Seeing this, Mousse could only run over to his eldest brother, Perospero, and quietly share his guess. "Humans, especially children and teenagers, have a psychological self-protection mechanism. They seal frightening memories deep in their minds to avoid being hurt. If the memory is especially terrifying, they may even pass out on the spot, just like Mom is doing now."
If this had been an isolated case, Mousse would not necessarily have dared to make such a firm conclusion.
But Mousse still remembered several scenes from the manga. For example, after Charlotte Linlin wreaked havoc in an Elbaf village, she had also fallen unconscious and woken up knowing nothing.
The disappearance of the nun and her little companions, which fans had argued about for years before his transmigration, had been much the same.
Before his transmigration, the prevailing view among fans had been that this was a unique symptom of Food Addiction.
But Mousse had noticed long ago that after the Food Addiction triggered by Luffy and the others' rampage on Whole Cake Island was resolved, there had been no unconsciousness or memory loss. The time he had personally experienced after transmigrating, when he had nearly lost his life, had likewise shown no such symptoms.
So he believed that "unconsciousness plus amnesia" had no direct connection to Food Addiction.
Once Food Addiction was ruled out, a closer analysis of those two cases revealed that Charlotte Linlin had committed irreparable mistakes both times.
Given the fragility of a child's mind, it was only natural that she would not dare or be willing to face them. Triggering that protective mechanism was therefore perfectly understandable.
However, because the manga had never made the nun's fate clear, Mousse had not dared to be completely certain until today's incident.
Charlotte Linlin had nearly killed her two