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"This place is a farm? We're all just food?"
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Escape From the Farm
- Emma and Norman discovering Connie's corpse.
- Emma and Norman omitting to Don and Gilda that kids that get taken away are eaten, leading to them falsely believing that Connie and the others are still alive somewhere.
- Ray playing with his last reward from Isabella, a camera. He takes a photo of Isabella and leaves the photograph on her table, which she goes over to look at and gently touch afterwards. It doesn't seem to mean much until what we learn at the end of the arc...
- Emma and Norman's horrified expressions when they hear the demons giving orders to Isabella, their parental figure, about preparing further shipments of the children. Perhaps even worse in the anime, where we see their facial reactions as they hear Isabella's name get dropped.
- Emma snapping and desperately asking Norman to tell her that what they just witnessed was a mistake or a trick or just something that wasn't real. An equally shaken Norman tells her that it was real, leading to Emma screaming in anguish and saying that she doesn't want her family to die.
- Emma refusing to let Norman be shipped off attempts to deactivate the tracker in his ear, he pushes her away and angrily telling her that she shouldn't do this. She practically breaks down sobbing as he begs Norman not to go.
- Just the whole chapter where Norman spends his final day at the orphanage, and the next morning Emma goes to greet Norman where he usually sits in the dining room with a broken smile on her face.
- Emma screaming for help as she tells Isabella that Ray was in the fire he had set off for their escape. when it's revealed that Ray is Isabella's biological child and you see how desperately she tries to put out the fire, not only because Ray is due to be shipped out in the morning and she needed to preserve his brain, but maybe it was because she didn't want to see her son die.
- Isabella had loved a boy named Leslie when she was younger, and of course, one day he was shipped off and she discovered the truth about the farm. The one thing she had to remember him by is a song he sang, and which she sung to her child in the womb when she was pregnant as it was the only thing that kept her strong.
- But her expression when she hears Ray singing Leslie's tune means that Ray is her own child, which we know is possible since Ray told Emma that he remembers everything from even when he a fetus. He even asks his mama, smiling, why she gave birth to him.
- In the anime, we see her facial expressions gradually change and she shakes her head as she starts to recognize the song that Ray is humming. When she asks Ray how could he know that song, she clutches her stomach and he gives her a knowing smile — she already knows the answer. She's on the verge of tears when he asks her how could she bring him into this world, but she takes a moment to take a deep breath, process it, and smile and answer like nothing's wrong.Ray: Hey, Mom? Why did you give birth to me?
Isabella: ... (takes a deep breath and composes herself, then smiles) Well, Ray, it was to survive. Longer than anyone else. - She was obsessed with living because Leslie had been killed and she wanted to spite them by living as long as she could as a piece of food the demon's couldn't eat, but in the end she accepts her fate while also wishing she could have loved the children in the farm normally.
- What makes this revelation for Isabella worse is that, some Mamas who are allowed to give birth probably never get to see their children ever again since they're sent to different farms to be raised for food. Or worse, they do go to the same farm, but they have no way of knowing who each other is, meaning that any child that a Mama watches over could be theirs, but they'll never be sure. Ray and Isabella were possibly the only case where they ever knew who the other really was.
Manga
- Lucas had spent 13 years in Goldy Pond's windmill without an arm and without any of his comrades. He had constantly thought of trying to run out and get back to ETR3M8, but every time he would think back to the children getting slaughtered right outside and the deaths of his group.
- Chapter 74: Turns out Norman wasn't "shipped out" but sent to an intense research facility where the only people he can interact with are doctors and he's under surveillance every single second. The whole time he's looking for a means of escape, not to save himself, but to find out any sort of information about Ray, Emma and the other kids at Grace Field.
- The final part of the Lighter and Softer 'Little Bernie' extra panelsnote is surprisingly poignant. Don (still in Little Bernie's body) is picked up by Conny. In her arms, he cries and apologizes to her because he couldn't keep his promise and protect her. He then realizes that his dream happened because, subconsciously, he wanted to see Conny and all his other siblings that were shipped out one last time.
