Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1739368-20121205124732/@comment-4110939-20170525233943

My best guess is that "Is Diavolo able to do it without erasing time? If not, he can't manually interact with something in erased time."

He could've barged into the elevator and kidnapped Trish without needing to erase time, albeit Bucciarati might have attacked him immediately afterward. If he could not and Bucciarati is able to intercept him in time, then he couldn't touch Trish.

He could've killed Narancia and broke the bars needed to impale him without needing to erase time. If he could not without being intercepted or end up with Narancia defending himself, then he couldn't touch Narancia within the erased time.

Could he have dodged a punch from a Power-type Stand? Seems unlikely, so he erases time and protects himself from being punched, but cannot hit his attacker.

If Diavolo is in the middle of being attacked and therefore can't attack back, then an attack from him would not be put into effect within erased time.