"Cough, cough...!"
"Lud! How do you feel?"
"Ugh, gr-- I feel great...? Wh-what happened? I thought I was a goner..."
"Well..."
As the mage lifted himself off the ground with the help of the party leader, all of the adventurers turned their gazes towards me.
"..."
They were asking for my name.
I was about to answer simply with 'Cipher', but I stopped myself.
Now that I thought about it, I felt repulsed and wanted to disassociate with that name.
This Otherworld is a fake, created through the combined efforts of Yuu Shimura, Saburou, and Azaki Kiryuuin. Thus, it could technically be said that they are the gods―the higher beings―of the Otherworld.
However, even the Earth that those three are from, as well as myself, is a fake created by a higher being―whom Truth had shown to be known as the 'Author', a being who wrote my world into existence.
I don't know how high the chain goes... But I do know one thing.
