In contrast to the care-free lifestyle of the marionettes, Lorelei begins to feel stifled by her over-protected existence within the walls of Japoness Castle, and begs Otaru to help her escape for a day. Otaru and the marionettes manage to succeed in smuggling Lorelei out of the castle, but their act of goodwill backfires when she is kidnapped, apparently by former members of the Gartland regime. When Otaru attempts to free her, he is confronted by a power-mad Faust once again bent on conquest, accompanied by the Saber Dolls, who seem disturbed by Faust's return to his dark past. When another Faust appears, everyone soon realizes that the Faust responsible for the kidnapping is actually a clone being manipulated by Doctor Hess. While Otaru and the marionettes were preoccupied with Faust, Doctor Hess and a member of the Xian government had used the opportunity to scan Lorelei's brain for information, although they escape without revealing their true purpose.