CCG's raid on Aogiri was over and months have passed. Except for Yamori Oomori also known as "13th ward's Jason", every executive member of the Aogiri Tree made it out safe and sound. There was a tense silence dominating the whole city and Kaneki was long gone with the Aogiri. No one knew his whereabouts and Antique Café was ready to reopen. Just like Kaneki, Kaiya was nowhere to be found. She vanished into thin air just like everyone else but Yomo knew that she was no longer with the Aogiri because Yamori was dead. Despite her disappearance, she was the newest target of the CCG. During months of her disappearance, she killed many humans including investigators that weren't related to the Aogiri raid. She was an unleashed monster and the fact that she caught the CCG's attention was putting her in danger. She received the nickname "Vixen" on the news and her face was known by every investigator in the city. She was in a big trouble but after many murders, she went into hiding.

It was a rainy night, when Yomo received a call from Itori on his way back home. "Renji! It's about Kaiya... Can we meet?" She sounded serious. Yomo, annoyed, grumbled and agreed to meet her at Helter Skelter. He entered the bar and found Itori sitting alone behind the wooden counter of the bar. She was drinking blood from a wine glass and the bar was closed and she was the only person present in the big empty bar. The white haired ghoul sat in front of her and leaned on his elbows. "How can I help you, Itori?" He asked nicely, his voice was calm as usual. She pulled out her phone and showed him a call from an unknown number. "It was from her. She isn't well and I think she's losing it. The doves are looking for her and I can't reach her anymore. I think... She might get caught or worse." Itori wasn't the serious kind of person but if she looked that worried, she knew something wasn't right at all. "Do you know where she is?" Yomo asked. Itori shook her head, "I'm not sure." He thought of it for a moment and asked; "what exactly did she tell you?" The young woman stopped for a moment to recall Kaiya's exact words on the phone. She finally remembered. "She was mumbling something about her first home. She told me that she wanted to go back where it all started". And suddenly, it made sense to him. He asked Itori the address of her family's house before the Suzuki family raid and quickly left the bar.

Before Kaiya became Kaiya Hiromai, she was the eldest daughter of the one of the oldest families in the 4th ward, the Suzuki family. Her father was known for being a strong ghoul but also a kind and caring one. Yomo always thought that Kaiya's name was very ironic, due to her agressive personality that contradicted her name's meaning ; 'forgiveness '. She, among everyone else was the only person who never made peace with herself and everyone around her.

After a long drive, and a short walk from his car, he finally made it to the isolated mansion. The house was empty for a very long time but it remained in a good shape despite all the years. He looked up and observed the mansion and its details. It was a well constructed large white house, although the bright white paint faded through time and lack of maintenance. The Suzuki mansion was like a big sanctuary hidden between the trees of a large parc. It was a very special place back when the family members were still alive. He never thought that such a place would exist inside a big city like Tokyo. He didn't know much about the Suzuki family nor Kaiya's past but from what he learned through Itori, he knew that Kaiya came from a very wealthy family, like the Tsukiyama family but they were more discreet about their wealth. Itori and Kaiya were childhood friends before she left the 4th ward after her whole family including her parents and siblings were killed during a raid organized by the CCG. She, as the only survivor, changed her last name after she moved to the 13th ward and met Yamori. Back when they were teenagers, Kaiya would often come to the 4th ward to see Itori and Uta and that's how she met Yomo. As a teenager she was a tomboy who would always look for a good fight. That side of her never changed. Thinking of the past made Yomo smile; even back then, they didn't get along very well but deep down, he admired her for many different reasons.

