Although the imprinting process seemed long the truth was it only took a second, Layton drew himself out of his thoughts and then expanded his domain to cover his partners, Lilith and Zero noticed his actions and did not resist, they could naturally guess that Layton was planning to hide himself, although the special space seemed vast and littered with various domain there was no telling if someone possessed a special means to monitor what was going on inside and the ruckus created by Layton's imprinting was not small as some parameters of the universe had subtly been upgraded thanks to his actions.