Solutions

"Dad! That's way too dangerous to be called a plan!"

Rin said loudly in response to the battle strategy that Morohira suggested they underwent. It was generous to even call it a plan at all, as it was basically just charge forward, and deal with whatever came in their way.

"Hm? Nah, it'll be fine."

He consoled her, without being able to present a single reason why it would be fine. They would be surrounded by three ships, with upwards of one hundred and fifty men, and would be continually bombarded by matchlock fire.

"Just adding bows won't be enough. We don't even have the shields that Togashi suggested – there isn't enough time to make them."

"She's right, Morohira. We'll be in a rough spot, and I'd rather not get hit by one of those bastard balls again."

Togashi put in. It was his idea to use bows in the first place, but now that things were going the way they were, he realized that simply using those was unfeasible.