Astrea Record: Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Tales of Heroes - Volume 3 - Chapter Aft

Afterword

When I was writing the script for the Astrea Record event, I read a lot of books and literature. Some of them were quite tricky, and I can’t say I understood more than half of them, but I’m still quite sure that the question of justice and evil will never come to a satisfactory conclusion.

No matter how the world changes, humans will always be humans, born at different times, in different places. I don’t want to say it’s impossible, but I find it highly unlikely that anyone but a god could ever succeed in finding common ground between all of humanity.

I can’t really believe I just wrote something so sanctimonious, but in any case, I wanted to see what sort of conclusion our gods, and of course Lyu and her friends, would draw were this question to be posed in the world of Danmachi.

Perhaps there are those of you who share my thoughts, in which case, I wish both of us the best of luck. Perhaps there are those of you who don’t, in which case I would very much like to hear your thoughts and conclusions.

Searching for justice, finding your own justice—these are not easy tasks. I’m not even sure if it’s what we should be doing. But that, to me, only makes it more important that we all think about what justice means to us, and I only have the highest respect for those who do.

Now I’m starting to embarrass myself with all this preaching, but I think I’m allowed to treat myself, at least on this page, as a reward for getting all the way to the end.

I would now like to move on to my acknowledgments. First, my lovely editor, Usami. It is wholly due to your tireless efforts that we were able to publish all three of these volumes in successive months. To Kakage, thank you so much for breathing a new form of life into Alize and the girls. As a mere writer, I can’t imagine what an illustrator must go through to keep to such a tight schedule, and I’m so happy I was able to work on this with you. I also extend my warmest gratitude to everyone at WFS for putting up with such a poor excuse for an author as me.

And finally, to you, the readers, thank you very much for picking up this series.

Justice will go on. Dreams will persevere. Heroes and gods, too.

What will this tale pass on to the familia myth as a whole?

I do hope you will stick around to find out.

—Fujino Omori