At the cabin, Levi said to the others: "This is only a small victory. We got the people to see Cecelia as their potential ruler and we know who we are up against. But we don't know where the Hell this Rod Reiss would be." Ban chuckled and pulled out the paper that turns out to the be the map: "X marks the spot, right?" Conny said in shock when everyone sees the entire landscape and places: "Where did you get this?" Ban answered with a grin: "I stole it from Kenny after Captain Levi blasted him with the shotgun through my chest." Levi shook his head as he was trying to get rid of the shock: "I'm still in lost of words of how the Hell you have managed to let Kenny off his guard so easily." Ban responded: "And don't worry. I didn't expose Cecelia's true identity in any way." Levi said to the Fox's Sin of Greed while looking into the map: "Uh-huh. You called her Yume. But why?" Ban answered as he chuckled: "That was Cecelia's adventure name back then. It was the only thing I could come up with so it would be believable." Azmaria asked as she turned to Cecelia, "Umm...what is that place?" Cecelia looked over and turned to Levi as she said this, "That's the chapel in Wall Sina. I remembered my father telling that it belonged to Rod Reiss and there's an underground cavern from there. I'm thinking that it's where we'll find him and the cadets that followed Kenny." Before a strategy could be made, there were three knocks on the door. The knocks sounded as if they're made as a safe code and Cecelia was the first to look. Erica was at the door with Axel by her side and Rika flew over to the couple: "Erica? Axel What are you two doing here?" Erica answered as Cecelia lets them both inside, "We came to help you on taking down this Rod person and this Kenny before anything more bad stuff would happen." Axel chuckled a bit as he rubbed the back of his head: "Actually, she insisted on helping you. I tried to stop her but couldn't because her big brother Erwin gave her his consent to fight back." Erica nodded in agreement and added on: "And based on what Axel have gotten the information, he found out that Xemnas made his alliance with Rod. So, you might need all the help you can get for your squad, Captain Levi." Levi looked at her and then at both Cecelia and Rika. He has a gut feeling that if it comes down to facing this Xemnas, those three with Axel would know what to do when facing him. He then said to Erica with a firm tone: "Just don't get yourself killed and don't regret your choices. Erwin must have let you come here to let you grow or something like that. So you best to make sure that you don't let him down, alright?" Erica nodded her head in agreement and sat down with the others to formulate a plan.
During this time at night, Xemnas the Superior of Nothingness was in the very underground cavern with Rod Reiss and Kenny Ackerman. Like all the Organization members, Xemnas wears the standard black coat, gloves, and knee-length boots with silver trimming and high concave indentations in the top. He has orange eyes and tanned skin. Xemnas's hair is long as it's reaching to about mid-back, silver in color, and some of it falls over his shoulders. Being the founder of Organization XIII and apparently the oldest of Nobodies, Xemnas is truly emotionless in every sense of the word and does not even remember what it was like to have any feelings. He claimed that this allowed him to have a clear understanding of the heart. But in reality, this had warped his mind into believing that only anger, hatred, and other negative emotions were what make up most of a heart. He channeled his "anger" towards Erica after he found out from Larxene that Erica is the traitor by pretending that she's a Nobody. However, he did develop this "feeling" whenever he would see Cecelia and sometimes ask himself this question: "Is this...what it feels like to fall in love? He would push that off the side as he always do when to comes to his goals. Kenny asked, "So let me get this straight. Are you saying that this enemy of yours is the princess, right?" Xemnas responded, "Her name is Cecelia Harumi Miyamoto. Is she not the daughter of the former Lord Ryu and Lady Sayuri?" Rod lets out a sigh of what seemed to be of stress. If there was any, he sure has kept his head leveled in a calm and collected phase. Kenny said with a scoff: "Now that you mentioned it, the name itself is who I'm hired to kill. But there were no pictures of what she looks like." Xemnas chuckled and then pulled out a photo to show to the two gentlemen. This photo was secretly taken by Larxene a month before her demise in the hands of Cecelia. Rod immediately sees her as a threat and shook hands with Xemnas for this partnership. For Kenny, it seems to be a different scenario. The photo shows of Cecelia smiling on Azmaria's fifteenth birthday as the two sisters hugged each other during the birthday dinner. He secretly sees Cecelia as any person striving for happiness despite having this godlike magic that he keeps hearing about. As much as Kenny has "a bone to pick" with Levi and Alexandra, he now feels conflicted on carrying out the order to kill.
