Episode 14

Episode 14 is the second episode of season 2 of The Promised Neverland anime. It aired on January 15, 2021.

Synopsis
The children were saved by Mujika and Sonju. These two demons don't eat humans unlike the other ones. Sonju tells Emma about the history of the world between humans and demons. Mujika and Sonju teach the children the skills needed to survive the wilderness

Plot
Emma and Ray confront the two now known demons as to what they did with their siblings, leading Emma to think Mujika cooked and prepared them for dinner. Without giving anything away, Mujika simply tells her nothing as Sonju makes room for her to run away. Ray follows after her, in which Sonju tells him directions to where they are. Once running down the hall and making a left at the end, the two find everyone safe and sound as they eat dinner Mujika prepared for them. The children run to hug Emma and Ray after not seeing them for a while, Gilda telling the children to be easy on Emma since she hasn't finished healing yet. Sonju and Mujika shortly enter after and apologize to Emma for not telling her much. In response, she apologizes as well; they rescued her and her siblings and immediately didn't trust them. Once apologies are given, the children and demons start dinner, and soon after head off to bed with the exception of Sonju, Emma, and Ray Once everyone but the three are asleep, Emma and Ray ask their questions; to start off, they ask why the demons aren't eating them. Sonju replies back with his religion, and it's dietary restrictions: meat other than humans is allowed and free to eat. They then ask what had happened to humans 30 years ago, based on assumptions from books they found in Minerva's name. Sonju is quick to tell them that humans haven't been free in this world in 1000 years, and have only been livestock ever since. 1000 years ago, a deal was made between demons and humans due to an ongoing war between them. Demons originally hunted humans for food, and in response the humans began fighting back. More demons were killed than humans eaten. Due to the amount of fear and hatred between the groups, the humans promised to no longer hunt demons if demons no longer ate humans. To keep the deal in order, humans gave the demons other humans to purposefully bred and keep as livestock. Since then, the human world and demon world has been kept apart, and the livestock children were stuck in the demon world. Despite of the absolute hopelessness some would feel, Emma and Ray rejoice, knowing there's still some chance of them getting to the human world, and that there's at least a world where demons don't exist. With that knowledge in mind, the two head off to bed, thanking Sonju for the information

The next morning, the pursuers that found Ray before discover his message. Meanwhile, underground, the children and demons pass through a walkway Sonju made from dead trees, shielding them from any wild or farm demons. Up ahead, they take a small break to gather water and so Emma and Ray can explain their current situation. Just like them, everyone becomes hopeful that they'll find a way to get to the human world, and bring the children from every farm there. Later on, Sonju gives the children directions as to where they want to go and explains it'll take six days total: five to make it out of the forest, and one more to make to their destination. In the meantime, him and Mujika will teach them necessary survival skills like hunting and scavenging As Anna patches up Emma's wound, Gilda tells her to tell everyone next time if she's feeling too sick or can't do well. She shouldn't have to suffer a sickness without telling anyone. The younger children also tell Ray not to wander off and act so recklessly; Sonju told them about Ray playing tag with the pursuers, and mentions that if he didn't come in to save him he would have most likely died. Jemima becomes saddened by this, and hugs him out of fear he'll actually die one day. Emma and Ray both apologize to everyone for making them worry, and promise to do better for everyone. That night, Ray cooks for everyone after being guided by Mujika, along with four other children to help him out by lighting the fire and preparing food. Emma smiles that night, happy to see everyone getting along as they enjoy a hot meal. Throughout the course of the six days of traveling, the children are taught about herbs by Mujika, harvesting food and materials by Sonju, as well as mapping and using weapons like bows and arrows. Target practice is done via hitting old stumps made to look like targets, and throwing pieces of cloth in the air as moving targets. Emma shows off her skills after hitting a ball of cloth one of the children throw, and hitting it directly as she pins it against the target with her arrow. During this, Sonju explains he'll go up to the surface to check and scout the area, in which Emma tags along.

Once up on the surface, Emma is told to keep an eye out for demons, and is given advice on survival; always be aware, and don't let your guard down for anything. Sonju finally asks why Emma really wanted to come out with him to the surface, in which she explains her want to hunt. She knows they'll have vegetables and such to keep them healthy, but meat is another part their diet the children need. Sonju agrees, and agrees to teach Emma how to hunt, capture and prepare an animal properly. Emma's first hunt is a bird, and while hesitant about killing, she shoots it down from it's branch. While knocking it unconscious, however, Sonju still tells her they can prepare it with a Vida, a vampiric plant that sucks the blood out of it's victim's hearts. While Emma is able to stab it into the bird, she quickly throws up after, being reminded of her dead sister Connie. She explains how every single one of her siblings were killed via the plant, and remembers the night her and Norman found Conny's body with the plant in her. Sonju tells her that her siblings most likely didn't suffer, and probably didn't feel a thing to calm her nerves as well as get the plant ready for the ceremony ; the Gupna ceremony is meant to offer the blood of the animal or victim up to the gods so they can eat the meat with their permission. As Emma calms down, the Vida spreads it's red petals, signifying the bird has been accepted by the gods. Upon returning to the underground, Emma was acting differently and Emma smiled with sadness inside her

Research elements

 * The demons Sonju and Mujika are good demons was introduced, They don't eat humans because they are veganetarians.


 * According to Sonju, as the "demons" preyed on ancient humans, some of the humans began to fight back. After countless deaths and wars, a promise was formed between the "demons" and the Ratri Clan. The human and demon realms were split in two, where neither was allowed to cross nor hunt each other. The Ratri Clan left an unknown amount of humans in the demon realm, stranded with no way to escape, to become livestock for the demons in order to maintain peace in the human world. Thus the plantation system was formed via a loophole, as the demons were not hunting them.


 * The Vida plant is finally explained, as well as it's purpose for food.
 * The plant is meant to drain blood from it's victim, which not only gives it as an offering to the gods.
 * It also preserves the meat for a longer period of time.