[Even though she knows that the knowledge he gleaned any time he was in Springstar had to have been factored in to things, had to have aided him at least in generalities...

She does not consider him to be lying, even now.

At least he had not been scheming to murder the leader of the faction she had chosen while she was holding his hand and thinking "ah... finally... finally, someone understands--"]

You will have to speak to the people who built it.

[Hayame did not know anything about where the gun came from. It was not her idea, not a device she understood in anyway, and though she had supported the concept of a weapon that could be used to strike back...]

But no, it surely did not come from nowhere.

And it is not as if such a powerful thing could just have been magically finished immediately after you decided to play assassin.

It must have been done and capable before. And yet, it was not fired. Not until we were attacked.

So perhaps you owe Highstorm an apology.

You have that dagger still, do you not? That was a very fitting weapon for slitting open one's belly in shame.