since the official translation of Vento Aureo finished I read it yesterday, and while looking to see if some other artbook info on GER had been translated came across this lol
Insane cope to try and say GER didn't activate its power in erased time, like, how the hell do you come to that conclusion even if you don't buy the infinite speed stuff??? If it didn't activate its power in erased time, its effects would not have resolved until afterwards, like Sticky Fingers' did since it wasn't able to act in that void.
GER speaking to Diavolo in the erased time shoots this down anyways, that has nothing to do with him negating events.
Just straight up not true
It's not like the "Diavolo temporal copies" are perceivable in normal time either. If GER was just activating before KC erased time, why would GER have free movement in this temporally displaced junction? Just doesn't add up and feels like far more of a reach than taking Diavolo's word at face value.
Also, Official translations also seem to make it clearer his time erasure is universal at least, so that's nice
Looked at the Bruno scans he posted and I'm pretty sure Diavolo just straight up...doesn't erase Bruno's actions here?
The "Trail of Brunos" is the motion of each instant of action he makes in time, Diavolo just stepped out of the way. Even if he did erase time here and the action still "happened" for some reason (the manga is inconsistent about this to be fair, when he erases time against Risotto, the bullets pass straight through him because the time they'd hit him didn't exist), this is clearly not the same thing that happens with GER, as Diavolo is seeing his trail of actions in erased time there and is shocked GER can move so????
Just feels like all these years later, people are still pressed GER will probably never be surpassed in the series.