“Huh. This is ridiculous. He’s entered a state of self-contemplation, which is neither meditation nor a trance… he’s just looking within himself, but he’s been able to stay in that state for three whole days?” Quiet Heaven looked at Merlin while saying the same thing that Mary, who guided Merlin during the DIO tutorial, had once said.

Self-contemplation, an advanced spiritual ability to look inside oneself, was an ability of a completely different concept from meditation or entering a trance-like state, which erased one’s distracting thoughts and allowed one to organize one’s thoughts.

If one had to describe what self-contemplation was most like, one would state that it was most similar to a trance state. However, unlike being in a trance where one’s sense of body awareness and time was much shorter than the actual time that passed, self-contemplation had the same sensory time flow as real time. In other words, time passed relatively quickly when one was in a trance state, allowing one to be in such a state for a longer period of time. Nevertheless, self-contemplation was a state in which beings could normally only be in for an hour at best, no matter how long they tried.

Yet Merlin...