Talk:King Crimson/@comment-33951421-20180707043906

Basically, the timeframe between King Crimson activating his power and after the 10 second time gets squished together, effectively snuffing out anything in between. The notion of people not retaining memory isn't really true, because if time is erased then it didn't happen. You can't forget something that never happened. Anything that happens in erased time (like getting hit) also never happens, which is why King Crimson is indeed invincible in a one-on-one.

"It is worth noting that King Crimson is never shown to directly interact with people until time returns to normal, as opposed to The World, which is able to interact with the whole physical realm while time is stopped."

King Crimson can, it just doesn't matter. The effect of hitting someone never happening also applies to Diavolo himself, which is why he doesn't bother trying, if it did matter, he would have Kakyoin'd everyone as soon as they fought him.