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GAH ninja'ed. Hafta edit my post.
Her acting seemed to be holding up against the girl. There was no real reason to doubt her after all, and in response to the girl's denial of dropping the item, Sasha would simply feign a mistake and strike up a conversation, hopefully finding out where she lived or what she did. The smug feeling disappeared when the girl snapped her fingers, and a pseudospace formed around them. Her expression gave Sasha a chill down her spine.

Sumi moved lightning fast. Sasha couldn't defend against an attack she couldn't understand. She tried to leap out of the way, but Sumi was quicker. She wasn't sure what happened, but the next moment she was smashed against the ground, arm twisted behind her body.

"Who are you working for? Your power seems weak, but its clearly more than an ordinary person's. Which group sent you after me?"

How foolish... if we had the ability to perceive other ability users, they probably had a method of detecting our powers too... It was too late for regrets. Sasha's first instinct was to retaliate, but with the large level gap that was probably not a wise decision.

"Oh...OH. I-I'm sorry, a-am I interrupting something?" Sasha heard Mike said, and rolled her eyes. Great. Silas had also arrived at the scene. Now it would be even harder to convince the girl she was innocent. She couldn't think of any other way though, so it had to do.

"Ow fuck! What the hell was that for? I didn't know gratitude involved attacking people!" Sasha screamed furiously. "What the hell is your problem? So what if I'm not a normal human being?"
Shrug. I don't remember.

What's wrong with Kurotori?
"Why," Sasha said with a sly grin. "We'll take her down, of course!"

She made a hand gun and pointed it at the girl, mouthing the word "pow" and imitated the firing of a gun. Picking a fight with a higher leveled person was suicide, even with a numbers advantage. "Just kidding. We probably shouldn't do anything... but leave this to me."

She picked up her pace, following the girl. There was only her baseball bat and the can of pepper spray in her inventory. The baseball bat wouldn't do, so she took out the can and pretended to have picked it up from the floor, in case anyone was watching her. Then Sasha jogged up to the 'Heir of Rainjinken' and tapped her on the shoulder.

"Hey, you dropped this!" she said cheerfully, holding up the pepper spray. When she turned around, Sasha would then exclaim, "Wow, nice hair. Where did you get it done?"
Mmmm, pretty much what I figured when I was making him. My post only reflects Devin's thoughts- as an extremely gifted archer and taught since birth that a bow is superior, he has a lot of pride in it and thinks that guns are just a fad.
Wait, you're playing another character?
Lol, you didn't really have to explain that. Even if you did become slightly smarter and faster, you wouldn't really feel it that quickly, right? You would notice it only when you are doing something you normally aren't capable of.
I have read that carrying the bow that way is very uncomfortable and may damage the string. Also, something I am trying to find out: how long is the bow kept strung? It seems to be common consensus that it warps the bow eventually, so for storage the bow is certainly kept unstrung. But what about during travelling, or sleeping? It only takes a couple of minutes to string a bow so it would make sense to remove the string whenever you do not expect to use it.

Mongolian's used rather normal recurve short bows, so I believe it was only the Japanese. Chinese bows were also pretty normal, as far as I remember.

Also- I have just read that in 1850s percussian caps for guns have just been invented. So it's not just flintlocks anymore, although it probably would still be common. And bows would already have been in decline for a long time. I would imagine the poor to still use them extensively for hunting? Maintaining a gun would probably be too expensive.
Ugh, the problem with bows is that I barely know anything about bows. How they're handled, carried, and fired. I've read about them somewhat, but it's still very lacking.
"Alright. I'll pose as your bodyguard, Madame Rose. It should make things simpler and keep questions off me," Devin suggested.

He gave his equipment a quick check while the train was grinding to a halt. His bow was already strung and carried on his back, ready for action at a moment's notice. Bows weren't the most common weapon in recent times. Devin was well aware that guns were all the rage. Simple to use and packing a huge punch, even he could see the weapon's attractiveness. But in the hands of a good archer, a bow would never lose to a gun. They were noisy, had terrible accuracy and most importantly were unreliable, a point his father often commented loudly about. He drew a finger down the length of the bowstring, before slinging it back over his back.

Devin jumped off the car as soon as the train stopped at the station. The place was nothing more than a wooden platform, with a small hut to the side. There weren't more than a handful of passengers alighting aside from them. Devin turned around and offered his hand to Eulalie.

"Do you need a hand, Madame?" Devin said playfully, then chuckled. "I think this is how a gentleman acts?"

Raised in the countryside, Devin was a true-blooded country bumpkin. Technology confuses him. However, he had some time to observe the behavior of the city folk during his short stay in the Guild headquarters, so he wasn't completely clueless anymore.
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