Kuro Three Year Hiatus Template

Status: stub · seeded by Ch. 33

Source context

From Vault/Chapters/0033.md:

> [!evidence|ch=33] Pages 4-5, 9 — Three-year buried-villain template
> Kuro has been undercover *for three years* while his crew has continued plundering. The buried-villain-emerges-after-long-dormancy template — the antagonist whose absence is itself the source of their power, because the world has forgotten them — recurs at Crocodile in Alabasta (Warlord-cover undercover), Lucci in Water 7/Enies Lobby (carpenter-cover undercover), and most prominently at Dragon (entire-world-cover undercover for the entire series). Kuro is the *first* on-page instance in East Blue. See proposed [[Foreshadowing/Kuro Three Year Hiatus Template]].

The seed

(To be filled in — see source context above.)

The payoff

(Open — unverified or unfilled at stub time.)