The Promised Neverland Chapter 16

Normies ruin everything

Probably should dump it to get people's attention.

Don is about to get deported real soon.

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Emma is so fucking cute, look at that smile begging to be protected.

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>William: "will, desire" + "helmet (protection)"
>Minerva: "intellect", goddess of wisdom and war
>Minerva's symbol was an owl

That look Emma gives to Norman. She likes him too.

And done

Stop being delusional, Norman.

Vampires

Emma gives me an emotional boner.

Motherfucking Don is going to ruin everything. Fuck. I hate him already.

Wouldn't be too cliché if Don dies first?

Damn it, Don.

He is gonna get Hilda killed and become a insufferable edgelord ridden by guilt

Well he's fucked

Fuck Off

Thanks OP.

This was a slow chapter. I don't really like Don and Gilda.

Don is worst boy by far.
Thanks.

Worst boy is Ray.

Eh, I have to be the minority to say I like Don since he's the only one who acts like a kid in the manga. We need a cocky bastard like him to balance out this group.

>that layout

I've seen it before!

You mean best.

Ray did nothing wrong.

Norman is best everything.

it's by FAR the most characterization they gotten m8 this is the lych-pin to see if they make it out alive or end up as flower food

God, can Emma keep her cuteness to a minimum for like five seconds?

Well, maybe Emma and Norman should've told them the truth that one time, so they wouldn't act so irresponsibly.

I don't expect either of those, just for meta reasons. Writers like their cast variety, and he's the only available hotheaded guy, so I expect him to stick around for a while. Someone else might die saving him, but I don't see him going full edge over it either.

I have a feeling this isn't going to lead to that yet, but it's going to accelerate the conflict/drama phase of the story quite a bit.

Wow dumb nigger

That empty panel of Ray in the middle of the page reads to me like: "how do I get them to leave right then and forget waiting for everyone else?" I wonder if he might "sabotage" something and force them to escape.

So is the entire series going to be about them trying to escape this orphanage?

Usually a manga would have more world-building by now and all we got was a guy who wrote a book.

>Normies ruin everything
What do you mean?

Don and Gilda don't understand how to keikaku

>normies

It's not their fault. They don't know about the demons.

From their perspective, it's perfectly reasonable to break into Mama's secret room if it means they can uncover where the deported kids have been taken. Not exploring the room would mean giving up on ever finding Connie and the others.
Of course, if they knew Connie was already dead then they wouldn't bother.

This is ultimately Norman, Ray and Emma's fault for lying.

Fuck off Norman

>This is ultimately Norman, Ray and Emma's fault for lying.
And once Gilda finds out that the other children are all dead and that the others knew, she'll probably go to Krone and almost ruin everything.

God dammit Don.

I like the William Minerva subplot, the manga needed something like this.

Wouldn't they be clever enough to realize why they did it?

So what was the secret message?

so....what's the message?

Normalfags then

We have to wait to know.

Mama already knows what's up in general, but I can see Krone using this to cause trouble.

RIP Don, your talents would have been useful, had you not gone renegade.

>William Minerva subplot
What? I'm not /lit/ so I don't know what that means.

The author of the books that Emma reads.

>The Eternal Children
So that's the group's "official" name?

I don't really hate Don here. He's acting on impulse. These are good intentions. He just isn't on the same level of keikaku as the rest and that's honestly refreshing.

he's already dead jim

Oh shit. I already forgot about those books. Ah my mistake. I thought you meant that was a specific name for a literary device.

good night gents

glad to see this one doing so good maybe it's moving up along the big three

Minerva can be a surname?

Too obvious, Norman.

>The only mexican kid in the manga gets shipped out of the wall

Calling it now, Emma is gonna intervene and tell them not to, it's gonna confuse the fuck out of them why Emma of all people wouldn't want to use something that could help locate their shipped off siblings. Emma can't just tell them the truth is that they're being bred for meat, Gilda is then gonna be suspicious and remember what Sister Krone said "Come to me if you think Emma is lying" and tell her what she knows fucking up their plans and getting herself shipped off.

>don

Doesn't matter if they think it's possible to locate their siblings. Stealing Mama's master key is utterly retarded, since she probably uses it fairly often and will notice immediately that it's gone.

Then again, Mama might trust Ray to keep Don and Gilda in check, and let it slide.

Then again, I think the main trio is being too confident that Mama actually trusts Ray. Ray is going to die unless he escapes. Mama knows this, and Mama knows that Ray knows this. So why should Mama trust Ray?

Maybe Krone catches them instead of Mom, and then Mom thinks that Krone stole the key.

>Mom not knowing Don's >talent

>and then Mom thinks that Krone stole the key
>Mom, who's been playing trans-dimensional hopscotch for 6+ years
>not already knowing that Don stole the key and is going to crush him under the weight of her keikaku
I actually be surprised if Mama didn't notice

Mom's keikaku has to fall apart at some point. Maybe not now, but something she doesn't see coming has to happen.