With a plan set in motion, it is likely that Xemnas might be among the cadets of the Anti-Personnel Control Squad to fight. Axel added in when turning to Levi: "And besides him, I'm suspecting that he will bring in Saix, Xigbar, and Vexen. Leave those four to us." And by "us" in the term, he means himself, Erica, Rika, and Cecelia. Levi replied with a firm nod: "I see. It's because the four of you are Keyblade Masters or something? Well...something like this can't be helped. And we need to cover as much grounds as possible without foul-ups no matter what." Ban spoke up as he wanted to point out on something: "I just remembered something and I'm not sure if it's important. It's about those gears that the soldiers working for this Kenny have. Those gears would work like yours but with guns rather than blades. Although that would pack up a lot of firepower, it's likely bad at the same time because the bullets would take like three to five seconds at most to reload unlike with the blades that would take less than that. And even though it would give them the long-range combat plans, it's useless if they don't know where they're aiming at. So I would suggest of any form of distraction to obscure their sight in battle." Levi remembered of how fast it took for Ban and King to take down those soldiers when he and Alexandra were trying to get away from Kenny. Conny then asked out loud: "Just one question. How do we get over there in a short period of time?" This is when King said as he got an idea in his head, "Oh! I almost forgot!" He then then flew outside and whistled loudly. The Titans don't attack at night, so it's a relief not to be heard out of the open. Suddenly, a portal opened up from above the sky and this is when a unique kind of hound appeared as it floated down to meet the squad. It's a male Black Hound that has green fur as his neck is the only area with white hair. He has a fairly short tail and teeth that are very sharp and piercing. When it does not feel threatened at all, it shrinks into a small dog. King called out with a smile on his face: "Oslo!" Rika giggled and started to rub on Oslo's belly: "Hi Oslo! Have you been a good boy? Are you a good boy?" Jean wondered as he take a look: "Is that...a dog?" King answered, "Nope. He's a fairy-type Black Hound named Oslo. He's also a friend of my own and Rika's for a long time. He has this mysterious power that send anything and anyone he swallows to any different location." Hanji gasped n awe with a smile: "You mean that he can take us all straight to Rod?! That's awesome!" Levi then asked this question: "If it has the power to do that, why didn't you say about your friend sooner?" King said in embarrassment: "As a Black Hound, he would attack viciously unless he trusts you well enough. The last thing I want is for him to attack you without my knowledge." As much as that detail made Levi shake his head, he does see King's point of view. To be sure that the cadets could be assured that Oslo wouldn't devour them, both Cecelia and Rika were taken to "another dimension" first.
