Meanwhile, up on the surface...
After the girls were rescued by the kaijin, they had pooled their brains together to come up with a rather absurd plan.
Following Zhen Liu's personal habit of wanting to maintain at least an air of deniability, and learning that he and the rest of their companions had been captured by the enemy, the Kaijin and the Consorts had split up to achieve two objectives that fed into each other.
The Kaijin were going to use the zakos to throw a wrench into the Silver Jungle Dragon Company's plan and rescue the others so that they had an opportunity to either escape or get involved in the fighting under more favorable conditions.
Their aim wasn't to annihilate the enemy this time, despite really wanting to, because they knew better than to get involved in a conflict that definitely didn't involve them.
Well, more involved than they already had.
As for the Consorts and the other two, they were sent off to get the Golden Gorilla Union involved.
