In the aftermath of Baker’s death, the remaining contestants reel from the gore and terror of the blood-truth trial. Ophelia forces everyone to keep moving so they can escape the room. Luci’s turn reveals that Luci Veil is in love with Leon Summers, and when Leon presses true, Luci breaks down. Beau is forced to guess again at random, chooses wrong, and is crushed to death by the stone, reducing the survivors even further.

Leon then gives blood, and his statement reveals that Leon Summers is not in love with Luci Veil. The group correctly answers true, and the room finally releases them. Back in the dining room, Cade collapses unconscious, but the larger crisis is Luci: she convulses as Phantasma’s punishment for falling in love takes hold. When Leon tries to comfort her, his touch burns on contact, proving the curse has physically severed them.

Leon blames Luci, and Ophelia immediately pushes back, arguing that Leon shares responsibility because he encouraged the relationship despite their agreement to stop if feelings deepened. Luci, devastated by the curse and by Leon’s lack of love, decides she cannot endure Phantasma any longer. She formally surrenders, and the Devil Phoebe appears to take her away. Leon tries to stop Luci, but her touch burns him again, and he collapses in grief after Luci disappears.

With Charlotte gone, Cade still unconscious, and Leon refusing comfort, Ophelia leaves the others and spends hours wandering Grimm Manor with Poe, searching and trying to avoid sleep and nightmares. Eventually she returns to her room and finds Blackwell waiting for her, furious and hurt after learning that Sinclair kissed her. Blackwell frames Ophelia’s choices as his concern because of their oath, while Ophelia calls out his inconsistency and insists he surrendered any claim on her when he withdrew.

The argument strips away their defenses. Blackwell admits he cannot bear the idea of anyone else touching Ophelia and confesses that she is the only source of hope he has known in his endless existence, especially with only three days left before he loses her. Ophelia, shaken by Luci’s punishment, insists that what happened to Luci proves they cannot cross that line again, even though Sinclair meant nothing to her and Blackwell means everything. Blackwell answers that in a fairer life he would have kept her forever, then disappears, leaving both of them devastated.