Author Note

Now you must be wondering what is this about?

I have decided to explain the way I am going to do things about relationships.

Yes, because I think lots of people don't know how good relationships work. Neither do I but I think I can give it a try and make it work.

Now, like some of you might have noticed, there is a clear Hajime x Kaori here. Now there is going to be others, is this a harem?

Yes, this has the potential to be a harem, because canon is.

How is this going to work?

Think about it like a Visual Novel. Yes indeed this is a Visual Novel with game mechanics.

Now, like in most VNs there are routes. Normally you can only take one route per game play, restart and try another.

In this case you are in the harem route. That means, that the routes are mixed together in case you want pursuit more than a girl.

Now, the level of difficulty is tied to the number of rutes unlocked.

Two girls : Difficulty Easy

Four girls : Difficulty Normal

Six girls : Difficulty Hard

Eight girls (the original number) : Difficulty Insane

Nine to more (please don't) : Difficulty Nightmarish

Because I believe in character development girls with routes unlocked have more scene in the main story because the MC pay them more attention and have arcs dedicated to them. This mean the fic is larger the more girls in the harem.

Non-unlocked girls that are MC are still there, but you can guess.

Right now, because I feel sadistic I am going to tell you that there are two routes unlocked already, Kaori and Shizuku. So the difficulty is Easy still, or do you think that it was hard, to my standards was easy, it is the start after all.

Right now you have to tell me if you want to unlock the Yue route, because if you don't want, the MC will anyway save her but they will only be allies or friends and in the end they won't be together (there is so many ways I can do it if you chose not wooing her).

The disvantage side is that once he meets Yue, if you decided to unlock her, then the fic becomes harder and the next fights will reflect that.

How can I do this harder you ask? Just let me tell you that if Myladi Raisen would have fought serious against Hajime and co, they would have been instantly crushed. The same goes for Ehit. The difficulty level is going to be obvious in the Dungeons.

If you don't unlock Yue route and neither Shia's then you can complete Raisen Dungeon in Easy Mode. If you don't unlock anyone else route you can potentially clear this fic in Easy Mode.

I am going to make a poll to decide who stay and who don't.

The most I recommend you is till six, then is hard but not seemingly impossible. In Nightmarish if you were the MC you would wish to be dead, I am going to get serious scary there, you don't want to go there.

So, in my opinion Teio and Aiko shouldn't be part of the harem. I'm not going to give reasons except too rushed in canon, and annoying in some aspects. Shia's was too easy and her character development was almost non-existent except for the weak rabbit to strong rabbit and later on she ended as a muscle brain. So if you don't want her fine. That's the point of the poll.

Teio like Aiko should be and stay a mentor character. She has lived more than the main cast combined.

A chapter before their meeting with Hajime I'll check and if yes to unlock, then I'll make things harder if I have to.

I have decided to update the main story once a week, every Monday in my country. Is Friday right now so in three days I'll update, if for some reason I can't I'll advise here.

Yue appears in the next next week so I will need to know if unlock or don't in three days. No poll for her, just give me opinions because I'll take a days to make the poll.

About this, in this place I'll write short scenes that don't are important enough for the main fic.

Here I write omakes, lighthearted scenes, author notes, what if and bad ends kind of stuff. This is basically a Visual Novel in writing format.

So your opinions.