He finally made it through the garden filled with dead trees and flowers and found himself inside a large hall. Paintings and portraits were still hung all over the walls. Some of them were destroyed. He didn't move a single muscle and tried to hear any noise that would come from her. It was dead silent. Despite the darkness and lack of any kind of noise, Yomo managed to follow her odour and finally made it to a small storage room in the upper floor. He opened the door and found Kaiya sitting in the corner. The storage room was small and dark. It had no window and there was a smell of blood all over the room. She looked weak and skinnier, her hair was messy as usual and her clothes were covered in dry blood. Dark circles were clearly visible under her eyes. She bit her lips and covered her face with her hands as she noticed Yomo's presence. Her whole body was shaking like a leaf. Yomo approached her and sat on the floor right next to her. Kaiya gazed into Yomo's eyes and started crying. "I... I don't see any point in it. I'm just so tired and done with this vicious circle." She leaned on Yomo's shoulder and kept crying. "The CCG is looking for you. You are a target now." He warned her and stroked her long red locks to console her. He didn't say anything, he only stood there and waited for her to explain herself. After sobbing for a moment, she wiped the tears and took a deep breath. "Only if I was strong back then, I could have protected them. I couldn't protect my family, I couldn't protect Yamori and now I'm on my own." She clenched her fist and lowered her head to hide her face with her bangs. "That's not something the Kaiya I knew would say. What's gotten into you?" He asked as if he didn't know the answer already. His voice was calming, he spoke quietly. Kaiya scoffed and gulped because she didn't have the energy nor the tears to cry more. "Don't play dumb with me Renji. I am ... not strong enough. Look at me... Crying like a little bitch". Her hair covered her face but he could sense how red her eyes were from all the tears she shed. "I still see the strong and hot-headed girl I've met many years ago. Crying doesn't show your weakness. It shows that you're still feeling things". He moved his fingers through her hair and moved them aside and lifted her chin with his other hand. She bit her lip and frowned, "well I hate it. I don't want to feel these things. I don't want to lose anything or anyone, anymore".

Yomo got up on his feet and grabbed Kaiya's skinny arms to pull her up. She buried her face into his chest, he wrapped his arms around her and the two stood there for a moment. "We can only live while we lose and you know this as well as I do. Yamori's death should have freed you from your debt. Not break you". He started walking towards the hallway while helping Kaiya take small steps. The way she walked; timidly and scared, made her look like a doe. For the first time, she looked so fragile and didn't try to hide it. "Yamori died because he wasn't strong enough... How can I consider myself strong, if the one person I looked up to, is killed during a fight?" Her voice was trembling and she was trying to hold back her tears. "That's up to you to figure it out. Now, you need to eat..." He pulled out a piece of meat from his pocket wrapped in a piece of paper. She refused to eat and threw it away. After a long and slow walk, they finally made it down the stairs. They walked silently, there was nothing more to talk about.

"Why are you helping me anyway?" Kaiya broke the silence and stopped walking. Her knees kept trembling as she tried to stay up with Yomo's help. He suddenly remembered the fight they had against the investigator Take Hirako and how she jumped in front of the investigator's quinque to protect Yomo. "I also have a debt to pay", he didn't give any more details. Kaiya couldn't recall to what he was referring to but she accepted his answer and sighed. Walking was no good for her so he decided to lift her. They left the isolated mansion and on their way to Yomo's car, Kaiya took one last look at her former home. She suddenly remembered the night her family was killed and started shaking. "I want to walk!" She suddenly yelled and asked Yomo to put her down. He nodded and gently put her down on her feet. Kaiya gazed at the moon that was the only light source in the area. From far away, she could hear sirens and cars approaching. Next to the Suzuki mansion, there was a lake between the road and the mansion. While passing from the side of the lake, Kaiya asked Yomo what time it was. "It's almost midnight. Why?" He didn't pay attention to the car noises and sirens that were approaching and focused on Kaiya. Without any answer to his question, she suddenly stopped walking and gave Yomo her fox mask. Yomo held her mask and tried to understand what she was doing. She pushed Yomo into the lake with the last bits of her energy. "Goodbye... I want you to live".

She stumbled towards the road and watched the cars approach. She held her hands up and waited for them to circle around her. Yomo was still under the water and she was glad that she could avoid putting him in danger, even in her last moments as a free ghoul. Five black cars parked around her and men in suit came out of them. They all pointed their guns at her. A Control Rc gas grenade was thrown at her to keep her from fighting back. Between the smoke of the gas, one of the suited men came towards her and hit her with a bat shaped quinque. She fell down on her knees while the investigator handcuffed her. "Commission of Counter Ghoul! You are heading straight to Cochlea, Vixen!" She didn't even try to fight back and accepted defeat.

As Yomo made it out of the water, to the surface, he noticed the CCG officers that cornered Kaiya and couldn't do anything about it. He couldn't afford fighting all of them, especially with the RC control gas that was released and without his mask he couldn't risk being captured or killed. He watched them take Kaiya away. After they left, he pulled himself out of the water and took a look at her mask. "Kaiya... What have you done?"