In Monet's room, a moving doll was found, and it even had "short green hair," so it's almost certain that it's Sugar!
Sig hadn't expected that Sugar would end up with Monet...
Furthermore, if we think about it more broadly, perhaps Tesoro wasn't unaware of Sugar's existence, but rather that he failed to gain Sugar's approval, which is why Sugar subsequently went into hiding?
Furthermore, Sig discovered that Kyros had not forgotten that he had just "suspected that someone had erased a period of Rebecca's memory."
Sig speculated that Kyros had no idea about Sugar; he only suspected that such a person existed and that such a thing had happened. Sugar's self-concealment did not affect him.
Therefore, it seems that Sugar's memory-sealing mechanism has blind spots...
Meanwhile, Sig decided not to alert Rebecca, instructing Violet to keep an eye on the doll while simultaneously trying to probe further into Rebecca's memories.
Sugar's current intentions directly determine how Sig will treat her.
"Little Rebecca, do you remember Sugar? The one with the short green hair..." Sig asked enticingly.
"No! Humph!" Rebecca turned her head away, clearly still remembering how the Fish-Man had badmouthed her before.
However, when she said "no," she wasn't lying.
"It seems she's missing a part of her memory. I need to help her get it back... Let's see what Sugar is up to, and whether she's hostile," Sig said to Kyros.
"What do you intend to do?" Kyros was not at ease with Sig.
Suddenly, Sig pulled a massive spear, almost as tall as himself, from the shadows. "Use this to extract the memories... Hmm, it's safe!"
On the hilt of the spear, there was an eye that moved slightly with Sig's movements...
The previous design with simulated facial features lacked any menacing aura; Sig felt that this design better suited the character of his weapon.
Kyros:...
Kyros was clearly even more worried, and he wanted to go directly to the child with the special ability.
"Hmm? Does this look too menacing?" Sig noticed Kyros's wariness, so he transformed the Gungnir in his hand into the shape of a short staff.
It has a red heart at the tip, a pair of white wings below, and a pink shaft...
Kyros:...
If the red heart didn't have that eyeball, the effect would probably be much better.
"The tools aren't the point. Helping Rebecca regain her memories won't cause any harm. If we miss this opportunity and don't figure out Sugar's purpose... what if you forget about this later? Maybe she's after the Riku Royal Family Princess," Sig emphasized.
Thinking of Sugar's abilities, Kyros did indeed feel a bit "fearful." Although he was a legendary swordsman, that ability, once hit, was far more terrifying than death.
Not only Kyros also imagined what it would be like if he forgot Scarlet and Rebecca, and they could only look at him helplessly, unable to remind him of them. Kyros would be filled with fear.
Sig noticed Kyros's nervousness, but... actually, Sugar's abilities aren't that scary.
Once you understand the effects of "Hobby-Hobby Fruit," its effectiveness is greatly reduced.
Even if the person who was affected forgets, they will always remember the "effect of the Hobby-Hobby Fruit." Even if they temporarily forget the identity of the toy in front of them, they will still believe the person in front of them because they know the "effect of the Hobby-Hobby Fruit."
Once everyone knows its effects, it can only "block memories," and cannot create the silent terror effect of the original work.
After Kyros gave in, Sig coaxed Rebecca, using some clever tricks to make her obsessed with the "magic wand," and then suddenly tapped her on the head with it...
Suddenly, the "film" in Rebecca's mind was knocked out, and at the same time, Rebecca fainted.
Before Kyros could even get anxious, Sig had already examined the "film" and, sure enough, found traces of "Photoshop" on it!
The events mainly occurred during the day today. Because Rebecca's memories had only been missing for a short time, Kyros and Scarlet did not immediately notice when they were regaining them, only realizing that they had "temporarily overlooked the child."
If the memory is truly blocked for several days or even longer, the Kyros couple will experience a strong memory conflict the moment Rebecca returns to normal, and thus realize the problem.
Now, Sig is gradually correcting Rebecca's memories—using hypnosis to stimulate Rebecca's subconscious, which then corrects her existing memories...
Sig also learned some lessons from Rebecca about the effectiveness of "memory blocking".
In Rebecca's memory film, it wasn't a playmate who was photoshopped out, but everything related to Sugar was distorted in Rebecca's memory!
For example, during the day, she was clearly transformed into a toy and playing with Sugar. However, because all memories of Sugar were blocked, Rebecca also forgot that she had become a toy and ended up playing alone in the forest...
Sig also roughly understood the underlying principle.
This isn't because Sugar performed any sophisticated operations or meticulously modified memories; rather, after completely blocking something out, because the memories are no longer coherent, humans naturally fill in reasonable "patches" in their minds.
Essentially, it involves shielding the core concepts and then relying on the human body's instinctive memory repair ability, or "brainpower," to create false memories in the details.
However, this part of the memory doesn't stand up to close scrutiny. If you try to recall it carefully, it feels a bit incongruous—after all, in toy form, you can't feel temperature changes, and it's also quite strange to have fun playing by yourself.
Just like in the original work, after Kyros was turned into a toy, every gladiator would be puzzled by his statue in front of the Corrida Colosseum.
He should be a very important person, and it hasn't been long since I saw the sculpture, so how come I have absolutely no recollection of him?
However, whenever I notice something off, I subconsciously glide past it and ignore it.
This ability to "block memories" is indeed very interesting and has greatly inspired Sig.
Because it doesn't specifically target a particular person, but rather, after blocking a specific person, a memory barrier will appear in the memories of everyone associated with that person...
This led Sig to think of the "Void Century"—a period during which all records of the past century vanished, and no one Record anything in any other form except for ancient Poneglyph...
To Sig's relief, Sugar not only showed no ill intent, but according to Rebecca's memories, Sugar simply happened to know Rebecca and they hit it off.
The two had agreed to go out and play together, but Rebecca was troubled because her Mom wouldn't let her go out. So Sugar came up with a good idea to help her best friend "skip home".
Although Sig couldn't use his Observation Haki to read Sugar's emotions since he hadn't seen her in person, Sig repeatedly examined Sugar's expressions in Rebecca's memories and was basically certain that she was acting purely out of childish motives, without any ulterior motives...