Big Mom Steals Lifespan As Payment Treat Or Life
Status: confirmed · Technique: chekhov-explicit · prop-tell
The seed
The payoff
Earliest known caller
(Unrecorded.)
Why this matters
Oda installs a villain’s signature power through an act of grotesque cruelty (filicide by lifespan-theft) before naming the fruit two chapters later — the demonstration precedes the mechanic. Routes to Big Mom, Soru Soru no Mi, Homies.