20XX

Maybe reinforcements from HQ?

So... who are those girls, then?

Well... you could call them reinforcements if you wanted to.

But she's not a normal shipgirl.

A prototype shipgirl, constructed right at the beginning of the war.

In other words...

She's an individual shipgirl, who, at the expense of her humanity and sociability,

has had every fibre of her being as a shipgirl completely and utterly specialised for combat operations.

Due to the all-out attacks by the Abyssal fleet, the front lines have been increasingly suffering from numerical inferiority.