Choppers Strikes Cure The Holy Knights Demonization

Status: pending · Technique: chekhov-explicit

The seed

Why this matters

Oda flags mechanics he intends to reuse by having a character voice the mystery on-page (“I dunno why…”). An explicit, unexplained counter to the arc-villain’s signature power — held by the crew’s weakest-seeming member — is classic long-game setup: it upgrades Chopper’s endgame role and pre-loads a rules-based answer to Imu’s Domination/covenant suite.