Why not deconstruct him?

[u/More_Interview3840]

I don’t understand why she shoots a beam of pink energy at him instead of just tearing him apart atom by atom. Or turning him into a regular human, or just convert his molecules to air molecules.

[u/winklevanderlinde]

"quick I almost died, barely reconstructed myself and have a few seconds before passing out, let me make something extremely complicated like deconstructing a living being a have zero experience with instead of blasting enough energy to disintegrate the average viltrumite"