April 8, 1913

Susamaru and James performed another test to see if she was resistant to sunlight. As James slowly moved the small beam of sunlight onto her arm, nothing began to happen. Susamaru looked the spot over and remarked, "Well, that's certainly an improvement. I don't feel anything yet."

"Alright," James replied as he checked a pocket watch of his. "It's been about half a minute. Let's expand the spot a bit." He then moved the mirror in a way to expand how much sunlight reached the skin on her arm. "How's that?"

"I don't feel a thing," Susamaru replied in amazement. "Well, except for the normal warmth of the sun. I haven't felt that in a long time."

"Maybe direct injection is the one that works best," James remarked. "Ever since we began with that, you've been improvin'. Anyway, I'm surprised nobody's tried to attack us yet. What the fuck's Muzan waitin' for?"

Later that night, after James finished another round of repairs to the house, he and Susamaru decided to go out on the town for the night for the first time. As the two of them walked through Asakusa, enjoying the city lights, Susamaru asked him, "Have you considered staying at Tamayo's house permanently? This place is really nice."

"Truth be told," James replied. "I have. Sure, I'll have to go out on missions and stuff to kill demons, but I could make her house my base of operations of sorts."

Meanwhile, the Demon Bandits were sitting at an outdoor cafe, blending in with the human populace. As Masaya and Keiji went over some of their plans, Hayate looked out into the crowd. As he scanned it, he said to the other two, "You know, what would be the odds if we found those two walking among the streets? I mean, I doubt it's gonna happen."

Masaya then found something in the crowd and replied to him in disbelief, "Uh, Hayate-kun, I think your odds were good, because I think that's them over there!" As he stood up and pointed at them, he motioned to Keiji and told him, "There! They're right there!"

James and Susamaru both heard the commotion behind them and turned around. James was confused, but as soon as Susamaru saw them, she recognized them. "Oh shit," she muttered to herself. "James, we have to go back. I think we found the demons Muzan sent."

"Those guys? They don't look all that assumin'."

"We need to go back," Susamaru insisted as she tugged his shirt. "Come on!" James relented and sighed as the two of them made a break for their house.

Hayate then turned to Masaya, disgusted, and told him, "Wow, thanks a lot, asshole. Now they know we're fucking coming!" Masaya had inadvertently ruined their element of surprise by causing a commotion.

About half an hour later, as James and Susamaru were quickly readying traps all along the house, the former asked the latter as they set up a trap on one of the back doors involving a blow torch, "So, who are those guys?"

"They're the Demon Bandits," Susamaru explained to him as she attached a string from the door knob to the blow torch. "They're three mostly normal-looking demons who have a penchant for breaking into people's homes to both eat them and steal their stuff. I'm surprised Muzan sent them and not someone a bit more… Powerful?"

"What? Are they not that good?"

"I mean," she remarked about her former comrades. "They're kinda… Weird? They're definitely not the strongest. I could probably destroy them one-on-one, but one-on-three, I'd have some trouble with fighting against."

"Alright," James said as he finished the trap. "Let's test it." James then opened the door from the inside inwards, standing clear of the blow torch's path as it turned on and let out a jet of flame. As he closed the door, he remarked, "Good work. All we gotta do now is set up the marbles and broken glass, and then we head to the roof with the bricks."

"I gotta heat up the front doorknob a little bit first," Susamaru replied as she grabbed a second blow torch. "I'll be back!"

About 10 minutes later, the Demon Bandits approached the front of the Nakamura House. Keiji instructed both of his partners, who were still bickering over what had happened earlier, "Alright, you two, shut the fuck up and listen to me! We have a mission to do, alright, so I don't want any more bickering and fighting between you two! We promised our Master we would bring back their heads and clothes, as well as that intelligence Susamaru had on her!"

"I guess she had a Kodak camera on her for taking photos at night for intelligence," Masaya then added. "If she does, we need to grab that as soon as possible and destroy it."

Then, as they reached the front of the house, they were interrupted from going in by a shout from above on the roof. As they all looked above them, Susamaru shouted down, "Up here, you horse's ass!" She and James smiled and waved at the trio.

"So there you guys are," Masaya shouted up to her. "Listen, Susamaru, here's the deal! Nothing would thrill me more than to murder you and your little boyfriend up there!"

Susamaru blushed at the remark, but kept a calm face regardless. "He's not my boyfriend!" James chuckled in response, finding her blushing cute.

"Whatever the fuck he is to you," Masaya replied, not really caring. "We wanna kill you! Ending a fellow demon's life ain't gonna matter much to me or these other two guys! However, maybe we can make a deal!"

James responded back, "A deal, huh?!"

"If you throw down your camera and other intelligence," Masaya proposed to the two of them. "We'll bring you two to our Master alive, and we won't hurt you."

Susamaru asked them, "Do you promise?" She then picked up a brick and held it down so they wouldn't see it.

"I promise," Masaya agreed. "Now, throw it on down!"

"Okay, here it comes!" Down below, the Demon Bandits laughed, thinking she had really fallen for their trick. However, when they looked up, they got a nasty surprise. Susamaru had tossed a brick over the edge of the roof, and it was falling down at a high rate of speed.

