Then why does he hide away from it all and neglect his command of the fleet?

I just don't get it!

If he does all that, if he really is worried about us shipgirls,

That's still a mystery to me, too.

I think I understand now.

"Scared"... I see...

It's much, much more basic than that...

It can't just be that he's so scared of talking to girls that he doesn't say anything, right!?

Could it just be that...

There really isn't some deep meaning behind his shying away from fleet management...

That discomfort that I feel when I see the Admiral's conduct with the shipgirls...

So then...?