Imu Falls Outside The Sustaining Seat

Reasoning

• chekhov-explicit — a named vulnerability spoken aloud by the regime’s own side (Ch. 1182) in the same window as Imu’s first personal descent (Ch. 1174→Ch. 1178) is a loaded gun: the corpus does not state frailties it will not exercise.
• dialogue-tell — the Elders’ alarm at the descent itself (the going is treated as the danger, not the opponent) frames exposure as the cost Imu pays for acting in person — the poster-slashing rage (Ch. 1179) and the second-person fixation (“So, thou art back…” Ch. 1181) are the temptation mechanism that will draw the overextension.
• dramatic-irony — the braid’s covenant-frame: a ruler whose power is Domination (binding others in place) being killed by leaving their own binding seat is the corpus’s preferred ironic geometry. Confidence held to 0.6 (three techniques; the where/when of the fatal exposure is wide-open and 1182 is recent-chapter).

Supporting evidence

• Ch. 1174 — Imu’s first personal descent begins.
• Ch. 1178 — the descent continues, the Elders treating the going itself as the danger.
• Ch. 1179 — Imu’s poster-slashing rage, the temptation mechanism drawing the overextension.
• Ch. 1181 — Imu’s second-person fixation: “So, thou art back…”
• Ch. 1182 — a named vulnerability spoken aloud by the regime’s own side: “Great Imu’s body is not meant to withstand the outside.”