Edge/Bakfoo

I'm also gotta be honest, I recently realized "oh this story is very much about a woman's bodily autonomy and suicide due to guilt and declining mental faculties" and I feel horrendously unqualified being a Cis dude who only kinda wants to die sometimes I got research to do

Like the elixir, the boltgun is a refined product of the Turbulent Era--designed to be it's counter. They are intentionally meant to /horrendously/ maim if they don't hit anything important. If you think this is impractical, you'd be right. The Jie Kingdom lost for a reason🤷