Talk:Othinus/@comment-121.6.108.99-20140816165043/@comment-5230978-20140908105329

Well, Touma has always been a quick-thinker who thoroughly analyzes his opponents to exploit weak and strong points of them, and even of himself, to his advantage, so his plan is very Kamijou-like. Essentially, it's what he always did but on a larger scale. Add to this that he has one of the strongest willpower ever seen in japanese series and it wouldn't be a too absurd feat for him to concentrate enough to pull out what he did.

The problem lies in the too much long time lapses between his fights/deaths/pieces of experience. If nothing happened in these time lapses, ok, it would have also given Touma a lot of time to better analyze what he experienced and his next moves, but he had to go through millions of painful and fatal experiences, so how was he able to concentrate? He said "I subconsciously refused to accept the pain and fear I felt, so I rearranged the memories in my head to look like a fight following a single path." The second part could even be possible for him under the aformentioned "peaceful" circumstances, but the first, indipendently form the situation, would be possible only to a very limited extent for a human with a normal body and a normal mind.

I think one explanation would be the one I gaveyou  in my other post: that IT, become strong enough to partially "leak out", allowed him to resist. Another could be that his great willpower was so strong that for some unkown reasons it developed in a power (similarly to miracles), the so called "third power" on vol 22, but there would be too much inconsistency in this possibility.

The last option which I just came up with is that Touma, consciously or not, got accostumated to death. In vol 1 he underwent a sort of death with his memory's destruction, which kills his "previous self". In WW3 he also suffered a second death, but we don't know if he literally died and then somehow resurrected or if only a part of him died, just like his memory (though this last option doesn't sound probable as Touma didn't seem to have suffered any sort of change when he returns home). In NT9 he sufferes multiple death and near death experiences even before his first fight with Othinus. Just like he gained his precognition through experience in supernatural power-based battles, after dying so much times and is so much different ways he could have become now able to better resist the mental damage that horrifying loop of pain and death would have normally caused. It's crazy, but not so much considering Toaru's standards and similar precedents like Touma's precognition.