An implicit pair frozen below the receiving parent fixes every vertex of that parent's path, before the returned partition is recovered.
Every pair read by the native short filter is valid at its receiving parent. Canonical scatters use the retained parent reference; implicit pairs use the exactly restored fixed set and established root-pair validity.
A later sibling derives receiver validity from its reached native invariants. Complete child calls supply trace, pair and label soundness; the ancestor and cheap bounds determine the exact receiving level.
A vertex removed by the actual received short filter has a strictly smaller representative under a checked automorphism of the parent cells. The witness comes from that child's emitted pair, including implicit pairs.