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In the episode 4, Moral is shooting someone through a pillow with his golden
gun.

[![pillow](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pH5WW.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pH5WW.png)

Why did he do this instead of directly shooting on the guy?


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Why does Moral shoot through a pillow?


**Theory 1** : As [senshin
mentioned](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/28281/why-does-moral-
shoot-through-a-pillow#comment39583_28281) this is likely meant as a silencer,
or suppressor, for the gun.

It seems to be a pretty popular belief that shooting through a pillow would
dampen the sound of the gun. I can't find any reliable information on this
unfortunately, only some videos that show
[some](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NJ-0MePb4g)
[effect](https://youtu.be/cnMeTlXsXC8?t=75). However, the decibel values from
the first video are roughly in line with what [Wikipedia
says](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppressor#Effectiveness) is a typical
dampening achieved by a real suppressor, i.e. around 130dB which is still very
loud. In the end the sound levels also depend on many other things such as
sub- or supersonic bullets or the firing mechanism as discussed
[here](http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/mpmain.html#Sound).

**Theory 2** : A pillow could be used to contain splatter, in particular keep
it off the shooter's clothes.

The latter doesn't really fit the distance between target and pillow in the
image and since you say the sound effect is muffled in the anime, Theory 1
seems to be what they were going for.


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