Vixon's imprisonment

Vixon's imprisonment is a temporary containment of the danger surrounding Yohan and Kazumi rather than a true resolution of their conflict. The arrest gives Yohan a period of practical relief, but the later escape reveals that confinement has only interrupted Vixon's pursuit and intensified the threat of his return.

Arrest and Immediate Relief

The imprisonment begins when Yohan learns at the office that his workers called the police and that Vixon had been jailed. The report reaches Yohan during an otherwise peaceful working day, making the arrest a sharp contrast to the instability Vixon had created. Yohan feels somewhat reassured because Vixon is finally behind bars, yet he does not treat the danger as permanently ended: he still believes that he and Kazumi must remain careful.

The workers' intervention is significant because it converts private fear into a formal legal response. Vixon is no longer merely an adversary moving around Yohan's personal and domestic life; he becomes a prisoner under police authority. The arrangement gives Yohan room to continue managing his responsibilities, even though he is now working alone and without assistance in organizing matters. His attention can turn toward ordinary preparations, including considering the purchase of baby supplies, while Vixon's confinement appears to hold the immediate threat at a distance.

The Two-Year Confinement

Vixon remains in custody for two years. The duration gives the imprisonment substantial narrative weight: it is not a brief overnight arrest but an extended interruption of Vixon's access to Yohan and the household. During that period, Yohan can experience a measure of calm and proceed with the family life that Vixon had threatened to disrupt.

Even so, the imprisonment does not transform Vixon's motives or establish a secure conclusion. Yohan's continuing caution shows that legal confinement is treated as protection with limits. The story therefore places domestic planning beside unresolved danger: the possibility of preparing for a baby exists at the same time as the need to stay alert to an enemy who has not been morally or psychologically reconciled.

Escape and Reversal

The apparent security collapses when Vixon escapes from prison. In his own account, the escape succeeds because the police officers guarding him are foolish and fail to prevent it. Vixon interprets this failure not as luck alone but as proof of his own intelligence and resourcefulness. His self-description preserves the same defiant, retaliatory posture that led to the conflict in the first place.

Once free, Vixon explicitly frames his return as revenge against Yohan. He believes Yohan tried to get rid of him and intends to make Yohan pay for having him imprisoned. The escape consequently reverses the meaning of the earlier arrest: the two-year sentence has not erased the threat but has supplied Vixon with a grievance that he carries back into the story.

Consequences for Yohan and Kazumi

Vixon's imprisonment produces temporary safety for Yohan and Kazumi, but the later escape exposes the limits of relying on incarceration alone. Vixon learns that Yohan and Kazumi are married and that their child has been born, developments that make the family more established and therefore more vulnerable to his resentment. His return is directed not toward an abstract enemy but toward a household whose life has continued without him.

The imprisonment also sharpens the contrast between institutional control and private vigilance. Police custody appears to remove Vixon from the protagonists' world, while Yohan's instinct that caution is still necessary proves correct. The threat survives because Vixon is able to leave confinement and resume observation, planning, and pursuit.

Narrative Function

As a state in the story, Vixon's imprisonment marks a pause rather than an ending. It gives Yohan a brief interval in which work, domestic organization, and preparations for the baby can proceed, then turns that interval into suspense by revealing that the supposed resolution is reversible. Vixon's escape makes imprisonment part of a larger cycle of containment and return: the law restrains him for two years, but inadequate supervision releases him, and his renewed hostility restores the danger that the arrest had seemed to settle.