>>83857064I've done a little bit of a lore dive so I'll give some insight but these are spoilers
wukong planned his deathhe wanted to regain his free will that he lost from the crown forced on his head that he can't take offhe committed suicide by cop, basically, and planned to reincarnate into this monkeeach end-of-chapter chief was supposed to get a relic from wukong, but they got greedy and stole the powers instead 