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Devs say using a sword is unthinkable in this setting. There was no medival era where students were going around with swords and shields. This world was created with guns, it's a setting where there was no evolution of ideas. The fact they see Reijos kung fu as heretical shows just how much anything except gun is seen as unnatural in this world.
Which is why it would be funnier for the first weapon they make out of sticks and stones to be a rudimentary gun that just looks like a bundle of sticks, because that's all they can imagine as a weapon in this world.
I could see the club chapter as almost funny if they just had no concept of close range weapons, but instead they made it like clubs are a normal thing, which doesn't really work in the setting.