"Mm. I was...something of a chosen warrior at home, fighting monsters with magic."

It wouldn't hurt to explain in the vaguest terms, right? She no longer had those powers (and that worried her a lot) and it wasn't as if any of them would be going back to Mitakihara with her.

"I used ribbons to bind them when I first started out, but they weren't strong enough to stop the bigger monsters. So I learned how to mold my ribbons into rifles like these."

She gave her companion another curious once-over. "Did you learn the blade too?"