Chapter 16

Kabane's Long Day (夏羽の長い一日,) is the 16th chapter of the Kemono Jihen manga series.

Summary
Inugami is seen stressed about all the emergency requests the agency is 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 get found out by human.

Kabane just finished doing his job in helpin a fellow kemono retrieve its head from the sewer when he turns around and sees a human filming him. Kabane catches to him and grabs him. The two is then seen at a nearby park. The boy reveals that the video he shot is for Youtube and tons of peopl can watch and it can go viral. Kabane thinks of a plan to prevent it and says to himself that he can't ask Mr. Inugami for help. The young boy then asks if Kabane know other people him. Kabane unable to lie, doesn't answer. The young boy then decides to stick around with Kabane to be able to get an even more amazing video.

Just then, Nobimaru appears. 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 deal. Nobimaru approaches the young boy and transforms himself with the intent of killing him. Kabane stops Nobimaru before he even proceeds to it saying that he doesn't have to kill him. While the young boy panics about what he saw, Kabane grabs the phone and swallows it. However, the young boy pulls out his tablet. Seeing it, Kabane decides to do nothing until the young boy goes home for dinner.

Akira approaches them and says that he finished his job earlier and bought some ice creams. Kabane tells him that the ice melted in which Akira uses his power to freeze them. The young boy is amazed and tells Akira to do it again. Akira poses for the camera and in sudden realization, he showed 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 bullies him to forget what he saw. Kabane asks Nobimaru the reason why humans can't find out about kemonos. Nobimaru replies that human discriminate against races other than themselves and coexistence is just impossible.

Kabane then asks Yuuma that if the video gain recognition, he will lose important people and asks not to share it. Yuuma reveals that if he doesn't share it, he will be left out. After a while, Yuuma is seen sleeping alon at the park when his friends came and asks for he video. Yuuma replies that he doesn't care anymore about the video and will now make his own videos.

On the way home, it was revealed that Nobimaru erased Yuuma's memories. Nobimaru tells Kabane that he need to do it since a kitsune can't trust a human.Kabane is left wondering about what Nobimaru said. Later that night, Nobimaru is seen spying on Kabane and reveals that long ago, a wark broke out between kemonos and humans and that the gift of Kabane's parents is the secret of life calculus.