This room's floor has been replaced with wet mud; you aren't sinking exactly, not so long as you keep moving, but your footing is unsteady and your feet do sink slowly if you stay in one place too long. Beautiful lotus blossoms fill the room, rising from the mud and blooming.

An inhuman torso is lying on its back in the middle of the mud floor. It is clearly the pure akuma version of Alma, lower half of his torso a tooth-ringed maw, arms distended and too-long, skin cracked, the akuma's star inscribed on his forehead, eyes blank. His arms are tied in a knot, leaving them completely useless, which is preventing him from touching the item he is reaching for, an orb inscribed with the Second Exorcist regenerative symbol, which floats next to him in the mud. His chest has a matching hole where the orb must have come from.

"Please break this for me," he says, turning his face to your group, "so that I may sink."

The back wall in this room has a door on it. In the center of the door is a carving in a circular relief, showing Alma's face as a child, eyes closed as if in the middle of sleep. There are six holes in a circle around the relief; a red orb is already set in the top hole and the other five are empty. Attempts to try the door as it is will find it locked.