...I've thought about what you told us, a little. About what Diavolo could do, what it was like. You can...take this however you want to, get pissed at the arrogance or find it reassuring, whatever. But. ...I think, if I had to, I could beat him.
[Little things, after all, do keep him up at night, and this was one he'd mulled over at length — the difference between stopping time and erasing it, the mechanics of a battle where both participants are manipulating time, whether the ability to erase could act on something that had already ceased to move.
Before he'd known what Gold Experience (Requiem) could do, he'd assumed that Giorno must've had time-related powers of his own. It was a logical conclusion, between his relationship to Dio and the enemy he'd had to defeat with them.
But now, he realizes, he's going to be back to wondering again — not out of apprehension, but because it's always the little things like this that preoccupy him: which would outdo the other, if they were to meet head to head? Could Giorno's Stand reset time that had stopped, and force it to move again?
He'll think about that more later, assuming he hasn't destroyed the relative peace they have going with his thoughts. But if Diavolo is their mutual benchmark for powerful, then professing confidence in defeating him speaks a lot about the nature of his own Stand, while saying very little in the realm of how.]
...Yeah. Pretty constantly, I wonder. Half the time I think it's got to be some kind of mistake.
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[Little things, after all, do keep him up at night, and this was one he'd mulled over at length — the difference between stopping time and erasing it, the mechanics of a battle where both participants are manipulating time, whether the ability to erase could act on something that had already ceased to move.
Before he'd known what Gold Experience (Requiem) could do, he'd assumed that Giorno must've had time-related powers of his own. It was a logical conclusion, between his relationship to Dio and the enemy he'd had to defeat with them.
But now, he realizes, he's going to be back to wondering again — not out of apprehension, but because it's always the little things like this that preoccupy him: which would outdo the other, if they were to meet head to head? Could Giorno's Stand reset time that had stopped, and force it to move again?
He'll think about that more later, assuming he hasn't destroyed the relative peace they have going with his thoughts. But if Diavolo is their mutual benchmark for powerful, then professing confidence in defeating him speaks a lot about the nature of his own Stand, while saying very little in the realm of how.]
...Yeah. Pretty constantly, I wonder. Half the time I think it's got to be some kind of mistake.