Again, Amicia, Hugo and her friends and family have to deal with a lot of horrific events that could make anyone not sleep well at night.
- In the beginning, after playing at the river, the siblings have to travel through an old castle... with burnt bee hives and murderous beekeepers hellbent in killing any trespasser, not caring if they are innocent or guilty. Amicia gets attacked by the beekeepers, causing Hugo to summon a rat swarm to devour them. Little wonder why Amicia, Béatrice, and Lucas make the boy think he just fell asleep so not to worry him.
- The Red City's fate is pure nightmare, since the whole town is destroyed by a HUGE rat swarm - Amicia has a lot of close calls with them while trying to bring herbs to Hugo. Even before, when Amicia and Lucas have to travel through the Arena district, the rats had already attacked and destroyed the slum, with those who weren't eaten alive, dying slowly and painfully with the Bite.
- From a gameplay standpoint, Amicia's rampage, while an empowering moment for any other game, is terrifying as it shows just how sick of everything Amicia is and how bloodthirsty she's become, how willing to kill anyone and anything that stands in her way as she curses and bellows insults at everyone she hurls rocks at. And remember that Amicia was just a sweet young aristocrat at the beginning of the last game. This scene however shows that that Amicia is well and truly dead, and now a vicious animal may be all that's left of her.
- It's scary in-universe as well. The Beast's soldiers talk of her like a deranged murdering psycopath and not a simple girl who stood up to them. Lucas is appalled and so traumatized by the event that he rips into her for the first time ever when he's always ever been The Stoic of Amicia's closest allies for the most part, guiding her without chastising her. Even Amicia herself breaks down into a shaking, sobbing mess, hardly able to vocalize the fear she feels of what she's becoming.
- La Cuna looks like a Hope Spot for the De Rune siblings, with a happy people who loves their Count and Countess, Victor and Emilie and have a Pagan Cult about the messianic "Child of Embers" - however, the island have some Nightmare Fuels of its own:
- First, part of the island is occupied by slavers led by Milo, who offers slaves to the Child as a Human Sacrifice - worse, the Count and the Countess turns a blind eye to this, allowing him free reign in his turf.
- Second, the heroes discover that the Order used the island, centuries ago - first, as a shelter to the previous Carrier, Basillus, and his Protector, Aelia. Then, the Order separated them and built an underground prison to contain the Carrier, who lost hope and unleashed the Justinian Plague, while Aelia died trying to reach him.
- Third, the Cult of the Child of the Embers, who looks tame… until Emilie convinces herself that Hugo is the Child, prompting her and Victor to hunt and kill Amicia, Lucas and Beatrice.
- And fourth, and last, the island houses the greatest rat nest in the series, with womb-like structures where the rats mature before exploding with fumes that can extinguish the light.
- It comes across as a childish tantrum, but Hugo's fight with Amicia after he coldly murders the slavers with a rat swarm is horrifying. Remember, this is sweet, adorable little Hugo who just wants to live a happy life away from hurt and sadness...now slowly becoming a bloodthirsty beast just like Amicia has several times risked crossing over into. And sadly, though he starts trying to rein it in...it never gets any better from this point, which leads to the horrible events at the end.Amicia: Hugo, you can't just kill people!Hugo: Why not!? You do!
