Naenia, Charalatan's envoy, demands to know Noe's true name, but Vanitas and Jeanne come to his defense. Naenia and the two fiends depart while the hall fills with curse-bearers created by the sound of the malnomen dissonance of the Beastly Orchestra. Dominique vows to assist Vanitas in his quest to save the curse-bearers, but when he and Noe depart, she is confronted by Veronica. In another area, Vanitas and Noe come across a young vampire named Catherine, who has transformed into monstrous curse-bearer and is sucking the life from her sisters...