Tontatta Drawn Toward Luffys Battle From The SMILE Factory

Status: pending · Technique: negative-space / prop-tell

The seed

The payoff

(Pending — the Tontatta’s decisive rally to Luffy’s side in the Dressrosa climax is forward of this chapter. Append evidence only.)

Earliest known caller

(TBD.)

Why this matters

When Oda has a faction abruptly, wordlessly turn toward the protagonist’s battle “feeling a weight lift,” he is pre-installing that faction’s coming intervention. Cross-link Luffy, Leo, Dwarves.