In the room with the illusionist’s apparatus, Alex realizes Balthazar is not trying to help the others but to break the Pope’s binding on himself. Brother Diaz is shocked by the accusation, and Baron Rikard confirms that Balthazar had spoken of it before. Because Diaz hesitates even in crisis, Alex grabs him and insists that, as the person placed in charge by the binding, he must order Balthazar to stop. When Diaz finally gives the order, Balthazar uses magic to cut off Diaz’s breath instead, leaving Alex to panic while Rikard coldly refuses to help.

Inside the house’s enchantment, Vigga is driven through visions made from memory, guilt, and fear. She rows beside dead shipmates who accuse her of destroying them, returns to the cage and shame of her past, hears her mother condemn her as monstrous even before the wolf’s bite, and confronts the wolf itself as the force that stole her life. The experience strips away her excuses. Instead of blaming only the curse, Vigga vows that she must master the wolf and make it wear a muzzle.

Jakob’s vision leads him through a landscape of massacre and holy terror, where impaled bodies reveal the true end of the righteous wars he once served. There he meets a younger, stronger version of himself: the crusading leader who still believes bloodshed is the price of making a better world. That younger self argues that virtue is weakness, mocks Jakob’s guilt and vows, and reminds him how eagerly he once pursued holy violence. Faced with the truth of what he was, Jakob answers in the only way he knows, drawing his sword to oppose his former self.

Back in the real room, Balthazar completes his ritual and burns away the binding mark on his wrist, exulting that he is free. His triumph lasts only an instant before the backlash overwhelms him: he vomits violently and collapses. Alex steps into the circle and punches him in the face, while Rikard laughs and praises her for acting like royalty. Diaz, barely able to breathe, orders Balthazar to help the trapped companions, and the humiliated magician obeys, frantically searching Kreb’s book and undoing the spell.

When the others return, Vigga is physically attacking Jakob and Jakob has already wounded Vigga, because each mistook the other for a version of themselves inside the illusion. Sunny binds Vigga’s shoulder, Baptiste complains that she is finished with all this, and Vigga openly admits what the vision showed her about her mother, her dead shipmates, and her failure to control the wolf. Jakob answers that he saw only the truth. Then Vigga notices a white box inlaid with a star and picks it up without much caution; when Jakob warns her, she seems already to have forgotten the house’s danger, prompting Jakob to recognize that her ability to forget may be a gift.