Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28702329-20181215114648/@comment-46294907-20200708055013

This whole argument about "there is no time in time stop" is a total semantic drivel. Let's spell it again TIME STOP. Not the time destruction, disintegration or, ahem, erasure. S T O P. Water in your cup is still water, even if it doesn't flow. If there was no time, MiH wouldn't be able to shorten it. MiH does time acceleration of non-biological events. This doesn't alter perception or whatnot (quite the contrary, it forces you to keep it as is), it is clearly stated and shown that this stand speeds up time. The World does not create alternative dimension. Basing this notion solely on that single "The world of stopped time" fancy wording is insane, since It was stated to be the time stop far more often and acted accordingly. And even if it did, this dimension still operates inside of the main continuity, hence the reduction of its duration. There is time, and if it can be accelerated, it can also be skipped/erased. "Instantaneous" is also a measure of time.

Secondly, the whole "universal ability does not target directly" is also a total facility. I mean, it's in goddamn English! "Universal" and "direct" are not mutually exclusive, they are not antonyms. Nuclear holocaust can probably happen, and it will be the universal cleansing of our species, and it will affect me directly for sure.

And it doesn't even relevant at that point, just wanted to point out how poorly you mince words in here. It doesn't really matter if Diavolo erases or skips, it doesn't matter if events are "universal" or "direct". He exempt from causality while his ability is on. He is not an intractable object. That's why Aerosmith's bullets simply keep on flying (and that's why room/elevator/Narancia bits are weird). If any action takes place inside this erased time, it cannot affect Diavolo. Time will be stopped (for 0 or for 9 seconds), but it will make no difference.