Luvia reminded him:
"I remember that the Gun of Kindness could use bullets of any physical caliber, and its ammunition could also be replenished with a Ring Arcanist's spirit. Although aiming it at yourself would definitely miss, and aiming it at someone else would definitely hit yourself, the gun's effect would not trigger if you didn't aim at any target."
"Yes."
Shade nodded. He had obtained the Gun of Kindness from Rades, then the "Eight-Gun Captain," during the first banquet at Lake View Manor. Shade rarely used that Document Level relic now, but he had never considered selling it. After all, the gun had played a rather remarkable role during the great incident at Lake View Manor, and Shade regarded it as a keepsake.
"Then keep that revolver with you. Gifts bestowed by the gods may have deeper meaning, and that gun won't get in the way."
Luvia suggested this again. As Shade and Sylvia left the basement together, he took the gun with him, though he had no idea whether he would actually need it.
The two first traveled from Saint Derain Square to Vesta Woodland. Sylvia then opened a Teleportation Gate from the woodland, and she and Shade appeared together atop the Snow Mountain Peak, a place filled with many shared memories:
"Why didn't your teacher set the Teleportation Gate's destination directly inside the tower?"
Shade asked as they climbed upward against the wind. Sylvia could not answer either, only guessing that her teacher had likely done so to prevent anyone from directly invading the tower. At least it was not snowing today, so climbing the Snow Mountain was not difficult.
When Shade gazed southward from the clear winter ridge, he saw the vast snowy mountains, the silver-white primeval woodland below them, the cities farther south, and the