[Maybe if Ciel would eat his vegetables like a good boy he'd finally grow a little. Surely the soul would expand accordingly. And what's that? "Please go ahead and ask whatever you like; I'd be delighted to answer"?]
Earlier, I asked if my services were no longer required. Suppose that the young master at that point had answered that they were not. [with all that implies for their contract]
Your orders are, of course, absolute. In such a theoretical scenario, how should I have acted?