Chessmaster's main vessel being besieged by the boarding party didn't stop their remaining ships from trying to pepper at the Murderess, intending to take it down and isolate the enemy onboard their own. And that was where Tojiko came in.

As she'd learned in her excursion to the Fairy Island, cannonballs were unfond of lightning, the sudden and intense superheating of their surfaces causing them to pop like cherries in the sky. Which of course sometimes meant shrapnel, but that was better than a direct it.

KRAKOOOOOM went another volley of shots, Tojiko casting up her bolts in arcing waves. It was difficult work, but so far, so good. Not a single shell had passed.