Solution

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Put , and . Before , order preservation gives and . The common noise cancels from their difference:
Since has finite variation, applying the Itô formula to gives the SLE two-boundary-point ratio diffusion
With the strictly increasing clock , the Dambis-Dubins-Schwarz theorem yields a Brownian motion for which the time-changed process obeys
The sign of the new Brownian motion has absorbed the minus sign above.
The domain Markov property of a chordal Loewner chain says that, conditionally on the past before , the mapped future is a fresh SLE. Its boundary marked points are . Hence
Localize, for example, where , and . On each such stopped interval this is a bounded conditional-expectation martingale, and therefore a genuine martingale. No smoothness assumption on is needed for this argument. The exit calculation below identifies it explicitly.

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