I’m certain that the next time Shanks will meet Buggy, they will be true enemies. Oda is intentionally showing us Shanks in the last few chapters as a young innocent kid eating chocolate and staying behind for his friend’s illness.
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He isn’t highlighted as someone of importance like young Teach was for example, but clearly, Shanks is far more important than anyone to be sitting with the Gorosei as we’ve seen.
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I believe that something happened to Shanks after Roger’s last voyage that turned him to the other side. Look what Buggy tells Shanks in the panel below.
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*by optechhas