Hayate shouted as it fell, "Oh shit!" Then, the brick hit him right on his forehead with a sickening crunch, knocking him to the ground. As his injuries began to heal themselves, he screamed in pain, "AGH, FUCK, THAT HURT!"

Masaya angrily yelled up at her, "Hey, bitch, that wasn't a fucking camera! Stop playing games and throw it down here!"

"Oops," Susamaru sarcastically replied as she tossed another brick down. Once again, it hit Hayate, causing him to become incredibly disoriented.

Keiji, worried for him, turned to him and asked, "Hey, Hayate-kun, how many fingers am I holding up?" He was holding up three on his right hand.

"Uhhh," Hayate replied as he tried to get his bearings straight. "Six? Seven?" He then looked up and saw a third brick, screaming and shouting, "BRICK! BRICK! BRICK!" Keiji just barely missed being hit by a third brick, which again hit Hayate, causing him to scream in pain, "MOTHERFUCKER!"

"Fuck this," Keiji told both of them. "I'm going around the back!" As he ran to the back of the house, a fourth brick hit Hayate, causing another bout of screaming.

"If this is all you got," Masaya shouted up at Susamaru. "You're fucked, you hear me?! Bricks can't solve everything!" A fifth brick then hit Hayate after Masaya was forced to dodge it, followed quickly by a sixth and final brick. "Hayate, get the fuck up! I'm going in through the front!"

"Okay," Hayate replied, still loopy and disoriented as his injuries began to heal. "I'll join you soon enough… Let me just… Let me just get my bearings straight…"

As Masaya placed his foot on the front stairs and tried to step up, he immediately slipped. "Woah! Oh shit!" He then tumbled down onto the pavement with a loud and sickening thud, the stairs having been coated in grease and oil to make them slippery. As he got up, he took a deep breath and told himself, "Masaya, calm down, calm down…" He then carefully stepped onto the stairs again, this time keeping what he thought was an iron-fisted grip on the side rails. However, just as he reached the front door, he lost his grip, and he slipped and fell off the stairs once more. "Fuck!"

Meanwhile, in the back, Keiji found a ladder that ran up the side of the building to the roof. "Well, that's convenient! I just need to jump up and grab a hold of the last rung, and I'll find those two traitors soon enough!" He then leapt up and grabbed the last rung. However, when he did, he immediately realized it was also coated in grease and oil to make it slippery. As he slipped off, he yelled out before striking the ground with a crunching sound. As he got up, he cursed James and Susamaru with, "Those fucking pieces of shit, trying to get us with these childish pranks!" He looked to a door next to the ladder and shrugged. "It's longer, but why not?" As he opened the door, he chuckled to himself, thinking he was clear of danger, only to be met with a bag of hand tools above his head that opened as he opened the door. The bag spilled its contents onto him, knocking him to the ground. "Agh, motherfucker!" Then, a singular hammer came loose from the bag, hitting him right in the head and causing further pain. "Fuck!"

Meanwhile, in the front, as Hayate slowly began to get up and brush himself off, Masaya had finally managed to make his way to the door without falling. "Alright, now you two are dead…" As he grabbed a hold of the door handle, not realizing it was glowing red and that Susamaru was on the other side holding a blow torch to it, the pain instantly hit him as the flesh on his hand burned. "RaaaAAAAGH, FUCK! FUCKING FUCK!" He immediately slipped off the stairs again and fell to the ground as he tried to blow on his hand to cool it off. "FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT! MY FUCKING HAND!" Due to him being a demon, the injury itself soon healed, but the pain was still present.

In the back, Keiji got up and began to walk into the room the door had led to. "Alright, guys! Let's get these bastards!" However, as he took another step, he failed to see a giant hole that James had cut out of the floor that led straight into the basement, and as he tripped on his own feet and tipped over, he screamed. Right after, he fell about 12 feet into the basement, hitting the hard wooden floor with a loud thud. As he got up slowly, still in incredible pain from the fall, he muttered to himself, "Those fuckers are gonna die right here, right now…" He then looked up at the hole. "I gotta admit, though, that's a hole if I've ever seen one myself!"

In the front, Hayate finally got up as Masaya told him, "Don't go in the front door! The fucking doorknob is red hot! You get in through a window! I'm gonna go around the back and see what I can do!"

"You got it," Hayate replied as he walked up to a window. However, as he did, he noticed that his shoes got stuck in a sticky unknown substance he had stepped in. "God damn it," he muttered to himself and he was forced to go barefoot. He then took a deep breath and said to himself, "Blood Demon Art, Metallic Hand!" His right hand then turned into a crowbar, and he used this body change to pry open the window. Once it was open, his hand returned to normal and he jumped in, looking around but not noticing the next trap, which was right below him. "Hehehe… Your asses are mine!" However, when he set both of his bare feet on the floor, he stepped on a ton of broken glass that had been left on the floor. "Aaagh, motherfucker! Fucking glass!" As he tried to crawl around the floor, he broke more glass, coating the floor with his blood as his initial wounds began to heal, only for them to reopen with more broken glass. "My feet feel like they're on fucking fire!"

Inside the house, James thought to himself as he readied another trap in the basement, "This is only the beginning! These shitheads ain't seen nothin' yet!"