Awakening
January 20, 1514.
Sig awoke from his deep sleep.
Here it is...
The Impel Down has six levels...
In Golden Lion Shiki's private room...
Shiki's dream!
Sig glanced over and saw Shiki in his dream, single-handedly beating Roger, Garp, and Sengoku, with the corpse of Fish-Man already hacked to pieces beside him...
Ignoring this guy's daydreaming, Sig checked the time...
January 20, 1514.
"Huh? A year and three months have already passed? The God's Sequence... has already advanced! It really was the final ritual. Did something go wrong?" Sig muttered to himself.
The first piece of good news that Sig was relieved to hear was that he had been promoted to Sequence 5!
The bad news is...
Its own "subject" has lost contact.
That's right, the current Sig, while still Sig and not someone else, nor a clone in the usual sense, is indeed Sig's consciousness, but not Sig's main body, but rather... Gungnir Sig!
Gungnir is essentially the split half of Sig's soul; it is not Virtual Personality, but rather his true other self.
Generally speaking, the memories of the two are completely synchronized, even if they have been separated.
On Svalbard Island, after Sig "pierced" the Golden Lion with Gungnir, he did not retrieve Gungnir. Instead, he left this spear, which was an embodiment of himself, in the Golden Lion's dream. Even Shiki himself was unaware of this!
Ever since the "Tyrant Path" ritual appeared, Sig has had a vague sense of unease.
Therefore, Sig guessed that this might not just be because the ritual itself was dangerous, but rather... a very ominous sign, a warning from his own Spirituality!
However, if you keep delaying the ritual, you will only drift further and further away from the Tyrant Path, making it increasingly difficult to complete the ritual.
Therefore, Sig decisively left himself a backup plan...
Sig had long predicted that if the Golden Lion were captured again, he would most likely be imprisoned back in the Impel Down. Moreover, the way he escaped before was something that could not be repeated—for example, right now, his Seastone shackles were locked around his neck!
With his legs chained to his ankles, he could break them himself, but with his head chained to his neck, could he really rip off his own head and escape?
The reason their memories are out of sync is that before Sig officially began the ritual, he had already given strong Psychological Suggestion to both the main body and Gungnir... these two "selves"!
It puts Gungnir to sleep, and makes the body's instincts forget themselves.
Otherwise, if half of oneself is absent, it cannot be considered "going all out," and without the condition of "going all out," the ritual of the "Tyrant Path" is difficult to complete!
Only if Sig himself forgets about it can the condition be considered met, and for the subject Sig to forget so completely, Gungnir Sig must also be completely unconscious...
The reason "Gungnir Sig" has awakened is because the conditions for awakening have been triggered. There are three conditions: first, Sig's main body has completely lost contact; second, Sig has advanced to Sequence 4; and third, Sig's main body has also entered the Impel Down!
If any one of these three conditions is met, Gungnir Sig will wake up.
If it's the second scenario, then everything is going smoothly, and Sig has already advanced to Sequence 4. In that case, the Psychological Suggestion he gave himself when he was in Sequence 6 will naturally become ineffective, and it's time for Sig to reclaim that half of his soul.
In the third scenario, either Sig's main body is arrested, or Sig's main body finds an opportunity to break him out of prison. In this case, Gungnir Sig can certainly cooperate.
The worst-case scenario is the first one, which could very well mean that the subject is already "dead"!
So Sig must find a way to use this half of his soul to regain his flesh and blood, to become whole again, that is... to be resurrected!
This is the first scenario...
Fortunately, Sig sensed something at that moment...
This isn't the worst-case scenario.
Although he didn't know the subject's condition, Sig sensed that the subject was definitely still alive, but had completely lost consciousness, which severed the connection between the two mysterious entities!
"After advancing to Sequence 5, he didn't play any role at all? Sure enough, something went wrong when he completed the ceremony! But... it seems like he didn't just advance?" Sig muttered to the "mirror" in his mind.
Sig felt as if the promotion had been going on for over a year—meaning that Sig had already completed the ritual not long after Gungnir fell into a deep sleep under self-suggestion.
However, something must have already happened by then, otherwise I wouldn't have made no progress at all.
But the complete breakdown of his consciousness didn't happen until more than a year later... which is exactly what just happened!
Unfortunately, because Gungnir Sig had already fallen into a deep sleep before the ritual began, Sig is now unaware of who he attacked in order to complete the ritual.
I have no idea what happened in the year that followed.
"I need to figure out what I did before, and then get my body back!" Sig muttered.
After sorting out her thoughts, the most important thing for Sig now is to figure out what happened during the year and three months she had no memory of, and then... "rescue" her completely unconscious self!
The main body is definitely not in a good state right now, but that's not the point. Since it's still alive, then in the power system of the One Piece world, it can only be sealed by some kind of Devil Fruit ability at most.
In terms of the limits of Devil Fruit ability, as long as Sig's half of his soul is restored, any seal can be broken!
Although Sig can now possess other people's bodies and even reverse the relationship between spirit and flesh to New Life his original body, Sig doesn't want to give up his previous body if there's still a chance to reclaim it, since it was one he trained for a long time.
Furthermore, regarding his Devil Fruit ability, although Sig can currently utilize them, the Devil Fruit within his main consciousness is now sealed, preventing Sig from using them freely and limiting him to only extracting a portion... which is essentially equivalent to his Devil Fruit ability not Awakening!
In terms of pure strength...
Sig is about the same as he was a year and three months ago!
Previously, Sig's strength was largely due to the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, and Sig's development of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit around tempering his body. Now that his body is gone, it's as if that part of his combat power has been wiped out. In addition, the Prison-Prison Devil Fruit ability that he had already Awakening has now been reduced to its original form, so it can be said that he has suffered a heavy loss.
However, at the same time, Sig's Paths of the Divine advanced to Sequence 5!
Visionary - Dreamwalker, White Tower - Secret Art Master, Tyrant - Ocean Songster, Sun - Priest of Light, Hanged Man - Shepherd...
Even if the "sealed" main body cannot be found, as long as Sig stabilizes and redevelops the abilities of Sequence 5, he can quickly grow stronger than before.
Sig doesn't want to do that yet—with Sig Sequence 5 "The Hanged Man Path" abilities, he can't maintain two "Self-Flesh and Blood" bodies.
If Sig were to reverse his spirit into flesh and blood now, gradually generating a new body, his previous body would also gradually transform into "non-self flesh and blood."
Unless Sig feels that retrieving it is too difficult, he doesn't want to simply "reboot".