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　Me and Ai on the Gulu River.

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　From where we are, we can see a boat floating on the water of the river.

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　It is not a very big boat.

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　It is a rowing boat.

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　There are soldiers of Gulugaria on board.

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　There are several men with bows on each of the boats, and all of them are calling to the rowers and coming toward us.

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　I observe them through my lens from the sandbar.

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　Although I was still at a distance from them, I could see their faces clearly.

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　I could even read their mouth movements.

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"Oh, look! Archers put their hands on their bows. Can an arrow reach us from there?"

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"That's a possibility. Please be careful."

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　Ai replies as I look through my binoculars at the Grougaria archers on the ship.

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　A bow made of soft magic wood.

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　An archer who has used and mastered that bow since he was a child may be able to reach this far from the top of that shaking ship.

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　We must be on our guard.

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　This may not be the time for carefree observation.

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Shall we do it then? Let's intercept, aye?

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"Yes, Master Alphonse."

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　The other party is on the boat with his hand on the bow, but he is not yet ready to fire the bow.

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　Maybe he is still too far away to reach us.

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　So, seeing this, we moved first.

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　We move before they reach the distance where we can attack them with our bows.

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　It's okay.

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　They are already within our range.

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"Hit!　That's the Eye. You've got a good arm."

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"Thank you, Master Alphonse. We will continue our attack.

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　The battle over the Juuma-magi between the Orient and the Gulugaria.

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　The first to make a move in the battle that broke out between the city-states located upstream and downstream of the Gulu River was Ai.

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　While in the middle of the river, he attacked a ship floating on the surface of the water.

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　Ai's first attack hit the ship without any problem, even though his opponent had a weapon that could reach much farther than usual, a bow made of soft magic wood.

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　One of the archers standing on the boat falls into the water with a dizzy body.

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　Seeing this, the rowers on board panicked and tried to save the bowman from falling into the water, causing the rowers to stop.

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　The rowers then attacked the bowman.

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　Ai's attack was with a magic gun.

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　Ai's attack was with a revamped magic gun, the same gun created by Ars's brother and raging on the battlefield in the past.

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　It is a weapon that fires bullets made of hardened bricks in a scattering manner to attack opponents with surface pressure.

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　The magic gun was improved and changed to be able to attack at a longer distance.

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　To be honest, I don't think that the bows used by the archers of Grougaria or the magic bow ORIENT created by Banagher and his men can beat this magic gun.

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　The range of the gun is far greater than that of a bow.

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　Monoculars equipped to hit at a distance.

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　The power to hit even at a long distance, and to damage even a knight.

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　And since it can fire bullets with its magic power, it has no drawback that it will run out of arrows.

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　As long as you have magic power, you can shoot as much as you want.

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　That is the performance of the magic gun Kai.

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　Of course, such a high-performance long-range weapon is meaningful only when you use it skillfully.

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　No matter how far it can reach and how powerful its attack is, it is useless if it does not hit the target.

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　But it was none other than Ai who was using this magic gun here.

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　Ai has many bodies, each of which can memorize what it has experienced and learned.

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　The integrated information is then immediately sent back to the individual bodies.

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　Therefore, every individual Eye was familiar with the use of this magic gun.

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　Even if they are on a rocking ship, there is no problem.

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　Ai continued to pull the trigger of the gun without any hesitation.

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　As he does so, people fall down from the many boats approaching us, one by one.

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The people in Grougalia seem to be puzzled. They don't think they are being attacked from this distance, do they?　They don't seem to think that they are being attacked from a place where their bows can never reach."

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"There is no way for the ships to communicate with each other. We will focus on the knights who are aboard the ship. A ship with only rowers on board will have nowhere to go and will be in disarray."

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"Yes, that's right. That way, they'll be less likely to follow us when we run away. Hmmm, I should practice my magic gun too..."

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　Assumptions, or common sense as we know it.

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　We may be caught up in such things without even knowing it.

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　Just as the people of the Orient thought that the soft evil trees growing in the provinces could not be easily cut, and that they had no choice but to target the ones that had already been cut down, the soldiers of Grougalia had their own assumptions as well.

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　They thought that fighting at long range was their sole domain.

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　Archers who were good with bows may have thought that they were safe in places where they could not reach.

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　And they probably still think so.

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　On the ship, Grougary soldiers with bows are wounded and bleeding.

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　But he still did not understand how he had been attacked.

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　It might have something to do with the fact that magic guns do not attack with arrows.

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　Small bullets penetrate the skilled archers.

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　However, the target of the attack did not seem to understand what kind of attack we were doing, and thus could not deal with it.

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　While Ai continues to fire his magic gun, I take out my magic gun from my magic bag and open it.

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　I look into the monocular attached on the barrel of the gun and aim at the target.

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　Then, I calmed my breathing and pulled the trigger.

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　Without any resistance, sound, or smell, a hardened brick bullet is fired from the magic gun.

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　...... missed.

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　No, it just barely hit me, but my aim was off and I think it was slightly deflected.

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　I confirm with my monocle that the magic bullet I fired didn't hit the target, and adjust my aim.

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　Thus, the battle with Grougalia began quietly.

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