"Ishikari Yamakuma! Did your scout really see clearly? These Bei Yu Division Ainu, do they really have three large ships, and armored Samurai?..."
"True! As real as the bear tooth offered to the Mountain God! My several scouts saw it quite clearly! They paddled south along the Ishikari coast, right under our Yamakuma Division's noses!"
"...This batch of southward reinforcements, how many people do they actually have? How many armored Samurai?"
"Three hundred? Five hundred? Our scouts didn't count that accurately, nor did they get that close... As for the armored warriors, there are at least fifty, no, a hundred!"
"Damn it! What fifty, a hundred armored Samurai? ...Did you all see it clearly or not? Are there really large ships?"
"Absolutely! That ship is longer than four rafts tied together! The ship is vaguely filled with archers and warriors! My scout didn't dare get close; they were almost shot to death..."
