Zou's Samurai-Wano Taboo

Status: pending · Technique: dialogue / chekhov-explicit

The seed

A loaded, deliberate taboo seeding an unrevealed bond/trauma between the Mink Tribe and Wano’s people.

The payoff

(Pending — the Wano/Kozuki tie pays off forward of this window. Record only the on-page taboo here.)

Why this matters

A classic Oda “chekhov-explicit” tell: a character verbally fences off a topic, flagging that the very thing being suppressed is load-bearing for the arc. The minks’ hidden Wano connection later resolves into the Kozuki sworn-brotherhood.