Guns N' Peppers Part 2

Are you ready, Kotori?

Of course! I've been waiting for this moment!

Allow me to do the honors, then.

Ta-da! It's finally complete. This is the Engineering Department's newest invention: a submachine gun with a hot sauce dispenser!

It looks a lot more like an ordinary submachine gun than I was expecting. Does it work?

You bet it does! The difference is that you have to use special bullets mixed with pepper and vinegar instead of regular bullets.

When you put a special bullet in the magazine and pull the trigger, gunpowder causes the red pepper to be fermented in an instant.

And the hot sauce will come out of the barrel like this!

Let's see here...

It really is genuine hot sauce! It's completely indistinguishable from the pizza place's sauce.

We've conducted multiple experiments to recreate the taste. This gun is the pinnacle of Millennium's latest engineering!

Plus, if you change it to full auto mode, you can dispense two pints of hot sauce per second.

Heh. Now that we have this gun, we can spray as much hot sauce as we want anytime, anywhere! We'll never have to worry about spicing our pizza again!

Simply marvelous. It's exceeded my every expectation.

This gun is just so...so...

...pointless.

Th-That's true. It'd be much cheaper and more convenient to carry hot sauce packets instead of carrying this gun.

Besides, the sauce gets all over the barrel when you use it, which is a pain to clean. So there's a hygiene issue too...

Ha. Still, it was entertaining to see it put to practice, so that's quite all right.

Not every invention needs to satisfy practicality. If you can enjoy what you're making, then great achievements naturally follow.

That's right! This experiment allowed me to put our liquid-dispensing capabilities to the test! That data is sure to come in handy in the future.

They say that failure is the prelude to success.

By the way... Whose gun did you modify?

Huh? I thought this was your gun, Utaha.

No, this is much too large to be my gun. I use a burst pistol without a stock. This is a submachine gun.

Well, it's not my gun.

Not mine either.

Wait. Look at this gaudy dragon pattern.

The only person who would put this kind of stupid design on a gun is...

Finally done with the repair job, I see. You Engineering Department geeks usually don't take so long.

N-Neru? Wh-What are you doing here?

Huh? What do you mean? I'm here to pick up my gun. You got a problem with that?

O-Oh, right! I-I forgot about that. Haha...

Huh? But it's sitting right there. How could you forget? Well, whatever. I'll be taking it back if you're done.

H-Hold on. There's still one little problem with this gun...

What the...? How's it still not done after all this time? I could hear you say something is "finally complete" before I walked in.

...Don't tell me you guys messed with my gun! What did you do?!

N-Nothing...! There's nothing wrong with your gun!

Yeah? Fine. I'll be taking it back, then.

O-Okay. T-Take care...

Whatever. Thanks, I guess.

What do we do, Utaha?! Neru's gun was...!

She's sure to be saucy when she finds out her gun is nothing but a sauce dispenser now.

We're toast. It won't be long before Neru comes charging in here in a rage and throws us into a barrel of hot sauce!

All of you calm down. She still doesn't know.

If we can get Neru's gun back, we can fix it without her ever realizing it was modified.

Take Neru's gun without getting caught? That's like walking into the lion's den!

We're dead no matter what we do.

Nonsense. First, I'll make a decoy that we can swap for Neru's gun. In the meantime, you two need to make sure Neru doesn't touch the trigger.

But...what if Neru finds out that there's something wrong with her gun before then?

I'd rather not think about that possibility.

Let's just pray that she stays patient.