It's already there because it travelled said distance to get there....
That's how it works if it skipped that distance or materialised the effect just on the target then we wouldn't have these.
That's contradicting it's nature which has already been established to ignore distance. What exactly are we saying here?
This is interesting because how exactly does one define "Conventional movement for Infinite speed" by convention something with mass can't be moving at SOL or beyond now if you are going to say "Well most Characters with Infinite speed are characters with mass that actually physically travel the distance" in that case sure but we are literally arguing for unconventional infinite attack speed with the un prefix before conventional so like....
Again no disrespect but c'mon,
You're conflating
instantaneous interaction with speed. Those are not inherently the same thing.
Infinite Speed still fundamentally involves movement/traversal. The whole point is that distance is crossed through velocity in zero time. X-Axis doesn't do that. It doesn't accelerate through space, it doesn’t traverse the gap, and it doesn't propagate from point A to point B. The attack simply ignores intervening distance altogether.
If distance is bypassed rather than crossed, then there is no speed involved to quantify in the first place. Saying “it hits instantly” is not enough. Teleportation also happens instantly, almost any hax quite literally happened instantly (as
@DontTalkDT already pointed out), but nobody calls teleportation Infinite Speed because no traversal occurred.
The “unconventional” argument doesn't fix this either. Unconventional Infinite Speed would still need to be a form of movement. Otherwise literally every spatial hax, portal attack, coordinate manipulation, or causality-based (this is Kumagawa) hit becomes Infinite Speed by default, which destroys the distinction between speed and hax entirely. The question isn't whether physics allows it (because for some reason you're applying science paper into this as if fiction follows them at all time). Fiction ignores physics all the time. The question is whether the mechanism is movement or spatial negation. And X-Axis is the latter.
No we don't ???
Kumagawa uses All Fiction to erase the very cause behind his movements meaning he takes no time to move in the sense that he does something like
[Cause] (I walk 5 metres to reach X) ---> [Effect](I reach X) and he erases that cause to reach X instantly thus travelling 5 metres which is completely different, he does a similar thing with Jakago where he spawns in screws by either seemingly Spawning them in or removing the cause behind or wtv, point is Kumagawa and X-axis is completely different.
Keyword “very similar”, I never said they're an exact pair. The point is that, similar cases such as “removing time-frame” or “ignoring distance” isn't quantifiable nor is it evident for it to be Infinite Speed, it's just hax.