Otome Survival

This is a tale that comes of distorting the scenario called as an ‘Otome Game’ …

Assaulted by a woman who desired to claim her flesh and thereby become as “the Heroine,” the orphan Alicia comes by a fragmentary acquisition of the woman’s knowledge to comprehend that the world she inhabits is “of Swords and Sorcery” — the stage of a so-called “Otome Game.”

Rejecting the Otome Game as inadmissible “nonsense,” young Alicia escapes her orphanage — hoping that she might defy the destiny of the “Heroine.”

The villainous debutantes that seek her death. The false Heroine ascendant. So as to survive the obstacles that threaten her freedom, Alicia makes use of the knowledge she’s acquired to better herself and advance — flourishing as “the strongest of assassins,” feared both by the Rogues’ Guild and the Assassins’ Guild.

※Q: Is the heroine a cheat protagonist?

※A: She isn’t. Though to a certain extent, you could say that she’s making use of out-of-context knowledge, for purposes of combat, she’s strictly bound to the use of conventional capabilities. Of course, her pursuit of victory is by whatever means available …

※Q: Will there be elements of romance within the story?

※A: More or less. Though it may be the case that the heroine becomes involved with the capture targets, her potential romantic interests aren’t restricted to this pool in particular.

※Q: Being that the story is about the pursuit of survival, will there also be heartwarming slice-of-life elements?

※A: This isn’t a story about the development of unexplored territory. Rather, “survival” is here used more in the sense of “enduring life-threatening scenarios.” There will be a fair amount of slaughter and death.

※Note: The heroine is rather faint of morality …