In the cavern of the Underground Chapel, the Anti-Personnel Control Squad cadets were accompanied with Saix the Lunar Diviner and Vexen the Chilly Academic. Saix wears a basic Organization black coat along with the usual black gloves and boots. He has long and frayed blue hair framing his face, though slicked back in wild spikes at the top. Behind his back, it reaches down to his mid-back and is cut slightly neater. A distinctive trait of Saïx's is the X-shaped scar between his yellow eyes that extends to about halfway up his forehead in one direction and to just under his eyes in the other. Vexen also wears the basic Organization uniform of a black coat with like-colored boots and gloves, though the sleeves of Vexen's cloak are a bit longer than normal and partially cover his hands. His cloak is also the longest out of all the members having it almost like a gown that covers his boots. Vexen sports dirty blond hair and worn long with two slightly shorter bangs that frame his face. He also has rather large and bright green eyes. Saix looked up as soon as he felt a strong shift of magic. Caven looked at the Organization member and asked, "What's up? Did you hear something?" Saix replied, "We must be prepared for battle. Our enemies have arrived sooner than we anticipated." One by one, even Levi got into the location of the Underground Chapel. The battle begins when it sounded like someone have gotten through. Dressed in what would be of a kimono-designed ninja attire with a silk mask covering the lower half of her face, she puts herself in the front for a reason. Caven commanded the rest of the cadets firmly: "Open fire now!" Cecelia shouted this technique right before they can pull the triggers: "Solar Flare!" The Solar Flare is performed by the user placing their hands close to the center of their face with the fingers spread toward their eyes. The user then calls out the name of the technique, which provokes a white light to fire out and blind everything watching except the user, since they are projecting the light. This technique is defensive rather than offensive and is mainly used as way to gain the upper hand, to make a hasty but reasonable retreat, or to set up for a more complicated attack without fear of interruption. This is when Cecelia went on ahead to face Xemnas as Axel clashed his fiery Keyblade with Saix on the Claymore weapon. Erica picks out on Vexen to fight and Rika would stay by King and Ban for additional assistance . It's due to the fact that no one stops Xigbar, which means that he could be hiding somewhere to perform a sneak attack. And right on cue, several blasts of magic came out of nowhere and King used the Pollen Garden's barrier to block the attack.
Xigbar wears the usual Organization garb of a black cloak, black boots and black gloves, though his cloak is distinguishable by more pointed shoulders and the fact that it sags at his shoulders. The sleeves of his cloak are also somewhat closer-fitting than normal but not as close as Axel's. In terms of facial features, Xigbar sports gold eyes, pointed elf-like ears, upturned eyebrows, and dark hair with several grey streaks tied into a long ponytail. He also has two visible injuries on his face: the first being a damaged right eye covered by an eye-patch while the other is a large jagged scar extending from his left cheek to just under his left eye. He chuckled as he came out of the darkness: "Clever little sneak." Xigbar wields two ranged weapons called Arrow Guns, with this specific model called Sharpshooter. The top of each gun bears a pattern similar to the Nobody symbol. They are purplish and strangely shaped weapons that appear to be somewhat similar to crossbows. They shoot red laser arrows which bend towards a target as it makes them quite deadly with Xigbar's aim. Xigbar also uses his Space attribute to full effect, creating wormholes to stick his arms and Arrow Guns through to attack his enemies from multiple sides. The blasts however can be rebounded at Xigbar. This is how this strategy worked from Rika working together with Ban and King. King and Rika would use their own Pollen Garden barriers to reflect the blasts at Xigbar. That's when Ban can physically attack the enemy with even the Courehouse Sacred Weapon in his hold. Even when Xigbar somehow picked up the pattern, he got himself in a pickle after Ban used Physical Hunt to take away his powers and weakened him. While Axel seems to hold his own against Saix, this is when Erica shows of what she have learned from her friends. Bringing out the Diamond Dust and Ice Keyblades, she starts to pool in a large amount of magic as if she knows what Vexen was about to do. Her guess is that he's going to use the Diamond Dust ability that allows him to summon three large mounds of ice to come up from the ground to strike enemies. This will deal a rather large ice damage to and freezing all struck enemies. Unfortunately for him, her spell is quicker as a low growl of a dragon is forming in the mist of ice and Erica said out this attack as she puts up her Keyblades and she slams it down forward: "Diamond Dust Dragon!" A powerful dragon made of ice and water charged in forward as its aura splits apart Vexen's own Diamond Dust spell. He said in complete shock: "No! That's not possible-!" Those are likely his last words before he not only became frozen in place but was "devoured" by the dragon as his "soul" no longer exists. Erica was a bit shaken up because it was her very first time of using a spell that's a lot more advanced, but she is relieved that one enemy is down for the count.
