Sanji Cut His Family Ties Thirteen Years Ago Vinsmoke Estrangement

Status: pending · Technique: chekhov-explicit · dialogue-tell

The seed

The payoff

(PENDING — the why/how of Sanji’s break with Vinsmoke is dramatized forward; payoff_chapter left blank.)

Earliest known caller

(Unrecorded.)

Why this matters

A precise-number chekhov-explicit dialogue install (“13 years”). When Oda time-stamps an estrangement on-page, the elapsed interval is usually the runway for a flashback payoff — treat the number as a promise of the backstory to come.