Ch. 81: Hanna Vs. Guldo

"Alright, you can beg for mercy, now. It'll make this a little more fun for me, probably." Guldo told me as soon as we landed on our 'battleground.'

I snorted, "You've really got this whole thing mixed up, toad-ball-man." He looked like an especially round toad horrifically mixed with a human, ergo: Toad-ball-man.

"You really wanna die, huh!? I was going to make your death quick in hopes that Recoome'd let me have a few hits in on Vegeta before he kills him, but I suppose you want to die first! HAAA!" A baby energy bomb flew out of his hand and... didn't hit me. Guldo really was worthless in anything that involved exercise. The energy attack was easy to dodge.

"Wow. Really strong. You're an inspiration to weak idiots everywhere." I said in monotone, "You fire energy balls like this. Watch carefully." I powered up. As I powered up, I could sense most of my allies doing the same thing, causing half of the planet to shake with our power. Now, I was using my entire 10,000 power level. "HAA!" I shot an energy ball at Guldo. A small one, that I knew he'd be able to dodge. 

"Time Freeze!" It honestly surprised me that he'd needed to stop time just to dodge that blast. I'd thought that his power level was 11,500, but was that including his time-freeze abilities? Was he actually even weaker than that? I watched him run away from the blast and shoot another one at me as he let go of the freeze.

"Still no." I swatted Guldo's blast away just as it reached me, having seen him launch it (I was the strongest thing in the current universe, no competition. Of course I could see through time-manipulation). "Did you actually stop time just to dodge my weakest blast?" I asked aloud.

"No! I'm just so fast that you couldn't see me move!" He shouted, trying to keep his dignity. It didn't work very well. We both knew that he was lying, after all. "That was your weakest blast?" He asked after a moment.

Now to make my decision. Do I allow Guldo to go to otherworld knowing how he got there, or do I have fun with him? What difficult choices we do stumble upon. 'Hey, Shay, which should I do?' I decided to explain my conundrum to Shay.

Shay's answer was 'Mistress's full effort on a random flunky!? Just because he has some annoying powers!? How dare he ever believe that he's worth it!? He should die like the bug he is, having been absolutely steamrolled by you, Mistress. Feeling the need to begin expending any effort just because he has stupid powers is absolute drivel. Of course, I would agree that the effort would be worth it if you were to absolutely extinguish his soul, but simply erasing the memory of being touched by god does not mean that you have not been blessed.'

She essentially went ballistic, so sealed my powers stayed. That would make this battle a little longer, and more difficult, but oh, well. I refuse to touch that deluge of hate spewing out of Shay with a ten-foot pole.

"Fine! You might have more energy than me, but it doesn't matter! You'll die all the same! Haaa-" He sucked in air, "TIME FREEZE!" He froze time, which meant that I wasn't to move my body. Then, he ran up to me and punched me in the gut a few times before unfreezing time. Surprisingly, it hurt, and I was blasted back into a rock. His physical power apparently was stronger than his normal energy blasts, but I knew that his trump card wasn't half as weak as he was. 

"Alright, so you can be dangerous." I muttered, climbing out of the rock, wiping a small trail of blood from my mouth. Physically, Guldo really was quite a bit stronger than me. Not that it mattered. "I just won't let you catch your breath!" I shouted, pushing off of the rock with my bare hands, shattering it as I flew towards Guldo. Naturally, he stopped time to avoid me, but I'd expected that. The moment that he resumed time again, he found a ball of ki headed his way, forcing him to stop time again with only about half of his breath, meaning that he didn't get far. 

Touching the ground where Guldo'd originally been, I blasted off in the direction that he was in now, gathering energy again. Over the next few minutes, Guldo and I played a deadly game of tag, where I'd follow him, he'd stop time to get away, then find an energy ball headed straight for him as soon as he unfroze time, forcing him to freeze time again. Naturally, it wore him down quickly. Finally, I could see his last nerve snap like a frayed wire. 

"Alright! You've done it now! MIND BIND!" Finally, I forced Guldo into a corner, and he used his special technique, Mind Bind, to stop me in my tracks. 

The ins and outs of Guldo's Mind Bind aren't explained in the anime. It's just played off as a part of Guldo's psychic powers, but it really isn't that simple. Despite the name Mind Bind, the technique isn't mental in nature. It actually freezes the space around you, in an extension of his time powers. A real shame, honestly. If Guldo had managed to actually master his powers, the fat toad would have become some sort of invincible master of time and space. Nobody before Dragon Ball Super would have been able to touch the guy, with that kind of power. Not that it mattered now. 

"Hahahahaha! I've got you now! You're absolutely-" Guldo started cackling and screaming with glee, seeing the end of the battle. I agreed. The battle was over.

'BOOOOOMMMMM!!!!!!' I wasn't stupid enough to fight Guldo in a head-on battle when he had his Mind Bind to fall back on, so I'd left huge gobs of energy on the ground at every single location that I'd touched while chasing the time-freezing idiot. The moment that he Mind Bound me and let down his guard, a truly stupid amount of energy leapt out from the ground around us and converged on Guldo's location, erupting in an fiery explosion that ended with a hole so deep that I couldn't see the bottom of it, at the exact spot that Guldo's body had been only a moment before. There was no chance that the toad-ball could have ever survived that.