Astrea Record: Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Tales of Heroes - Volume 1 - Chapter Aft

Hint: To Play after pausing the player, use this button

Add to favorites

Afterword

This work is a novelization of a scenario featured in Wright Flyer Studio’s mobile game Danmachi: Memoria Freese. There have been revisions and amendments in order to make it suitable for publication. I hope this makes it enjoyable for those who have previously played the game, as well as those who have not.

One day in 2020, I was taken to a room and sat down in front of the GA Bunko editorial department’s latest assassin, Mr. Usami, for a nice, quiet Talk regarding a new project in the works.

“Mr. Omori,” he started out. “How would you like to novelize Astrea Record?”

“No, thanks,” I quickly replied. Then, after a moment’s thought, I added, “I can’t.”

The idea of picking up my pen and returning to a project advertised as being equivalent to one-and-a-half cours of anime made my head hurt. I also didn’t understand the point of rewriting a script I had already nearly died finishing for the game.

“But you can’t not release a book.”

“It’s an important part of the setting.”

“The fans will riot.”

“You will do it, won’t you?”

“Won’t you?”

Before I knew it, I was locked in a room as dark as the Orario of seven years past, forced to revisit that harrowing tale of good and evil.

So if you read this book and enjoyed it, you have only one person to thank. Once per day, you must clap your hands and shout at the top of your lungs, “Thank you, Usami!!”

Astrea Record. A tale I have steeled myself to tell once more. There will be three parts. If you have made it this far, then I know my efforts were not for naught.

Now for the acknowledgments. To my lord and master Usami. Though I may have sullied your name in the preceding paragraphs, this work would truly not have been possible without you. Thank you for all your help and support. To my illustrator, Kakage. Thank you for gracing this volume with your beautiful and adorable designs! The first time I saw your depictions of Alize and the girls, my heart leaped out of my chest. I very much look forward to working with you again in the future. And finally, I express my deepest thanks to Wright Flyer Studios and everyone else who assisted in the adaption of this story.