Dalton Disillusioned Officer Of Wapols Regime

Status: confirmed · Technique: chekhov-explicit · parallel-arc-structure

The seed

The payoff

Why this matters

Ch. 142 retro-canonizes Dalton’s Ch. 133 protector-role as a defection from inside the regime — Dalton was Wapol’s chief of security, witnessed the World Council, was shamed by an 8-year-old Alabasta princess, and broke with his king’s politics. The conscience-of-the-regime register pre-loads his eventual political leadership role.