A chekhov-explicit / visual-silhouette seed: a Warlord with a government pass-key chooses to break in with his full crew, shouting “LIBERATION,” at the exact prison holding the world’s most dangerous erased criminals. Oda stages the means (the cover), the target (Level 6), and the motive (an arriving force, not a lone agent) on-page, then withholds the payoff (the roster expansion) for after the war.