If he was "the Earl" he was talking about himself, Ciel wouldn't inmediately guess it and jump "Me, or...?", so "the Earl" isn't him but someone Ciel knows well, someone Ciel would recognize as "the Earl". Ciel didn't even know he was a shinigami, if he was part of his family Ciel wouldn't know either.
But I do think he may be an ancestor, related to Claudia and Vincent, and Ciel, a month to go before we know anything more!
Undertaker could mean himself, Vincent or Ciel while Ciel could understand it as Undertaker talking about him or Vincent. Vincent's dead but 'still here' in another form.
Like his ashes.
Or if you superheat it the ashes can be turned into a jewel.
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People the earl is Vicent, he died but its not dead. The Undertaker is the one that creates the zombies and as wee Know he created that professor zombie and he was almost like a person so my theory is that for some reason the Undertaker was in love with Vicent, but then when he fond out he already was with someone, or he confessed and got tern down, and then he comited suicide and became a shinigami, and now he created Vient zombie so the earl is really back.
I think Ciel might have a twin or maybe a body double, or maybe Ciel is the body couble.
Even the latest anime with the Circus sort of hinted that there maybe more than one Phantomhive child.
OR maybe Undertaker is actually one of the Phantomhives? Maybe he is Claudia's father? And Vincent was his grandson? And besides Ciel, he can refer to himself like that? I'm pretty tired ('cuz friday's a long day like always!) and I'm not saying it's a great theory, it just popped in to my head and I guess it would make sense just for one reason: he's been Shinnigami for a long time so the times when he was a human... are very far away. And that explains the connections to Claudia and why he said that the necklace is the most precious thing to him. I dunno, but it was certainly one hell of a chapter! We know now how one becomes the shinnigami and it makes sense to me, even though I thought about other reasons why they became like that. It wasn't disappointing in any of ways. Cannot wait to see the next one but it's the whole month to wait again :x