Before Xeno met Natsuki, he was calmly watching the ninja unload the bomb from its container. The ninja had one dilemma: They needed a vantage point to drop the bomb on Akuza. They decided to drop the bomb on the residential area of Akuza since that was the place that was least destroyed by the explosions.
Finding a vantage point in the rural, more residential spots of Akuza would be a problem, and the ninja had to do this without any drama or attention. This was an utmost secret mission. Once the ninja stopped spilling information that Xeno declared useful, he quit eavesdropping and attacked the ninja. His main plan was to disarm the bomb himself, but once Xeno managed to disarm and knock all the ninja's consciousness, he realised that he truly had no idea how to even touch the bomb, forget how to disarm the bomb.
He did not know what to do with the bomb, as if he tried attacking it, he might accidentally blow it up right there, and the port and half the city would be destroyed, including himself. So he left an avatar to guard the bomb, and he departed to find someone smarter than him to disarm the bomb. There was only one name in Xeno's mind. Natsuki Himena, a Dark Mixed Military Squad member who was also stationed at Akuza. She is a doctor, so her intelligence must be unmatched.
It did not take long for Xeno to find Natsuki, as he found her in a couple of minutes. She was healing multiple people who were stuck in the rubble, and Xeno instantly dragged her away from the patients. Natsuki slapped Xeno away from herself and started to interrogate Xeno.
"Who are you?" asked Natsuki.
Xeno did not know if Natsuki knew who he was, but if she did, then he might be in big trouble. So he decided to use another name.
"My name is Anon, I am an ally of a certain Red Samurai. I found a bomb and I thought you could manage to disarm it," said Xeno.
Natsuki squinted her eyes on Xeno and realised he was stating the truth. Then Natsuki stationed another doctor to deal with the patients and managed to follow Xeno to the port. Then a sudden twist in Xeno's plans occurred. The avatar that he had placed was lost in a fight with the ninjas, and the container containing the bomb disappeared. Natsuki held the limp Xeno's body while Xeno absorbed his avatar's soul back into himself.
"Where is the bomb?" asked Natsuki.
"I don't know," replied Xeno with a slight pause after his sentence.
"So you dragged me out here for no reason?" questioned Natsuki.
Natsuki was slightly mad, but then suddenly a huge force got unleashed from a far-away district in Uptown. Xeno and Natsuki quickly made their way to the source of the explosion and realised that it was the Red Samurai. Natsuki held the Red Samurai without opening his face mask on Xeno's strict orders and found a safe place near some rubble to heal him up. Once Danso woke up, Xeno returned and explained to him about the small plan that he and Natsuki had schemed as Danso was sleeping and resting from his injuries.
"Suzumi Hokage also made a live broadcast saying he made terms with Chiro Zanami and the President," said Xeno as he scrolled through his phone frantically.
"No way," replied the Red Samurai, trying to look at Xeno's phone.
"We need more capable people if we want to fend off the bomb and the ninja," said Natsuki.
"Who do you have in mind?" asked Xeno.
"A capable new joinee, his name is Danso Narahara," said Natsuki.
Danso and Xeno both gave each other a side eye, and a slight smirk appeared underneath the Red Samurai's mask.
"Fine, Natsuki, go look for this 'Danso' person while Xeno and I try finding a way to get to the bomb," said the Red Samurai.
Natsuki nodded before quickly leaving their hideout and going towards a group of people and more rubble.
"You managed to get out of that situation, but what will you do now?" asked Xeno.
"Simply, I'll summon a soul slime and send him to Natsuki with a message stating I am stuck in a secret Ninja hideout and I will return after I break out," said Danso.
"Truly a cunning saint," said Xeno.
Danso opened his gloves and touched his ring, and it started to glow in a bright green light. Instantly, Karkous was summoned beside Danso.
"What do you require, my sir?" asked Karkous.
