The Demon Saint is Missing, so I Ran to Another World

The Future with Kuro (Part 1)

In the aftermath of that incident back in Arles, Maddie called for a council between her, Lily, Ursura, Lady Henristone, Dame Atkins, and me. Eris, since she was my servant, got the permission to join the meeting.

"Lady Heeres is in good condition now, thanks to the timely efforts of the Lord Kuro and Dame Atkins to save her," the paladin captain reported.

"Ah, I nearly lost a paladin to those people..." Maddie didn't hide her anger. To her, the paladin guards were like a second family, similar to how she treats her maidservants. Of course, it's painful for her to lose even one of them.

"Any information as to the identity of those who attacked Dame Atkins' group?" Lily asked.

"None, Your Highness," Lady Henristone admitted. "I'll be honest; we were caught by surprise. We didn't know that another group is following the Lord Kuro and Her Majesty the Queen of Cherwind."

"I'm even surprised that the Paladin Guards are following us," I told them. "I thought the paladins are Her Holiness' guard corps, not ours?"

"Besides," Ursura added, "Kuro and I are more than a match to those who'd try to harm us."

"Says the one who froze in the middle of the shooting."

"Shut the fuck up, Kuro," the bear-woman countered.

"In any case," the Human Saint interrupted, "we need to know about the group behind the attack earlier. Who are they? What is their goal?"

"Well, let me start by showing you this," I fished something out of my pocket and presented it before them. "I got that thing from the scene itself. In fact, there were a lot these scattered around the entire area; I just took one for you to see."

"Err..." it was Lily, "...it looks like some sort of a tiny metal cylinder? What's that, a burnt gold?"

I shook my head, "Nope, that metal is called 'brass'. Basically, it's an alloy of metals called 'copper' and 'zinc', both of which can be found in my world. What you are looking at is actually called a 'shell casing', something that is used to fire guns on Earth. It is part of a 'cartridge'; the open end here originally contained a 'bullet', and the hollow part is where all the gunpowder—or 'demon powder'—is stored until firing."

"Hmm...based on what I'm seeing in your mind, Kuro," Maddie said, "that time of bullet is from an advanced type of gun from your world."

"Yes, you're right. Although, I'm not sure of what exact type of gun; all I can say is that, this either came from a pistol, a revolver, or a submachine gun," I explained. "Well, judging from the sound of gunfire earlier, we can rule out the possibility of a submachine gun and instead focus on a pistol or a revolver."

"..."

After all that I said, I just noticed that the entire room was quiet while I elaborated. They just gave me blank stares, perhaps waiting for some more explanations.

"A revolver is a small firearm, like a matchlock pistol, only with a revolving mechanism where you can store up to six bullets for firing before loading it again," I drew a rough sketch of the weapon I was talking about. "It is designed to increase the rate of fire, as opposed to our current gun—'demon weapon' models here, which is 'one shot, one reload'."

"Oh..."

"Then the pistol is also a small firearm, albeit you load more bullets to its magazine, and contains a more complex firing mechanism than the revolver," I followed the pistol sketch with a submachine gun drawing as well. "A submachine gun is a bigger version of the pistol, and with faster firing rate, too."