I, Fujimaru Ritsuka, am back with a max-level character!

"Are you... an idiot? Why waste your overwhelming advantage and insist on using warships half a century outdated to fight against the modern British galleons?! Do you understand what that means?!"

Kadoc was immediately alarmed. In naval battles, such large and slow warships would undoubtedly be easy targets. They could have easily annihilated the enemy by disguising themselves as merchant ships.

This guy clearly knew this, yet he still chose to fight at sea.

I'm a really sunny and cheerful guy.

"There's no other way, if we lose, we'll just steal their ship!"

The cool girl smiled wickedly, as if she regarded it all as a game she could play.

......

You idiot.

Even the capricious and reckless Dekadoc didn't know what to say.

"They're here! They're here! Those southern barbarian pirates are here!"

As the pirate ship drew ever closer, Oda was not afraid at all; his eyes were practically gleaming with excitement.

"Yoshi! Cheer up, guys! Even if we're just thieves, this is our first time clashing with the Nanban at sea. Even if we're defeated, it doesn't matter. Katsuzo and I..."

Oda Nobunaga glanced at Mori Nagayoshi, who had been knocked unconscious by Akuta Hinako and was still not awake, and grinned.

"Fine, Fujimaru and I will handle this, so go ahead and fire at those guys!"

"learn!"

With a crisp response from the military commander in a girlish voice beneath the ship, everyone immediately went into battle alert.

It's unbelievable that such a young girl became a general.

"That girl... she looks kind of familiar..." Fujimaru Ritsuka said with some surprise.

"Fujimaru, are you curious? Well, it's nothing to hide. That's my nickname... Onishizo's younger sister, Morishige Toshi, whose nickname is Ranmaru... Isn't she super cute!"

"Ranmaru, Mori Ranmaru... I see! It's actually Ranmaru alive!"

Fujimaru Ritsuka instantly realized that upon closer inspection, this "girl" looked exactly like the mysterious Ranmaru X!

Although she is very proper, without any chuunibyou-ish photos, ridiculously large katana, or strange and flashy clothes, she is undoubtedly Ranmaru!

“Even though I know we’re all dead in your time, it’s still very rude of Fujimaru to say that,” Shin pouted and puffed out his cheeks.

"I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry."

"Well, normally you would definitely have to be punished, but I'm being special, so I'll let you off the hook," Oda Nobunaga said with a grin.

"Fire! Fire in that direction!"

Mori Ranmaru commanded Oda's foot soldiers to fire at the three pirate ships that were flanking them.

These multi-masted warships possessed formidable firepower only on their sides. Once smaller, single-masted warships bypassed them and exploited their blind spots in front and behind, they were essentially doomed.

However, Ranmaru, who had no experience in naval warfare, could only issue vague instructions using ambiguous words.

"Charge! Honnoji! Crush those ungrateful thieves!" Oda Nobunaga shouted gleefully, brandishing his katana.

"Wait a minute, what's the name of your ship?" Fujimaru Ritsuka asked, surprised.

Not only that, but even the others were taken aback.

"Honnoji! Mash said I would die at Honnoji, so it doesn't matter. I will overcome this despair of death."

"This ship should be named the 'Honnoji'!"

Kadoc: "When was the decision made?"

If you want to die, don't drag us down with you!

"Now, right now! I say it's called Honnoji, so it's called Honnoji!"

Nobunaga, the little lemon, said without a doubt.

Chapter Twenty-Two: Type-Moon: Physics Has Never Existed

On the vast, smooth ocean, three small pirate ships converted from galleons used their speed and maneuverability to besiege a huge sailing warship.

The cannons on the sides of the giant ship were pushed out by Oda's foot soldiers, and they bombarded it continuously, just like a fleet of southern barbarians.

"Idiots, you won't hit them like that. We can only win by boarding action. Our artillery can't reach them at this distance."

Kadoc looked at these stubborn soldiers and said through gritted teeth.

The Spanish Armada was utterly annihilated by British ships in the same way; if the enemy's warships managed to maneuver around to either side of the Spanish, they were doomed.

With that thought in mind, Kadoc no longer hesitated, and with his slender build, he directly pulled aside an Oda army foot soldier.

"Step aside!"

The white-haired youth said somewhat irritably.

"What are you doing?!"

