Your Name?

"Constitution, strength, speed—each of them far surpassed that of an ordinary person."

After running across the snowfield for some distance, the cold wind gradually cooled the excitement of having "traveled to another world."

Then, in order to conserve her strength, she slowed from a run to a walk across the snowfield, the kind where every step left a hole.

The snow on the snowfield was simply too deep. When the girl stepped down, the snow rose straight past her knees.

Fortunately, the girl was strong. Even without pulling her feet free, she could forcibly carve a path through with sheer strength.

When she had been running earlier, her speed had refused to increase because of this, as though her legs had been sealed away, leaving the girl deeply frustrated.

But now, what worried the girl even more was that after walking for so long, on top of the distance she had run earlier, she had not encountered a single person—not even any trace left behind by humans.

A shadow fell over the girl's heart.

Could there really be no one around here?

The girl could not help thinking, Could it be that there are no humans on this snowfield?

As her thoughts ran wild, her imagination grew increasingly absurd.

For example, perhaps there had never been anyone on this planet. Or perhaps this had originally been a normal world, until a sudden blizzard descended. The snow had kept falling and falling, until it buried everything...

Lost in her wild thoughts, the girl continued onward, leaving behind a deep trail through the snowfield.

The girl raised a hand before her eyes. The sunlit snowfield was too dazzling, and the reflected sunlight made her eyes uncomfortable.

And so she kept walking, without knowing how much time had passed, until...

"Who are you?"

A clear voice rang out beside her, bringing the girl's moving feet to a halt.

The girl did not know how long she had been walking, but she knew that if she did not keep moving, she might truly become trapped in the snowfield and die.

No!

She did not want to, and she could not die so miserably in this snowfield!

She had already traveled to another world. She had already been given a second life. She did not want to, and could not, die just like this.

Yet that voice was like a campfire in the frigid snowfield, igniting hope within her heart.

Though the biting wind over the icy plain could not affect her at all...

The girl turned her head toward the owner of the voice.

White hair, blue eyes.

That was the girl's first impression.

Blue eyes... She wondered what color her own eyes were. Black, or blue like the girl before her?

That was right. The person who had appeared before the girl was another girl.

A girl who looked utterly out of place on this icy plain.

She had white hair and blue eyes, and her features were exceedingly pretty. She wore coarse cloth clothes that were somewhat too small, unable to cover her entire body, leaving her arms and navel exposed.

In her right hand, the girl held a tooth—a tooth roughly half a meter long, from some unknown creature.

When the girl looked at that tooth, she seemed to see a cold glint flashing across it.

The other girl's left hand gripped something furry. The girl looked carefully beyond it.

"..."

After seeing clearly what the girl before her was dragging, she could not help taking a step back.

It was the corpse of a creature she had never seen or even heard of.

It looked somewhat like a lizard, but aside from scales, this "lizard" also had fur. Calling it a lizard was a stretch to begin with, since none of the giant lizards she knew of looked anything like the creature before her.

Moreover, the corpse of this unknown creature looked far too vicious. With her exceptional eyesight, the girl could clearly see bits of unknown flesh still clinging to its teeth.

Even as a corpse, it sent a chill down her spine.

It was not fear, but an instinctive reaction to seeing an unknown creature.

The girl looked twice more at the unknown creature being dragged by the tail, then looked at the girl before her.

Only then did she realize that this seemed to be a language she had never heard before, yet she had understood its meaning just now?

What was going on?

After thinking for a brief moment, the girl classified it as a strange ability she had gained after traveling to another world—in short, a "Golden Finger"!

Perhaps her abnormal strength, speed, and constitution were all abilities granted by the Golden Finger, and understanding languages was merely one of them.

Seeing this girl she had never encountered before, dressed so strangely that she was obviously no ordinary person, Esdeath frowned.

In the girl's eyes, Esdeath's attire looked extremely out of place on the snowfield. Yet in Esdeath's eyes, the girl's attire was even more out of place.

She had white hair like Esdeath's, ruby-red eyes, a white dress as smooth as silk, and above all, a face as flawless as a doll's. Esdeath could not help focusing her gaze on the girl's face. Even after looking away, her eyes would unconsciously drift back to it.

With such a captivating face and a dress whose material was clearly far from ordinary, anyone who saw her elsewhere would think the girl was a noble lady, perhaps even a princess.

But in this deathly silent snowfield, wasn't that abnormal no matter how one looked at it?

And...

Esdeath forced her gaze away from the girl's face and raised her guard to its utmost.

Ever since her father and everyone in her tribe had died, leaving only her behind, she had lived nearby and survived by hunting.

Recently, however, Esdeath had begun considering going outside to take a look.

Partly because she wanted to leave this unchanging snowfield, and partly because she had killed nearly all the dangerous creatures here, leaving food increasingly scarce.

That day, while returning from a hunt, she saw a human.

Having not seen another human for a long time, Esdeath approached and spoke to her. Yet she did not lower her guard, maintaining a safe distance. It was an instinct she had honed over the years on the snowfield.

But unexpectedly, she had not been attacked by this human. Instead, she had nearly been "seduced" by the girl's beauty.

That made her slightly embarrassed, while also stirring a hint of killing intent within her.

The girl before her was not normal!

Even though Esdeath had lived on the snowfield all her life and learned of the outside world only through stories told by others, she understood that no matter how perfect someone looked, there should not be a person who could make others fall for them at a single glance.

But today, Esdeath had encountered such a person.

Esdeath took a deep breath and suppressed the killing intent in her heart.

Esdeath was not yet so bloodthirsty, and compared to killing intent, she felt more curiosity toward the girl before her.

She was curious about what exactly this girl was.

"My name is Esdeath. What is yours?"