I should have been able to win no matter HOW rigged it was. [Yes, he's a little bitter, but her question takes him away from those thoughts as he tries to come at an answer.]

It feels like a couple of months. It's really hard to tell, honestly. Twilight Town is always dark, Traverse Town is always sunlight, and the Mother of Invention is a Lunar Whale that's far away from anything. There's no days... But a couple of months feels right.

[So not several, but quite some time from his perspective. A very lonely time, at that, though he didn't ever really allow himself to think of it.]