A Dragon Roams Punk Hazard
Status: confirmed (payoff Ch. 682) · Technique: chekhov-explicit
The seed
The payoff
Earliest known caller
(Unrecorded.)
Why this matters
A dragon appears first as a monster-of-the-week (felled @0656), then is re-planted as a fixture of the island’s experiment ecology — Oda re-using a discarded beast as a load-bearing prop.