Zeff Ate His Own Leg
Status: paid-off · Technique: retrospective-recoding of the peg-leg Chekhov plant
The reveal
Recoding effect on prior Foreshadowing notes
- Zeff Lost Leg Mystery — circumstance answered. The popular-prediction (Zeff fed his leg to Sanji) was inverted-in-the-specific but correct-in-the-spirit. The leg went to Zeff’s stomach, not Sanji’s plate.
- Red Shoes Zeff Epithet / Zeff Red Shoes Backstory — etymology inverted. Krieg’s Ch. 48 “enemy blood” reading is now the public misreading; the private/literal reading is Zeff’s own blood.
- Zeff Missing Leg / Zeff Peg Leg — Chekhov plant from Ch. 43 paid off after a 15-chapter burn.