Complication

Nemuru releases Kaname from prison and confirms her theory that they are the Jōga wolves, but warns her not to delve further into her research. Sakaki contacts Shigetsu, Nemuru's uncle and Jōga's head doctor, and obtains data on the Jōga wolves from him. The cloaked and masked figures, revealed to be the village council, try to arrest Hiroshi, but Nemuru interferes, and is placed under house arrest and stripped of her duties for her disobedience. After hearing that Sakaki has been hired by the village council to capture Hiroshi and has him at a construction site, she leaves to find him but is knocked unconscious by Sakaki after a long fight. Sakaki contacts Hiroshi, who was actually at home, and then traps him in an abandoned shrine with a bound Nemuru.