Kemono Jihen Vol. 17

BATTLING FOR CONTROL! Genji and the kemono hold a contest to decide the leader in the search for the Kyoto fox lair. After three intense battles, Kabane and his friends are losing two to one, but now Kabane is up against a young recruit named Sakata. He seems to want to say something about Kaede, who is now being kept in a cage... What's even more concerning is Raiden's emotional state--before the leaders go head to head, he claims Inugami killed his sister.

In a quiet rural village, livestock has been dying off in a strange manner. Inugami, a detective of the occult, is summoned from Tokyo to solve the mystery. He meets a boy scorned by the villagers, who call him Dorotabo after a yokai that dwells in the muddy fields. Inugami soon learns that there is more to the boy than meets the eye…and vice-versa.