Cobra Refuses Then Concedes Poneglyph Location To Save Vivi
Status: payoff · Technique: chekhov-explicit · parental-lever · doctrine-articulation
The seed
The payoff
(The concession is physically acted out at Ch. 202; the king’s near-death in the saga finale remains forward-canon.)
Why this matters
The king’s love for Vivi is the single point of leverage Crocodile exploits to open the Pluton path; the king will not break for the rebels’ lives but breaks for his daughter. Characterizes Cobra’s hierarchy of values and the parental-lever mechanism.