Cecelia and Xemnas were still ongoing on this fight. Xemnas uses weapons called Ethereal Blades. They are beams of red energy and extend directly from the palms of his hands without any hilt or handle like any other swords or blades. He can summon or disperse them at will and he's even able to change their length as well. They are solid despite their appearance and are wielded like swords despite lacking the cutting edge. The Ethereal Blades can also be used as projectiles and can suspend themselves in midair around a target before firing at them. Xemnas displayed superb prowess in swordsmanship using them, performing many swift and acrobatic combos with them. Still, Cecelia kept toe to toe with him as she wields the Redemption Keyblade and the Lightsworn Keyblade in her hands. As a desperation move, Xemnas can surround his enemy in darkness and fire an amazing amount of Ethereal Blades at his enemies. But that will proven to be a mistake on his part as she shouted this signature attack with the Redemption Keyblade: "Full Counter!" Because his ability isn't physical, she can execute Meliodas's Full Counter ability of which not only reflect every single Ethereal Blades but doubled the power damage onto him. He got severely injured to where Saix was forced to retreat and carried Xemnas to the center of the Underground Chapel's cavern. As for Kenny, he and Levi couldn't land a single blow from guns to blades. Kenny doesn't like how things are going as even his own cadets are getting slaughtered one by one. What caught his eye is when he sees Cecelia jumping from one side of the pillar to the other when running across like she's an elite ninja. Levi takes this small distraction as an opportunity as he threw a bag of oil at him. Kenny shoots it, causing a fireball that allowed Levi to leap through to attack him. He takes a slice to the gut, which is enough to wound but not incapacitate him. Caven made a shot into Ban's head but is in shock when she sees him healing up immediately as he is right at her face. "Pardon me, little darling. But I'll be taking that," he said as he jumped backwards with her gear in his hold. She starts to fall from high up but was saved by Rika's Levitation spell. This abruptly stopped the fight as Caven was settled down on her feet to the ground. That's when Levi remembered this conversation from Cecelia before this entire battle started:
He asked as she was getting her silk mask on: "How will we know that Kenny won't kill you if we don't kill him first?" She answered when turning to look at him: "There's a reason why, Levi. Mother once met him before and she told me that he chose to abandon you and Alexandra because he doesn't believe that he could be someone else's father due to his reputation. So he had taught the both of you all that you need to know to survive. If he didn't care, he would have left you defenseless. Also, Rod would have ordered him to kill you and Alexandra by force. And I don't think that Kenny would want that..." Levi could see kindness and forgiveness in her eyes that he finds it a miracle of how she's like his pillar of hope.
Levi watched as Cecelia has her hands over Kenny's injury and healed him efficiently. Kenny asked the young savior: "Why are you helping a heartless bastard like me? Don't you know of who I am?" Cecelia looked into his eyes and answered: "Yes, but even a heartless person like yourself can change for the better. It's just harder to see for yourself." She then asked as she stood up on her feet and took out her hand: "After Rod is defeated for good, I'll assure you that you'll be cleared of your crimes as those were orders from Rod Reiss himself. And besides, you are still family and I do believe in second chances." Levi was reluctant, but Alexandra seems willing to give Kenny a second chance after she seemingly realized that Kenny must have done a lot of murders because it's mostly from Rod's commands. But no one is out of danger yet. Before leaving, Xemnas used his power to place fear into Rod's mind and heart by filling in visions of Cecelia triumphing against him after turning even Kenny against him. Out of desperation, he injected the syringe of the Titan Serum into his arm. Everyone hears a very loud roar and a large blast of hot steam thickening the air. Xemnas and Saix along with Xigbar retreated from their dark portals as soon as the transformation begins. As Rod is rapidly growing, there's no room as the entire cavern is collapsing violently from up above!