In his bedroom on the third floor of the clinic, the Doctor showed Shade the relic used for Space Movement. Its appearance greatly surprised Shade:
"A handgun?"
It was a compact pocket pistol, smaller than any handgun-type relic Shade had seen so far, such as the Gun of Kindness and Faded Memories. The silver handgun could easily be concealed, and if its magazine did not possess spatial properties, it could hold only one bullet at a time.
A line of cursive lettering was engraved along the side of the barrel, its meaning easy to make out:
Focus your faith, kill with one strike.
Shade held Little Mia, who had slept through her afternoon nap and was now full of energy:
"Doctor, explain what it does?"
"Certainly. Keeper of Secrets Level Relic, the Sure-Kill Handgun. Its relic property is that every shot is guaranteed to hit its target, but it does not generate bullets automatically; you must load them yourself. Fortunately, it can accommodate bullets of most calibers. Since ordinary bullets have limited power, their range is practically unlimited, but they can only reach unobstructed locations.
"For example, if you hid inside a completely sealed house made of steel plates ten feet thick, this handgun definitely could not hit you—but you would also need to beware of suffocation."
The Doctor placed the gun in Shade's palm:
"Though it is conceptually 'guaranteed to hit,' in practice it merely 'guarantees arrival.' If the bullet reaches the target's location but the target dodges, the bullet will not turn and pursue them."
Shade nodded to show that he understood:
"For example, someone wearing the Document Level Relic Foe of Arrows would not fear this relic either."
He used that example because he had seized that relic on Green Lake Central Island, and it was now