Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28702329-20181215114648/@comment-38952966-20200420172132

VinceC87 wrote: So, we know how The World works. Now, I'll try to explain how King Crimson works.

"Erasing Time" is more of a euphemism than anything. No time is truly erased. To people outside of King Crimson's ability, it would appear that time had skipped ten seconds or so. However, they haven't been "erased" completely, so to speak. For Diavolo (and those he introduces to his ability) the ten seconds pass normally. Diavolo is able to introduce or bring people into his time skip, that's how Bucciaratti was able to see himself. We'll get back to this. Anyway, anyone introduced to the erased time becomes exempt from fate. Apparently, everyone is fated to follow a certain path. However, when "time is erased," they need not follow this path. This is what Bucciarati saw when Diavolo erased time against him. He saw what would have been if he hadn't been introduced to the time erase, and he had the ability to act against that fate. A lot of Parts 5 and 6 revolve around fate, changing fate, etc. If someone is fated to die, they can avoid it by being in erased time. Doppio was going to be shot by Aerosmith, but because time was skipped, he was not affected by the bullets, which then hit Risotto. I speculate a similar thing happened to Narancia in the coliseum. First, time was erased. Then, Narancia was introduced to the erasure. Diavolo was then able to interact with him. He threw him against the iron bars, but because Narancia was exempt from fate, he basically started to float right through them. Then, Diavolo resumed normal time, Narancia was not considered exempt from fate anymore and was instantly skewered. Take solace in the fact that he probably felt no pain.

TL;DR: Diavolo (and others he chooses) can't be hurt when time is erased.

I believe you are mistaken on a few things.

You are correct in that Diavolo is invulnerable during erased time, however, I question his ability to bring others into his erased time world. Bucciaratti was able to see himself because Diavolo showed him Epitaph's prediction, not because he was brought into erased time. If he had, he wouldn't have seen himself ending up in the same fated positron, as he could now defy fate. It also wouldn't make much sense for Diavolo to bring Bruno into his erased time, where he could potentially defend himself.

I do not believe Diavolo can defy the fates of others, only himself. He was able to harm Narancia and Trish during erased time because they were fated to be harmed anyway, even if he hadn't erased time. He only erased time to confuse the people around him and hide his identity. Epitaph's prediction probably showed King Crimson throwing Narancia into the bars at the colosseum, so Diavolo erased time to hide his identity from the rest of the gang. However, since it was still Narancia's fate to be thrown into the bars, it still happened. Even if Diavolo did nothing during that erased time period, Narancia would still somehow get launched against the bars because that was always his fate.

If Diavolo could bring others into his erased time, he could have easily picked the gang off one by one when they were chasing Chariot Requiem. The fact that he had to wait until he could control the body he was in implied that only Diavolo himself can enter erased time.