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There’s a question regarding whether Carlo dies from the petrification disease, or from being killed while out trying to become a Stalker,

but it’s quite possibly just both?

As Pinocchio goes through his old memories on the Isle of Alchemists, his last one is of the legendary stalker saying she’s “too late” and “only if”. It could be she was too late to protect him, or, she was too late in trying to deliver a cure to Carlo.

Carlo, while infected with the petrification disease, probably set out to try and become a legend himself, or perhaps just ran away as Pinocchio does in general in the book, with what little time he had left.

Regardless, I think the petrification disease spread to one specific place: Carlo’s legs.

As we see with the Nameless Puppet, and especially during the first cutscene to the fight, there is a close up on the legs in particular.

In the book, Pinocchio, after he’s run away from Geppetto & is now trying to survive on his own, ends up burning his feet off after trying to warm up by a fire. It could be that Carlo ended up losing feeling in his legs, and without being able to move, he succumbed to his illness.

Assuming the torso/the Nameless Puppet is just made from Carlo’s actual body, it would make sense for Geppetto to have to do something about the legs - aka would have to make Carlo new legs, much like Geppetto does for Pinocchio in the original text.

Continuing on if Carlo had simply run away, the only person who would know where he would have gone is Romeo, who was also fighting the petrification disease at the time and probably couldn’t leave to find Carlo. Romeo, then, must have found a way to get in contact with the Legendary Stalker, and probably asked her to go find Carlo, and give him a cure/medicine just help him in general.

Thus, coming back to the Legendary Stalker talking about being too late to save poor Carlo.