Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28702329-20181215114648/@comment-28691302-20191029213213

Time stop doesn't happen in an "instant", it effectively doesn't happen at all. Actions that occur in stopped time can't be erased by King Crimson because time isn't flowing. King Crimson can erase it. DIO can stop time but is still bound to it. While KC is activated, Diavolo basically exists outside of time. So say, hypothetically speaking, the times where DIO uses Time Stop and Diavolo uses Time Erase overlap. Diavolo would be 'outside' of time anyways. As for ability interaction, time while stopped is just that, stopped. It still exists. But time being erased is something else all together. It's like pausing a video in a video editor compared to cutting a video. If you cut it, even the paused area you had before is gone