The Invisible Punch Technique (And the Practical Uselessness)
As the elite team sped towards the fortress, flying and leaping over trees with inhuman agility, Goku had a brief moment to reflect on his encounter with the tracksuit guy, Kazuma.
He recalled the lesson he tried to give him while they waited for Kaguya to prepare the GFP-1.
"Look, Kazuma. You have a normal body, but if you focus, you can feel the energy inside you. That's Ki. It's like an invisible punch!" Goku had pointed his index finger at a small pebble on the ground and released a tiny, but perfectly concentrated, Ki blast, pulverizing it.
Kazuma, sitting cross-legged, made a face of concentration. He tried to mimic Goku's movement.
"Like this? I'm concentrating really hard. I feel... I just feel clumsy."
Kazuma released a bit of his Mana, which was so weak it barely moved the air. Instead of an energy attack, the Mana manifested as a small gust of dirty wind.
"No, no, buddy. You have to focus it, like a laser!" Goku said enthusiastically.
"Look, in this world, there's something much simpler and more useful," Kazuma said, glancing sideways at Goku. He got into a fighting stance, whispered a word, and extended his hand. "Steal!"
Goku blinked, confused by the strange language.
Instead of stealing something from an opponent, Kazuma's spell simply activated the ability. The spell, by its nature, targeted the most valuable or intimate object in the field. The object, in this case, was Goku's orange belt.
SNAP!
The belt vanished and appeared in Kazuma's hand.
Goku laughed heartily. "Hey! What a neat trick! But that's not for fighting, that's stealing!"
"Exactly. In this world, the most useful skill is not strength or magic, but practical uselessness," Kazuma retorted, handing the belt back. "Thanks for the lesson, Master. But I prefer my way. If the Demon King has a valuable weapon, I'll steal it!"
Goku smiled. He didn't understand the logic, but he admired the spirit.
II. The Sticky Infiltration
Aqua's "Mega Dimensional Purification" had been a resounding success as a distraction. The Demon King's Castle, a black stone colossus, now looked like a trembling, slightly glowing blue jelly giant under the moonlight.
The smell of citrus and vanilla was overwhelming.
"This is nauseating. My mind is suffering sensory assault," complained Tatsumaki, using her telekinesis to create a personal force field that repelled the jelly.
"The jelly is purifying, but not adhesive. Our Ki and Magic suits repel it," said Erza, re-equipped with reinforced leather armor, more flexible for infiltration. "But the guards..."
Indeed, the guards trying to clean the wall were slipping comically. Some were stuck to the floor by their feet. The chaos was total.
Kaguya led the charge, consulting her thermal map. "The Heart of Gaia is inside a crystal chamber in the central tower. The most stable Ki concentration is in the main hall—it must be the General. He's the only one not panicking about the cleanup."
They reached the great hall, which was a mess of jelly-covered furniture. In the center, a man dressed in impeccable silver armor (and without a speck of jelly) was agitatedly speaking to a group of demonic servants.
This was Sir Zeld, General of Logistics and Order for the Demon King, known for his impeccable obsession with protocol and cleanliness.
"This is unacceptable! This substance has a pH of 7.5 and is neutralizing the defense runes! I want you to clean this with holy water, then with neutral soap, and finally with a level five armor polish! My report to the Demon King will be disastrous!"
III. The Clash of Irritation (Tatsumaki vs. Zeld)
Sir Zeld turned around and found himself face-to-face with the invasion team: a muscular, smiling man (Goku), a scarlet-haired mage (Erza), a floating, furious girl (Tatsumaki), a silent duelist (Akiha), and a strange engineer (Kaguya).
Zeld was not fazed by the threat, but by the lack of etiquette.
"Stop! Invaders! How dare you enter private property without wiping your boots? You are contaminating my marble floor! And the jelly is leaving artificial coloring residue!"
Goku tried to be kind. "Excuse us. We don't want trouble. We just want a crystal you have here. If you give it to us, we'll leave!"
"The crystal is subject to strict inventory! And your attitude is Class F on the Invasion Etiquette scale!" Zeld screamed, pulling out a cleaning staff.
Zeld, far from being a warrior, was a bureaucrat with a ridiculous defense spell.
"General Spell: Order and Neatness!" Zeld shouted.
The spell didn't summon fire or lightning. Instead, it invoked a wave of Mana intended to... organize the enemy.
The Mana hit Erza, and for an instant, her Re-quip Armor tried to reorganize itself alphabetically within her dimensional space.
The Mana hit Goku, and the Ki in his body tried to align itself into a perfect grid.
The Mana hit Tatsumaki.
CLANK!
Tatsumaki, already on the verge of hysteria from the smell of vanilla, the inn's dirty rug, and the low-quality Mana, could not bear her enemy's attempt to order her psychic energy.
"You... you dare try to organize me?! I am a natural phenomenon of destruction and chaos, not a bookcase!" Tatsumaki's scream was more of a pure psychic outburst.
Before Zeld could blink, Tatsumaki unleashed her power. She didn't attack him, she didn't crush him. She simply used her telekinesis to strip him of his armor, his clothes, and his ridiculous cleaning staff. Then, without touching his body, she encased him in a perfectly spherical layer of citrus-flavored blue jelly.
"Clean it all up! To the very last millimetre!" Tatsumaki commanded.
Sir Zeld, trapped in his gelatinous prison, kept shouting, now about the material's integrity. "This jelly must be disposed of in a Type C container! This is a violation of toxic waste protocols!"
IV. The Next Stop
"Analysis: Threat neutralized by extreme irritation," Kaguya declared.
The team quickly headed to the central tower. The crystal chamber was protected by a simple security spell. Kaguya dismantled it in seconds, revealing the fragment they were looking for.
It was a fist-sized crystal, emitting a dark and concentrated, but incredibly stable, energy.
"This is the Heart of Gaia that Kaguya used. An S-Class anchor piece. We take it, and we fly," Kaguya said, storing the crystal in a shielded compartment.
"What about the Demon King?" asked Goku.
"The Demon King is just the guardian. His castle is no longer functional. Come. We can't waste any more time with frogs, jelly, or bureaucrats," Kaguya said.
With the mission complete, the team prepared for a dimensional jump, leaving Axel and the KonoSuba dimension in a citrusy and delicious chaos.
End of the Sixth Act.