...Do you know what happened, Kitakami-san?

Maybe. Could it be that when she was called in before noon?

1130 Naval Base Administrative Office

You girls may have heard about this before already but,

for shipgirls who have reached the highest form of proficiency through battles and such,

it's been decided that the technology to draw out even greater power would be been put into place.

Our naval base has already received permission from HQ for it.