Chapter 163

Reversal (反転) is the one-hundred-sixty-third chapter of The Promised Neverland manga.

Synopsis
Mujika and Sonju revive the high priest with their blood in an attempt to install a new king. However, the newly-formed government after the fall of the Queen and the Five Regent Houses won't let them have their way.

Plot
Mujika and Sonju revive the High Priest. Although the Holy man is a bit disorientated, he still recognizes Sonju. Mujika and Sonju tell the High Priest everything that has happened during his absence. But the news does not seem to surprise him. The High Priest expected that this would happen to his kind. Luckily, the Gods have left them a way to live, Mujika, the Cursed Blood girl.

In the meantime, there is a commotion between the demons. They have just been informed that their majesty, the Queen, has passed, killed by bandits who took advantage of the town's confusion. They even killed the lords and ladies of the five regent houses.

However, there is no need to worry because, henceforward, an assembled council will govern the four great farms and the vassal armies of the five regent houses.

The announcement and proclamation take Mujika and Sonju by surprise. It has only been a day since the Queen's death. What is more puzzling that the usually scattered remaining factions are all in agreement without arguing.

Nevertheless, the demons are outraged. They want to know who is responsible for their Queen's death. It is revealed that the bandits who killed her majesty and the aristocrats and threw the town into destruction and confusion are the banished traitors, the Geelan Clan, and Mujika and Sonju.

However, that little bit of news does not sit well with the citizens, demanding an explanation. Mujika and Sonju have helped them in the past. How could they betray them and kill their Queen?

To make matters worse, the new council imprisons everyone who saw the bandits or received their blood as they are contaminated with harmful blood. Therefore, they must be isolated and disposed of. As a result, the demons are put against each other - one for taking revenge for their fallen Queen and the other fighting to survive.

Meanwhile, Sonju, Mujika, and the High Priest try to escape, but the latter two are too weak to run away and are captured by the angered citizens.