"Billy?" Tomie asked suspiciously.

"That's me." Cowboy said.

"Hey, hey, wait!" Tomie shouted, "Aren't you called Wogen?" ”

"Beauty, don't you know that real men have nicknames in addition to their names? I like it when people call me Billy. Cowboy Wogan said with a calm expression, his hands compared to pistols, and nodded at us like a gun, "Billy with two guns!" ”

Tomie and I looked at each other, was he joking?

"I don't think so." Tomie said to him in a very serious tone: "Billy with two guns? What era is it? I've never heard of it at all, and it's so vulgar! ”

"Billy the Kid?" I tried to ask.

"Oh? Do you know the way? ”

Billy the Kid, whose real name is William Bonney, is a well-known western figure in the United States. He was orphaned at the age of fourteen, began killing at the age of seventeen, killed twenty-one people in his lifetime, and was shot dead by the police at the age of twenty-two. Regarded as a criminal by the authorities, he is also known as a "sharpshooter" and a "cowboy hero" among the people. I've seen movies based on his deeds, but I don't really know what happened, and even Americans today don't know what happened to him at the time.

Time has made Billy the Kid legendary, and the cowboy in front of him seems to be an admirer of this character.

"What do you like about him?"

"All." Cowboy smiled sinisterly, "Including killing twenty-one people, but now I kill more than him." ”

"Including being beaten to death by the police?"

Tomie burst out laughing.

"Ha Luha, the little hairy thief who was killed by the police!"

The cowboy's face became cloudy, and a wave of anger swelled in his chest. Just as he was about to have a seizure, Tomie suddenly stepped forward, leaned his face to his side, and said in a sneering tone:

"You want to say you're a sharpshooter, right? Is your brain full of shit? You've seen us fight, right? My family's Achuan is the real sharpshooter! ”

As if he couldn't bear her momentum, the cowboy took half a step back, and then realized his gaffe again, and hurriedly sneered.

"Do you want to compare and see?"

"Okay, would I like to buy you a condom? lest thou shoot in the wall. ”

The gaze of the two men seemed to flicker with visible sparks, and the smell of gunpowder rose straight to a critical point, and I hurriedly pulled Tomie away before a more violent chemical reaction could occur. I don't quite understand why she suddenly targeted Wolgan, but I was glad that she spoke for me, but I wasn't a show-off person, and I didn't like unnecessary conflict.

"I don't need to prove anything to others, Tomie." I said to her, "It's enough for you to know the way." ”

Tomie shrugged his shoulders and suddenly grabbed me, gagged my mouth with his mouth, and swept away the last breath of air with his tongue in his mouth. I managed to break free, but she caught my neck between the crook of my arm and my chest. I had to bend over, painfully and happily enjoying the suffocating fullness of my face.

"I'm getting able to talk, Agawa. I just like a humble man like you. ”

Billy the Kid stared at us with a fly-like expression, but there was no longer the momentum that was about to explode.

"What are you seeing, haven't you ever seen a couple flirting?" Tomie glared back unceremoniously.

"Wow, you woman! That's why I hate this country. Forget it, come with me, since you've joined, let me show you the benefits of the Security Service. ”

Anyway, as when he came, he walked ahead and led the way. I asked Tomie to follow, while I stayed with my tackle bag.

"Don't worry, Lady Mayne and I will take care of Sakuya. We have safe channels, but time is of the essence, and hopefully you can distract those guys. "Hakkei clearly misunderstood what I meant.

"I will." I said to her and Ms. Mayne, "Until then, though, I need you to help me look at this thing, and if I can use it, I think the odds will be much higher." ”

As I spoke, I pulled the zipper of the tackle bag down.

For the first time, a look of surprise appeared on Lady Mayne's face when she saw the long knife-like weapon I had taken out.

"What is this?" Hakkei picked up the weapon with a curious face, looking at the patterns on it like a circuit board.

"High-frequency radiation devices." I say.

"Critical Hedge Weapon!" "Where did you get that?" ”

It was also about the first time that Hachijing had seen such an unusual performance of Ms. Mayne, and he couldn't help but look surprised as well.

"What, what's wrong? Mistress Mayne. ”

"This is a critical hedge weapon!" Lady Mayne finally realized her gaffe, and explained in a trembling voice as much as she could, "It's also a limited weapon, but the level is completely different. Kid, do you know what kind of limiting weapon can effectively damage creatures involved in the Doomsday attribute? ”

She didn't expect my answer, and continued to herself: "Because the things of reality and the things of the end are not in the same world at all. It is not accurate to say that the world is in the realm, it is a more vague concept, called the limit. For example, the product of doom is black and the product of reality is white, and the two are clearly distinguished, and under normal circumstances, they cannot touch each other. But when black and white are brought in close proximity to the maximum, their borders turn gray. ”

Black, white, the line between the two will be gray.

It is much easier for black to cross gray and act on white than white in reverse, white can effectively interfere with gray, but it is quite difficult to invade gray. Under normal circumstances, this gray boundary is so small that it is almost negligible. The Bounded Weapon will actually expand this gray line in a short period of time, causing the black object to temporarily enter the gray range, thus generating effective damage.

"The biggest difference between critical hedge weapons and ordinary limit weapons is that they contain a limited boundary expansion device. This limiting device can expand the gray area to a critical point for a certain period of time, and with the completely different energy operation circuits of the limiting weapon in it, the power generated will almost cause most of the matter to collapse directly. ”

In Ms. Mayne's explanation, I finally understood the secrets of the Bounded Weapon. Madam Mayne described the power of the knife quite as well, but in my confrontation with its previous master, though it had shown considerable force, it did not seem to be as appalling as Madam Mayne had suggested.

"That's probably because of a lack of permissions." "In the Authority's legacy, the number of such critical hedging weapons is also extremely rare, and to use it, one must gain access to the Authority's secure network. That's pretty dangerous behavior, and no one or organization has been able to crack that network, and there's no time for hacking now. ”

"So...... In other words, this weapon is now equivalent to scrap copper and rotten iron? "When I found out the truth, I couldn't help but be a little disappointed.

"No, if the opponent is a demon...... Lady Mayne smiled unexpectedly, "The body of the Dominion Bureau in Doomsday Illusion is still unknown, but it doesn't seem to be on the same path as the demon, and it is certain that many of its techniques are produced against demons and monsters, especially when encountering demons, they will have unexpected effects. ”

She told me that the critical hedge might be temporarily granted permission to operate when it senses the presence of a demon.

"Take it, kid, and demons will appear before you in the next battle. Ordinary Bounded Weapons can't fight demons, but with this Critical Hedge Weapon, you have the possibility of victory. ”