Wild bird, whose warble, liquid sweet, Rings Eden thro' the budded quicks

But if tomorrow morning you wake up dead, don't blame me!

Do not cry havoc, where you should but hunt / With modest warrant.

Admiral Kurita has no identification charts for escort carriers, and, so, assumes that the distant targets are fleet carriers. Commensurately, by scale, their escorts must either be battleships or cruisers. The Japanese forces therefore continue to load armor-piercing rounds, what will turn out to be a very fortuitous mistake for their targets for as long as it lasts.