Nemuru releases Kaname from prison and confirms her theory that they are the Jōga wolves in human form, but warns her not to delve further into her research. Sakaki contacts Shigetsu and obtains data on the Jōga wolves from him. The cloaked and masked figures try to arrest Hiroshi, but Nemuru interferes and is later 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.