Glass Bullet

Amou Inori was thoroughly sick of the family business.

In Sendai, the holy land of Gunners, the Amou family was considered an old-established house.

They had dealt in hunting guns since long before the Gremlin Disaster, and even after the disaster, they had continued honing and passing down their firearm-manufacturing skills all the way into the modern era.

Inori was the daughter of the eighth head of the Amou Gun Shop, and, as befitted a girl from Sendai, she valued fairness and integrity.

She had helped with the family business since she was little, earning proper compensation—pocket money—in exchange for her work, and until she entered middle school, she had vaguely assumed that she would inherit the family business someday.

But once she entered middle school, she began to feel that something was wrong.

Maybe it had been puberty, but that wasn't all there was to it.

While all her classmates were heading out to the shopping district by the station, Inori was carrying boxes of gunpowder in the shop's workshop.

While everyone else pooled their pocket money to rent a magic shooting range and happily swung magic wands, Inori was quietly shooting targets at her family's range.

Inori didn't have the magic wand that everyone else took for granted. The crude, large-caliber 08 Model Crystallizer she had been given because her family dealt in guns was vastly more expensive than her classmates' magic wands, but it wasn't as though her friends understood its value at all...