Chapter 10

## Chapter Chronology

**Existence** (生存,, *Seizon*?) is the 10th chapter of the Kemono Jihen manga series.

## Summary

Inugami is lockied for three hours. Just as he is getting worried about the childre, he decides to destroy the lock, however just then, Mihai opens the door and tells him that it is over.

Back at the Bug Bite Electronics, Reika Kaga is defeated by Kabane. Inugami then orders for them to get back and Inari will take care of the things left, syaing she won't be happy to hear about the incident. Suddenly, a young man appears and introduces himself as Inari's subordinate, Nobimaru. He then orders Kabane to step back from the kanonba. Nobimaru then proceeds to poke the kanonba and after it, it explodes. He tells Kabane that it will be problematic once any evidence is left behind so that humans won't find out about kemonos. He further tells that the company president will have to bear all the responsibilities and rectify it. He then asks if Kabane takes pity on them.

Kabane responds that killing them is unavoidable but erasing them completey is a little overboard. Since Kabane is not capable yet of understanding things, he let Nobimaru do his work. Instead, he asks what will happen to the workers of the factory. Nobimaru tells him that they will be okay and will be taken care of and a decrease in humans will not make kitsunes happy. He then tells Kabane that it's best for them to leave quickly since Shiki is injured and dehydrated.

Just then, Nobimaru whispers on Kabane and tells him that Inari hasn't given up on his life calculus and the reason he is able to come at the scene quickly is because he is snooping on Kabane. He tells him that it will be trouble if the tanuki gets angry so they can't steal it from him. However, their aim is for Kabane to present the life calculus to Inari in his own volition. Kabane asks Nobimaru as to why is he telling him all of this to which Nobimaru responds that he also hates Inari. Nobimaru then bids farewell to them and hopes to meet them again some time.

Back at the agency, Akira is mad at Mihai for telling it was an easy mission. On Mihai's defense, if they are always given easy mission by Inugami, they will not grow. Mihai then tells that it wasn't a bad day to kill time to which Inugami says that there's no dealing with him. Mihai tells Inugami that if he feels like that, he can kill him anytime since he knows how to kill vampires. Lastly, he tells Inugami that if Inugami needs his wisdom again, he won't mind to help.

The next day, Kabane suddenly remembers his promise to Kon and goes to the park. He then apologizes to Kon for being late and reveals that after dinner, they got a job and left. Kon then tell shim that if it was a mission then there's nothing he can do about it and for her Inari's missions are priority over him. Suddenly, a pack of fish fell from the tree to which Kon says that she caught them and they've gone rotten.

Akira is out to buys something when he see Kabane and Kon together. Akira then informs Shiki about it, saying that the two are on a date. Akira and Shiki then follows them. Thinking it was a date, Akira and Shiki helps the two to have the best date. While trailing over the two, Shiki and Akira argues which causes for them to be find out. The four then goes back to the agency. Outside the agency, Nobimaru is seen spying on them describing Kabane as carefree after even warning him and that he musn't forget because they are bake-kitsune.

## Characters in Order of Appearance

* Kohachi Inugami
* Mihai Florescu
* Shiki Tademaru
* Akira
* Reika Kaga
* Kabane Kusaka
* Nobimaru (debut)
* Momoka Kaga
* Erika Kaga
* Kon

## Trivia

* In the magazine version the chapter was titled: **Black Factory, Part 3** (黒い工場③, *Kuroi kōjō 3*).