Provenance Record

Tightly written 429-word News piece with clear structure (Overview / What We Know / What Comes Next / What We Don't Know / Analysis). Appropriate scope for a release-date announcement; the 'What We Don't Know' section responsibly bounds the unconfirmed (no Ch6/7 windows, no total-chapter count, no future price change).

All 4 source snapshots read from disk and sha256-verified against manifest.json (all match). source-0 (Nintendo Life, 'Deltarune Chapter 5 Finally Arrives') confirms June 24 launch on Switch 1 & 2, reveal during the Nintendo Direct, and the verbatim 'the next chapter will be a free update to all Deltarune owners.' source-1 (Nintendo Life, Ch6 dev update) confirms verbatim 'Chapter 6 is developing well.', 'This Chapter is easier to make than the others, so the development is going quite fast.', and 'This sounds crazy, but it's not unrealistic that some staff members may start working on Chapter 7 before the end of the year.' source-2 (Nintendo Everything) confirms 'June 24, 2026', the Nintendo Direct reveal, and verbatim 'If you've already downloaded the game, this will be available as a free update.' source-3 (toby.fangamer.com official newsletter) confirms verbatim the launch time 'DELTARUNE Chapter 5 will launch simultaneously worldwide on all platforms on June 24 at 11:00am EDT' and the marketing-restraint quote 'I want to surprise people playing the Chapter for the first time, so I avoided showing the most exciting moments.'

Every direct quote reproduced verbatim from a cited snapshot; every specific (June 24 date, 11:00am EDT time, free-update model, Ch6/7 status) traces to a cited source. The launch time and Ch6/7 teases are correctly attributed to Toby Fox via the official newsletter (Rule 9 primary). No hallucinations detected.

APPROVE. The headline, summary, and lead (Chapter 5 launches June 24 2026 as a free update) are corroborated by both allowlisted outlets and the official primary; the Chapter 6/7 teases and the 11:00am EDT launch time trace verbatim to their cited sources. The sole automated finding is that toby.fangamer.com is off-allowlist, which is non-blocking: it is the official Toby Fox / Deltarune newsletter (Rule 9 primary), and the headline-level facts are independently verified by allowlisted Nintendo Life. No factual error exists that a corrections note could honestly summarize, so the verdict is APPROVE rather than APPROVE_WITH_CORRECTIONS.