When the card-battle freeze ends, Carl grabs Samantha midair and forces a dangerous descent from the building, steering them beneath the legs of the massive centaur-like demon Amayon while corrosive black liquid rains down. Donut reports that Lina has summoned a dragon, and Carl pushes Samantha to carry him to the beach so he can execute a desperate plan to generate souls.

Donut plays Midnight Express, temporarily making Carl the deckmaster for three minutes. From the beach—littered with dead sea life and memory ghosts—Carl orders Samantha back to the rooftop fight to enhance Donut’s spells while he uses the deck to summon Raul the crab, the key to triggering the dungeon’s “crab sperm as mobs” loophole that started the demon eviction event.

Carl tries to persuade Raul to fertilize the eggs immediately to create the needed “mob deaths” and power Amayon’s take-me-home spell, but Raul hesitates under pressure and the horrific surroundings. Carl summons Alpha Male Carl for help, planning to use him to injure Carl to near-death as a controlled way to reposition, but Alpha Carl refuses at first and instead acts emotionally supportive.

As the timer runs down, Donut reports battlefield chaos: Katia has contained a weird version of Paz temporarily, Imani and Tran are trapped, and the demon fight is escalating. Carl uses a Time Extend on Raul to buy time, but Midnight Express expires and Donut regains deck control; Donut then casts Why Are You Hitting Yourself on Amayon, making the giant demon punch himself and enraging him further.

With Alpha Carl aggressively berating Raul, Raul finally “ascends” and completes the act, implying the soul-generation objective is progressing. With seconds left and no time for a safer option, Carl warns Donut he is returning, orders Samantha not to release him until the “fire flares,” and triggers a teleport trap—teleporting into the trap Carl previously left inside Samantha.