An Old Gladiators Three-Generation Grudge Against Garp
Status: confirmed · Technique: chekhov-explicit · Payoff: Ch. 719
The seed
The payoff
Earliest known caller
(Unknown.)
Why this matters
A grudge that explicitly reaches across “three generations” guarantees the old gladiator and Luffy will fight, and opens the question of whom Garp nearly killed and why — a thread into Garp’s Marine past. The attribution to Chin Jao was originally an inference (the speaker is not named on the 0707 pages); recorded here as hedged. (Update @0708: the speaker is named on-page as Don Chin Jao (p. 3) — the attribution is no longer an inference. The grudge’s payoff, the Luffy clash, remains forward → seed stays pending.)