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It had been engraved into his side the second after he had gained consciousness. All at once, he was aware;of life,sound, and then searing pain.
Seconds later a gun had been shoved into his hands, a weapon that he somehow already knew how to use.
And then he was in a room with other bullets that looked identical to him, and they were all shooting at something else while it dodged, ducked and weaved between them.
He still hadn’t caught up to what was happening.
He didn’t shoot. Instead, he stared down at the weapon in his hand, examined it from behind the relative safety of a wall. It was a Magnum, and the phrase 5 shots or 6? briefly pierced his mind like a stray bullet.
It was a gun, and he was expected to shoot the thing attacking them. Or…
He had peered quickly behind the wall only to pull back as a shot whizzed by.
...had they attacked it first?
He didn’t get an answer, that first time. From behind his hiding place he heard a final cry of pain and the thud of a body hitting the floor.
The first Gungeoneer had fallen.