Chapter 4

## Chapter Chronology

**Vixen** (女狐,, *Okitsune*?) is the 4th chapter of the Kemono Jihen manga series.

## Summary

Inari arrives at the Shinjuku Police Station. Meanwhile, at the detective office, Inugami tells Kusaka, Shiki, and Akira about Inari saying that they should get to know her better since they will be seeing her a lot since they work at the detective office and gives Kabane a good luck charm.

Later, the three arrive at the police station however their request to see her was rejected saying that Inari is a buys person. Just then, a girl named Kon arrives and asks which one of them is Kabane and relays that Inari wants to see him. Kabane then follows her. Kon then pushes Kabane to the room and there he meets Inari. Inari then introduces herself to Kabane.

Upon arriving, Inari tells Kabane that she had heard so much about him from Inugami from him being a half human and half ghoul to him being left with a life calculus. Inari then tells Kabane that she wants to see the life calculus to which Kabane shows it. She then proceeds to asks him if he knows the purpose of it. Inari then proceeds to further what life calculus is saying that it shields against physical, emotional, and mental thirst. She then tells the how her and Inugami help out in order for Kemonos to get along with humans and tells that since Kabane owns a life calculus, he then doesn't need humans.

Suddenly, Kon chops off Kabane's head. Inari then orders to keep the head in a suitcase for it not to grow a body and tells the officers to get rid of the body. Inari then steals the life calculus and orders Kon to bring it to her room and tells her to get rid of Kabane's friends.

Meanwhile, Shiki is irritated since it's been too long since Kabane went. A Kabane-like appears before them carrying a suitcase. Akira then notices that something is different with Kabane to which if the fox bitch bribe something. Hearing this, Kon unknowingly transforms herself as a wolf to which Shiki and Akira became shocked.

Kon then starts to attack the two of them. While running from Kon, Shiki uses his spider thread to steal the suitcase from her. Shiki then opens the suitcase and finds Kabane's head inside which left Akira unconscious. Kabane then tells Shiki that he can't grow his body since the suitcase is small and tells him that he knows how to defeat Kon. He orders Shiki to throw him at her. Just as Kon was about to attack both of them, Shiki throws Kabane at her. Kabane then bites Kon's neck which left her knocked out. Kabane then grows his body. The three then returns to the detective office.

Upon arriving, they were greeted by Inugami. Shiki is furious saying he knows that that will happen. Inugami then says that he and Inari have long working relationship and it wouldn't fair to her to keep Kabane and the life calculus and asks Kabane about his goodluck charm. Kabane responds that Inari took it.

Meanwhile, at the car, Inari pulls out the life calculus she stole from Kabane. Suddenly the life calculus turns into a another object. Inugami then calls Inari saying that he really thinks she is on his side and tells that the life calculus belongs to Kabane and next time she will be dealing with him. Inari bursts out in anger, resulting for the taxi she is on to crash to other taxi. She then leaves and heads to a cafe. Meanwhile at the police station, Kon regains consciousness and vows to get Kabane's head.

## Characters in Order of Appearance

* Akira
* Shiki Tademaru
* Kohachi Inugami
* Kabane Kusaka
* Yoko Inari
* Kon