The banquet concert begins; the royal family will host the show, but Prince Sali-sali has 'illness' and will not perform. Kacho and Fugetsu are told the order stays the same, and neither is worried. Ninety minutes later the plan goes live, with Melody watching the Fi-Re-Le band take their places; and out on a drifting lifeboat, Kacho lies dead beside her beast — which has taken on Fugetsu's face to guard her twin.