Yamato's Friend Who Came To Kill Kaido

Status: pending · Technique: prop-tell (the discarded dragon statue) + dialogue

The seed

The payoff

(Pending — the friend is not named in-window.)

Earliest known caller

(Unknown.)

Why this matters

A discarded prop (the broken dragon statue) carries withheld backstory: someone once came to Onigashima to kill Kaido and became Yamato’s friend. The seed frames Yamato’s readiness to turn against his father’s crew — a prop-tell that quietly pays into Yamato’s motive.