Let's Go Home (2019 episode)

Kyo's foster father, Kazuma, arrives to see him, and Kyo is overjoyed at the reunion. Though the boy would happily return to the dojo, Kazuma judges it better for him to stay on at Shigure's place, largely because of Tohru's presence there. Having taken note of the steadying effect she has on Kyo, Kazuma quietly settles on a plan: to have Kyo's true cat form revealed in front of Tohru, trusting that she might be the one able to save him from it.

The following day Kazuma slips the string of prayer beads from Kyo's wrist, and the boy shifts at once into the grotesque shape he has spent his life hiding, with Kagura and Yuki looking on. Certain that Tohru will be repulsed, Kyo flees, but she chases him down. Far from recoiling, she wraps her arms around him despite her fear and vows that she will never abandon him. The embrace stirs memories of Kyo's mother in the time before her death. Reduced to his ordinary cat form, he is carried back to the house in Tohru's arms.

This twenty-fourth entry of the first season of the 2019 series draws its title from one of Tohru's lines and adapts chapters 32 and 33 along with the opening pages of chapter 34 to lay out Kyo's backstory. Unlike the earlier adaptation, this Kyo retains the power of speech even while transformed, whereas the original could manage only shrieks. It pairs the opening theme Chime with the ending song One Step Closer.