Hard not to remember being shot at with those things.

[ Yuri replies with a grimace. That parade night was this medieval-era man's first encounter with guns. The weapons left a startling impression to say the least. Of course, he didn't know enough about bullets to pick up that anything was odd, and he can't say he's eager to encounter them up close again. ]

I wasn't aware they were anything special. Firearms didn't exist in my world, and I'd hope no one gets the clever idea to invent them. This hihi'irogane... [ His pronunciation is definitely off. ] What do you sense in them? Are you suspecting they were smuggled in?