Chapter 56

Negotiation, Part I (りき ①) is the fifty-sixth chapter of The Promised Neverland.

Synopsis
The unnamed man escapes and eats the cookies left behind by the kids. The door was tied to another door making it locked from the outside. The Grace Field Kids checks the archive to learn about the timeline and other Plantation Farms.

Grace Field House uses digits on the neck as Farm Identifiers. Glory Bell a character string on the belly. Emma and Ray plan to go outside and find William Minerva by negotiating with the unnamed man.

Plot
The unnamed man awakens again after passing out in front of the kids previously, and is mad that Emma managed to thwart his plan to get rif of the kids by punching him in the groin, which he did not expect at all. He finds that the cookies have been stolen too, and he cannot get out of the room due to a bar between his door and the wall, however he is unfazed as he grabs a knife, stating that they're "playing with grown-ups now".

Meanwhile, Emma and Ray are with Don, Gilda, Nat, Thoma, Lannion, Jemima and Anna. Ray ways that that they now have to figure out what to do next now that they've secured their own safe place, more specifically how to get he remaining Grace Field children out of the House and after, to cross to the human world. Unfortunately, none of them seem to have a good idea for this.

Nat asks Ray what he managed to find in the archive room, and Ray answers that he found a lot there, for example the overall classification and general location of the plantations; which kinds of farms there are and were; and what their particular identification marks are. The difference between Grace Field's and Glory Bell's identification system (coming from the mark that the man showed them) are both different, Ray deduces that the types of writing, order of characters and location of the mark will vary from plantation to plantation.

This means that from a simple glance, the demons, or at least the intelligent ones, will be able to know exactly which plantation they came from, especially when only the four premuim plantations are the only ones that use this system.

Ray says that he also found information about the 'Promise', the human world and the location of demon settlements in the world, though the latter is still unclear. They also found an encyclopedia of the plants in the demon wold along with hand drawings, normal material like novels and children's books, and some information relating to the demons. However, this information is very old, and seems to have been published before 2015, like the books in the Grace Field Library.

He cannot be sure about the non-book material, but the books related to the 'Promise' and the demons are so old that they could be considered historical. Gilda thinks about what this means, and wonders if Minerva has disappeared for not thirteen years, but thirty years

Research Elements
In this chapter we have the following Research Elements:
 * This is the time where the Farm Identifiers are explained in the book.
 * There is a letter from WM.