The little girl's appearance, combined with her completely natural acting, free of any artificial additives, had always been Sugar's deadliest weapon.
In the original story, if Usopp hadn't played a crucial role in that desperate situation, Luffy and Luo, who had been deceived by Sugar's appearance, would most likely have fallen victim as well, becoming one of Sugar's toy slaves.
That was the importance of keeping information confidential.
Especially when dealing with an unreasonable, Rules-type ability like the Hobby-Hobby Fruit, it was easy to fall victim to it without knowing the details.
Conversely, once information about the ability was exposed, it was practically as good as useless.
That was because the side effect of the Hobby-Hobby Fruit, in a certain sense, was that it fixed the user's physical strength at the instant they ate the Devil Fruit.
Sugar buried herself deep in Koala's arms, pretending to have found someone to rely on.
From her trembling moments ago to her current emotional calmness, her entire performance had been flawless, at least in terms of acting.
Then, after a few simple questions, every member of the Revolutionary Army, including Jasmine, who possessed the strongest Observation Haki, took Sugar for an ordinary little girl who had accidentally wandered into Toy House.
"Koala, stay here and accompany little Sugar for now. We'll handle the other 'business.'"
"Okay."
Koala nodded at her companions.
Seeing this, everyone turned and walked toward the shore where the cargo ship was moored.
Cargo boxes were neatly stacked there, each seemingly just unloaded from the cargo ship or preparing to be loaded aboard. Perhaps their target was stored inside one of them.
Koala crouched beside Sugar and watched her companions' backs.
Then, she revealed a gentle smile and tilted her head toward Sugar. Just as she was about to speak...