Buggy Mohji Richie Reunion Cover Story
Status: paid-off · The Ch. 58 cover splash (Part 17 “Intense 12-Hour Battle”) shows Buggy in tricorn facing a checkered-cloaked silhouetted figure with a bear-or-lion creature carrying an injured Richie-figure in the mid-distance. The figure’s silhouette is composed to be mis-identifiable on first-read, suggesting an imminent on-page reveal in Part 18+.
Forward-payoff: the next 1-3 cover installments will resolve whether this is a Buggy-crew-reunion or Buggy-finds-new-enemy beat. The Mohji/Cabaji/Richie crew was last shown post-Buggy-Pirates in the cover-story Parts 2+ at Ch. 36 (re-emergence at Orange Town aftermath); a Buggy-meets-his-crew-again payoff is the structurally-expected continuation.
Cross-link Buggy Crew Post-Battle Cover Story — the cover-story B-plot’s reunion arc.