[After Goredolf's alarmed and confused yelling when she called her rifle to protect his back during the raid on Chaldea, Ayumi's started to expect people who seem like "reasonable adults" who don't know her situation to react... badly to the thirteen year old with a gun.]

Yes! The very first lesson Nobu and Koji taught me when I held it for the first time was that even though it fired curses instead of bullets, I can't ever start to think of it as a magic wand or something instead of a very real gun. That's why even though there are a lot of shortcuts I could take with it, I always try to go the longer, more mundane way so I don't lose my respect for my weapon.

[She's clearly rattling off a speech that she's heard many times, but it's one that she wholeheartedly believes in.]