Chapter 158

The Reason I Was Born (生まれてきた意味) is the one-hundred-fifty-eighth chapter of The Promised Neverland manga.

Synopsis
Mujika's past is revealed, which reveals her upbringing and murder of her people, her history with the "cursed blood", and how her meeting with the Grace Field children made her realize she was born to change the demon species. She confronts Legravalima, in which the Queen slowly starts to break down.

Plot
The beginning of this chapter shows a young Mujika who we learn was given a strange power. Regardless of who she ate/devoured, Mujika wouldn’t change form. Even not eating human meat, Mujika kept her intellect and form which we know is something all demons worry about, losing who they are and their form from starvation. Having this gift allowed Mujika to see a different side of the world and as she ran for freedom to avoid being abused for her skill, she began to understand what it means to be different.

By page 4 we’re back in the heat of battle with Sonju facing down the queen and holding his own. Mujika interrupts the fight wondering why the queen is starving despite eating beyond the needs of her form. She even pities the queen for her insatiable need to devour. Then we learn a shocking truth…the queen despite seeming to be alive is indeed dead. While she was holding her form using the second core, the dead she consumed were filled with poison and she devoured a ginormous amount of entities. The queen attempts to show she’s far from dead as Mujika claims but we begin to see various demons and forms escape from the queen’s form screaming out their names. The queen’s form begins to burst into a mass of goo and Mujika proclaims she will change the world bidding the queen a final farewell.