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Sky wasn't as soft as Gonad had been thinking. He may not have possessed the same physique that Gonad did but one didn't always need to be a mountain of rippling, muscled, flesh in order to exert tremendous amounts of power when it came to close quarters combat. It was true that Sky had to divert his attention between both offense and defense since his opponent counter attacked but that still meant the strike planted itself firmly within the berserkers body. He'd get a sense of the condition of Gonad's form that went far beyond what the eye could see and the ears could hear. Sky needed to plant that fist upon the torso in order to get the best idea of what he was actually dealing with. It was all tense, firm, strong muscles that promised pain with the amount of power that they could exert. Unlike Gonad Sky's musculature was smaller, but it was densely corded muscle wound around a very durable skeleton. Sky could exert incredible force even with the slightest of movements which coupled with his natural ability to manipulate his internal energy.

Much like the principle of Kinetic Linking that boxers used to generate power at the ball of the foot and built it up over the course of their body to release it in a punch, Sky could draw kinetic force from the smallest movement and run it through his form so that it'd be amplified when it was released. So that strike that met the attempted 'bitch slap' would find itself met with equal, not lesser or greater, force. One would assume, if they could sense it, that guiding kinetic energy from one area of the body to another would lower the amount of said energy where it was pulled from. Normally they would be correct. But since Sky's body had now been spiritually charged, due to what he did earlier on the bouncy castle, he had an ample supply that wasn't going to run out anytime soon. Upon contact with the slap he felt his hand, bone and all, shake but a bruise wasn't much for him to worry about.

As for the attempted grab the left hand that had blocked would pull back slightly away from it, raise up to a minor degree, and exert tremendous force in a downward deflection in the form of a push. It merely held, what he felt, was an adequate amount of force to push the hand that attempted the grab away. At the same time the punch that had landed in Gonad's torso, more specifically the fist that had delivered the punch would be brought back to chamber at his right side as the barbarian took that deliberate and heavy step forward. Once more the bouncy house shifted around them, since air was being displaced all around them. It shifted first when the foot was lifted, even a little, off of the ground allowing some of the air to return to the point where the right foot had once been forcing it out. This, temporarily, would marginally level out the ground in the instant that it'd take Gonad to step forward.

The momentary level out was something that Sky took advantage of, shifting his weight backward so that he'd open up some distance between the two of them. It would be enough of a distance traveled that would put them at the same range they had been before the step forward was taken, Sky wanted Gonad to think he was uncomfortable with being so close. The pose the man took spoke of an over exaggerated punch, perhaps a haymaker, but would he allow himself to be telegraphed in such a way? Maybe, considering how he ate the punch earlier. Regardless, even on the unstable ground that was slanted toward Gonad, Sky seemed to have no problem rooting himself in place with his left foot forward and his right in the rear, knee bent to accommodate for the slope, once more his guard was up as it seemed he had planned to meet whatever it was that Gonad was planning.