Prologue

"I wasn't in my old world anymore." This was a simple fact I'd already accepted.

Unlike my predecessors, I wasn't excited, I wasn't scared, I wasn't sad. I was... simply there, looking at the system like pop up.

[Insert Your Name]

It kept blinking, like it was constantly reminding me it existed. I thought of putting in my previous name, but I decided it wasn't appropriate. A name was something given by parents, a thing that was supposed to last until the day you died, before you simply became it. A name.

But I had already died, my name had already fulfilled its purpose and I had no desire to re-use it.

Unlike before, nobody was going to name me, so I decided to do it myself.

I didn't want it to be basic, nor too edgy, or something that meant something. I wanted it to be unique, a name I hadn't heard before. To be "my" name.

I'd thought about it for nearly an hour, before deciding on a name that I'd never heard before, or knew the meaning behind it.

I decided on Zarian.

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Therefore, I must introduce myself for the first time.

"Hello, my name is Zarian, and I exist."