"Huh? A talking doll?" Monet looked at the Sugar in front of him in surprise.
"Sister! It's me... Sugar, Sugar! I'll never make you angry again..."
"Sugar? Your name is Sugar? Are you the 'fairy' the Drosrosa people talk about? Why did you climb in through the pipe?" Monet asked curiously.
The Tontatta people ... turns out he's not only short, but also looks like a toy?
"I'm Sugar! I'll be good from now on, I promise I won't run away from home again..." Sugar frantically tried to explain and promise.
Just then, footsteps came from the corridor. "Sugar? Sugar, are you there? Has anyone seen my doll?"
A truly bizarre scene unfolded... In the thin mist, Sig, dressed as Vampire, carrying a lantern, slowly approached, calling out, "Find the doll!"
Sugar quickly patted herself and transformed back into a human.
"Ah!" Monet was startled again, then realized what she meant and said, "So it's an ability user... Is it your friend looking for you?"
Logically, even under Sig's hypnosis, taking advantage of Monet's confused memories to erase the memories of her having seen him, Monet should have found it strange to see a "Vampire" appearing in the Golden Mansion, walking out of the fog and muttering something about "finding a doll."
However, Sig secretly used Psychological Suggestion at this moment. Monet frowned at first upon hearing it, but after a moment of distraction, she naturally responded, "Is it your doll? It's over here..."
"Sister... you..." Sugar was almost scared out of her wits.
The footsteps grew closer, and Sugar, having no time to explain, rushed out the window.
If it weren't for Sig's "interference," the sound of the window breaking alone would have attracted Tesoro's attention.
Monet watched as the "doll ability user" jumped out of the window and escaped, a wave of doubt washing over him, followed by bewilderment...
Sig's hypnotic ability wasn't quite at the level of instantly hypnotizing a person with superpowers—though it could be used on an ordinary person.
Monet's willpower, though not particularly strong, was provided with some additional mental resistance by her Devil Fruit... even though the "Snow-Snow Fruit" did not possess any mental authority.
Sig estimated that it was probably due to the "Devil Fruit," since there was an extra will within his body compared to ordinary people.
As for Tesoro, his mental resistance is second only to those who possess "Conqueror's Haki"—because after the Devil Fruit ability Awakening, the fruit's Devil will is completely dependent on the user!
The reason Monet was able to be hypnotized so quickly was mainly because, at the level of the "Sea of Collective Subconscious," the area around her mental island was in turmoil and had not yet calmed down, making her susceptible to hypnosis.
After Sig told her to forget what had just happened, Monet was suddenly shivered by a cool breeze. As a Devil Fruit ability, Monet didn't feel cold, but she had a vague feeling that she had forgotten something important.
"When did the window break?" Monet wondered as he tidied the room.
I feel so tired this night. Sometimes I feel like I've been to a bar, and other times I feel like I'm lecturing someone. I don't want to sleep at all.
"Hmm?" Monet noticed a few words written on a sticky note on the table while tidying up the room.
At first glance, it did appear to be written in the official script of the One Piece world, but upon closer inspection, not a single word was readable. Monet then instinctively crumpled up the note with writing on it and threw it away, forgetting all about it...
The lasting effect of the "Hobby-Hobby Fruit" is to completely isolate the target's mental island from the Sea of Collective Subconscious, after which all past interactions with other mental islands will be ignored.
In other words, whatever Sugar wrote before, or whatever others Record about her, will be ignored—this is the "decision" of the collective Sea of Collective Subconscious, which no normal sentient being can avoid.
Just as the saying goes, "He who masters the Sea of Collective Subconscious will master all the coincidences in the world," when a person's mental island is completely detached from the Sea of Collective Subconscious, all the ripples he has created in the past will be erased...
Sugar fell from the second floor and sprained her ankle, but she still limped away.
Clearly, in her heart, if Sig caught her again, she would really have no chance.
As for Sig...
Of course, it was intentional that he didn't catch the Sugar right away!
Otherwise, they would have arrived in the Flash of Lightning; how could they have failed to catch an ordinary little girl?
Sugar, still with a childlike mindset, didn't think about why this powerful Vampire couldn't catch her. She only knew that she absolutely couldn't be caught, and also... she had to be remembered!
Unfortunately, the former was something Sig did intentionally, while the latter... was impossible to achieve!
When normal Sugar autonomously transforms itself back into a human, it can selectively restore connections to the mind island.
It is only effective when used on "oneself". For other people who have been turned into toys, turning them back into humans will inevitably restore their connection with all the islands of the mind. There is no selectivity.
Otherwise, if one could freely manipulate all the islands of the mind, the Hobby-Hobby Fruit would be far too powerful.
However, Sugar can no longer achieve either selective or complete recovery.
From the perspective of the "Sea of Collective Subconscious," Sugar's island of the mind is surrounded by several whirlpools.
If it were Sequence 4, or even a Sequence 5 or Sequence 6 Beyonder, as long as they possessed authority at the Mind Body level, breaking through Sig's blockade wouldn't be too difficult.
However, Sugar, as a Devil Fruit ability, is strong enough in her individual ability, but she lacks a wide range of methods and is completely helpless.
The island of the mind, which cannot be recreated, sends out a "signal" —Sugar has been isolated from the "Sea of Collective Subconscious"!
Sig chased after her at a leisurely pace, but Sugar ended up with injuries all over her body—partly due to nervousness, and partly because her stamina was no different from that of an ordinary little girl.
Sugar ran off to the outskirts of town to find her "new friend," but when Rebecca saw her, she didn't recognize her at all...
"Who are you...? If you don't mind, you can come in first. My Mom can heat up some curry for you." Although Rebecca didn't recognize Sugar, she still kindly spoke to the sister who was dressed in tattered clothes.
As for Scarlet, Kyros, and Violet, they deliberately did not appear— Violet saw what Sig was doing, and Sig knew she had seen it, tacitly approved of it, and then told his sister and brother-in-law.
Their impressions of "Sugar" all came from Sig's oral account. They had never actually seen Sugar. For them, "Sugar" was just a code name and not associated with real Sugar, so they didn't lose any memories of it.
However, knowing that Sig was "educating" this dangerous individual, they naturally pretended to know nothing.
Just as Sugar stood at the door, looking at Rebecca with teary eyes, a thin mist drifted in.
"Has anyone seen my doll? I'm looking for my doll..."
Sugar's pupils dilated violently, and she could no longer hold back, bursting into tears with a loud woof.
Violet couldn't help but stand up, after all, she had been watching the whole thing...