Lois and her mother Ella sit together in an airport in Japan, about
to depart for Vienna. They both talk about how wonderful the vacation
has been, and how nice it is to catch up.

Meanwhile, Jimmy Olsen and Clark Kent sit in the back of a
vehicle in Japan, talking about Japanese food in reality as opposed to
how it is portrayed in America. The drivers are taking them to see
damage reeked by a metahuman
"war god" on the populace. They arrive, astonished to see a building
halved. They examine the scene in which Clark notes that the wreckage is
still hot. The piece actually burns Clark. He passes it off as nothing,
though.

Moments later, Superman flies over a monorail, looking for the
source of the attack. He comes upon gunfire, and finds a room full of
ninja-like men dying, in various shades of phasing from existence. They
are all trying to kill a samurai looking woman dressed in white, who is
annihilating them all. Bullets pass through her, and physical attacks
fail. Superman draws a line in the sand and tells her to stop. She flies
away and forcing Superman to chase her. She tells him that she is
fighting on the side of right, and that to interfere is wrong. He
counters that fighting evil with evil is not only wrong, but
impermissible.

The chase leads to a dojo, so it would seem, and inside, the
woman in white is revealed her name as Byakko. The revealer is her
partner, a man named Gunshin, metallic in color and also wearing samurai
weapons. Superman bends Gunshin's sword. However, Gunshin says,
"heavy", and Superman falls through the ground and a number of floors.

In Vienna, Lois and her mother remark about how wonderful Vienna
is. Lois' mother wonders why Lois doesn't want to spend much time with
her husband. Lois wonders herself, casting doubt about whether she wants
to return.

Back in Japan, a man with a scarred half-face named Kojiro acts
disappointed about Gunshin and Byakko stopping him from taking over
Tokyo. He hands a canister to a person, who swears to make Tokyo
Kojiro's.

Clark talks with a fellow reporter about the Japanese take on the situation. They want the war gods to clean up Tokyo.

Gunshin and Byakko practice in their dojo and debate Superman's presence.

Tokai, the man whom Kojiro gave the canister to him, torches a
five square block area of Tokyo. Superman arrives to deal with him,
berating about the horrible things that he is doing. Tokai responds by
torching a school bus. Tokai slams Superman about, and says that his
name is no longer Tokai. It is Sakki, the hate furnace. Brakko arrives
on the scene.