A Wano Samurai Came To Punk Hazard To Save His Son
Status: confirmed (payoff Ch. 696) · Technique: chekhov-explicit + dialogue-from-dead-character
The seed
The payoff
Earliest known caller
(Unrecorded.)
Why this matters
A classic dialogue-from-dead-character Chekhov: the most absurd image on the island (a still-talking severed warrior) is also the carrier of the arc’s emotional engine — a father’s rescue mission. Oda plants the motive before the target is shown, so the gigantic-children room one page later reads as a candidate answer.