- Chapter 100: After the fire, it turns out that Phil and the other kids were separated into the other four farms, and only five of the others ended up with him. He hasn't heard anything about Isabella either. And then he has to watch one of his new siblings get shipped out...
- It's worse on a psychological level. Emma and Norman had each other in the light of Conny's death. Emma and Ray were supposed to be completely crushed by Norman's shipping. But Phil? He's entirely alone, and he has to keep up the act of not knowing a thing, not even showing the slightest sign of anything being wrong, and he's only four years old.
- Chapter 103: Andrew and his commando team have found the children's shelter and they have to abandon the place that had long been their safe haven.
- Chapter 104: Lucas sees a command on the monitor room checking the screens for the secret exits. He sneaks up behind him and strangles him. When he picks up the man's radio however, he learns it's too late, the rest of the team already know where the secret exits are and are waiting for the rest of the children there.
- Chapter 105: Emma sees friends killed by the commandos and asks why they are so determined to kill them all. She points out that they know about the Seven Walls and all they want to do is life normal lives like the rest of humanity and had no intention of breaking the promise between humans and demons, she instead wanted to forge a new one so no children had to die like cattle. Andrew doesn't care and responds that they had no rights to such things in the first place.
- Chapter 109: On the day Emma and co. arrived at the shelter, Yuugo was ready to commit suicide. In the end the only thing that stopped him was their surprise arrival.
- Despite their heroic sacrifice, Andrew survived the shelter explosion. Yugo and Lucas died without knowing the children are still in danger.
- Three of the children end up dead at the hands of the surviving squadron leader after they secretly went back to check to see if Yugo and Lucas are still alive.
- After the squadron leader is eaten by a feral "demon", surviving children mourn the deaths of their fallen comrades, believing now is the time to cry.
- Chapter 113. The partisans of the second William Minerva raid a factory farm and kill all the demons there. They arrive to the main room, filled with children trapped on the machine that feeds them and keeps them alive. 'William Minerva' frees one of the children and says that they're there to help them, but the boy can only utter gurgles as tears fell down his eyes. Minerva and his supporters realize they can't bring the children with them, as they are brain-dead and couldn't survive without the machine's life-support. The only thing they can do is offering them a Mercy Kill by shutting down the electricity, and breaking their chains to allow them to at least die free.
- Norman is the new William Minerva. When Emma and Ray and the other children see their old friend, they have one great big group hug. Cue the water works.
- Norman announces the practical solution to ensure a future where no children are raised as cattle is the complete extermination of the demons. Everyone is onboard with the idea, Ray being the only one besides Emma who doesn't cheer it, saying that killing the demons is the most practical solution. Emma however says nothing. This didn't go over Ray's head who later confronted her over. Emma tries to deny how she feels but when Ray if Norman is offering the future she wants, Emma tearfully admits that she doesn't wish for genocide.
- Norman seems to have become someone who has developed a "with us or against us" personality after seeing the Lambda facility. Outwardly, he's like the Norman from the Grace Field Farm, but inside, he's become a cunning leader who is willing to trick "demons" into fighting each other to the death to ensure humans live.
- Chapter 127: Mujika and her clan could have helped create generations of "demons" that wouldn't have to rely on consuming humans for the sake of maintaining their intelligence and form. All the "demons" had to do was drink one drop of their blood and they could maintain their human intelligence permanently and give birth to "demons" with permanent human intelligence as well. But because of the "demon" royals and the Ratri family's greed and paranoia, they were all eaten by the royals and five regents until only Mujika was left.
- In spite of Emma's pleas not to go to war, that maybe if they had Mujika give her blood to the "demons" and thus render the farms obsolete, that maybe if they just targeted the royals and nobles and the Ratri family, there would be peace; Norman still insists on destroying all the "demons" for one simple reason: humans and "demons" don't want peace. And they never have for seven hundred years.
