Eye of the Bedlam Bride Tattoo

In the final battle of the Eighth Floor, Donut plays the Golden Combo T'Ghee Card and accidentally combines Shi Maria and Carl.^[4] Shi Maria rifles through Carl's inventory, hissing in his brain that she knows Carl intends to betray her at the end of the floor; meanwhile, an unidentified male voice tells Carl, "Child. Hold on. Hold on with everything you can."^[5][3]

Shi Maria pulls an empty beaker from Carl's Inventory, adds a sliver of the Toraline, and casts his Self-Immolation Spell, creating a bubbling black ink. She then opens the Enchanted Prison Tattoo Kit, uses the stick to poke out Li Jun's eye, and proceeds to tattoo the eye on Carl's chest. She tells him:

You may gain some of your friend’s powers, too, with the blood on the needle. Not much. But I am with you now, Carl, until you decide to free me. I will no longer be a card you can abandon, one you can rip away. I am a part of you, and you will have to decide. Keep me with you and gain my power, or set me free. Either way, I win. Yes. It is done. Now let us flee this place, okay? I will not let you die. If you die now, I will die. And we can’t have that, can we?^[6]