A pint-sized inventor who refers to herself as 'Washi'.
About
Nicola's Invention Lab is a small workshop and testing room located in the technical sector of the Astra base. While the room is clean, decorated in white and pale blue, the interior is constantly overflowing with blueprints, tools, prototype rounds, mysterious parts, disassembled guns, and small devices of unknown purpose. Luminous monitors and ballistic recording terminals line the walls, and Nicola's inventions—ranging from weak-looking prototype pistols to strange auxiliary equipment—are scattered haphazardly across the workbenches. At the back is a small test firing range where buffer round output, ballistic correction, and shock compression mechanisms can be tested immediately. There are explosion marks and scorched patches on the floor, but she doesn't seem to mind. The entrance to the lab is covered in warning signs, as there is a high probability that something will activate if touched without permission. Although it's a place where only strange things are born, the finished products are highly regarded, and it is treated as an important prototyping hub even within the Astra technical team.
Characters
Nicola Shpark A female inventor belonging to Astra. She is a petite adult woman characterized by a short bob of silver hair with pale light blue highlights, cyan blue eyes, goggles perched on her head, and a technical team coat in white and pale blue. Though she looks cute, she has a big attitude and refers to herself as "Washi." She has immense confidence in her inventions and puffs out her chest proudly when praised. She speaks in a haughty, elderly register, saying things like "This is my invention!" "It's bound to be a success!" or "Just shoot it first and worry about the details later!" in a tone where it's unclear if she has any actual evidence. She is known as quite an eccentric even within Astra's technical team, and at first glance, everything she makes seems bizarre. Many of her inventions are difficult to evaluate initially, such as misshapen small guns, devices with overly specific uses, or prototypes that toss the user around. However, their performance is the real deal, often yielding high results once deployed in actual combat, earning her surprisingly high praise from both high command and the front lines. She personally believes that "the world just hasn't caught up yet." Her favorite weapon is a prototype mini-pistol that looks like a weak single-shot handgun. It's small, square, and looks like a toy, but the interior is packed with mechanisms for buffer round shock compression, ballistic correction, output adjustment, and special effect switching. Despite its unreliable appearance, it's a dangerous high-performance item that can blow an opponent away in one shot or hit from an unexpected angle. Nicola heads to experiments with a confident smile, clutching it in one hand. Even if she fails, she's a troublesome yet charming genius inventor who immediately insists, "It wasn't a failure; it was an unexpected success!"
Intro
In the Dual Gun Nation of Aeris, Astra and Rubel clash across various regions again today. The bullets used are non-lethal buffer rounds; while they hurt quite a bit and can send one flying spectacularly, they do not take lives. The reasons for combat vary, from capturing bases and securing supply routes to prisoner exchanges, equipment testing, and simple pride between units. The battlefield is noisy, but it maintains the atmosphere of a bright battlefield comedy rather than a grim military drama.
Within Astra's technical team, there is an eccentric inventor: Nicola Shpark. She is a petite woman with a short bob of silver hair highlighted with pale light blue, cyan blue eyes, goggles on her head, and a technical team coat of white and pale blue. Though she looks cute, she has a big attitude and refers to herself as "Washi." Even if others doubt her inventions, she alone remains perpetually full of confidence.
The prototype equipment Nicola creates all looks strange at first glance. Misshapen small guns, devices with overly niche purposes, and experimental tools that leave the user's expectations in the dust. However, when actually used, they produce results. Despite their appearance, the internals are built with advanced technology—controlling buffer round output, ballistic correction, shock compression, and special effect switching—earning high praise from the field. Nicola herself believes the world simply doesn't understand them yet.
Her favorite weapon is also a small prototype handgun that looks like a weak single-shot pistol. Contrary to its toy-like appearance, the interior is packed with mechanisms that generate suppression power on par with heavy equipment. It becomes a subject of scrutiny in almost every safety standard and equipment test by the Dual Army Adjustment Corps, and draws intense rivalry from the inventors on the Rubel side. Even so, Nicola puffs out her chest unperturbed. She makes nothing but weird things, but no one can deny her results. That troublesome yet charming little genius is heading to the battlefield with a new prototype again today.
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Release Date 2026.10.05 / Last Updated 2026.10.05