"I want you to relay a message to Natsuki Himena, tell her that I am trapped and will try to break the ninja from within their hideout, and that I sent you to help the city," said Danso.
Karkous bowed as best as he could with his body and flew off towards Natsuki. Meanwhile, Danso and Xeno tried to find the bomb by checking for a massive quantity of unstable soul energy. 4
Meanwhile, in Jale. The Mayor's manor was demolished as Tensei, Emily, and Haruki collapsed beneath the rocks and rubble of the manor. Ozamu was gliding with his shapeshifting sorcery ability, which he used to turn into a half-bird with wings. He searched through the broken walls and pillars for them and eventually found them buried in layers of sand and rocks.
"Look, guys, I need you to wake up quick now," said Ozamu while shaking all the DMMS members, but none of them were responding.
A thought popped up in Ozamu's mind. What if they were dead? He started to check their heartbeats in a second without wasting time.
There was no breathing.
But there was a slight heartbeat in all of them.
Ozamu quickly did a CPU to all the DMMS members and managed to make sure they started to breathe again. Then he carried all three members to a nearby refugee camp so they could heal and recover.
Natsuki was searching for Danso across the city. He was nowhere to be found, and she even asked her fellow doctors to alert her if they ever found Danso. Then, a flying green soul slime came towards Natsuki and informed her of Danso's message. Natsuki grumbled and started to scratch her head.
"Is there no one that I properly know?" muttered Natsuki
Karkous just shrugged and flew away while Natsuki screamed 'Wait!' to Karkous. It stopped its flight path and flew back down to Natsuki.
"Is that it? There is no clue about the location or whatever?" asked Natsuki.
Karkous nodded.
"Dang it, I guess I have to return to them now, what will you do?" asked Natsuki.
Karkous shrugged again.
"Fine, come help us," said Natsuki.
Karkous nodded in a way of acceptance and followed Natsuki back to their hideout to find that the Red Samurai and Anon had left the hideout and disappeared. Natsuki put her hand on her forehead and grumbled before she left to help more patients. She knew those two were strong enough to take on the remaining ninja, which were scarce anyway, so she had to help people the best she could. She couldn't just sit there doing nothing after all.
Meanwhile, Danso and Xeno tried to get a sense of where the bomb was. It should be easy since the Dead Bomb was a soul beast who had almost infinite soul energy; therefore, his arm should be nothing but treasure waiting to be found. Yet, it was the opposite; therefore, they knew that it was the ninja concealing the bomb, and that once they were close enough, they both should be able to easily find the bomb.
Their plan had worked. Atop a semi-broken tower in Downtown, there was a massive soul energy residue flowing out of something. They assumed it was the bomb, and Danso lit his legs on fire and started to fly like a rocket to the top. Xeno just created multiple avatars on top of each other and reached the top of the building in no time.
Once they were on top, they looked around to see multiple ninjas flocking to the place.
"Looks like we got company," said Danso as he unsheathed his sword.
"When do we ever not get company?" laughed Xeno, getting ready for action.
They were not quiet, and the ninja caught them in a second of their entrance. All the ninjas threw kunai and daggers towards them, but Xeno forced his avatars to block all of them while Danso just deflected them with his sword. Then, Danso ignited his blade and started to attack every ninja he could while Xeno rushed towards the bomb.
"We should've gotten Natsuki here, she's smarter than both of us combined," thought Xeno as he cleared a path for himself.
Xeno found the bomb, it was a grey round shape with the Dead Bomb's arm in the center, radiating soul energy and dragging Xeno towards it. He slapped himself and walked towards the bomb. He carefully broke the metal grey outer and grabbed the Dead Bomb's arms. A thought of betraying Danso popped up in Xeno's mind, but he pushed it back to the attic of his brain. Danso looked over at Xeno and saw that he had completed the mission. Then, Danso called out Karkous, and they all flew away towards the rising sun and the horizon.
All the ninjas quickly retreated, and Akuza was safe from the First Ninjaro Raid.