier
Miscellaneous: AngelsChildren of Ill OmenLacie (Song)Holy KnightStatice

Locations AbyssBarma HomelandCarillonDimensional PlaneÉbaucheHouse of FiannaLacie's TombLuca's GateLutwidge AcademyReveilSablierTower
Volumes IIIIIIIVVVIVIIVIIIIXXXIXIIXIIIXIVXVXVIXVIIXVIIIXIXXXXXIXXIIXXIIIXXIV
Omake Maidora HeartsBumbling Sleuth BreakMagical Girl Ill-Omened❤LaciePandora Academy
Episodes 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425Special Episodes
DVDs IIIIIIIVVVIVIIVIIIIXBonus Story
Guidebooks & Artbooks 8.518.524 + 1Official Animation Guide〜Odds and Ends〜「There is.」
Light Novels 123
Drama CDs Pandora Hearts Drama CDNightmare of Vessalius Academy!Alice's Tea PartyAnimedia Radio SpecialRadio Special 1Radio Special 2Radio Special 3Retrace 42.5Another Story of A Promise Lost
Soundtrack OST 1OST 2Parallel HeartsMazeWatashi wo MitsuketeEverytime you kissed me
Character Songs Swear to...Kinjirareta AsobiTruth
Calendars 20102011201220132014
Extra Pandora HearchuMochizuki's MusingsTimelineReal-World References
Author Jun Mochizuki
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