Chapter 16

## Chapter Chronology

**Kabane's Long Day** (夏羽の長い一日,, *Kabane no Nagai Ichinichi*?) is the 16th chapter of the Kemono Jihen manga series.

## Summary

Inugami is seen stressed about the many emergency requests that the agency has been handling. Inugami proceeds to give Shiki and Akira their cases. Inugami tells Kabane that maybe it's time for him to do some work alone, he then proceeds to give him a phone and orders him not to be discovered by a human.

Kabane just finished doing his job in helping a fellow kemono retrieve their head from the sewer, when he sees a human filming him. Kabane catches up to him and grabs his arm. Later, at a nearby park, the boy reveals that the video he took is for YouTube, a site where anybody can watch it go viral. Kabane thinks of a plan to prevent that from happening as he says to himself that he cannot ask Mr. Inugami for help. The young boy then asks if Kabane knows any other people like him. Kabane, unable to lie, does not answer. The young boy then decides to follow Kabane around to be able to get an even more amazing video.

Just then, Nobimaru appears, and Kabane asks for his help in dealing with the boy, however Nobimaru wants to do it in exchanging of Kabane adding him as one of his friends. Kabane agrees to the exchange. Then, Nobimaru approaches the boy and transforms intending to kill him. Kabane stops Nobimaru before he proceeds in saying that he doesn't have to kill him. As the young boy panics about what he saw, Kabane grabs and swallows the boy’s phone. However, as the young boy pulls out his tablet, Kabane decides not to act until the boy arrives at home.

Akira approaches them and says that he finished his job earlier and bought some ice cream. Kabane tells him that the ice had melted. Akira uses his power to freeze them. The boy is amazed and asks Akira to do it again. As Akira poses for the camera, he suddenly realised that he had demonstrated his ability to a human. Kon also arrives and uses her ability, not knowing that there is a human. Nobimaru greets Kon which made Kon very emotional and leaves the rest.

Shiki's mother, Aya, and Shiki also arrive at the scene, however Shiki orders Aya to take their mom somewhere safe. Just then, Shiki uses his power to restrain the young boy and threatens him to forget what he saw. Kabane asks Nobimaru the reason why humans can't find out about kemonos. He replies saying that human would discriminate against other races and that coexistence is impossible.

Kabane then asks Yuuma that if the video were to gain recognition, he would lose important people and asks not to share it. Yuuma reveals that if he doesn't share it, he will be left out. Some time has passed and Yuuma is seen sleeping alone at the park when his friends come and asks for the video. Yuuma replies that he doesn't care about that anymore and says that he would make videos his own way.

On the way home, Nobimaru reveals that he erased Yuuma's memories. Nobimaru tells Kabane that he needed to do it since a kitsune cannot trust a human. Kabane is left pondering what Nobimaru had said. Later that night, Nobimaru is seen spying on Kabane and reveals that long ago, a war broke out between kemonos and humans and that the gift from Kabane's parents is the secret of the life calculus.

## Characters in Order of Appearance

* Kohachi Inugami
* Shiki Tademaru
* Akira
* Kabane Kusaka
* Yuuma (debut)
* Nobimaru
* Kon
* Kumi Yamagumonoko
* Aya Tademaru