Back off, Emma is mine and mine only.

This entire page basically reads "We're utterly fucked but don't know it yet"

No way mom hasn't counted on 3 hyper intelligent kids figuring out the location of the hidden room.

But Don stealing the key complicates things, unless Ray already told Mama that Don and Gilda are in on it. If he has, then nothing really changes. The master key probably doesn't even open the secret room. Everything is still according to Mama's keikaku.

The trouble will come if Krone finds them. She might blackmail Don and Gilda into betraying the main trio, and then use that to get at Mama.

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the kids and Mama end up in some unholy alliance against Krone.

That probably wouldn't happen, but it is true that they need the conflict between Krone and Mama to escape. Mama knows way too much about what they're doing, I refuse to believe that she can't figure most of this out given how smart these kids are - she should be much more intelligent than them.

Sister Krone and Mama have conflicting interests, but right now Mama is playing Krone like a fiddle. She barely has to actively bother with either her or the kids since they're too busy with each other, she can just quietly set small things up to make their plans collapse right when it's most convenient for her.

However, if Krone and the kids start cooperating this will all start to crumble. She expects them to be opposed to one another and encourages this so that she'll be free to manipulate both groups. Even though they're both opposed to her. So she's that confident in herself that she'd allow two independent oppositions to exist. But the kids and Krone might work together! The kids can escape and Krone can get Mama's position by blaming her for the fiasco. Mama knows that Krone wants to try that, but she can't redirect the evidence to point at Krone instead if the kids themselves help her with said evidence.

Mark my words, either by choice or by clever manipulation from the kids Krone will aid them in a critical way in their escape by hindering Mama.

Mom's keikaku is to make sure none of the kids escape and make sure word doesn't get out that she's been violating demon code so she won't have her clean record tarnished and possibly face replacement/execution/harvesting. I can see Mama underestimating the lengths Sister Krone will go and Sister Krone ends up reporting to the demons about planned escapees or about Mama not following shipment protocol if a child learns the truth.

I definitely think that the kids will at some point try to make a deal with either Krone or Mama.

I like the idea that Krone might help the kids escape to fuck Mama over, but the problem with that is that Krone also works at the House. Having every kid escape would reflect badly on both Mama and Krone.

i love these kinda pictures :')

Is this the Shingeki no Kyojin ripoff?
They even have owl.

What did Ray threaten Norman with?

He's gonna reveal Norman's small penis.

Of course I don't believe that such a deal, if it were to happen, would go without backstabbing from both sides. The kids have pretty much zero reason to trust Krone and she definitely knows that, and vice-versa she would rather have no kids escape, both out of practical considerations and because she seems to be the type of person who just wouldn't want the brats to have the satisfaction of getting away.

>Norman's small penis
Lies and slander.

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There's one thing that's been bothering me. The ropes.

Ray probably tried to frame Don since he considers Don a liability and would rather leave him behind.

But why did Mama take the ropes from under Norman's bed?

Doing that confirmed the existence of a spy, be that Ray or someone else. Acting on the spy's information by taking the ropes meant showing her hand, and risked revealing the identity of the spy (which both ended up happening).

Obviously Ray expected her to move the ropes if he told her their location, which is even more odd, considering both him and Mama should be smarter than that.

So what the fuck happened there?

One possibility is that Ray moved the ropes himself, after telling Mama about them.
Another is that this is all part of Mama's keikaku, probably to give the kids a sense of a false security.

Could be that Ray allowed Mama to take the rope in order to frame Don, so he could keep everyone's trust while they ostracized Don as a traitor.

We do know at least that Ray doesn't really want anyone but the three of them escaping, and was only okay with taking Don and Gilda because they were older and at least had some chance of getting away too, but it could also be that he knew they both weren't as smart, and he had the oppertunity to use them as scapegoats and take the blame for anything the main 3 might let slip.

I guess you could interpret Ray's note to Mama as a strong recommendation that she take the ropes ASAP (because N and E were planning a premature breakout or something), and that's why she did it.

But using Mama that way is kinda risky. I really don't think they should be counting on her "trust" in Ray.

> I really don't think they should be counting on her "trust" in Ray.

Certainly not, if the most recent chapters are anything to go by, Mama is going to pull some shit to interrupt them very soon, mainly just guessing that on the fact that the main three keep saying "as long as everything keeps going to plan" and "we don't need to rush".

My guess is that there will be something important in Mama's hidden room, but it's likely that Don's actions will inform Mama of the groups progress and maybe get Don/Gilda sent away.

Why is he so perfect?

I hope mama catches you shitposting here all the time, Norman.