amanda and joseph are brought to the castle of the organization zwolf, an organisation that is working to defeat xargin. amanda is forced to join as they are holding malek captive. as amanda falls into depression about malek, who is in a coma, hermann appears before her. whilst she is happy that her colleague is still alive, he appears to have lost parts of his memory. when his memory starts coming back to him, he realises that beatrice had turned him into an amalgam. he loses control and goes on a killing spree. amanda chases him and tells him that by giving up on himself now, it'd be the same as giving up on gerd frentzen. this, combined with the fact that he feels he has to live to avenge his xat colleagues, causes hermann to regain control of himself. he heads to take on wolf. joseph also appears on the scene - but due to a device zwolf has installed, he has lost control of himself. wolf escapes, knowing that hermann would stay to avenge gerd. hermann eventually follows wolf, when he realises his presence is getting amanda into trouble with zwolf. amanda follows hermann, but runs into snow, a friend of joseph. after a brief conversation, amanda heads to the xat hq to help hermann, and snow decides to help joseph regain control. amanda and hermann kill wolf, with the help of al - another xat colleague returned from the dead. al ends his own life, as he feels being brought back to life is "disgusting". hermann and amanda invade the zwolf hq in order to get malek back. the two escape to an orphanage run by amanda's aunt. beatrice comes to the orphanage, in order to claim data that amanda has been trusted with by zwolf. she explains that she is the one responsible for causing gerd, malek and wolf to lose control of themselves. hermann is enraged and takes on beatrice. he starts to struggle and, in order to protect amanda, realizes he needs malek's help. malek awakens from his coma and helps hermann defeat beatrice. however, hermann protects malek from beatrice's final attack and dies in amanda's arms trying to tell his feeling for her which he's held in for so long. it is also implied when he asks malek if he could have been a good big brother to him.