Vanitas discovers that the grimoire is powerless against the malnomen unless a curse-bearer renounces the nether world of ice and snow which they inhabit, and he pleads with Chloe to reject it. Meanwhile, Noe defeats Astolfo but loses his left hand in the process. Vanitas successfully convinces Chloe to return to humanity, revealing her true name, Canorus, "she who makes music with snow flowers". Her spell is broken and the land becomes covered in white petals...