- Aishe's horrible childhood - or rather, her lack of one. She was considered "defective goods" due to the massive scar on her face, and was set aside to be disposed of when she was just a baby. However, a demon with a similar facial defect took pity on her and snuck her to his home. At first he raised her as a pet, but as time went on she became more like a daughter to him. When Minerva's army raided, he ordered her to hide while he fended off the raiders, and got horribly killed for it. The reason she's only spoken the demon's language since then? So that she'd be able to openly declare her hatred of Minerva's Army and desire for revenge without them realizing it, and also so that they wouldn't be able to talk to her.
- Lord Geelan did cruel things after his Face–Heel Turn such as killing the children of the Five Regent Families, and he had planned from the start to betray Norman and the other humans, but his downfall and death are still shown into a tragic light. Flashbacks reveal that he lost his wife and his entire family after the Queen and the other heads of the Regent Families betrayed him. His own subjects sacrificed their lives, allowing themselves to be eaten by his and his vassals' feral forms. 700 years later, he and his clan finally have an occasion to get their revenge. Geelan's vassals sacrifice their lives without hesitation to weaken the Queen, and to give him the chance to kill her. At one point, Geelan is about to deal Legravalima the finishing blow, in a panel featuring him surrounded by all his companions and friends who gave their lives for his cause... Only for Legravalima to destroy his body in one blow. Then, she cruelly mocks Geelan by showing him the corpses of his companions, taunting him that justice doesn't always win, and that he's long stopped being on justice's side, before she kills him.
- Chapter 153: Emma and her friends arrive too late to stop Norman from killing the Nobles, but they still manage to get through to him despite him telling them that there's nothing they can do. He finally admits that the main reason he did all this was because he was alone and he tearfully begs Emma and Ray to help him...because the experiments are very slowly killing him and the other Lambda children.
- Chapter 173:
- Via a flashback, we finally get the confirmation that James Ratri truly was Dead All Along. He didn't survive the purge of the Ratri clan. Even though by that point of the story there was little hope left that he survived, the confirmation is still saddening to witness. James wanted to help the children of the farm system, simply because he thought it was the right thing to do, and paid it with his life.
- Even though he was until now shown as an unsympathetic Manipulative Bastard, some can feel sorry for Peter when during the same flashback he loses his composure, bursts into tears and holds the dead body of his brother against him. Even though he ordered his death because he thought it was for the good of the clan (and of the world), Peter still genuinely loved his brother.
- Chapter 176:
- Phil lamenting that some of the kids that were transferred to Grace Field ended up getting shipped away and there was nothing he could do about it.
- Isabella's replacement expressing confusion at the reunion and breaking down into tears when Isabella and the other Mamas tell her that they're finally free and can finally love their children normally.
- Isabella Taking the Bullet for Emma. Oh, she was so close to freedom...
- Chapter 177:
- Isabella trying to muster up all her strength to keep living, and yet, she still dies... but surrounded by the people she loves.
- Isabella holding Emma's face in her hands one last time and telling her that she's proud of her.
- Isabella apologizing to Ray for bringing him into the world only to suffer, causing Ray to cry.
- All the Grace Field kids surrounding Isabella as they tell her that they forgive her and understand that she only lied to them as an act of mercy, and they're all in tears as she embraces them and dies from her wounds.
- Chapter 180:
- We learn what price Emma paid to the One for her family's survival. In exchange for everyone of her family surviving, Emma loses all her memories of them. The chapter focuses on Emma's own struggle of being unable to remember the people precious to her before she decided to move on forward with her new life in the human world. As the One puts it, it took Emma's world.
- The Old Man that takes Emma in. He lives alone in a remote cabin, and we learn that he lives near the rubble of a church and a series of mass gravestones. When Emma asks him about it, he answers remorsefully that his family was all killed in a pointless war he fought in.
- When Emma's friends finally reunite with her, they are shocked to learn that she basically traded all her memories of them to ensure their happiness and survival. Norman tells her that even though she can't remember them, he just wanted to let her know they're living happy lives now because of her. At that moment, Emma feels the connection with her friends she made in her heart and decides she wants to live with them all.
