You know, we've never seen the Admiral smile normally have we?

At the tomb... and also when I heard about Operation ES101 back in summer, I finally understood.

The feeling of guilt from surviving the land battles all by himself...

or the darkness of war we took over and are still fighting,

or that the Admiral is even now being crazed by this war...

...And I thought, maybe I alone am not enough to make Admiral smile from his heart.

Suzuya...

Maybe that's why I honestly felt that Kongou who managed to take one step further, or Hibiki who's trying to go even beyond, are amazing.

Suzuya... became too afraid to dig deeper into what Admiral's been put through.