Yosaku Johnny Retreat From Arlong-Tier
Status: confirmed · Technique: tier-confirmation-via-foil · ally-exit-as-tier-validation
The seed
The payoff
Why this matters
The composition is respectful-on-both-sides — no hard feelings, just tier-mismatch — which is the honest tier-grammar the series will continue to use (cf. Wapol’s exit, Foxy’s exit). The Yosaku/Johnny exit is the first on-page operationalization of the ally-cannot-scale-with-the-protagonists register.