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Hashimoto Kotone can no longer remember how she got rid of the resentful spirit.

She looked at her hands, still trembling.

It seems like you can still smell gunpowder on your fingertips.

Hashimoto Kotone never thought that she could kill a resentful spirit with her own hands.

Still use a pistol.

This feeling.

".It's just like the feeling of pleasure when the protagonist blows off the villain's head with one shot in "The Hobo with O"."

"No, Hashimoto-san, please don't use this weird B-movie metaphor, no one will understand it."

Ariko Asano complained.

"Ah, I'm sorry, it should be said that it was the tragic feeling when Gunbasta opened his breastplate and stuffed the shrinkage furnace into the core of Jupiter's bomb in "Beyond Peak O"."

Hashimoto Kotone bowed his head and apologized.

"Even if it were replaced by animation, today's children would have never seen animation from 30 years ago."

Asano Ariko twitched the corner of her mouth.

"No, I've seen it before. Well, let's put it this way, I did have a similar feeling when I fired the gun for the first time."

Qiao Qiao touched his chin and thought.

"The teacher has actually seen it?"

Ariko Asano suddenly felt that the teacher who seemed serious and only thought about removing spirits and weapons might be unexpectedly proficient in some aspects.

"Well, as learning materials."

Increased spiritual power by one standard unit.

Qiao Qiao did not say specifically.

He looked at Hashimoto Kotone and took the pistol back from her hand.

"Hashimoto-san, as you can see, no matter whether it is a resentful spirit or an evil spirit, as long as it is killed, it will die."

"You have such power. As long as you spend time and learn how to use firearms and learn shooting techniques, it is very simple to remove spirits."

Hearing Qiao Qiao's words, Hashimoto Kotone seemed to understand.

Can you really get rid of spirits?

Wouldn’t it be a little weird to use a firearm to remove spirits?

"You see, most of the time, witches use bows to shoot spiritual arrows to eliminate spirits, but bows and arrows themselves are weapons from the old era. Later, crossbows evolved, and then guns and cannons. These can be said to be bows and arrows. The evolved body.”

Qiao Qiao explained.

"It is reasonable for a witch to use weapons to remove spirits."

It seems to make sense.

Hashimoto Kotone is confused and confused.

Indeed, archery is a compulsory course for shrine maidens to learn. In addition to using royal coins and kagura bells to remove spirits, what shrine maidens use most is the Japanese bow.

Bows and arrows are weapons, and so are pistols.

Bows and arrows can remove spirits, but why can't pistols remove spirits?

Rather, it seems more convenient to use a pistol that only takes a few minutes to master than a bow and arrow that requires several years of practice.

In addition to thinking about these things, Hashimoto Kotone is also thinking about other things at the moment.

Isn't this the same setting as "HOllsing" about killing spirits with a pistol?

Speaking of which, in "Sister O", the nun uses a pistol to exorcise spirits?

I imagined myself holding two huge pistols and fighting against monsters in the moonlight.

Hashimoto Kotone suddenly felt that it was not so unacceptable.

"However, I am still very afraid of those resentful spirits. If I hold a weapon, I may hurt other people in a hurry."

She was still hesitant.

Although the spirit can be easily eliminated with a pistol, Hashimoto Kotone is timid and has difficulty keeping calm in such a scary environment where ghosts are haunted.

She still has this kind of self-awareness, and she won't be dazzled by the fact that she just blew off a vengeful spirit's head with a pistol, and feels that she has fully grown up.

"It's very simple."

Qiao Qiao spoke directly without thinking.

"Just keep your distance from the evil spirits."

"If three meters doesn't work, just ten meters. If ten meters doesn't work, just one hundred meters."

"Hashimoto-san, do you feel afraid of ghosts that are more than a thousand meters away from you?"

"?"

Hashimoto Kotone doesn’t understand.

"I see."

Ariko Asano understood.

It's scary when a resentful spirit stands in front of you.

But when the ghost is far away from you and can only be seen through a screen or lens, then there is no difference between the ghost and the movie.

It can even be regarded as an extremely realistic shooting game.

The teacher's idea was probably to let Hashimoto-san learn long-distance shooting techniques.

"look."

Qiao Qiao searched Google on his mobile phone and found a picture.

"This is a CS/LR4 sniper rifle produced in China. It adopts a 7.62mm caliber, has a floating barrel for shooting, and a rotating rear-pull bolt. In addition to the ordinary optical sight, it can also be equipped with a low-light image intensifier. Even in the dark night, the target can be seen visually.”

"Although this sniper rifle is very heavy and has only five rounds of ammunition in the magazine, which is not suitable for actual combat, it is more than enough for the work of removing ghosts."

"More importantly, this sniper rifle has high accuracy. At a distance of 100 meters, the spread of three bullets is no more than two centimeters. As long as you practice diligently, at a distance of 800 meters, it is enough to cause damage to resentful spirits. A devastating blow.”

"This is the equipment recommended to me by my boss recently. However, I am not very good at using sniper rifles, so I don't pay special attention to it. But I believe you, Hashimoto-san, will be able to use it easily."

Qiao Qiao glanced at the impact points of Hashimoto Kotone's previous bullets.

It just depicts the shape of a wraith.

To be able to miss a shot when using a pistol for the first time is, to a certain extent, a talent.

"?"

Looking at the picture in Qiao Qiao's hand.

Hashimoto Kotone raised countless question marks.

Sniper rifle?

Forget about the pistol, what about the operation of the sniper rifle?

Is it okay for the miko to use a sniper rifle?

"In the past, bows and arrows were used to snipe enemies from a distance, and sniper rifles were also used to snipe enemies from a distance."

Isn't this the same thing?

Qiao Qiao explained.

Hashimoto Kotone seemed convinced.

Since witches can use bows and arrows to kill spirits, it makes sense to use sniper rifles.

It can be said that sniper rifles are modern bows and arrows?

These are actually not the point.

The point is, the process of eliminating the resentful spirit just now was quick and concise.

Hashimoto Kotone felt that it had just begun and it was already over.

To her, the terrifying, terrifying, and dangerous spirit was actually so vulnerable to bullets.

Even Hashimoto Kotone, who has failed to remove spirits many times, has the blood of resentful spirits on her hands at this moment.

There is no turning back.

She thought so.

The hands have been stained.

Next, all we can do is move forward.

Hashimoto Kotone looked into Qiao Qiao's sincere eyes and nodded.

"Please teach me the technique of removing spirits."

she said sincerely.

"no problem."

Qiao Qiao replied.

In this way, it is one.

In the afternoon, Qiao Qiao and others returned to the shrine.

The remaining three witches were doing their regular practice in the morning and completing the homework assigned by Qiao Qiao.

Haruka Sasaki has the highest score, but he is only in his early eighties.

I saw Nanase just one point short of passing.

Kitagawa Ryoko was the worst, less than thirty points.

By the way, Maki Araki, who was in charge of supervision, also did some test papers herself.

As for the scores, I am embarrassed to announce them.

Seeing Hashimoto Kotone back, everyone was confused.

Why does it feel like Kotone-chan is different?

Although there was no communication, it was obvious that there had been some changes between Hashimoto's sound now and yesterday's.

What did Qiao Qiao do to Hashimoto Kotone?

I saw Nanase looking at Qiao Qiao early in the morning, only to find that he was looking at me.

She couldn't help but sneeze.