Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1739368-20121205124732/@comment-29926254-20161022224738

CtrlAltSandwich wrote: The best explanation I've seen for KC is as follows:

Diavolo "Erases" time for everyone but himself. In the erased time, he can see what everybody else will do, and what will happen after the "Erased" time ends. While in "Erased" time, he is immune to attacks, and can move around, but the second he attacks, the erased time ends. Furthermore, everyone else will carry on with what they were doing before, but will not remember what they just did. In essence, Diavolo is immune to "fate" while in erased time.

Pretty much, but he does not "resumes" time, when he attacks, he waits until time "resumes" and then attacks. Look at the battle with Polnaref. Diavolo sprinkles blood at place where Polnarefs eyes will end up being and is saying something like "When time resumes my blood will end up in his eyes". If he could stop erasing time at any time by attack, why wait? And if that was the case, than in nearly 100% situations Diavolos enemy would end up dead, because at the moment KC hits you will have a hole in your chest, Polnaref  would be fucked, but that does not happends. Diavolo just sees the future, so he knows where enemy will be in the moment of time erase end, so he positions himself perfectly.