{Original} Mary Weather Hargreaves

Maryweather Hargreaves: Maryweather, or Mary, is the half-sister of Cain. In the chapter: Sound of a Boy Hatching, she is introduced, and her past, and mother, are revealed.
Mary is a very persistent but kind girl who lived in poverty with her friend Eric after the death of her mother, surviving as a fortune-teller with her friend until Cain found her. Mary is the ray of sunshine in Cain's life. It is her presence in Cain's life that first taught him the value of love.
Cain C. Hargreaves: The notorious "Earl of Poison" who sweeps through upper London society with grace and death. At only age 17, he has countless women at his feet, and many more fearing his very name. Cain has an extensive collection of poison which he found in the basement of the Hargreaves Castle, a collection left by his ancestors since his family is known for killing using poison.
Cain appears to be a very cold and calculating person whose footsteps are covered with corpses but he also has a very caring side which is shown only to those he loves, ie. Maryweather, his half sister and Riff, his butler. Cain is named as such because "Cain was the first person who killed his relative." His father, Alexis, blamed the birth of Cain for the insanity (and eventual death) of his sister, Augusta (Cain's mother and aunt), as well as the Hargreaves family forcing him to marry someone he didn't love.
The story takes place in 19th century England among the rich and the glamorous. Cain C. Hargreaves, at age 12, became the young heir to the Hargreaves name and estate after meeting Rifuel Raffit - Riff - who was an ex-medical student before becoming Cain's valet then butler.
The story begins when Cain is 17 years old and living in London away from the castle in which he grew up. The first series of stories are mainly self standing and tells of how the young Earl Cain solve various murder mysteries with the help of Riff and his huge collection of poison.
As the volumes progress a larger plot is uncovered as Cain's past is revealed and he discovers that a secret organization led by someone from his past is out after the lives of him and everyone he loves. When Cain finds that those dying around him are not seperate incidents by all connected to the said organization, he must uncover it and put it to a stop before he himself becomes the next victim.
Slowly Riff's unpleasant past is revealed as well and we learn that it was only through protecting the "young master Cain" that Riff was able to recover from his own tragedies and move on in life, or so we think. Cain, himself changes too. As he faces more and more of life's hardships only to find that Riff is always there to help, he slowly changed from the indifferent, selfish brat who never recovered from his unspeakable childhood, into a somewhat caring person.
Earl/Count Cain is a story full of turns and twists, where nothing is as expected. One can look at the stories as a more romantic rendition of Sherlock Holmes where Cain is the famous detective and Delilah is the society of Professor Morairty. Each story takes after a piece of European literation, everything from William Shakespeare, to Fraz Kafka, and to Mother Goose. Cain brings the glamour and intrigue of the Victorian age to life in a way that only a shoujo manga can.
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