TheUnnamedUser I see, yeah I'm not sure then. Given it's an item that makes it incredibly likely to lose given its constant lust status and self sacrificing ability maybe it was just better that you didn't get it? (especially since losing usually means losing one or both accessories and you might've just lost it then)
Always just forced myself to take damage and lose after chucking everything of value in the storage, or find a sleep thorn and run over that constantly if I wanted to trigger the sprite H animation This bit me in the ass massively when I got to the enemies that do level drain and they just combo scened me for 4 negative levels and I was forced to restart from my last save file (Finding the Resurrection leaf earlier that run was poorly timed, otherwise it just would have been two times, but still intolerable given how levelling works). Although that all turned out to be pointless given New Game + just handing out the remaining gallery for free.
Anyhow, hope you have better luck in another game.