How does the Empty Gun damage people?
It doesn't make a form of sense (Unless you're pistol-whipping, but how would a pistol-whip deal THAT much damage?)
I was under the impression that battles aren't actually 'battles' and the monsters are simply interacting normally with the player character. Doing stuff like throwing vegetables at you, spraying you with water, saying mean/nice things and whatnot can hurt your soul
this means that either the PC is actually hitting the enemies with an empty gun, or pointing a gun at monsters hurts their soul or whatever