All the Great Pirates Tie to Wano — Sengoku's No-Coincidence

Status: pending · Technique: chekhov-explicit · dialogue-from-dead-character

The seed

The payoff

(Pending — the Oden flashback that pays this off opens next chapter, ~0960; record only Sengoku’s stated observation.)

Do NOT import the Oden-flashback details.

Earliest known caller

(Not researched.)

Why this matters

A retired Fleet Admiral, “for the historical record,” draws an explicit line connecting every era-defining pirate to one closed country — flagging Wano as a hinge of the true history before the Oden flashback delivers the why.