The gunner, who had temporarily been reassigned to the position of foot soldier, was taken aback. He then looked at Kadoc's somewhat thin figure with a mixture of disdain and doubt.

"Leave it to me, you load the shells."

Without a word, Kadoc gripped the gun emplacement with both hands, his sharp gaze fixed on the sailboats swaying on the waves.

"Your Highness, this..."

"Let him come. I want to see what he'll do," Oda Nobunaga said, his eyes shining, without any annoyance.

"Because the cannons of this era used black powder and solid shot, their range was relatively short. Even if they could be fired, they would sometimes fall into the sea prematurely due to their own gravity."

Kadoc explained, and then his hands lit up with a shimmering magical light, quickly etching a fairly complex magical mark onto the cannon.

"Report: One pirate ship has circled around to the front of our ship, and the remaining two are still harassing us from behind, preventing our ships from turning."

The adorable Ranmaru frowned as he reported. Although these guys hadn't received basic naval training, they weren't fools and quickly realized the problem.

"Is that so? These southern barbarians are indeed formidable... Looks like they've plundered quite a few passing ships. Alright, relay my order: ignore it, turn sharply, and fire at those guys!"

"Hi!"

Since the cannons were concentrated on the sides of the sailing ship, only by facing the enemy from the sides could the ship achieve good results and give full play to its firepower advantage.

boom--!

The giant ship was struggling to turn, but in any case, sailing ships need a lot of time to turn, and it would naturally be much slower than a pirate ship that had already adjusted its sails and rudder.

Just then, a cannonball from the side fired straight out at the empty sea.

"Keep loading!"

A hoarse, dejected voice rang out, and the emerald green light on the young man with dark circles under his eyes continued to flicker, this soft, bright light being the most dazzling radiance in this space.

But... there's nothing in front of us...

"I told you to load it, but you're dawdling... Fine, Fujimaru, come help me."

Seeing the puzzled and confused expressions on the faces of the foot soldiers around him, Kadoc didn't bother to explain. Instead, he directly summoned Fujimaru Ritsuka, who was doing nothing by Oda Nobunaga's side.

"Huh?! You called me? What do you want, Kadocsan?"

“It’s easier to communicate with people from the same era. You help me load the cannonballs.” Kadoc left the foot soldier aside and said to Fujimaru Ritsuka.

In an instant, Fujimaru Ritsuka knew what Kadoc was planning to do.

"Alright, I'll take care of this."

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"Hahahaha, just as I expected, that Portuguese merchant ship has been surrounded by our three pirate ships! No matter how many cannons they have or how fierce they are, they're just a toothless tiger now, hahahahahaha~~~!"

"Captain is wise! Once we hijack this ship and return to Pirate Island, the reward that Sister Drake gives us will be huge!"

The pirate sailors beside him fawned over him respectfully.

Boom!

The sound of cannons firing rang out like thunder from the side of the Honnoji, followed by explosions and thick black smoke billowing from the cannons.

However, the Honnoji failed to turn, and the heavy shells fired were bound to miss their mark and sink into the sea.

The pirate captain grinned, "They're panicking! They're panicking! They opened fire without even turning around. What a bunch of cowards! Watch how I devour this lamb, skin and bones..."

The admiring glances from his subordinates around him pleased him greatly; he even considered opening a bottle of Porto to celebrate this success...

But the result?

Good heavens, the cannonball that should have fallen into the sea suddenly seemed to sense something or activate its own consciousness in an instant.

The warship, which should have crashed into the water and created a splash, suddenly changed direction in a way that defied the laws of physics!

Accompanied by a bright blue magical glow at its tail, the solid cannonball seemed to have eyes, accelerating forward and bombarding the pirate ship without any hindrance.

"Damn it! This damned cannonball is coming at me?!"

In the instant the captain was stunned, the heavy gunpowder shell tore through their ship's hull almost instantly.

Bang—! Rumble—!

Immediately following was a deafening explosion.

How on earth did that (TM) hit?!

Why did the shell suddenly change direction and head this way in an instant?

There's a limit to joking!

"Let's get out of here, Captain... Ugh...!"

Immediately afterwards, a second shell also came flying in a very strange way, curving around a corner!

"damn it--!"

The ship rocked violently under the bombardment, and the pirate captain had to hold onto the mast to barely keep his balance.

"No way, that ship isn't a fat sheep, it's too weird!"

This won't do; it completely defies the laws of physics!