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Touya somehow knew of Sakutarou (even though he had never known Maria at the same time as Sakutarou "existed")
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This is easy to explain.
Battler and Ange met when Ange was still a child. Ange said to Battler she had played with Maria and her stuffed lion Sakutarou, which Maria believes to be capable of talking but that, when she had gotten bored with Maria pretending Sakutarou could talk, she had informed her Kirye had told her Sakutarou couldn't talk.
Later Battler goes on Rokkenjima, there's the Rokkenjima incident, he becomes Toya and, among the fragments he remembers there's that Maria had a 'talking' stuffed lion.
Going on. While he was on Rokkenjima Prime he might have asked Rosa where was Maria's lion and she might have told him it broke but that she had made for her another which she had forgotten on the boat.
As Toya, after hearing rumors about how bad of a mother Rosa was he might have joined this bit of memory with the assumption Rosa broke Sakutarou and you have Sakutarou story.