Does she do anything BESIDES train?! [Action, Open]

[gunblade_grrl]

[Evening free hours find the SeeD cadet hard at work in the training room with her weapons, but unlike last semester there's something new; as her gunblades snap through the air, every once in a while there's a sharp report as of gunfire, and one of the blades jerks off at greater speed, almost randomly. It's clearly hard work; there's sweat

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[overclocking]

*Sion is in the training room as well. However, she has a completely different approach to gun toting. Her Barrel Replica has been loaded with regular bullets and she's taking her time shooting down monsters. It takes her a few seconds to aim, shoot, and kill and there's absolutely no emotion in it whatsoever.

What isn't being shown is that Sion's doing the math in her head. She's figuring out in her brain within seconds the advanced mathematics required for perfect aim. Not only that, but she's running multiple mathematical equations in her head at once.

It's a completely different approach to the same weapon. Sion looks so concentrated that it doesn't look like she's having any fun at all.*

[gunblade_grrl]

[Worn out as she is -- swinging around dual blades while trying to control the recoil from the trigger pulls is exhausting work, even with the Popeye-style forearms she's got -- Maria has finally slowed down enough to breath and catch a glimpse of her fellow trainee's technique. As usual, her interest goes to the weapon first.]

Is that a gun from your world, or did you pick it up here?

[She assumes naturally that Sion is off-world. It's the hair.]

[overclocking]

*Purple hair is pretty fabulous. But the strangest thing happens, Sion doesn't stop firing. Her reaction time doesn't slow at all either. She just carries on a conversation regardless.*

From my own world. I loaded it with this world's bullets, however, so it currently functions as a normal gun.

[gunblade_grrl]

{That IS a bit odd. But then again, of all the odd things Maria has seen in Garden since coming here, it isn't very high up.]

What does it normally fire?

[overclocking]

Bullets which act as a toxin that is the equivalent of the target's life force. However, for something like this, regular bullets are much more reasonable.

[gunblade_grrl]

W-wait, say that part again? Bullets that act like a toxin that... equals life force?

[overclocking]

*Sion stops firing, putting her gun back into the hostler that's fitted onto her waist.*

That is correct.

*She narrows her eyes as she says that. Sion really hates repeating herself.*

[gunblade_grrl]

How does that work? Is it magical?

[Curious Maria is utterly unaware that she's irritated.]

[overclocking]

Magical is the simplest way of putting it, I suppose.

*Maria is lucky, then.*

[gunblade_grrl]

That's... a really impressive weapon. Were they common at all? I'd think whichever side had more of those would just be terrifying, since they'd be so sure to win...

[overclocking]

It is a one of a kind. Like you said, it would be troublesome if more than one existed.

[gunblade_grrl]

Wow.

How did you get it? Uh, if you don't mind my asking!

[overclocking]

It isn't hard to obtain what you want once you earn a position of power.

[gunblade_grrl]

You had a -- wait, start over from the beginning! What position of power did you get and how did you get it?

[She lifts first one, then the other gunblade, spinning them neatly over her shoulders in turn so that their flat edges slide into the grips on her back. The magnets in the grips catch them and hold them, so she doesn't spend story time with live steel in her hands.]